Categorie: Cheers

Cheers Raises $2.5M Series A To Expand Its Positivity Network And Make The Case To Brands

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iphoneCheers, the app and social network built around giving users the chance to celebrate the good things in their lives, has raised a $2.5 million Series A funding round led by MindFund and including Charles River Ventures, Trinity Ventures, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and others. The startup launched just over a year ago in February, and is still very much experimenting with its positivity-based social network, according to founder Farhad Mohit.

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Oink Users: Need A New Home For Your Data? Turn That Frown Upside Down With Cheers

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Screen shot 2012-03-20 at 2.26.03 AMThis piece of news brought to you by Jotly. No, no. Just kidding. Last week, uber-founder Kevin Rose and the team of eight sterling engineers and designers that comprised his startup lab, Milk, closed the doors on their first mobile app, Oink, just four months after it appeared on the App Store, before heading over to Google. This abrupt Oink-icide raises an important question: What will happen to the app’s thousands of users and their directionless Oink data? Is no one thinking of them? Well, it turns out there is someone, rather, something — that relentlessly positive new guy on the block: An app called Cheers.

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