In The News
Bo Peabody, Village Ventures’ Co-founder and Managing General Partner contributed this piece to the Huffington Post.
Matt Harris, Co-founder and Managing General Partner of Village Ventures, is featured in this piece.
Simple (f.k.a. BankSimple) was featured in Forbes round up of new financial services and applications that will make financial management the easiest thing you do this year.
Mobile search and advertising company Call Genie has acquired VoodooVox, which was funded by Village Ventures, Softbank Capital, Apax Partners, Steamboat Ventures and Berkshire Capital Investors.
Disney, which has been busy reorganizing its interactive group, is buying Babble Media, a New York-based parenting platform that features several hundred mom bloggers.
BankSimple, the well-funded startup that’s setting out to build ‘a bank that doesn’t suck’, has some big news today: it’s now allowing its first users into the service. And to mark the occasion, it’s announcing another major change: the company is now just called Simple (and yes, they own Simple.com).
Forbes contributor, Dan Woods sat down with Mike Driscoll, CTO of Metamarkets, to develop a checklist for evaluating new solutions and their fit criteria against the challenges of big data.
Business Insider published a list of “21 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read” and Bo Peabody’s Lucky or Smart? made the list.
BankSimple and On Deck Capital are both featured in this article about how the unique ways startups are using technology to transform the way financial services are delivered and to solve problems that traditional institutions have yet to successfully address.
At this month’s NY Tech Meetup, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the formation of the Mayor’s Council on Technology and Innovation. Mitch Jacobs, CEO and founder of On Deck Capital; was among those appointed to the committee.
BankSimple says it is finally going live and expects its first customers to begin receiving their debit cards by early November.
BankSimple, a yet-to-be-launched personal banking platform, plans to hire 40 new employees over the next year after raising $10 million in a funding round led by existing investor IA Ventures. Founded in 2009, the Portland, Ore.-based company currently has 18 employees.
Microsoft, Facebook, Fedex and Apple. These are some of the most successful businesses in the country and they have another thing in common -they were all started by college student entrepreneurs. Village Ventures’ Bo Peabody was included in this round up of the “10 Most Successful College Entrepreneurs.”
Spirus Medical Inc., a West Bridgewater start-up that is developing a spiral endoscope to improve tests for gastrointestinal disorders, has been acquired by a Japanese buyer.
It’s not uncommon for start-ups to change course, but HealthGuru Media Inc. has a quirkier history than most, evolving from the William Shatner Sci-Fi DVD Club to a health-focused online video portal.
IA Ventures’ Roger Ehrenberg is quoted in this piece about the Internet gold rush spreading east.
Focus groups haven’t changed all that much from the days portrayed in “Mad Men,” until now.
By studying customers and rethinking the user interface, BankSimple finds ways to make online banking more enjoyable.
