Startups
Blade provides seed capital and active mentorship as “cofounders” to a few startups a year. All Blade startups are companies which are “swinging for the fences” – companies which we can imagine could have more users or more brand awareness than where the Blade cofounders spent our previous ten years – KAYAK.
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| Sep 17, 2015 | Boston Tech Roundup: Flywire, DraftKings, Blade, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints [Updated 9/17/15, 3:44 p.m. See below.] There has been a flurry of funding, acquisitions, hiring and firing, and other movement in the Boston-area startup scene over the past ... |
| Feb 24, 2015 | College-Only Social App Wigo Adds $1.5M | Boston's Wigo — the smartphone app helping college students answer "Who's going out tonight?" — said Tuesday it has raised an additional $1.5 million in funding, bringing the company to $2.05 million overall. Wigo, based out of Pa... |
| Nov 17, 2014 | Tinder Co-Founders Fuel Extension of WiGo's Seed Round | (WiGo Co-founders Giuliano Giacaglia and Ben Kaplan) Boston's WiGo — the smartphone app helping college students answer "Who's going out tonight?" — announced Monday an undisclosed extension of its seed round, coming courtesy of T... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Where are my friends going? That's the question on WiGo's mind | It’s Friday night, I just got out of my classes … what am I doing tonight? That’s the use case College of the Holy Cross student Ben Kaplan chose to solve with his new, free app WiGo (wee-go), which stands for “Who is going out?” WiGo has a... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Where are my friends going? That's the question on WiGo's mind | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. It’s Friday night, I just got out of my classes … what am I doing tonight? That’s the use case College of the Holy Cross student Ben Ka... |
| Aug 19, 2014 | Kayak co-founder launches Classy app for students with stuff to sell to other students | Students now have another way to sell that textbook they hated to someone else. It’s an app called Classy, a peer-to-peer marketplace for students being launched by a startup of the same name. An iOS app is now available, and an Android ver... |
| Jul 7, 2014 | Robin, A Company Enabling Sensor-Powered Smart Offices, Raises $1.4 Million | Imagine walking into a room, having it recognize you, then customize itself to your particular preferences. That’s not the future — it’s happening now thanks to an up-and-coming startup called Robin, which provides a “software layer for off... |
| May 19, 2014 | Will Paul English’s Blade Boost Consumer Tech in Boston? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Be careful how you e-mail Paul English. Or talk to him, for that matter. That’s one message I got from the Kayak co-founder when I met him at Blade, his new venture-creation o... |
| May 17, 2014 | Kayak cofounder gets $20M to put Boston on the consumer tech map | Unlike Silicon Valley and New York City, Boston has long focused on health-tech and biotech companies, without much consumer technology presence. But a new design and consumer-tech incubator is hoping to change that. Former chief technology... |
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FAQ about Blade
What has the press written about Blade?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning Blade, among them “Boston Tech Roundup: Flywire, DraftKings, Blade, & More” (Sep 17, 2015) and “College-Only Social App Wigo Adds $1.5M” (Feb 24, 2015).
Is Blade still active?
Yes, Blade is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 18, 2021.