Omaha Startup MindMixer Gets $1.9 Million In Funding

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Omaha Nebraska’s MindMixer, which bills itself as a “virtual town hall” announced last week that they had raised $1.9 million in series A funding front Dundee Venture Capital who originally seeded the company with $300,000 back in February.

MindMixer’s virtual town hall platform is geared towards municipalities and universities.  MindMixer already has 125 on board.

The idea came about when CEO/co-founder Nick Bowden  and co-founder Nathan Preheim, who both have backgrounds in urban planning, noticed that no one attends community meetings.

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Bowden and Preheim spent some time researching sites for crowdsourcing ideas but found that none of them really fit what they were looking for.

“Most of those products are idea-oriented — they solicit ideas,” Bowden told TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha. “But in a government or city process, ideas are like the first element of decision-making.”

MindMixer also launched their product in San Francisco under the name “ImproveSF”.
Right now on ImproveSF San Francisco residents can submit and vote on ideas on how to make the city’s Muni transportation system, faster and more reliable. MindMixer plans on offering a different question or topic every month, encouraging community’s to get more involved.

Source: TechCrunch via Siliconprairie

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