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Canvas Raises $3 Million In Series A Funding

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:27:20 +0000

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

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:04:55 +0000

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

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:52:04 +0000

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.

Initially Rose said he thought Yahoo! wanted to sell them off, but it turns out they wanted to give Delicious a new home in general. That is when they started talking about how much it would cost to keep Delicious online.

Rose wrote in a tweet after the slide leaked that he would be interested in buying Delicious and combining it with Digg to make one giant bookmarking website. One of the ideas he had in upgrading Delicious is by allowing users to take a snapshot of websites that they bookmarked. He also believed that audio recording and audio annotations would be a good addition to Delicious bookmarks. Rose had also contacted Delicious founder Joshua Schachter to find out if he would join him in working on a project to enhance Delicious. He does not know whether Yahoo! would hand Delicious to him or not.

Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Now Running A Funded Company Called Tasty Labs

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:45:32 +0000

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]

Social Gaming Company Heyzap Raises $3 Million

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:53:20 +0000

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

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:27:46 +0000

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

Amit Chowdhry — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:22:39 +0000

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.
BlockChalk will use the funding to hire additional engineers and expand their service. However BlockChalk faces intense competition amongst other location-based services. The service is currently popular in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.

[ReadWriteWeb]

Stack Overflow Raises $6 Million From Union Square and Several Angels

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:33:55 +0000

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.

Stack Overflow describes themselves as a wiki, a blog, a forum, and a social website. Stack Overflow receives 7.1 million unique visitors per month. While the company receives high traffic, they had a hard time charging for their services. This may be one of the reasons why they needed to raise funding according to VentureBeat.

[VentureBeat via NYT]

Joshua Schachter Launches Tiny Thread, Threaded Twitter Conversations

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:59:55 +0000

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]