More investment news on the social TV front: the real-time social TV guide TweetTV says it raised $750K in funding from angel investor Joe Kalfa. The company says it will use the funding to hire talent, create mobile apps and power its upcoming “partner and social rewards programs.”
Using real-time Twitter analysis, TweetTV ranks shows on the air by popularity, down to the market level. Users can enter “Tweet Rooms” to see Twitter-filtered conversations, join in with their own tweets, participate in polls and engage in video chats.
“I couldn’t be more excited about the future of tweetTV,” said Founder/CEO Bradley Markham, a former Google employee. “Not all investors or investments are created equally, and in Mr. Kalfa, we found the perfect seed-stage investor who shares TweetTV’s vision to create a platform for meaningful social TV conversations and TV discovery tools that re-invent the TV guide.”
Kalfa is also an investor in Wahooly, a startup acceleration program. TweetTV has been accepted into Wahooly, which comes with a social promotion perk: “5,000 social influencers with Klout scores in the 90th percentile will aggressively promote TweetTV beginning later this spring,” TweetTV explains.