LaunchBox Digital

LaunchBox Digital is a venture capital firm and incubator based in Durham, North Carolina, specializing in angel, seed, and early-stage investments. Founded in 2007, the firm focuses on technology-oriented companies, particularly those involved in web-based applications, digital media, business intelligence, and mobile solutions. It typically invests between $15,000 and $250,000 in each company and seeks an equity stake ranging from four to six percent. LaunchBox Digital also conducts an annual accelerator program that offers selected startups funding and a 12-week business development curriculum, enabling them to refine their concepts with the guidance of experienced mentors. The firm primarily targets investments in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions of the United States, emphasizing disruptive technology solutions that address significant challenges for small to medium-sized businesses, enterprises, or government entities.

18 past transactions

Spring Engage delivers a solution to hotel marketing professionals, allowing them to build and grow relationships with travelers online.

Slipstream

Seed Round in 2010
Slipstream is fixing information overload on Twitter. Everyone you follow on Twitter talks about a few things that you care about and a ton that you don't. You don't want to miss out but don't have time to read everything. Slipstream helps you hide what you don't care about so you can read what's relevant. It works seamlessly on top of Twitter.com via a simple button at the end of every tweet: "Hide".

CityPockets

Seed Round in 2010
CityPockets is a digital wallet for daily deals. Users enter their login credentials to a number of different group-buying/daily deal sites (Groupon, LivingSocial, BuyWithMe, Restaurant.com and many more) and their system automatically populate their account with all of their vouchers on a single dashboard. CityPockets send custom email reminders before a voucher expire, and have iPhone & Android app for mobile redemption. In April 2011, CityPockets launched a secondary marketplace for deals so that people can buy & sell past deals, which is a $1-2B market. With the acquisition of DealBurner in August 2011, CityPockets is poised to have the largest inventory of deals past, present and instant. It signals a focus on mobile and location-based deal alerts, and is slowly becoming a full-service provider for its users to buy, manage and sell deals all on a single platform.

Social Collective

Seed Round in 2009
The Social Collective provides a hosted service that gives conference organizers their own mini-[Facebook](/organization/facebook) and [Twitter](/organization/twitter). The software provides a fun and interactive means for conference attendees to meet and network with one another in a safe and secure environment before, during and after any conference or event. It improves attendees’ conference experiences and gives conference organizers more happy and loyal customers. The white-label product/service offering includes branding of the conference social network, integration with existing registration and e-commerce systems, data migration, site archival and Twitter, [Flickr](/organization/flickr) and Facebook integration.

TapMetrics

Seed Round in 2009
TapMetrics is a tool designed by a team of iPhone application developers that brings together sales data, user feedback, software metrics, and other information into a consolidated dashboard to allow developers to manage a portfolio of applications quickly and easily. The whole experience starts with a dashboard that lets you view important information about how your application portfolio is performing, and then lets you drill into each application to investigate any issue that is highlighted. The nice part of the TapMetrics solution is that while it does a great job on the business metrics of running an iPhone application, it does just as good of a job serving the needs of the engineer. Everything from detailed environmental data (which iPhone/Touch hardware is being used, which OS level, which release level of the application), to detailed crash reporting, to application messaging/event logs, and session tracking are supported within the integrated TapMetrics experience. They also have a free Mac OS X app called TapMini that you can use to automatically download sales data for your iPhone applications. If you are trying to get more out of your iPhone application portfolio (both in terms of improving the consumer experience and making more revenue), this can be a really useful tool.

Unblab

Seed Round in 2009
Unblab creates Artificial Intelligence to solve big problems. Today we’re solving Email Overload by helping Gmail users quickly find their most important emails. Unblab is an angel-funded company located in Research Triangle, NC. Unblab’s first product is Gtriage, an email overload solution for your Gmail or Google Apps inbox. Gtriage is a fast, easy way to manage Email Overload. It automatically learns which emails are important to you and then simply labels them "Important!". Gtriage gives you all the benefits of organized email - without any of the work.

KeepFu

Seed Round in 2009
KeepFu is a note-taking and organization tool to help manage consumer-defined “projects“ like trip planning, event planning, and important purchases. KeepFu collects data through one-click and passive data collection while a user reads an email, visits a website, IMs with a friend, or send a Tweet. It then supports a quick drag and drop experience to organize these information snippets into community-created project templates (predefined file folders specific to an activity, like planning a trip). These projects are then easily published or shared. The goal is to allow information capture without forcing a user to change context and leave the experience they are engaged with, and then support automated and manual classification and organization of the information when it is appropriate, a bit like the weekly photo tagging activity of Facebook users.

SEC Watch

Seed Round in 2009
SEC Watch is site that helps users navigate the SEC website and fillings, making these filings a more useful research document. SEC Watch brings new search technology, combined with user annotation and sharing capabilities to the problem, and has crafted a product that both retail and professional investors and analysts can use. It is easy to track companies and keywords (e.g., “subprime”,”litigation”, etc.), and get automated results in near real-time when filings are done that match your criteria. You can then dive down to the relevant sections, and annotate a given filing for your own personal use, your team’s use, or to share with the public.

Legal River

Seed Round in 2009
Legal River is an online marketplace dedicated to helping lawyers and businesses connect. LegalRiver.com is an online platform where small and mid-sized businesses can solicit, compare, review, and contact lawyers. Legal River is a free service for businesses.

Keen Guides

Seed Round in 2009
Keen creates downloadable tours in different languages and several accessibility modalities (such as closed captioning, sign language and cued speech). Visitors can download tours onto their personal media player or use a pre-loaded personal media players at participating cultural venues. Keen Guides offers a simple solution to making your museum or other cultural venue more accessible. Keenâ€:tm:s tours donâ€:tm:t require special equipment or cumbersome hardware arrangements.

Heekya

Seed Round in 2008
Heekya is a social storytelling platform that allows consumers to integrate images, video, sounds, and words to create interactive stories that can be shared with family, friends, and the world. Their mission is to be the is [Wikipedia](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wikipedia) for digital media stories.

AppTap

Seed Round in 2008
AppTap (formerly mpowerplayer) is the leading app discovery and advertising network - combining contextual and behavioral targeting to deliver the right app, to the right user, at the right time - and at scale. App developers partner with AppTap to distribute their apps to their target audience at scale. Mobile publishers and carriers use AppTap to monetize their inventory and engage their users.

Razume

Seed Round in 2008
Razume operates a website that provides jobseekers with online guidance on the job search process. The website allows jobseekers to upload and prepare resumes; provides feedback on resumes based on their current experiences and career goals through its community members; and allows them to search for job postings. Razume was founded in 2008 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

PlayHaven

Seed Round in 2008
PlayHaven is the business engine for mobile games offering developers flexible tools to intelligently manage player acquisition, engagement, and monetization. PlayHaven is the only end-to-end solution that helps developers manage users at every valuable point in their lifecycle. PlayHaven’s platform spans 20,000+ games, 800+ million unique users, 176+ million monthly active users, and more than 14 billion in-game events each month. Game developers including Cartoon Network, Glu Mobile, Game Circus, Namco Bandai, NaturalMotion, Nickelodeon, and SEGA leverage PlayHaven’s tools to manage the business of their games. Visit www.playhaven.com for more information. Follow PlayHaven on Facebook and Twitter.

ShareMeme

Seed Round in 2008
With ShareMeme, users can send invites, polls, and links quickly and easily from a text message or the web through email, text message, IM, or Twitter. ShareMeme organizes and facilitates communication with friends by consolidating all communication and directing priority communications to a single preferred inbox.

Zadby

Seed Round in 2008
Zadby is an online marketplace where advertisers, marketers, and brand managers can connect with freelance video producers to create innovative product placement videos tailored for sites like YouTube, AOL, and MySpace.

JamLegend

Seed Round in 2008
JamLegend is an online music game, that competes with Rock Band and Guitar Hero. It's free, can be played remotely using a game guitar, keyboard or laptop. It also is built to allow artists to upload their work directly to the JamLegend community. JamLegend allows for head-to-head challenges and simulcast tournaments. But sadly JamLegend has shut down now.

Koofers

Seed Round in 2008
Koofers is a consumer internet platform that helps college students succeed by providing free access to practice exams, professor ratings, and flashcards. Koofers Campus Recruiter is an enterprise solution that allows employers and recruiting firms to easily find and connect with over 1,000,000 college students looking for internships and full-time job opportunities.
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