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Location: San Francisco, California 94123, United States flags/United States.gif
Founded in: 2007
Stage: Beta (public testing)
Number of employees: 6-15
Completed funding: Angel/Investor
Funding history:
- Date: 05/2008, Seed: $0.85M
Investors: Peter Thiel, Richard Rosenblatt, Jeff Peterson, Georges Harik, VentureFarm.
- Date: 03/2007, Seed: $0.8M
Investors: Peter Thiel, Richard Rosenblatt, Matt Hill, Georges Harik, Paul Buchheit, Thom Calandra, Jimmy Wu.
Profitable year: 2010
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/106
Profile creation: May 26, 2007
Last updated: March 17, 2010

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Vator, Inc.

Vator.tv - Voice of the Entrepreneur
Startup/business
flags/United States.gif California, United States
http://vator.tv

Vator (short for innovator) is a community and resource for entrepreneurs.

Founded and run by veteran and award-winning journalist Bambi Francisco, Vator consists of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to effectively broadcast to and communicate with the entrepreneur and innovator community while at the same time reach the broad audience across the social Web through Vator's syndication with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more.

Vator.tv has more than 35,000 members and high-tech companies, using the service to effectively communicate with their partners, investors, media and customers. VatorNews is Vator's video business network on entrepreneurship and innovation with 250-plus contributors.

Background:

 

Vator has always been a catalyst for innovation. Since our launch in June 2007, we have been a professional network for ideas and businesses. People initially used Vator to pitch their ideas/businesses through video. Today, people use their company profiles to share their story to the entrepreneur community on Vator as well as the broad community across the vast Web.

 

 

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Bambi Francisco Roizen (CEO and Founder)
Need a business video produced? Use VatorProductions - http://vator.tv/vendors/vatorproductions/professional-business-video 1 day ago
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Bambi Francisco Roizen (CEO and Founder)
Had about 10 entrepreneurs from France visit the new Vator offices, including GrandTweet, Allmyapps, tellmewhere, green ivory... thanks Phil Jeudy for making Vator part of the tour 1 day ago
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Bambi Francisco Roizen (CEO and Founder)
Our friends at VentureBeat just became a media partner for Vator Splash May - Thanks VB! http://vator.tv/competition/vator-splash - Don't forget to join. Fliptop is now in the lead. on March 16
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Bambi Francisco Roizen (CEO and Founder)
Last interview with Gina Bianchini before she stepped down as CEO of Ning - http://vator.tv/n/e65 on March 16
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Bambi Francisco Roizen (CEO and Founder)
Vator's recommendation list. Any company that doesn't update its profile over two weeks is off the recommendation list. We're starting to get a big list of companies updating, and it's only fair. on March 15
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Writers, video bloggers
 

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  • Alex Backer November 01, 2009
    Vator is a truly valuable service to start-ups. In the short time that QLess has been on it since we were selected one of the ten Juice Pitcher winners, we've been featured on CNET, approached by top-tier investors and successful entrepreneurs, received many qualified job applicants, and accrued hundreds of fans with whom Vator allows us to stay in touch via updates. Combine that with the fact it's free, and the ROI is hard to beat. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
  • Tim Hyer October 30, 2009
    Vator really is the voice of the entrepreneur. As a startup founder who just launched a company 3 weeks ago, I can vouch for this because Vator has been there every step of the way. First by providing a venue for my company to go-live, on-stage to an audience of 300 in Silicon Valley (The Juice Pitcher). Then by helping my company get press in great publications, like CNET and ReadWriteWeb. Now Vator helps me get the word out on a daily basis with company updates through vator.tv and other social media channels. I already have 500 followers and continue to expand my reach. Above all, the Vator Team is a great group and I've enjoyed getting to know them. Thanks, Vator. Keep up the great work!
  • Ryan Tilton July 09, 2008
    Vator.tv is an excellent site. I love watching the interviews and would really like to meet with these amazing people someday. I think I have a lot to learn about the business world, and vator.tv and the interviews are definitely helping me connect with really cool people and learn from them.
  • Bradly Couch June 17, 2008
    ~ Thank you for all of your hard work. The site looks great. The idea is fabulous. I'm a proud participant and a loyal user of your services.

    Best Wishes,

    Brad Couch

    brad@IPTVmarketplace.com
  • brian fords May 21, 2008
    Nice site for Entrepreneurs, investors ..
  • Heddi Cundle May 20, 2008
    Love Love Love the new site....it looks fabulous!!! Heddi @ Consort Partners
  • Thom Calandra May 17, 2008
    Bambi has always been tireless in her efforts to spread the word and the wealth. She did it at CNNfn, she did it at MarketWatch and she is doing it now.

    Vator.tv, of course, is more than Bambi. At some point, any venture, any successful venture, becomes more than its CEO. We're not there yet with Vator.tv. Most of us, after all, want to see a Vator platform precisely because Bambi has shaped it.

    Still, the time is fast approaching when the newsroom that John Shinal is building will reach out to tens of thousands of people: entrepreneurs, investors like me, artists, technologists, even soccer moms and dads. Cyril Brignone's banging of the gong for video will perpetuate itself until Vator.tv's database of interviews/profiles/stories/spiels/newsletters will give search algorithims a full workout. And so on.

    I believe Vator.tv is already its own channel, one that CNBC and CNET and MarketWatch and even my friends in Canada at Stockhouse will find a worthy challenger and a noble contributor to the world of biz media. In my bok, Vator does it all: educates, entertains and enhances. Anything that fulfills my '3 Es' requirement gets the platinum star.

    Go forward my friends and spread the Vator as if it were a chutney sauce delivered from the heavens.

    Thom Calandra at thomcalandra.com
  • Stephen Lairmore April 30, 2008
    Hi Bambi,
    Thanks for the email yesterday. This site is great! There is so much going on here at vator.tv as the site keeps evolving. I look forward to seeing the other revenue channels (outside of just advertising) that you'll be bringing on as you outlined in your interview on CareerHero " Day in life of an Entrepreneur ".
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