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Jyri Engestrom

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Jyri Engestrom is an Internet entrepreneur. He cofounded Jaiku, which grew into the leading European microblogging service and was acquired by Google in 2007. At Google Jyri was responsible for mobile applications including Mobile Calendar and the Gmail Mobile client, and spearheaded Google’s efforts in social media, starting up Google Buzz, Google Profiles, and Google Latitude. He left Google to become an angel investor and start his own new company, Pingpin. Prior to Jaiku Jyri worked as Senior Product Manager, Internet Handhelds at Nokia. A sociologist by training, he is noted for coining the term ‘social object’ to refer to photos, bookmarks, and other shareable Web content.

Recent Milestones

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  Jyri Engestrom invested in Tinkercad. (11/8/11)
  Posted 11/8/11 at 8:20pm via techcrunch.com
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  Jyri Engestrom invested in Valkee. (12/15/10)
  Posted 12/19/10 at 6:10pm via finsmes.com
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Advisor at Superfeedr. (5/1/10)
  Posted 7/1/10 at 8:25am
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Director at XIHA. (1/25/10)
  Posted 1/25/10 at 1:37pm
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Founder & CEO at Pingpin. (1/1/10)
  Posted 9/29/10 at 9:49am
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Advisor at Appsfire. (1/1/10)
  Posted 9/29/10 at 11:27am
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Advisor at Mobclix. (1/1/09)
  Posted 9/29/10 at 11:27am
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Early investor at Thinglink. (1/1/08)
  Posted 10/1/10 at 6:48pm
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Product Manager at Google.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 1:05am
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Adviser at about.me.
  Posted 12/20/10 at 2:55pm
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Senior Product Manager, Internet Handhelds at Nokia.
  Posted 12/12/08 at 1:05am
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Cofounder & Chairman at Jaiku.
  Posted 7/10/07 at 12:56am
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Founder at Ditto.
  Posted 3/11/11 at 8:29am
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  Jyri Engestrom added a position as Advisor at Transfluent.
  Posted 6/20/12 at 1:29am

Investments

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Sources

1. Tinkercad Raises $1 Million, Aims To Popularize 3D Printing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Valkee Raises €400K in Angel Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]