September 29th, 2010

Social Learning Company Koofers Raises $5 Million From Revolution, Others

Social learning startup Koofers today announced that it has scored $5 million in Series A equity funding. This round includes Revolution, created by AOL (yes, our new parent company) co-founder Steve Case, and Nigel MorrisQED Investors with participation of the company’s existing investors, New Atlantic Ventures and Altos Ventures.

Koofers aims to empower students to help each other learn by… → Read More

August 5th, 2008

LaunchBox Unleashes Its First Nine Startups

What does $25,000 and 12 weeks get you? If you are a startup funded by LaunchBoxDigital, it gets you a working alpha or beta site. Based in Washington, D.C., LaunchBox is the latest seed-fund incubator to take the “Build ‘em cheap and build ‘em fast” approach to startup creation. (In the same vein as Y Combinator, SeedCamp and TechStars). LaunchBox gives small teams of two… → Read More