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Pixability draws $1M from nine angel investors


Congrats to Pixibility!

My buddy Apollo Sinkevicius of theLean Startups Blog has been running operations there for a while now, and I am really happy for them that they have picked up the funding. I know they have been doing a ton of work and Apollo almost fetishizes effectiveness, regardless of any other trappings that signal "possible" effectiveness. He sees through wardrobe choices, work schedules, personality quirks, use of buzzwords, and any of the other shortcuts that people use to misrepresent themselves as effective.

I have known Apollo for several years now, and we instantly got along after meeting at a entrepreneur meetup group here in Boston. I had a earlier startup blow up in my face, and was just hetting back into the startup scene with a new project. He was following his wife from Chicago to Boston as she got a new job working on major cancer research at Harvard. He left his lead operations job at development office Geneca in Chicago just after two years of 600% growth as the economy was starting to hit some real problems. He dove right into the startup community in Boston and helped out a bunch of people, including me, and finally settled down at Pixibility last year.

Knowing his finely tuned BS meter, his nose for effective operations, and hearing the great things that he has to say about his CEO Bettina Hein and the team at Pixibility, this is very smart money being put on a New England startup.

Bettina Hein, founder and CEO, Pixability

Friday, February 18, 2011

Pixability draws $1M from nine angel investment groups

By Michelle Lang

Digital video startup Pixability Inc. has raised just over $1 million in an angel round of funding led by Launchpad Venture Group, CEO Bettina Hein said.

The financing, which Hein said is possibly the “most widely syndicated round in New England ever,” has investors from 10 angel groups involved, including Launchpad, Race Point Capital LLC, Maine Angels, eCoast Angel Network, Angel Investor Forum CT, Beacon Angels, Walnut Venture Associates, North Country Angels and Boston Harbor Angels.