Tag Archives: Founder Collective
Google+ To Host VC Office Hours
In order to capture additional attention from startup entrepreneurs, Google+ is hosting a series of events called VC Office Hours. Google VP of Product at Google+ Bradley Horowitz revealed some of the names that are participating in this series:
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SavingStar Hits 1 Million Users In Under A Year
SavingStar is a service where you can receive grocery discounts by entering your loyalty cards into the system. I just registered an account with them and I noticed that they are able to get me an additional $2.00 off from 2 boxes of Pepsi, $1.00 off a bag of Tostitos, 50 cents off Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, etc. from Kroger. Other stores that work with the service include Rite Aid, CVS, Piggly Wiggly, Albertsons, County Market, Food City, Lowes Foods, Jack’s SuperValu, Ralphs, and the list goes on. SavingStar launched in beta this past August and raised $2.3 million in funding from Flybridge Capital Partners, First Round Capital, Founder Collective, and several angel investors.
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Skillshare Raises $3.1 Million From Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital
Skillshare is a P2P learning company that has raised $3.1 million in funding from Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. Skillshare is a platform that can help turn anyone into a teacher. Users can offer their own offline classes based on their skill. Skillshare takes 15% of the revenue.
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Read It Later Raises $2.5 Million
Read It Later is a popular bookmarking service that allows you to read content from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. Read It Later has raised $2.5 million in funding. The investors in this round include Foundation Capital, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, Founder Collective, and several angel investors.
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Canvas Raises $3 Million In Series A Funding
Canvas is a company that was founded by 4chan founder Christopher Poole (known as moot). Canvas has raised $3 million in Series A funding. Some of the previous angel investors that participated in this round include SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective, and Joshua Schachter. Canvas’ previous round of funding was $625,000. Canvas allows users to easily edit images through the browser. Canvas added oEmbed support for several websites recently. Canvas currently has five employees including Poole. [TechCrunch]
Listia Raises $1.75 Million
Listia is a website where people trade in their stuff for credits and receive trade it in for other stuff. Listia raised $1.75 million in a round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Founder Collective, High Line Venture Partners, Max Levchin, Naval Ravikant, Alex Zubillage, and James Hong.
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Social Analytics Start-Up BackType Raises Over $1 Million
BackType is a social analytics company that allows you to enter a URL to find out how big the website’s social media impact is. When you enter a URL, it shows the number of Twitter followers, retweets, Reddit comments, Hacker News comments, Digg comments, etc. that is related to that particular URL. The investors in the $1 million seed round was led by True Ventures, K9 Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Lowercase Capital, 500 Startups, Founder Collective, Raymond Tonsing, and several other angel investors.
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Group Dating Service Ignighter Raises $3 Million
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.
Social Media Marketing Company GraphEffect Raises $2 Million
Focused Labs is a social media marketing services company that is being rebranded as GraphEffect. The company has raised $2 million in funding from CrossCut Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, Founder Collective, Baroda Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Thrive Capital, Matt Coffin, and Stephano Kim. GraphEffect is a part of the Facebook Advertising API beta program. They help companies and brand agencies increase the number of “Likes” and helps acquire new customers through social media. GraphEffect was co-founded by Clark Landry and James Borow.
Digital Publisher Company Vook Raises $5.25 Million
Vook is a digital publisher company that has raised $5.25 million in Series A funding from VantagePoint Venture Partners and Floodgate. Vook publishes iPad, iPhone, Android book apps, and multimedia Kindle books. Vook has partnerships with Deepak Chopra, Seth Godin, and Tom Peters. Vook was founded in 2008 by Bradley Inman. Vook has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from Ron Conway, Baseline Ventures, Founder Collective, Maples Investments, and Lerer Ventures.