29th October 2007

Search To Phone raises angel round

A fourth TechStars company from this summer has received angel funding, joining EventVue, MadKast, and SocialThing. Now, Search To Phone has closed on an angel round as of this past Friday. Their product allows you to record your voice and broadcast a specific search request to relevant local merchants simultaneously, saving time and effort. Since Read more…

23rd October 2007

SocialThing takes further funding

Congrats are due to SocialThing, which is the third TechStars company from this summer to announce follow on funding. Ben, Brian, and Matt showed up in Boulder this summer with a truly enormous vision. They spent the summer building prototypes and refining that vision. What they’ve ended up with is a very interesting approach to Read more…

22nd October 2007

Bloggers: Want to try Intense Debate?

Intense Debate is a TechStars company that has a plug-in replacement for the comment system on your blog. It adds threading, reputation, tracking, aggregation and other cool features to your blogs comment system. It also enables readers to do stuff like follow the comments of their friends, track comments across sites, and more. TechCrunch has Read more…

9th October 2007

Who wants to be a Facebook millionaire?

Amid all the Facebook hype, TechStars can tell you from first hand experience this summer with Philadelphia-based J-Squared Media that there are ways to make money in the Facebook economy. In fact, J-Squared Media is currently featured in Business Week in an article titled “Who Wants to be a Facebook Millionaire?” In that article, Jesse Read more…

9th October 2007

MadKast raises seed round

MadKast has recently closed a $300,000 seed round, making it the second TechStars company (EventVue) from this summer to receive further funding. The investment was led by EonBusiness Venture Capital and several angel investors from California and Colorado participated as well. There’s a little more coverage on TechCrunch and Tech Rockies. Brad has a great Read more…