45 posts and columns on True Ventures
Applauze Raises $7.2M for Mobile Ticketing App, Just Six Months After Launch
In some cases, Applauze offers VIP perks associated with tickets, but in general, the attraction is ease of use and upfront pricing, rather than discounts.Caterina Fake’s Findery Launches Mobile App for Stories About Places
If it works well, the Findery app will interrupt users with notifications for delightful tidbits of information about the backstory, history, trivia and personal stories associated with nearby places.News Byte
GroupMe Co-Founder Steve Martocci Launches Music Collaboration Startup Splice
Steve Martocci, who co-founded messaging service GroupMe in 2010 and sold it to Skype in 2011, has a new project: Splice. The service, co-founded by Matt Aimonetti, is supposed to let musicians collaborate on projects and share the results with fans. Union Square Ventures’ Andy Weissman led a $2.75 million seed round, along with other investors including True Ventures, Lerer Ventures and SV Angel.Narrative — Formerly Known as Memoto — Launches Life-Logging Camera, Raises $3M
“It’s fun to explore your life in hindsight,” says the maker of a tiny camera that takes a picture every 30 seconds.OpenROV Raises Funding to Open Up the World of Underwater Exploration
“Everyone still thinks exploration is what research institutions or National Geographic gets to do, and that’s just not the world we live in anymore.”Former Facebook Exec Ali Rosenthal Joins MessageMe as COO
Can the mobile app that lets you communicate better on a smartphone break out with new exec?News Byte
Led by Greylock, Social App MessageMe Raises $10 Million
MessageMe, the mobile application that offers free text, photo and video messaging between smartphones, announced Tuesday that it had raised a $10 million round led by John Lilly of Greylock Partners — who will join the board of MessageMe makers LittleInc Labs — with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, True Ventures, Social+Capital and others. The company said it currently has more than five million users on its service.News Byte