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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 | 169 | 80.09% |
| Acquired | 19 | 9% |
| Failed | 23 | 10.9% |
| Impact | |
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| Average Funding per Company | $1,502,998 |
| Jobs Created | 1407 |
| Class | # cmpys | Funded | Total Funding | # employees | Active | Failed | Acquired |
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| Boulder, Summer 2007 | 10 | 8 | $5,385,000 | 56 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Boulder, Summer 2008 | 10 | 6 | $18,595,000 | 86 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Boston, Summer 2009 | 9 | 4 | $12,059,000 | 46 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Boulder, Summer 2009 | 10 | 6 | $43,600,000 | 125 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Boston, Spring 2010 | 10 | 4 | $3,085,000 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Boulder, Summer 2010 | 11 | 9 | $19,286,305 | 90 | 9 | 0 | 2 |
| Seattle, Fall 2010 | 9 | 6 | $6,075,000 | 41 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
| NYC, Winter 2011 | 11 | 11 | $24,773,000 | 90 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| Boston, Spring 2011 | 12 | 11 | $47,901,000 | 124 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Boulder, Summer 2011 | 13 | 8 | $23,984,500 | 126 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| Seattle, Fall 2011 | 10 | 9 | $23,527,000 | 75 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| NYC, Summer 2011 | 12 | 8 | $17,280,000 | 65 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| Cloud, Winter 2012 | 11 | 11 | $17,036,000 | 57 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Boston, Winter 2012 | 13 | 10 | $12,479,790 | 77 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| NYC, Spring 2012 | 13 | 9 | $13,675,000 | 78 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Boulder, Summer 2012 | 12 | 8 | $11,072,000 | 70 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| Seattle, Fall 2012 | 10 | 8 | $8,105,000 | 48 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Boston, Fall 2012 | 13 | 7 | $7,449,000 | 81 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Cloud, Winter 2013 | 12 | 6 | $1,765,000 | 53 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 211 | 149 | $317,132,595 | 1407 | 169 | 23 | 19 |
| Boulder, Summer 2007 | |||||
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| [+][-]Brightkite | $1,400,000 | 5 | 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 | $440,000 | 0 | Failed 2/2010 | Boulder, CO | # |
 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 | |
 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 | 18 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | $400,000 | 5 | Acquired by AOL, 8/2008 | Boulder, CO | |
 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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| [+][-]Localcents, Inc. (Villij.com) | $195,000 | 5 | Acquired by Tout'd, 10/2012 | # | |
 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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| $5,385,000 | 56 | ||||
| Boulder, Summer 2008 | |||||
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| [+][-]Application Experts | $0 | 14 | Active | Broomfield, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Application Experts (App-X) is the leading provider of flexible, web-based software solutions for Alternative Asset Fund Managers, Institutional Investors, and Impact Investors. | ||||
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| [+][-]BuyPlayWin | $0 | 0 | Failed /2008 | # | |
 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. | ||||
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| [+][-]DailyBurn | $525,000 | 15 | Acquired by Mindspark Interactive Network, 5/2010 | New York, NY | |
 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 | 0 | 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 | Acquired by Joyus, 6/2012 | 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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| [+][-]StepOut | $6,620,000 | 18 | Active | New York, NY Mumbai, | |
 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 | 9 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Occipital is creating world-class computer vision products for mobile platforms.Mobile computer vision. Occipital develops state-of-the-art mobile computer vision applications with natural user interfaces. Located in downtown Boulder, Occipital is venture-funded, was backed by Techstars in 2008 and is also known for developing RedLaser, a barcode-scanning application that was acquired by eBay Inc. In 2010, the company reinvented panoramas with 360 Panorama, an app which makes 360-degree image capture as simple and fast as recording a video clip. Occipital is transforming the camera into a window onto a new world where the digital is fused with the physical using realtime computer vision. Current: 360 Panorama Past: RedLaser - Sold to eBay Inc. Job Opportunities: http://occipital.com/jobs Find us: Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. Specialties Mobile Computer Vision, Awesomery | ||||
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| [+][-]People's Software Company | $0 | 0 | Failed /2008 | # | |
| View Crunchbase profile | People’s Software Company created WhozAround? a new messaging and scheduling framework that gives you a better way to plan and schedule on the go. WhozAround? works across your social networks, contact lists, and delivery formats to allow you message in whatever environment you prefer–email, SocNet, phone directory–and then turn your events into a nice clean feed you can output. PSCo launched at TechStars Boulder 2008 but failed to gain traction and subsequently shut down. | ||||
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| [+][-]The Highway Girl | $0 | 5 | Active | Atlanta, GA | # |
 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. | ||||
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| [+][-]UsingMiles | $2,950,000 | 15 | Active | Denver, 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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| $18,595,000 | 86 | ||||
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| [+][-]AccelGolf | $589,000 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 4 | Active | Mountain View, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Baydin makes email management tools that help customers spend less time wrestling with email and more time doing meaningful work. Products by Baydin 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. Boomerang is also available for Outlook. The Email Game is the fastest, most fun way to manage your email. http://emailga.me Boomerang Calendar is a smart calendar assistant, built into Gmail and bridges the gap between Google Calendar and Gmail. | ||||
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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 is seeing strong viral adoption in the Chicago area market where, for example, 80% of Starbucks stores there already use the application. Many of the listings offer “bonus money” to tempt others who work for the same employer to pick up a shift, and last-minute shift changes can be filled with paid emergency promotional placement. 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 | 0 | Failed /2011 | Berlin, | # |
 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 | $8,750,000 | 25 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Localytics provides app analytics and app marketing for the mobile market, similar to companies such as Flurry and Adobe. Localytics says that it has both real time and “deeper” analytics and app marketing automation 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, iPhone, [HTML5, and Windows applications. 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.
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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 | 0 | Failed /2010 | # | |
 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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| [+][-]Everlater | $750,000 | 5 | Acquired by MapQuest, 11/2012 | ||
 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 | $6,000,000 | 15 | Active | Palo Alto, CA | |
 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 | 0 | Failed 12/2011 | # | |
 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 | 19 | Active | Nashville, TN New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Launched in 2009, Next Big Sound is the leading provider of online music analytics and insights, tracking hundreds of thousands of artists across all major web properties (YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Last.fm etc.). For the first time, people can track and artist’s .com traffic, unit sales and radio data along side social media networks to measure results and gain actionable insight from activity, both online and off. The Next Big Sound Premier platform allows the measurement and granular visualization of fan density, sales and site traffic in powerful graphs, by geographic region, as well as weekly email reports to help inform decisions. Next Big Sound works with a variety of businesses ranging from individual artists and managers to the biggest record labels in the world. | ||||
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| [+][-]ReTel Technologies | $1,000,000 | 5 | Acquired by ShopperTrak, 9/2012 | 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 | 8 | 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 | Acquired by Felix Fund, 4/2012 | 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 | 0 | 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 | $1,000,000 | 7 | Active | Montreal, | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Vanilla provides a hosted community forum solution. Vanilla helps publishers turn their audience into an engaged community, grow traffic and increase revenue. We believe that your community should uniquely reflect your brand and culture, be welcoming and reward members for positive participation. | ||||
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| $43,600,000 | 125 | ||||
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| [+][-]Mogotest | $0 | 2 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 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 | 0 | Failed /2010 | Scituate, MA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Monkey Analytics powered mathematics and data analysis in the cloud by providing on-demand computing resources, analysis tools, and a socially driven marketplace for analysts, algorithms, and data. | ||||
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| [+][-]Loudcaster | $35,000 | 0 | Failed /2012 | Somerville, MA | |
 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 | $600,000 | 4 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | If you’re a sports fan, StarStreet is your dream come true. On StarStreet there are two ways you can make real money of your fantasy sports skills: 1 — On StarStreet’s simple person-to-person trading platform (starstreet.com/trading) you can invest in players and make real money based on their performance and your trading skills. 2 — In StarStreet’s head-to-head daily fantasy sports contests (starstreet.com/daily) you can double your money in a day by building a portfolio that scores more fantasy points than the opponent you’re matched up against. | ||||
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| [+][-]TutorialTab | $0 | 0 | Failed /2010 | # | |
 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 | 0 | Failed 10/2010 | # | |
 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 | |
 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 | Cambridge, MA | # |
 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 | 0 | Failed /2010 | Cambridge, MA | |
 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. | ||||
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| [+][-]Orbotix | $11,000,000 | 35 | 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 gaming device 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 GoSphero.com. | ||||
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| [+][-]Vacation Rental Partner | $325,000 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | VRP is the best way for owners to market their vacation rental properties. VRP alleviates the hassles owners face when handling rentals themselves, without charging 30-50% fees like local property managers. We create professional listings for owners and syndicate ads across the major vacation rental marketplaces like HomeAway.com, Airbnb.com, Vrbo.com, and Tripadvisor.com. We provide prompt, friendly customer service to guests, and make renting a vacation home as easy as booking a hotel. | ||||
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| [+][-]ADstruc | $1,100,000 | 5 | Active | New York City, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | ADstruc is the leading buying platform for the outdoor advertising industry, including both traditional and digital Out-of-Home media. With an emphasis on data-driven planning, we help agencies, national brands, and local businesses discover and efficiently purchase Out-of-Home media campaigns that deliver tangible and measurable results. Our cloud-based solution also allows outdoor advertising vendors to easily manage their inventory online and interact with new and existing clients in real-time. | ||||
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| [+][-]StatsMix | $0 | 3 | Acquired by Copper Cloud, 4/2013 | 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 | $800,000 | 9 | 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. | ||||
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| [+][-]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 | 3 | 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 | Acquired by SpotRight, 7/2012 | 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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| [+][-]Captimo | $1,200,000 | 6 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Captimo fuels social video campaigns for brands and fans on mobile and Facebook. Captimo’s mobile-video app helps users share their experiences socially with their favorite brands. With Captimo, brands can increase activity on their Facebook pages, and their fans can engage in a new, creative way. Users can shoot video via their mobile phones, tag their friends and location and even add in-video comments before automatically uploading the video to Facebook. Captimo’s innovative gaming mechanics make shooting, sharing and socializing video fun and rewarding. Captimo’s mobile/social video apps are available for iPhone, Android and Facebook. | ||||
| [+][-]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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| $19,286,305 | 90 | ||||
| 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 | 5 | Acquired by Salesforce, 6/2012 | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Thinkfuse is an enterprise SaaS provider that integrates closely with email to streamline scheduled communications like status reports and project updates without changing the way people work. It helps helps teams collaborate while building intelligence about work done across an organization. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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| [+][-]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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| [+][-]Haiku Deck | $3,900,000 | 8 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Haiku Deck is the simple new way to create stunning presentations – whether you are pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. Featured on the iTunes “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” lists, Haiku Deck makes it fast and fun to create beautifully designed slideshows you’ll be proud to share. The app has been the top ranked productivity app on iTunes in more than 36 markets around the world. “A smart app that makes beautiful slide shows in no time and makes your iPad a more productive tool” – Wall Street Journal “Makes creating beautiful presentations a cinch and a joy, whether you have design skills or not” – Lifehacker “The easiest-to-use presentation tool out there” – Robert Scoble “Insanely cool” – Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons Founder Headquartered in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, Haiku Deck is a privately held company with the backing of prominent investors including Trilogy Partnership, Madrona Venture Group, Founder’s Co-op, and Techstars. The Seattle-based startup was founded by Adam Tratt and Kevin Leneway. | ||||
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| [+][-]Highlighter | $730,000 | 5 | Active | Seattle, WA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Highlighter aims to dramatically reduce the cost of textbooks while dramatically increasing student engagement on any online content. Highlighter’s HTML5 reader allows professors/teachers to publish PDF and ePUB documents for free, accessible on any device, with unprecedented engagement by highlighting, annotating, commenting, sharing and saving over snippets of text. | ||||
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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 | 0 | Failed 2/2011 | 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. | ||||
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| [+][-]GoMiles | $0 | 5 | Acquired by Traxo, 9/2012 | 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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| $6,075,000 | 41 | ||||
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| [+][-]CrowdTwist | $6,750,000 | 27 | Active | New York, NY Austell, GA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | CrowdTwist provides the most advanced multi-channel Customer Relationship & Loyalty Platform for leading brands such as Pepsi, The Miami Dolphins, Sony Music, Zumiez, VPG, Fox, SK Energy and more. Their white label, SaaS technology gives marketers the ability to incentivize, recognize and reward people based on their combined engagement, social influence and spend - online and off. From purchases and likes, to check-ins, follows, shares and more, CrowdTwist is revolutionizing the way marketers drive awareness, increase acquisition, improve retention, build loyalty, facilitate advocacy and measurably impact their bottom lines. | ||||
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| [+][-]Timehop | $1,100,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Timehop aggregates Foursquare checkins, Facebook status updates, photos, Twitter updates, and Instagram photos from one year ago and sends them to you in a daily email. | ||||
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| [+][-]IMRSV | $1,840,000 | 7 | Active | New York, NY Singapore, | |
 View Crunchbase profile | IMRSV is code for innovation. A technology company developing solutions for real-world, real-time data analysis. Cara is developed by researchers at IMRSV. The company’s Cara software is a breakthrough in rich audience capture design. Cara turns any camera into an intelligent sensor. It’s a new way of measuring the world. Cara provides real time anonymous audience analytics from real world environments using a standard web camera. Enabling new methods of interacting with objects and spaces based on number of people, age, gender, attention time, distance and more. Based in New York City with offices in Singapore, the company is privately backed by various investors. | ||||
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| [+][-]ShuttleCloud | $1,030,000 | 9 | Active | Madrid, New York, NY | |
 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 | 5 | 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 | $418,000 | 7 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Red Rover is platform for discovering and sharing business processes that work. Want your business to run better? Try processes that work for people like you, in companies like yours. Launching is free and takes just a few minutes. Red Rover delivers effective processes like: goal tracking, weekly updates, employee onboarding, client onboarding, peer to peer learning, and many many more. The platform gives your company elegant, proven processes, with the flexibility to experiment for yourself. | ||||
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| [+][-]Shelby.tv | $3,925,000 | 10 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Shelby.tv is re-imagining the future of video discovery across all screens. Shelby .TV networks let you program your own channels of video to broadcast to the world. In the past, networks like NBC and CBS picked content for the masses to watch. Now, it’s your turn. Each channel (we call them “Rolls”) is a collection of videos from anywhere on the Internet. It can be an expression of your tastes, interests, opinions, or marketing for your company. We’ve designed the .TV experience from the ground up for web and mobile. Shelby gives you the tools to create, then gets out of the way to let the content speak for itself. | ||||
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| [+][-]ThinkNear | $1,630,000 | 10 | Acquired by Telenav, 10/2012 | New York, NY Los Angeles, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | ThinkNear helps you target mobile display ads to consumers at precise locations. With access to billions of mobile impressions, cutting-edge location technology, and robust reporting and optimization, we make sure that your message reaches customers ready to buy what you sell. ThinkNear helps advertisers unlock the value and improve performance up to 16 times the industry average by targeting ads based on where and what people are doing. Each consumer who sees one of our ads is in a place, at a time, and in a situation that signals that they are more interested in our advertisers than the typical consumer. With ThinkNear, advertisers can access billions of impressions targeted to within 100 meters of targeted points, from multiple inventory sources. We provide sophisticated targeting and optimization tools to localize and enhance campaign performance. And ThinkNear offers a real-time reporting dashboard so that advertisers can actually see on a map where people are seeing and clicking on ads. | ||||
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| [+][-]ToVieFor | $75,000 | 0 | Failed /2011 | # | |
 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 | $1,200,000 | 5 | 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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| $24,773,000 | 90 | ||||
| Boston, Spring 2011 | |||||
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| [+][-]EverTrue | $6,550,000 | 15 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | EverTrue is a mobile & tablet education fundraising platform that connects traditional Better Data | Stronger Community EverTrue’s mobile networking platform better connects alumni to their alma mater and one another. Experience improved donor data through LinkedIn and Facebook integration. EverTrue is proud to work with top institutions such as Brown University, Amherst College, Sidwell Friends School, Harvard-Westlake School and Phillips Academy Andover. Specialties Mobile Solutionsdonor databases to the social graph. | ||||
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| [+][-]Ginger.io | $8,200,000 | 5 | Active | Cambridge, MA San Francisco, CA | # |
 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 | $13,506,000 | 16 | 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. 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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| [+][-]Help Scout | $435,000 | 8 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Help Scout is a simple help desk designed for small businesses. The team was part of TechStars Boston’s 2011 class and currently resides in Boston’s South End. | ||||
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| [+][-]Kinvey | $7,000,000 | 22 | Active | Boston, 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 and operate a cloud backend for their mobile, tablet and web 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, and connect to them directly or through native iOS, Android, JavaScript, etc., libraries that we provide. We call it Backend as a Service. Kinvey was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, MA | ||||
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| [+][-]Memrise | $6,260,000 | 5 | Active | London, | |
 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 | $2,500,000 | 16 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Placester makes real estate marketing simple, effective, and affordable. Our platform allows agents to quickly create and launch beautiful real estate websites for both desktop and mobile, complete with fully-integrated MLS listing data. We’re dedicated to providing massive distribution, premium listing services, and deep analytics to help real estate companies and professionals stay competitive and grow their businesses online. | ||||
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| [+][-]Promoboxx | $2,230,000 | 15 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Promoboxx is a brand-to-retailer marketing platform that allows brands to launch co-branded, customized online campaigns with their retailers in order to strengthen relationships, localize national content, and reach more consumers. | ||||
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| [+][-]Senexx | $250,000 | 8 | Active | Cambridge, MA Tel Aviv, | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Senexx is an internal Question and Answers platform that helps corporate identify and manage expertise within their organization, using a patent pending technology. Senexx enhances cross-team collaboration by identifying experts – or individuals with a certain skill set - in an enterprise to employees needing that expertise. Using Senexx’s advanced parsing and knowledge-routing algorithms, organizations can realize the full benefit of their current collaboration systems (email, instant messaging and internal social networks). Senexx is a private cloud-based service conceived to improve productivity by integrating seamlessly into an organization’s existing enterprise networking platform. Senexx enables an organization to identify individuals with specific knowledge or experience in a particular subject - or in cataloging past solutions to certain events or situations - to channel in- house expertise in dealing with a problem or opportunity. Senexx is a TechStars Boston 2011 graduate. | ||||
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| [+][-]Spill Inc | $420,000 | 3 | Active | San Francisco, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Spill is a confidential network for giving and receiving life advice. At SpillNow.com, users can “spill” their guts confidentially and get advice from other people who have been through similar situations. Advice-givers can create pages, share wisdom, and earn points as they strive to become the next Dear Abby, Dan Savage, or Ann Landers. Users can upgrade to hear from top-rated advisors/specialists, or to create branded advising pages of their own. A TechStars 2011 company and the 2012 winner of the Global Social Venture Competition, Spill aims to crowd-sources peer guidance and allow for good advice-givers to get noticed. | ||||
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| [+][-]Strohl Medical | $0 | 5 | Active | ★ Y | |
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| [+][-]The Tap Lab | $550,000 | 6 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 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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| $47,901,000 | 124 | ||||
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| [+][-]Creative Brain Studios | $0 | 3 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Based in Boulder, Colo., Creative Brain Studios is the game development engine that allows developers to create a game once and deploy it to more than a billion different smartphones, computers and other gaming devices. This easy-to-use yet highly customizable game engine offers true multi-platform support and is the only game engine on the market to provide a complete turn-key solution for game developers. Creative Brain Studios’ founders Brian Booker, Gerald Wallner and Joe Sengir have collectively more than 50 years of video game development experience with companies like LEGO, SEGA, Bally, Disney Interactive, Gazillion Entertainment and more. Creative Brain Studios is a Microsoft BizSpark One and Boulder 2011 TechStars company. | ||||
| [+][-]FanMix | $0 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | FanMix is a unified inbox for all the conversations you’re already having on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, blog comments, forum threads, and anywhere else on the web. We make keeping track of all your public and private conversations simple and easy - just like email. FanMix is a SocialEngine product that was conceived at TechStars Boulder 2011 by Alex Benzer and Charlotte Genevier. | ||||
| [+][-]Flextrip | $350,000 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Flextrip is the world’s largest tours & activities distribution network. Leveraging our unique distribution technology, OTA’s, Airlines, Hotels & Car Rental chains now have access to an unparalleled selection of electronically bookable content with some of the highest commissions in the industry. | ||||
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| [+][-]FlixMaster | $2,200,000 | 12 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | FlixMaster offers a SaaS-model video technology that makes it incredibly easy for content creators to build next-generation HTML5 interactive videos that drive deep engagement and increased viewing time. With FlixMaster you can embed interactive videos on any website, share them through social networks, and even create linked-buttons or hotspots within your videos, that take viewers to any online location. FlixMaster then tracks analytics, giving detailed feedback to video creators about which people make which choices within a video. | ||||
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| [+][-]FullContact | $8,850,000 | 23 | Active | Denver, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | FullContact’s mission is to solve the world’s contact information problem. FullContact provides a cloud-based contact management solution for businesses, developers, and individuals. Using FullContact’s Cloud Address Book, contacts can be normalized, de-duplicated, merged, and enriched with social profiles. Users can create custom tags and searches to easily make targeted lists. Every version of every contact is automatically updated and contacts can be shared with any platform or other users. | ||||
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| [+][-]GoSpotCheck | $1,568,000 | 4 | Active | Denver, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | GoSpotCheck is enterprise software for field-based teams. Our web and mobile apps enable businesses to leverage its own employees to gather real-time retail intelligence. This data is displayed on our web dashboard, allowing managers to spot trends and view urgent issues from the field, in order to make better business decisions. | ||||
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| [+][-]InboxFever | $0 | 0 | Failed 6/2012 | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | At InboxFever we realized that email is the universal remote control of the web and we will fundamentally change how email is used today. With InboxFever, users interact with email-powered applications by simply sending an email. Imagine retrieving reports and documents, managing your social media accounts, supporting your field engineers and sales team, ordering flowers for your sweetie and more, all from the convenience of your inbox. | ||||
| [+][-]Meal Ticket | $250,000 | 5 | Active | Boise, ID | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Meal Ticket’s software platform provides actionable business intelligence and a enables a direct marketing channel to the restaurant operator. This software allows manufacturers in the $600B food service industry to more effectively target and reach the independent operator segment. It is the industry’s only software solution focused on the food service supply chain, giving vendors a way to increase their promotion sales rates, sales of time sensitive product, and client loyalty. | ||||
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| [+][-]Mocavo | $5,100,000 | 31 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Mocavo is the world’s largest genealogy search engine with more than 6 Billion names in the index. On Mocavo.com, users can search across millions of family history resources, from one centralized website. To make the search experience more engaging, Mocavo connects researchers through similar searches and family trees. With a paid Mocavo Plus account, users are given advanced search options and automated results for new content coming online. This allows for users, both new and experienced in genealogy, to take full advantage of the Mocavo search engine. | ||||
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| [+][-]Precog | $2,750,000 | 15 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Precog is a data analysis platform that helps companies productize their data assets. Precog allows companies to store, integrate, and analyze large volumes of measured data. Featuring the industry-leading implementation of Quirrel, the “R for big data” statistical language, the Precog platform allows companies to create analytics or predictive models that can be deployed as new products or features inside existing products. Companies use Precog to build analytics and reporting into their applications, to turn existing data assets into new data products that can then be resold, and to build advanced analytical features like recommendations and personalizations. Precog is the next-generation technology that spawned out of ReportGrid, a 2011 TechStars company. Founded by veteran technologist and entrepreneur John A. De Goes, Precog is tackling the big data productization problem head-on through a combination of innovative technology and obsessive attention to usability. Precog is funded by RTP Ventures, Resonant Ventures, David G. Cohen, and other seasoned angels. Its board of directors includes SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin, and serial entrepreneur Kirill Sheynkman. | ||||
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| [+][-]Simple Energy | $2,916,500 | 14 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Simple Energy uses social game mechanics to change how people save energy and how utilities engage customers. They make saving energy “social, fun and simple.” By engaging people on the platforms they already use, including email, Facebook, web, and mobile applications, and making energy use data into a simple scoring system that allows people to compete with their friends and neighbors online, Simple Energy encourages people to become interested in their own energy use and take action to reduce consumption. The system is based on leading behavioral economics and game mechanics research by scientific advisor Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality. Results from a recent pilot program show that the platform can produce an average energy savings of 20% with up to 50% in savings for top performers. | ||||
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| [+][-]SocialEngine | $0 | 11 | 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. SocialEngine recently just launched a new SAAS community platform that facilitates interest graphs or communities of people with similar interests. The new cloud-based service lets anyone create a community website, including discussion communities similar to the microsharing style of Reddit, the photo curation style of Pinterest or activity stream style of Facebook depending on the theme. | ||||
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| [+][-]TruantToday | $0 | 0 | Failed 4/2013 | Los Angeles, CA | # |
 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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| Seattle, Fall 2011 | |||||
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| [+][-]Remitly | $5,000,000 | 6 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Remitly enables convenient international money transfers from a customer’s mobile phone in the USA to a mobile phone abroad. Remitly is disrupting the international remittance business (e.g. Western Union, Moneygram, etc.) by leveraging mobile wallets to provide a simple, low-cost, and more accessible product. This means changing an industry where $325 billion is transferred globally each year. | ||||
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| [+][-]Bluebox Now! | $0 | 0 | Failed /2011 | Seattle, WA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Bluebox Now! is a casual gaming network sponsored by brands. We increase brand engagement, customer retention and redemption of brand rewards, which means higher ROI for the brands. Our behavioral targeting technology matches right games and right rewards for the appropriate demographics. | ||||
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| [+][-]EveryMove | $6,100,000 | 12 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | EveryMove gives you rewards for the things already doing for your physical activity. Go the gym, run, bike or mow the lawn, earn points on EveryMove and get rewarded and recognized by your health plan, your employer and brands. | ||||
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| [+][-]FlexMinder | $1,570,000 | 7 | Active | Seattle, WA Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | FlexMinder is revolutionizing the healthcare industry by changing the way third party administrators (TPAs) handle claims, and helping consumers fall in love with their flexible spending arrangements and healthcare reimbursement accounts. FlexMinder automates the claims submission process for participants and helps TPAs dramatically reduce manual processing time and costs. Based in Seattle, Washington, FlexMinder was selected in 2011 to participate in the prestigious TechStars incubator program, and announced $1.4 million in Series AA financing to fund future growth in January 2013. | ||||
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| [+][-]GoChime | $850,000 | 6 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | GoChime connects brands with the millions of people expressing needs for their products across social media. | ||||
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| [+][-]GroupTalent | $1,000,000 | 6 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | GroupTalent is the marketplace for high-end software projects. Our marketplace attracts and vets only the highest paid developers and designers and only the best paying projects. | ||||
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| [+][-]LikeBright | $640,000 | 10 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | LikeBright helps you meet trusted friends of friends. | ||||
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| [+][-]Romotive | $6,500,000 | 16 | Active | Las Vegas, NV | |
 View Crunchbase profile | We’re Romotive, a team of nerds obsessed with building an affordable, fun personal robot. By combining smartphones with a mobile base, we create robots that do awesome things (telepresence, autonomous navigation, machine vision). Our first product, Romo, is an iDevice-powered robot that lets you video chat with anyone, anywhere in the world. You can customize Romo’s behavior through a graphical programming interface that’s n00b-friendly. Teaching our bot new behaviors is easy - just update the app. Our investors believe we’ll change the world by putting a robot in every home in America. We’re well funded by SV Angel/Ron Conway, Mike Arrington, Chris Dixon, and Stanford University. Last summer we started in TechStars Seattle. By Christmas we were shipping handbuilt Romos to 33 countries. We’re a tight tribe. We design our hardware and software in The Ogden, an apartment building in downtown Las Vegas where most of us live and work. When we aren’t coding, soldering, or checking production lines at our factory in China, we’re probably playing Starcraft or rock climbing at the local gym. Our mission is simple: build awesome robots that make normal peoples’ lives better. If this sounds totally f@$king awesome, Romotive is the place for you. | ||||
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| [+][-]Smore | $425,000 | 5 | Active | Palo Alto, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Smore makes it easy for anyone to create beautiful, effective online flyers — highly designed single-page websites with a clear purpose, like marketing an app, promoting an event or selling a product.
Smore is now in public beta (since April 2012). | ||||
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| [+][-]Vizify | $1,442,000 | 7 | Active | Portland, OR | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Vizify’s mission is to make you look good online. We transform your social media profiles and content into a graphical bio, a series of infographics that highlight the best parts of your story to the people looking you up online. Use it to build your personal brand and impress potential bosses, clients, or even dates. | ||||
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| $23,527,000 | 75 | ||||
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| [+][-]Lore | $6,000,000 | 5 | Acquired by Noodle Education, 3/2013 | New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Lore (formerly Coursekit) is reshaping education for the Internet age. Lore is a community of curious people, spanning every discipline, campus, country, and age. It’s a platform for learning: a new venue for education that allows you to explore. | ||||
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| [+][-]Ambassador | $0 | 7 | Active | Birmingham, MI | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Ambassador (formerly zferral) is a social referral platform. Ambassador is the best way to reward your customers for promoting your products online. Ambassador provides an end-to-end solution: you can create, track and manage all your custom referral programs from a single dashboard. Build on the Ambassador API to seamlessly integrate into your own application, you can also integrate Ambassador into many popular 3rd party CRM, Email and Billing applications. | ||||
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| [+][-]ChatID | $0 | 10 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | ChatID is a universal platform that powers chat communication between brands and consumers anywhere around the web, and from any mobile device. For partners, ChatID enables communication to any business, on any chat system, through a single API. The ChatID Network lets brands engage shoppers in chat where it matters most – the points where decisions are made and influenced. | ||||
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| [+][-]Contently | $2,335,000 | 6 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Contently is a platform for brands to craft, maintain, and optimize a high quality content strategy with editorial tools and engagement tracking, plus career journalists and clever professional bloggers for hire. | ||||
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| [+][-]Dispatch | $965,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Dispatch.io was created at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon 2011. It was created by a team of three, including 17 year old Alex Godin, to solve organization problems with file sharing by consolidating files from different web pages. | ||||
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| [+][-]mobintent | $0 | 0 | Failed / | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | MobIntent is building tools to simplify the process of creating, managing and optimizing mobile ad campaigns. | ||||
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| [+][-]Ordr.in | $750,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Ordr.in is a universal restaurant ecommerce platform, connecting any online or mobile ordering system to any app or site through APIs. We aggregate online food ordering systems from all over the country into an organized marketplace. Thousands of restaurants linked together through software, not phone and fax, that can be accessed through our APIs anyone can easily access this market. Our mission is to increase the number of ways consumers connect with restaurants, and restaurants with consumers. Every restaurant everywhere connected to customers through an efficient digital platform. | ||||
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| [+][-]Piictu | $1,730,000 | 6 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Piictu is a powerful, fun and simple way to talk and play with your friends from your mobile phone using pictures. You simply snap a piic, post it to Piictu and your social networks, and watch it get live picture responses from your friends and community at large. In other words, Piictu is an influence-based photo gaming tool and community. Another way to look at it is as a powerful“interactive social picture-stream generator. As a game Piictu is an awesome tool for brands to engage with their customers. As an application it is the easiest, funnest way to play, share and interact through pictures with the world, from your mobile phone. | ||||
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| [+][-]SideTour | $4,000,000 | 7 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | SideTour provides a community marketplace where people can discover, book, and host amazing experiences and activities. Whether it’s getting a group together to dine at a chef’s home, going backstage at a Broadway Show, or watching the sunset from a private sailboat, SideTour’s mission is to connect people with vibrant and creative hosts who want to share their talents and passion with others. The company was founded in June 2011 and is headquartered in New York City. | ||||
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| [+][-]Spontaneously | $0 | 5 | Active | # Y | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Spontaneously is a new way to make plans with friends. Whether you have free time to fill or plans to share, our service helps you see your favorite people more often. | ||||
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| [+][-]Urtak | $500,000 | 4 | Active | New York City, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Urtak brings simplicity and structure to any online conversation by allowing users to ask each other yes or no questions. Urtak is the simplest way for an online publisher to increase understanding of and engagement with their audience. | ||||
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| [+][-]Wantworthy | $1,000,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Wantworthy lets you save the products you want from any site as you’re shopping online and gives you a place to organize, compare and get feedback from friends. | ||||
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| $17,280,000 | 65 | ||||
| Cloud, Winter 2012 | |||||
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| [+][-]Appsembler | $118,000 | 3 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Appsembler lets you launch your own SaaS business in 5 minutes. With Appsembler, developers and software companies can quickly and cost effectively offer their software as a hosted service. Appsembler provides all the backend infrastructure like hosting, billing and operational support so you can avoid these things and instead focus on building a great product. | ||||
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| [+][-]Epic Playground | $585,000 | 7 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Epic Playground provides real-time audience engagement products to media creators, distributors, and advertisers. MediaGauge, our real-time analytics product tells them who’s watching and for how long, no matter which device, platform, or service is used. The data can be used to improve content, make story changes, and provide previously unknown insights across 17+ web based players. MediaGauge also supports iOS and Android apps with our mobile SDKs. MediaGauge Messages utilizes MediaGauge analytics to deliver real-time, publisher controlled Messages to the audience’s browser. It’s an all new unit, that catches users attention as they’re engaged in audio and video content. Messages are delivered in an attractive, Growl like display, and are not tied to the audio or video content itself, but to the fact that a user is highly engaged in the content. | ||||
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| [+][-]Cloudability | $9,800,000 | 19 | Active | Portland, OR | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Cloudability is the first and only financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more. | ||||
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| [+][-]Cloudsnap | $300,000 | 4 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Cloudsnap’s cloud-based infrastructure allows developers to build and extend their software applications with functionality from 3rd party services. Sending leads to Salesforce.com or retrieving invoices from Freshbooks has never been so easy. Our platform allows these companies to spend less time adding integrations or writing “glue code” and more time focusing on their own features and value they offer to their customers. | ||||
| [+][-]Conductrics | $210,000 | 3 | Active | Brooklyn, NY | |
| View Crunchbase profile | Conductrics is intelligent Decisions as a Service. Combining ideas from web analytics, machine learning, and economics, Conductrics provides a simple API for improving the effectiveness of your site or digital app. | ||||
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| [+][-]Distil | $2,700,000 | 4 | Active | Arlington, VA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Distil, Inc. (www.distil.it | @distil) protects online content and data, improves SEO, increases site performance, and eliminates wasted resources from unwanted web scraping and content theft. | ||||
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| [+][-]Emergent One | $430,000 | 3 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Emergent One generates a complete and customized REST API for an existing application. Once the API is created they tailor a personal developer portal, detailed analytics, custom client bindings, and automatically generated documentation. They’re the complete API solution, right out of the box! | ||||
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| [+][-]Flomio | $525,000 | 2 | Active | Sacramento, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Flomio enables developers to build and deploy web apps around NFC and other RFiD technologies. We provide the key resources to create rich connected experiences in no time and with little cash. By appealing to the endless applications of RFiD, we employ an Infrastructure-As-A-Service model that monetizes on analytics, web services, and hardware. | ||||
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| [+][-]Keen IO | $850,000 | 3 | Active | San Francisco, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Analytics platform as a service. We’re doing for analytics what SendGrid did for transactional email, Twilio did for telephony, and AWS did for the datacenter: reduce upfront cost to zero, put it behind an API, and make it pay-as-you-go. Our technology is extremely client-agnostic, but as a business, we’re focusing on mobile & web apps today, and zooming out to take on the rest of the connected world tomorrow. | ||||
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| [+][-]TempoDB | $850,000 | 6 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | The time series database service. Purpose-built for sensors, smart meters, servers & more. | ||||
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| [+][-]Vidmaker | $668,000 | 3 | Active | Madison, WI | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Vidmaker is a social video platform where anyone can create video and share it everywhere. Vidmaker provides powerful browser-based video editing tools and a mobile app for video uploads. Vidmaker lets people easily share video privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites, social networks, YouTube and Vimeo. Vidmaker offers free accounts to those who share their content publicly under creative commons licenses, and paid accounts that feature private storage. | ||||
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| $17,036,000 | 57 | ||||
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| [+][-]Psykosoft | $618,000 | 1 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | We believe in originality, We believe in personality We believe in emotions… All those things are not usually associated with software. But software is just a means to an end. And our goal is make everyone express their inner artist. Our flagship product is - Psykopaint A photo-painting online application that allow users to paint their images using a variety of color sampling techniques. http://www.psykopaint.com | ||||
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| [+][-]Murfie | $1,400,000 | 5 | Active | Madison, WI | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Murfie is an online music service for your CD collection; a throwback to your neighborhood record store with a digital update. We offer a buying, selling and trading community for music lovers who want traditional ownership with the convenience of remote storage and digital access. Our HQ is located in Madison, WI, but Murfie is everywhere. | ||||
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| [+][-]Zagster | $1,363,000 | 5 | Active | Philadelphia, PA Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | 71% of Americans say they’d like to bicycle more yet list access to a bike as the number one barrier to doing so. Zagster provides bikes where people live, work and visit; giving them access using their mobile phone. We’ve found property managers (e.g. Related Management), universities (Yale), businesses (Cisco) and hotels (Hyatt) are willing to cover the costs of providing bike fleets as an amenity. We’ve consulted in the space since 2007, launched at 56 locations and are a TechStars Boston company. | ||||
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| [+][-]GymPact | $968,000 | 5 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | GymPact is a check-in app that uses cash incentives to get you to the gym! Members make a Pact of how many days a week they want to exercise, and how much they will put on the line to pay if they DO NOT get to the gym. If they meet their Pact by checking in at their gym with our Smartphone app, they receive cash rewards, paid for by those who did not exercise! Members get a double incentive to get to the gym, and GymPact takes a cut when we pay out to members who successfully met their Pact. GymPact is the only fitness technology to use both positive and negative incentives, and that has allowed us to be 90% effective at getting people in our pilots to the gym and to give real rewards using the money paid by non-exercisers. | ||||
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| [+][-]docTrackr | $2,000,000 | 13 | Active | Paris, Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Each time you share a digital document, the minute you’ve sent it, you are no longer in control. docTrackr helps businesses keep their documents safe and under control, wherever they’re stored, whomever they’re shared with - i.e. you can remotely destroy them, update them and know what people are doing with them in real-time. docTrackr is a TechStars company, based in Cambridge (MA), in Paris (France), and Bucharest (Romania). | ||||
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| [+][-]UberSense | $1,100,000 | 7 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Ubersense helps coaches and athletes improve at their sport anytime anywhere using video and collaboration. | ||||
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| [+][-]Testive | $500,000 | 6 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Testive makes tools that help test prep suck less. Using adaptive algorithms and engaging experiences, Testive helps companies engage with students and students engage with the test prep process. Testive powers solutions for some of the largest companies in test preparation. | ||||
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| [+][-]Libboo | $1,400,000 | 7 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Libboo connects buzzers (readers who love to share and talk about books) with books they’ll enjoy, to create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get discovered. Buzzers get rewards such as free ebooks, and increase their influence by sharing great writing with their friends and followers via social media, email, and other online channels. | ||||
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| [+][-]Mortar Data | $1,800,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Our Hadoop PaaS gets software engineers and data scientists up and running in an hour with no special training. Mortar makes custom big data work exceptionally easy by leveraging existing skills and tools. Using our APIs, Mortar is easy to integrate into your data pipeline. And Mortar is a cloud service, so you pay for just what you need, never hit a ceiling, and never need to worry about scaling again. | ||||
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| [+][-]BISON | $1,330,790 | 5 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Bison delivers industry intelligence that matters. We provide you with a powerful search function, relevant news coverage, and complete fundraising datasets for the private equity and venture capital market. We help you see more investment opportunities, provide you with new evaluation tools, and facilitate communication with managers. Currently, Bison hosts more than 1,700 PE/VC funds in market. | ||||
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| [+][-]Shopsy | $0 | 3 | Active | Wheaton, MD | |
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| [+][-]Simply Good Technologies | $0 | 10 | Active | Toronto, Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Founded in Kitchener, Ontario in 2008, Simply Good’s first dive into technology development was in image recognition for mobile devices. Branded ‘Capturefy’, this technology was used to point-and-shoot for more information about art exhibits at Nuit Blanche, Toronto. From there Simply Good explored retail applications and partnered with one of Canada’s largest retailers. With mobile technology reaching the hands of more consumers, our technology powered features such as product barcode scanning, innovative flyer browsing and mobile promotional offerings. At Simply Good, we continue to develop best in class technologies solution to meet clients needs. | ||||
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| [+][-]Laveem | $0 | 5 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Laveem uses data to empower people to make better diet decisions. Laveem builds and curates an accurate and broad knowledge base for all of the world’s food data. The insights our data produces will be shared with the world through applications powered by Laveem’s data API. The first application built off of Laveem’s data, SweeterSpoon, allows users to determine nutrition facts for any recipe, and encourages people to adjust recipes to make tastier, healthier choices. | ||||
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| $12,479,790 | 77 | ||||
| NYC, Spring 2012 | |||||
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| [+][-]10Sheet | $2,000,000 | 8 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | 10sheet is the modern bookkeeping service that frees you from costly bookkeepers and complicated software. | ||||
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| [+][-]Bondsy | $0 | 4 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | A new way to buy, give, or trade things with friends. | ||||
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| [+][-]Classtivity | $0 | 6 | Active | New York, NY | |
| View Crunchbase profile | Classtivity utilizes proprietary data on fitness and creative classes to develop virtual class packages. The Company’s products provide unique ways for class providers to attract and retain high quality, long-term students, all while aiding potential students to get over the hurdles of rekindling or discovering new passions through organized group classes. The Company’s first product, the Classtivity Passport, has changed the lives of thousands of people. The package combines fitness experiences at some of the top venues to eliminate the frustrations of surfing multiple websites, which typically results in abandoned searches and unmet challenges, all to discover a fitness “home.” | ||||
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| [+][-]Condition One | $2,350,000 | 7 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Condition One is a technology company developing next generation immersive video applications. They provide an embeddable immersive video player for the iPad, which is licensed to media companies and brands. | ||||
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| [+][-]Karma. | $1,000,000 | 6 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Karma is a simple and honest mobile provider. With Karma you pay for data as you go, and take it with you on a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. The more you share your connection, the more free data you earn. Karma calls this: social bandwidth. The company was part of TechStars New York, and has received investment from Werner Vogels, Kal Vepuri, Chang Ng, Jerry Neumann, David Tisch, David Cohen, BOLDstart Ventures, 500 Startups, and Collaborative Fund. For more information about Karma, please visit http://www.yourkarma.com. | ||||
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| [+][-]Lua Technologies | $2,500,000 | 7 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Lua is the simplest way for mobile workforces to effectively communicate, coordinate, and stay accountable. Using Lua, teams on-the-go remain agile, connected, and up to speed. We’re centralizing communication in massive industries that still rely on antiquated tools like walkie-talkies, paper scheduling. and shouting. | ||||
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| [+][-]Marquee | $0 | 6 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Marquee is a social publishing platform that lets you combine assets from your desktop and the cloud in order to publish beautiful pages, right to your social graph. Getting started is frictionless. Edit our home page or create your own from scratch without signing up. Our browser-based authoring tool makes creating beautiful pages and complex layouts a snap. The pages you create automatically respond to different devices, so they’ll look great on desktops, tablets, or smartphones. We collect everything you make on a profile page, but we’re not about building a destination. Use Marquee to publish to the places where your audience is already following you. It’s one click to publish to all your social media accounts. Marquee is a 2012 TechStars NYC company. | ||||
| [+][-]Moveline | $1,750,000 | 13 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Moveline is a web startup that makes it easy for people who are preparing for a long-distance move to quickly gather the information they need to save money and make smart moving decisions. We’re building a web application that makes it simple for people to learn about their options for moving their stuff and answer important questions like “how much will it cost to hire a moving company?” and “what size truck do I need?” | ||||
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| [+][-]Pickie | $1,000,000 | 3 | Active | New York, NY | |
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| [+][-]Poptip | $1,075,000 | 5 | Active | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Poptip is a real time social feedback channel. We help brands, publishers, and people analyze crowd conversation by making social data actionable. | ||||
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| [+][-]Rewind Me | $800,000 | 5 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | In our increasingly digital lives we generate a lot of data. Our travels and activities are recorded when we check-in, update status, share pictures, make reservations, place orders, or use apps or services to track or share our activities and interests. But very little of what we’re capturing has been much use over time. Rewind is changing that. We’re exposing utility and creating long-term value for you from the data you’re already collecting for short term purposes. When you Rewind, you benefit personally, socially – and one day – soon economically. | ||||
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| [+][-]Smallknot | $0 | 4 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Smallknot is the best way to fund and connect with the local businesses that make your neighborhood special. Our mission is to help you invest where you live, while building relationships in your community and providing simple, uncomplicated capital to small businesses. With Smallknot, you can fund your favorite local restaurant, bakery, coffee shop, pickle maker (it started in Brooklyn, after all), and more. In exchange, you’ll get it back in perks & love. And we don’t just mean free coffee or a discount – how about a private party just for the supporters who funded a new backyard at the cafe down the block? Or a cupcake making lesson at that awesome bakery up the street? | ||||
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| [+][-]Wander | $1,200,000 | 4 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Wander is a beautiful way to share and experience the world. Founded by Jeremy Fisher, previously founder of Dinevore, and Keenan Cummings. Wander is a TechStars NYC Summer 2012 company. | ||||
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| $13,675,000 | 78 | ||||
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| [+][-]27 Perry | $118,000 | 4 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | 27 Perry brings consignment stores online through a curated marketplace. | ||||
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| [+][-]Birdbox | $0 | 6 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Birdbox is the easiest way to collect photos with lots of people. Through shared photo albums that collect from social networks and photo services, Birdbox makes it easy for a group to contribute to a unified photo experience around vacations, events, families & interests. How It Works 1) Connect your accounts (Facebook & Instagram, with more coming soon) 2) Create a nest by choosing albums and hashtags 3) Invite friends to contribute | ||||
| [+][-]DealAngel | $750,000 | 8 | Active | San Francisco, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | DealAngel is the first hotel search engine to find hotels priced below their market value. We leverage big data to cut through the ‘Best Offer’ noise and rank by value-for-money. Not just based on how one particular hotel is priced. But based on what ALL hotels in the market are doing. | ||||
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| [+][-]Digital Ocean | $0 | 5 | Active | ★ Y | |
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| [+][-]Revolv | $2,818,000 | 20 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Revolv delivers an all-in-one, affordable, simple, and elegant home monitoring and control system to smartphone users. The solution connects hundreds of wirelessly-enabled household items that are readily available from retailers such as Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Best Buy, and intelligently integrates them regardless of different manufacturers or wireless protocols used. Revolv is a Boulder, CO, based startup, recent TechStars Boulder 2012 graduate, and is venture backed by Foundry Group. | ||||
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| [+][-]PivotDesk | $3,000,000 | 3 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | PivotDesk is an office-sharing marketplace that transforms the way we think about office space from a liability into a growing business asset. By providing the tools businesses need to market, manage and monetize excess office space, and the search and match tools that startups need to find a suitable host, PivotDesk helps: Startups and small businesses find flexible, affordable, room to grow. Growing businesses profit from their dynamic space situations Build entrepreneurial density and economic development in desirable, downtown locations PivotDesk: Room for growing businesses | ||||
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| [+][-]ReplySend | $118,000 | 0 | Failed 3/2013 | Boulder, CO | # |
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| [+][-]RollSale | $150,000 | 3 | Active | Saint Louis, MO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | RollSale helps car owners quickly find a local dealer that will pay them the most for their car, so they can drive in and pick up a check. For car dealers, RollSale is a single portal that gives dealers direct access to consumer-owned vehicles, rental and off-lease cars, and even cars from other dealers. | ||||
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| [+][-]ROXIMITY | $0 | 6 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | ROXIMITY is a location based alert and deals platform. ROXIMITY enables merchants to send targeted messages to potential customers as they pass by their stores. | ||||
| [+][-]SalesLoft | $0 | 4 | Active | Atlanta, GA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | SalesLoft connects w/ web-based CRM systems & mines out the companies & people reps care about. It then goes out on the web to capture the following intelligence:
All this is delivered through a customizable & actionable stream of information. This allows reps to find opportunities they wouldn’t have heard about & to save time traditionally wasted in research. | ||||
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| [+][-]Ubooly | $2,500,000 | 5 | Active | Boulder, CO | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Ubooly creates toys powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. With automatic updates over wifi and voice recognition, Ubooly delivers interactive content for children. TechStars class of 2012 | ||||
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| [+][-]VerbalizeIt | $1,618,000 | 6 | Active | New York, NY | |
 View Crunchbase profile | VerbalizeIt delivers real-time and asynchronous interpretation and translation solutions by providing phone, Skype and web-based access to human translators. VerbalizeIt, a 2012 TechStars Boulder company - connects those in need of language interpretation with live human interpreters through mobile-phone technology. In doing so, we promote cultural exploration and global trade while also creating employment opportunities for the vast network of multilingual individuals across the world. Co-founders Ryan Frankel and Kunal Sarda built VerbalizeIt after both personally experiencing situations where not being able to speak the local language caused unfortunate outcomes. VerbalizeIt encapsulates our collective passion for foreign culture, language and technology all rolled-up into an innovative, exciting and disruptive solution for businesses and travelers worldwide. | ||||
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| [+][-]Apptentive | $1,200,000 | 5 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Apptentive creates in-app feedback tools, enabling developers to easily engage customers for positive ratings, feedback and customer research. The team, informed by their experiences at Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Apple, built their MVP in early 2011 and received enthusiastic feedback in its first few months from developers who were introduced to it at WWDC. Since that time, the team has grown, adding design and Android expertise and fleshing out capabilities that have measurably improved the ratings and reviews for apps using the service while creating one-to-one customer relationships. Basic integration takes less than 15 minutes and client-side SDKs are currently available for iOS, Android and Mac OS X. Apptentive’s customers range from independent one-person development teams to large, multinational Internet brands with huge app install footprints. | ||||
| [+][-]Bizible | $2,030,000 | 9 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Bizible closes the marketing loop for the Fortune 5 Million. Bizible tracks the exact revenue generated by any online marketing source for local businesses (SEO, PPC, Blogging, Review Sites, Social Shares, etc.). | ||||
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| [+][-]Glider | $1,000,000 | 5 | Active | Portland, OR | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Glider takes the pain out of managing contracts. From publicly-traded Fortune 500’s down to small, growing businesses, Glider shortens the time it takes to close contracts, and keeps teams working together seamlessly. With Glider, customers can easily share documents, request manager approvals, and get e-signatures from people both inside and outside their companies. Glider is based in Portland, Oregon and was founded in 2012 by Eli Rubel and Justin Thiele. For more information, visit http://glider.com. | ||||
| [+][-]Leanplum | $825,000 | 5 | Active | San Francisco, CA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Leanplum is a platform for optimizing mission-critical metrics of your mobile app. We make it easy for product managers to conduct on-the-fly optimization tests and see immediate results with powerful analytics. | ||||
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| [+][-]Linksy | $0 | 2 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Linksy helps busy marketers tap their employees, customers, and fans to spread their message on social sites. | ||||
| [+][-]Maptia | $100,000 | 3 | Active | Seattle, WA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Maptia lets you create beautiful maps of your life and the places around you. The closed Beta site will be launched at the beginning of June. The Maptia team took part in the TechStars Seattle accelerator in Fall 2012, and were previously in the Start-Up Chile entrepreneurial program. | ||||
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| [+][-]MobileDevHQ | $650,000 | 5 | Active | Seattle, , WA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | MobileDevHQ is marketing SaaS for mobile app publishers. We help app marketers increase organic downloads by analyzing and optimizing their unpaid app marketing channels. | ||||
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| [+][-]Nveloped | $0 | 5 | Active | # | |
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| [+][-]Sandglaz | $500,000 | 4 | Active | Toronto, | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Sandglaz creates project & task management software to help busy, productive teams get more work done. | ||||
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| [+][-]Tred | $1,800,000 | 5 | Active | Seattle, WA New York, NY | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Tred redefines the $600B new car market by letting you test drive from your doorstep. We deliver through Tred concierges who are incentivized by customer service reviews rather than sales commission, so shoppers feel no pressure to disengage from a test drive, and can compare finalists side by side in their driveways. We have excellent shopper and dealer traction in Seattle. | ||||
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| [+][-]BetterFit Technologies | $118,000 | 9 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | BetterFit Technologies uses predictive analytics and natural language processing to engage with people about their health in a manner unlike anyone else. | ||||
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| [+][-]Careport Health | $0 | 5 | Active | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Careport Health is a company dedicated to networking patients with helpful post-hospital treatment. The company helps direct patients and family to learn about what type of care they may need, and what to expect during recovery, after filling in basic patient information. Patients can then search for post-hospital care providers and book care through Careport Health’s software. Hospitals can link into Careport Health’s network to help evaluate and manage patients, and connect them with the post-hospital care they will need. Finally, post-hospital care providers can connect with Careport Health to make themselves available to the company’s network and bring in additional business. They can also track patient progress. | ||||
| [+][-]CoachUp | $2,200,000 | 8 | Active | Boston, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | CoachUp is a website that connects athletes with private coaches. We believe that private coaching is the secret to reaching the next level in sports and life. CoachUp is the Official Private Coaching Partner of the Positive Coaching Alliance, and is the nation’s leading private coaching company, with thousands of vetted private coaches across the country, in every sport. Benefits of CoachUp’s service include:
Private coaching is proven to be the best way to improve in sports. To find a great private coach in your area, to learn more about the benefits of private coaching, or to apply to become a coach, please visit CoachUp.com today. | ||||
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| [+][-]BookingMarkets (Dashbell) | $0 | 6 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Building Travel Products for the Next Generation. Our product Dashbell, provides small hotels in emerging markets with a SaaS platform that allows them to both manage their reservations and availability as well as distribute through our global partners. | ||||
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| [+][-]Fashion Project | $1,800,000 | 5 | Active | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Fashion Project is the first designer shopping experience featuring exclusive apparel, shoes and accessories that are generously donated by style icons, celebrities and philanthropists from around the world. The majority of each sale is donated to charity. | ||||
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| [+][-]Fetchnotes | $0 | 5 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Fetchnotes makes productivity as easy as writing a tweet. Check it out at www.fetchnotes.com — it doesn’t look like your typical to do list! We’re on a mission to help people forget less, do more and feel in control. There are a billion different systems about how you’re supposed to stay organized and get things done, but we hold the belief that everyone works differently and there is no one-size-fits-all for staying organized and getting things done. That’s why we built a product that works the way YOU do, because you decide how Fetchnotes works as you use it. Categorize your thoughts and to do’s on the fly with hashtags, and everything goes to its proper place with no extra work. Need something to go to another person? It’s as easy as dropping an @ sign in front of their name. We are a TechStars Boston (Fall 2012) company, and we’re based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by University of Michigan students that left school early to pursue the startup. | ||||
| [+][-]ImpulseSave | $0 | 5 | Active | Cambridge, MA | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | Our world has become an increasingly optimized web of sales and marketing funnels aimed at extracting every possible dollar from people at every possible opportunity - creating an un-level playing field for the consumer. At ImpulseSave our web and mobile products enable people to level that playing field by both enabling and rewarding impulsive savings and investment from anywhere, at any time. Instead of trying to change people to have more discipline, we’re leveraging those same hard-wired human instincts, technologies and tactics marketers have relied on for so long, for financial gain rather than loss. In doing so we’ve developed an entirely new breed of personal financial product with which people love engaging and through which people reach dramatic and rapid results. | ||||
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| [+][-]NBD nanotechnologies Inc | $1,000,000 | 8 | Active | ||
| View Crunchbase profile | NBD uses layer-by-layer self-assembly coatings to enhance condensation and heat transfer performance. NBD has proprietary coatings licensed out of top universities and is building a world class team. | ||||
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| [+][-]Ovuline | $1,400,000 | 7 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Ovuline is the first health IT company to bring big data and machine learning to the fertility and pregnancy space, helping couples get pregnant faster and have healthier pregnancies. By using a combination of big data, machine learning and mobile health tracking devices, Ovuline’s new Smart Fertility™ product understands a woman’s unique cycle and predicts when she is most fertile. Ovuline’s Smart Fertility™ and Smart Pregnancy™ products were developed with the help of Harvard scientists, fertility experts and moms across the country. The company completed Boston Techstars in November 2012 and is venture-backed by Lightbank, LionBird, Launch Capital and Techstars founder and CEO David Cohen. | ||||
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| [+][-]CartCrunch | $813,000 | 6 | Active | Cambridge, MA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | CartCrunch is a mobile app that saves you money on groceries so you can spend it instead where it matters most. Just take a picture of your receipt, and Saverr finds the best local store for your entire weekly shopping list. CartCrunch also helps you with coupons, promotions, and circulars tailored specifically to your shopping history. | ||||
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| [+][-]Urban Hero | $0 | 5 | Active | ★ Y | |
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| [+][-]Wymsee | $0 | 6 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Wymsee is digitizing new areas of TV/Film production, revolutionizing how brands measure and influence their reach through media. Wymsee’s platform will turn budget line items into product placement opportunities - converting costs into revenue. Their product, Sync OnSet, is a new software tool for creative professionals working in TV and film to digitally manage script breakdowns, fitting notes, continuity photos, inventory, and much more. To learn more visit their website: www.synconset.com. | ||||
| [+][-]Zeppelin | $118,000 | 6 | Active | San Francisco, CA Cambridge, MA Ptuj, | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Inbox for your Business Data. Zeppelin is a mobile application that brings Business Data to your fingertips. It connects to various business applications, pulls out important data and presents it in a simple and concise way. This gives executives the ability to get important business insights without having to log into multiple applications or search through their email inboxes. Most BI products are still built to run on desktops of company analysts and not executives on the road. We believe simplicity, ease of use, and a way to help them understand the data, is key for such applications to become adopted by executives. Zeppelin is a TechStars company, currently located in Boston (MA). | ||||
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| $7,449,000 | 81 | ||||
| Cloud, Winter 2013 | |||||
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| [+][-]Strategic Blue | $0 | 5 | Active | London, | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Strategic Blue’s Cloud Options service allows companies to prebook their future cloud usage, securing lower prices. Clients make Strategic Blue responsible for paying their cloud providers, so that they can pay Strategic Blue in a way that suits them. | ||||
| [+][-]Conspire | $0 | 2 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Understand your network. Get detailed analytics on each of your contacts. See exactly how you communicate with each other. Unlock your extended network. Conspire knows who has strong ties to whom. Find the best path in your extended network to reach any person or company. | ||||
| [+][-]DataRobot | $0 | 4 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | Predictive analytics in the cloud. | ||||
| [+][-]Drifty | $118,000 | 5 | Active | Madison, WI | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Drifty’s products make it easy for anyone to build mobile apps, mobile websites, and responsive websites. Our first product Codiqa (http://codiqa.com/) focuses on mobile website and native development with HTML5 and jQuery Mobile. Our second product Jetstrap (http://jetstrap.com/) makes it easy to build responsive websites with Twitter Bootstrap. Our products serve hundreds of thousands of developers from 40 countries all over the world. | ||||
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| [+][-]Good.Co | $0 | 7 | Active | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | The Science behind workplace happiness. A TechStars company. Find yourself in good company! Good.Co is a discovery-network for those seeking greater meaning in their careers. We have decoded the science behind workplace happiness and created a fun, engaging, and inherently viral experience. Good.Co helps individuals understand themselves, leverage their community to realize where they’ll thrive, make better job matches for both candidates and companies, and ultimately help companies update their employment brand and create better work experiences. | ||||
| [+][-]ParLevel Systems | $143,000 | 5 | Active | San Antonio, TX | # |
| View Crunchbase profile | ParLevel develops hardware and software to provide intelligent solutions to the vending industry. The company’s first product, ParLevel Box, retrofits both dinosaur-old vending machines as well as newer machines, and gives them a voice. This device, can connect almost any vending machine in the U.S. This has never been possible before. All of the vending machines’ activity is reported to a cloud-based, easy-to-use, and real-time vending management system where vendors can get full insight into their business, reduce operational costs, and maximize profits. | ||||
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| [+][-]Postmaster | $118,000 | 2 | Active | Austin, TX | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Postmaster is a simple API for integrating shipping into your software stack. Postmaster saves businesses money on shipping by simplifying carrier integration, optimizing shipments in real time, and providing historical analytics to improve the logistics pipeline. | ||||
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| [+][-]Storytime Studios | $0 | 5 | Active | # | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Tell your story, continue the story, or retell the story, with Skit!, by Storytime Studios. With Instagram and Vine, we are limited to only capturing photos/videos of what is around us. Skit! lets us bring to life what’s on our mind and share it to friends, family, and the world. Then watch while others remix, continue, or respond to your story - something that was never before possible! How? Import photos, tap record and bring your story to life with your finger and your voice. Then share it to our story cloud - an ever growing library of constantly evolving stories – like YouTube, but one in which others can edit anyone and anything in the video of the story you shared to continue the story (“…and then this happens next…”), or retell the story (“That’s not what happened, this is how it happened…”). Tell your story, continue the story, or retell the story, with Skit! | ||||
| [+][-]Threat Stack | $0 | 3 | Active | ||
| View Crunchbase profile | Threat Stack is a simple and affordable way for businesses who are concerned with security to quickly detect and effectively respond to computer compromises in an intuitive interface we provide for you in the cloud. We provide customers with a lightweight agent they can be rapidly deployed to their internal or cloud infrastructure that detects active intrusions and actively records attacker activity and other changes made to the system. | ||||
| [+][-]TrueAbility | $750,000 | 5 | Active | San Antonio, TX | # |
 View Crunchbase profile | TrueAbility™ is a cloud-based technical assessment tool. Today, recruiters and hiring managers rely on resume key words and written tests to qualify a job candidate. Resumes are often embellished, and written tests do not accurately capture a candidate’s TRUE ability, only their theoretical knowledge of the technology. TrueAbility has built a platform to solve this problem by validating a techs skills on a real server–allowing them to demonstrate their abilities in technologies relevant to the job they are applying for. Results can be used by companies to rank job applicants, reducing their cost per hire and accelerating the recruitment process. | ||||
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| [+][-]ZeroVM | $518,000 | 5 | Active | ||
 View Crunchbase profile | ZeroVM is the first hypervisor designed specifically for the cloud. It is open-source and free to use. The current architecture of the cloud is fundamentally broken, because it relies on hypervisors that were designed for a world that doesn’t exist any more. That world was one where servers lived in-house and heavy client-server applications ruled the enterprise. So, we built ZeroVM. ZeroVM is an open-source lightweight virtualization platform, based on the Google Native Client project. It offers three major benefits: Speed: The fastest virtual servers in the market today take at least 2 minutes to create. ZeroVM takes less than 5 milliseconds, or about 1/20000th of that time. This huge speedup makes it possible to separate every single task into its own container. Isolation: ZeroVM is the first hypervisor to isolate each individual user of an application. Old fashioned hypervisors require sharing of one virtual server between multiple users, making app development much harder. Efficiency: ZeroVM only virtualizes the server parts that do the actual work. Existing clouds are giant server farms that are spending precious resources virtualizing unneeded things. | ||||
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| [+][-]Ziptask | $118,000 | 5 | Active | Los Angeles, CA | |
 View Crunchbase profile | Ziptask is a ‘fully managed’ work platform that operates as a layer on top of crowd labor marketplaces such as oDesk and Elance. It is the first outsourcing platform built around a network of expert project managers who reduce the risk and cost for small businesses. Ziptask uses its network of project managers and proprietary software platform of collaboration tools to on-board, assess, and outsource small and medium projects ($1K-$10K), and ensure they are delivered in pre-agreed timeframe and cost. The tech-savvy project managers insulate the customer from the friction and headaches of the outsourcing process. The project managers use the collaboration, communication, screening, billing and project execution tools to empower teams and run projects efficiently in one place. It’s a drag & drop, one-click solution for a cumbersome and complex process. | ||||
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