Digg icon reddit icon Stumbleupon icon
Print Email     Print Edition Stories

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Maine’s CashStar collects nearly $1M

By Galen Moore

Send this story to a friend

CashStar Inc. has rung up close to $1 million in financing, according to one of the startup’s backers.

The South Portland, Maine-based company, which makes online gift cards, received $472,000 from the Maine Technology Institute , a state-funded nonprofit grant corporation, according to the institute’s website.

The funds were matched by CashStar’s sister company, California-based Coupons Inc., according to a report published in MaineBiz online.

The company makes a web-based software platform that allows retail customers to create branded digital gift cards as part of promotional programs. The company was incubated by Coupons Inc. and uses the company’s secure print barcode technology, according to its website.

Co-founders David Douglas Stone and Steven Boal both have financial services backgrounds, according to their bios  on the company’s website. Boal founded Coupons Inc. in 1998 after serving as vice president of business development for Integral Development Corp., a California-based financial software company. Stone was an executive at American Express and worked with Intel Capital’s mobile commerce team.

 

Digg icon reddit icon Stumbleupon icon
Contact Editor Latest News

Comments (1)

Please Login/Register to post comments.

Posted by: mlorenw@g... / Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 - 2:14 pm EDT
UH, sounds like GiftZip.com., which came out before. Suspicious.

On the MHT blog now

Flagsuit wins another NASA Astronaut Glove Challenge

Southwest Harbor, Maine's Peter Homer won $450,000 in NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge yesterday. This is Homer's second time winning the contest. Homer's first win in 2007 launched his startup, Flagsuit. Flagsuit is developing pressure suits using the same technology as Homer's prizewinning gloves -- for use as a wearable substitute for hyperbaric chambers used to treat conditions such as ...

Read More

Bryant University Graduate School
Most Popular Stories
EmailedViewed
Stay Informed
Check which newsletter you'd like to receive.
TechFlash (Daily)
FinanceFlash (Daily)
BioFlash (Daily)
GreenFlash (Weekly)
Startup Report (Weekly)
Breaking news, MHT events, local announcements
RSS feeds
Your email:

Affiliate publications: ACBJ.com, Boston Business Journal, Bizjournals.com, Portfolio.com, Wired.com

Web Site Developed by Neptune Web, Inc.

Use of, registration on, this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement. Please read our Privacy Policy (updated) A publishing partner with Portfolio