Tech Startup Founders Worldwide Rake in 100 Million Dollars in F6S Startup Card Deal
F6S Card Membership For Tech Startups Hits 150,000
London, October 23, 2013 –F6S, the social network for startups, today announced that it has delivered $100 Million Dollars in deals (including hosting, email infrastructure and other services startup founders need to grow their businesses) all for free. Also, F6S announced that 150,000 startup founders now have full access to the deals through F6S Startup Card membership.
F6S is the leading global community for startup founders. It is made up of startup founders around the world, over 1,000 supporting companies, more than 3,000 startup programs and thousands of mentors and investors. The F6S community is focussed on helping founders grow through startup events, accelerator programs, community and jobs. The F6S Startup Card deals now drive the world’s largest tech startup deals community.
Egidijus Jarasunas , F6S Co-Founder, said, “One-hundred million dollars in F6S Startup Card benefits for founders is huge. We’re honoured that the global community of F6S startup founders, accelerators, funds and supporting companies have joined together to reach the goal.”
The F6S Startup Card fuels founder growth with over $300,000 worth of free or discounted deals for startup founders in 28 different categories - such as hosting, email infrastructure, analytics and customer service tools.
F6S Startup Card holder Joaquim Valente of Playnify said, “I’m proud to be part of this community – the $3,800 in Google hosting and Mixpanel analytics on our F6S Startup Card are getting us to market. It’s like F6S was my investor!”
Startup founders can get their own F6S Startup Card in seconds and for free at: www.f6s.com/startupcard
Any company, large or small, can support startups and gain customers by adding a deal to the F6S Startup Card. Companies such as Google, Rackspace, Zopim, Sendgrid and Stripe have jumped on board to participate in the F6S Startup Card. There’s no charge and the offer is immediately available to startups around the world.
Adam Hansen , of Rackspace Startup Programme, said: Rackspace is all about startups. The global startup community is on F6S and it’s a powerful platform for us to connect with the best founders globally, deliver targeted benefits and tell the Rackspace startup story. We love to give back and F6S’s scale helps us reach their startup community.”
Companies that want to support startup founders can add a deal to the F6S Startup Card immediately and for free at www.f6s.com/deals
F6S released the following statistics about F6S Startup Card use:
· 64% of the 31.337 F6S startups have taken at least one deal available through their F6S Startup Card
· F6S startups have received $5,272 in value on average from their F6S Startup Card
· The most popular five categories for F6S Startup Card holders are cloud services (21%), design (9.75%), hosting (5.95%), analytics (5.95%) and email (5.35%)
· Startups from 120 countries have received deals. Startups from 62 countries have provided deals.
F6S, of course, is an F6S Startup Card holder and currently receives deals from Rackspace (hosting), Mailchimp (email), Sendgrid (email), Stripe (payment processing) and Moz (SEO).
About F6S
F6S is the leading social network for startups. It is a community of startup founders, startup programs, companies and others united in the goal of helping tech startup’s grow. Following inception in September 2011, F6S has grown to serve the global startup founder and program community with jobs, deals, community spaces and deal flow tools.
F6S is also comprised globally of more than 2,000 startup programs including: UK (TechStarts, Oxygen, more), US (Tech Wildcatters, TechStars, Dreamit, more), Canada (GrowLab, more), Australia/NZ (AngelCube, PushStart, more), Asia (Spark Labs, JFDI, more), India (the Morpheus, GSF India, more) and South America (NXTP, Nazca, more). F6S is based in London’s Tech City region, with startup representatives around the world.
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Exclusive VIP F6S Gold Card available to top startups: The F6S Gold Card, only available to founders in top startup programs, now has 5,945 eligible founders who are getting $780,000 value in deals. Membership in the F6S Gold Card is completely free, but is by invitation only. It can’t be purchased and reduces operational expenses for a typical tech startup to nothing for the first year of operations.
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