Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Anthem Venture Partners http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 BeachMint Raises $5 Million http://pulse2.com/2010/06/16/beachmint-raises-5-million/ http://pulse2.com/2010/06/16/beachmint-raises-5-million/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:37:52 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=32970 Continue reading →]]>
BeachMint is a social commerce service founded by Diego Berdakin and Josh Berman.  The two left News Corp’s Slingshot Labs about two months ago.  BeachMint is currently in stealth mode.  The investors include New Enterprise Associates and Anthem Venture Partners.  More information about BeachMint after it launches. [VentureBeat]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2010/06/16/beachmint-raises-5-million/feed/ 0 TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million In Series A http://pulse2.com/2010/04/14/tweetphoto-raises-2-6-million-in-series-a/ http://pulse2.com/2010/04/14/tweetphoto-raises-2-6-million-in-series-a/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:48:44 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=29736 Continue reading →]]>
TweetPhoto, a competitor of TwitPic and a company that encourages you to share pictures over Twitter has raised $2.6 million in Series A.  The lead investor was Canaan Partners.  Additional investment was provided by Anthem Venture Partners, Qualcomm, Tim Kelly, Frank Asaro, Shane Brisbane, and Jack Corrao.

TweetPhoto accounts can be connected to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Foursquare.  The photos and other media shared on TweetPhoto can be geo-tagged and there are customizable widgets available.  TweetPhoto has about 15 million monthly unique visitors, serves 40 million API requests per day, and is seeing 250 million images uploaded per month.

The funding will be used to enhance the core offering, build a platform of open APIs, and develop some mobile SDKs. [TechCrunch]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2010/04/14/tweetphoto-raises-2-6-million-in-series-a/feed/ 0 Social Shopping Company, ThisNext Hires Scott Morrow as President http://pulse2.com/2007/10/02/social-shopping-company-thisnext-hires-scott-morrow-as-president/ http://pulse2.com/2007/10/02/social-shopping-company-thisnext-hires-scott-morrow-as-president/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:01:09 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/2007/10/02/social-shopping-company-thisnext-hires-scott-morrow-as-president/ Continue reading →]]> ThisNext LogoThisNext.com is a website based in Los Angeles, Calif. that is known for providing a way for mom-and-pop e-commerce to sell to a broad market of Internet consumers.  By building a  hub for products that are “different” from typical retailers, ThisNext narrows their customer demographics and at the same time distinguishes themselves from other Internet e-commerce companies.

ThisNext belongs to a category of “social shopping” and is taking on other web companies in the same space such as Kaboodle, Wists, and StyleHive. Today, StyleNext announced that they have formally hired a President and board member, Scott Morrow.

Morrow was previously an executive at IAC/CitySearch and was the head of marketing/sales for Download.com, a subsidiary of CNET Networks. Morrow will handle the business strategy operations of ThisNext.  ThisNext’s CEO is Gordon Gould.

Venture capital investors of ThisNext include Anthem Venture Partners and Clearstone Venture Partners.

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