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Charlie Launches iOS App + More - Lightbank
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Charlie Launches iOS App More. Read the full story on Business Insider. This guy got sick of preparing for job interviews, so he built his own personal assistant app. Back in 2011, Aaron Frazin was almost finished with his degree from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and going on a lot of job interviews. You can stand out by preparing," he says. "You can stand out, you can close the deal.". A personal assistant for the rest of us". The promise of Charlie is that it'll search 100,000 Interne...
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Zest Health Raises $6M - Lightbank
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Zest Health Raises $6M. Read the full release on VentureBeat. Zest Health Completes $6 Million Series A Financing. The Smart Concierge is an integrated, human-centric mobile application and concierge service that reimagines the way people access and navigate healthcare’s broad array of choices while considering each member’s benefits, cost profile and personal preferences. The Zest Health Marketplace reveals customized options that will address the member’s needs. There is a need to customize communicati...
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Udemy Raises $65M - Lightbank
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Read the full article on Fortune. Online education marketplace Udemy raises $65 million for international expansion. A new $65-million funding round for online course provider Udemy shows that the online education space remains hot. Online learning is nothing new, but interest in it exploded a few years ago when it became clear that it could be the solution to bringing knowledge and education, even from esteemed Harvard and Stanford professors, to the masses. Udemy and others like Udacity, Pluralsigh...
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Neumob Raises $2.3M - Lightbank
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Neumob Raises $2.3M. Read the full story on TechCrunch. Neumob Promises To Speed Up Your Mobile Apps, Raises $2.3M Seed Round. At first, the idea behind Neumob may sound familiar, especially if you’ve ever used Opera Max or a similar service that focuses on compressing images and other files to speed up your browsing. Neumob takes a slightly different approach and focuses more on saving time than bandwidth. The company’s founding team has a deep background in working on networks and CDNs in particular, w...
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SpotHero Acquires ParkPlease - Lightbank
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Read the full story on Blue Sky Innovation. SpotHero buys ParkPlease to bolster San Francisco presence. Chicago-based on-demand parking app SpotHero on Tuesday announced the acquisition of ParkPlease, a San Francisco-based company that will help it expand in that city. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SpotHero said it would integrate ParkPlease's sellers and customers into its platform and fold its name, site and app. Smith said his company’s growth in San Francisco has doubled each month and that t...
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Eric Lefkofsky & Brad Keywell (Co-Founders) & Lightbank Team - Lightbank
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Once upon a time. We’re a proud San Francisco company that went to Chicago and Lightbank for its seed funding. We have no doubt it was the right decision. Lawrence Coburn, DoubleDutch. The team has truly "been there, done that.". Pete Kazanjy, TalentBin. Lightbank has pushed us to try things outside of our comfort zone. Arum Kang, Coffee Meets Bagel. 600 W Chicago Ave, Ste #775. Chicago, IL 60654. The Warehouse Coworking Space.
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About Us - Lightbank
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We sometimes invest alongside other VC's in series B or C. But our sweet spot is. We have a wide. We are uniquely flexible and are not bound by a narrow focus or selected verticals. We have invested in diverse companies from enterprise startups to mobile gaming companies and are looking for that next great idea that will disrupt yet another industry. 600 W Chicago Ave, Ste #775. Chicago, IL 60654. The Warehouse Coworking Space.
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Navdy Raises $20M - Lightbank
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Read the full story on Entrepreneur. Navdy, the 'Google Glass for Your Car,' Raises $20 Million. Google Glass is no longer on the market, but the so-called "Google Glass for your car" is revving up for its debut. Enthusiasm for the device surged late last year as the company collected more than 17,000 pre-orders. "It wildly exceeded our expectations," founder and CEO Doug Simpson says. "We optimistically hoped that we might get $500,000 to $1 million. We ended up with $6 million in orders....It's very...
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Belly Launches New Marketing Suite - Lightbank
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Belly Launches New Marketing Suite. Read the full story on TechCrunch. Loyalty Startup Belly Builds On Opportunities Of Apple Partnership, Launches New Marketing Suite. Fresh off of Apple’s WWDC announcement earlier this summer that they would be partnering with loyalty rewards program Belly as one of their mobility partners, Belly announced today that it will be rolling out a major product update to its merchant partners. Belly has continued to quickly scale, and recently began a major partnership with ...
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Drifty Co. Raises $2.6M - Lightbank
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Drifty Co. Raises $2.6M. Drifty Grabs $2.6M To Turn Web Developers Into Mobile App Makers. Read the full article on TechCrunch. Also participating in the round were Founder Collective in Cambridge, as well as previous investors Arthur Ventures, who last year funded Drifty’s $1 million seed round. The Ionic SDK is installed over 100,000 times per month, and that number is continuing to increase, the company says. The startup is still pre-revenue, as its plan has been to create a different open-source mode...
