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OnSwipe Raises $5 Million In “Series Awesome”

Amit Chowdhry | June 5, 2011 | 527 views | Add a Comment
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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.

Social Media Marketing Company GraphEffect Raises $2 Million

Amit Chowdhry | February 3, 2011 | 1,069 views | 1 Comment
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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.

Art.sy Raises $1.25 Million From Several Angel Investors

Amit Chowdhry | November 24, 2010 | 1,058 views | Add a Comment
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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]

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