PressPlane is a new Seattle startup coming out of the Curious Office incubator. I have no idea what it does but it seems like everyone who’s involved in startups in Seattle is in the know. Or at least I hope they are, because they just invested in the company.
They’ve announced a $1.7 million round of financing today that was led by Second Avenue Partners. And the list of individual investors is impressive: Mika Salmi (MTV President / AtomFilms founder), Rich Barton (Founder, Expedia / Zillow), Erik Blachford (former Expedia CEO), Andy Liu (BuddyTV), Alex Algard (Founder, Whitepages), Geoff Entress (Madrona), Andy Sack, Adrian Hanauer (MLS Soccer, Curious Office co-founder), John Cunningham and Dough Rowan (former Corbis CEO) all participated in the round.
What does PressPlane do? The site says “Making Your Business Life Easier” and asks you to sign up for the upcoming beta. Curious Office describes the company as a “buy and sell marketplace” like another of their startups, Imagekind (acquired by Cafepress earlier this year):
Unfortunately, I can’t say exactly what we are working on but I can say it is another “buy and sell content marketplace” like our last company (Imagekind) but more around designers and creative content serving businesses. We’re obviously not competing with our new Imagekind owners (CafePress) but we are able to take what we learned from Imagekind and apply much of it to this new initiative.
If you know more, tell us. Because I hate not knowing things. That’s a nice logo though.
Update: Thanks to a trusty reader, we now have an idea of what PressPlane may be up to. The company, says our tipster, is creating a way for small businesses to create professional marketing materials like brochures, one pagers, etc. So if you are a plumber, for example, you go to the plumber section, select one of the pre-made designs, add your own information and then get professional looking marketing materials. It sounds a bit like Brandoozie.
We’re also hearing Draper Fisher Jurvetson fought hard to be in the deal but weren’t allowed in over a board seat dispute.
buy and sell marketplace:
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So basically it’s IMAGEKIND RELOADED. Way to go!
Is this a first Michael? I don’t think I’ve ever read a post where you didn’t know what was going on with a company. All those investors and no ones talking? Don’t they want free press?
Ebay earnings coming and I think they’re going downhill. May be a great time for nichce buy and sell marketplace platforms to start popping up.
“I have no idea what it does but it seems like everyone who’s involved in startups in Seattle is in the know.” –Michael Arrington
This is going to my memorablequotes.com ROTFL… Mikey get some sleep.
You may infer that the are going into business printing (hence the “Press”) as the background image shows the crop marks typical of business card printing, etc.
The page says “Making your Business Life easier”
I am not sure if was update to add “Business” since your post was made.
Brian
Why wouldn’t you cover my startup? Is a specialized iPhone wallpaper search engine, solving you the headaches of looking up for wallpapers all over the web. Right now you can instant download mor than 13,000 wallpapers. I mean it’s useful, it has lots of content and it’s bootstrapped by poor student like me. Well if you have an iPhone, just help me checking out, no BS
http://mipixie.com/
Thanks,
Poor Broke Student
Because your is not a unique startup. They are selling the same website over and over on the sitepoint.com marketplace.
The crop marks on the home page give it a way.
err, “away”.
startup startup everywhere…. among Financial bust in the US of A
So – how is this different than the one you’ve covered below ?
http://www.tech...th-branddoozie/
dunno. yet.
appears to be a good idea renewed
the recessionary integration efficiency curve will come down hard on paper based prodcts marketing products. 56 percent now use the internet over yellowpages. paper products dont tell a consumer enough, are expensive, time consuming, and not easily distributed.
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