Uniiverse Gets Funding For Socially Collaborative Network Platform
Uniiverse announced today that it has acquired $750k in seed funding for its platform of social collaboration and industry networking.
Uniiverse brings ticket priced value to the engagement by allowing social marketing for individual facilitation of items, hours, efforts, anything you might want to network, share, or offer for sale. It brings the benefit of recognition to the transaction by suggesting location and social contacts, friendships and mutual friends, previous interactions and ratings, reviews, and participation amongst users.
Billed as the marketplace for collaborative living, this platform's wish is to create an open forum for exchange of entrepreneurial expertise, and to encourage excitement for the effort. It's a self-described online store front that its CEO, Craig Follett proclaims is intended to "disrupt traditional classified sites" which don't offer the value of trusted knowledge according to associative friendships.
It's a meeting place for the memorable and familiar, and a like-kind arena for trade and skills monetization. Suggests Mr. Follett, “There’s currently no transport of trust across verticals and categories, and, as a result, the value of the sharing economy really isn’t fully tapped yet," in comparing its use to that of marketplace websites such as Craigslist.
The site is free to anyone posting an ad or listing. The site adds a variable transaction fee to the list price, which fee is charged to the buyer.
Uniiverse encourages all listings, including free ads and listings intended to generate engaged and coordinated efforts and to bring better awareness to platform results.
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