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Seattle Times: Kelly Smith launches Pressplane, with Web who's who backers

GetYourBizSavvy: Kelly Smith Interview, Investor & Serial Entrepreneur

Techflash: Disney will buy Yahoo, Ballmer will keep job and other tech predictions

StartupDay2009: StartUpDay2009-Naming & Branding

Chadedge Dot.Com: Another Reason to visit Kelly Smith (kellysmith.com)

StartupDay2009: Speakers

Puget Sound Business Journal: Small-company incubator makes first investment

Cooperative Grocer—All Twitter in Seattle: Marketing Matters 2009 focuses on social media and collaboration

CrunchBase: Kelly Smith

Washington Technology Association: Predictions for 2010, November Technology In Focus Series

Kelly Smith RocketVox

Seattle Post Intelligencer: In the Money Rocketvox

Redtie Media: Kelly Smith

IP Video Consult: Kelly Edward Smith – Principle

All Business A D&B Company: RocketVox, Inc. is Acquired by thePlatform; Davenport Capital Ventures Shows Continued...

Streaming Media: Application Service Provider, RocketVox Gets $2 million

Streaming Media: RocketVox Teams with NeoInformatics

Kelly Smith Pressplane

TechCrunch: Pressplane Breaks Out Of Stealth Mode With A New Name (Inkd) And A Solid Product

Odeo: Pressplane Raises $1.7 Million, Stays Stealthy

Xconomy Seattle: Pressplane Rolls Out Inkd.com

John Cook’s Venture Blog: Pressplane flies away with $1.7 million

Venture Beat: Imagekind founder raises Funding to Nurture a new Marketplace ‘PressPlane’

Kelly Smith Platform

Crunchbase: The PlatForm

Seattle P.I Blog: ThePlatform lands deal with Time Warner Cable

Kelly Smith Imagekind

StartUp Meme Technology Blog: Imagekind founder raises Funding to Nurture a new Marketplace ‘PressPlane’

Deals&More: Imagekind founder raises $1.7M for another marketplace

Kelly Smith Imagekind

Puget Sound Business Journal: Inkd’s print ideas give small businesses a price break and lend designers a hand

Kelly Smith Curious Office

Northwest Entrepreneur Networ: February Venture Breakfast: The First Six Months: Psychological Challenges of a Startup and How to Manage Them Kelly Smith, Curious Office Partners

Seattle Pi Business: Startups -- the micro approach

Euro Tech News: Inkd | Our dashboard for managing your Inkd account.

StartUps That Blogs: Kelly Smith-made in Seattle

Wishpot News: Wishpot joins Curious Office Partners portfolio

Kelly Smith Myrio

Digital Hollywood: IP Video, Datacasting, DSMCC and other Technologies Enabling the Transformation of Entertainment

Light Reading:
Myrio, Bitband Unveils VOP Development

IVC Weekly Newsletter: BitBand and Myrio Introduce Integrated Video Over IP Solution for Delivery of Triple Play Services Worldwide

  • Curious Office Companies

    The companies below represent current Curious equity holdings.

    Inkd

    Inkd Marketplace for Print Design

    Inkd is our latest internally developed concept. We raised our $1.7 million seed round on September 22 and are backed by Second Avenue Partners and a variety of tremendous angel investors. We are developing the World's First Market for Original Print Design.

    Read the TechCrunch article.

    Visit the Inkd website!

  • CafePress

    CafePress Funny and Custom Tee-Shirts Cafepress acquired Imagekind in July 2008. CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic.

  • Imagekind

    Imagekind The First Market to Buy and Sell Artwork Curious Office started Imagekind in 2006 and it is the world's fastest-growing art site offering over 750,000 high-quality fine art images for sale. Imagekind gives consumers limitless options to purchase museum-quality framed and poster art from over 50,000 domestic and international emerging and established artists.

  • SEOmoz.org

    SEOmoz is unparalleled seo link performance. Curious Office invested in SEOmoz along with Ignition Partners in 2007. SEOmoz serves as one of the largest online hubs for search marketers worldwide by providing education, tools, resources and paid services to help make every SEO the best they can be.

    Seattle PI: SEOmoz raising funds from Ignition, Curious Office

  • Shelfari

    Shelfari: The World's Leading Online Book Community. Amazon.com acquired Shelfari in September 2008. Based in Seattle, Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers

  • Fanzter

    CoolSpotters is Celebrity Brands, Fashion, Styles and more Fanzter is headquartered in Collinsville, Connecticut and are the creators of the wildly popular celebrity style and entertainment platform Coolspotters.com, which launched in May 2008. Fanzter secured $2 Million In Series B Funding Led By Steamboat Ventures in March 2009.

  • Wishpot

    Wishpot is your online wedding, baby and shower wishlist registry.

    Wishpot is a free social shopping service that makes it easy to save and share interesting things you find in stores and online. Items are easily collected online or from stores and organized using simple online lists. Lists and items can be kept private or shared with others. You can collect and discover products you like, recommend your favorite stuff, share and explore gift suggestions or ask for opinions and advice.

  • netConcepts

    netConcepts develops the gravitystream seo platform for retailers and enterprise.

    netConceps removes Internal technical constraints, resource issues and knowledge barriers are removed with their gravitystream product. gravitystream works seamlessly with any current e-commerce or website technology platform to provide the ultimate SEO test platform and continuous updating for the most competitive SEO environments.

  • Rouxbe

    Rouxbe is the first online video cooking school.

    Rouxbe is the first online cooking school- the next generation food and cooking site focused on teaching home cooks the skill and technique behind great recipes. Rouxbe is currently teaching home cooks in 180 countries around the world.

  • RocketVox

    thePlatform is the leading online video management solution.

    Curious Office co-founder Kelly Smith launched RocketVox in 2000 as one of the earlier video content aggregation platforms. In May 2001, RocketVox was acquired by thePlatform. Today, thePlatform is the leading online video management and publishing company for broadband, mobile and TV. Media companies use thePlatform's media publishing system (mps) as the open, central hub for managing, monetizing, and syndicating billions of professionally produced video views annually. Comcast acquired thePlatform in June 2006.

  • FeedDigest

    FeedDigest turns RSS into dynamic content for your website.

    FeedDigest is a parser, regenerator, and syndicator for, and of, RSS and Atom feeds originally built by Peter Cooper. In August 2007, Feed Digest was sold to its new owners, Informer Technologies, Inc., and in 2008 rebranded to Feed Informer.