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Joi Ito

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Joi Ito is a well-known investor who serves as the Director of MIT Media Lab and chairman of the board of Creative Commons and blog tool company Six Apart. He also sits on the boards of Technorati, Socialtext, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Joi Ito was born in Kyoto, Japan.

Milestones

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  Joi Ito added a position as Investor at Kickstarter.
  Posted 1/29/12 at 12:27am
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  Joi Ito added a position as General Partner at Neoteny Labs.
  Posted 1/29/12 at 12:27am
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  Joi Ito added a position as Board Member and investor at ViKi.
  Posted 1/29/12 at 12:27am
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  Joi Ito added a position as Lead Investor at littleBits. (9/1/11)
  Posted 1/4/12 at 12:27pm
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  Joi Ito added a position as Board Director.
  Posted 4/23/08 at 11:39am
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  Joi Ito added a position as Board Member at Mozilla.
  Posted 4/10/08 at 10:52am
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  Joi Ito added a position as Founder and CEO at Neoteny.
  Posted 4/10/08 at 10:36am
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  Joi Ito added a position as CEO at Creative Commons.
  Posted 4/10/08 at 10:33am
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  Joi Ito added a position as Executive Director at Sanrio Digital.
  Posted 3/24/08 at 11:01am
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  Joi Ito added a position as Angel Investor at Kongregate.
  Posted 2/18/08 at 5:40pm
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  Joi Ito added a position as Board of Directors at Socialtext.
  Posted 2/18/08 at 5:26pm
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  Joi Ito added a position as Investor via Digital Garage at Fon.
  Posted 2/6/08 at 6:45pm
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  Joi Ito added a position as Angel Investor at Last.fm.
  Posted 7/11/07 at 2:25am
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  Joi Ito added a position as Board Member and Investor at Technorati.
  Posted 6/11/07 at 8:14pm
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  Joi Ito invested in Lanyrd. (9/6/11)
  Posted 9/6/11 at 9:42am via techcrunch.com
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  Joi Ito invested in Game Closure. (8/31/11)
  Posted 8/31/11 at 6:36pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
2. We invested in Twitter and are bringing them to Japan (joi.ito.com) [edit]
3. Lanyrd Secures $1.4 million In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Game Closure Quietly Raises Seed Round From SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Greylock, And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
6. techcrunch.com [edit]
7. Ping.fm Secures Angel Funding From Joi Ito And Reid Hoffman (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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9. Flowgram Gets Funding From Reid Hoffman, Others (silicontap.com) [edit]
10. GameLayers Raises $500K For Games Over Web Browsing (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
11. blog.dopplr.com [edit]
12. techcrunch.com [edit]
13. I work there. Company has raised 11M, not 7M. [edit]
14. wikia.com [edit]
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