Social group web services company Grou.ps raises $1.1M

Grou.ps, a San Francisco start-up that lets you build a social web applications site and run it yourself, has raised $1.1 million in financing. The site includes ways to add wikis, social networking-style user profiles and other features that help groups of people easily share information.

The round was led by Golden Horn Ventures. In fact, we mentioned Golden Horn’s backing when we wrote about the company back in April.

Grou.ps will also now be open-sourcing a… Continue Reading

PS: Grou.ps, another way for groups to collaborate online

PS: Grou.ps, another way for groups to collaborate online

There are already a few models out there for helping groups collaborate, including wikis and more complex conceptualizations of project management software.

Into this competitive area of web software steps Grou.ps, a sort of group-focused web software service. The company is trying to combine blogs, wikis, aggregated rss feeds, live chat and other key components of web communication into one, coherent system. One person creates a group and invites more members. Each member has their own… Continue Reading