SocialSafe, the social media back-up tool co-founded by Julian Ranger‘s iBundle and 1minus1, has announced that it’s raised £250,000 (~$400k) in what’s being called a Series A round. That’s because Ranger, who is a prominent angel investor in the UK, has already funded the startup to the tune of £300k, bringing the total raised by SocialSafe to £550k (~$885k). → Read More
There’s no doubt that managing and sharing digital assets – photos, videos, music, contacts and other documents – around the home or indeed with friends and family can be a pain. Services such as Dropbox and SugarSync have gone someway to address this problem but, arguably, the problem hasn’t yet been solved. In fact, by some estimates, digital data is increasing tenfold every five years, so it’s… → Read More
This is a guest post by Julian Ranger (@rangerj) an Angel investor and founder of Surrey, UK-based innovation hub iBundle. Current iBundle projects include Raffle.it. SocialSafe, mifiction and DAD. Julian has been an investor since 2007. Previously he was founder and Managing Director of STASYS Ltd, which he sold to Lockheed Martin in 2005.
Privacy is something we jealously guard in real life. → Read More
[UK] Remember ‘game books‘, those branching stories where the reader could influence the outcome by making narrative decisions at various points throughout the book? They were very popular in the 80s, so perhaps not.
Either way, Surrey-based mifiction wants to update the concept for the mobile age – and in doing so hopes to encourage younger audiences to read (and buy books, of course).
The… → Read More
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