Kyle
News about one of our favorite Washington DC startups, Speek, came out of the excitement at SXSW V2V on Tuesday morning.
Speek, the innovative and intuitive conference calling platform has raised another $1.1M in venture funding. The funding round had a variety of participants, most of which were in Las Vegas for the festivities (and because Boice knows how to party).
TechCocktail report thats Stewart Allen (CTO Add This), Michael Chasen (co-founder of Blackboard and founder of Social Radar), Timothy Chi (co-founder Blackboard and Wedding Wire), and Sunny Ganguly (co-founder and CMO Wedding Wire), all participated in the round, with Chasen, Chi and Ganguly investing through NextGen Angels. NextGen Angels is a DC based angel investor group with investors under 40.
Speek raised $1.2 million dollars last December and raised another round last February.
Speek allows users to join a conference call by simply going to the users speek.com page. For instance mine is speek.com/kyle, and from there I can invite anyone to join the call on Speek’s website or mobile app. They’ve continued to add more and more functionality over the last year.
We began covering Speek when John Bracken first pitched the company at the Capital Connection in Washington, DC in May 2012. We’ve been loyal users since Beta. (That really is my Speek address above). Danny Boice spoke at Everywhere Else Memphis last February, and John Bracken is speaking at Everywhere Else Cincinnati.
At SXSW this year in Austin, Danny Boice won a TechCocktail pitch contest by saying Bracken would get the Speek monkey tatooed on his butt if they won. They won. Here is that pitch video.
