Check out Founders Network members making headlines in this week’s member news roundup. Founders Network offers peer mentorship for over 300 tech startup founders. To learn more about FN, please visit www.foundersnetwork.com.
Lisa Maki of PokitDok raised $4M in funding to improve health care cost transparency. PokitDok is a price transparent health marketplace where consumers shop directly from providers for high value health services.
Eneko Knorr of Ludei raised $1.5M in funding from Kibo Ventures, Vitamina K and several angel investors. Ludei is a development platform that provides developers with the tools, APIs and services to deliver and monetize HTML5 apps.
Andrew Boos announced the launch of Appfuel. Appfuel provides simple and free distribution, monetization, and management for your apps.
Pouria Sanae of Cityblis launched the first of-its-kind online fashion pressroom. Cityblis is an interactive, multi-platform social eCommerce website that allows consumers to shop and interact with friends, store owners and other consumers.
Scott R. Schreiman and Martin Viktora of Kerio Technologies announced the launch of Kerio Control 8.1. Kerio Technologies allows businesses to connect, communicate, and collaborate securely – worldwide.
Koldo Garcia announced The Mad Video launched on Vimeo and Brightcove. The Mad Video is the platform to make your videos clickable and monetize them, just by tagging products, places or people appearing on them.
Mat Ellis announced that Cloudability is actively managing $500M of cloud spending. Cloudability lets you monitor, manage and communicate your cloud costs with one easy tool.
Matt Monday announced the launch of Sight Words at the Launch EDU conference. Sight Words is the first app to use speech recognition tech to help kids learn to read.
Neha Sampat announced that built.io was named one of the “8 hot mobile startups to watch” by Network World. built.io is a mobile backend and application development platform.
Marcus Nelson of Addvocate announced a new pricing model intended to disrupt the traditional enterprise sales model. Addvocate simplifies the task of posting, scheduling, sharing, and organizing the social voices of your business.
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