VIPorbit Offers Apple Users Apps to Manage Their Digital Lives

A suburban Fort Worth, TX, startup has raised $1 million in angel funding in order to promote its Apple-based contact management software.

VIPorbit Software is a series of apps that can be downloaded onto the Apple iPhone, iPad, and desktops, as well as laptops and MacBooks to manage contacts, calendars, and tasks across all social media accounts.

“Our goal for VIPorbit is to reinvent the way we manage relationships,” says Mike Muhney, the startup’s founder and CEO. “I use it myself. It is my on-demand, instant-recall photographic memory executive assistant.”

In recent months, the startup unveiled redesigns of its apps and new products such as VIPorbit Contact Manager for Mac, VIPsync Service to ensure all devices are updated, and Backup My Stuff, a free data backup service. “Until we had the trifecta, we couldn’t really appeal to the global community,” Muhney says. “Now, we have a total solution.”

The potential market

Author: Angela Shah

Angela Shah was formerly the editor of Xconomy Texas. She has written about startups along a wide entrepreneurial spectrum, from Silicon Valley transplants to Austin transforming a once-sleepy university town in the '90s tech boom to 20-something women defying cultural norms as they seek to build vital IT infrastructure in a war-torn Afghanistan. As a foreign correspondent based in Dubai, her work appeared in The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek/Daily Beast and Forbes Asia. Before moving overseas, Shah was a staff writer and columnist with The Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. She has a Bachelor's of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and she is a 2007 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. With the launch of Xconomy Texas, she's returned to her hometown of Houston.