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Meebo

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Meebo is a consumer internet company focused on driving user engagement across the web, reaching approximately half of the U.S. internet population. Our flagship product, the Meebo Bar, provides publishers and advertisers a surprisingly simple way to leverage this massive audience by organically weaving content engagement and brand experiences into the consumer’s web experience. The Meebo Bar is currently integrated into hundreds of premium websites and hosts rich, engaging advertising from many of the top Fortune 500 brands.

Meebo also helps users build their own web experiences around the things that interest them the most. Using Meebo’s web sharing product, users can share interesting stuff they find around the web like cool pictures, videos, sites, and articles. In one single click, they can share across their preferred social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and back at Meebo they can see how many people have clicked on their shared links to watch their influence grow, and easily find information topics of interest.

Meebo started as an instant messenger aggregator platform in September 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has since expanded to six offices including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. Meebo is backed by True Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Jafco Ventures, and Khosla Ventures.

Recent Milestones

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  Meebo was acquired by Google for $100M. (6/4/12)
  Posted 6/4/12 at 2:01pm via techcrunch.com
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  Meebo acquired Mindset Media. (2/8/11)
  Posted 2/8/11 at 4:51am via paidcontent.org
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  Meebo added Ross Siegel as Business Development. (1/1/11)
  Posted 5/20/13 at 12:36pm
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  Meebo received $27.5M in Series D funding. (12/20/10)
  Posted 11/18/10 at 3:47am via venturebeat.com
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  Meebo added Chris Eberle as Vice President and Head of Revenue Operations. (5/1/10)
  Posted 7/28/10 at 1:43pm
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  Meebo received $25M in Series C funding. (4/30/08)
  Posted 4/30/08 at 8:01pm via techcrunch.com
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  Meebo received $9M in Series B funding. (1/1/07)
  Posted 7/16/07 at 6:34am via techcrunch.com
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  Meebo received $3.5M in Series A funding. (12/1/05)
  Posted 7/16/07 at 6:32am via techcrunch.com
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  Meebo added Scott Epstein as seed investor. (10/1/05)
  Posted 5/11/12 at 8:27pm
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  Meebo received $5M in Seed funding. (10/1/05)
  Posted 9/22/09 at 1:50pm
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  Meebo added Tommy Lee as Business Development - Emerging Revenue/Performance Advertising.
  Posted 5/19/12 at 11:10pm

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Screenshots

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Above: Meebo Bar
Uploaded: 6/4/12

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Meebo

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Website	meebo.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	July 17, 2007
Tags	engagement-platform, instant-messenger, web-share

Our flagship product, the Meebo Bar, provides publishers and advertisers a surprisingly simple way to leverage this massive audience by organically weaving content engagement and brand experiences into the consumer’s web experience. Meebo also helps users build their own web experiences around the things that interest them the most. Meebo Messenger allows users to access all their various IM clients from a single website. The service is compatible with IM platforms such as AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, GTalk, Facebook, ICQ and others. Users are also given the option to login with their Meebo account. With a Meebo account users have access to all of their instant messaging accounts with a single sign-on, and all contacts across all networks can be seen in a single list.

Videos

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(Founder Stories) Meebo’s CEO on Product Evolution

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(Founder Stories) Meebo CEO On The Importance Of Emotional Advertising

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(Founder Stories) Meebo’s Sternberg On Hiring And Growth

Meebo Bar

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Sources

1. Confirmed: Google Is Buying Meebo, The Startup That Turned Chat Into A Business [Updated] (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Meebo Acquires Psychographic Ad Targeter Mindset (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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4. Meebo Confirms Sequoia Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Meebo Announces $9 Million Series B Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Meebo closes $27.5M round to socialize the Web (venturebeat.com) [edit]