Startup Weekend buys StartupDigest web portal

Startup Weekend buys StartupDigest web portalStartup Weekend acquires popular website on the startup industry StartupDigest. Transaction amount is not disclosed, but it is known that the editorial director Jessica Ford and a co-founder of StartupDigest Brendan McManus will join the team of Startup Weekend soon.

Startup Weekend is an international movement that helps the authors of startups to move in the right direction when launching their Web projects. Speaking of the last transaction, the CEO of Startup Weekend Marc Nager said that both companies share the same philosophy and the resources of the acquired web portal will help the publication to enter the next level of development. Now StartupDigest is an online portal for entrepreneurs and all interested in the start-ups’ market. Portal's audience is more than 200K people from nearly 50 countries.

The co-founder of StartupDigest Chris McCann and the CTO Chris Bernor will stay with StartupDigest as curators, but their work will be aimed at creating a new product called GroupTie - a project launched in September this year in alpha testing, it automates tasks such as adding new members, writing personal messages, and the management of the portal’s participants.

The project is interesting to more than 80 different organizations, including Thiel Foundation's Fellowship Program, Andreessen Horowitz's Talent Group, Mexican.vc, Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite Program and many others.





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