Got a social media application? Need funding? You might want to get in touch with Howard Lindzon, a hedge fund trader who, as part of an eight-person team, has launched Social Leverage, LLC to invest in hot new social applications.

Social Leverage aims to invest in early stage companies that make applications for social media. The fund’s current portfolio includes Twitter client, Tweetdeck, Lindzon’s Twitter for stock tips service StockTwits and WallHogs, which prints over-sized vinyl wall hangings from user-uploaded images.

Source: Marshall Kirkpatrick, “Howard Lindzon and Friends Launch New Investment Fund for Social Apps,” ReadWriteWeb, February 25, 2009

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