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Websitegaryvaynerchuk.com
Twitter@garyvee
BirthplaceBelarus
Birthdate11/14/75

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. As his viewership swelled to over 80,000 a day, doors opened to a book deal, several national TV appearances, and a flurry of speaking engagements around the world. Gary’s dual identity as both business guru and wine guy has made him the “Social Media Sommelier.”

source: Gary Vaynerchuk’s homepage

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Pict 4/13Seed$1.4M9
Grand St. 4/13Seed$1.3M8
Vengo Labs 2/13Seed$1M5
RebelMouse 10/12Seed$2.5M12
Cozy 10/12Seed$1.5M6
PrePlay 7/12Series A$3.1M2
Prosodic 5/12Seed$1.4M3
Circa 4/12Seed$900k20
AppStack 3/12Seed$1.5M12
One Inc. 7/11Seed$1M8
Adaptly 4/11Series A$2M8
Milk 4/11Angel$1.5M26
Forrst 3/11Seed$205k7
Yobongo 3/11Seed$1.35M10
BabbaCo 1/11Seed2
Karma 1/11Venture Round5
Path 11/10Angel$2.5M28
Birchbox 10/10Seed$1.4M8
Rapportive 8/10Seed$1M16
Textingly 8/10Seed$650k3
Ze Frank Games 7/10Seed$500k11
Wildfire, a division of Google 4/10Series A$4M5
Postling 3/10Angel$350k8
Gowalla 12/09Series B$8.29M10
SimpleGeo 11/09Seed$1.47M15

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This video was originally published on Beet.TV

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This video was originally published on Beet.TV

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The Web 2.0 Show: Episode 42 - FOWA 2008 / Kevin Rose / Gary Vaynerchuk

Added: 3/8/10

Sources

  1. PICT Gets $1.4M From Lowercase Capital, Forerunner Ventures And Others For ‘Shoppable’ Photo Tech (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. E-Commerce Site Grand St. Raises $1.3 Million To Give Makers A Place To Sell Their Gadgets (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. David Tisch, Brad Feld, Gary Vaynerchuk & Others Put $1 Million Into Vengo, The Mini Vending Machines From TaxiTreats Maker (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Paul Berry’s Rebel Mouse raises $2.5 million from an A-list group of investors (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  5. Rent Management Startup Cozy Raises $1.5M From The Social + Capital Partnership, Google Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Predictive Game Studio PrePlay Raises $3.1M Series A From Gary Vaynerchuck And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Prosodic Completes $1.4M Seed Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
  8. All-Star Cast Invests 750K In Ben Huh And Matt Galligan’s Mobile News Startup Circa (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Mobile Ad Optimization Startup AppStack Raises $1.5M From Eric Schmidt, Google Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. SV Angel, True Ventures And Others Put $1 Million Into Interest-Based Connections App One (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Adaptly Raises $2.7 Million To Facilitate Cross Platform Social Ad Buys (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. How Do You Talk To An Angel? Use Yobongo, They’re All Investing. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  16. Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, And Obvious Put $4.5M In Sleek Social, Mobile Gifting Platform Karma (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. techcrunch.com [edit]
  18. Makeup Discovery Service BirchBox Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. Gmail Plugin Rapportive Raises Over $1 Million From Gmail Creator, Many Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  21. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  23. Venturehacks (venturehacks.com) [edit]
  24. TechCrunch, SEC (crunchbase.com) [edit]
  25. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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