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Joe Kraus

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Joe Kraus is a partner at Google Ventures, Google’s private market investment arm. His primary focus areas are: mobile internet, payment and financing services, gaming and local services. Previously Joe was a Director of Product Management at Google. Before joining Google he co-founded Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org. After the acquisition of Jotspot by Google in 2006, Kraus worked on OpenSocial, Google’s effort to develop API standards for social networking platforms.

Joe graduated from Stanford University in 1993 with a BA in Political Science.

Recent Milestones

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  Joe Kraus added a position as Advisor at MyLikes. (9/1/10)
  Posted 2/28/11 at 9:35am
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  Joe Kraus invested in Kongregate. (8/1/07)
  Posted 8/16/07 at 7:21am via techcrunch.com
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  Joe Kraus invested in Odeo. (8/10/05)
  Posted 5/22/08 at 12:01pm via odeo.com
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  Joe Kraus invested in InfraSearch. (6/30/00)
  Posted 1/24/11 at 12:30pm
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  Joe Kraus added a position as Co-Founder at JotSpot.
  Posted 2/27/08 at 7:57pm
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  Joe Kraus added a position as Partner at Google Ventures.
  Posted 4/4/10 at 5:52am
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  Joe Kraus added a position as Director of Product Management at Google.
  Posted 6/16/08 at 2:47pm
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  Joe Kraus added a position as Co-Founder at Excite.
  Posted 6/16/08 at 2:47pm

Investments

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Sources

1. techcrunch.com [edit]
2. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]
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