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Websitehi5.com
Bloghi5networks.com/blog
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Phone415.404.6094
Email
Employees100
Founded12/03

Offices

San Francisco, USA
55 Second Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA, 94105
USA

People

Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
CFO
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Acquisitions

PixVerse, 6/08

Funding

Total$35M
Series A, 7/07
Mohr Davidow Ventures
$20M
Debt, 12/07
Hercules Technology Growth Capital
$15M

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hi5 Networks, Inc. is a privately-held firm headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Its flagship service, hi5, was launched in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest social networks — ranked by Alexa® as a top 20 website globally and the #1 social network in more than 25 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. hi5 is also the #1 social network for the world’s Spanish-language population. In total, over 80 million people in more than 200 nations are currently registered for hi5, which is available in 23 language options.

Milestones

  • hi5 — hi5 Launches Language Translation on OpenSocial v0.8 (9/25/08)
    Posted 6/15/09 at 8:53pm
  • Acquired PixVerse. (6/30/08)
    Posted 6/30/08 at 11:04am
  • Received $15M in Debt funding. (12/1/07)
    Posted 2/14/08 at 5:59pm
  • Received $20M in Series A funding. (7/1/07)
    Posted 7/23/07 at 6:20am
  • Akash Garg, Co-Founder & CTO added.
    Posted 3/27/08 at 1:51pm
  • Ramu Yalamanchi, Founder & CEO added.
    Posted 7/23/07 at 6:20am
  • Jeff Stephens, CFO added.
    Posted 5/19/08 at 2:13pm
  • Michael Trigg, VP Marketing added.
    Posted 6/30/08 at 10:50am
  • Michael Holzer, Director, User Experience and Front End Engineering added.
    Posted 3/1/09 at 11:01pm
  • Andrew Sheppard, Executive Producer added.
    Posted 6/23/09 at 8:42am

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Added: 1/26/09

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Websitehi5.com
Bloghi5networks.com/blog
StageLive
Launch DateDecember, 2003
Tags social-networking

hi5 is an international social network with a local flavor. It enables members to stay connected, share their lives, and learn what’s happening around them – through customizable profile pages, messaging, unlimited photo storage, hundreds of OpenSocial applications and more.

In supporting members’ personal communications, hi5 is also committed to protecting the privacy of its members. The service offers a range of privacy settings and controls that enable members to select how they are viewed and how their information flows through the system.

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Sources

  1. hi5 Networks Enhances Real-Time User Interaction with Acquisition of PixVerse (pehub.com) []
  2. hi5networks.com []
  3. Hercules Technology Growth Capital Press Release (biz.yahoo.com) []
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