Facebook announced the Round II fbFund $250,000 grant recipients. Here is the list of 25 entrepreneurs who won $25,000 in Round I of the fbFund competition.
The winners of the Round II fbFund $250,000 grant recipients are: GroupCard, Kontagent, MouseHunt, Weddingbook, and Wildfire. Congratulations!
• GroupCard - GroupCard lets users rally their friends to sign the same printable online card to celebrate any occassion. Each friend can add a message, upload photos or audio, and even make a gift contribution. GroupCard started at Stanford, and is already used by thousands of groups worldwide.
• Kontagent - Kontagent is a “leading viral analytics platform for social network application developers. Kontagent analytics provides deep social data visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights delivered via a hosted, on-demand service.”
• MouseHunt - “MouseHunt, a HitGrab creation, is a game of epic proportions. Players are hunters, hired by the king to trap mice that infest his kingdom. For each mouse caught, users will find a reward, bringing them closer to being the best MouseHunter in the land.”
• Wedding book - “WedSnap created Wedding book, a social network on Facebook for those preparing for a wedding. Brides and grooms meet on Wedding book to get advice, support, and inspiration during their engagement and wedding planning process.”
• Wildfire - “Wildfire enables consumers to discover, share and engage with interactive promotions like contests, sweepstakes and give-aways and enables companies to easily create their own attractive, branded promotions that are automatically integrated with Facebook’s social features.”
Source:
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/12/09/live-facebook-announces-250000-fbfund-grant-winners/
