Funds for Social Media Poll Platform 'Wedgies'

In the US, social media polling platform Wedgies.com has raised $700k in seed funding, which it will use to scale its technology and expand into new markets.

Launched in 2012, Wedgies provides survey capabilities through which users can collect opinions directly from respondents' existing social media networks. In the past twelve months, the firm says it has enabled polling across ten million pages and from two million voters a month for national publications such as USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Engadget and The Weather Channel.

New funding has been led by investment firm Greycroft, whose Venture Partner Alan Gould is also the CEO of uSamp. The round has been supported by Vegas Tech Fund, KBS+ Ventures, and Battle Born Ventures, and brings the total raised to date to more than $1.2m.

Wedgies.com CEO and co-founder Porter Haney (pictured) comments: 'We spent the last year building a product to change the way survey creators engage respondents and voters through social polling. In that time, we've seen some incredible impacts from Wedgies. For instance, when The Wall Street Journal gathered ratings of President Obama's speeches with our polls and when The Weather Channel utilized Wedges to name this season's winter storms.'

Web site: www.wedgies.com .

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