Jim Simon

  • PeggyBank merges with California company, operations will move

    OMAHA— PeggyBank, an Omaha-based company that digitizes and uploads old printed photos, slides and VCR tapes to the cloud, has merged with ScanDigital.com, a similar outfit in California…

  • Startup Spaces: Sneak a peek at PeggyBank’s Omaha offices

    In a small office in Omaha Jim Simon founded PeggyBank, a media conversion company that bills itself as saving “JPegs, MPegs and Aunt Pegs.” In 2010 Simon was digging through old photo albums, home movies and audio recordings trying to convert them to digital files. Saving those memories was an uphill battle; each decade brought…

  • Media conversion startup PeggyBank surpasses 10,000 users

    Less than a month into the new year, 2013 has already brought some pretty sizable milestones for Omaha-based startup PeggyBank, an online service that converts users’ legacy media, like home movies, slides and negatives, into digital content that is hosted online and sharable via social media. “We surpassed 10,000 accounts today, so that was really…

  • PeggyBank raises $500k with plans for tech upgrades, more marketing

    PeggyBank has closed a $500,000 Series A round, company founder and CEO Jim Simon said in a phone interview. Although Simon declined to divulge specifics about the first outside funding his startup has taken …

  • Take it to the bank: Old media proves rich resource for Omaha’s PeggyBank

    As a key player in the launch of Omaha Steaks’ first website and a longtime ecommerce expert at America Online, Jim Simon is no stranger to web success stories. But that the foundation for Simon’s most recent web-based business venture — old photos and home movies — has fueled a startup that’s rapidly …

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