Active Network Co-Founder Returns with Bump.com
It's been 13 years since Mitch Thrower helped launch The Active Network, an online community and application technology provider for the active lifestyle/sports market. Now he's back with Bump.com, a reverse communications platform that "allows consumers and companies to communicate with people and vehicles via unique identifiers." Thrower's new company so far has raised $1 million in seed funding, from Digimedia, Tal Kerret (chairman of Oberon Media), Christophe Vandaele (chairman of Vandaele Holdings), Charlie Baker (partner with DLA Piper), Bill Hein (former SVP at EMI) and Bob Ezrin (music producer). It also is in talks to raise a $6 million Series B round and has made an acquisition in the imaging technology space. "Bump is like AAA meets Facebook meets communications infrastructure," Thrower says. "Kind of like a national, social-networked 1-800-How's-My-Driving?"
