NOTEBOWL: $600,000 to Scottsdale, AZ-based NoteBowl in a seed round from MagniPro Ventures. Founded in 2011, NoteBowl offers a social learning platform for college students, including private groups, messages, agendas and Hangouts on Air, which allows users to broadcast lectures, integrated with a Q&A feature, automatically saved to YouTube. NoteBowl’s pilot program is currently underway at the University of Arizona, which the three members of the executive team graduated from in 2013 and 2014.
