UserVoice has raised $800,000 of venture capital funding from some of the highest-profile investors in social media, including Ron Conway's Baseline Ventures, FF Angel LLC (the seed-investing vehicle of Founders Fund) and Betaworks.
The startup simplifies the process of gathering customer feedback on Web sites and has been embraced by many Web 2.0 startups. UserVoice currently counts about 15,000 organizations as customers, including some of its backers and their portfolio companies.
"We were customers of UserVoice long before we were investors," says Andrew Weissman, co-founder of Betaworks, which develops Web 2.0 tools as well as investing in other companies that make them.
Other investors in UserVoice include David Shen Ventures LLC; the Accelerator Group, or TAG; and angels Vincent Worms, who co-founded Paris-based Partech International; and Howard Lindzon, the creator of WallStrip, co-founder of StockTwits and founder of Social Leverage LLC.
As Lindzon put it in his characteristically blunt style: "UserVoice is a consumer-facing, easy, friendly way for companies, especially big, lazy, dumb ones like the government, to use the public channel to improve the whole product." - Mary Kathleen Flynn
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