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Fonpods, Inc.

Product Name

Fonpods

Market Segment

Consumer Internet

Funding

Seed round: Privately funded, $200,000

Competitors

Snapvine, Upsnap, Audioblogger

Product Description

Freeing consumers from their computers, Fonpods is designed to provide convenient, cost-free mobile access to digital audio content through the simplest, most ubiquitous consumer device—the phone.

Market Opportunity

At the convergence of digital media and mobile technology, Fonpods is in an ideal place to service a market that, according to Forrester Research, will grow to 2.3 million U.S. households by 2010.

Demo Says

Fonpods gets high marks for making listening to your favorite podcasts a breeze. Sure, there will be times when you want to download feeds to your desktop or MP3 player. Fonpods eliminates the download and instead streams podcasts to any phone, simply by dialing into your Fonpods account. Fonpods is very convenient, extremely useful, and will surely be a hit among big-time podcast listeners.