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Philip Kaplan

Philip Kaplan (@pud) is a programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor in San Francisco, CA. He is the founder of TinyLetter (email service provider, acquired by MailChimp), Blippy (venture-backed social commerce company), and AdBrite (a large Internet ad network). He also developed several iPhone apps, including the best selling “Punch Your Friends.”

In 2010, Philip was entrepreneur-in-residence at Charles River Ventures. Philip founded and sold several other businesses including F-ckedcompany.com and PK Interactive, a software company that developed web-based applications for Fortune 500 clients. Philip is the bestselling author of F’d Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts (Simon & Schuster). He is an active angel investor and advisor to numerous startups and has been on the Board of Advisors of Syracuse University since 2006.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
Milk 4/11Angel$1.5M25
Beautylish 11/10Angel$1M1
BranchOut 9/10Series A$6M16
Blippy 1/10Angel$1.73M9

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  1. Charles River Ventures Hires That FuckedCompany Guy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Techcrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Beauty Commerce Site Beautylish Struts With $1M From Angels (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. techcrunch.com [edit]
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