Barcode Hero was founded in January, 2010 as Kima Labs, Inc, by Amazon.com veterans Blake Scholl and Jason Crawford. The company’s mission is to end “offline” shopping by connecting in-store shoppers with helpful information and with each other. Barcode Hero is seed funded by A-list angels, including Naval Ravikant, SV Angel (Ron Conway), and Owen Van Natta, and has received a strategic investment from the Washington Post Company.
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The DeanBeat: After Zynga’s crash, game investments dive 42 percent in 2012
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DeanBeat: Game companies raised a record-breaking $1.54B in 2011
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