Blockboard is a early-stage startup that is dedicated to reconnecting neighbors and neighborhoods.

Founded by a small group of product, design, and engineering vets, we have raised a round of funding from some of the most respected investors in the industry. We are based in San Francisco.

Prior to early 2011 we were known as "BlockChalk".

Our iPhone app is now available to San Francisco residents via the App Store.

Collaborative Consumption: A Useful Way of Reducing SF's Carbon Footprint - 12/22/11
One of the most significant social and economic trends that has emerged from technology entrepreneurs in 2011 is collaborative consumption. [...] Zaarly, Taskrabbit, and Blockboard, represent smart upgrades to Craigslist, helping people connect with their neighbors for the purposes of exchanging goods, services and expertise.

Will the Local Social Network of the Future Be More Like Facebook or Twitter? - 10/26/11
Nextdoor and Blockboard have different local social approaches. [Blockboard is] more like Twitter, where users can represent themselves however they want.

Blockboard, the Hyperlocal Mobile Craigslist That Helps You Meet Your Neighbors - 9/8/11
For many city-dwellers, there's a huge disconnect between the number of friends we have on Facebook, and the number of friends we have in our neighborhood. Blockboard is a hyperlocal startup on a mission to do something about that problem, first in San Francisco, and then in other cities across the country.

Mobile Neighborhood App Blockboard Now Covers All Of San Francisco - 7/29/11
What would Craigslist look like if it was a mobile app? It might look a little bit like Blockboard, a neighborhood app which is expanding today from its initial neighborhood of the Mission in San Francisco to the rest of the city. Co-founder Stephen Hood demoed the app at our Mobile First CrunchUp today.

7 phone apps that can make cities better - 5/26/11
One of the greatest allures of a smart phone is the time it saves at the bus stop. Having real-time transit info and nearby stop locations at your fingertips makes city living just a little easier. But popular transit apps are just the beginning. Increasingly, smart phone technology is fundamentally changing the way we physically experience our cities.

Building a Better Neighborhood, the iPhone Edition - 5/3/11
People like to talk to their neighbors. People are also terrified of their neighbors. Since time immemorial, sociologists, anthropologists, urban planners, politicians, community organizers and those wanting to throw neighborhood block parties have sought to understand and resolve this phenomenon. Add to the list a new iPhone app: Blockboard.

New app Blockboard acts as digital bulletin for the Mission - 5/1/11
Social media has transformed the way people connect across continents, but now the Mission district is the test case to see whether it can strike up better interaction between neighbors.

Blockboard: Bringing the Neighborhood to the Palm of Your Hand - 4/25/11
Civic tech startup Blockboard aims to reconnect and enhance neighborhoods through smartphone technology, putting messaging, city services and local news together in a fun social format.

Blockboard puts the whole neighborhood in your pocket - 4/18/11
Blockboard is the latest start-up building a location-based mobile application that aims to give you a hyperlocal view into everything happening in your neighborhood. The iPhone app is currently available in alpha for San Francisco's Mission District residents and will expand into other neighborhoods in the coming months.

BlockChalk Starting to Look Like Delicious Meets Foursquare Meets Technorati
BlockChalk, an unusual location based service that has yet to launch publicly but will focus on allowing users to post messages to their neighbors, announced today that it has hired Ian Kallen, an engineer who helped build high-profile blog search engine Technorati for 5 years.

What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York
Several promising startups -- some venture funded, others nonprofit -- have begun to explore and, in some cases, expand on the 311 mission. [...] BlockChalk has released an iPhone app that uses GPS data to let users create public notes tagged to specific locations.

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Local startup BlockChalk raises national money with AngelList
"Today we're announcing that BlockChalk has raised money with AngelList. I think the foundation of BlockChalk's fund-raising story is the pedigree of their team: Stephen Hood is the former head of product at del.icio.us, Dave Baggeroer is part of Stanford's d.school faculty, and Josh Whiting is a former senior engineer at craigslist and former head of engineering for del.icio.us."

BlockChalk Shares "Lessons Learned" From Raising Seed Funding
"Company blogs are a good way to post press releases and make staff and product announcements. But they're always particularly helpful when startups use them to share "lessons learned" from various stages of the entrepreneurial process. Today BlockChalk updated its blog today with some of the lessons the founders learned from raising angel investment."

BlockChalk Draws $1 Million In Seed Financing From Schachter, Battery, And Founder Collective
"Geo-messaging startup BlockChalk raised $1 million in seed financing from an impressive group of investors, including Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Lotus founder Mitch Kapor, the Founder Collective, Battery Ventures, Harrison Metal, Josh Stylman, Tom McInerney, and David Liu."

BlockChalk lands $1M for community-based mobile messaging
"BlockChalk, a mobile application that lets people leave messages for other community members, today announced it has secured a $1 million round of funding, the company's first. The funding will be used to expand the company's team as it looks for iPhone developers and server-side engineers.".

BlockChalk Locates A New Co-Founder From Craigslist (Another Former Delicious Key Architect)
"Along with his title of co-founder, Whiting will be BlockChalk's chief engineer. The location space continues to be red hot right now, and BlockChalk has a compelling, yet simple product."

The Next Challenges for Mobile phones: Find Me and Tell Me Who I Am
Use BlockChalk, FourSquare and Google's Near Me Now to "...leave location-based messages at the end of your road or in a cafe, as kind of green graffiti that doesn't despoil the streets."

BlockChalk: A Free Location-based Bulletin Board for iPhone/Palm Pre/Android
".... BlockChalk acts a lot more like a community message board for the 21st century."