1. 11:05 21st Nov 2011

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    Reblogged from bijan

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    bijan sabet: RunKeeper raises $10M financing round

    Jason Jacobs

    For those who don’t know, this is Jason Jacobs (co-founder/CEO of RunKeeper).  He definitely is a man with a passion and vision… enough to run an entire marathon in this outfit.  And pay attention you healthtech and mobile app folks out there - it’s not all about the app.  It’s about the health and fitness data aggregation and synthesis thereof.  That and the team are the key reasons why an additional $10M was put into the FitnessKeeper company as Bijan articulates nicely below.  Congrats to Jason, Michael, Jake, Sarah, and the entire team in Boston (another great example of an awesome start-up in the Boston ecosystem).  It will be very interesting to see what cool stuff comes from this group going forward. 

    -cch

    bijan:

    At Spark Capital, we have always believed that one social graph was insufficient.

    And we have put our money where our mouth is investing in Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Boxee, Svpply, Exfm and others. A passionate focus from the founders + targeted engaged community is something we care a great…

     
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      Excellent news!!
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      For those who don’t know,...(co-founder/CEO of RunKeeper). He definitely
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      Congrats to Bijan and...on their investment...my favorite...
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