Ning | Create your own Custom Social Network. GroupSpaces OnlineToolforRealWorldGroups. GroupSpaces Secures $1.3m to be Ning for the Real World. UK startup GroupSpaces.com, which aims to be the number one choice for organizers of real-world groups, has secured $1.3 million in funding from Index Ventures plus a range of world class angel investors. This is great news for other European entrepreneurs who think that Silicon Valley expertise and funding is out of their reach and will hopefully quash the old-age debate of which location is better to grow a tech start up: Silicon Valley versus Europe. Founders David Langer, 24 and Andy Young, 25, who set up the company in 2007 whilst studying at Oxford University, say they will be using the funding to expand their engineering and marketing teams.
The key to GroupSpaces’ platform is that group organization is integrated, so instead of having a Yahoo! They say they differentiate from sites like Ning.com as GroupSpaces is specifically focused on real-world groups. Stribe Community Network - Instant social network for website to. Stribe Opens To All And Starts Thinking About Its Own Open Graph. Stribe had a good 2009. The service that aims to make it as simple as possible for any site to add a social network on top of their existing website was first unveiled in September of last year at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco.
Shortly thereafter, in December, the service won the startup competition at LeWeb in Paris. Now they’re hoping 2010 will be even better. Stribe is opening its service to all today after several months in private beta testing. More than 10,000 sites requested access to the beta, but Stribe only let in a few hundred hand-selected ones to make sure the service worked as expected, co-founder Kamel Zeroual tells us. “I now feel our value proposition has become strong enough to be shared with the world,” Zeroual says. Stribe’s promise lies in its 5-minute set-up from scratch, and in its one line of code you need to add to your site to get things working.