Constant Contact Announces Fourth Class of Startups Selected for the Small Bus. Innovation Program; Participants to Take Up R...
March 31 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Accelerator connects entrepreneurs with
mentors, investors, and resources to refine and grow businesses
Constant Contact®, Inc., part of Endurance International Group’s
(NASDAQ: EIGI) family of brands, today announced the newest class
of startups participating in its Small Business Innovation Program,
an accelerator designed to support entrepreneurs and startups as
they refine and grow their early-stage companies, all of which are
focused on delivering solutions for small businesses and
nonprofits.
Running from April 1 through July 1 and hosted in the 30,000
square foot Innovation Loft (InnoLoft) space in Constant Contact’s
Waltham headquarters, the latest startup class includes:
Campseekers: Campseekers makes summers more affordable by
selling excess spaces in the $15 billion summer camp market to
families at below market rates. Similar to priceline.com,
Campseekers sells these spaces via public auctions as well as
private sales events to subscribers and corporations. Campseekers
also maintains a summer camp directory with over 5,000
camp sessions searchable by week, location, age and specialty.
Campseekers was founded by Shayne Gilbert, widely known for her
role in building networks as the co-founder of the Nantucket
Conference and Convergence: For Leaders in Healthcare
Innovation.
ClearGov: Transforms complex municipal financial statements into
easy-to-understand infographics to help citizens better understand
how their tax dollars are being put to use. Local governments
leverage ClearGov to more clearly communicate their financial
performance in an effort to build citizen trust and support through
transparency. ClearGov is the fifth startup founded by CEO Chris
Bullock. Most recently, he co-founded a legal analytics company
called Sky Analytics, which was successfully acquired by Huron
Consulting Group.
Decidedly: Co-founded by seasoned business executive and MIT
Sloan School of Management graduate Kai Chuang, Decidedly is
tackling the very real problem sales and marketing professionals
face trying to connect with, and engage, prospects online.
Decidedly’s technology platform accelerates the qualifying process
and gets two to five times more responses than other
methods.
Lure Boats: Founded by brothers Mike and Jeff Devlin, Lure Boats
is casting a line at the InnoLoft to transform the recreational
fishing industry with a way for anyone to search, compare, and
reserve chartered fishing boats anywhere in the world through a few
clicks on their laptop or mobile device.
SuperHealos: Through a focus on imagination, education, and
play, SuperHealos is dedicated to creating adventure stories,
products, and digital games that make children facing medical
treatments feel like superheroes. The CEO and founder, Yuan Yin, is
a former IBM sales representative. Her husband, Dylan Murphy, is
chief technology officer, bringing extensive technology and product
management experience he gained at IBM. The company’s chief product
officer, Kathryn Jones, has a background in Occupational Therapy,
which influences product development.
“There’s no lack of ideas, especially in Massachusetts, a hotbed
of innovation and one of the top places in the world to start a
business. The challenge comes in daring to see it through – taking
that idea and shaping into a company. That’s where the Innovation
Program comes in,” said Andy Miller, chief innovation architect at
Constant Contact. “We provide the mentorship and marketing
resources to help take these startups’ products, features, and
services to scale. When coupled with access to angel investors and
venture capital firms, the experience can be game-changing. There’s
nothing more exciting or energizing than seeing these companies
soar.”
For more information and to apply for future classes of the
Small Business Innovation Program, please visit
http://smbinnoloft.com/ and follow #SMBInnoLoft on Twitter.
About Constant Contact®, Inc.Constant Contact, an
Endurance International Group company and a leader in email
marketing since 1995, provides hundreds of thousands of small
businesses around the world with the online marketing tools,
resources, and personalized coaching they need to grow their
business.
About Endurance International GroupEndurance
International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) helps millions of small
businesses realize their dreams. The company equips small
businesses worldwide with products and technology to power their
online web presence, email marketing, mobile business solutions,
and more. Endurance’s best in class family of brands includes
Constant Contact, Bluehost, HostGator, Domain.com, BigRock,
SiteBuilder, and Impress.ly, among others. Headquartered in
Burlington, Massachusetts, Endurance employs more than 3,700 people
across the United States, Brazil, India, Israel, and the United
Kingdom. For more information, visit endurance.com.
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