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Justin Yoshimura

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Justin Yoshimura is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is currently the founder and CEO of YCombinator backed social loyalty platform 500friends. Prior to 500friends, he founded several e-commerce companies with terrible names, including CellsWholesale.com, which was acquired in 2009 after reaching $8M in annual revenues. He is also an investor in Zencoder, Gazehawk, ifeelgoods, Hipmunk, PathJoy, OwnLocal, and Torbit. Besides entrepreneurship, Justin is passionate about traveling and animals, especially dogs, persian cats, dolphins, capybaras, and platypuses. He was recently named to Forbes’ prestigious 30 under 30 list.

Milestones

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  Justin Yoshimura added a position as CEO at 500Friends. (6/1/10)
  Posted 3/25/10 at 8:36pm
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  Justin Yoshimura invested in 500Friends. (12/15/09)
  Posted 3/25/10 at 8:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  Justin Yoshimura invested in 500Friends. (3/14/12)
  Posted 3/14/12 at 5:56pm via techcrunch.com
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  Justin Yoshimura invested in OwnLocal. (6/28/10)
  Posted 6/29/10 at 4:49pm via techcrunch.com
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  Justin Yoshimura invested in BoostCTR. (3/14/11)
  Posted 3/14/11 at 10:24pm via techcrunch.com
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  Justin Yoshimura invested in GazeHawk. (6/1/10)
  Posted 8/2/10 at 12:31am via techcrunch.com
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  Justin Yoshimura invested in Zencoder. (2/1/10)
  Posted 3/25/10 at 1:07pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. 500Friends Raises $4.5M Series A For Its Social Loyalty Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. The Demand Media of Search Engine Marketing, BoostCTR, Raises $1.6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. YComb’s Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Startups And Top Investors Unite At Y Combinator’s Tenth Demo Day (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Startups And Top Investors Unite At Y Combinator’s Tenth Demo Day (techcrunch.com) [edit]