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Mehta and friends launch $1.6M mobile fund

Eniac Ventures targets mobile sector with seed stage investment firm

Financial trends and news by Ronny Kerr
October 1, 2010 | Comments
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/1243

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Eniac Ventures, a seed stage investment firm focused solely on mobile startups, launched Friday a $1.6 million fund.

Named after ENIAC, the first electronic computer, Eniac Ventures firmly believes mobile to be the next dominant computing platform, naturally evolving out of the personal and Internet computing that has ruled since the 1980s. Obviously, Eniac is far from the only one to think so. In fact, the site prominently gives credit to Google CEO Eric Schmidt for declaring, “The biggest growth areas are clearly within the mobile space.”

The New York-based fund was founded by four mobile-minded entrepreneurs and investors: Hadley Harris, Vice President of Consumer Business at Vlingo; Nihal Mehta, CEO and co-founder of buzzd; Vic Singh, co-founder of NearVerse; and Tim Young, founder of the Arch Rock Foundation.

Mehta might be the biggest name among the four, as he was an early investor in AdMob, the mobile ad marketplace that Google snatched up last year for $750 million.

Eniac investments, which will range in size from $25,000 to $100,000, should reach between 30 and 50 startups over the next few years. Half of the $1.6 million fund will be reserved for follow-up rounds.

“We want to be able to double-down on Series A rounds on companies that we think are worth it,” says Mehta.

Eniac-funded startups will be happy to hear that the four founders will also provide their best business development advice and help them make connections with relevant partners.

Eniac Ventures has already injected seed investments in six startups, including Localytics (real-time analytics for mobile apps), MightyMeeting (PowerPoint presentation mobile sharing), NearVerse (proximity-based social network), and Philo (social network for TV).


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Buzzd
Startup/Business
Description: Buzzd (http://www.Buzzd.com/) is the premier mobile, local search service, providing real-time information for bars, clubs and restaura...
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NearVerse
Startup/Business
Description: NearVerse is the brainchild of Boris Bogatin, a telecom executive who spent the better part of the 2000 decade at Skyterra, developing a ...
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Vlingo
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Description: At vlingo it unlock access to wireless data services. Vlingo provide wireless carriers and wireless application providers a voice interfa...
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Nihal Mehta
CEO,
localresponse
Bio: With over 12 years experience in innovating marketing technologies through several successful startups to date, Nihal Mehta, is...
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Vic Singh
Co-Founder,
NearVerse

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