Covering Start-ups and Emerging Technology in theHUB Boston and Cambridge area.
Company Name: Goloco
Company URL: http://goloco.org/greetings;guest
Citation URL: http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/103272/Everybody-Into-the-Carpool
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: Angels
Founders or Execs past companies: Zipcar
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Descripton: GoLoco is a service that helps people quickly arrange to share rides between friends, neighbors, and colleagues. GoLoco also helps you share trip costs online.
Company Name: the UpDown
Company URL: http://www.theupdown.com/
Citation URL: http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/07/bostons_updown.html
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: seed round
Investors: Swiss angel investor Joachim Schoss
Founders or Execs past companies: Boston Consulting Group, Experience.com, Harvard MBA’s
Industry: consumer web financial
Offering Descripton: financial social networking Its strategy involves starting a hedge fund using community-based investment strategies derived from its web site member community.
Company Name: Flipkey
Company URL: http://www.flipkey.com/
Citation URL:
Formation Date: mid 2007
Funding Status: Stealth
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Compete.com
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Descripton: We started FlipKey to help expand the vacation rental market by providing a platform to highlight professional reputation and trust. There are 6.5 million vacation homes in the U.S. and less than 10% are rented to travelers looking for a great place to stay.
Company Name: Conduit Labs, Harmonix Music Systems
Company URL: http://www.conduitlabs.com/
Citation URL: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/21/conduit-labs-closes-55-million-series-a-funding/
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/07/22/will_boston_ever_catch_up/?page=2
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: First Round $5.5 M
Investors: Prism Venture Partners, Charles River Partners
Founders or Execs past companies: Ambient Devices
Industry: Online Gaming
Offering Descripton: We’re building cool social entertainment destinations for you and your friends. We are bored of the same old social networks, virtual worlds, and MMOs.
Company Name: GuildCafe
Company URL: http://www.guildcafe.com
Citation URL: page 2 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/07/22/will_boston_ever_catch_up/
Formation Date: 2006
Funding Status: First Round
Investors: IDG Ventures
Founders or Execs past companies: Eprise
Industry: Consumer Web, Gaming
Offering Descripton: GuildCafe was founded to give online gamers a space where the content is created for them, by them. It is GuildCafe’s mission to be a premiere online community, uniting all members of the multiplayer universe on a Web 2.0 platform so they can express their gaming alter-egos and share information with one another. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, GuildCafe was formed by a team of highly experienced online media and computer games veterans.
Company Name: Blurgl
Company URL: www.blurgl.com (no info)
Citation URL:
Formation Date:
Funding Status: ? Stealth
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: WTB Systems
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Descripton: Boston-based startup focused on collaboration and sharing for small groups
Company Name: Wherecast
Company URL: parked
Citation URL:
Formation Date:
Funding Status: 2007 stealth mode
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley
Industry: Mobile Applications
Offering Descripton: Wherecast is a location-based services startup
Company Name: HiveFire
Company URL: http://www.hivefire.com/
Citation URL: http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/07/09/story3.html
Formation Date: 2007
Funding Status: Seed Round
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Google, Microsoft
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Descripton: online news
Company Name: SiteSpect
Company URL: http://www.sitespect.com/
Citation URL: http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/e-commerce/41629.html
Formation Date: 2004
Funding Status: SiteSpect is privately held and funded.
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Worldmachine
Industry: Web Analytics
Offering Descripton: SiteSpect is a web site optimization solution that enables marketers to increase conversion rates through A/B split and multivariate testing.
Company Name: Bzzster
Company URL: http://bzzster.com/
Citation URL: http://www.somewhatfrank.com/2007/03/bzzster_for_sim.html
Formation Date: 2H 2006
Funding Status: Seed
Investors: ?
Founders or Execs past companies: Compete.com
Industry: Consumer Web
Offering Descripton: Bzzster is a way to recommend videos, news, blog posts, etc to friends really quickly. Our goal is to make Bzzster! the best way to recommend links.
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