Amit Chowdhry | June 5, 2011 | 527 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Betaworks, Eniac Ventures, Jason Baptiste, Lerer Ventures, Lightbank, Morado, OnSwipe, Spark Capital, SV Angel, Thrive Capital, Yuri Milner

OnSwipe is a tablet publishing company that has raised $5 million in “Series Awesome.” This past January OnSwipe raised $1 million in seed funding. This round of funding was led by Spark Capital and followed on by Lightbank. Yuri Milner, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, Betaworks, Morado, Eniac Ventures, and Thrive Capital also participated in this round.

Amit Chowdhry | February 3, 2011 | 1,069 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Baroda Ventures, Clark Landry, Crosscut Ventures, Focused Labs, Founder Collective, GraphEffect, James Borow, Lerer Ventures, Matt Coffin, Rincon Venture Partners, Stephano Kim, Thrive Capital

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.
Amit Chowdhry | November 24, 2010 | 1,058 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Art.sy, Charlei Cheever, Dash Zhukova, Dave Morin, David Kidder, David Tisch, Eric Schmidt, Founder Collective, Jack Dorsey, Jim Breyer, Keith Rabois, Thrive Capital, Wendi Murdoch

Art.sy is a New York City based startup company that has raised $1.25 million in funding. Investors in Art.sy include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi, Jack Dorsey (Twitter co-founder), Jim Breyer, Dash Zhukova, Founder Collective, Keith Rabois, David Tisch, Charlei Cheever, Dave Morin, and David Kidder. Art.sy’s funding was led by Thrive Capital. Art.sy raised $160,000 in seed funding and launched at TechCrunch Disrupt. Art.sy was founded by 24 year old founder Carter Cleveland and he decided to make the website private again. Now he is shifting his service to be more focused on high-end art deals. [TechCrunch]