VC Funding
Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 01:19PM After a year of bootstrapping, we've, closed a (slightly oversubscribed) series A round of venture funding. Our investors include CEI Community Ventures, Masthead Venture Partners, the Small Enterprise Growth Fund of Maine. They're joined by some angels and other private equity. Mike Gurau from CCVI and Steve Smith from MVP will be joining our board. There's a ton of people to thank and I know I'll forget some, so I'm not going to try to name everyone. There is one person I do want to particularly thank, my old friend and Yahoo! colleague, Matt Rightmire. Matt made the introductions for us to CCVI, MVP, and SEGF; all three invested (thanks Matt!).
Also we're hiring (and we can actually pay). More detailed descriptions will be available soon. But broadly speaking we need;
BizDev, particularly with experience in the news/talk radio space, or working with political campaigns.Podcast community liaisons. People with contacts/cred in the podcast space to evangelize the power of what we're doing.
A product manager to lead Foneshow Groups efforts
Engineers with mason, perl and/or asterisk experience.
Really bright people who can bring things to the table that we don't see yet.
We've got a ton of work ahead of us and we're really looking forward to building out the team and executing the plan.
You don't have to be in the valley to raise Venture Capital.
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Reader Comments (1)
Congratulations on the VC round! I like what you said about not going for it during the summer as everyone goes on vacation.
I've put together a team of Entrepreneurs & Game Industry Veterans that are going after funding. We just finished our Exec Summary and I think the timing is just about right.
We are funding indie casual game developers and I was looking for a contact into Yahoo.
btw I built an impressive site called PodcastSPOTS which I recently closed and have a bunch of code from it if you want it. Tracked song play duration to get ranking, allowed drag an drop of uploaded songs into a podcast episode, had a teleprompter, Flash Player with dancing EQ etc, really sweet.
Anyhow our company is
http://BangOutGames.com" REL="nofollow">Bang Out Games
If you don't mind offering some advice, what would be the best way to facilitate getting the games we fund onto Yahoo games?
Best of Luck with FoneShow
Mark Kanter, CEO
http://BangOutGames.com