Constant Contact Acquires Social Media Inbox Startup Nutshell Mail

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Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Email marketing company Constant Contact has acquired NutshellMail, a FbFund-backed startup that provides an innovative web-based service that lets users send and receive your messages from social networks, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter, in your email inbox. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Founded in 2007, NutshellMail was one of twenty startups incubated within the 2009 class of fbFund REV, Facebook’s joint program with Accel Partners and Founders Fund aimed to help foster quality applications on Facebook Platform.

Constant Contact will use Nutshell to compliment its email marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools for small businesses and nonprofit Constant Contact also announced it will open a Bay Area office.

A number of fbFund startups have seen exits over the past year or so. Groupcard was just acquired by InComm, Weardrobe was acquired by Like.com last fall and WedSnap, the developer of Facebook app WeddingBook was bought up by the Knot.com.

Company: NutshellMail
Website: nutshellmail.com
Launch Date: September 15, 2007

NutshellMail makes it easy for any small business to manage and monitor their social media presence and online brand reputation in just 5 to 10 minutes a day. NutshellMail works like your own personal assistant by monitoring your social media accounts, filtering out the noise and delivering the most important and actionable activity in an easy-to-read email digest sent on your schedule. NutshellMail was part of the 2009 fbFund Rev incubator program and was acquired by Constant Contact, Inc (NASDAQ:...

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