marketing tech

  • DivvyHQ closes $1.8 million Series A, expands team

    DivvyHQ closes $1.8 million Series A, expands team

      Announcing earlier this month a successful Series A fundraising of $1.8 million, DivvyHQ founders Brock Stechman and Brody Dorland related watching their company grow to watching a child grow and develop. “I absolutely can relate the process of growing a business to the trials and tribulations of childhood. I don’t know if I could put…

  • Seamster wants to make your content management effortless

    Seamster wants to make your content management effortless

    Yaw Odame and Caity Klitz, co-founders of Seamster, knew they had to move to Lincoln, Nebraska, if they wanted to start a company. “We were talking about building this thing, and we kind of joked with our friends, ‘Hey, we should move [to Lincoln],’” said Odame. “Food doesn’t cost as much, and rent is really…

  • Mobile marketing platform Moblico raises $900K [Updated]

    Mobile marketing platform Moblico raises $900K [Updated]

    Moblico, a mobile marketing company in the Kansas City area, has announced it has raised $900,000 in Q1 of this year. The investors include the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) and a local angel investor. Moblico says the purpose of the raise is “to continue our growth into new markets and pursue new business opportunities.” This…

  • Bulu Box receives $1.5MM to launch new data software

    Bulu Box receives $1.5MM to launch new data software

    Bulu Box, a health food and vitamin sample subscription box service, has received $1.5 million to launch Bulu Insights, a proprietary software that uses data received from sample surveys. The fundraising round was led by Flyover Capital and included Dundee Venture Capital and Triompf. “We use our customers’ feedback to guide all decisions on BuluBox.com,”…

  • How Jack Wagnon launched ctel3 using partnerships, not capital

    How Jack Wagnon launched ctel3 using partnerships, not capital

    In 2010 Jack Wagnon moved from Portland, Oregon, back to his hometown of Topeka, Kansas. He started ctel3, a business management consulting company with a focus on cutting edge automated sales, marketing and customer service. In five years Wagnon has grown his business with clients across the Midwest–all without a major capital raise. SPN spoke…

  • Royal Loyal wants to give big chain marketing tools to independent stores

    Royal Loyal wants to give big chain marketing tools to independent stores

    Babir Sultan came to America in 2001 from Pakistan, looking to live the American Dream. He started in New York City, working construction just to pay the bills. His real passion, however, was computer networking. Within the first couple of years in the states, Sultan wound up in the IT world, but still felt like he…

  • Creelio closes seed round, hires CTO

    Creelio closes seed round, hires CTO

    The Creelio platform helps executives and thought leaders in the financial services industry who are looking for a more effective, hassle-free way of developing their content and social media presence.