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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.

Recent Milestones

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  Joi Ito invested in Diffbot. (5/31/12)
  Posted 5/31/12 at 6:16pm via techcrunch.com
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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 littleBits. (9/1/11)
  Posted 12/10/11 at 9:02pm via makezine.com
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  Joi Ito added a position as Board Member at littleBits. (9/1/11)
  Posted 1/4/12 at 12:27pm
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  Joi Ito invested in Game Closure. (8/31/11)
  Posted 8/31/11 at 6:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  Joi Ito invested in Kickstarter. (3/18/11)
  Posted 3/18/11 at 3:04am via allthingsd.com
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  Joi Ito invested in Path. (11/1/10)
  Posted 2/1/11 at 2:46pm via techcrunch.com
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  Joi Ito invested in Ping.fm. (12/22/08)
  Posted 12/22/08 at 10:51am via techcrunch.com
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  Joi Ito — Named one of Time Magazine's top 25 most influential people on the web (2008) (9/30/08)
  Posted 9/30/08 at 11:36am via businessweek.com
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  Joi Ito invested in Fon. (4/10/08)
  Posted 4/10/08 at 9:49am
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  Joi Ito invested in Flowgram. (1/31/08)
  Posted 7/2/08 at 12:49pm via silicontap.com
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  Joi Ito — Invested in Twitter (1/19/08)
  Posted 5/25/10 at 3:27am via ito.com
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  Joi Ito invested in GameLayers. (10/1/07)
  Posted 11/17/07 at 6:25am via thealarmclock.com
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  Joi Ito invested in Dopplr. (9/1/07)
  Posted 9/4/07 at 3:00am via dopplr.com
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  Joi Ito invested in Rupture. (7/1/07)
  Posted 10/2/07 at 4:20am via techcrunch.com
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  Joi Ito invested in Aviary. (1/1/07)
  Posted 8/17/11 at 2:37pm

Investments

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The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
We invested in Twitter and are bringing them to Japan (joi.ito.com) [edit]
1. Diffbot Raises $2 Million Angel Round For Web Content Extraction Technology (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Lanyrd Secures $1.4 million In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Open-source Hardware Company littleBits Closes First Round of Financing, Enters MoMA Collection! (blog.makezine.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]
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