| Website | posterous.com |
| Blog | blog.posterous.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 5/08 |
| Description | Web Publishing Platform |
| slinkset, 6/09 |
| Total | $740k |
| Seed, 5/08 Y Combinator | $15k |
| Angel, 12/08 Satish Dharmaraj Eric Hahn Peter Barrett David Sloo Bill Lee Bill Warner Tim Ferriss Guy Kawasaki Mitch Kapor Aydin Senkut XG Ventures | $725k |
Posterous is a Y Combinator startup that was founded in mid 2008. It’s a simple web publishing platform via email. Text and files can be uploaded to the site via email.
Users are not required to create an account to use Posterous. To start, users simply email content to post@posterous.com and a “blog” is autocreated and sent back to the user. Registered users can tailor the blog URL, post via the website, subscribe to other users.
Posterous embeds video, MP3s and other media into a player and turns images into image galleries. PDFs and other office documents are displayed in a Scribd embedded widget.
Users can also add friends and family’s email address to any Posterous site they control. When the emails have been added, users can post by sending content they want to publish to post@sitename.posterous.com.
The company officially went into beta in June 2008 and raised an angel round in December 2008.
