CHARGED.fm Secures $1M in Funding


CHARGED.fm , a Brooklyn, NYC—based social commerce platform that allows users to discover, share, create, and sell tickets for events, has secured $1m in funding.

Backers include Goldman Sachs’ Urban Investment Group and Seedco Financial, which committed $250k as part of their 10,000 Small Business Initiative, as well as an angel investor, who injected $750k.

The company intends to use the capital for marketing, personnel, business and product enhancement.

Founded in 2008 by CEO Yves Darbouze who personally subsidized an initial $3m in for the development of software applications and the patented social ticketing functionality, CHARGED.fm allows artists, fans, venues or events of any size, to buy and sell their tickets online.
The company is currently in the process of raising a $3M+ Series A round amd is actively hiring (http://www.charged.fm/jobs/listing).

FinSMEs

02/10/2012

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