Tag Archives: Joshua Schachter
Canvas Raises $3 Million In Series A Funding
Canvas is a company that was founded by 4chan founder Christopher Poole (known as moot). Canvas has raised $3 million in Series A funding. Some of the previous angel investors that participated in this round include SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective, and Joshua Schachter. Canvas’ previous round of funding was $625,000. Canvas allows users to easily edit images through the browser. Canvas added oEmbed support for several websites recently. Canvas currently has five employees including Poole. [TechCrunch]
Kevin Rose’s Milk Inc. Raises $1.5 Million
Milk Inc. is a new company that was co-founded by Kevin Rose. Rose is the founder of Digg and co-founder of Revision3. Milk is essentially a company where several developers brainstorm technology and mobile ideas and works away at building them. If there isn’t any sudden traction, then the project gets shut down. Milk has raised $1.5 million in angel funding from well known investors. Investors include Mike Maples, Jr. (Floodgate), David Sze (Greylock Partners), Ron Conway, Dave Morin, Philip Rosedale, Evan Williams, Joshua Schachter, Ashton Kutcher, Michael Arrington, Philip Kaplan, Chris Sacca, Tony Hsieh, Gary Vaynerchuk, and several others. [VentureBeat]
Yahoo! Attempted To Unload Delicious On Digg
On the Diggnation podcast, Digg founder Kevin Rose revealed that he had talks with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) about taking over Delicious. This was before an internal memo leaked where Yahoo! said they are planning to sunset Delicious.
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Categories Delicious, Digg, Joshua Schachter, Kevin Rose, Yahoo!
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Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Now Running A Funded Company Called Tasty Labs
Joshua Schachter founded Delicious and sold it to Yahoo! in December 2005. Then he left Yahoo! in 2008 to join Google in 2009. This year he is involved in a stealth start-up company called Tasty Labs. According to the company’s homepage, Tasty Labs will put “the useful back into social software.” Tasty Labs has funding from Union Square and Andreessen Horowitz. [Union Square Ventures Blog]
Categories Andreessen Horowitz, Delicious, Joshua Schachter, Tasty Labs
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Social Gaming Company Heyzap Raises $3 Million
Heyzap is a social gaming company that has raised $3 million from Union Square Ventures, Naval Ravikant, and Chris Dixon. Heyzap essentially helps Facebook game developers port their games to other platforms. Currently Heyzap has about 30,000 games distributed to over 220,000 websites. The games are monetized from ads or virtual goods purchased through Heyzap technology. Heyzap will use the funding to expand from 10 employees to about 15 to 20 employees. Heyzap previously raised $650,000 from Union Square Ventures, Ravikant, and Joshua Schachter. [VentureBeat]
Hacker Angels Founded By Delicious Founder and Other Tech Players
A new group has been formed by Joshua Schachter (Delicious founder), Roy Rodenstein (Going founder/AOL exec), Gabriel Weinberg (Duck Duck Go), Jim Young (HotorNot), and Jeff Miller (Punchform) called Hacker Angels. The goal of Hacker Angels is to provide startups with advice and even some coding tips. It is not exactly an investment company, but more of an informal association. Hacker Angels may provide funding or serve as board members on an individual basis. [ReadWriteWeb]
Neighborhood Location-Based Service BlockChalk Raises Funding
BlockChalk is an anonymous location-based social networking service that has raised funding from Battery Ventures, Mitch Kapor, Founder Collective, Harrison Metal, Joshua Schachter, Tom McInerney, Josh Stylman, and David Liu. BlockChalk essentially encourages people to share information about the neighborhood or places around it.
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Stack Overflow Raises $6 Million From Union Square and Several Angels
Stack Overflow is a website where users can ask technical and programming languages. The website has just raised $6 million in their first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures. Other investors include Ron Conway, Caterina Fake, Chris Dixon, Bob Pasker, Micah Siegel, Naval Ravikant, Nirav Tolia, and Joshua Schachter.
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Joshua Schachter Launches Tiny Thread, Threaded Twitter Conversations
Joshua Schachter sold Delicious to Yahoo! then quit to join Google. During the election, Joshua Schachter created a GreaseMonkey script to highlight news stories in blue or red to indicate the bias of different stories on Memeorandum.com. Schachter decided to take another entrepreneurial route to launch a service called Tiny Thread.
Tiny Thread takes tweets and threads them together to form conversations. The way it works is that there are threads on the website that you can interact with. To contribute to the threads, you are required to login using a Twitter account and authorize Tiny Thread to access your account.
The threads go one level deep. Schachter did this project on his own time rather than the 20% creative time allowed as a Google employee.
[via TechCrunch]
Categories Delicious, Google, Joshua Schachter, Tiny Thread
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