Amit Chowdhry | August 15, 2011 | 368 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Foundry Group, Gary Bradski, Jason Mendelson, Jeff Powers, K9 Ventures, Manu Kumar, Occipital, Vikas Reddy, Willow Garage

Occipital is a TechStars company that had raised $7 million in Series A funding. The Boulder, Colorado based company had previously sold an app to eBay called RedLaser. And the company recently launched a new app called 360Panorama. 360Panorama will allow people to take 3D panoramic image captures through mobile devices. Now Occipital is planning a campaign to launch some high-tech augmented reality applications.

Amit Chowdhry | July 28, 2011 | 406 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under 2M Companies, 500 Startups, K9 Ventures, LucidChart

LucidChart is a web based diagram application company that has raised $1 million in seed funding from 500 Startups, 2M Companies, K9 Ventures, and several angel investors. LucidChart plans on using the funding to create a desktop version of their application software.

Amit Chowdhry | March 14, 2011 | 493 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under 500 Startups, BackType, Founder Collective, Freestyle Capital, K9 Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Raymond Tonsing, True Ventures

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.
