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Spill
Brings empathy online by crowd-sourcing peer support. Monetizes vulnerability analytics.
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Spill is a social peer support network for life's problems.

College students (soon veterans & high schoolers) can vent confidentially at SpillNow.com & get support from e-trained volunteer peers. Live at 30 schools already, Spill democratizes empathy.

Spill monetizes student behavior analytics & counselor subscriptions. Institutions & brands pay $5-20K for reporting on vulnerability trends in populations of interest. Counselors can promote themselves to struggling individuals for $30/month.

Founders
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  • Jason Freeman, CIA, CMA
    Jason Freeman, CIA, CMA
    VP of Technology and startup enthusiast.
  • Lauren Heilbrunn
    Lauren Heilbrunn
    Chapter Advisor, Crisis Counselor pursuing Master's in School Psychology; Spill enthusiast and team leader from day 1
  • Katie Krueger
    Katie Krueger
    VP of Business Development at Spill, UW-Madison MBA in Entrepreneurship. Small business owner, grant writer, and Spill strategic thought leader.
  • Meredith Bazirgan
    Meredith Bazirgan
    Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Director of Outreach at Spill
  • Heidi Allstop
    Heidi Allstop
    Founder and CEO of Spill, Inc. (TechStars Boston). Valedictorian, BA in Psychology & Business; Former Crisis Counselor
Previous Investors
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  • TechStars
    TechStars
    Investor in 100+ great startups such as SendGrid, CourseKit, Contently, CrowdTwist, Orbotix, Intense Debate (Wordpress), DailyBurn (IAC), and Filtrbox (Jive).
  • Thomas Hessler
    Thomas Hessler
    Dad | Entrepreneur | CEO | Founder zanox & Globumbus | Angel Investor in Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, Crowdeducation, Cloud social mobile geo game mashups :-)
  • Mark Hager
    Mark Hager
    Investor in Episencial, give2gether, Bit.ly, Powermat, Briefcam, Ctera Networks. Team member of ALM-UNLTD.
  • Walter A. Winshall
    Walter A. Winshall
    Unconfirmed
    Principal, Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC
  • Steve Reaser
    Steve Reaser
    Born to build... Co-founder of WebAssign, planning my next venture now. UX and product development guy, all-around geek, lean-startup advisor.
  • Evan Hackel
    Evan Hackel
    President of Ingage Consulting. Have been involved in the startup of over 10 companies. Ran a 5 billion dollar business unit of CCA Global Partners.
Incubator
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  • TechStars
    TechStars
    Investor in 100+ great startups such as SendGrid, CourseKit, Contently, CrowdTwist, Orbotix, Intense Debate (Wordpress), DailyBurn (IAC), and Filtrbox (Jive).
Advisors
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  • Don McLagan
    Don McLagan
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    Was the CEO of Compete.com. He is an investor in RunKeeper.
  • David Cohen
    David Cohen
    Founder/CEO of TechStars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
  • Shawn Broderick
    Shawn Broderick
    Chief Troublemaker @ play140 Inc.
  • Richard Dale
    Richard Dale
    Venture Capitalist, Cyclist - hence "Venture Cyclist" http://venturecyclist.blogspot.com
  • Joe Caruso
    Joe Caruso
    Investor in HubSpot, Apperian, Carbonite, Mortar Data, Kinvey, Kibits, SCVNGR, Marginize, Skyhook Wireless, Smarterer, Constant Contact, ParElastic...
  • Gus Weber
    Gus Weber
    EIR at Polaris Ventures, and lead dog @Dogpatchlabs. Spent 5 years at MSFT, part of Ray Ozzie's exec team in Bos. 6 prior years at RIT on CS/IT research.
References
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  • Richard Dale
    Richard Dale
    Venture Capitalist, Cyclist - hence "Venture Cyclist" http://venturecyclist.blogspot.com