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Stanford University, Bachelor 1993
Political Science

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Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus is a Director of Product Management at Google. Previously he co-founded Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org. Since the acquisition of Jotspot by Google in 2006, Kraus has 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.

Milestones

  • Invested in Kongregate. (8/1/07)
    Posted 8/16/07 at 7:21am
  • Invested in Odeo. (8/10/05)
    Posted 5/22/08 at 12:01pm
  • Added position as Co-Founder at JotSpot.
    Posted 2/27/08 at 7:57pm
  • Added position as Co-Founder at Excite.
    Posted 6/16/08 at 2:47pm
  • Added position as Director of Product Management at Google.
    Posted 6/16/08 at 2:47pm

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Kongregate 8/07Series B$5M5
Odeo 8/05Series A16

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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