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Josh Felser

Josh founded and sold two successful Internet businesses for a combined $400mm and is now making early stage investments through Freestyle Capital.

Josh is a founding partner in Freestyle Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on the Internet and technology sectors. Mr. Felser was the CEO and co-founder of Crackle (formerly Grouper), an Internet video community, acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. Until February of 2001 he was General Manager of AOL Time Warner’s music brands’ Spinner, Winamp and Shoutcast. In October 1997 he became co-founder and President of Spinner.com, a leading Internet music destination until its 1999 purchase by America Online for $320 million. From 1994 to 1996 he was Head of business and product development in Qwest/U.S. West’s Multimedia Group. From 1990 to 1994 he was an executive with News Corp., working with Fox Inc. in Los Angeles and BSkyB in London. Mr. Felser obtained a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Duke University in 1986 and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Duke’s FUQUA School of Business in 1990.

Milestones

  • Invested in Infectious. (2007)
    Posted 5/22/08 at 3:28pm
  • Invested in Friendster. (12/1/02)
    Posted 8/22/07 at 1:56am
  • Added position as Co-Founder at Spinner.com.
    Posted 6/15/09 at 11:21am
  • Added position as CEO at Crackle.
    Posted 7/1/09 at 12:19pm
  • Added position as President at Spinner.com.
    Posted 6/14/09 at 11:56pm
  • Added to Fox Inc.
    Posted 7/1/09 at 6:18pm
  • Added position as Investor/Advisor at CrowdFlower.
    Posted 9/12/09 at 10:57am

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Infectious 2007Seed$750k2
Friendster 12/02Series A$2.4M3

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  1. Infectious receives $750K in funding (bayareanewsgroup.com) [edit]
  2. Citation Needed []

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