The first TechStars company to launch, MadKast has raised a $300,000 series A round of financing from EONBusiness Venture Capital and several Angel investors in California and Colorado. Another TechStars company, EventVue, closed their own round of funding last week.
MadKast is an embeddable widget that lets you easily share links with your friends on any of 15 link sharing sites (Digg, Delicious, Reddit, …). But unlike other link-sharing widgets such as AddThis, MadKast also lets you send links via email, SMS, or IM. It’s a rather simple, yet useful, tool for letting your readers spread your posts.
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$300K for a link-sharing widget?
huh…when will I get my turn?
http://www.mobclique.com very cool, give it a try.
Congrats, guys!
Looking forward to your next release!
Wow, what about script sharing?
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.....owse/about
http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/
An aside: just curious, why so many investors for a small amount of money?
>>EONBusiness Venture Capital and several Angel investors in California and Colorado.
@Amy Wilsch - all has to do with the knowledge and talent that the investors bring to the table. if there’s quite a few solid minds in the pool, it always helps…
You know people might end up company that idea less than second. It’s waste of money too. :/
Seems like a small change for those investors.
How is this better than just emailing a link directly? That’s not social enough?
whatever, dont know about the product but love the Curb your Enthusiasm play, and because of they got me to sit through an otherwise lukewarm demo.
Let’s forget this crap… I have advance question… take tooth pick, ball, and poke it.
Let say you built largest man made space elevator…. And you staring at sky at different region. Does space elevator come out different shape like a cone or an invisible line or water bendable pencil ?
There’s website you can win million dollar. I check out this site…
http://www.elevator2010.org/
I wonder if there’s god or not…
Many people though earth was flat….
@10&11:
Brilliant! I appreciate your sense of humor!
freakin lot of money for sharing a widget…who would imagine such possibilities.
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com
Not widget! Gadget! GADGET!
Congrats MadKast, Now you can BUY the MadKast Manor!
i personally love it and put embedded it into my blog….and,
to alec:
using the widget to share content is a) fast than copy + paste + email b) spreads content to the social web dialogue (one-click integration to aggregators + social bookmarking) and c) you get analytics from it– you can’t get that from emailing
Funny that techstars cheerleader seth levine was stone cold busted slamming the program -
http://www.usatoday.com/money/.....ator_N.htm
He backpedaled like snotnosed kid and hasnt blogged much since but the companies are getting less than a years worth of funding according to levine. Feld brags about “going to meet the guv” on twitter and their other companies are getting funded by the state funded tango pool ala lijit. This all smells funny and it aint looking near as good as ycombinator.
I installed it on my blog (which is powered by Squarespace) and a couple of things happened:
- Icon never showed up in Safari
- Embedded code caused my blog login buttons to stop functioning
@lolcatboulder first off, i love anonymous comments. secondly, Seth did a phone interview with USA today. they misquoted him, plain and simple. seth was a huge part of the techstars program and never said the crap that usa today posted about him.
he also hasn’t blogged much since because foundry has been busy as shit getting their fund together and up and running. turns out it’s kind of tasking to start a venture firm…who would have known?
get your facts straight