Los Angeles Founder Institute Graduate ShareSquare was recently featured in TechCrunch for their first closing of $150,000 on a $500,000 seed round. Participating angels include Paige Craig the Adrenaline-fueled Angel, John Frankel of ff Asset Management, Jeff Miller, and Roy Rodenstein of HackerAngels.
ShareSquare is a platform for crowd-sourced street teams to support the bands and brands they love, with real-time analytics and performance-based rewards. Using the self-serve CMS, artists and promoters can enhance physical collateral (promos, posters, flyers, stickers, merchandise, etc) with a QR code corresponding to a custom HTML5 mobile web app. By scanning the QR code, the fan can immediately experience a music video, download tracks and apps, win prizes, join mailing lists, one-click Like and Tweet, and (coming soon) make purchases. A recent campaign for Disney artist Mitchel Musso saw our QR code appear on 2,500 posters, 10,000 packaging stickers, and Akoo network digital signage in 181 shopping malls nationwide.
Read the full article on TechCrunch here.
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