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Travis Kalanick

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Travis Kalanick is the CEO & Co - Founder at Uber Technologies Inc.

Travis Kalanick is a successful entrepreneur in the areas of consumer internet, transportation, and enterprise content delivery.

His most recent company, Uber, an on-demand black car service, seeks to be “Everyone’s Private Driver” by bringing disruptive technology and business innovation to urban transportation challenges.

Prior to Uber, Travis founded Red Swoosh, an enterprise content delivery company that he sold to Akamai Technologies in 2007.

Prior companies include Scour, the world’s first p2p search engine where Kalanick also attained the dubious distinction of having been sued for $250 billion.

In addition, Kalanick has been an active angel investor in, and advising, kick-ass startups founded by truly awesome entrepreneurs.

You can connect with Travis on Twitter @travisk, read his blog, or ask him anything on Formspring.

Recent Milestones

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  Travis Kalanick invested in Livefyre. (10/17/11)
  Posted 10/17/11 at 9:55pm via gigaom.com
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  Travis Kalanick invested in StyleSeat. (7/1/11)
  Posted 3/19/12 at 12:59am via techcrunch.com
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  Travis Kalanick invested in Honestly.com. (10/19/10)
  Posted 10/19/10 at 9:26pm via techcrunch.com
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  Travis Kalanick invested in Flowtown. (8/25/10)
  Posted 8/25/10 at 8:37am via techcrunch.com
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  Travis Kalanick invested in Livefyre. (7/6/10)
  Posted 7/7/10 at 7:38pm via venturebeat.com
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  Travis Kalanick invested in Formspring. (3/18/10)
  Posted 1/24/10 at 6:55pm via nytimes.com
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  Travis Kalanick invested in Uber. (8/1/09)
  Posted 10/15/10 at 1:53am
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  Travis Kalanick added a position as CEO & Co - Founder at Uber. (6/1/09)
  Posted 10/15/10 at 1:27am
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  Travis Kalanick invested in Expensify. (5/1/09)
  Posted 8/12/09 at 1:48pm via venturebeat.com
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  Travis Kalanick added a position as Head, P2P Initiatives at Akamai Technologies. (1/1/07)
  Posted 1/2/09 at 10:47pm
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  Travis Kalanick added a position as Founder & CEO at Red Swoosh. (1/1/01)
  Posted 1/2/09 at 10:47pm
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  Travis Kalanick added a position as Co - Founder at Scour.net. (1/1/98)
  Posted 5/1/13 at 1:08am
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  Travis Kalanick added a position as Investor & Advisor at deviantART.
  Posted 1/2/09 at 10:47pm
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  Travis Kalanick added a position as Investor & Advisor at Kareo.
  Posted 8/19/09 at 4:53am
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  Travis Kalanick added a position as Secret Weapon at Mashape.
  Posted 2/15/11 at 6:25pm
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  Travis Kalanick added a position as Investor & Advisor at Expensify.
  Posted 1/2/09 at 10:47pm

Investments

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1. Gigaom (gigaom.com) [edit]
2. Ashton Kutcher, Founders Fund Go In For $775K On ‘OpenTable For Stylists’ StyleSeat (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Unvarnished Becomes Honestly.com, Raises $1.2 Million And Opens The Floodgates (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. techcrunch.com [edit]
5. Livefyre raises $800K to break down comment silos (social.venturebeat.com) [edit]
6. NY Times (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
7. Citation Needed [add]
8. Expensify raises $1M for online expense reporting (venturebeat.com) [edit]