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Stamp Mobile
Genotrope
Record: Stamp Mobile 
Funding Status: Seed
Founders Backgrounds: Urban Interactive, Blackstone Group
Investors: ?
Industry: Mobile Applications, Mobile Commerce
Offering Description: Stamp’s loyalty program is a different breed. Points, rewards, customer management tools — sure, we have that. But we also provide the spark to help you build real relationships with your customers.
Add comment February 23, 2010
Peerium
Genotrope Record: Peerium
Funding Status: Self Funded?
Founders Backgrounds: Harvard PHD CS, Microsoft
Investors: ?
Industry: White label iPhone apps, B2B web infrastructure
Offering Description: A serverless platform that lowers the overhead of internet applications. Peerium is a software company focused on building a highly scaleable , serverless application platform. Currently creating white label iPhone apps.
Add comment February 9, 2010
Plummelo
Genotrope Record: Plummelo
Funding Status: Seed
Investors: ?
Industry: Consumer Web, B2B
Offering Description: Plummelo is a web service that allows users to collect and share recipes, to plan meals, and to print shopping lists for meal plans. Plummelo combines these three activities in one convenient place. Plummelo makes cooking easier.
1 comment January 30, 2010
When Will They Launch Q1 2010
Our post back in May 2009, When Will They Launch pointed out some companies waiting in the wings and extolled them to release their idea into the wild and let it flourish.
It’s time for a recap of those companies to gauge progress.
It’s also time to list a new group of companies and sites on the brink of release to give them a little sign-up love and encourage them to show us what you got.
First the recap of the last list which started with a quote from the founder of Linkedin, “If you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent too much time on it.” — Reid Hoffman
http://www.gathr.me/ New domain name, but closed beta for rangl.me
http://www.collegetravel.com/ Seems they sold the domain to a big Sqatter company.
http://elacarteonline.com/ Still the future home of:
http://sayagle.com/ closed beta, coming soon
http://www.sivvle.com/ coming soon
http://www.elevenlearning.com/ still in closed beta
http://textaurant.com/ sign up for when it becomes available (limited beta at a couple of venues)
http://www.buzzient.com/ Launched with customers and investors.
http://www.shopazooloo.com/ expired domain
http://www.boomstang.com/ we are launching soon
http://www.calisto100.com/coming_soon new and improved coming soon
http://www.demoing.com/ currently in closed beta
So that is 1.5 in twelve that has delivered anything publicly. Not a very high ratio. Not trying to give you guys a hard time, but let’s see what you got. It’s time to let us unwashed masses have a go with your app so you can find out what is good about it. Don’t take our word for it though, listen to some people in the know….
Anyway, let’s take a look at a new crop of hopeful new companies and sites looking to make their mark. Give them some sign-up love if you are interested and encourage them to take the plunge into the light of day.
11 comments January 16, 2010
The Rentables
Company: The Rentables http://www.therentables.com
Funding Status: Founder funded, seed round
Founders Backgrounds: YEP! Interactive,
Investors: self funded
Industry: Consumer Web, online advertising, real estate
Offering Description: The Rentables is an online rental search engine which connects landlords and tenant using an intuitive interface. We launched our services in Boston earlier this year and have expanded throughout all of the US and Canada since then.
Add comment January 4, 2010
Serendeputy
Genotrope Record: Serendeputy
Funding Status: Bootstrapped
Founders Backgrounds: Boston.com, Abuzz
Investors: founders
Industry: Consumer web, New
Offering Description: Serendeputy is your personal news assistant, a little robot who learns what you like and pulls together a page of news articles tailored to your specific interests.
Add comment October 23, 2009
Did Jobvent Get Acquired?
Chalk one up for the little guy if my deduction is correct.
A while back, I saw a tweet from @oofoot that his side project www.Jobvent.com was up for sale. After four years he had decided to move on and was looking for buyers. After that there were a few tweets and one about some interest from a European buyer. Then nothing more and I kind of forgot about it.
Recently, I went to the site and noticed some pretty big changes which lead me to investigate further. Now the advertisers are the big names in the HR field such as the Ladders and National education Institutions.
Further investigation revealed a tight integration with www.glassdoor.com, to the point where I think it is obvious that Glassdoor has purchased Jobvent.
In which case, a big congratulations goes out to Craig for a successful exit and a job well done. No Y Combinator, no investors, just an engineer and a product people want.
Now he can focus his efforts on Raizlabs and creating other cool apps like the one they built for RunKeeper.
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Add comment September 16, 2009
Keep an Eye on these Companies and Sites
We are always discovering new companies or services as we go about our daily activities of keeping on top of the start-up scene here in theHub of 
Boston/Cambridge.
Here a a couple of Companies to keep an eye on. They are backed by proven founders and I am looking forward to see what new products and services they will create.
You can sign up on the sites now and be alerted when they go live.
www.goby.com travel search? Stealth Mode
www.abtests.com Learn, Share, Improve your conversions today.
www.infinetics.com disruptive networking technology
www.performable.com a marketing platform for start-ups and online businesses.
1 comment September 10, 2009
General Admission Slots (Sold Out) for Eric Ries Talk @MIT
Sorry all seats have been reserved for General Admission to the Lean Startup Talk @MIT. The rest of the seats are reserved for MIT Students and sponsors. Thank you very much for your interest.
There will be a few seats given away by various sponsors when we get closer to the event, so stay tuned to this blog.
Also, if you can line up a sponsor or get your company to sponsor the remaining slots, you will receive a ticket.
If you don’t follow Eric Ries blog Startup Lessons Learned , you should.
He is becoming one of the premier speaker on the subject of Lean Start-ups and customer development.
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Add comment September 2, 2009
Gathr.me
Company Name: Gathr.Me 
Company URL: http://www.gathr.me
Funding Status: Not yet!
Investors: NA
Industry: Consumer Internet
Offering Description:
Gathr.Me me is a personal portal to manage your online presence. It is an aggregator for not just your social network status, but all of your social networks and their functionality as well as email, and other sites where you have a personal profile or require a login and password. Gathr.Me will also allow ou to distribute all manner of media (videos, pictures, blogs, documents) from our portal to multiple sites at once.
1 comment June 24, 2009
