Total	$13.7M
Angel, 9/05 Reid Hoffman	$1.5M
Series A, 12/05 Mayfield Fund	$7M
Debt, 12/08 Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC Leader Ventures	$5M
Unattributed, 1/10	$202k

Competitors

LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster

Tagged

Tagged is a social network designed for meeting new people. The company was founded in October 2004 by Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith. While other social networks focus on existing relationships, Tagged has established the category of social discovery.

Tagged has over 100 million members in 220 countries. The company’s service is designed to enable anyone to meet and socialize with new people through social games, customized profiles, virtual gifts, advanced browsing features and more.

Co-founders Greg and Johann met at Harvard and after moving to California to pursue their PhDs at Stanford, they took a leave of absence to focus full-time on Tagged.

Tagged was originally a teen-only social network and opened up to all ages 13+ in October 2006.The company pivoted to its current social discovery focus in late-2007 and has been profitable since 2008.

Milestones

Tagged added James Takazawa as VP of People Operations. (3/1/11)

Posted 11/15/11 at 8:56pm
Tagged added Andrew Pedersen as VP & General Manager, Social Games. (5/1/11)

Posted 11/15/11 at 8:56pm
Tagged added Steve Shapiro as Director of Product.

Posted 8/9/11 at 3:28pm
Tagged added Tish Whitcraft as Chief Customer Officer. (4/3/11)

Posted 4/3/11 at 8:08pm
Tagged added Raj Kapoor as board of directors. (12/1/05)

Posted 8/18/10 at 9:35am
Tagged added Joshua Miller as Sr. Unix Admin. (7/1/07)

Posted 11/10/09 at 3:46pm
Tagged added Steve Sarner as Vice President Sales. (1/12/09)

Posted 11/6/09 at 12:23pm
Tagged added Scott Banister as Board of Directors.

Posted 6/17/09 at 12:34am
Tagged added Reid Hoffman as Board of Directors.

Posted 6/17/09 at 12:34am
Tagged added Louis Willacy as VP of Business Development and General Counsel .

Posted 7/23/07 at 10:30pm
Tagged added Johann Schleier-Smith as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer.

Posted 7/23/07 at 10:29pm
Tagged added Greg Tseng as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

Posted 7/23/07 at 10:27pm
Tagged received $202k in Unattributed funding. (1/29/10)

Posted 1/30/10 at 2:48am via techcrunch.com
Tagged received $5M in Debt funding. (12/17/08)

Posted 12/18/08 at 12:48am via sociableblog.com
Tagged received $7M in Series A funding. (12/1/05)

Posted 7/23/07 at 6:09pm via techcrunch.com
Tagged received $1.5M in Angel funding. (9/1/05)

Posted 7/23/07 at 6:08pm via techcrunch.com