article thumbnail

Pray.com Finds $14M For Social Networking For Religious Communities

socalTECH

Westlake Village-based Pray.com , which develops social networking applications for religious communities, has raised $14M in a Series A funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by TPG Growth, and also included Science Inc. and Greylock Partners. READ MORE>>.

article thumbnail

Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. Isn’t social networking amazing? I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I love Namechk.com for this. Gone are the days of 3.4

article thumbnail

JumpStartFund Launches First Ever Crowd-Powered Portal For Startups

Tech Zulu Event

Social network for investors. JumpStartFund has been built ground up with an interactive social network where members can easily find, follow and network with investors and other startups to fundraise using rewards- or equity-based crowdfunding. Get feedback, collaborate and get funded.

article thumbnail

Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

socalTECH

How is this different than accelerator or incubator? David Carter: There is a lot of misunderstanding on what an incubator is, and what an accelerator is. When I was at Amplify, we had a lot of people wondering what an accelerator was, and how we differentiated from an incubator. We actually are ideating internally.

Startup 231
article thumbnail

Shared housing startups are taking off

TechCrunch LA

A Crunchbase News analysis of residential-focused real estate startups uncovered a raft of companies with a shared and temporary housing focus that have raised funding in the past year or so. Funded shared and short-term housing startups are cropping up across the globe, from China to Europe to Southeast Asia. This isn’t a U.S.-specific

Startup 272
article thumbnail

Capturing The Entrepreneurial Energy At StartEngine's Demo Day

socalTECH

Although maybe not all of the startups at the event might go on to get funding, an entire group of potential startup founders in the audience realize that they, too, have a shot at starting something and getting a chance to take it to the next level. Standing room only crowd at StartEngine). It's unclear.

Startup 256