Amit Chowdhry | August 2, 2011 | 542 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Bloomberg TV, David Cohen, David Tisch, TechStars
TechStars Trailer from Vortex Media on Vimeo.
TechStars and Bloomberg TV have partnered to work on a reality show that highlights what it is like to be on the founding team of a start-up. The reality show miniseries is called “TechStars” and it will premier on September 13th at 9PM. About 6 episodes will run through October 18th. Eleven start-ups will be highlighted in this season which includes OnSwipe, Immersive Labs, Veri, ToVieFor, Shelby.tv, RedRover, Nestio, ShuttleCloud, CrowdTwist, FriendsList, and ThinkNear.
Riley Kennysmith | July 13, 2011 | 775 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Ankur Bulsara, Dave Tisch, David Cohen, Evan Rifkin, Eytan Elbaz, Gil Elbaz, Greycroft Partners, Howard Lindzon, Lerer Ventures, Scopely, Walter Driver, Windsor Media
Scopely, a startup founded by Google AdSense cofounder Eytan Elbaz, has raised funding from Greycroft Partners, Howard Lindzon, Lerer Ventures, Windsor Media, Dave Tisch, David Cohen, Evan Rifkin and Gil Elbaz. According to TechCrunch, the exact nature of Scopely and the amount of funding raised are currently being kept secret.
Amit Chowdhry | May 18, 2011 | 599 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Baseline Ventures, David Cohen, Foundry Group, Freestyle Capital, GRP Partners, MongoLab, Will Shulman
San Francisco based cloud database company ObjectLabs has raised $3 million in Series A funding led by Foundry Group, GRP Partners, Baseline Ventures, Freestyle Capital, David Cohen, and a few others. ObjectLabs is best known for launching the database-as-a-service company MongoLab. MongoLab is the database-as-a-service provider for MongoDB. 10gen‘s MongoDB is used by companies like Foursquare, Bit.ly, and Etsy.
Amit Chowdhry | February 11, 2011 | 775 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Dave Tisch, David Cohen, Founder Collective, GSA Venture Partners, GTI Capital Group, Hugo Enterprises, Ignighter, Kal Vepuri, Nihal Mehta, Peter Lehrman, Point Judith Capital, Rajan Anandan
Ignighter is a group dating website that has raised $3 million in Series A. That puts a total of $4.2 million in funding for Ignighter. This round of funding was led by Point Judith Capital with participation from GSA Venture Partners, Founder Collective, GTI Capital Group, Hugo Enterprises, Rajan Anandan, David Cohen, Dave Tisch, Kal Vepuri, Peter Lehrman, Nihal Mehta and other angel investors. Ignighter allows groups of friends to collaborate on a group profile. The friends can add photos and interests to the group profile.
Amit Chowdhry | December 20, 2010 | 622 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Bob Pasker, Dave McClure, David Cohen, Eric Marcoullier, First Round Capital, Jeff Clavier, MyBlogLog, OneTrueFan, Todd Sampson
Just in case you were wondering what the co-founders of MyBlogLog are up to, Eric Marcoullier and Todd Sampson have started a new website called OneTrueFan. OneTrueFan is known as the “Foursquare of websites.” OneTrueFan lets you earn badges for checking into and interacting with different websites. The website has a game format for visitirs that lets you see who is reading content from within websites.
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