Tag Archives: Tim Draper
Socialcam Raises Funding From 46 Angel Investors
Socialcam is an iPhone app that spun off of video sharing website Justin.tv last year as part of Y Combinators winter 2012 class. Socialcam has raised seed funding from 46 well known angel investors. Socialcam’s fiercest competitor is Viddy. They have been fighting back and forth as the top Photo & Video app recently. Socialcam has reportedly surpassed the 20 million user mark. Below is a list of all of the investors involved as compiled by TechCrunch.
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Categories Alexis Ohanian, Allison Streuter, Andreessen Horowitz, Ari Emmanuel, Ashton Kutcher, Atom Factory, Brian Chesky, Chris Hollod, CrunchPad Inc., Emmett Shear, Erik Moore, Felix Shpilman, Garry Tan, Guy Oseary, Harj Taggar, Jason Johnson, Jason Lublin, Jeff Kapel, Jessica Livingston, Jonathan Abrams, Justin Caldbeck, Justin Kan, Kyle Vogt, Laurene Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs, Matt Ocko, Michael Abrams, Michael Levit, Michael Rapino, Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, Ram Shiram, Ronny Conway, Shane Battier, Shervin Pishevar, Socialcam, Stacey Rubin, Stewart Alsop, SV Angel, Tim Draper, Trajan Langdon, Troy Carter, Yuri Milner, Zachary Bogue
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Do@ Raises $7 Million From DFJ
Do@ is a mobile search company that has raised $7 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Do@ co-founder Ami Ben-David said that the current way of searching on mobile devices is too inconvenient since it involves typing words and scrolling to find a good link.
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Categories Ami Ben-David, DFJ, Do@, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim Draper
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Instructure Raises $8 Million Series B Round of Funding
Instructure is a company that has developed an open source learning management system. Instructure has raised $8 million in Series B funding from OpenView Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s venture capital company Tomorrow Ventures, and Tim Draper. Instructure raised a total of $9.2 million. Instructure’s software called Canvas includes assessment tools, discussions, web chat, multiple assignment submission types, drag-and-drop file uploads, HTML5 video, and speech-to-text conversion.
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Ranker Raises $1.3 Million In Series A
Ranker is a consumer web services company that has raised $1.3 million in Series A funding led by Tim Draper. Other investors that are participating in this round include Rincon Venture Partners, Newport Coast Investments, Gil Elbaz, Pasadena Angels, and Siemer Venture Capital. Ranker uses lists to provide answers to questions to users, such as “what are the best beers from around the world?” Visitors can vote or rank the lists. Ranker had raised $1.8 million in two seed funding rounds with participation from several angel investors and Ranker founder and CEO Clark Benson. [TechCrunch]
Real Estate Community Website RentJuice Raises $6.2 Million In Series B
RentJuice is a real estate community website where real estate agents and brokers can view real estate data. RentJuice raised $6.2 million in Series B funding led by Highland Capital and Tim Draper of DFJ. RentJuice automates administrative tasks for real estate professionals, brokerages, and landlords. RentJuice helps brokers capitalize on predictions that 10 million new renters will enter the U.S. market in the enxt 5 years. RentJuice was founded in 2009 by CEO David Vivero and CTO Kunal Shah.
Tech Culture Blog Lalawag Acquired By Jesse Draper’s Valley Girl
Lalawag is a Los Angeles based technology culture blog that said it would be shutting down in September. Instead Valley Girl, a blog run by Jesse Draper, is buying out Lalawag. Draper was a co-star in Nickolodeon’s The Naked Brothers Band and she is the daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper. Lalawag was founded by Sean Percival, who is also the VP of Marketing at MySpace. Sean will remain as the founder of Lalawag and Jesse will bring on additional bloggers. [TechCrunch]
Categories Jesse Draper, Lalawag, Sean Percival, Tim Draper, Valley Girl
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