D.C. Tech moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.
nvite, an event registration platform founded by Martin Ringlein, cofounder of design firm
nclud and
canvas co/work, announced a
$1 million seed round raise led by Paul Singh's
Crystal Tech Fund.
The Crystal Tech Fund is the investment arm of Singh's
Disruption Corporation. This week, Singh
announced that Disruption is now a registered investment advisor, offering advice for investing in startups. The
New York Times raises some
questions.
In other funding news, Reston-based
Avizia, which makes telemedical solutions, closed a
$1.74 million funding round led by
NextGen Angels.
We reported in June that iStrategyLabs (iSL) is
moving into the Wonder Bread Factory in Shaw; apparently the
Wall Street Journal sees Peter Corbett's digital agency's move as a
trend. "The iStrategyLabs deal with Douglas Development, which also owned the agency's smaller office in Dupont Circle, is the latest example of how Washington's commercial-real-estate market is getting a boost from the technology sector. Other recent tech deals include EverFi Inc., an education-technology company founded in Washington in 2008 that signed a new lease in January for 22,000 square feet in Georgetown. Also, health-focused startup Kit Check relocated from Rossyln, Va., earlier this year, moving into a 6,384 square-building near Chinatown," reports the
WSJ's Max Taves.
iSL's latest Social Machine is the
Facebook Mentions Box, a device that will serve up fan questions to celebrities at the Emmys (Monday night) in Magic 8 Ball style.
And finally,
cove announced that it will open
a fourth location in Columbia Heights in September.