Last night, MERLIN Mentors and Capital Entrepreneurs held a joint event at the University Research Park. It was a great opportunity for CE members to meet successful entrepreneurs in MERLIN Mentors and bridge the gap between some of the newer startups in town with those who have been successful in the past. Entrustet, PerBlue, GoBuzz, …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured in Forbes in an article called How To Pass On Digital Assets When You’re Gone. From the link: One way to make a difficult situation easier on your loved ones is to use the services of a company like Entrustet that allows your executor to take control of your …
PerBlue’s head of marketing Andy Gilbertson was quoted in Tech News World about Apple’s approval process for applications in the app store. From the link: “Apple’s approval process to get into the App Store can be a mysterious one with little feedback from them, and they make no guarantees about how long your app will …
On May 26th, we celebrated our one year anniversary with our 13th Capital Entrepreneurs meeting. Capital Entrepreneurs has grown from it’s original 10 members to over 60 young, growing startups. It’s been an awesome year, with CE members closing funding rounds worth over $7.5m and being featured in The Washington Post, New York Times, Tech …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Networked Insights was featured in the New York Times this weekend in an article called Online Buzz Doesn’t Equate To Ratings. As might be expected for a series working toward its recent much-promoted finale, “Lost†below, generated the most engagement through social media of any show from February through April, according …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Student Spill was featured on Discovering Startups. From the link: Why could Student Spill LLC be BIG? The need for mental health support services is apparent, and SPILL provides a tool that is greatly accepted and appreciated by both students and university personnel. In addition, most schools have large sums of …
Capital Entrepreneurs members Jesse Davis and Nathan Lustig of Entrustet were featured in a special section of The Wisconsin State Journal highlighting companies that are doing well in the economic recovery after the recession. From the article called Local firm offers tools to manage digital assets after people die: When you die, what happens to …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was featured on BBC and Wired after cofounder Nathan Lustig attended the first annual Digital Death Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California. From the BBC article: “There’s no standard practice across the industry yet. There are no norms for how digital assets are passed on to …
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PerBlue’s location based game Parallel Kingdom was featured in UK’s The Guardian in a story called Location: Facebook edges closer, while rivals plough on. From the link: Parallel Kingdom started as a role-playing game where users had to move in the real world to move in-game. Users reluctant to leave the sofa thought that “sucked”, …
PerBlue’s Parallel Kingdom was featured on Venture Beat yesterday in a story called New Generation of Location Based Games Catches On. From the article: Then there’s Parallel Kingdom (pictured) for the iPhone and Android platforms, designed by a company called PerBlue in Madison, Wisc. It has 125,000 registered users, of which around 15,000 are active …
UW alum Carol Bartz has been the CEO of Yahoo! for just about a year now. She was just interviewed by Esquire in an article called “I’m Carol Bartz…Are You An Asshole?” which is an incredibly interesting read. From the article: On January 13, 2009, Carol Bartz became CEO of Yahoo! One of her first …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured on Lifehacker earlier this week, follow up by an interview with founders Jesse Davis and Nathan Lustig on Fox Business Live. From the Lifehacker article titled Entrustet Secures your Accounts After Death with Legal Backing: Entrustet offers a free account that lets you set up unlimited password-protected accounts to …
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Capital Entrepreneurs members Sector67 and Student Spill took home awards in the 2010 Burrill Business Plan Competition held at UW yesterday. Chris Meyer of Sector67 took home 2nd place and won $7,000 while Heidi Allstop of Student Spill took home $1,000 and free office space in the Metro Innovation Center worth over $15,000. You can …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member Powered Green was featured on EcoStreet to promote their Earth Day give away. From the link: An Energy Seal is a sticker made from recycled aluminium that represents a carbon offset for a computer. Each Energy Seal symbolizes that renewable energy sources have produced an equal amount of energy used by a …
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Networked Insights raised $5m in series A funding from Madison angel investment firm Kegonsa Capital. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal article titled Networked Insights Raises $5m: Networked Insights raised the money in a funding round led by Kegonsa Capital Partners, a Fitchburg investment fund. The company will use the money to …
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Parallel Kingdom, the main game of Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue, partnered with Capital Entrepreneurs member company Powered Green to make the entire virtual world of Parallel Kingdom carbon neutral. From their release: PerBlue, the developer of Parallel Kingdom, has decided to celebrate the upcoming Earth Day by purchasing enough carbon offsets to power the …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet launched new features yesterday and come out of public beta. From their release on Marketwire: Entrustet (www.entrustet.com) today announces its services that securely and legally enable users to delete or designate heirs for digital assets (including email, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, PayPal and more), with new features to further help users …
The 1300 page financial reform bill making its way through congress has the potential to be one of the biggest blows to US entrepreneurship ever. It makes finding investors much harder by requiring startups to register with the SEC and wait for 120 days for approval before the startup can accept money. It also lowers …
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Madison-based VC firm Venture Investors became the 3rd sponsor for Capital Entrepreneurs. Venture Investors is a premier provider of seed and early stage venture capital in the Midwest. We have a proven track record of working with world-class healthcare and technology companies throughout the region and has a history of helping Madison-based startups, even if …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was featured in the Financial Times in a story called How To Pass On Your Passwords. From the link: “It is crazy that websites don’t have policies for this,†says Jesse Davis, founder of Entrustet, another US-based internet service for managing digital inheritance. “People are spending real money on these …
