Bambi Francisco
Vator.tv must have made its own successful elevator pitch.
Venture capital company Venture Farm has invested in the start-up, which helps other start-ups make presentations to potential investors via online video.
The amount was not disclosed in a statement released Tuesday by Venture Farm.
Vator was founded by former MarketWatch reporter Bambi Francisco. Peter Thiel, a PayPal co-founder, and Richard Rosenblatt, MySpace's former chairman, are among Vator's earlier investors.
Venture Farm specializes in early round investing.
Bambi Francisco, the former columnist for financial news site MarketWatch who
Among her investors are Peter Thiel, the PayPal cofounder, and Richard Rosenblatt, the former CEO of MySpace's former parent company, Intermix. In an interview earlier this month with
Vator invites entrepreneurs to videotape their "elevator pitches," or a request for funding, and post them to the site. This way an entrepreneur makes one pitch instead of having to do it dozens of times to different investors and venture capitalists.
Francisco quit MarketWatch after
In her interview with Beet.TV, Francisco did not discuss how much funding Vator received, but the blog
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