Vator Splash Competition (September 2010)
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BUMP Network
Location: 1295 Prospect St., La Jolla, California 92037, United States United States
Founded in: 2009
Stage: Beta (public testing)
Number of employees: 6-15
Funding history:
- Date: 04/2011, Series B: $4.5 M (post valuation: undisclosed amount).
Investors: Wilson Sonsini Investment Co., DLA Piper Venture Fund, Hany & Summer Girgis, and others
- Date: 04/2010, Series A: $1 M (post valuation: undisclosed amount).
Investors: J Christopher Capital, ZIG Capital, Anduin Ventures, HI7E
Profitable year: 2012
Short URL: vator.co/bump
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The winners of each business area have demonstrated innovation in the use of social media to overcome an organizational challenge. Social Media Start-Up Category: Includes web-based and mobile based technologies which are used to turn communication into interactive dialogue between organizations, communities, and individuals.
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The WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces 2011 is comprised of 52 organizations from a diversity of industries including aerospace, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, services and energy, with a combined annual revenue of over $15 billion. These organizations include public, private, not for profit and educational institutions. They range in size from five to 80,000 employees and are located in the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Malaysia, Haiti and India.
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Social-Loco is a conference featuring innovators focusing on the convergence of the social web, mobile and local-business.
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Splash is the premier high-tech startup event in San Francisco.
Testimonials

Bump is revolutionizing the way 250M cars in America will be connected by their license plates to create the next generation social network. Consider this a perfect marriage of FourSquare, Groupon, and Facebook! I am looking forward to the commercial roll-out of this next billion dollar company.

From Raj Das (CEO, POM Partners)

We are proud investors in the Bump team and revolutionary product that they have brought to market. Extremely transparent and hard working people to be associated. And they are FUN!!! - Check them out. You wouldn't want to be the last to download this amazing app.

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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP Network Announces New Chief Operating Officer: Shannon Day. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bump-network-announces-chief-operating-105600552.html on November 13
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP Network announced that it's raised $2.3 mllion in a Series B2 round of financing. http://vator.tv/news/2012-11-06-bump-networks-raises-23m-for-saas-membership-network#7AgujP8yC6vUy0L1.99 on November 13
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BUMP Network was featured in a article: "BUMP Network raises $2.3M for SaaS membership network"
Eric Schmidt's Tomorrow Ventures, Zig Capital, and more invest Read more
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP Network, Inc., announces the addition of AMC Theaters and GNC to it's growing list of signed partnerships that provide benefits to BUMP's channel partners and to the BUMP Advantage program. http://www.bump-network.com/products/benefit-recruitment/ on April 12
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
San Diego Union Tribune talks tech startups BUMP.com, Perminova, Crisi... http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/15/startups-sprouting-san-diego/?print&page=all on January 17
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP Network has been listed in SD Tech Companies To Watch in 2012 http://watch.bastosventures.com/2011/11/14/bump-network-inc-you-are-where-you-go/ on November 17
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP.com Bolsters Location-Based Communication Technologies with Acquisition of BumpChat - http://vator.tv/news/2011-05-24-bumpcom-acquires-bumpchat-to-connect-drivers on May 24
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BUMP Network was featured in a article: "MXP4 launches new PUMP IT game on Facebook "
MXP4 teams up with EMI Music and David Guetta to produce a buggy and boring music game for Facebook Read more
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP.com just pushed out our new homepage! Check it out and claim your tag at www.BUMP.com! on May 06
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP.com grabs $1.2 million to complete Series B1! http://vator.tv/news/2011-04-21-bump-grabs-12-million-series-b1-exclusive on April 28
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BUMP Network was featured in a article: "Smule's Magic Piano now free on the iPhone"
Maestros and newbies alike will love creating beautiful musical concoctions on Smule's latest Read more
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BUMP Network was featured in a article: "Cracked.com launches hilarious movie guide"
The site teamed with Movieclips and Rotten Tomatoes to create Cheat Sheets Read more
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
The BUMP.com Android app is now available to download! http://blog.bump.com/post/4797718208/bump-com-app-is-available-on-android on April 20
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP.com, Groupon, Zappos, Hulu and WD-40 Recognized as the Most Democratic Workplaces of 2011 www.bit.ly/e6A3Hy on April 20
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Kristina Kenyon (VP Marketing & Operations)
BUMP.com was recognized as one of the "Most Democratic Workplaces" by WorldBlu! on April 18
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Mitch Thrower (CEO and Founder)
BUMP.com completed it's Series B-1 round including Wilson Sonsini Investment Co., DLA Piper Venture Fund, Hany & Summer Girgis and others. The company completed its Series A round last October backed by J Christopher Capital, Zig Capital, Anduin Ventures and HI7E. on April 15
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Mitch Thrower (CEO and Founder)
"Vator Splash was a fantastic event for us, we presented in September and met fantastic investors and partners. If you have a chance to present or attend a Vator event, they bring great value to any start-up." - Mitch Thrower on April 15
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