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Websitekevinrose.com
Blogkevinrose.com
Twitter@kevinrose
BirthplaceCalifornia
Birthdate2/21/77

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Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Digg and WeFollow. Rose also co-founded Revision3, and Pownce (acquired by Six Apart).

Milestones

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    Kevin Rose — Forbes: The 2010 Web Celeb 25, Kevin Rose #5 (2/2/10)
    Posted 2/5/10 at 4:46pm
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    Kevin Rose invested in 3Crowd Technologies. (12/22/09)
    Posted 12/22/09 at 12:03pm
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    Kevin Rose invested in Gowalla. (12/9/09)
    Posted 12/4/09 at 1:56pm
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    Kevin Rose invested in SimpleGeo. (11/27/09)
    Posted 11/30/09 at 10:50am
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    Kevin Rose invested in Square. (11/09)
    Posted 12/1/09 at 11:05am
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    Kevin Rose invested in DailyBooth. (10/19/09)
    Posted 10/19/09 at 3:05am
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    Kevin Rose invested in Foursquare. (9/4/09)
    Posted 9/4/09 at 2:05pm
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    Kevin Rose — Time Magazine: Top 25 most influential people on the web (2008) (9/30/08)
    Posted 9/30/08 at 11:46am
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    Kevin Rose — BusinessWeek: The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (9/9/08)
    Posted 12/6/09 at 3:40pm
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    Kevin Rose invested in Twitter. (5/08)
    Posted 4/22/08 at 10:27pm
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    Kevin Rose invested in OMGPOP. (5/1/07)
    Posted 8/28/07 at 9:14am
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    Kevin Rose — TR35 - MIT's Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. (2007)
    Posted 6/2/09 at 11:17am
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    Kevin Rose added a position as Advisor at Six Apart.
    Posted 9/11/09 at 4:57pm
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    Kevin Rose added a position as Advisor at ngmoco.
    Posted 5/28/09 at 9:06am
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    Kevin Rose added a position as Founder at WeFollow.
    Posted 5/10/09 at 2:30pm
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    Kevin Rose added a position as Co-Founder at Revision3.
    Posted 6/27/07 at 11:25pm

Videos

Above:

TechCrunch interview with Kevin Rose, April 2009

Added: 4/21/09

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
3Crowd Technologies 12/09Unattributed4
Gowalla 12/09Series B$8.29M9
SimpleGeo 11/09Seed$1.47M13
Square 11/09Series A$10M16
DailyBooth 10/09Angel$1M7
Foursquare 9/09Angel$1.35M9
Twitter 5/08Series B$15M6
OMGPOP 5/07Angel1

Sources

  1. The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
  2. MIT's TR35 (technologyreview.com) [edit]
  3. BusinessWeek (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
  4. Forbes: The Web Celeb 25 (forbes.com) [edit]
  5. 3Crowd Blog (blog.3crowd.com) [edit]
  6. TechCrunch, SEC (crunchbase.com) [edit]
  7. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Company Communication [edit]
  9. YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million From Sequoia, Kevin Rose, Ron Conway Et Al. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. techcrunch.com [edit]
  11. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
  12. thealarmclock.com [edit]
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