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Josh Kopelman

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Josh Kopelman is a venture capitalist and Managing Partner at First Round Capital .

Previously, Kopelman founded Half.com, which was acquired by eBay in 2000. He remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual sales.

In late 2003 Kopelman helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world’s first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later.

In 2001 Kopelman co-founded the Kopelman Foundation, a non-profit grant fund for social entrepreneurs. He also serves as a member of the advisory boards for Wharton Entrepreneurial Center and the Weiss Tech House at the University of Pennsylvania.

Milestones

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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Co-Founder, Exec. Vice President at Infonautics. (1/1/91)
  Posted 8/1/11 at 3:49pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Founder / CEO at Half.com. (1/1/99)
  Posted 8/1/11 at 3:45pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Member at First Flavor.
  Posted 5/4/11 at 9:37am
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Member at Honestly.com.
  Posted 11/11/10 at 12:18pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Member at BigDeal.
  Posted 11/11/10 at 12:18pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Member at Simple Finance Technology Corp.
  Posted 11/11/10 at 12:18pm
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  Josh Kopelman added to UberMedia.
  Posted 11/11/10 at 12:18pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Observer at Jelli.
  Posted 11/11/10 at 12:16pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Observer at AppNexus.
  Posted 11/11/10 at 12:16pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Member at SavingStar. (8/19/10)
  Posted 8/19/10 at 5:57am
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Member at ModCloth. (6/10/08)
  Posted 7/10/10 at 5:36pm
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  Josh Kopelman added to Socialbomb.
  Posted 2/17/10 at 10:22pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Member at Swipely.
  Posted 11/16/09 at 1:00pm
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  Josh Kopelman added to MoVoxx.
  Posted 10/25/09 at 6:42pm
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  Josh Kopelman added to Company Sleuth.
  Posted 7/16/08 at 8:30pm
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  Josh Kopelman added a position as Board Observer at Mashery.
  Posted 6/27/08 at 9:23am

Investments

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1. Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million From Chris Sacca, Max Levchin And Others To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Sarah Lacy’s PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding (gigaom.com) [edit]
3. SEC D Amended (sec.gov) [edit]
4. Profile: Del.icio.us (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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7. IronPort press release (ironport.com) [edit]
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