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ViaTech and the expensive life of a document
A training manual can be cheap to print and costly to manage. ViaTech built its business around everything that happens between approving a page and putting it in the right hands.
Ink'd Greetings
Ink'd Greetings is a Phoenix-based startup building self-service kiosks that let shoppers design, personalize and print a real greeting card - and optionally load a gift card onto it - in about 30 seconds for $2.99. Founded in 2023 by husband-and-wife team Andrew and Sammi Ekmark, the company is pitching a modern, on-demand alternative to the Hallmark-dominated card aisle, placing machines in malls, campus stores and retail partners. It has raised roughly $1M in seed funding (led by Hamid Shojaee of AZ Disruptors) and is expanding toward a nationwide footprint.
Andrew Ekmark
Andrew Ekmark is the CEO and co-founder of Ink'd Greetings, a Phoenix-based startup that builds touchscreen kiosks printing personalized greeting cards on demand in about 30 seconds. He launched the company in 2023 with his wife Sammi after a frustrating last-minute Valentine's Day card hunt at Target, and has since grown the business to kiosks across dozens of states, raising roughly $2.5 million while taking direct aim at the legacy greeting card industry.