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Location: United States, New York
Total raised: $1.2M
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Outbound V... | outboundve... |
| - | Supernode ... | supernode.... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 08.09.2015 | Seed | $1.2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.11.2022 | Collateral Damage: FTX Written Down to Zero, Needs $8 Billion to Fill Funding Gap, Meanwhile Sam Bankman-Fried Apologizes for Spectacular Debacle | Some observers believe that the potential collapse of FTX will be the death knell of crypto markets. The lack of regulation, a failure of management, and the destruction of investor trust have impacted the entire crypto industry. FTX CEO Sa... |
| 09.08.2016 | Stock photo and video marketplace Pond5 brings on a new CEO, ex-Web.com COO Jason Teichman | Pond5– a marketplace for stock photography, videos and other digital content– has appointed a new CEO and board director, former Web.com COO Jason Teichman, the company announced today. Pond5 founder Tom Bennett was not immediately availabl... |
| 09.03.2016 | Fresco News teams with FOX to bring citizen journalism to local newsrooms around the U.S. | Crowdsourced journalism startup Fresco News has just scored a notable partnership which will bring photo and video footage shot by ordinary citizens to several local Fox newsrooms around the U.S. Using the company’s iPhone app, participatin... |
| 02.10.2015 | IDrive launches a corporate venture arm, IDrive Ventures, with an initial $10M fund | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Online backup storage provider IDrive is launchin... |
| 02.10.2015 | IDrive launches a corporate venture arm, IDrive Ventures, with an initial $10M fund | Online backup storage provider IDrive is launching a new corporate venture arm, IDrive Ventures, and has started to make investments in startups out of a $10 million fund. The main person in the effort is IDrive’s founder and chief executiv... |
| 09.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 9, 2015 | Didi Kuaidi scored $1B; Chef bagged $40M; Primus Power raised $25M The battle for supremacy among e-hailing services in China is heating up, and fast. In the same week that Uber revealed that it has raised an additional $1.2 billion to expa... |
| 08.09.2015 | Fresco News Raises $1.2M For Crowdsourced Journalism | Fresco News has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. I first wrote about the startup back in June, when founder and CEO John Meyer (pictured above) explained that the company was working an app where users could both browse breaking news co... |
| 08.09.2015 | Fresco News Closes $1.2M Seed Funding | Fresco News, a New York-based citizen journalist site, raised $1.2m in seed funding. Backers included Reese Schonfeld (co-founder of CNN), Laurel Touby (founder of Media Bistro), Ross Levinsohn (ex-Yahoo of CEO), Jonathan Miller (former exe... |
| 05.06.2015 | Fresco News Aims To Build A Crowdsourced Network For Breaking News | If you’ve ever wanted to contribute photos or videos to your local newscast, you might get your chance soon, thanks to a new startup called Fresco News. There have been lots of other experiments in crowdsourced journalism, but CEO John Meye... |
| 05.06.2015 | Get Paid to Go to the Scene of News With Fresco Dispatch | Team shot of the growing Fresco News team. (Photo: Brandon Olsen / Fresco News) Fresco News wants to turn iPhone users on the street into photojournalists. The idea is this: if Fresco had enough users out in the world, news outlets would ne... |
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