Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Liftopia http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 16:32:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Liftopia Raises $1.3 Million Led By First Round Capital http://pulse2.com/2011/10/19/liftopia-raises-1-3-million-led-by-first-round-capital/ http://pulse2.com/2011/10/19/liftopia-raises-1-3-million-led-by-first-round-capital/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:12:23 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=52164 Continue reading →]]>
Liftopia is a San Francisco based online retailer of ski lifting and mountain resort transactions. Liftopia has raised $1.3 million in a round of funding led by First Round Capital. Other investors in this round includes Dave Morin, Chris Sacca, Erik Blachford, and Sam Shank.

Liftopia has raised a total of nearly $3 million thus far. Liftopia is working with about 150 resorts across North America. The company plans to start expanding in Europe very soon.

Liftopia allows you to buy lift tickets in advance and help consumers save up to 80% off of the walk-up rates for lifts. Liftopia keeps a portion of each transaction.

[TechCrunch]

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“We were impressed with the accomplishments made by the Liftopia founders in creating an innovative platform focusing on revenue management for the alpine resort industry,” stated Jim Connor of Sand Hill Angels. “Liftopia enables providers of leisure services to test, measure and manage the demand and revenue for their products. We see Liftopia’s platform becoming a ‘must have’ for any serious manager of resort-related activities.”

Liftopia is a social network for avid skiiers that has videos, photos, groups, message boards, classifieds, and blogs. The site also finds discounts at specific snowing skiing resorts. Liftopia’s partner resorts are in Utah, Pennsylvania, Southern California, Lake Tahoe, New York, New England, Colorado, New Mexico, Alaska, and British Columbia.

Liftopia has successfully raised a Series A investment.  The amount was undisclosed, but was provided by Sand Hill Angels and North Bay Angels.  Erik Blachford, former CEO of Expedia is also an investor.   Liftopia was started in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, Calif.

Liftopia was started by Ron Schneidermann and Evan Reece.  Ron and Evan both worked at Hotwire.com.  The official Liftopia blog is located at: http://gigasnow.com/

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