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OMGPOP is a leading developer of social games for facebook, iphone and the open web. With games on multiple social networks as well as its own destination site, the company is recognized as a leader in creating real-time game experiences.

OMGPOP

X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. 

As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. 

X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. 

X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.

X (formerly Twitter)

DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.

DailyBooth

SimpleGeo provides a ready-to-use location infrastructure that makes it easy to ad location-aware features to applications.  The company was founded in 2009 by [Matt Galligan](/person/matt-galligan) and [Joe Stump](/person/joe-stump) and was acquired by [Urban Airship](/organization/urban-airship) in October 2011.

SimpleGeo

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (formerly Square, Inc.) is a technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy.

Block, Inc.

Gowalla is the leading Social Guide to the world's most loved places and cities. 

Its award-winning mobile app and website — paired with an ever-growing collection of socially-powered Guides to cities, parks and regions across the globe — as curated by the Gowalla community and experts like Disney and National Geographic — make it easy for friends and families to share and discover photos, experiences and recommendations on the go.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Gowalla was launched in 2009 and is backed by investors including Greylock Partners, Also p-Louie Partners, Founders Fund, and other prominent angel investors.

Gowalla (acquired by facebook)

Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. With a massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile, including CSR Racing™, Dragon City™, Empires & Puzzles™, FarmVille™, Golf Rival™, Hair Challenge™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, High Heels!™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Monster Legends™, Toon Blast™, Top Eleven™, Toy Blast™, Two Dots™, Words With Friends™, and Zynga Poker™. Zynga is also an industry-leading next-generation platform with the ability to optimize programmatic advertising and yields at scale with Chartboost, a leading mobile advertising and monetization platform. Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Zynga

Provider of management tools for cloud-based services, helping content providers find a profitable balance between creating content and the cost of delivering it.

3Crowd Technologies

Formspring is a startup that helps people find out more about each other by sharing interesting & personal responses.

Formspring encourages people to get to know each other better in a simple and fun way.  It starts by directly asking people original questions in anticipation of their entertaining or revealing responses.  Responses can range from straightforward to surprising and can lead to understanding something more about the people you know or find interesting.  Whether you are curious to know more about a college you are applying to, the movies your friend likes, or the stories of someone you respect, on Formspring, you can have fun, share insights, and relate to one another in a new way.


Formspring

Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service for building personal social networks with up to 150 contacts.  Currently Path Places. Path Talk and Path sold to Daum Kakao May 28, 2015.

Path brings people closer together. Guided by the belief that mobile technology will fundamentally change the cultural, social, and economic landscape, Path focuses on simplicity, quality, and privacy to provide the best mobile personal networking service in the world. Path was designed with the people they love, closest friends, and family in mind.

Path

Yobongo is a mobile communication startup currently in private beta testing. They keys to the service are location, realtime, and identity. 

Yobongo is a new way for people to communicate with people nearby. We believe connecting with people in the real world is much harder than it should be. That by giving people the opportunity to connect with other like minded people we can help foster authentic communications about everything and anything.

Mobile devices are more powerful than ever before, but the way we communicate on them hasn't kept pace. Always connected and location aware devices demand new approaches to make communicating more efficient and fun. Yobongo aims to re-imagine the way we communicate on mobile devices. Yobongo is available on iPhone and iPod Touch.

The world is filled with places where people can pretend to be someone they're not. Yobongo isn't one of them. Yobongo is about authentic conversations with real people. That is why we require real photos and real names. Because when you are being yourself you can forge real connections and friendships.

Yobongo

Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. 

Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

In today's environment, everyone shops online, typically for convenience. The problem? Failed parcel deliveries - being able to actually receive the purchases when they are delivered.

BufferBox has developed an automated, self-serve kiosk to eliminate the frustrations and hassle involved with failed parcel deliveries. BufferBox has successfully deployed our first kiosk that allows for 24/7 pick-up of parcels at a convenient location.

The kiosk supplies the user with a unique BufferBox address to have their parcel delivered to. Upon its arrival, the user is emailed a unique, one-time-use PIN code for the kiosk to retrieve their parcel on their schedule. The BufferBox service restores the convenience of online shopping.

BufferBox

FOBO is a local marketplace for selling consumer electronics.

FOBO offers users a new way to sell goods via mobile app. It gets rid of all the hassle that is usually associated with local marketplaces and makes it ultra-simple and ultra-fast to do so. The app guarantees sellers will get a certain price for their devices and will be paid upfront, and ensures that their product is sold fast — within 97 minutes.

FOBO

Kevin Rose

Portland, Oregon, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
May 20, 2015	Algolia	Series A - Algolia	18.3M
Sep 12, 2019	Magic Spoon	Seed Round - Magic Spoon	5.5M
May 14, 2021	Universe XYZ	Seed Round - Universe XYZ	0
Jul 13, 2021	ClayStack	Seed Round - ClayStack	5.2M

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Investor Name	Money Raised
Jun 11, 2021	Zolt	Seed Round - Zolt	True Ventures	3.0M
Jun 11, 2021	Framework	Seed Round - Framework	True Ventures	3.0M
Feb 09, 2022	Quantum Art	Series A - Quantum Art	True Ventures	7.5M
Apr 05, 2022	-	Series B - Endel	True Ventures	15.0M

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Kevin Rose has made 23 investments. Their Latest investment was Seed Round - ClayStack on Jul 13, 2021

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