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John Hering

John is an entrepreneur with a passion for creating disruptive technologies. He co-founded Lookout (formerly Flexilis), after extensive research into
mobile security threats and is also an active investor/advisor to a number of technology start-ups including 280North (Acquired by Motorola), Goodreads, Freejit, and a number of others currently in stealth. Prior to Lookout, John founded Daily Wireless, a wireless news aggregation engine
covering all aspects of the wireless marketplace for business (acquired by Focus Research) and Unwire Iraq, a non-profit providing wireless networks to U.S. combat troops. John is a frequent speaker at industry events,
including RSA, CTIA, Black Hat Technical Security Conference, DEFCON, Microsoft¹s Bluehat Security Conference and was recently selected by BusinessWeek as a Best Young Tech Entrepreneur for 2010. John studied at the University of Southern California and has extensive experience with information security and mobile technologies.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
CardSpring 1/12Series A$10M8
CatchFree 1/11Series A$5.5M6
Goodreads 12/09Series A$2M2

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  1. CardSpring Raises $10 Million To Connect Payments To The Web (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. techcrunch.com [edit]
  3. Goodreads Ups Funding To $2M (socaltech.com) [edit]
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