{"id":9116,"date":"2015-06-29T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:04:43","slug":"june-15-member-news-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/june-15-member-news-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Walrod Raises $1.75M for Bright Funds: June ’15 Member News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out Founders Network members making tech startup news headlines in this month\u2019s member news roundup:<\/p>\n

\"ty\"<\/a>Ty Walrod<\/a>‘s startup\u00a0Bright Funds raises $1.75M in funding (via pehub.com<\/a>). Bright Funds<\/a> is the next generation platform for individual and workplace giving, empowering everyday donors to become strategic philanthropists.<\/p>\n

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\"taylor<\/a>Taylor Umphreys<\/a>‘ startup Zuli receives a strategic investment from\u00a0Research Frontiers (via Yahoo! Finance<\/a>).\u00a0Zuli<\/a> is creating a home that adapts around you and makes your life more efficient, comfortable and convenient by eliminating the need for manual control.<\/p>\n

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\"Richard<\/a>Richard White<\/a>‘s startup UserVoice\u00a0announces the launch of UserVoice 3.0 (via Yahoo! Finance<\/a>).\u00a0UserVoice<\/a> creates simple customer engagement tools that help companies understand and interact with their customers more positively and build customer relationships that last.<\/p>\n

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\"oren\"<\/a>Oren Boiman<\/a>‘s startup Magisto releases Nielsen custom survey findings\u00a0that over 2\/3\u00a0of smartphone photos and videos are never shared, and Magisto has the solution (via PRNewswire<\/a>).\u00a0Magisto<\/a> is a fun and easy way to share your experiences through video.<\/p>\n

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\"Chad<\/a>Chad Arimura<\/a>‘s startup Iron.io\u00a0announces it is accepting beta participants for its new Project Thor\u00a0(via Yahoo! Finance<\/a>).\u00a0Iron.io<\/a> is a cloud infrastructure services provider and is the maker of IronMQ, an industrial-strength message queue, and IronWorker, a highly scalable task processing\/worker platform.<\/p>\n

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\"Alexandra<\/a>Alexandra Greenhill<\/a>, Founder of myBestHelper, is one of three finalists for North America in the Global Entrepreneurship Competition, Cartier Women\u2019s Initiative (via award-editions.cartierwomensinitiative.com<\/a>).\u00a0myBestHelper<\/a> is an essential digital utility that gives families a easy way to access and use all options of care that they need.<\/p>\n

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Jason Demant<\/a>, Founder of Bento, is a participant on CNBC’s Power Pitch (via cnbc.com<\/a>). Bento believe that you should not have to choose between eating healthy and conveniently. Bento<\/a> delivers delicious Asian food in minutes in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

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\"holly<\/a>Holly Cardew<\/a>, Founder of Pixc is accepted into 500 Startups’\u00a013th accelerator batch (via www.500.co<\/a>).\u00a0Pixc<\/a> provides on-demand product image editing.<\/p>\n

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\"Kourosh<\/a>Kourosh Parsapour<\/a> &\u00a0Victor Gajendran<\/a>, Co-Founders of personalRN\u00a0pitch at\u00a0Startup Next LA Spring 2015 cohort demo day.\u00a0personalRN<\/a>‘s mHealth apps deliver engaging disease-specific inpatient education with personalized content that is relevant to patients & caregivers for better health literacy & outcomes.<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to everyone on a stellar month of success!\u00a0Founders Network members, if you have news\u00a0to share with the community, get in touch with us\u00a0here<\/a>!<\/p>\n