Chomp Eats Up Some Seed Funding. Next, Will Bite Into The Mobile Space.
TechCrunch Nov 06 09It's not yet clear what Chomp exactly is, but we do know that it's a rather hot property right now. It took the still stealth start up just 10 days to raise a nice seed round from Ron Conway and a few other big name angel investors, we hear. So what do we know? Well, the company is definitely in the mobile space. In fact, it's a "BIG mobile play," founder Ben Keighran tells us. Keighran, who in 2006 started Bluepulse, a mobile messaging app, has most recently served as the lead advisor to Aardvark for their mobile strategy. There's apparently no website for the company yet, but they do have a Twitter account, which features one tweet: "Working on something sekret. Full story...
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