"It was during their time at Oxford that they came up with the idea for GroupSpaces, a consumer technology business that helps anyone with a real-world club or society organize its activities online. Both were committee members of various university societies and witnessed how time-consuming and inefficient it was to store membership data, communicate with members and collect payments using a variety of platforms."
"As Oxfordshire's entrepreneurial ecosystem grows, the traffic between Oxfordshire and Silicon Valley is becoming increasingly two-way. Take David Langer, who studied maths at Oxford (St Anne's, 2004) and founded his start-up, GroupSpaces, with investment from Chris Sacca (formerly Google), whom he met at 'Silicon Valley comes to Oxford'."
"Europe is producing some very strong online services - think Groupspaces, Huddle, Spotify, Skype, Tradeshift and LOVEFILM - that have a large and growing user base. The next step for them is to truly unlock the power of their service across mobile platforms."
"The GroupSpaces co-founder explains how his three-year-old start-up has already launched in the US and why the UK is as good a place as "anywhere in the world" to start a tech business."
"For formal groups like clubs or organizations, GroupSpaces is a great solution. It manages members, organizes gatherings, and shares calendars and documents. GroupSpaces even allows you to collect money from members for dues and group events."
"CEO and co-founder of Groupspaces, David Langer, has revealed the importance of social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook for start-up companies’ chances of at success."
"An Oxford student start-up is reaping the rewards of entrepreneurship activity at the Saïd Business School. An online group management site that originated from Oxford Entrepreneurs, the popular University of Oxford student society, has raised a second round of funding of $1.3 million from Oxford and Silicon Valley investors this summer, through connections enabled by Saïd Business School’s entrepreneurial ecosystem."
"GroupSpaces was borne of an idea had at university and launched in 2007. Today, it has completed second round funding led by Index Ventures and its software is used to manage over 600,000 memberships for sports clubs and other groups [...] 2011 may well be a huge year for GroupSpaces as it cements its UK business and focuses on the US."
"UK-startup GroupSpaces, which recently announced new funding, has partnered with WePay, a former YCombinator startup billing itself as the “PayPal for groups”. With some deep API integration, GroupSpaces users can now sign up to WePay within GroupSpaces and collect money for their groups. This gives groups a U.S. bank account with a debit card, something even PayPal doesn’t do."
"GroupSpaces, the management and administration website for university clubs and societies, is launching into the US university market."
"GroupSpaces provides an all-in-one set of free tools designed to comprehensively meet the needs of university clubs and societies. This offering gives them a website, professional email templates, online membership database, Facebook integration and event management tools, making running a society much quicker and easier. Since 2007, GroupSpaces’ UK university membership has grown to over 200,000 members from 2,000 societies."
"PROfounders Capital’s Brent Hoberman, famous for co-founding of Lastminute.com, and Rogan Angelini-Hurll, take us through their top 10 European technology companies of 2010. [...] 6. GroupSpaces – helps digitally manage and improve real-world memberships. The London-based company develops technology to help groups offline run their memberships with more efficiency and ease online."
"GroupSpaces, the UK's leading website for the online management and administration of university clubs and societies, has secured an investment of $1.3m from Index Ventures and an ‘angel investor consortium', and also opened a New York office to spearhead its expansion into the US market."
"The latest newcomer to shake up the group organizing space is GroupSpaces Ltd., a London-based startup that operates a website for managing and administering clubs and organizations."
"GroupSpaces, which provides an online management and administration system for clubs and other community groups has secured a $1.3 million investment round from Index Ventures and a leading angel investor consortium including Dave McClure, Chris Sacca, Simon Levene, Meagan Marks, Ariel Poler and Quincy Smith of CODE Advisors."
"Oxford University graduates are now running one of Britain's most high-potential online community businesses."
"David Langer on his leap from Young Enterprise finance director to international entrepreneur."
"Two new businesses in the UK have proved in recent days that you can get funding if you have the right idea. [...] Last week GroupSpaces announced that it had secured $1.3m in funding from Index Ventures and a consortium of angel investors. [...] Every time a My Wardrobe or GroupSpaces gets funded, the outlook for other UK firms just gets a little brighter."
"Online group management site GroupSpaces has secured $1.3m from Index Ventures’ seed fund and leading Silicon Valley angels."
"UK startup GroupSpaces.com, which aims to be the number one choice for organizers of real-world groups, has secured $1.3 million in funding from Index Ventures plus a range of world class angel investors."
"Index Ventures has ponied up for a $1.3 million financing round for GroupSpaces, a British start-up that provides tools for groups and communities to manage and promote themselves online."
"Oxford investors and Silicon Valley heavyweights back ex-students."
"GroupSpaces has secured $1.3 million investment round from Index Ventures and an angel investor consortium including Dave McClure, Chris Sacca, Simon Levene, Meagan Marks, Ariel Poler and Quincy Smith of CODE Advisors. Index Ventures partner, Mike Volpi, will take a board seat."
"Leading venture capital fund Index Ventures has invested $1.3m in a young British company that promises to help thousands of small community groups and sports clubs cope with the planned abolition of cheques."
"Not unlike Mark Zuckerberg a few years ago, a couple of British Oxford university students realised there had to be a better way to network online.. David Langer and Andy Young came up with GroupSpaces in 2007. Three years later they’ve expanded beyond university campuses to hit 500,000 group memberships and are now set to go international with the injection of $1.3m investment."
"It is the perfect tool for arranging group activities - it is simple yet powerful, and every key point is covered."
"GroupSpaces has been chosen by a judging panel including Deborah Measden and other leading entrepreneurs such as Bebo Founder Michael Birch as a winner of Smarta.com’s inaugural ‘Smarta 100’."
"Just having a payment feature combined with a mailing list is a big huzzah, and it seems like GroupSpaces has done an excellent job understanding the features of their target audience."
"GroupSpaces is a management platform that allows university groups and societies to publicise what they do and organise their membership on a day-to-day basis. So far David and Andy have raised funding in the region of six-figures and in April the company was named one of the 20 most promising UK web start-ups through WebMission."
"Langer and Young are the co-founders of GroupSpaces.com, an Oxford-based internet company aiming to organise the world's groups. In January 2008, GroupSpaces raised six-figure funding; in April the company was selected for WebMission as one of 20 promising UK web startups, traveling to Silicon Valley and backed by HSBC, BT, TechCrunch and UKTI."
"The start-up, born out of Oxford University, is probably the sector's most web-business savvy...It provides everything a group organiser needs to administer their membership, while keeping things simple, clean and functional."
"Maggie Hartford meets young entrepreneurs developing a better way to communicate.."
This article appeared in the June/July issue of the Oxford Times "In Business" magazine.
"David Langer, a co-founder of GroupSpaces, an internet firm, started out with a bootstrap business before seeking funding. GroupSpaces paid for itself with advertising for six months before he sought venture capital."
"GroupSpaces, an Oxford-based web company which provides online tools for real-world groups has recently arrived back from Silicon Valley after being selected to attend WebMission 2008, a week-long trade mission for the UK's twenty most promising Web companies."
"Chris Hogan meets two young cyber-entrepreneurs on the cusp of hitting the big time"
This article appeared in the March/April issue of the Oxford Times "In Business" magazine.
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"During the week of 19-25 April [...] 20 UK startups invade, courtesy of the British government. [...] The confirmed companies for Web Mission 08 are:
GroupSpaces - Web-based tools for groups"
"After months of planning and an application and judging process lasting several weeks [...] the confirmed companies for Web Mission 08 are:
Groupspaces - Web-based tools for groups"
"The founders of GroupSpaces, which was set up in 2007 and provides online tools such as mailing lists for club and society organisers, this week announced that a consortium of business 'angels', including the London-based Avonmore Developments, has agreed to help fund their company."
"GroupSpaces, an Oxford-based Internet company that provides online tools to enable groups, societies and clubs to manage their communications and data, today announced that it has raised a six figure round of investment from a consortium of investors."
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