CircleUp lets you organize without email overload, raises cash

circleup-logo.jpgCircleUp, a service that lets you send questions by email to groups as large as hundreds or thousands of people, and then collect and organize answers on a single page, has raised $3 million in a first round of financing.

The service is a free, useful work tool that helps you avoid having to manually sort through a blizzard of individual email responses. Companies and individual event organizers may find it boosts productivity. It lets you tailor the sorts of responses you want from people, for example providing a multiple choices of possible answers. It lets you use instant messaging, too. The company’s 3.5 minute demo at the home page is worth a look to grasp its other features.

Today, the Newport Beach, Calif. company launches an embeddable widget for any Web site, letting event organizers work directly from their site. The answers can be shared with others.

The funding was led by Sid R. Bass Associates.

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  • Keith
    Very cool. This is one of the most useful & simple tools that I have seen in sometime. I agree, the video demo is worth a watch.
  • anon
    sounds like zaplet (firedrop) to me
  • John Gannon
    I haven't used this service yet, but how much different is this from LinkedIn Answers?