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Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO of StockTwits™ — a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. StockTwits was recently named “one of the top 10 most innovative companies in web” by FastCompany and one of the “50 best websites” by Time magazine.
Mr. Lindzon has more than twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Howard continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.
He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. in 2007. He is an active angel with many success angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck.
Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| NewHive | 1/13 | Seed | 11 | |
| Skyscraper | 12/12 | Seed | $500k | 13 |
| RebelMouse | 10/12 | Seed | $2.5M | 12 |
| Laffster | 10/12 | Seed | $750k | 14 |
| Dekko | 9/12 | Venture Round | $1.9M | 12 |
| Videolicious | 7/12 | Seed | $1.4M | 7 |
| Retrofit | 3/12 | Venture Round | $2.7M | 24 |
| DailyWorth | 1/12 | Angel | $2M | 6 |
| Embedly | 6/11 | Series A | $450k | 6 |
| EquipRent.com | 3/11 | Seed | $1M | 2 |
| Klout | 1/11 | Series B | $8.5M | 13 |
| Yieldbot | 12/10 | Seed | $1.2M | 7 |
| TweetDeck | 5/10 | Series B | $3.5M | 8 |
| Klout | 4/10 | Series A | $1.5M | 17 |
| Blogtalkradio | 3/10 | Series B | $1.94M | 4 |
| Blog Talk Radio | 3/10 | Series B | $1.9M | 4 |
| betaworks | 3/10 | Series B | $20M | 13 |
| bitly | 3/09 | Series A | $2M | 14 |
| TweetDeck | 1/09 | Seed | $300k | 8 |
| Foodzie | 12/08 | Seed | $1M | 22 |
| StockTwits | 9/08 | Angel | 7 | |
| Zentact | 9/08 | Seed | $250k | 3 |
| Salesforce Buddy Media | 9/07 | Series A | $1.5M | 5 |
| MyTrade | 1/07 | Angel | 3 |
