Photo Sharing Service Photorocket Raises $1.3 Million

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:45:16 +0000

PhotoRocket is a website that makes it really easy to share photos on e-mail and social networks. The company is based in Seattle and has just raised $1.3 million in funding according to an SEC filing. This brings their total funding to $1.7 million.

Even though PhotoRocket currently only works on Windows, there is an iPhone and Mac OS X version on the way. The company was founded by Scott Lipsky, one of the first executives at Amazon.com. Lipsky also founded aQuantive, which was acquired by Microsoft for $6 billion in 2007.

Check out the demo video of the service below:

[TechCrunch]

aQuantive Co-Founder Scott Lipsky Launches New Startup Called PhotoRocket

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:32:31 +0000

Its been about two years since Microsoft Corporation bought out aQuantive for $6 billion. And now the aQuantive co-founder Scott Lipsky is on the verge of launching a new company. Lipsky’s new company is called PhotoRocket.

“While still in stealth mode, I can tell you this,” Lipsky wrote in an email. “PhotoRocket is a new concept in the digital photography space that will turn photo sharing sideways and that will solve many of the most common problems and most painful aspects of sharing.”

This is the second photography-related company Lipsky has become involved in. Around 2003, Lipsky co-founded a company called GalleryPlayer. GalleryPlayer developed software that enhanced the way that high resolution images were displayed on flat panel TVs.

PhotoRocket may be a competitor of Photobucket and Flickr. Before Lipsky launched Avenue A (previous name of aQuantive), he was the CTO of Baners & Noble. After B&N, Lipsky became a VP of Business Expansion at Amazon.com.

[via TechFlash]

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