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At TechStars, we believe in full transparency. Here is a complete list of all of the companies that we’ve ever funded. We’ve included their current status, funding raised, employee counts, and more. This information is powered by Crunchbase.
| Status | Number of Companies | Percentage |
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| Active | 88 | 84.62% |
| Acquired | 8 | 7.69% |
| Failed | 8 | 7.69% |
| Class | # cmpys | Funded | # employees | Active | Failed | Acquired |
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| Boulder, Summer 2007 | 10 | 7 | 68 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Boulder, Summer 2008 | 10 | 6 | 82 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| Boston, Summer 2009 | 9 | 4 | 46 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| Boulder, Summer 2009 | 10 | 6 | 120 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Boston, Spring 2010 | 10 | 4 | 32 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Boulder, Summer 2010 | 11 | 9 | 72 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Seattle, Fall 2010 | 9 | 6 | 40 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| New York City, Winter 2011 | 11 | 8 | 47 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Boston, Spring 2011 | 12 | 9 | 77 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Boulder, Summer 2011 | 12 | 5 | 61 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 104 | 64 | 645 | 88 | 8 | 8 |
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| [+][-]Brightkite | $1,400,000 | 10 | Acquired by Limbo, 4/2009 | Burlingame , CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Use Brightkite to meet people around you, keep up with your friends, explore and discover new places. Brightkite is the real time social discovery network. 1 Million people use Brightkite’s free services every week, which are available to anyone, anywhere, worldwide. All you need is a mobile phone or Web browser to bring your friends together in the real world, wherever you may be. The award-winning company is headquartered in Burlingame, California. To learn more about using your phone as a social discovery tool, visit us at www.brightkite.com. | ||||
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| [+][-]EventVue | $250,000 | 5 | Failed 2/2010 | Boulder, CO | # Y |
 View Crunchbase profile | EventVue builds online communities for conferences in order to improve conference networking amongst individuals. EventVue lets you see other attendees, search for others based on mutual interests, and also connect before the conference. EventVue is a TechStars company. | ||||
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| [+][-]Filtrbox | $1,900,000 | 14 | Acquired by Jive Software, 1/2010 | Palo Alto, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Filtrbox offers a content monitoring service that lets you define and “filtr” web content that is relevant to you or your business. Since Flitrbox is web-based, it can be integrated not only into web applications, but also into e-mail and mobile text messaging. Filtrbox is a TechStars company. | ||||
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| [+][-]IntenseDebate | $500,000 | 4 | Acquired by Automattic, 9/2008 | Boulder, CO | Y |
 View Crunchbase profile | Intense Debate is a blog commenting system that supports Typepad, Blogger and Wordpress blogs. The system allows blog owners to track and moderate comments from one place with features like threading, comment analytics, user reputation and comment aggregation. Intense Debate offers blog readers a powerful networking system to establish reputations, link their profiles, make friends and syndicate their comments. It will create a “mini-blogging platform” that will hold commenters responsible for their comments across various blogs. I’m sure the service will help jumpstart a couple superstar commenter careers. The company is currently in private beta mode. It is also an incubating startup for TechStars. Competitors include CoComment, JS-Kit, SezWho and Tangler. | ||||
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| [+][-]J Squared Media | $0 | 10 | Active | Philadelphia, PA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | J-Squared Media builds social games that are distributed across popular social networks like Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo. J-Squared Media is a TechStars company. | ||||
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| [+][-]KB Labs | $0 | 5 | Failed /2007 | # | |
| View Crunchbase profile | Simply put, KB Labs “specializes in building successful Facebook applications.” The company plans to earn revenue from targeted advertising and high page views. KB Labs has experienced success with their Facebook application development thus far: all their recent Facebook apps gained thousands of users within days of launch. KB Labs is a TechStars company. | ||||
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| [+][-]madKast | $300,000 | 5 | Acquired by ShareThis, 9/2008 | Boulder, CO | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Recently founded madKast makes it easy for people to share news and blog posts with others via a single click. Users just have to enter their e-mail address to get a madKast widget, which once installed, lets you share the story’s URL with your contacts through e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging, or social bookmarking sites. madKast is free, and there is no registration or downloading required to get their widget. The company’s founders were also involved in the creation of Zemble.com, a free text messaging service, and consider madKast to be a “brainchild” of Zemble. madKast is an incubating startup for TechStars. | ||||
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| [+][-]Search to Phone | $250,000 | 5 | Failed /2010 | Boulder, CO | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Search-to-Phone offers an interesting twist in the search for products and services over the phone. An improvement on the traditional “411†directory assistance, Search-to-Phone records your call like a voicemail and broadcasts your message to a number of relevant local businesses at once. You then receive a call from someone whose product or services you are likely seeking. Search-to-Phone is a TechStars company. | ||||
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| [+][-]Socialthing | $550,000 | 5 | Acquired by AOL, 8/2008 | Boulder, CO | Y |
 View Crunchbase profile | Simplifying the management of sites and services that you already use like blogs and social networks, socialthing! synchronizes your personal information, content, and friendships so that you can post this information across the social web, as opposed to just having it contained in a single site. Socialthing is a 2007 TechStars company. Socialthing went into private alpha on January 15th, 2008 and launched their private beta at SXSW in March 2008. Socialthing was acquired by AOL. While the price is unconfirmed, the acquisition value is rumored to be between $5M - $10M. | ||||
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| [+][-]Villij | $0 | 5 | Failed /2011 | # | |
| View Crunchbase profile | A self-proclaimed “recommendation engine,” Villij is a service that essentially matches people with similar interests. The site recommends individuals to one another based on the content people have themselves created on the Internet (i.e. blogs, social networking and bookmarking sites, etc.) Villij is a TechStars company. | ||||
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| $5,150,000 | 68 | ||||
| Boulder, Summer 2008 | |||||
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| [+][-]App-X | $0 | 12 | Active | Broomfield, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Application Experts (App-X) provides web-based solutions designed to address the emerging transparency and regulatory issues facing alternative asset fund managers and investors. Application Experts’ solutions centralize institutional knowledge related to investment due diligence, portfolio management and fundraising and also improve operational efficiencies around Limited Partner communications, deal sourcing, portfolio management and general contact and activity management. Application Experts was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Denver with offices in Boston and Chicago. Its clients are leaders in the Alternative Asset Community. Endowments
Funds of Funds
Buyout Fund Managers
Venture Capital Fund Managers
Wealth Managers/Family Offices
Social Investors
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| [+][-]BuyPlayWin | $0 | 5 | Active | # Y | |
 View Crunchbase profile | BuyPlayWin combines online shopping with tournament games. Buy products, play games, win a refund for the product. Every shopper gets a chance to win full refunds for everything they purchase by playing fun games against other shoppers. For example, buy a $120 college text book. Compete with six other people who are also buying the book. Win the game and you get the book for free. They use the profit margin in the product to pay for the winners purchase. If a product has a 33% profit margin they need three players to break even. With 10 purchasers they make a very nice profit. | ||||
| [+][-]DailyBurn | $525,000 | 15 | Acquired by Mindspark Interactive Network, 5/2010 | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Dailyburn (formerly known as Gyminee) is a fitness social network for detailed tracking, online accountability, and motivation. DailyBurn motivates both health seekers and fitness enthusiasts to achieve better fitness results in less time. DailyBurn’s “platform for fitness” includes a social web application for tracking exercise and nutrition, mobile tracking applications for iPhone and other mobile devices, and an API that allows third-party fitness sensors to push fitness data automatically. | ||||
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| [+][-]Devver | $500,000 | 5 | Failed 5/2010 | Boulder, CO | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Devver takes the tools that developers already use on their desktops and turns them into cloud-based services. The service is currently focused on Ruby tools and testing, with a strong emphasis on test suites. They eventually plan on adding PHP, Python, and Java to the service, will release an open API so that developers can extend the service to other languages. | ||||
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| [+][-]Foodzie | $1,000,000 | 10 | Active | San Francisco, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Foodzie is an online marketplace where consumers can discover and buy food directly from small artisan producers. The Foodzie technology makes it simple for small producers to sell their products online and aggregate all these products within a marketplace that makes it easy for “foodies†to discover the very best food. They focus on gourmet foods and organic health foods. | ||||
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| [+][-]Ignighter | $4,200,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | StepOut (formerly Ignighter) is an Indian social networking service that allows users to meet users in their area based upon common interests and location . | ||||
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| [+][-]Occipital | $7,000,000 | 5 | Active | Boulder, CO | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Occipital uses artificial intelligence to organize your photo stream, enabling vivid recollection with groundbreaking visualizations. They can stitch photos together into a panorama, automatically label and tag photos, and construct 3D scenes from your photos. They can zoom in, fly over, step inside buildings…all based on simple photos stitched together into a 3D presentation. They find objects in your photos and link them to the same or similar objects in other photos and stitch them together. | ||||
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| [+][-]Peoples Software Company | $0 | 5 | Active | ★ Y | |
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| [+][-]The Highway Girl | $0 | 5 | Active | Atlanta, GA | # Y |
 View Crunchbase profile | The Highway Girl helps travelers discover great music, venues and unique products. We bring together handmade goods that make your journey more comfortable. | ||||
| [+][-]UsingMiles | $2,950,000 | 15 | Active | Greenwood Village , CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | UsingMiles allows you to aggregate frequent flyer miles and hotel points from family members and keep track of all the various rewards programs. They help you keep track of when miles expire, or when there are special promotional programs for your miles. | ||||
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| $16,175,000 | 82 | ||||
| Boston, Summer 2009 | |||||
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| [+][-]AccelGolf | $529,000 | 4 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | AccelGolf helps users with their stroke tracking, range-finding, and personalized improvement of their golf games. The company showed off their BlackBerry and iPhone applications and explained that the heart of their system is really the community of avid golfers who are now connecting and building their own social network. AccelGolf offers personalized improvement tips by analyzing strokes of golfers who are just slightly better than you, and presenting areas for improvement based on your past performance. AccelGolf suggests which club to use, and where to place the shot, based on your past performance on a specific course. In one example the company showed the iPhone application calculating odds based on past performance for landing a risky shot over a sand trap on a dog leg left. AccelGolf already has 70% of all golf courses loaded in their system. They use the GPS on your phone to determine your position and calculate distance to the pin. | ||||
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| [+][-]AmpIdea | $0 | 5 | Failed /2010 | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | AmpIdea provides a web-enabled baby monitoring as a platform for delivery of various services such as video monitoring, sleep tracking and analysis, statistical comparison, music streaming, and even an integrated baby encyclopedia (Baby 411) which suggests techniques to soothe sleeping babies based on age. While they’re at it, they’re using wifi as the delivery mechanism for audio and video monitoring, which eliminates the static and range issues that plagues traditional baby monitors. For new parents money is no issue when it comes to safety and a good night’s sleep. The sleep scheduling monitor keeps a record of when the baby is sleeping and waking up over time. This helps the parents schedule when to put the baby down for naps and night time sleep. AmpIdea sells the monitor hardware and charges for additional services. | ||||
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| [+][-]Baydin | $375,000 | 3 | Active | Mountain View, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Baydin makes email management tools that help customers spend less time wrestling with email and looking for information, and more time doing meaningful work. The Email Game is the fastest, most fun way to manage your email. Baydin makes Boomerang, a snooze button for an email message - it allows someone to take a message out of his inbox for a predetermined amount of time, then moves it back, marking it unread, when it is time to follow up. It is available for Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010. Boomerang for Gmail provides the same ability to receive a message when it is actually needed, as well as adding the ability to send an email at a scheduled time. | ||||
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| [+][-]HaveMyShift | $0 | 3 | Active | Chicago, IL | |
 View Crunchbase profile | HaveMyShift is a tool that allows hourly shift workers to trade shifts online. The company is using a grassroots approach and encourages employees to sign up and trade shifts with or without the blessing of the company itself. HaveMyShift makes money by taking a percentage of the bonuses offered to other workers to cover a shift. Absenteeism costs US employers more than $200M every day. | ||||
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| [+][-]LangoLab | $0 | 5 | Active | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | LangoLab is a foreign language education program that by instructs students by letting them watch popular TV shows and videos with subtitles. LangoLab leverages the American media machine that is constantly churning out entertaining content and then provides an engaging “watch and learn†experience complete with translations, definitions, user generated language notes, and self testing. Many people have learned English just by watching TV with subtitles, and this is the online equivalent. English as a second language is the largest market. | ||||
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| [+][-]Localytics | $3,200,000 | 11 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Localytics provides mobile usage data and analytics for the mobile market, similar to companies such as Flurry and Medialets. Localytics says that it has both real time and “deeper†analytics than the competitors, allowing you to slice and dice the data in a variety of ways to gain better and more immediate insight into the usage of mobile applications. They also explained that they’ve open sourced critical components so that developers can know exactly what they’re putting into their applications, and that their mobile components are highly optimized for performance. Localytics is cross platform and already supports Blackberry, Android, and iPhone applications, with Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Palm planned for the near future. Localytics uses the Freemium model: free basic service, with paid premium services. | ||||
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| [+][-]oneforty | $2,345,000 | 5 | Acquired by HubSpot, 8/2011 | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | oneforty is the Social Business Hub. We’re a buyers’ guide for businesses who want to invest wisely in doing social right. Social business is shaping up to be a huge market opportunity plagued by massive complexity and uncertainty about how to invest in tools, training and expertise. We’re serve as the “buyers’ guide” for social strategists, marketers and other corporate buyers. -B2B platform for figuring out what to do in social business and how to invest your budget in tools, experts and other services -access to your peers - find out what others are doing and how you measure up -Business content helping buyers understand what to do, how to do it and which tools and experts can help -Listings/ratings & reviews of: tools and social business pros (agencies and consultants) -Discovery & comparisons engine (and marketing platform) for serious business tools | ||||
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| [+][-]Sensobi | $0 | 5 | Acquired by GroupMe, 5/2011 | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Sensobi is a personal relationship manager. It’s like CRM, but for the rest of us. Sensobi helps you record notes, set follow up reminders, see who is falling off your radar, and manage your relationships right from your email inbox and mobile phone. | ||||
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| [+][-]TempMine | $0 | 5 | Active | # Y | |
 View Crunchbase profile | TempMine is bringing the temporary staffing industry online. The company believes that they’ve found a way to make the temps, employers, and agencies happier with a single solution. Temp workers create a profile on TempMine that is automatically updated as placements occur, providing more transparency and traceability to the process. Employers can search directly for temps across the inventory of multiple agencies, finding the right fit. Agencies retain control over placements of their best temps. The temp agency only gets involved after the employer finds the exact temp they want. There is no cost to employers or temps to use TempMine, but they do take a 1% commission from the agencies. | ||||
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| $6,449,000 | 46 | ||||
| Boulder, Summer 2009 | |||||
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| [+][-]Everlater | $750,000 | 5 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Everlater is a site in which users can record travel experiences, share them with friends and family, and discover new travel ideas from social network & other travelers like you. Users can upload stories, experiences, photos, and more directly to Everlater or the site can pull items in from external services such as Flickr. There is an iPhone app that enables offline recording of travel experiences which can be synchronized and shared later. Each user and trip has a unique URL for easy sharing with friends and family on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. Everlater was a TechStars 2009 company. | ||||
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| [+][-]Graphicly | $4,200,000 | 15 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | The Graphicly platform offers automated self-publishing by converting, distributing and promoting image-based digital content across the most popular consumer mobile and eBook marketplaces including the Apple iOS Newsstand and iBookstore, Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, Amazon Kindle store, Facebook and many others, while streamlining the work flow, reducing production costs significantly and providing authors and publishers detailed real-time analytics. As the only platform that optimizes image-based content, Graphicly is uniquely poised to take advantage of the $23 billion publishing market, including the more than 300,000 self-published authors expected to produce a graphical work this year. | ||||
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| [+][-]Mailana | $0 | 5 | Active | # Y | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Mailana analyzes communication patterns from email, Twitter, and social networks to determine your inner circle. It then allows you to share your inner circle with the inner circles of your close connections. The idea here is that existing social graphs are too inclusive to be used to efficiently discover connections and expertise. Mailana aims to simplify this by generating only your “inner circle†based on communication patterns, then exposing that only to your most frequent and trusted connections. | ||||
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| [+][-]Next Big Sound | $7,500,000 | 9 | Active | Boulder, CO Nashville, TN | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Next Big Sound is a TechStars 2009 company that tracks the growth and popularity of music groups across major web properties like MySpace, Twitter, Last.fm, and others. Next Big Sound measures number of fans, number of plays, and comments. They currently track about 500,000 bands. | ||||
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| [+][-]ReTel Technologies | $1,000,000 | 5 | Active | San Francisco, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Based in San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL, ReTel Technologies develops advanced analytics that help businesses optimize their security, operations and consumer experience through ongoing analysis of surveillance video. ReTel’s unique system seamlessly augments computer vision with human auditing to uncover actionable insights previously unavailable at scale or low cost. ReTel was founded in 2007, and is also a 2009 TechStars company. | ||||
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| [+][-]Rezora | $0 | 5 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Rezora is multi-tiered email marketing for large sales and marketing organizations. Their unique multi-tiered approach lets marketing organizations decide which of their sales agents have access to what materials by dividing agents and marketing materials into groups and campaigns and applying proper restrictions to either or both. Role-specific reporting is then provided on the individual, group or campaign level. In addition, the company can create and schedule marketing pieces to be sent on behalf of the sales agents, allowing the company to ensure agents are properly marketing to their clients in a timely manner. | ||||
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| [+][-]SendGrid | $27,350,000 | 60 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | SendGrid is a cloud-based email service that delivers email on behalf of companies to increase deliverability and improve customer communications. Integration with new or existing email systems is done via SMTP or through a REST API. Beyond increasing deliverability, SendGrid offers a scalable email infrastructure, provides metrics on outgoing email, and handles the time consuming tasks involved with implementing unsubscribe links, abiding by anti-spam regulations, and maintaining corporate branding. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. | ||||
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| [+][-]TimZon | $0 | 6 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | TimZon is the maker of SnapEngage. Sell better using live chat support. SnapEngage can easily be installed on any website and seamlessly integrates with your CRM or Help Desk. SnapEngage is a powerful Live Chat solution. Without installing any software, your Sales and Support teams can chat with your website visitors while they browse. Agents are using their preferred instant messaging solution and don’t need to learn yet another system. SnapEngage real time integration with the leading CRMS and Help Desk automatically creates new leads or support cases when your visitors request help from your website. Chat transcripts are automatically added to support cases and leads, without the need for you to change your workflow. SnapEngage integrates with:
Give it a try today, for free and convert your visitors into customers. | ||||
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| [+][-]Spry | $0 | 5 | Failed /2010 | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Spry provides insight into software development projects by monitoring all the tools and services used by a project team. Spry analyzes the data in real-time, generates progress reports, and enables clear and consistent communication throughout the team. This helps managers and developers make better decisions throughout the process thereby reducing the likelihood of failure and delay. | ||||
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| [+][-]Vanilla Forums | $500,000 | 5 | Active | Montreal, | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Vanilla is a open-source forum hosting application that is fully customizable. Vanilla has a business model similar to Wordpress. They have vanillaforums.org for open source, free download/use, and vanillaforums.com as a hosted service, but with up-sells for things like domain name mapping, removal of ads, and single sign-on integrations. Vanilla was a Techstars 2009 company. | ||||
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| $41,300,000 | 120 | ||||
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| [+][-]Mogotest | $0 | 2 | Active | Cambridge, MA | Y |
 View Crunchbase profile | Mogotest is a front-end testing and verification tool designed to help companies ensure that their web sites render properly across various web browsers and platforms. Mogotest can spider your web site or test individual pages to help you spot browser inconsistencies and areas in need of optimization. We take the pain out of web testing so you can focus on building the features that make your product truly unique. | ||||
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| [+][-]Monkey Analytics | $0 | 5 | Active | # Y | |
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| [+][-]Loudcaster | $35,000 | 1 | Active | Somerville, MA | Y |
 View Crunchbase profile | Loudcaster enables anyone to create an interactive online radio station. Loudcaster is a Techstars Boston 2010 company. Everyone is an expert in the sound of something. With Loudcaster anyone can get on the virtual airwaves and broadcast 24x7 with their own online radio station. Stations run in two modes: 1) An unattended DJ Bot that keeps things rolling 24x7. 2) Live mode, which the human DJ can use at their convenience. A variety of DJ’s use Loudcaster. You’ll find geographically based local music radio, main-stream radio, and even very specific niche’s like accordion only radio. Loudcaster generates revenue three ways. 1) We sell services and tools to DJ’s. 2) Advertising. There are 80M online radio listeners now, and that’s projected to be 200M by 2015. 3) Affiliate sales of music, tickets, clothing and the like. The future of radio is online, not tied up in satellites or towers. Long term, Loudcaster will provide DJ’s and listeners with a whole new level of interactive radio, enabled only by our imagination, determination, execution and our friend, the Internet. Loudcaster was Founded by Brandon Casci, and inspired by his previous, and still operational, Internet radio startup LoudCity. LoudCity is cash flow positive, well above ramen-noodle profitable, and peaks at 10% of Pandora’s daytime audience. | ||||
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| [+][-]SocialSci | $500,000 | 5 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | SocialSci is an online survey platform designed to meet all the requirements of scientific researchers. SocialSci lets researchers design surveys using a simple drag-and-drop interface, and comes with a built-in recruiting system that uses a point system to reward users for participating while screening out repeat visitors. | ||||
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| [+][-]StarStreet | $250,000 | 4 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Ever wished you could buy shares of your favorite athletes as though they were stocks on the NASDAQ? On StarStreet you can buy and sell virtual shares of the players and teams you love, and you can make real money while doing so. Trading on StarStreet is much like trading on E*Trade, except the market is filled with the players you know rather than companies you probably don’t. | ||||
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| [+][-]TutorialTab | $0 | 2 | Active | Y | |
 View Crunchbase profile | TutorialTab lets companies make their website more learnable. Using their platform you can add hands-on, interactive tutorials to a website that can guide users. | ||||
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| [+][-]UserMojo | $0 | 2 | Failed 10/2010 | Y | |
 View Crunchbase profile | UserMojo is a User Experience Analytics platform that takes the largely fuzzy world of User Experience and distills it down into a quantitative perspective that is actionable and easily understood. | ||||
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| [+][-]Appswell | $0 | 3 | Active | Cambridge, MA | Y |
 View Crunchbase profile | Appswell is a mobile crowd sourcing platform that allows people, companies, and brands to harness the wisdom of their crowds. Appswell was their own first client of the platform, with a crowdsourced contest for iPhone app ideas. Interactive agencies, brands, and enterprises license the Appswell platform to quickly deploy cost effective crowdsourcing campaigns and open innovation initiatives that can be deployed through the browser, or through a branded app. | ||||
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| [+][-]Marginize | $1,950,000 | 5 | Active | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Marginize augments every page on the web with an independent space owned by the visitors where they can meet each other and interact freely. Marginize pre-populates that space with existing Twitter content about each page, and allows visitors to “check in†to the page and comment. The most active community member becomes the “curator†for that site, and other recently active users are shown after they check in. Browser add-ons for Chrome and Firefox are available on www.marginize.com, and a bookmarklet can be used with other browsers. | ||||
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| [+][-]Sparkcloud | $0 | 3 | Active | Y | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Sparkcloud introduces you to awesome people who are around you, in real time. They provide tools that allow developers to more easily create their own “real world” social apps, ranging from urban gaming to location-based dating. | ||||
| $2,735,000 | 32 | ||||
| Boulder, Summer 2010 | |||||
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| [+][-]Orbotix | $6,000,000 | 21 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Orbotix is focused on bringing a new concept of fun through robotics and phone-controlled open devices. Their first product, Sphero, uses Orbotix’s API to create the first robotic ball controlled by your smartphone. Founded by passionate lifelong robotic engineers, Orbotix is working to bring the real world to your smartphone. Based in Boulder Colorado, the Orbotix team takes fun very seriously, for more information visit www.orbotix.com. | ||||
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| [+][-]Vacation Rental Partner | $325,000 | 3 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Vacation Rental Partner makes it easy for owners to get more exposure for their vacation rental homes by enabling them to distribute their ads through a number of channels and manage the inquiries and bookings from those ads in one central location. Our tools help owners maximize revenue and spend less time managing their vacation rental properties. Vacation Rental Partner improves the guest experience by facilitating faster responses from owners, secure online bookings and better availability data to travelers. | ||||
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| [+][-]ADstruc | $1,100,000 | 5 | Active | New York City, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | ADstruc is the technology platform for the outdoor advertising industry. ADstruc brings efficiencies to both the buying and selling process by providing online tools to best find, manage, buy and sell outdoor advertising. We are passionate about improving the way OOH data is received, analyzed, presented and implemented. We provide a host of tools such as Inventory Management, RFP /Proposal Automation, Public Listings, Creative Upload and more. Companies utilize our tools differently to maximize their value on ADstruc. ADstruc encourages interaction on a much wider scale and creates new opportunities for growth within the industry. | ||||
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| [+][-]StatsMix | $0 | 3 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | StatsMix makes it easy to track and chart all of your important metrics. StatsMix allows customers to quickly track internal metrics with a REST-based API or automatically monitor social media, analytics, support systems, and many more popular services. | ||||
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| [+][-]Lumatic | $930,000 | 7 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Lumatic provides landmark and photo driven navigation software for mobile devices. Lumatic makes the mobile experience more human, starting with location. Six of the seven billion people on the planet have never used a streetmap. Now that a billion people have smartphones, either Google is going to teach a whole lot of people to read maps or a new UI will be introduced. Lumatic is that new UI. Lumatic is introducing a photo-driven interface for pedestrian navigation and offering the underlying location service to other mobile developers. | ||||
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| [+][-]RentMonitor | $0 | 5 | Active | Boulder, CO | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | RentMonitor makes it easy to be a landlord. We are the one property management solution landlords need to fill vacancies, collect rent and maximize profits. | ||||
| [+][-]RoundPegg | $1,500,336 | 5 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | RoundPegg provides a Culture Intelligence Platform upon which companies can actively manage culture shifts, identify sub-cultures, make hires who scientifically fit and engage their employees. Psychology meets Technology to understand what drives your company culture. | ||||
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| [+][-]ScriptPad | $420,000 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | ScriptPad transforms the iPad and iPhone into a digital prescription pad allowing doctors to write prescriptions faster and safer than their current paper process. ScriptPad eliminates deadly prescription writing mistakes that contribute to over 7000 deaths each year and sends the prescription directly to the pharmacy where it will be waiting for the patient to pick up. | ||||
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| [+][-]Spot Influence | $340,969 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Spot Influence is a social data provider, making it easy to find the best people on any topic. The Spot Influence API identifies topical Influencers on any search term, across all of social media, ranking every content creator on their topical Reach Relevance and Impact. In addition, the API can provide outlet, interest, and topical Influence data for any person creating content. The API is capable of handling millions of calls per day. | ||||
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| [+][-]BlipSnips | $680,000 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | BlipSnips® makes video social. This Boulder, CO-based startup and 2010 TechStars graduate provides free consumer products designed to make video sharing simple and fun across a user’s social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The products offer the following capabilities: -Moment by moment video captioning allowing the user to inject commentary at specific moments of videos. -Friend tagging: Tag friends by way of their social network (e.g. Facebook) and notify them of their ‘appearances’ at a specific points in a video. BlipSnips offers these capabilities through a variety of means: -A destination website at www.blipsnips.com -An iPhone app designed to shoot, tag and upload video (search ‘BlipSnips’ on the App Store to download) -A Facebook app to perform these functions against Facebook-hosted and YouTube video (search ‘BlipSnips App’ in the Facebook search bar to access the app) Learn more at www.blipsnips.com. | ||||
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| [+][-]Kapost | $2,600,000 | 11 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Kapost is a software tool for content marketers. They started out as a service that helped media companies manage the pitching, assigning, editing and payment workflow for a large group of editorial contributors. But, Kapost now provides this software to nonmedia brands who are publishing more original editorial as part of the growing content-marketing industry. | ||||
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| $13,896,305 | 72 | ||||
| Seattle, Fall 2010 | |||||
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| [+][-]RewardsForce | $200,000 | 4 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | RewardsForce provides SAAS solutions for loyalty and rewards to underserved markets using our dynamic web-based platform. RewardsForce products include AnteUpdates, an iPad application for casinos and card rooms that assists floor managers and pit bosses with managing their rewards club. AnteUpdates transforms the iPad into a mobile customer service device and is praised by casinos as the easiest way to manage a loyalty program. | ||||
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| [+][-]Thinkfuse | $520,000 | 4 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Thinkfuse is an enterprise software-as-a-service provider that turns status reports into a powerful business tool. By separating status reports from private email, it helps everyone in an organization understand what everyone else is working on - and how their efforts impact the whole. The company was founded in August 2010, and is based in Seattle, Washington. | ||||
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| [+][-]RentMatch | $0 | 5 | Active | Seattle, WA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | RentMatch is the best website to find an apartment for rent. They help renters find a place to rent by partnering with the top apartment rental websites like Rent.com, MyNewplace.com, Apartments.com, Apartment Finder and ForRent to offer you thousands of quality rental listing nationwide all on one website. Whether you are looking for cheap apartments for rent in New York or a house for rent in Seattle, they can help you find a new place to rent. With easy to use filters and tools for renters, you.ll be able to sort through thousands of cheap apartment rental listings nationwide and find the perfect place to rent. | ||||
| [+][-]The Shared Web | $225,000 | 3 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | A Better Way to Discover and Share the Web. Discover. There’s a lot of stuff on the web. We, like you, only want to see the best stuff, personalized for what you like. Share. Each day we all see so many interesting things on the intertubes. There should be a place to effortlessly blast out all the interesting things you’re seeing so others can check them out too! This is that place. | ||||
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| [+][-]Giant Thinkwell | $625,000 | 5 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Giant Thinkwell is creating a next-generation entertainment platform for celebrities to build, engage with, and have more fun with fans online. In a world dominated by social media and where the very notion of celebrity has become democratized, we noticed that fan engagement is not very special, not very social and definitely not as much fun as it should be. We also noticed a growing opportunity to deliver rich online experiences for all kinds of celebrities to engage with their Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and YouTube subscribers. To get there, we’re reinventing standard celeb/fan modules like trivia games, photo galleries, polling, e-commerce, fan forums, and more. If the future of fan engagement is via Facebook fan pages, then Facebook Credits are an exciting new way for fans to gain access to exclusive content and engagement with the celebrities they love. That’s where we come in… Giant Thinkwell’s technology allows anyone with a fan following to easily customize a range different modules for improving their fans’ Facebook or online experience. | ||||
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| [+][-]Highlighter | $400,000 | 5 | Active | Seattle, WA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Highlighter.com unifies what you highlight, comment, and share across all content, platforms and devices, to create a dynamic relationship with publishers and readers. Now that most of the content we digest everyday is online, the experience of marking up a page, taking notes, and sharing should be brilliantly easy…. but it’s NOT! Highlighter.com keeps those highlights, comments, and notes, in a centralized location that you can share with others or just review at a later time That means whether you are reading a blog post from your computer or are reading an ebook or pdf on your ipad, the ability to interact with content is seamless! | ||||
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| [+][-]Deal Co-op | $500,000 | 6 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | The best daily deal partner on the web… Every local publisher and organization has the necessary tools to win at daily deal marketing. Do you have an e-mail list or large online audience? Do you have contacts in the business community? Start a Deal Co-op in your city, town or neighborhood to begin monetizing those assets. Current Co-op members include Mom Groups, Dining Guides, Local Publishers, Local Bloggers, Restaurant Groups, Spa Groups, Marketing Companies and growing all the time… | ||||
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| [+][-]World Blender | $0 | 3 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | World Blender’s mission is bringing the fun and fantastic to your daily routine through social, location-based games. This mission begins with releasing great games and sharing the power to create these games with enthusiast gamers and the game developer community. | ||||
| [+][-]GoMiles | $0 | 5 | Active | Seattle, WA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | GoMiles helps you unlock the value in your frequent flyer miles and other points programs, to get things you really care about - like free travel! GoMiles aggregates all your loyalty program data into one place, and then overlays intelligence and analysis onto this data to deliver insight and to enable action. | ||||
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| $2,470,000 | 40 | ||||
| New York City, Winter 2011 | |||||
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| [+][-]CrowdTwist | $6,750,000 | 7 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | CrowdTwist is a social loyalty and rewards platform that engages and activates a brand’s audience wherever the brand is, both online and offline. Giving brands the ability to track, incentivize and reward customer engagement across any online, social or mobile channel, CrowdTwist grows audiences, strengthens engagement, monetizes users and increases online and offline sales conversions. CrowdTwist also empowers brands to identify their biggest cross-platform influencers and understand how an individual customer is interacting with their online, social and mobile properties. Founded in 2009 by Irving Fain, Josh Bowen and Mike Montero, CrowdTwist is based in New York City. For more information, visit www.crowdtwist.com. | ||||
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| [+][-]Timehop | $1,100,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | The startup started out aggregating Foursquare user checkins from a year ago in a daily email and recently broadened to include Facebook status updates, photos, Twitter updates and Instagram posts. | ||||
| [+][-]Immersive Labs | $980,000 | 3 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Immersive builds advertising technology for digital signs that enables retailers and advertisers to deliver tailored messages to customers in real-time. This technology is a combination of anonymous facial detection (e.g., gender, age, distance, attention time and gazes) sophisticated machine learning based optimization, as well as strategies specified by the marketer. | ||||
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| [+][-]ShuttleCloud | $0 | 3 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | ShuttleCloud provides cloud-based data migration software. ShuttleCloud makes your cloud data portable, by facilitating the easy transfer of data between services such as email, contacts, calendars and online documents. | ||||
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| [+][-]Nestio | $805,000 | 4 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Looking for a new place to live is frustrating, stressful and time-consuming. Listings are scattered, false advertisements are everywhere, and dead-ends are common. Nestio is the easiest way for consumers to make the best and most informed decision on their next home. | ||||
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| [+][-]OnSwipe | $6,000,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | OnSwipe is a platform that provides a way for publishers of all sizes to make their content and advertising a beautiful experience on touch-enabled devices via Web browser. With OnSwipe, media content and advertising will appear and function as they do on native websites and applications, providing a magazine-like experience on touch devices. OnSwipe addresses a growing industry need with tablet use on the rise. | ||||
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| [+][-]Red Rover | $0 | 7 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Red Rover is a peer to peer learning platform. Red Rover works with both corporations and colleges, connecting users to the people they should know in their organization with an organic expert directory of individual profiles. It pulls in community-generated web content and aggregates it into a searchable, sortable, activity feed, allowing users to contribute to the knowledge base, and to quickly find relevant information. Red Rover’s extensive dashboards allow leaders to systematically track and improve engagement. | ||||
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| [+][-]Shelby.tv | $1,725,000 | 4 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Shelby.tv is the most amazing way to discover and enjoy web video. | ||||
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| [+][-]ThinkNear | $1,630,000 | 4 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | ThinkNear is an easy and automated solution that allows local businesses to generate additional revenue and increase profitability. The ThinkNear system predicts when a business has unused capacity and seamlessly brings in people nearby by offering them discounts on their phone. | ||||
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| [+][-]ToVieFor | $75,000 | 2 | Active | ||
| View Crunchbase profile | At ToVieFor we sell the hottest handbags and accessories through a unique type of sale which allows a member to choose the price she wants to pay. | ||||
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| [+][-]Veri | $0 | 3 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Veri turns online content – including articles, blog posts, and videos – into a fun and free way to learn. Users can take courses by answering community-generated questions and consuming content within any topic. Veri was part of the inaugural TechStars NYC class in 2011. | ||||
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| $19,065,000 | 47 | ||||
| Boston, Spring 2011 | |||||
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| [+][-]EverTrue | $1,300,000 | 10 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | EverTrue is an intelligence platform that connects non-profit donor databases to the social graph. | ||||
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| [+][-]Ginger.io | $1,700,000 | 5 | Active | Cambridge, MA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Ginger.io is a behavior analytics company, and spinoff of the MIT Media Lab. We use big data from mobile phones to model user behavior, and make inferences about health and wellness. | ||||
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| [+][-]GrabCAD | $5,356,000 | 10 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | GrabCAD is a mechanical engineering community for sharing talent, expand knowledge and collaborate, including free CAD model library and [engineering competitions platform] (http://grabcad.com/challenges). The founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk previously ran a product development company. GrabCAD was founded in 2009. The company’s headquarters is based in Boston, USA with development team in Estonia. | ||||
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| [+][-]Brightwurks | $408,000 | 3 | Active | Cambridge, MA Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Brightwurks builds web applications that solve practical problems. The company is the collaborative effort of 3 partners that have been working together since 2004. Brightwurks’ first commercial web application was launched in late 2008, called FeedMyInbox. Feed My Inbox is the industry leader for RSS to email, now with 170,000 active customers and growing. In March of 2011, Brightwurks was accepted into TechStars (Boston). The application they are working on is called Help Scout, a way for teams to collaborate on email. Help Scout will be launched in 2011. | ||||
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| [+][-]Kinvey | $2,000,000 | 10 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Kinvey (pronounced Kin-vey, like convey) is the first Backend as a Service that makes it ridiculously easy for developers to setup, use and maintain a cloud backend for their mobile apps. Our service lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their mobile application. They don’t have to worry about connecting to various cloud services, setting up servers for their backend, or maintaining and scaling them. With Kinvey, developers just model their cloud backend needs and we auto-generate all the APIs they would need to access their data from any mobile, web or computing platform. Developers then grab their APIs, put it in their app code, and they’re ready to go. We call it Backend as a Service. Kinvey was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, MA | ||||
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| [+][-]Memrise | $1,177,000 | 5 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Memrise is an online learning platform that combines the best insights from the art and science of memory to provide extraordinarily effective, game-like learning experiences. Memrise was founded by Greg Detre, who recently completed his PhD in the neuroscience of forgetting at Princeton; and Ed Cooke, a Grandmaster of Memory who can learn a 1000 digit number in an hour. Together, we want to transform the speed and ease with which anybody can learn. We started at the deep end with Chinese characters, one of the hardest and most critical learning problems around. With the help of our users, we’ve since begun to cover dozens of languages from around the world. | ||||
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| [+][-]Placester | $826,000 | 8 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Placester makes real estate advertising simple and effective. Our platform connects the industry so professionals can generate leads on a pay-for-performance basis. | ||||
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| [+][-]Promoboxx | $565,000 | 7 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Brands and retailers need each other. Brands have creative online promotions, but no way to market them locally. Retailers have access to online local marketing channels, but need promotions. The solution? Promoboxx. Promboxx allows brands to launch, promote and track online marketing campaigns with their retailers, including coupons and sweepstakes, that empower them to build leads and drive sales. We’ve been called “the next generation marketing platform” by our partners, and our case studies show that when brands involve their retailers, they increase their marketing power exponentially, and everyone is more successful. | ||||
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| [+][-]Senexx | $0 | 3 | Active | Cambridge, MA Tel Aviv , | |
 View Crunchbase profile | A new way to conduct knowledge management for medium and large scale enterprises using NLP and machine learning algorithms. We help companies to significantly increase their productivity by leveraging the organizational wisdom. Our internal Q&A platform helps to identify and manage expertise within their organization. Senexx is an American company with a R&D center in Israel. Our main verticals are Management Consulting, Engineering, Bio Tech \ Pharma\Medical and Hi Tech firms. Senexx is a TechStars Boston 2011 graduate. | ||||
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| [+][-]Spill Inc | $420,000 | 6 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Spill is an anonymous online resource that connects people who are struggling with similar life problems. Visitors are encouraged to “spill” their guts confidentially to get whatever stressors they are dealing with off of their chests. Each spill is screened by Crisis Center professionals and then sent to several volunteer responders who have experienced the same problem. These trained responders often seek joy in being able to help other people with problems they wished they had had help for. Responses are vetted by Spill staff and 4-6 are delivered back to the Spiller within 24 hours. Spill was born on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison when a student was going through a hard time adjusting to college life. Students told their friends about it and it quickly spread to other schools. Student Spill, LLC was born in June of 2009 to be a broker of anonymous empathy. It provides colleges and universities with customized reporting on the prevalence of student struggles on campus, how their students compare to those of other institutions, and trending of key vulnerabilities throughout the semester. Though the platform was restricted to member schools in its early years, any student can now “spill” at www.spillnow.com and receive responses from peers. | ||||
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| [+][-]Strohl Medical | $0 | 5 | Active | ★ Y | |
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| [+][-]The Tap Lab | $0 | 5 | Active | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | The Tap Lab is a social mobile gaming company based in Cambridge, MA. Our company mission is to bring daydreams to life through the creation of games that spark the imagination and seamlessly integrate with today’s fast-paced mobile lifestyle. | ||||
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| $13,752,000 | 77 | ||||
| Boulder, Summer 2011 | |||||
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| [+][-]Creative Brain Studios | $0 | 3 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Creative Brain Studios creates tools that enable developers to create and deploy games to all the popular smart phones, tablets and PC’s. Create Once, Deploy Everywhere! Our highly customizable editor enables developers from the indie developer who is just starting out to the professional developer looking to augment their tools pipeline with a simple drag and drop creation tool leveraging HTML 5 and Javascript to deploy a game to virtually any mobile device or computer that supports HTML 5. We reduce development time. Offer true multi-platform support. A true turn-key solution. | ||||
| [+][-]Flextrip | $0 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Flextrip offers an API enabling online travel companies to monetize the world’s largest selection of tours & activities. | ||||
| [+][-]FlixMaster | $530,000 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | FlixMaster creates technology that enables anyone to build branching-path video mash-ups, that pull videos, audio files, forms, and images from all over the web, to play in a single video window. | ||||
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| [+][-]FullContact | $1,850,000 | 10 | Active | Denver, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | FullContact is the API that keeps contact information current. Developers that have applications with people data can utilize the API to clean, enhance, and keep that information fresh and up-to-date. | ||||
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| [+][-]GoSpotCheck | $0 | 4 | Active | Denver, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | GoSpotCheck supplies brands with real-time insights into their in-store merchandising through an innovative mobile application. | ||||
| [+][-]InboxFever | $0 | 5 | Active | # | |
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| [+][-]Meal Ticket | $0 | 4 | Active | Boise, ID | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Online Restaurant Coupons and Restaurant Directory on Your iPhone or Android So you’re hungry for a good meal and a great deal? Just open Meal Ticket and you’ll find a list of coupons and specials at restaurants near you, complete with reviews from other users. Pick your deal, map the location, order your food and flash the restaurant coupon right from your smartphone - nothing to print, no coupons to clip. It’s instant savings on the spot. You can even pass the savings on to friends via Facebook, Twitter and email - and receive alerts when your favorite restaurants post a new deal. | ||||
| [+][-]Mocavo | $1,000,000 | 6 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | The World’s Largest Free Genealogy Search Engine. Upload your family tree, and Mocavo will search through the web for relevant results and e-mail them back to you. | ||||
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| [+][-]ReportGrid | $750,000 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | ReportGrid is a Software-as-a-Service offering that makes it extremely easy to add customer-facing analytics and reporting to any web-based application. Through zero-configuration APIs, ReportGrid enables vendors of web-based applications to embed market-leading, customer-facing analytics and reporting into their applications in a fraction of the time and money that it would take to build a system internally. ReportGrid’s technology includes a proprietary real-time analytics database designed for massive scalability, and a general-purpose HTML5-based visualization engine. Most companies in the analytics and visualization spaces focus solely on providing generic, tool-chain-driven business intelligence solutions, but ReportGrid’s horizontally scalable, API-driven, skinnable and embeddable solution enables vendors to offer high-level analytics and reporting to their end-users across web and mobile environments. | ||||
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| [+][-]Simple Energy | $900,000 | 7 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Simple Energy is changing how millions of people save energy by revolutionizing how utilities engage their customers. Simple Energy leverages years of experience in the energy industry and combine leading behavioral science and the tools of the modern, social web to engage customers and get the results regulators demand. Their proprietary customer engagement platform combines (1) customers’ real energy usage data, (2) third party data like weather, home size, and demographic data, and (3) overlay users’ real social graphs. Creating the most compelling way to engage in saving energy – ever. | ||||
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| [+][-]SocialEngine | $0 | 5 | Active | Los Angeles, CA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | SocialEngine helps people and brands build vibrant, customizable online communities. Thousands of social websites are powered by the SocialEngine platform, and millions of end-users enjoy these sites every day. After finishing TechStars in 2011, SocialEngine launched a new service for community managers called FanMix - a unified dashboard for social conversations. FanMix makes social media engagement much easier by consolidating all your conversations into a simple email-style inbox. SocialEngine is now preparing to launch a new community platform that lets you create an online community that emphasizes social sharing and curation. | ||||
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| [+][-]TruantToday | $0 | 5 | Active | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | TruantToday brings students – and funding – back to classrooms by instantly sending out text and email messages to parents when students cut class. | ||||
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