{"id":571547,"date":"2010-05-20T08:48:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=81032"},"modified":"2010-05-20T08:48:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:48:19","slug":"ourstage-lifts-curtain-on-2-6m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/571547","title":{"rendered":"OurStage Lifts Curtain on $2.6M"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/VC\/\">VC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/IT\/\">IT<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Wade Roush wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelmsford, MA-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourstage.com\/home\/unlogged2\">OurStage<\/a>, which runs an online community where indie bands gain recognition through audience voting in monthly contests, has raised $2.63 million in an offering combining equity, options, and warrants, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1398512\/000139851210000006\/xslFormDX01\/primary_doc.xml\">regulatory filing<\/a>. In 2009 the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2009\/07\/13\/ourstage-picks-up-3m-in-b-round\/\">collected $3 million<\/a> out of an intended $6 million Series B round; its backers then included Portland, ME- and Austin, TX-based Signature Capital and a large group of about 100 angel investors. Added to the company&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2008\/04\/01\/ourstage-inc-garners-13000000-series-a-funding-round\/\">2008 series A round<\/a> of $13 million, the new money brings the startup&#8217;s total venture pot to roughly $19 million. In March OurStage announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/mtv-networks-music-group-and-ourstage-partner-to-bring-emerging-artists-music-to-the-masses-2010-03-04\">strategic partnership<\/a> with MTV Networks, owned by Viacom (NYSE: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=VIA\">VIA<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/05\/20\/ourstage-lifts-curtain-on-2-6m\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20OurStage%20Lifts%20Curtain%20on%20$2.6M%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=81032\"  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 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In 2009 the company collected $3 million out of an intended $6 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571547","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=571547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}