{"id":489054,"date":"2010-03-30T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=70919"},"modified":"2010-03-30T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:37:20","slug":"1m-for-cardstar-loyalty-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489054","title":{"rendered":"$1M for CardStar Loyalty App"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/IT\/\">IT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/startups\/\">startups<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Wade Roush wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canton, CT-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycardstar.com\/\">CardStar<\/a>, which makes an application that consolidates consumer reward and loyalty card numbers on mobile phones, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2010\/03\/prweb3797364.htm\">announced March 28<\/a> that it has raised $1 million in Series A venture funding. The lead funder was Mclean, VA-based Amplifier Ventures, with participation by Acta Wireless and LaunchCapital. CardStar received seed funding from Amplifier Ventures in 2009 as part of its business accelerator program; its app is available now for the Apple iPhone, and the company says versions for Android and BlackBerry devices are &#8220;coming soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/03\/30\/1m-for-cardstar-loyalty-app\/#comments\">Comments (1)<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20$1M%20for%20CardStar%20Loyalty%20App%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=70919\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/03\/30\/1m-for-cardstar-loyalty-app\/&#038;t=$1M%20for%20CardStar%20Loyalty%20App\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/03\/30\/1m-for-cardstar-loyalty-app\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=%241M+for+CardStar+Loyalty+App&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fboston%2F2010%2F03%2F30%2F1m-for-cardstar-loyalty-app%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=9c15aa077d67b54307c2ff6e7ae2a5f4&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=9c15aa077d67b54307c2ff6e7ae2a5f4&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0lApHGc77RTHMOmt-RdRMlqC1ak\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0lApHGc77RTHMOmt-RdRMlqC1ak\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0lApHGc77RTHMOmt-RdRMlqC1ak\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0lApHGc77RTHMOmt-RdRMlqC1ak\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/NlhmqeTby7U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT, deals, startups Wade Roush wrote: Canton, CT-based CardStar, which makes an application that consolidates consumer reward and loyalty card numbers on mobile phones, announced March 28 that it has raised $1 million in Series A venture funding. The lead funder was Mclean, VA-based Amplifier Ventures, with participation by Acta Wireless and LaunchCapital. CardStar received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}