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  • March 21st, 2012

    UpTo: An iPhone App That Unlocks Your Calendar’s Social Potential (In The Right Way)

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    Back in December, Robin wrote about a Detroit app development startup called Rock City Apps, which had just raised a seed round of funding for its stealth iPhone app, UpTo. At the time, Rock City Co-founder and CEO Greg Schwartz (also the former CEO/co-founder of Mobatech and a director of business development at Warner Music) said that the “platform focused on the future tense that makes sharing… → Read More

    December 23rd, 2011

    UpTo Lands Seed Funding To Go “Beyond Status Updates And Check-ins”

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    A new, relatively stealth startup called Rock City Apps is gearing up for the launch of a mobile application called UpTo, and has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from Detroit Venture Partners and Ludlow Ventures to finance the development of the product.

    The company, which is based in Detroit, Michigan, plans to launch its first iPhone app ‘soon’ and lets you indicate your interest… → Read More

    November 28th, 2011

    A New Deal Flow: Startup Raps For Angel Funding, Venture Firm Responds In Kind

    Last week, Erick posted a video in which the founders of a stealth, San Francisco-based startup called Undrip spit some rhymes in an effort to raise seed funding for their new venture. Undrip, which is building a service to better filter your social networking streams (like Twitter) and let people consume media content without the noise, hoped to use their creative plea as a way to attract… → Read More