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Blogkevinrose.com
BirthplaceCalifornia
Birthdate2/21/77

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Kevin Rose

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

Milestones

  • Invested in DailyBooth. (10/19/09)
    Posted 10/19/09 at 3:05am
  • Invested in Foursquare. (9/4/09)
    Posted 9/4/09 at 2:05pm
  • Kevin Rose — Named one of Time Magazine's top 25 most influential people on the web (2008) (9/30/08)
    Posted 9/30/08 at 11:46am
  • Invested in Twitter. (5/08)
    Posted 4/22/08 at 10:27pm
  • Invested in OMGPOP. (5/1/07)
    Posted 8/28/07 at 9:14am
  • 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
  • Added position as Founder and Chief Architect at Digg.
    Posted 5/25/07 at 12:04pm
  • Added position as Co-founder at Pownce.
    Posted 6/27/07 at 11:04pm
  • Added position as Co-Founder at Revision3.
    Posted 6/27/07 at 11:25pm
  • Added position as Founder at WeFollow.
    Posted 5/10/09 at 2:30pm
  • Added position as Advisor at ngmoco.
    Posted 5/28/09 at 9:06am
  • Added position as Advisor at Six Apart.
    Posted 9/11/09 at 4:57pm
  • Added position as Advisor at Thread.
    Posted 9/11/09 at 5:02pm

Videos

Above:

TechCrunch interview with Kevin Rose, April 2009

Added: 4/21/09

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
DailyBooth 10/09Angel$1M6
Foursquare 9/09Seed$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. YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million From Sequoia, Kevin Rose, Ron Conway Et Al. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. techcrunch.com [edit]
  5. Twitter Announces Their Funding, Calls Itself A Communication Utility (techcrunch.com) []
  6. thealarmclock.com [edit]

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