McCann and his roommate, Brendan McManus, co-founded Startup Digest after the first email.[1][6] Within 90 days, their list grew from 22 people to 12,000.[7] They took $25,000 in initial funding, and by the end of the first year, their list reached 100,000 subscribers.[4][8][9] In March 2011, they received an additional $200,000 in funding from the Kauffman Foundation.[10] Currently, Startup Digest has more than 430,000 subscribers.[11]