Yesterday our AppMakr team announced they have secured a total of $1MM in angel funding. AppMakr is a free web-based DIY app solution for companies that want or need iPhone apps but have a lean budget. TechCrunch was among the news outlets to run with the story. The AppMakr team secured this round of funds from venture capitalists and angel investors; Mitch Kapor (founder of Lotus), Transmedia Captial (Chris Redlitz and Peter Boboff of  Kicklabs incubator),… Read more »

PointAbout’s AppMakr, a free, user-friendly, browser-based platform used for the creation of native iPhone applications, was featured in the award-winning Meetings and Conventions online magazine (M&C Online). M&C Online and print magazine is designed to help meeting and event planners excel at their jobs, offering in-depth features, news analysis, original research, destination insights, article archives, a facility search engine, and more.

DC-Based PointAbout Featured in FastCompany; Raising Funding Round Washington, DC — PointAbout, the DC-based creator of a platform allowing clients to develop their own low-cost mobile apps, said that it is in the process of raising a new round of funding from Charles River Ventures and angel investors Bill Lee and Rich Chen. The news comes amidst a period of rapid growth for the company, which recently opened a West Coast office in San Francisco,… Read more »

Here at PointAbout, we love RSS because it helps you build great apps yourself! Here’s what RSS does, in plain English: AppMakr compiles your existing RSS feeds into a tidy little app with graphics and icons you customize yourself. This can be done in under a minute, with the option to purchase the app you’ve just built for a fraction of the average market cost– you can even start using it right away. Here’s the… Read more »