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Web 2.0 - Monday, April 30, 2007

CircleUp Wins More Funding/Launches Polls

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Orange-county-based CircleUp made news today with the launch of its polling service which plugs into Outlook. Having raised Series A funding, the company brought on a CEO last year and at least one of the founders has left.

New CEO Mark Payne says he has been founder of 4 Internet Software companies (2 - including Stamps.com - were financially successful.) Prior to the Series A round, CircleUp had raised seed funding from by a dozen or so angels.

CircleUp is meant for Mom's groups, trade groups or any larger cluster that exchanges lots of emails and IMs that get so large that people stop paying attention. The company claims they have about 10,000 users which doesn't seem like much to us.

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CircleUp's interface

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CircleUp Polls

We have definitely heard people complain about email chain nightmares from groups that they have joined and came to hate so we believe there is a need here. The tough part is marketing, often to people who are not readers of TechCrunch. So evangelizing is going to be tough. The firm is doing the widget thing. But there has to be a better way to get out to the tech novices.

Read - Interview with John Payne (SocalTech)

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