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Media - Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Seattle Stealth Startup PressPlane Raises $1.7M

It's always fun to try to figure out what a stealth mode startup is up to when they are playing the game of keeping it a secret. What they tell us is:
"Unfortunately, I can’t say exactly what we are working on but I can say it is another “buy and sell content marketplace” like our last company (Imagekind) but more around designers and creative content serving businesses. We’re obviously not competing with our new Imagekind owners (CafePress) but we are able to take what we learned from Imagekind and apply much of it to this new initiative."

It would seem that the plan to take the custom press model to businesses with some new angle.

Seattle's Pressplane has raised $1.7M in Series A led by Second Avenue Partners

Angel investors are:

Mika Salmi (MTV President / AtomFilms founder)
Rich Barton (Founder, Expedia / Zillow)
Erik Blachford (former Expedia CEO)
Andy Liu (Founder, BuddyTV)
Alex Algard (Founder, Whitepages)
Geoff Entress (Madrona Venture Partners)
Adrian Hanauer (Owner, Seattle Sounders Major League Soccer team, Curious Office co-founder)
Dough Rowan (former Corbis CEO)

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