Amit Chowdhry | November 17, 2011 | 303 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Andreessen Horowitz, David Nizkad, Dennis Kavelman, Inovia Capital, Jawed Karim, Paul Buchheit, SoftTech VC, SV Angel, Vidyard, Vivi Nevo, Y Combinator
Vidyard is a company that is considered a “YouTube for Businesses.” The company has raised $1.65 million from SoftTech VC, Jawed Karim (YouTube co-founder), Y Combinator, SV Angel, iNovia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Paul Buchheit, Vivi Nevo, David Nizkad, Dennis Kavelman, and several others.
Amit Chowdhry | July 17, 2011 | 455 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Ashton Kutcher, First Round Capital, Guy Oseary, MemSQL, New Enterprise Associates, Paul Buchheit, Sam Altman, Start Fund, SV Angel, Y Combinator
MemSQL has raised $2.1 million in seed funding from First Round Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Start Fund, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Ashton Kutcher, Paul Bucheit, Sam Altman, Guy Oseary, and several others. MemSQL will be using the funding to move into a new office in downtown San Francisco. MemSQL is an in-memory database system that is 30 times faster than relational databases. MemSQL focuses on online transaction processing.
Amit Chowdhry | May 8, 2011 | 858 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 | March 4, 2011 | 611 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Alex Kinnier, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Metamorphic Ventures, MyLikes, Paul Buchheit
MyLikes has raised $5.6 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures. Lightspeed Partners and Metamorphic Ventures also participated in this round. Seed investor Paul Buchheit and Alex Kinnier is joining the MyLikes board of directors. MyLikes aims to connect social influencers with advertising companies to endorse products on social networks. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | February 16, 2011 | 810 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under 1000Memories, Caterina Fake, Chris Sacca, David Thacker, Greylock Partners, Keith Rabois, Mike Maples, Paul Buchheit, Ron Conway
1000Memories has raised $2.5 million in a round of funding led by Greylock Partners. Angel investors Caterina Fake, Ron Conway, Keith Rabois, Paul Buchheit, Mike Maples, and Chris Sacca also participated in this round. David Thacker of Greylock will be joining the board of directors at 1000Memories. 1000Memories is a website where loved ones can express words about people in their lives that have passed away. The appeal of 1000Memories is that it does not have ads and the website design is stylish. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | November 12, 2010 | 1,085 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Harj Taggar, Paul Buchheit, Y Combinator
Paul Buchheit (L) and Harj Taggar (R)
Y Combinator has hired Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar as partners of the investment company. Buchheit was responsible for Gmail, the original AdSense prototype, and even came up with Google’s catch phrase “Don’t be evil.” After leaving Google, he launched FriendFeed and sold it to Facebook. Harjeet founded Auctomatic and sold it to Live Current Media in 2008. [Y Combinator Blog]
Amit Chowdhry | August 10, 2009 | 1,342 views | 3 Comments
Categorized under Bret Taylor, Facebook, FriendFeed, Jim Norris, Mark Zuckerberg, Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh
Facebook has announced today that they will be acquiring FriendFeed. This is not a shocker because Facebook previously made an attempt to buy out Twitter for $100 million in cash and the $400 million in stock. Over the last year, Facebook has rolled several FriendFeed-like features into the social network. One of the features they took from FriendFeed was the concept of “Like.”
One of FriendFeed’s popular features is that the more comments a story receives on the news feed, the more it floats up to the top. This concept is similar to the Reddit and Digg homepage. FriendFeed’s voting system is real-time, but Facebook’s news feed popular stories constantly has to be refreshed.
As part of the acquisition, FriendFeed’s team will be joining Facebook. This includes Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh. Buchheit was responsible for early stage development of GMail over at Google.
Facebook sent out a press release regarding the acquisition. Check it out after the jump:
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