Blurtopia
Blurtopia is the real-time opinion network on the things you care about. A demo can be seen at: http://vimeo.com/67759905
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location San Diego, CA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded January 2012
- Employees 4
- Website blurtopia.com
Company Summary
Winner "SDVG PitchFest" & "SharkTank". Since launch in October, 2012, the company's iOS app and website have enjoyed huge engagement. In just the first few months alone, nearly 1 million "Blurts" (photograph + question or statement) were answered and nearly 250,000 Blurts are currently being answered per week. Blurtopia is now working on creating widgets to enable other sites/apps to increase engagement and drive revenue through native ads.
Team
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Ryan BettencourtCo-Founder/Chairman
President of Zui: Raised Nearly $20M in VC funding, acquired in late 2012
Co-Founder of CellarThief: Bootstrapped Social Commerce site, Internet Retailer Hot 100, acquired by Invino
President/CEO of digital-telepathy/REBEL: Grew business into one of fastest growing in SoCal, helped lead it to becoming one of most recognized firms in space
Director, Pacific, Grew CPG from $16M to $30M in 30 months
MBA, Magna Cum Laude, Babson, Full Sch
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Keiran FlaniganCo-Founder/CXO
Lead Developer at Rage Digital: Created Apps for large brands and high-growth start-ups
Founder/Owner of Aeliox: Independent designer and developer of websites and mobile apps for large companies and start-ups.
Has created apps for the likes of Hyundai, Pepsi, 24-Hour Fitness and more.
BA, U of Colorado at Boulder
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Grant BostromCo-Founder/Head of Product & Marketing
Director of Business Development, Zui
Consultant in Design and Strategy to multiple start-ups and large organizations.
Has consulted and/or been designer for the likes of The Glue Network, National Combine Series, Surfrider Foundation, WhyDateMe?, CellarThief, and many more.
BA UCLA, MA U of Texas Austin, MBA San Diego State
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Will Von ReisAdvising CTO
Over fifteen years leading technology efforts for start-ups.
CTO of Zui (Acquired)
Head of engineering or senior engineer at Infogate (acquired by AOL), Gryphon Software (acquired by CUC Software), Linspire (acquired by Xandros).
Full-stack developer, specializing in Ruby on Rails.
CS Degree, UC San Diego.
Advisors
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Charles Bair, Cooley (San Diego)LawyerUnconfirmedDavid Diamond, Mayer Hoffman McCann (San Diego)AccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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No Outside Funding To DateUnconfirmed
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