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Acquired byFinancialContent
Date5/09
TermsCash and Stock

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Websitesocialpicks.com
CategoryConsumer Web
Email
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Founded2006
DescriptionCollaborative Investing

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United States
USA

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Co-Founder
Investor
Co-Founder

Funding

Series A, 12/07
Bay Partners
$500k

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SocialPicks

SocialPicks is a social network based around stocks.

Here’s the general premise behind SocialPicks: users enter their stock trading activities and thoughts. They then befriend and rate other users. Reputations are built according to a user’s percentage of winning picks, quality of insights as judged by the community, and number of trades made. Requisite features of a standard social network are present: commenting, feeds, and lists of popular stocks.

In addition, their BlogTracker feature is quite interesting – and a possible selling point. Bloggers can submit their financial blog to SocialPicks. They’ll parse the RSS feed to try and determine when the blogger is giving an opinion on the future performance of a stock. It appears that this is human verified.

Competitors: Feeling Bullish, Bullpoo, Stocktickr and Digstock.

Milestones

  • Acquired by FinancialContent. (5/09)
    Posted 6/20/09 at 11:50am
  • Received $500k in Series A funding. (12/1/07)
    Posted 12/17/07 at 10:04am
  • Tom McInerney, Investor added.
    Posted 9/9/08 at 3:05pm
  • Weiting Liu, Co-Founder added.
    Posted 12/3/07 at 11:41pm
  • Keven Lin, Co-Founder added.
    Posted 9/22/08 at 12:35pm
  • Mark Dierolf, CTO added.
    Posted 7/31/09 at 8:35am

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SocialPicks

Websitesocialpicks.com
Tags social-stock-picking
SocialPicks screenshot
Above: SocialPicks Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Sources

  1. FinancialContent acquires social investing site SocialPicks (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  2. venturebeat.com [edit]

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