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Websitegmc.stumbleupon.com
Twitter@gmc

Degrees

UofC, Masters 2006
Software Engineering

Companies

Co-Founder & Chairman
Co-Founder & Chairman
Investor & Advisor
Investor & Advisor
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Founder & Investor

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Garrett Camp

Garrett is the founding CEO of StumbleUpon.com, guiding its development from inception to over 25M registered members. StumbleUpon is now the largest discovery engine on the web, delivering over 1 Billion personalized recommendations per month. Over 75,000 advertisers have used StumbleUpon to get their content discovered.

Garrett also co-founded Uber.com in 2009 with Travis Kalanick, to improve the efficiency of on-demand car service. Uber now provides on-demand car service in 16 cities across North America and Europe.

Garrett completed his Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he researched interfaces for collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval. He is also a 2007 recipient of MIT Technology Review’s TR35 award.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
BlackJet 10/12Venture Round27
WillCall 7/12Seed$850k5
Behance 5/12Series A$6.5M8
Prism Skylabs 9/11Seed$1.5M8
StyleSeat 7/11Seed$700k6
StumbleUpon 3/11Series B$17M6
Schematic Labs 8/10Seed8
Uber 8/09Seed$200k2
DailyBurn 5/09Seed$525k4
StumbleUpon 4/09Series A6

Videos

Sources

  1. Uber Co-Founder Garrett Camp Launches BlackJet, The “Uber For Private Jets” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. WillCall Sells You What You’re Doing Tonight, Launches Web App, Raises $850K From SV Angel, 500 Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. After 5 Years Of Bootstrapping, Behance Nabs $6.5M From USV, Jeff Bezos, Dave Morin & More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Ashton Kutcher, Founders Fund Go In For $775K On ‘OpenTable For Stylists’ StyleSeat (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Recommendation Engine StumbleUpon Stumbles Onto $17M From Accel, August Capital And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  9. Feel The DailyBurn: Gyminee Gets A New Name, Raises $525K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. StumbleUpon's founders buy service back from eBay (google.com) [edit]
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