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Home-Account Raises $1M in Seed For Mortgage Service

alarmClock  Mar 26 09

Home-Account has raised $1M in seed funding from Charles River plus some angels - Marc Benioff, Ron Conway, Mark Pincus, Jeff Clavier, Arjun Gupta, and Gigi Brisson. The service charges $10 a month to help users to get a good mortgage. Our first question was - how is this different from Lending Tree? The key is that the client is the consumer whereas Lending Tree is really a lead gen source for the mortgage companies. For a while LendingTree had a great business model but as the mortgage biz has cratered so has LendingTree. Home-Account is led by CEO Mark Goldstein who was an EIR at NEA and is currently Chairman of Loyalty Labs. Full story...

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Audio Transcription's 3Play Media Seed Funded

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Play Media, out of Somerville, MA, has secured $450K of a $600K seed funding round. 3Play works on transcription, captioning, and audio search.

Indoor Ag's AeroFarms Seeded with $500K

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alarmClock  21 hours ago

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EventVue Craters. Founders Explain.

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Marin Clean Energy 1, Pacific Gas & Electric 0

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