Industry Internet Website Nextcat.com | Headquarters Quincy MA, USA Founded 2009 | |
Key people Jeff Pucci, Co-founder, Chairman & CEO *Richard Viard, Co-founder, SVP of Product Development Products Entertainment industry-focused social networking site |
Nextcat is an entertainment industry-focused social networking website. Nextcat, Inc. is a privately held Delaware corporation founded in September 2005 and launched in April 2006. Nextcat.com enables both aspiring and established entertainment industry professionals a means to network and advance their careers.
Company Information
Nextcat, Inc. was founded by Berklee College of Music alumni Jeff Pucci and Richard Viard, long-time business partners who created the first-ever shipping title for the Microsoft Multimedia PC (Composer Quest, 1991) under a development partnership called Virtual Entertainment, Inc. Messrs Pucci and Viard later founded an early e-commerce company called SmarterKids.com (Nasdaq-listed IPO in November, 1999), which was subsequently sold to a Monterey, CA-based school supply firm called Excelligence Learning Corp in April, 2001.