Rock The Post Scores $700k to Build a Social Network for Businesses

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American, Canadian, and Spanish angel investors are diving into this one.
Launching just a few months ago,
Rock The Post
is a business social network that was designed to serve as a bridge between entrepreneurs, talented parties, and funding parties to “take their projects and passions to the next level.” The New York City-based startup is attempting to bring social networking and crowdfunding together in a new way, and people are starting to take notice. This week, Rock The Post announced that it has raised $700,000 from eight different angel investors. “We are thrilled with this closing given that the funds are going to help Rock The Post to further the growth and expansion of the platform,” Tanya Prive, co-founder and COO of Rock The Post, said in a company release. The young startup said that its number-one focus is to offer a platform “that allows individuals to form complimentary and strategic partnerships that will forward the project or business venture.” Comparatively, Rock The Post believes that the existing social networks are limited by their own design. You can interact with people from your circle, but they were not designed to allow users to go beyond that “limiting realm.” Rock The Post hopes to break through this barrier by providing a venue for people to connect with others that are looking to partner up in the context of money, time, and/or materials, the company said. Since launching on November 22, 2011, Rock The Post has acquired 18,000 users from more than 140 countries. More than 90 active projects have been started with the site, seven of which have been completed and are touted on Rock The Post's
“Successful” page
. (As of this writing, an eighth project appears to have been completed.)
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