Amit Chowdhry | May 8, 2011 | 876 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Alexis Ohanian, Andreessen Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher, Elad Gil, First Round Capital, Grubwithus, Guy Oseary, Matt Cutts, Maynard Webb, New Enterprise Associations, Paul Buchheit, Start Fund, SV Angel, Vivi Nevo, Y Combinator, Yuri Milner

Grubwithus is a social dining service where you pick a restaurant in a city that you like and buy a ticket for a meal at a set price. To really make the service work, other people have to buy a meal at the same place and you can coordinate a time to meet at the restaurant.

Amit Chowdhry | November 22, 2010 | 747 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Badgeville, Felix Investments, Joe Lonsdale, Maynard Webb, Pejman Nozad, Zain Khan

Badgeville is a service where you can check-in to websites. Similar to Foursquare, you can earn badges for checking in to certain websites for a specific amount of time. Badgeville has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding. Investors in this round of funding include Maynard Webb (eBay COO), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir Founder), Pejman Nozad, Zain Khan, Felix Investments, and senior execs from PayPal, Chegg, Shopping.com, Drugstore.com, and Warner Music. Badgeville is working with over 1,500 companies to offer them real-time analytics about people visiting their website. Partners that signed up include Comcast Sports, Philly.com, and The Next Web. [TechCrunch]