The ZINO Society Roundtable Investment Meetings this past week showcased four excellent investment opportunities on Tuesday evening at the conference center at Davis Wright Tremaine and Wednesday at lunch at the Bellevue Harbor Club. The brief keynote remarks were provided by Dan Greenshields of ShareBuilder. Dan serves as President of ShareBuilder Securities Corporation and President and Chief Investment Officer of ShareBuilder Advisors LLC. Over the past 7 years, Dan has been instrumental in building ShareBuilder into the 6th largest online brokerage firm with over $2 billion in assets. Shannon Jones of Hestia Cellars was our featured winemaker and Charles and Rose Ann Finkel, of Pike Brewing Co. were our featured beermeisters.
The four presenting entrepreneurs received a lot of investor interest following their presentations. Pictured in the top photo above from left to right are featured entrepreneurs Stephan Roche of Kapitall, Dave Long of Exponential Entertainment, Mark Freedle of NetMore America and Ramu Ramanathan of Mobba.
Kapitall is a new online investing platform designed to transform investing for the “Gaming Generation” with a rich application modeled on video games.
Exponential Entertainment is building HollywoodPlayer, a multi-platform online service that brings casual gaming, Hollywood content, and social networking together.
NetMore America buys the most secure and marketable mortgages in the U.S. and sells them at a profit.
Mobba is a new online marketplace that leverages social networks to form large groups of like-minded buyers. Sellers then compete to win a big sale.
We are very happy to announce this week that our facilitated fundraising to-date has increased to $14.2 million. I won’t be surprised to see all of these companies receive at least a portion of the angel funding they need as a result of their presentations at ZINO Society. We take huge pride in the entrepreneurs that present through ZINO Society and hope to help each one with capital, mentoring and/or referrals.
I enjoyed the presentations by all four presenting companies. The quality of the deals was impressive.
ReplyDeleteBut, I must admit that I've told a number of people about Kapitall. I was taken by their clever harnessing of gaming interface to make investing understandable and interesting to the digital generation.
Compliments to the screening committee and the coaches for the job done by the four presenting companies.
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