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Blogjoshua.schachter.org
Twitter@joshu
Birthdate1974

Degrees

Carnegie Mellon University, B.S.
Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Joshua Schachter

Joshua Schachter is the founder of delicious, a popular bookmark-sharing service founded in late 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In January 2009 Joshua Schachter joined Google. Joshua also created geoURL, a location-URL reverse directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Science Exchange 5/13Series A$3M10
ZenPayroll 12/12Seed$6.1M19
Exec 5/12Seed$3.3M12
Priceonomics 5/12Seed$1.5M29
IFTTT 1/12Seed$1.5M14
DuckDuckGo 10/11Venture Round$3M7
Origami Labs 10/11Seed$1.5M10
Lanyrd 9/11Seed$1.4M16
Lanyrd 9/11Seed$1.4M16
ChallengePost 8/11Series A$4.1M6
Canvas Networks 6/11Series A$3M6
Milk 4/11Angel$1.5M26
Kickstarter 3/11Venture Round$10M18
Honestly.com 10/10Venture Round$1.2M6
Locately 8/10Angel$300k5
Gengo 8/10Seed$750k7
Ze Frank Games 7/10Seed$500k11
OwnLocal 6/10Seed$1M34
OwnLocal 6/10Seed$1M34
Thumbtack 6/10Angel$1.2M14
Blockboard 5/10Seed$1M8
Fluidinfo 5/10Series A$800k12
Canvas Networks 5/10Seed$625k5
Stack Exchange 5/10Series A$6M10
Crocodoc 4/10Angel6
Optimizely 3/10Angel$1.2M20
Worldly Developments 3/10Seed$800k14
CarWoo! 1/10Seed$300k13
SimpleGeo 11/09Seed$1.47M15
Square 11/09Series A$10M19
Bump Technologies 10/09Series A$3.4M7
DailyBooth 10/09Angel$1M11
foursquare 9/09Angel$1.35M9
Lexity 9/09Seed$1.2M5
Heyzap 5/09Seed$650k4
Dopplr 9/08Angel12
The Climate Corporation 1/07Angel$4.3M6
Etsy 11/06Series A$1M5
Dogster 9/06Angel$1M8

Videos

Sources

  1. Science Exchange Raises $3M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  2. ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Exec, The Mobile App For Errands, Adds Messaging (Oh, And Sam Altman Led Their Round) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. YC Price Guide Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. IFTTT, A Glue Gun For Sticking The Web Together, Raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Union Square Ventures, Others Invest In Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. techcrunch.com [edit]
  8. Lanyrd Secures $1.4 million In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Lanyrd Secures $1.4 million In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. ChallengePost Picks Up $4.1M in Series A Funding to Help Run Online Contests for New Ideas (xconomy.com) [edit]
  11. Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot’s New Startup Canvas (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
  14. Unvarnished Becomes Honestly.com, Raises $1.2 Million And Opens The Floodgates (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. Locately Announces $300k Angel Funding Round (bostinnovation.com) [edit]
  16. Human Translation Startup myGengo Raises Seed Round From International Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. YComb’s Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. YComb’s Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. Well-known angels back local services startup Thumbtack.com (thumbtack.com) [edit]
  21. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  23. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  24. All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
  25. Crocodoc Raises Cash, Upgrades Web-based Document Review Service (xconomy.com) [edit]
  26. Optimizely A/B Tests Its Way To $1.2 Million In Funding From A Roster Of Top Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  27. techcrunch.com [edit]
  28. Citation Needed [add]
  29. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. Company Communication [edit]
  31. Bump Technologies Confirms Sequoia Funding, Reveals Roster Of Angels. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  32. YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million From Sequoia, Kevin Rose, Ron Conway Et Al. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  33. techcrunch.com [edit]
  34. Stealth Web Startup Palaran Raises $1 Million In Funding From True Ventures (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  35. Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  36. Business Travel Social Net Dopplr Gets Funding From Tom Glocer, Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  37. techcrunch.com [edit]
  38. techconfidential.com [edit]
  39. Softech VC (blog.softtechvc.com) [edit]
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