SeatGeek Raises Series A Financing and is a Finalist at TechCrunch 50 -- 1/8/10
SeatGeek closed a Series A financing after being a finalist at the TechCrunch 50, one of the most prestigious shows in the world for technology startups. read more
SCVNGR Raises $4 million from Google Ventures and is Cash-Flow Positive -- 12/24/09
SCVNGR closed a $4 million Series A round with Google Ventures and participation from Highland Capital, the first VC firm to invest in the company following DreamIt. SCVNGR earned more than $1 million in revenue in its first full year in business, making it cash-flow positive. read more
Notehall Wins Respect, Investment on ABC's Shark Tank -- 10/7/09
Notehall appears on the ABC primetime show Shark Time to pitch their marketplace for student class notes and study guides. After setting off a bidding war among the show's "sharks," or private investors, Notehall walked away with an angel investment. read more
BusinessWeek: America's Best Young Entrepreneurs 2009 -- 10/13/09
Meet the 25 most impressive entrepreneurs of 2009, including the founders of Notehall; Sean Conway, Justin Miller, B.J. Stephan and Fadi Chalfoon. read more
NYC Demo Day: The best startups of the year -- 10/7/09
NYC Demo Day presents nine of the most promising companies from the top business startup launch programs. See what happens when innovative entrepreneurs are given office space, lawyers, accountants and a little bit of seed money for just three months. read more
San Diego News Network: Torrey Pines grad takes business to the 'sharks' -- 10/2/09
Torrey Pines High School graduate Sean Conway is already getting national attention for his first business venture. On Oct. 6, Conway will appear as a contestant on the new ABC reality show, “Shark Tank,” which puts entrepreneurs face-to-face with five established venture capitalists, or “sharks,” including Daymond John, founder of FUBU, tech entrepreneur Robert Herjavec, and real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran. read more
The Dartmouth: Alums. launch online businesses -- 9/29/09
In the midst of an economic downturn, some Dartmouth alumni have abandoned their corporate careers to pursue their own business ventures — offering pragmatic solutions to commonplace problems such as corporate recruiting and overpriced tickets to concerts and sporting events. read more
The Daily Collegian: Alumni create fantasy site with virtual sports betting -- 9/29/09
Fantasy football addicts now have another outlet for their pigskin fever, thanks to a new Web site created by a group of Penn Staters. Justin Goldman, Class of 2005, has been making a business of Internet start-ups since founding Lionmenus while he was a student at University Park. read more
Los Angeles Times: TechCrunch50 conference: Fewer toys, more tools -- 9/17/09
SeatGeek started with $20,000 from Dreamit Ventures in Philadelphia and is now hoping to raise $500,000. The TechCrunch50 launch will help with that - and so will the fact that the company, which takes 10% of all ticket sales, also started making money on its first day, which was Monday, co-founder Jack Groetzinger said. read more
Ticket News: New Web site SeatGeek aims to predict ticket prices -- 9/17/09
SeatGeek, a new Web site that launched this week during the TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco, is aiming to take the guess work out of when event tickets will reach a bargain price. read more
CNET News: Best of show: Our top five from TechCrunch50 -- 9/16/09
Trying to weed through the 50 companies that launched over the past two days is overwhelming for you, and us. As done in years past, we've picked five of our favorites from TechCrunch50. These are all consumer-oriented services that bring innovative ideas to the table and have a good chance at succeeding. read more
New Jersey Business News: In an ocean of internet startups, these nine stand out -- 9/10/09
In particular, a group of companies, including DreamIt Ventures, LaunchBox Digital, Shotput Ventures, TechStars and Y Combinator, have gained attention among entrepreneurs, especially young ones, for offering a minimal amount of money -- less than $20,000, in many cases -- to help budding Mark Zuckerbergs turn their ideas into businesses. read more
Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly.com: DreamIt Ventures' latest graduates keep on bootstrapping -- 8/14/09
Something amazing happened yesterday. The young entrepreneurs behind 10 technology start-ups gave presentations to a room full of people and none of them asked for money. read more
TechCrunch: DreamIt Releases Ten Startups Into The Wild -- 8/14/09
Philadelphia based DreamIt Ventures, a pre-seed stage venture firm and incubator founded in 2007 by David Bookspan, Michael Levinson, and Steve Welch, has just announced the most recent batch of startups to complete its second annual 12 week program. read more
Philadelphia Business Journal: Entrepreneurial Boot Camp -- 8/14/09
Thursday was Demo Day at DreamIt Ventures. That’s when the companies that go through DreamIt’s entrepreneurial boot camp make presentations about their businesses to potential funders. read more
Philadelphia Business Journal: At bootcamp, fledgling firms hope dreams become reality -- 8/14/09
Becki Heller is standing in front of a screen in a darkened room at the University City Science Center explaining how marketers can use the influential teenagers tracked by her company’s Web site, trendsta.com, to spread the word about their clients’ products.read more
Technically Philly: DreamIt Ventures Demo Day 2009: Our Awards -- 8/14/09
Demo Day marked the end of the second session of DreamIT Ventures, with the box score showing growth: one company sold, several pledging to retain ties to Philadelphia and six already moving on user acquisition.read more
ReadWriteWeb: Philly's Freshest: DreamIt Ventures Graduates Class of Ten Startups -- 8/13/09
Philadelphia-based early-stage investment outfit DreamIt Ventures is in the business of finding, funding, and accelerating great startups. read more
TechCrunch: SCVNGR Lets You Build Awesome Scavenger Hunts For Any Mobile Phone -- 8/13/09
For many people, the term “Scavenger Hunt” conjures childhood memories of running around the neighborhood on a quest for knickknacks like thimbles and socks — an experience that loses its luster beyond the age of ten or so.read more
NPR's Marketplace: Start-ups prepare to make the pitch -- 8/12/09
A handful of venture capitalists will descend on a Philadelphia business incubator tomorrow, where fledgling entrepreneurs spent the summer honing their business plans. Now comes the moment of truth. read more
Mass High Tech: SCVNGR finds its way to first VC funding -- 8/11/09
Scvngr Inc. has landed funding from Highland Capital Partners, according to its CEO, Seth Priebatsch. Highland invested about $825,000 in the mobile phone-based scavenger hunt company, according to a federal document filed in December. read more
Startup School: The Xconomy Guide to Venture Incubators, 2009 Edition -- 7/22/09
SCVNGR, a Boston-based startup developing mobile software that lets organizations build customized scavenger-hunt events, got its start in a Philadelphia startup school called DreamIt Ventures, founded by Philadelphia entrepreneurs David Bookspan, Michael Levinson, and Steve Welch. read more
SCVNGR wins 2009 PwC Promise Award:MITX Technology Awards
Seth Priebatsch is the brainchild behind SCVNGR a DreamIt 08 company. "SCVNGR makes a game engine that enables anyone to quickly develop sophisticated location based mobile games, tours and interactive experiences. And they are playable for free from any phone on the market. Their judges felt this application holds significant promise because the remote location ability could be applied to many more activities." read more
Entrepreneurs sweat for success: Featured in keystoneedge, 5/21/2009
DreamIt Ventures doesn't refer to its entrepreneurs training program as a boot camp because it's particularly intense or physically taxing. But the boot camp, which began last week, at the early-stage investor's home inside the University City Science Center in Philadelphia, does benefit from a communal atmosphere. read more
FundingPost early-stage VC video highlights: The Deal.com, 5/15/09
Entrepreneurs are being a lot more clever in how they can kill off assumptions and risks without having to raise one $1 million," said DreamIt Ventures' Steve Barsh... Read More.
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