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Archive for Seed Round
July 3, 2008 at 7:29 pm · Filed under Boston Startup, Pre Funded, Seed Round, Start-ups
Genotrope Record: LuckyCal
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Self Funded
Investors: Founders
Founders or Execs past companies: Ambient Devices
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Description: LuckyCal finds LuckyCal Events, or matches, for you. LuckyCal Events can be anything from: your favorite band playing in a nearby club, last minute tickets to a game, a distant friend travelling nearby on business, or when a local friend can meet for lunch - the possibilities are endless!
July 1, 2008 at 8:16 pm · Filed under Boston Startup, Career, Seed Round, Start-ups and tagged: Career
Genotrope Record: nkdGuru
Citation URL: http://www.youbethevc.com/finalists
Formation Date: July 2006
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: Bang Ventures
Founders or Execs past companies: Wachovia Securities
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Description: nkdGuru [na-ked-Gu-ru] is an online academic and career oriented community that connects top talent with individuals from leading companies and graduate programs through mentorship
June 23, 2008 at 8:41 pm · Filed under Boston Startup, Seed Round, Start-ups, startup job
Genotrope Record: Youcastr
Citation URL: http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008/02/youcastr_empowe.html
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: Founders
Founders or Execs past companies: Mercator Partners, Intrepid Learning Solutions, Fletcher Spaght, Inc.
Industry: Consumer Web, Entertainment
Offering Description: YouCastr is a personalized, interactive and entertaining Sports Network
YouCastr is creating an interactive sports network where fans interact with each other before, during and after a game, making the experience of following their favorite sports more fun and social.
June 20, 2008 at 10:07 pm · Filed under Boston Startup, Pre Funded, Seed Round, Start-ups, startup job
Genotrope Record: Wistia
Formation Date: 2006
Funding Status: Private, Self Funded?
Investors: Founders?
Founders or Execs past companies: TopTenSources, Blogniscient, AgencyPort, Brainshark
Industry: B2B Video
Offering Description: Wistia allows you to easily and securely share video with your team around the office and around the world.
June 19, 2008 at 3:08 am · Filed under Boston Startup, Seed Round, Start-ups, startup job
Genotrope Record: Vitruva
Formation Date: 2006
Funding Status: Seed?
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Iconics, Fidelity
Industry: Consumer web
Offering Description: Vitruva is a second generation career website powered by an artificial intelligence job matching engine. We connect talented professionals with highly qualified job opportunities instantly - in real-time. Our patent-pending engine searches around the clock and nationwide.
June 13, 2008 at 1:42 am · Filed under Boston Startup, Seed Round, Start-ups
Genotrope Record: TownConnect
Citation URL: TownConnect News
Formation Date: 2006
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: Angels & Founders
Founders or Execs past companies: Mike Ford: Computer.com, Quigo Technologies, Did-it Search Marketing
Industry: Consumer Web, Internet - Media
Offering Description: TownConnect organizes and connects families, friends and neighbors in their local community by uniting sport teams, school groups and others online. TownConnect powers local, family social networking sites for newspapers including GateHouse Media’s www.wickedlocal.com
May 14, 2008 at 7:25 pm · Filed under Seed Round, Start-ups
Genotrope Record: Pixily
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Self Funded
Investors: Founders
Founders or Execs past companies: JPeople
Industry: B2B, B2C
Offering Description: Pixily is an online subscription service that helps consumers and small businesses aggregate, organize, find and share both paper and digital documents.
April 21, 2008 at 11:30 pm · Filed under Pre Funded, Seed Round and tagged: graphics, web animation
Genotrope Record: Doink
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Seed, Alpha test, accepting new user registration
Investors: Self Funded
Founders or Execs past companies: Dome Imaging, Mindreef
Industry: Consumer Web, Animation and Web Graphics
Offering Description: DoInk is a place to enjoy art and animation, and make your own. Company is DK Pictures.
Buzz in theHub covered this company previously but they were in stealth mode. Now they are in Alpha and accepting new users. We usually refrain from making any comments on an application or review the capabilities, but in this case having been present during demos to users, I can say that the app is universally accepted and blows away any engineer familiar with what it takes to build such an app. I hope to see good things from Doink and a funding by a local Web VC.
March 28, 2008 at 8:06 pm · Filed under Seed Round
Genotrope Record: myhappyplanet
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Harvard MBA candidate from P&G, Radiosherpa
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Description: Learn a Language, Make Friends , Have fun
March 21, 2008 at 7:00 pm · Filed under Seed Round
Genotrope Record: Newsflashr
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: InstantBull.com
Industry: Consumer Web, semantice web news
Offering Description: greater ease of use and a story selection process that helps readers understand how the site picks its top news items.
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