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Trakstar Learn (formerly Mindflash)

http://www.mindflash.com/

Last activity: 01.05.2017

Active - Reference to Learning Management Software

Categories: BusinessDevelopmentEmployeeInternetLearnManagementOnlinePlatformSoftwareTraining

Mindflash users simply upload existing training materials (PowerPoint, PDF, Word, video, audio), organize them on an easy-to-use visual dashboard, and invite trainees to participate. Mindflash handles all of the testing, content management, course management, and reporting so that companies can focus on developing their employees. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Mindflash is a privately held company and is backed by the Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB). To learn more please visit www.mindflash.com

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Location: United States, Washington, Seattle

Employees: 51-200

Phone: +1 877-771-1900

Total raised: $7.5M

Founded date: 1999

Investors 1

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Funding Rounds 2

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
21.02.2013	-	$3.5M	-
02.06.2011	-	$4M	-

Mentions in press and media 21

Date	Title	Description
01.05.2017	Bots can train employees better than you can	Don’t tell your favorite grade school teacher, but bots are infinitely more patient instructors that are willing to offer assistance and information for as long and as often as they’re needed. That’s one reason big-time education advocates ...
20.07.2013	Let's take a more rational approach to 'work-life balance'	This is a guest post by Donna Wells, CEO of online training firm Mindflash. Too many CEOs pay lip service to “work-life balance” in an effort to attract top talent. Here in Silicon Valley, the notion of balance is basically a joke. Software...
24.02.2013	Startup Jobs of the Day – 24/02/2013	– TVU Networks (read here) – SimScale (read here) – Living Social (read here) – Cmune (read here) – SocioCast (read here) – Smarkets (read here) – Pinterest (read here) – Fortumo (read here) – Drawbridge (read here) – Mindflash (read here) ...
21.02.2013	Mindflash Raises Additional $3.5M from Investment Group of Santa Barbara	Mindflash, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based online training platform for businesses, raised an additional $3.5m in funding from existing backer the Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB). The company intends to use the company to continue to enh...
21.02.2013	Investment Group of Santa Barbara Backs Mindflash	The Investment Group of Santa Barbara is the primary backer of a developer of online training software for corporations, which announced a funding round Thursday. Mindflash, a Silicon Valley-based developer of online software for learning m...
21.02.2013	Mindflash Announces $3.5M Investment	PALO ALTO, CA, Leading online training platform for businesses, raised $3.5 million in new funding from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB). >> Click here for more funding data on Mindflash >> To export Mindflash fu...
19.02.2013	Mindflash Zooms Ahead in Online Employee Training, Adds $3.5 Million	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints In the world of online training and education, personal video instruction sites like Udacity, Coursera, Khan Academy, and Lynda.com have been sucking up a lot of the oxygen. C...
14.08.2012	Yammer Gets HootSuite Integration, A New “Inbox” and Its Own Design Improvements Independent of Microsoft	Yammer’s first new release under the Microsoft umbrella has nothing to do with Microsoft . It’s not about integrating with Sharepoint or Microsoft Dynamics. It’s about changes to the Yammer platform and a new integration with HootSuite as w...
08.05.2012	Not on LinkedIn? Here’s How to Start. [Infographic]	It may sound trite, but if you want to be hired in 2012, you are going to need a LinkedIn profile. The website tops all other social networks when it comes to finding jobs, and adoption of the site is still growing. The site itself has made...
13.12.2011	How Mindflash Disrupted Itself by Taking Training Software to the Web	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints If you’re a technology company, it’s painful to bury an obsolete product before it’s well and truly dead. Most established companies can’t bring themselves to do it, choosing ...
03.06.2011	Mindflash Collects $4M	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Palo Alto, CA-based Mindflash, which makes software that helps companies develop and administer online training courses, said this week that it has raised $4 million in new fu...
02.06.2011	Mindflash Raises $4M in Funding	Mindflash, a Palo Alto, CA-based company operating a web platform that enables companies to share knowledge and train employees, has raised $4m in funding. The round was led by the Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB), which already inv...
02.06.2011	Mindflash secures $4 million for Web training	Platform for companies to share knowledge and train employees funded again by Santa Barbara group As the number of stay-at-home employees continues to grow, the demand for online training tools must necessarily rise. Especially in cases whe...
02.06.2011	Santa Barbara Investor Puts $4M Into Mindflash	The Investment Group of Santa Barbara, a venture capital investment group based in Santa Barbara, has invested $4M in funding for a developer of a web-based cloud training software firm, Mindflash, Mindflash said today. Mindflash, which is ...
02.06.2011	Mindflash Raises $4 Million For Online Training Software	Online training software startup Mindflash.com has raised $4 million in new funding led by the Investment Group of Santa Barbara. This investment brings the startup’s total funding to $9 million. Mindflash, which is led by Donna Wells (Mint...
04.04.2011	Six Small-Business Tax Breaks for 2010	April 4, 2011 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you're still scrambling to get your 2010 taxes filed, take heart. Last year was awash with small-business tax deductions. And since 2011 may be less so...
20.12.2010	Top 10 SMB Tech Tools of 2010	In 2010, it felt like the flurry of new startups and Web tools only accelerated, with more and more products popping up every week. For business owners, it’s not always easy to stay on top of it all, let alone take each of these new offerin...
27.09.2010	Mindflash Releases Online Training Software To The Public	Online training software startup Mindflash.com is debuting its software to the public today after being in private beta over the past few months. We have a 20 percent discount on the software for TechCrunch readers here. Mindflash.com is a ...
27.09.2010	Mindflash kills the training coordinator for small to mid-size businesses	Mindflash, which provides a web-based application for training programs, announced today it is coming out of closed beta with a subscription-based pricing model geared toward smaller business that is several times cheaper than most firms of...
12.05.2010	Mindflash Hires Mint.com Vet, Launches Private Beta	Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com, a provider of online training software for small businesses, said today that it has named Donna Wells as its new President and CEO. Wells was most recently CMO of Mint.com. The firm--which offers self-driv...
11.05.2010	Former Mint.com Marketing Chief Joins Online Training Software Startup Mindflash As CEO	Following Mint.com’s $170 million acquisition by Intuit last fall, the personal finance site’s CMO, Donna Wells took a well-deserved few months to spend quality time with her family after a whirlwind two years with Mint. Today, she’s announ...

Trakstar Learn (formerly Mindflash)

Investors 1

Funding Rounds 2

Mentions in press and media 21

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