Atlas Ventures Posts

Apr 25, 2012

People Search Engine Ark Raises $4.2 Million In Seed Round

Ark is a people search engine launched at Y Combinator Demo Day that has raised $4.2 million in a seed round of funding. Ark crawls Facebook, RenRen, LinkedIn, and Twitter to find out as much data as possible. The founders at Ark got the idea for the startup when they found out that 30% of searches are for people.
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Oct 17, 2011

Amit Chowdhry

Social Learning Startup Grockit Raises $7 Million

Grockit is a social learning startup company that has raised $7 million in Series D. Current investor Atlas Ventures led the round. Existing investors Benchmark and Integral Capital also participated. New investors NewSchools Venture Fund and GSV Capital CEO Michael Moe participated in this round.
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