• June 19th, 2012

    Vungle Creates $1M Fund To Lure Top Mobile Developers To Its New App Promotion Platform

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    Vungle is all about taking a unique and aggressive approach to promotion. After reading TechCrunch’s post about AngelPad, Co-founders Zain Jaffer and Jack Smith bought targeted search and Facebook ads to reach the accelerator’s founder Thomas Korte and his friends. The ads said they had an urgent message for the founder and included a link to their pitch for Vungle. And it worked … they got… → Read More

    May 2nd, 2012

    Vungle Hustles Its Way Into $2M All-Star Seed Round For Mobile App Video Trailers Network

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    Vungle, a new company that wants to help mobile developers market their apps through video “trailers,” has just raised an enormous $2 million seed round from the who’s who of Silicon Valley. The round includes Google Ventures, AOL Ventures [Disclosure: TechCrunch is owned by AOL], Crosslink Capital, SV Angel, 500 Startups, SoftTech VC, as well as several notable angels like Maynard Webb, Scott→ Read More