The Tap Lab

http://thetaplab.com/

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Creators of WWE Tap Mania, PolitiCats, BMO Snaps, Bigfoot Hunter, and Tiny Tycoons, The Tap Lab is a mobile gaming company based in Cambridge, MA. Our company mission is to create the future of fun.

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Location

United States

Total raised

$550K

Investors 3

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	MassChallenge	masschallenge.org
	Social Starts	socialstarts.com

Funding Rounds 1

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Sep 10, 2014	Meet the 7 finalists for the GamesBeat 2014 Who’s Got Game Innovation Showdown	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. We received dozens of quality startup applicants to the GamesBeat 2014 Who’s Got Game Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of Ven...
Sep 8, 2014	Dudley Square's High-Tech Accelerator Wins a $50K Grant to Help Cover Operating Costs	Dudley Square-based high-tech accelerator Smarter in the City has been named one of the 50 accelerators to receive a $50,000 cash prize from the U.S. Small Business Administration. More than 800 applications poured in for the SBA's Growth A...
Nov 12, 2013	Want to land a spot in that startup accelerator? Heed these 5 smart tips from fellow founders	Sure, there are tons of startup accelerators and incubators. But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to get into. Some have acceptance rates on par with Ivy League schools! You know that having a solid team and some kind of business plan is impo...
Apr 21, 2013	How Boston’s Startups Band Together For Marathon Victims	If there is one thing we learned this week, it is that when Boston faces adversity, it comes together as a community like nowhere else in the world. A group of Boston startups is holding an event this Sunday with all proceeds going to the O...
Apr 3, 2013	PennApps projects make Inc.’s Coolest College Startups list [Startup Roundup]	Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along...
Mar 21, 2013	With Tiny Tycoons, The Tap Lab Leads New Charge of Boston Game Studios	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints [Updated with game trailer, 2:05 pm] That sound you hear is a dozen or more independent studios churning out new games around town. The games are mostly for the mobile-social ...
Feb 28, 2013	Agenda for Mobile Madness on March 19: Athenahealth, Timbre, Twitter, Verizon…	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints We are coming down the home stretch towards Mobile Madness 2013. It’s March tomorrow (eek…I mean, yay). Luckily the program is all set. We are going from 1:30-5:30 pm, March 1...
Feb 11, 2013	Albright, Paradise, Bolt, MC10, Verizon Join Mobile Madness on March 19	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Llllllllet’s get ready to rummmmm-ble… For those of you interested in mobile technology and business—which means pretty much all of you—we have some notable additions to the s...
Jan 9, 2013	How Long Does It Take To Build A Native Mobile App? [Infographic]	The last several years have seen an explosion in mobile applications. By the end of 2013, both Android’s Google Play and the Apple iOS App Store will be hosting a million apps – and we have only seen minor signs of slowing growth. Where the...
Nov 28, 2012	Trickle Down Mobile Economy Is A Big Holiday Opportunity For App Developers	In many ways, the mobile industry is a trickle down economy. The market is set at the top by the operating system creators: Apple, Google, Microsoft and Research In Motion. Smartphones and tablets are then made from those operating systems ...
Oct 23, 2012	As Zynga Boston Closes, Gaming Community Speaks Volumes	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Social-gaming giant Zynga has laid off over 100 employees and has closed its Boston-area office, according to a report in TechCrunch and numerous tweets around town. The compa...
Sep 17, 2012	Keen On… Don Dodge: Why Indoor Location Is The Next Big Thing [TCTV]	Don Dodge is well known to longtime TechCrunch readers. Dodge was the guy who Mike Arrington turned into a bit of a martyr after he got unceremoniously fired by Microsoft back in November 2009. Indeed, as Dodge told me last week backstage a...
Jul 9, 2012	Get Your Startup Into a Top Accelerator: 4 Insider Tips	The top startup accelerators in the world – programs like TechStars and Y Combinator – receive a couple thousand applications for just a handful of spots each session. It’s harder to get into one than Harvard or Stanford. So how do you do i...
Apr 3, 2012	The Tap Lab Raises $550K To Seed Some Hits in Location-Based Mobile Gaming	While there have been a few sizable funding rounds for location-based mobile games, the field is still wide open. Today it gets a new contender with The Tap Lab, a Cambridge-based startup and alum of the TechStars incubator, that lets playe...
Apr 3, 2012	The Tap Lab, Backed by Harmonix Trio, Pushes Mobile Gaming Into Real World	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints You can’t box in Dave Bisceglia. Just when you think you know what location-based games are, or what mobile check-ins are, he goes and tries to upend the whole sector. Biscegl...
Apr 3, 2012	The Tap Lab raises $550K to fund location-based mobile games	The Tap Lab has raised $550,000 to finance mobile games that are layered on top of real-world locations. The idea is to create experiences that “extend beyond the edge of our screens and into reality.” Investors include the founding team of...
Apr 3, 2012	The Tap Lab raises $550K to fund location-based mobile games	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. The Tap Lab has raised $550,000 to finance mobile games that are layered on top of real-world locations. The idea is to create experien...
Jan 13, 2012	Five Companies Making Noise: ByteLight, HeyWire, Rapid7, Tap Lab, & Vivox	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Heading into the holiday weekend, I thought I’d pull out a few highlights from recent discussions I’ve had with some Boston-area tech companies that are generating buzz. None ...
Jun 15, 2011	Investors Flock To Boston To See TechStars’ 12 Cool New Startups (Here’s A Peek)	Today, seed fund and accelerator, TechStars, put on its “Demo Day” in Boston to debut 12 new companies to the world. Investors came in from far and wide to vet these young startups and to potentially take out their checkbooks. TechStars est...
	Want to land a spot in that startup accelerator? Heed these 5 smart tips from fellow founders	Sure, there are tons of startup accelerators and incubators. But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to get into. Some have acceptance rates on par with Ivy League schools! You know that having a solid team and some kind of business plan is impo...

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FAQ about The Tap Lab

How much funding has The Tap Lab raised?

The Tap Lab has raised $550K in total across 1 funding round.

Who has invested in The Tap Lab?

Parsers VC lists 3 investors of The Tap Lab, among them MassChallenge and Social Starts.

What has the press written about The Tap Lab?

Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning The Tap Lab, among them “Meet the 7 finalists for the GamesBeat 2014 Who’s Got Game Innovation Showdown” (Sep 10, 2014) and “Dudley Square's High-Tech Accelerator Wins a $50K Grant to Help Cover Operating Costs” (Sep 8, 2014).

Is The Tap Lab still active?

Yes, The Tap Lab is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 18, 2019.