Summer is a great time to check in and catch up with the Astia Cohort.
Releases & Launches
Marbles the Brain Store opened in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Newport Beach, Canoga Park (Los Angeles), Annapolis, Maryland and more!
Radish now allows both smart mobile device users and contact center agents (or PC users) to simultaneously see, hear and send voice and photos/videos via any network thanks to their recently released ChoiceView 2.0 software. See the full announcement here>>
Fundings
Pathbrite closed a $2.5m Series A funding round in June to continue product development and user acquisition.
MiniMonos closed EUR 1 million in April to complete its UK expansion.
HarQen closed $4.3m in their third round of fundraising, and is preparing to lauch a rich multi-media meeting product called Symposia.
Avaxia Biologics, Inc. Closes $4.1 Million Series A Financing to Advance Oral Antibodies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
PROFUSA has recently secured grants and seed investment. PROFUSA is revolutionizing continuous monitoring of body chemistries through highly miniaturized, long-lasting, accurate, tissue-integrating biosensors.
Awards
Improve Digital was selected as a Top 100 European company by Red Herring, a designation awarded to the top private companies in Europe and CEO & Co-Founder, Janneke Niessen, named 2012 online media woman of the year, Netherlands.
Ajaita Shaw of Frontier Markets was the recipient of a 2012 Echoing Green Fellowship, a selective program that provides seed funding to social entrepreneurs.
Melissa Rich, CEO & Founder of InterSchola was named one of BusinessWeek's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs for 2012.
Autitouch nominated for Microsoft BizSpark Startup 2012 award and is in the top 15 out of 7000 European startups.
In The News
LearnVest Founder & CEO, Alexa von Tobel interviewed for Mashable's The Female Founders Series presented by American Express OPEN.
Hilary Decesare co-founder & CEO of Everloop.com, the leading safe social media site for kids, leaves her family to live and volunteer in a neighborhood in-need as part of ABC's Secret Millionaire.
Lisa Halpern, Founder & CEO of Kiboo.com, was interviewed in WORKS by Nichole Williams. (See if you can find the shout out to Astia!)
Huffington Post covers BizSpark Summit: Start-Up Autitouch Offers Revolution In Autism Detection With Touchscreen App
New Astia Companies
We invited 13 extremely competitive companies to participate in the week-long Astia Global Entrepreneur Program June 25-29 in New York City. The program serves as the on-ramp to the Astia community and the foundation for peer-to-peer learning. We look forward to sharing the progress of these companies with you in the near future.
If you have news to share... send it our way. We like to let the community know what you are up to.
Cheers,
Sharon Vosmek
Chief Executive Officer