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June 13, 2008 at 1:23 am · Filed under Boostrap, Boston Startup, Pre Funded, Start-ups
Genotrope Record: Bandsintown
Citation URL: http://mashable.com/2007/06/08/bandsintown/
Formation Date: Jun 07
Funding Status: Self funded
Investors: Founders
Founders or Execs : Todd Cronin Phil Sergi
Industry: Consumer web covering Music, Concerts, Events
Offering Description: Bandsintown.com is an online community whose users can track their
favorite artists, connect with other live music fans, and discover new shows based on their musical tastes. Bandsintown consolidates ticket prices, concert information, and live concert media all in one place.
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June 6, 2008 at 10:23 pm · Filed under Boostrap, Start-ups
JC Cameron one of the founders gave me a heads up on the launch of Vendor City. Sign up for their beta and check it out. They have an experienced team, and you gotta love self funded ventures.
Genotrope Record: VendorCity Inc.
Formation Date: January 2008
Funding Status: Self-funded
Investors: The three founders
Founders or Execs past companies:Revenution, WebEvent
Industry: B2B Networking, Vendor Search
Offering Description: VendorCity is a business-to-business recommendation engine that provides companies with 24-7 access to word-of-mouth vendors referrals. Our community shares stories of successful vendor relationships and ranks each vendor across several categories. Clients can then search our peer-reviewed directory of trusted vendors 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, and have immediate access to the short list of top-ranked vendors in their city.
March 27, 2008 at 10:55 pm · Filed under Boostrap
Genotrope Record: PicMe
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status:
Investors: Self Funded
Founders or Execs past companies: Microsoft
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Description: The photos that you love to share, view and enjoy are now hidden away in your computer like a digital shoe box.
March 20, 2008 at 9:20 pm · Filed under Boostrap
Genotrope Record: Traackr
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: ?
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Optaros
Industry: Consumer web, user content creation
Offering Description: Traackr is the answer to digital content creators’ frustration.
If you have pictures, videos, music or even reviews scattered across the Web, and you have no idea how many people are looking at them or responding to them, Traackr is the ultimate answer.
February 1, 2008 at 8:28 pm · Filed under Boostrap, Pre Funded, Start-ups
Company Name: Genotrope
Company URL: www.genotrope.com
Citation URL: obvious blatant promotion
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Self Funded
Investors:
Founders or Execs past companies: Intel, Combrio, Telegea
Industry: Consumer web,
Offering Description: Like individuals, every company has it’s own genealogy. Genotrope creates a graph of a company’s connections to other companies. You can employ these professional graphs to explore and evaluate local early stage opportunities. Powerful recruiting web application efficiently matching companies and people.
January 25, 2008 at 6:47 pm · Filed under Boostrap, Pre Funded, Seed Round, Start-ups
Company Name: iSeeCars
Company URL: http://www.iSeeCars.com
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Self-funded
Investors: Self-funded
Founders or Execs past companies: Deloitte, Storage Networks, NEC, Verifone, SAP, SolidWorks
Industry: Consumer Internet
Offering Description: iSeeCars is a meta search engine for cars for sale listings across the Web, currently searching over 250 websites including newspaper, local dealerships, classifieds, and auction websites. Built specifically for the car consumer, iSeeCars helps users easily and quickly find the perfect deal for the perfect car through iSeeCars’ proprietary and unique technology and functionalities.
December 20, 2007 at 7:43 pm · Filed under Boostrap, Pre Funded, Start-ups
We are excited about the Boston launch of Genotrope. Keep in tune with what is happening with Boston early stage companies. The site is fully functional and ready for you to submit your resume to the hundreds of companies hiring for thousands of jobs here in the Boston area. So as we move into the holiday season, after you Elf Yourself , check out Genotrope and let us know what you think.
December 12, 2007 at 4:24 am · Filed under Boostrap
Company Name: Alluvial Labs
Company URL: http://www.alluviallabs.com/home.html
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Bootstrapped?
Investors:
Founders or Execs past companies: CombinatoRx, SAS Institute
Industry: Web Infrastructure, Software
Offering Description: Alluvial Labs builds software to help manage the flow and analysis of knowledge across networks of researchers, investors, and markets.
November 30, 2007 at 8:50 am · Filed under Boostrap
Now that Buzz in theHub has been integrated with www.genotrope.com our readers are encouraged to tell us about any new company that is not already in the Genotrope database. You can always add the data directly if you are a registered user, or if you prefer, send the company info to Buzz in theHub and we will post it for you as well as include the information in the Genotrope database.
October 17, 2007 at 8:26 pm · Filed under Boostrap, Pre Funded
Company Name: StylePath
Company URL: stylepath.com/shop
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Self-funded
Investors: Self-funded
Founders or Execs past companies: Smarter Living, Lycos, Ascend, Lucent, Gap, Opt-Intelligence
Industry: Consumer Web, ecommerce
Offering Description: StylePath’s visual search technology matches people to products based on their personal taste, and creates social networks for people of all styles. This patented process simplifies on-line shopping by offering more accurate product recommendations.
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