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Spling makes sharing and discovering cool and relevant links as easy as possible. We allow users to share any link with anyone, at the single click of a button, while creating a repository where they can store and index their favorite links. Users can share with friends, groups, or the community at large. Simultaneously, our users are able to explore and consume Internet content filtered through their friends, families, and communities—the people they trust and care about—thus ensuring a guaranteed quality of content. Spling's team of 8 is backed by top VCs and angels.

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News & Updates

Mar
06
Spling founder Billy McFarland: our investors are in New York City [Exit Interview]
News & Updates / Portfolio / Spling — No comments

by Christopher Wink

New York City was always the plan for content-sharing site Spling, says founder and CEO Billy McFarland.

Spending last fall at DreamIt Ventures was an important step that helped McFarland fundraise, launch a private beta and hire a handful of team members, he said, but the incubation still amounted as more a detour than a destination.

On April 1, the Spling team plans to be officially based in Manhattan, McFarland, 20, specified to Technically Philly after announcing generally this month. He was among those DreamIt Philly alumni who took a road trip to NYC last week.

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Mar
01
DreamIt Ventures Philly 2012 Showcase brings seven startups to NYC
Cloudmine / Dreamit News / ElectNext / Grassroots Unwired / Kwelia / Spling — No comments

By Yael Borofsky

Seven Philadelphia-based startups traveled to the Big Apple yesterday to pitch a cast of New York investors at the Philly 2012 Showcase in New York hosted by DreamIt Ventures.

The companies — CloudMine, ElectNext, SnipSnap, Grassroots Unwired,Metalayer, Kwelia, and Spling — all participated in DreamIt Ventures’ Fall 2011 Philadelphia program and presented at Demo Day in December 2011. DreamIt hosted the showcase because a number of investors expressed interested in the December Demo Day, but were unable to attend, Kerry Rupp told Technically Philly.

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