Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured on CNN in an article titled Do Web Users Fear the Digital Reaper? From the link: Lustig is confident that there will be a shift in attitude that will manifest itself in the healthy profits (he jokes that his company’s unofficial motto is: “Everybody uses the Internet and everybody …
Madison water-technology startup AquaMost received a $1 million investment from the Golden Angels and Wisconsin Investment Partners. AquaMost is developing a new type of water purification system developed by University of Wisconsin scientists. The money will be used to hire several engineers and lab associates to develop the system for commercial sale.
Madison biopharmaceutical company Mithridion recently secured $1.25 million in funding from Venture Investors, The State of Wisconsin Investment Board, and Rocket Venture Fund. Mithridion is developing drug candidates that focus on serious Central Nervous System disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease.
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet was featured in the New York Times magazine’s online edition today in an article called Cyberspace when you’re Dead. The print edition will run on Sunday. The article follows the threads of digital death and digital identity and talks about Entrustet’s digital death industry. From the link: The founders of …
CE member company Entrustet was featured in TechCrunch about their decision to travel to Santiago Chile as part of the Start-Up Chile program. Check out the video interview with Vivek Wadhwa for more info:
Capital Entrepreneurs was featured in an article in Madison Magazine on expanding the number of urban high-tech business downtown and in the Capitol East District. CE members Nate Lustig of Entrustet and Heidi Allstop of Student SPILL were also featured in the article.
Capital Entrepreneurs member company Entrustet moved to Santiago, Chile for 6 months for Startup Chile. Jesse and Nathan have been in Chile for almost two weeks now and have started to settle in. Here’s a summary of their blog posts and press coverage since they’ve moved to Chile. Wisconsin IT Startup Relocates to Chile, Celebrates …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Student Spill was featured in an article on ReadWriteWeb which was picked up by the New York Times. Student Spill is a service used by universities to aid students in dealing with personal problems. Students can anonymously submit descriptions of their personal problems and receive responses within 24 hours from trained student supporters.
Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured on Mashable in an article titled 7 Resources for Handling Digital Life After Death by Erica Swallow. From the link: Entrustet is a free service that enables an account holder to pass on digital assets to up to 10 designated heirs and one executor, who is in charge of …
Capital Entrepreneurs member Entrustet was featured on My Life Scoop in an article written by Mashable’s Erica Swollow titled 7 ways to handle digital life after death. From the link: Entrustet is a free service that enables an account holder to pass on digital assets to up to 10 designated heirs and one executor, who …
Entrustet participated in the Web 2.0 Startup Showcase in New York City on Wednesday. The showcase brought 29 of the most interesting startups in the US into one room for an hour and a half of pitching to the Web 2.0 audience. Tim O’Rielly, Fred Wilson and the crowd each picked winners to go on …
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Fresh off raising $800,000 in angel investment, Capital Entrepreneurs member company PerBlue is at it again. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle certified PerBlue, making it eligible for 25% tax credits for angels investing in the company. From the link: Governor Jim Doyle announced today that PerBlue, Inc., Waunakee, Dane County, has received the Qualified New Business …
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Capital Entrepreneurs founding member PerBlue just closed an $800,000 angel round led by Tim Keane‘s Golden Angels out of Milwaukee and other angel groups from San Francisco and Seattle. PerBlue is a social gaming company that creates mobile games for iPhone, Android and other mobile platforms. Their flagship product, Parallel Kingdom, has over 200k users …
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Capital Entrepreneurs members Networked Insights was featured in USA Today talking about valuations of NFL teams based on online mentions and online activity. From the link: Which NFL team is creating the most buzz on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets? It’s the Dallas Cowboys, so-called America’s Team. What may surprise you is that …
Heidi Allstop of Student Spill and Steve Faulkner of GeoHuddle were both interviewed for In Business Magazine’s weekly podcast. You can listen to them in full over on the In Business Website.
Capital Entrepreneurs member Jeremy Craine and his company FurnishU were featured in the Capital Times today. FurnishU buys used furniture from students on campus and then resells the furniture to other students. From the link: For my part, I was interested as soon as I learned that Crane, as a student, started a business derived …
Entrustet, which allows people to make last wishes for their digital assets, was featured on DotWeekly, a blog about domain names. From the link: This really is a slick service and it is free! This type of service is very important to domain name investors! With domain parking accounts, registrar accounts, affiliate accounts, Paypal, Escrow, …
PerBlue’s Parallel Kingdom was on LiveWire 2.0. From the link: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is the reference for application developers at the moment, as the App Store has reached critical mass. The natural inclination, then, is the subject of the iPhone – and by extension, the IPAD. “The process of Apple’s approval to enter the App …
Dane101 featured the Forward Technology Conference and Capital Entrepreneurs in a post last week. From the link: San Francisco. New York. Chicago. These are the cities normally associated with startups and entrepreneurs. You may be surprised to learn, then, that Forbes magazine recently named Madison the seventh-most innovative city in the country. Local companies Alice …
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Capital Entrepreneurs member GeoHuddle is currently in 4th place in the GE Ecomagination Challenge, which is one of the premier contests for alternative energy projects in the United States. From the link: About seven months ago, University of Wisconsin graduate students Steve Faulkner and Michael Major started GeoHuddle, a company that develops ground-source heat pumps, …
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