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James Currier

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James Currier is an entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley. He was an early proponent of social media and growth systems, and founded Tickle in 1999. Tickle grew to 80 employees, nearly 200 million registered users, and $38 million in revenue before selling to Monster in 2004.

In 2007, with Stan Chudnovsky, James founded Ooga Labs to incubate digital networks and marketplaces.

In 2008, Ooga spun out WonderHill, a casual games company, which was funded by CRV and Shasta. WonderHill’s big hit was Dragons of Atlantis. Wonderhill grew to $60M in revenue and merged with Kabam in 2010.

In Dec 2010, Ooga spun out Jiff, a secure network and marketplace for connecting the mobile health ecosystem to the heath care industry. Jiff was funded by Ooga, Aberdare Ventures, and Aeris Capital.

In 2012, Ooga spun out IronPearl to build software tools and methodologies to create growth for networks and marketplaces.

Recent Milestones

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  James Currier invested in Fundly. (2/24/11)
  Posted 2/24/11 at 1:35pm via techcrunch.com
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  James Currier added a position as Co-Founder and Chairman at Jiff. (12/1/10)
  Posted 8/19/12 at 1:31pm
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  James Currier invested in BranchOut. (9/17/10)
  Posted 9/17/10 at 2:24pm via techcrunch.com
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  James Currier invested in Spot formerly PlacePop. (7/30/10)
  Posted 8/2/10 at 12:58pm via techcrunch.com
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  James Currier added a position as Advisor at BranchOut. (7/1/10)
  Posted 7/20/10 at 12:15am
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  James Currier invested in The Extraordinaries. (5/4/10)
  Posted 5/6/10 at 5:12pm via venturebeat.com
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  James Currier added a position as CEO at WonderHill. (3/1/08)
  Posted 5/6/09 at 6:03pm
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  James Currier invested in Goodreads. (11/1/07)
  Posted 12/17/07 at 8:00am via techcrunch.com
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  James Currier invested in RepairPal. (11/1/07)
  Posted 6/11/08 at 9:36pm
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  James Currier added a position as Founder and Chairman at Medpedia. (1/1/07)
  Posted 7/15/08 at 7:58pm
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  James Currier added a position as Co-Founder at Ooga Labs. (1/1/07)
  Posted 3/14/12 at 9:49am
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  James Currier invested in Maya's Mom. (10/27/06)
  Posted 8/28/07 at 7:59am via techcrunch.com
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  James Currier added a position as Board of Directors at Linden Lab. (1/1/05)
  Posted 7/12/07 at 1:29am
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  James Currier invested in Flickr. (6/1/04)
  Posted 6/29/09 at 2:57pm
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  James Currier added a position as Founder and CEO at Tickle. (6/1/99)
  Posted 7/15/08 at 7:57pm
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  James Currier added to GoodTree.
  Posted 7/15/08 at 7:56pm

Investments

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1. Social Fundraising Site Fundly Raises $2 Million of its Own (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. PlacePop Looks To Give Any Business Its Own Rewards Program, Raises $1.4M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. The Extraordinaries raises $1.1M for “micro-volunteering (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Citation Needed [add]
7. Maya’s Mom Raises Angel Round, Launches (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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