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Michael Bleigh

  • Kansas City-born Divshot closes $1.1m seed round, lays roots in LA

    Divshot, a team that came together at Startup Weekend Kansas City last April, isn’t slowing down. After building a prototype in its first 48 hours of existence, three months later it went on to win a Los Angeles pitch competition in July. The next month, it entered San Monica startup accelerator Launchpad LA. Today, less…

  • From Launchpad LA, Divshot focuses on improving beta, hiring engineers

    Living up to its name, startup accelerator Launchpad LA has helped Kansas City-born Divshot leap into the next phase of its business. Divshot, a drag-and-drop interface builder for web apps, was conceived in April 2012 at Startup Weekend Kansas City. Three months later, co-founders Michael Bleigh and Jake Johnson won a national pitch competition that…

  • Divshot lands in Los Angeles for Launchpad accelerator

    Just two weeks after their August acceptance into Santa Monica, Calif.-based accelerator Launchpad LA, the co-founders of Divshot moved to the Golden State. “It was pretty crazy,” Divshot co-founder Jake Johnson said of the series of events that led the company, formerly based in Kansas City, Mo., to the startup accelerator founded by Mark Suster.…

  • Divshot wins Crowdstart LA contest, takes home $25k

    Divshot, a Kansas City, Mo. startup born at Kansas City Startup Weekend in April, took first place today at Crowdstart LA, a live pitch event hosted by crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder. Today’s competition in Santa Monica was the culmination of a 7-week crowdsourced startup …

  • Startup Weekend KC’s Divshot picked as finalist for Crowdstart LA pitch

    In the span of just more than two months, Divshot has progressed from a 60-second Startup Weekend pitch to the precipice of a $25,000 prize. Divshot, a Kansas City, Mo. startup, was selected from a pool …

  • Days after launch, hackathon app Qup gets GigaOm story, 350 users

    The winner of the inaugural Hack the Midwest event is already showing that 24 hours can deliver a product that not only works, but also one that’s polished enough one to gain press and users. “The response has been phenomenal,” said Michael Bleigh (left), who built Qup (pronounced “queue up”), an app that sends email…

  • Netflix app nabs top prize after 24 busy hours at first Hack the Midwest

    If you were to guess the location of some Kansas City and the Midwest’s best developers and designers over the weekend, a golf course may not be your first choice, unless you knew about Hack The Midwest. Saturday morning nearly 100 hackers filed into the clubhouse of the Heartland Golf Club and set up shop…