Cake Financial - Location: San Francisco, CA
- Funding: Angel & Series A, Undisclosed Amounts
- CEO: Steven Carpenter
Cake Financial is a social investment service that lets people safely and securely track all their investment portfolios in one place. The service allows individual investors to track and analyze their historical performance up to ten years. Users can also view the real-time portfolios and performances of their friends, family and top investors all without disclosing net worths, shares owned, portfolio sizes, etc. Learn more about Cake Financial |
DocStoc - Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Funding: Series A, Undisclosed Amount
- CEO: Jason Lawrence Nazar
Docstoc is an online community and professional network geared around user generated, professional documents. The site integrates the most useful features of private online file storage with the ability to store, categorize, and share content found anywhere on the web. Users can search for documents by categories or by keywords and then preview the documents online and download or store any content for free. They can filter search results by views, downloads, ratings and comments. Learn more about DocStoc |
Teach The People - Location: Astoria, NY
- Funding: Angel Round, $300,000
- CEO: Jason Beckerman
Teach The People is a social network built around online education. The site lets anyone with specific subject knowledge or a useful skill set share with the Teach The People communities. Users get to create individual profiles and contribute content to topics such as computer programming, math or "Bob Marley's Influence on R&B Music".
The site encourages quality content by letting users become community creators and by giving users points for rating, referring friends and answering questions. Community creators help create content and run day-to-day community operations. They can charge other users fees for monthly community access, content views or content downloads. They can also share in site advertising revenues. Learn more about Teach The People |
CrowdSpirit - Location: France
- CEO: Lionel David
CrowdSpirit is a crowdsourcing community built around designing electronic products and staying involved throughout their product life cycle. Users submit ideas for innovative electronic products that the community fine tunes and votes on. The best ideas and their product specifications rise to the top where investors provide financing and development partners make prototypes.
Once products have been made they are tested by the community and recommended to retailers. Users involved with product creation can earn a share of the product revenue. Typical products will include MP4 players, DVD players, computer peripherals, headphones, etc. Learn more about CrowdSpirit |
Ponoko The world's first personal manufacturing platform, Ponoko is the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a distributed network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas, on demand. Learn more about Ponoko |
