It’s not yet clear what Chomp exactly is, but we do know that it’s a rather hot property right now. It took the still stealth start up just 10 days to raise a nice seed round from Ron Conway and a few other big name angel investors, we hear.
So what do we know? Well, the company is definitely in the mobile space. In fact, it’s a “BIG mobile play,” founder Ben Keighran tells us. Keighran, who in 2006 started Bluepulse, a mobile messaging app, has most recently served as the lead advisor to Aardvark for their mobile strategy. There’s apparently no website for the company yet, but they do have a Twitter account, which features one tweet: “Working on something sekret… 
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We managed to squeeze a logo out of Keighran, but that’s about it. He also told us that we should hear more about Chomp early next year, but for now, they will remain shrouded in secret. Still, someone must have liked something they heard about Chomp if they were able to in just 10 days get a seed round of around $500,000 – $550,000, which is what we’re hearing.
We’ll be keeping an eye on this one.
I guess chomp will be a good choice if you want to name your startup after a perl keyword.
here comes .. the dot com day technique of building hot air .. not due to actual product or tech, but around it.
The longer you can keep in stealth, the more time you have to be the only one to market before people who copy your idea get their version out….PR stunt or no there is value to staying in stealth, which will always lure people to speculate when big names are involved.
All the best Ben!
Lets just hear what these guys are doing and be done with the surprises.
Wonder if it’s got anything to do with chomp dot ca from Canada…
How’d those Bluepulse investors make out?
very nice but mmmmm
If Ron Conway’s involved, we can bet that it’s focused on real-time
this reads more like PR than news.
Looks like another bunch of investor dollars going down the drain via Benjamin Keighran.
What is it with you guys? Take the money then run away to another company when things don’t go all your way leaving investors to wonder what happened…