Startups

Edit

Punchd

http://getpunchd.com/

Last activity: 14.12.2012

Active

Categories: CRM

Mentions

18

Overview

Employees

11-50

Founded date

2010

Investors 1

Date	Name	Website
Sign up to see	Sign up to see	Sign up to see

Mentions in press and media 18

Date	Title	Description
Sign up to see	Sign up to see	Sign up to see
Apr 27, 2012	Barely 3 Months Post-Launch, Loyalty App Punchcard Is Live In 15M Locations, Nears Profitability	The mobile apps from stealthy loyalty startup Punchcard have only been on the market since February, but the company is now reporting it’s close to being cash-flow positive. Like a digital version of paper punchcards which reward repeat cus...
Aug 16, 2011	500 Startups Demo Day: McClure’s Second Batch Of Startups, Unleashed	We’re in Mountain View at Dave McClure’s 500 Startups HQ where the second-ever 500 Startups Demo Day is about to start. Today, 31 startups will present to press and investors here in McClure’s bright and sunny Mountain View office and you c...
Jul 15, 2011	TopGuest Apex Gives You Loyalty Program Points for Check-ins at Local Merchants	Groupon drives disloyalty, says Geoff Lewis, CEO of TopGuest. “Deep discounting is not a sustainable customer retention strategy for the long term,” he explains. With his company’s new program TopGuest Apex, the goal is to do the opposite o...
Jul 13, 2011	Eric Schmidt On Google's Acquisition Strategy	Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt sat down and talked to reporters at the Sun Valley conference in Idaho last week, dropping all sorts of science about Google +, Google China and whether or not we are in a tech bubble, among other thin...
Jul 12, 2011	Google’s Punchd acquisition to push mobile wallet uptake	On first glance, Google’s acquisition of Punchd (a mobile phone-based loyalty service), a company barely a year and a half old, with little revenue and less than $150K in funding for $10M (reported widely) seems crazy. Initial speculation w...
Jul 12, 2011	Google’s Punchd acquisition to push mobile wallet uptake	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. On first glance, Google’s acquisition of Punchd (a mobile phone-based loyalty service), a company barely a year and a half old, with li...
Jul 11, 2011	Google Confirms That It Has Acquired Digital Loyalty Startup Punchd	Last Friday our own Alexia Tsotsis broke the news that digital loyalty card startup Punchd was being acquired by Google. The company is still very young but it’s a move that makes sense — Punchd’s service, which lets customers accrue digita...
Jul 10, 2011	Google gets Punchd	Google Inc. has one more thing for consumers to slip into their Google Wallets: loyalty punch cards (e.g., "Buy 10 lattes get your next latte free!"). Punchd, a startup that makes a mobile version of those loyalty programs, announ...
Jul 8, 2011	Google To Buy Mobile Loyalty Card Startup Punchd	We’ve just gotten word that that Google plans on acquiring digital loyalty card service Punchd. The team, which consists of developers Reed Morse, Xander Pollock and Niket Desai (and formerly Grantland Chew), will most likely still be worki...
Apr 8, 2011	CrowdRally, Punchd And Rewardli Raise A Combined $150K At 500 Startups Demo Day	It was a pretty exciting at 500 Startups Demo Day part deux today, namely because the accelerator had two sessions — one at 10am and a later one at 5pm, both drawing in a lot of startup mentor and investor attendance. For those of you have ...
Apr 8, 2011	The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day (TCTV)	500 Startups first Demo Day sprint is over and people are trickling out their rankings lists of the 23 startups, or “little monsters” as co-founder Dave McClure calls them. McClure, with a background in marketing, has a unique curator’s eye...
Apr 7, 2011	Two Days in Silicon Valley: An inside look at 23 startups from Dave McClure’s Demo Days	I’ve been thinking a lot about passion lately — passion for ideas, teams, the shared pursuit of common goals. More and more, I believe passion is the critical differentiator between really good, and great, teams. And, at the end of the day,...
Apr 6, 2011	The coolest companies from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups	Twelve companies fostered by the hybrid incubator-seed fund 500 Startups presented their products today in Mountain View, Calif. 500 Startups was founded by “super angel” Dave McClure, who previously ran the fBFund incubator for Facebook st...
Apr 6, 2011	22 startups debut at 500 Startups Demo Day	Startups for students to startups for moms, social to commerce to visual to mobile: it's all here Today and tomorrow, 500 Startups is hosting its spring demo days, where all eyes are on 22 just-now-launching or soon-to-be-launching startups...
Feb 10, 2011	500 Startups Announces First Class Of New Incubator Program	Six months ago 500 Startups, the angel fund headed by Dave McClure, started investing in dozens of startups — they’re now up to around 90 investments. And today the fund is announcing an incubator program similar in many ways to Y Combinato...
Feb 10, 2011	Dave McClure’s 500 Startups opens an incubator	Updated with the complete list of companies 500 Startups, the early-stage firm founded by iconoclastic investor Dave McClure, is getting into the startup incubation business with its new 500 Startups Accelerator. Incubators, where young com...
Feb 10, 2011	488 To Go? Dave McClure’s 500 Startups Unveils New Incubator with 12 Startups	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints 500 Startups, the early stage investment fund founded by PayPal alum and startup guru Dave McClure, today took the wraps off its long-rumored Mountain View, CA-based startup a...

Show more

Reviews 0

Sign up to leave a review

Sign up Log In

FAQ about Punchd

When was Punchd founded?

Punchd was founded in 2010.

What has the press written about Punchd?

Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Punchd, among them “Barely 3 Months Post-Launch, Loyalty App Punchcard Is Live In 15M Locations, Nears Profitability” (Apr 27, 2012) and “500 Startups Demo Day: McClure’s Second Batch Of Startups, Unleashed” (Aug 16, 2011).

Is Punchd still active?

Yes, Punchd is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 14, 2012.