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Taking the stage at King s Place in London King Cross area, EF founders Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck sounded in particularly buoyant mood as they introduced the pitching startups, hot on the heels of the company builder raising $12.4 million in new funding led by Silicon Val
stanley us ley s Greylock Partners.That fundraise which is for operational costs and separate from EF investment fund sees Greylock partner and co-founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman join the board
stanley bottle . In a call earlier this week, Hoffman described EF, which along with London also runs a program in Singapore, as a great model for creating new, deep t
stanley becher ech companies on an incubation basis. To date, EF says it has helped more than 500 individuals on its program, who have built more than 100 companies with a total mostly on paper valuation exceeding $1 billion. As far as I know, it doesn ;t break out additional numbers regarding the fundraising success rate of its startups or how many, if any, Mzxf Dublin and London-based Frontline Ventures closes new 鈧?0M fund to invest in B2B startups
Founded by Adam Stamper, who was perviously a brand builder at Procter & Gamble and ha
stanley water flask s built various social apps on the side, Pitch ;d is targeting brands and agencies who want to run video competitions that challenge users to shoot short videos on a specific
stanley cups topic and surprise, surprise! have them share those creations within their social network.Functionality supported by the platform includes the ability to pre-moderate entries, and a live analytics dashboard that shows per-channel entries, reach and voting status whil
stanley tumbler e the contest is running.In addition, a public-facing & 8216;leader-board ; is offered in the form of a web-based widget, a Facebook page tab, and a mobile-ready HTML5 version.To enter a Pitch d-powered contest, users can tweet their video @mentioning the brand with a specific hashtag, and entries can be voted on by users via Facebook or retweets on Twitter.Agencies can also skin the leader-board to fit the campaign & 8216;look a