Ticklr.com
Genotrope Record: Ticklr.com
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2008
Funding Status: Seed?
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Bit9, Webline
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Description: Professional Networking
Add comment August 18, 2008
Virid.us
Genotrope Record: Virid.us
Citation URL:
Formation Date: 2008
Funding Status: Seed ?
Investors: SoftBank Capital?
Founders or Execs past companies: Pivot Solutions, Perillon Software
Industry: B2B web, Sutainability for businesses
Offering Description: a place where business professionals share expertise, challenges and knowledge on environmental responsibility and sustainability.
Add comment August 5, 2008
Tradual
Genotrope Record: Tradual
Formation Date: may 2008
Funding Status: Series A
Investors: North Bridge Ventures
Founders or Execs past companies: AppIQ, Akorri
Industry: Financial Web, B2C
Offering Description: stealth mode social media website focused on international currency trading
Add comment July 25, 2008
Byledge
Genotrope Record: Byledge
Citation URL: stealth mode
Formation Date: 2008
Funding Status: Stealth, Seed
Investors: Kepha Partners
Founders or Execs past companies: Vertica Systems
Industry: Software, financial?
Offering Description: ?
Add comment July 22, 2008
NSWG Meetup talk by @bokardo, Designing for Signup
Josh Porter, author and social design expert is giving a short talk, Designing for Sign-Up, tonight at the NSWG meetup in Newburyport. This is our regular monthly meeting at the Grog.
If you can make it, it is sure to be informative as well as a good time as always.
Add comment July 17, 2008
Boston Tech Legacy: Booklink, the beginning of the Bubble in Boston
Booklink was a browser company founded by Bill Hawkins. It could be designated as the first internet company to benefit from the internet bubble 1.0 in the Boston area. Nine people from Interleaf formed the company in 1994 and within nine months had sold to AOL for $30 million. The story goes that Microsoft was in the process of putting together an offer to purchase the company when AOL swooped in at the last minute to win the deal.
The company was funded by a little known company CMG, (College Marketing Group) that sold textbooks via direct marketing to students. It turned out to be a very wise investment as AOL stock zoomed up thousands of percentage points and the resulting return for CMG was around $250 million.
This slug of cash became the basis for the firm CMGi an internet holding company at one time valued in the billions. The CMGi story is a case study in Bubble 1.0 but we will leave it for another day.
Another point of interest, Booklink (AOL) executives were key witnesses in the DOJ trial against Microsoft regarding the browser war between Netscape and IE.
Add comment July 17, 2008
Boston area Companies purchased by CA Companies
Whoops, I found this in my drafts. Somehow I failed to post this. So it may be a little dated, but still interesting information.
Paul Maeder of Highland Capital created a very interesting slide #14 showing the Boston Companies that have helped make CA or out of state companies grow. This slide is from a talk at the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council’s annual meeting in February titled. How MA Gets Her Groove Back.
We obviously know how to create startup here. Seems we might need to hold on or hold out a little longer to create those $ Billion Dollar anchor companies.
Add comment July 17, 2008
Carespace
Genotrope Record: Carespace
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: Angels ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Guardent, EMC
Industry: Consumer Web, Health Care
Offering Description: Carespace.com is the first Internet based platform that enables connections, provides utility, and organizes information for caregivers wherever they may live and whomever they are caring for.
Add comment July 10, 2008
Spring Partners
Genotrope Record: Spring Partners
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Seed
Investors: Battery Ventures ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Third Screen Media
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Description: developing a customizable productivity platform that helps individuals and their families get things done faster and more effectively.
Add comment July 10, 2008
Boston TechCocktail 2 July 24th 6:30 PM
TechCocktail is coming back to Boston for the next TECH cocktail event this summer. You may recall, last fall the super TECH cocktail Boston 1 which brought out a great crowd and showed off some local startups.
Make sure you RSVP as the event is filling up fast. See you there!
Add comment July 9, 2008
