PressPlane Raises $1.7 Million From Mika Salmi, Rich Barton, Erik Blachford, Andy Liu, Alex Algard, Geoff Entress, Andy Sack, Adrian Hanauer, John Cunningham, and Dough Rowan

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:27:40 +0000

PressPlane is a new stealth startup company that aims to “making your business life easier.” PressPlane is being incubated by Curious Office, a seed stage investment company based in Seattle. What makes PressPlane a big deal is the investors that joined in to put $1.7 million Series A into the company.

As mentioned in the title, the investors include:
- Mika Salmi (President of MTV and founder of AtomFilms)
- Rich Barton (Founder of Expedia and Zillow)
- Erik Blachford (former CEO of Expedia)
- Andy Liu (Publisher of BuddyTV)
- Alex Algard (Founder of Whitepages)
- Geoff Entress (Venture Partner at Madrona)
- Andy Sack (Co-founder of Judy’s Book)
- Adrian Hanauer (Curious Office co-founder)
- John Cunningham
- Dough Rowan (former CEO of Corbis Corporation)

PressPlane will be a way for small businesses to create marketing materials according to TechCrunch. If you are an accountant, you can go into the pre-made themes and create brochures, business cards, etc. There was also a rumor that VC firm, DFJ wanted to invest and gain a board seat, but it didn’t work out.

PressPlane is currently in alpha mode, but users can still request for an invitation.

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PressPlane Raises $1.7 Million From Mika Salmi, Rich Barton, Erik Blachford, Andy Liu, Alex Algard, Geoff Entress, Andy Sack, Adrian Hanauer, John Cunningham, and Dough Rowan