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Blogjoshua.schachter.org
Birthdate1974

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

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Joshua Schachter

In January 2009 Joshua Schachter joined Google.

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

Milestones

  • Invested in Foursquare. (9/4/09)
    Posted 9/4/09 at 2:05pm
  • Invested in Heyzap. (5/27/09)
    Posted 5/27/09 at 1:04pm
  • Invested in Palaran. (2009)
    Posted 10/20/09 at 6:12pm
  • Invested in Dopplr. (9/14/08)
    Posted 9/16/08 at 9:22pm
  • Invested in Dogster. (9/1/06)
    Posted 12/10/07 at 5:56am
  • Invested in Etsy. (6/1/06)
    Posted 12/22/07 at 12:34am
  • Added to Google.
    Posted 1/12/09 at 3:09pm
  • Added position as Founder at delicious.
    Posted 6/26/07 at 2:09am
  • Added position as Founder at geoURL.
    Posted 4/10/08 at 6:00pm
  • Added position as Co-Founder at Memepool.
    Posted 4/10/08 at 6:03pm
  • Added to Yahoo!.
    Posted 1/12/09 at 3:09pm
  • Invested in WeatherBill.
    Posted 10/17/07 at 3:15am

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Foursquare 9/09Seed$1.35M9
Heyzap 5/09Seed$650k3
Palaran 2009Angel$800k3
Dopplr 9/08Angel12
Dogster 9/06Angel$1M8
Etsy 6/06Angel$315k4
WeatherBill Angel$4.3M6

Sources

  1. techcrunch.com [edit]
  2. Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Citation Needed [add]
  4. Business Travel Social Net Dopplr Gets Funding From Tom Glocer, Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  5. Softech VC (blog.softtechvc.com) [edit]
  6. techconfidential.com [edit]
  7. techcrunch.com [edit]

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