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Jacked Joins Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program

STARTUP BEAT | January 23, 2008

Santa Monica-based Jacked, an online publishing platform designed to operate simultaneously with TV programming, today announced that it has been selected to join Microsoft’s Startup Accelerator Program.  The program is designed to connect high-potential startups to an extensive support network that it says provides access to Microsoft people and programs, guidance on future directions, and support to accelerate participants’ success.

Microsoft says the requirements for inclusion in the program are innovation, marketability, growth potential, funding, platform decision and strategy.  Microsoft evaluates hundreds of startups before choosing participants.

Jacked’s platform, which is particularly focused on sports programming, is a mixture of online applications with a library of information, media, game, commerce and advertising spots, which it says allows users to interact with shows through information like statistics, photos, player information, play-by-play, chat and news. 

The company was founded in 2006 by former American Greetings Mobile chief Bryan Biniak.  It raised $6.5 million in September from Provenance Ventures, Core Capital Partners and Gabriel Venture Partners.

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Jacked, Inc. is NOT associated with or authorized by any of the television broadcast companies, networks, or cable companies or the amateur, collegiate, or professional sports teams, athletes, or leagues. Jacked, Inc. is a completely independent news and information service provided to individuals like YOU who seek greater connection and interaction. Jacked uses team and league names and logos solely to identify them and to provide information, and those names and logos do not indicate any sponsorship or licensing connection or any other connection between Jacked and those teams or leagues. Jacked, Inc. is the first provider of a state-of-the-art system to make it possible to receive the information you need while you are watching other media. The Jacked TVTop™, the Jacked SportsTop™, and Jacked are registered trademarks of Jacked, Inc.