{"id":26365,"date":"2011-02-10T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=26365"},"modified":"2011-09-13T01:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T09:09:35","slug":"montreals-george-favvas-heads-to-valley-to-start-rewardli-with-funding-from-500-startups-real-ventures","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/montreals-george-favvas-heads-to-valley-to-start-rewardli-with-funding-from-500-startups-real-ventures","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s George Favvas heads to Valley to start Rewardli with funding from 500 Startups, Real Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/a2.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1181080854\/george-avatar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave McClure&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/500startups.com\/\">500 Startups<\/a>&nbsp;accelerator has officially&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/02\/10\/500-startups-announces-first-class-of-new-incubator-program\/\">announced the companies<\/a>&nbsp;participating in its first batch. Montr&eacute;al entrepreneur&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/georgefavvas\">George Favvas<\/a>&nbsp;(founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/smarthippo.com\/\">SmartHippo<\/a>) is heading down to Silicon Valley with his brand new company <a href=\"http:\/\/rewardli.com\/\">Rewardli<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly Rewardli is remains to be seen, but it&#8217;s supposedly in the up-and-coming &#8220;social commerce&#8221; space. George has a cofounder as well, NextMontreal reports, but his name is still under wraps. Oh, the mystique!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/500startups.com\/images\/logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/realventures.com\/\">Real Ventures<\/a>&nbsp;is matching any investment made in Rewardli by 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave McClure&rsquo;s&nbsp;500 Startups&nbsp;accelerator has officially&nbsp;announced the companies&nbsp;participating in its first batch. Montr&eacute;al entrepreneur&nbsp;George Favvas&nbsp;(founder of SmartHippo) is heading down to Silicon Valley with his brand new company Rewardli. What exactly Rewardli is remains to be seen, but it&#8217;s supposedly in the up-and-coming &#8220;social commerce&#8221; space. George has a cofounder as well, NextMontreal reports, but his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":26367,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-26365","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/26365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/26365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/26367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26365"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=26365"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=26365"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=26365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}