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Vikas Gupta

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Vikas Gupta is co-founder and CEO of Jambool, Inc. Jambool operates Social Gold, a leading virtual currency and payments platform for social games and applications.

The platform enables developers to create and manage their own white-labeled virtual currency, to provide an unparalleled, in-app payments experience to their users, and to optimize their virtual economy using robust analytics.

Prior to Jambool, Vikas led both the Payments and the Web Services groups at Amazon.com. He also was lead inventor for Amazon’s Flexible Payments Service.

Vikas co-founded Jambool in 2006 and built several popular applications on the Facebook platform – all of which employed virtual economy elements that became the foundation for Social Gold.

Recent Milestones

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  Vikas Gupta invested in Switchcam. (6/14/12)
  Posted 6/14/12 at 7:29pm via techcrunch.com
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  Vikas Gupta invested in sneakpeeq. (2/10/12)
  Posted 2/12/12 at 6:24pm via techcrunch.com
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  Vikas Gupta added a position as Founder & CEO at Play-i. (1/11/12)
  Posted 5/1/13 at 5:08pm
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  Vikas Gupta invested in Chartio. (6/1/10)
  Posted 8/23/10 at 11:40am
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  Vikas Gupta added a position as Payments and Web Services at Amazon. (1/1/06)
  Posted 11/5/09 at 2:10pm
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  Vikas Gupta added a position as Co-Founder and CEO at Jambool .
  Posted 5/29/08 at 1:02pm

Investments

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1. Switchcam Raises $1.2 Million From Mark Cuban, 500 Startups, Turner Media Camp, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Social Shopping Site Sneakpeeq Raises $2.7M From Bain Capital Ventures, Keith Rabois And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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