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Gathr.me

Company Name: 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

KillYourcube

Genotrope Record: KillYourcube Currently Hiring

Funding Status: Seed

Investors: Bootstrapped

Industry: Consumer Web, Career Guidance

Offering Description: Helping people forge their own career paths to success. Our patent-pending technology designs customized Career Maps that show you the road to your ideal job in a way never before possible.

3 comments June 19, 2009

BankFox

Genotrope Record: BankFox

Funding Status: Seed

Investors: Founders

Founders or Execs past companies: Sconex, Endeca

Industry: Consumer Web, Financial, B2C

Offering Description: There are many sites for comparing bank products but most of them are focused on rates. While we think rates are important, we also believe that there’s a lot more you need to know to choose a bank – like information on fees, online tools, bank health, branch location, customer service, special requirements, and more, all of which are included on our site. By publishing all of this additional data, we strive to be the most comprehensive website for choosing bank products.

Add comment June 11, 2009

New Mass Challenge announced by Gov Patrick

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Massachusetts has just announced a initiative to fund start up activities here in our state. $ 25 million dollars will be allocated to catalyze growth and stimulate innovation.

Check it out http://masschallenge.org/

Add comment June 10, 2009

ApplyGo

Genotrope Record: ApplyGo

Funding Status: Seed

Investors: Founders

Founders or Execs past companies: TalentBurst, UAC

Industry: Consumer Web, B2C, Education

Offering Description: We make it cheaper and easier for institutions to enroll international students. connect institutions of higher education with students from around the world

Add comment June 10, 2009

WherePhone

Genotrope Record: WherePhone

Funding Status: Bootstrapped

Investors: ?

Founders or Execs past companies: uLocate

Industry: Mobile Applications, Location

Offering Description: Low-cost real time GPS vehicle tracking using pre-paid cell phones as the in-vehicle device and OpenStreetMaps.org map data

1 comment May 19, 2009

Cadio

Genotrope Record: Cadio Currently Hiring

Funding Status: Seed Round

Investors: MIT

Founders or Execs past companies: MIT PHD Students

Industry: Wireless/Mobile Analytics

Offering Description: Cadio analyzes GPS data from mobile phones to better understand consumer interests and habits. Using a privacy-aware opt-in model, Cadio’s algorithms create Tag Clouds for Consumers™ to generate brand-relevant inferences about where people go and what they do. Cadio offers market research services and enables lifestyle-relevant advertising.

Add comment May 6, 2009

MyRoar

Genotrope Record: MyRoar

Funding Status: Bootstrapped

Investors:

Founders or Execs past companies: Feedster, Lehman Brothers

Industry: Web Search, Financial Services

Offering Description: MyRoar provides a unique offering for data vendors and data consumers. Unparalleled insights are provided to users who can now do research quickly and easily, resulting in increased satisfaction and productivity.

Add comment April 30, 2009

Webheads, Free Pizza+Beer and a bit of Testing April 30th 6:30-9:30 pm at betahouse

TestCase is a cool event happening @ betahouse this Thursday. While the giant schmoozefest meetups are valuable, we think there is room for a smaller meetup with a more practical approach.

Webheads, free pizza+beer and a bit of testing. Register Here attendance is Limited.

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Josh Porter owner of Bokardo Design and author of Designing for the Social Web, will be conducting a Lightning Usability/Comprehension test with the participating start-ups. Three of them may be new to you.