True Ventures

True Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2005. The firm specializes in early-stage technology investments, focusing on seed and Series A funding for startups across various sectors, including consumer internet, software, hardware, health, and emerging technologies. True Ventures manages over $2.8 billion in capital and has supported more than 300 companies, contributing to the creation of over 25,000 jobs globally. The firm's investment strategy typically involves contributions ranging from $0.25 million to $3 million, aiming for ownership stakes between 20 and 25 percent. True Ventures is recognized for its commitment to fostering entrepreneurship and providing a supportive environment for founders, emphasizing personal and professional growth through its True Platform. The firm has achieved notable exits, including investments in companies that have been acquired by major corporations or gone public.

Dave Balter

Venture Partner

Phil Black

Co-Founder

Jon Callaghan

Managing Partner

Caroline Ciaramitaro

Associate

Gus Coldebella

Partner

Tony Conrad

Partner

Ann Crady Weiss

Venture Partner

Sahiti Enjeti

Analyst

Amy Errett

Partner

Ulrike Kellmereit

CFO

Om Malik

Partner

Fiona McCarthy

Principal

Michael Montano

Venture Partner

John O'Connell

Senior Associate

Natasha Sharma

Principal

Rohit Sharma

Partner

Jim Stewart

COO

James Stewart

COO and Partner

Priscilla Tyler

Vice President

Ann Weiss

Partner

Ariel Winton

Principal

Past deals in Social Media

Fairing

Seed Round in 2022
Attribution Survey Platform

Academia.edu

Series D in 2022
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. It aims to accelerate the world's research. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. Over 132 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million unique visitors a month. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Stocktwits

Series B in 2021
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

Somewhere Good

Seed Round in 2021
Somewhere Good is a social platform centered around identity and community.

The Recount

Series B in 2021
Recount Media, Inc. is a media platform that specializes in political news through short-form video and high-quality journalism. Established in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company is known for its flagship program, The Daily Recount, which curates and remixes television news to present significant political stories in an efficient and engaging manner. The platform aims to provide clarity and context on important political events while maintaining a commitment to straightforward reporting. Recount Media's approach focuses on delivering news in five minutes or less, catering to audiences who seek substance without unnecessary complexity.

The Recount

Series A in 2020
Recount Media, Inc. is a media platform that specializes in political news through short-form video and high-quality journalism. Established in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company is known for its flagship program, The Daily Recount, which curates and remixes television news to present significant political stories in an efficient and engaging manner. The platform aims to provide clarity and context on important political events while maintaining a commitment to straightforward reporting. Recount Media's approach focuses on delivering news in five minutes or less, catering to audiences who seek substance without unnecessary complexity.

The Recount

Seed Round in 2019
Recount Media, Inc. is a media platform that specializes in political news through short-form video and high-quality journalism. Established in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company is known for its flagship program, The Daily Recount, which curates and remixes television news to present significant political stories in an efficient and engaging manner. The platform aims to provide clarity and context on important political events while maintaining a commitment to straightforward reporting. Recount Media's approach focuses on delivering news in five minutes or less, catering to audiences who seek substance without unnecessary complexity.

Podhero

Seed Round in 2019
Swoot is a social podcast player that allows people to discover shows with friends and recommend episodes. Swoot is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

TruStory

Seed Round in 2018
TruStory is a social network that enables productive debate. To make progress on any issue, we need to learn from different perspectives, find common ground, and have the humility to change our minds. Our mission is to make the Internet more open-minded by incentivizing people to hear all sides of a debate.

FORWARD Platform

Series A in 2017
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.

FORWARD Platform

Seed Round in 2016
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.

Stocktwits

Venture Round in 2016
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

Podhero

Seed Round in 2016
Swoot is a social podcast player that allows people to discover shows with friends and recommend episodes. Swoot is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Molio

Debt Financing in 2015
Molio is a full-digital brand building agency that specializes in launching brands with an online video at the core. Molio has recently launched an innovation partnership with Astro Studios called AM:LABS to originate, co-create and validate new brands. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Molio

Series A in 2015
Molio is a full-digital brand building agency that specializes in launching brands with an online video at the core. Molio has recently launched an innovation partnership with Astro Studios called AM:LABS to originate, co-create and validate new brands. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

About.me

Series B in 2014
about.me is a web platform that enables individuals to represent their personal identity online through curated profile pages. Users can create a personalized page that includes bios, contact information, and links to various social media accounts such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. The platform allows for extensive customization with personal photos, backdrops, colors, and fonts, enabling users to express their individuality. Additional features such as Collections, Replies, Compliments, and the ability to invite friends facilitate connections and engagement among users. Founded in 2010 by Tony Conrad, Ryan Freitas, and Tim Young, about.me was reacquired by its founders from AOL in February 2013, allowing them to focus on helping freelancers and entrepreneurs grow their audience and enhance client engagement through a centralized online presence.

Storehouse

Series A in 2014
Storehouse is an online multimedia story-sharing platform that enables users to create and share narratives through photos, videos, and text. The application allows individuals to combine various media elements to tell their stories compellingly and creatively. Recognized for its innovative design and functionality, Storehouse received the TechCrunch Crunchie Award for Best Mobile App in 2015 and the Apple Design Award in 2014. Through its platform, Storehouse aims to enhance the storytelling experience by providing tools that facilitate the seamless integration of visual and written content.

Storehouse

Seed Round in 2014
Storehouse is an online multimedia story-sharing platform that enables users to create and share narratives through photos, videos, and text. The application allows individuals to combine various media elements to tell their stories compellingly and creatively. Recognized for its innovative design and functionality, Storehouse received the TechCrunch Crunchie Award for Best Mobile App in 2015 and the Apple Design Award in 2014. Through its platform, Storehouse aims to enhance the storytelling experience by providing tools that facilitate the seamless integration of visual and written content.

Academia.edu

Series B in 2013
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. It aims to accelerate the world's research. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. Over 132 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million unique visitors a month. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MessageMe

Series A in 2013
MessageMe is a mobile messaging application designed to enhance communication through personalized and emotionally engaging interactions. The platform focuses on creating a fun and lightweight user experience, encouraging users to send and respond to messages in a dynamic manner. By applying techniques from social gaming, MessageMe aims to enrich the emotional context of messaging, thereby increasing user engagement and excitement. The company has attracted interest from major players in the tech industry, including Snapchat and Truecaller. Ultimately, MessageMe was acquired by Yahoo for a sum estimated between $30 million and $40 million, reflecting its potential in the competitive messaging app landscape.

Schematic Labs

Venture Round in 2013
Maker of social entertainment mobile apps for the real world.

MessageMe

Seed Round in 2013
MessageMe is a mobile messaging application designed to enhance communication through personalized and emotionally engaging interactions. The platform focuses on creating a fun and lightweight user experience, encouraging users to send and respond to messages in a dynamic manner. By applying techniques from social gaming, MessageMe aims to enrich the emotional context of messaging, thereby increasing user engagement and excitement. The company has attracted interest from major players in the tech industry, including Snapchat and Truecaller. Ultimately, MessageMe was acquired by Yahoo for a sum estimated between $30 million and $40 million, reflecting its potential in the competitive messaging app landscape.

TastemakerX

Series B in 2013
TastemakerX is where music lovers can do what they most want to do with music online: discover, listen to and share their tastes. With TastemakerX, people can discover music by exploring other people’s curated artist Collections, listen to and engage with their collected Artists on Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes, Songkick, Twitter, Instagram and other services. Let’s face it, finding music should be fun and easy, but it really hasn’t been since the days of “High Fidelity” where Jack Black and John Cusack worked in that hipster record store eons ago. Like those record store clerks, DJs on college radio stations, friends, great music critics and bloggers who thrust music upon us with a passionate urgency, TastemakerX is about people turning people onto music TastemakerX 2.0 for iOS 7 and Web launched on September 18 2013.

About.me

Series A in 2013
about.me is a web platform that enables individuals to represent their personal identity online through curated profile pages. Users can create a personalized page that includes bios, contact information, and links to various social media accounts such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. The platform allows for extensive customization with personal photos, backdrops, colors, and fonts, enabling users to express their individuality. Additional features such as Collections, Replies, Compliments, and the ability to invite friends facilitate connections and engagement among users. Founded in 2010 by Tony Conrad, Ryan Freitas, and Tim Young, about.me was reacquired by its founders from AOL in February 2013, allowing them to focus on helping freelancers and entrepreneurs grow their audience and enhance client engagement through a centralized online presence.

SocialPandas

Seed Round in 2012
SocialPandas, Inc. is a social selling platform that enables B2B companies to effectively utilize social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to generate leads and drive revenue. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on developing innovative products tailored for sales and marketing professionals. SocialPandas converts online relationships and activities into actionable business opportunities, helping clients enhance their sales pipelines. The company is privately held and supported by notable investors, including True Ventures and Alchemist Accelerator, along with several prominent angel investors, many of whom are former executives from leading technology firms.

9gag

Seed Round in 2012
9GAG, Inc. is a social media platform founded in 2008 and based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in user-generated content focused on humor. The site allows users to post and comment on a wide array of entertaining media, including funny pictures, videos, and memes across various categories such as gaming, anime, movies, TV shows, and sports. 9GAG.TV, a subsidiary of the main platform, features user-generated videos that cover similar themes, including comedy, pranks, and cute moments. The platform is updated daily, providing a dynamic space for users to engage with content, share laughs, and connect with others who enjoy lighthearted entertainment.

MessageMe

Seed Round in 2012
MessageMe is a mobile messaging application designed to enhance communication through personalized and emotionally engaging interactions. The platform focuses on creating a fun and lightweight user experience, encouraging users to send and respond to messages in a dynamic manner. By applying techniques from social gaming, MessageMe aims to enrich the emotional context of messaging, thereby increasing user engagement and excitement. The company has attracted interest from major players in the tech industry, including Snapchat and Truecaller. Ultimately, MessageMe was acquired by Yahoo for a sum estimated between $30 million and $40 million, reflecting its potential in the competitive messaging app landscape.

Threefold Photos

Venture Round in 2012
Threefold Photos operates a photo and video-sharing website. The company’s website enables its users to store and share photos, videos, and slideshows with their friends and family; download professional photos; manage online photos, and order prints and make custom photo gifts. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Corte Madera, California.

Dinamundo

Seed Round in 2012
Dinamundo is a social check-in service that encourages real-world connections through humor. Users can check in with one another by scanning QR codes on their smartphones, which rewards them with comedic fortunes crafted by professional comedians. This approach aims to foster genuine interactions while leveraging technology, countering the trend of excessive smartphone use that often isolates individuals. The Dinamundo app allows users to share their humorous experiences on social media and track their interactions with others. Founded by a team of startup veterans in San Francisco, Dinamundo's mission is to enhance social engagement by integrating laughter and fun into everyday encounters. The service is free and designed to promote a lighthearted atmosphere among users.

TastemakerX

Series A in 2012
TastemakerX is where music lovers can do what they most want to do with music online: discover, listen to and share their tastes. With TastemakerX, people can discover music by exploring other people’s curated artist Collections, listen to and engage with their collected Artists on Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes, Songkick, Twitter, Instagram and other services. Let’s face it, finding music should be fun and easy, but it really hasn’t been since the days of “High Fidelity” where Jack Black and John Cusack worked in that hipster record store eons ago. Like those record store clerks, DJs on college radio stations, friends, great music critics and bloggers who thrust music upon us with a passionate urgency, TastemakerX is about people turning people onto music TastemakerX 2.0 for iOS 7 and Web launched on September 18 2013.

Just.me

Series A in 2011
Just.me, Inc. is a mobile messaging platform headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2011. It integrates various communication features, including camera functionality, video capture, voice messaging, and traditional text messaging, into a single application. Users can create and share memories through unlimited photos, videos, voice, and text, allowing them to document life events and control their audience. The platform offers options to share content privately with select individuals or publish it publicly. By leveraging the smartphone address book, Just.me ensures clarity in sharing, as users can easily manage who sees their messages. Currently, the app is in beta for iPhone, with an Android version under development and a web version available with limited features.

Academia.edu

Series A in 2011
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. It aims to accelerate the world's research. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. Over 132 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 52 million unique visitors a month. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Schematic Labs

Series A in 2011
Maker of social entertainment mobile apps for the real world.

Pose

Series A in 2011
Pose is a mobile-first fashion platform that enhances the shopping experience by allowing users to share and discover outfits in real time. Founded in 2010 and based in Santa Monica, California, Pose enables women worldwide to upload and showcase their fashion choices, while also facilitating the buying, selling, and trading of clothing items within a trusted peer-to-peer network. The platform features over 3.5 million interactive fashion photos contributed by influencers and everyday users alike, creating a vibrant community focused on self-expression and style. By tracking the latest releases from top brands and retailers, Pose empowers users to curate a personal style feed and engage in discussions about fashion. This unique blend of social interaction and commerce positions Pose at the intersection of the sharing economy and fashion, fostering meaningful connections among like-minded shoppers.

Just.me

Seed Round in 2011
Just.me, Inc. is a mobile messaging platform headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2011. It integrates various communication features, including camera functionality, video capture, voice messaging, and traditional text messaging, into a single application. Users can create and share memories through unlimited photos, videos, voice, and text, allowing them to document life events and control their audience. The platform offers options to share content privately with select individuals or publish it publicly. By leveraging the smartphone address book, Just.me ensures clarity in sharing, as users can easily manage who sees their messages. Currently, the app is in beta for iPhone, with an Android version under development and a web version available with limited features.

One Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
One Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a mobile application designed to facilitate social networking by connecting users with shared interests. The app notifies individuals when others nearby, who have also downloaded the application, share similar interests. By leveraging information from users' social media profiles, the app enhances the interaction experience by helping users discover and engage with like-minded individuals in their vicinity.

BackType

Seed Round in 2011
BackType is a marketing intelligence platform that aids brands and agencies in assessing the business impact of social media. The company operates a search engine that allows users to find, follow, and share comments from blogs and social news sites. Additionally, BackType offers features that enable users to search query results through RSS feeds and emails. With its technology, BackType supports social functionalities for over 100 organizations, including notable entities such as The New York Times, Slideshare, and Automattic, the creators of WordPress.

Pose

Venture Round in 2011
Pose is a mobile-first fashion platform that enhances the shopping experience by allowing users to share and discover outfits in real time. Founded in 2010 and based in Santa Monica, California, Pose enables women worldwide to upload and showcase their fashion choices, while also facilitating the buying, selling, and trading of clothing items within a trusted peer-to-peer network. The platform features over 3.5 million interactive fashion photos contributed by influencers and everyday users alike, creating a vibrant community focused on self-expression and style. By tracking the latest releases from top brands and retailers, Pose empowers users to curate a personal style feed and engage in discussions about fashion. This unique blend of social interaction and commerce positions Pose at the intersection of the sharing economy and fashion, fostering meaningful connections among like-minded shoppers.

Stocktwits

Venture Round in 2010
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

Ditto

Seed Round in 2010
Ditto is a location-based application designed for mobile devices that facilitates social interactions among friends. The app allows users to share their current locations and activities, making it easier to discover recommendations for restaurants, movies, and various events. By enabling users to see what their friends are up to and when they are looking for companionship, Ditto promotes spontaneous gatherings and enhances social experiences. Users can download the app to start engaging with their social circle, whether they are planning a coffee meetup, attending a movie, or exploring evening activities.

Schematic Labs

Seed Round in 2010
Maker of social entertainment mobile apps for the real world.

Collecta

Venture Round in 2010
Collecta Inc., founded in 2008 and based in Santa Monica, California, provides a real-time search engine that aggregates updates from popular platforms such as Twitter, WordPress, and Flickr. The service allows users to filter results by various categories, including status updates, comments, stories, and photos, ensuring they receive timely and relevant information. Utilizing the XMPP standard, Collecta's engine continuously pushes data, allowing users to monitor a dynamic stream of search results in real-time. This innovative approach enables users to efficiently explore topics of interest with advanced search capabilities, making information retrieval faster and more intuitive.

Sponge

Seed Round in 2010
POWERING SOCIAL COMMUNITIES THAT ANSWER THE WORLDS QUESTIONS....Sponge powers question and answer communities for brands, media outlets, and topical sites. Sponge's Q&A platform enables online communities to ask questions and share answers in a structured manner. Sponge's technology unites traditional social features with question-and-answer functionality to foster knowledge sharing, collaboration, and customer engagement.

Socialcast

Series B in 2010
Socialcast is a leading provider of Enterprise collaboration software to facilitate real-time employee communication while analyzing the social graph for measures of productivity. Socialcast is deployed either on-premise or on-demand using activity streams to effectively accelerate information awareness amongst employees.

Plancast

Seed Round in 2010
The best way to discover events and activities with friends.

Stocktwits

Series A in 2009
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

TuneIn

Series A in 2009
TuneIn lets people listen to the world's sports, new, talk, and music with over 100,000 real radio stations and four million on-demand programs streaming from every continent. TuneIn has over 50 million monthly active users, and is available on over 200 different connected devices, including all smartphone and tablet operating systems and 55 vehicle models. To date, TuneIn has raised venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, and Jafco Ventures, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Stocktwits

Seed Round in 2009
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.

Socialcast

Series A in 2009
Socialcast is a leading provider of Enterprise collaboration software to facilitate real-time employee communication while analyzing the social graph for measures of productivity. Socialcast is deployed either on-premise or on-demand using activity streams to effectively accelerate information awareness amongst employees.

Collecta

Series A in 2009
Collecta Inc., founded in 2008 and based in Santa Monica, California, provides a real-time search engine that aggregates updates from popular platforms such as Twitter, WordPress, and Flickr. The service allows users to filter results by various categories, including status updates, comments, stories, and photos, ensuring they receive timely and relevant information. Utilizing the XMPP standard, Collecta's engine continuously pushes data, allowing users to monitor a dynamic stream of search results in real-time. This innovative approach enables users to efficiently explore topics of interest with advanced search capabilities, making information retrieval faster and more intuitive.

FiltrBox

Series A in 2009
Filtrbox provides a social media monitoring platform for marketers, PR professionals, brand managers, and customer service teams. The company’s services include Filtrbox G2 that delivers critical market intelligence to executives, sales professionals, investors, and marketers as well as discovers new articles in a range of online sources and delivers a daily list of qualified results based on its clients’ business logic. The company also provides Filtrbox Basic that enables to track the things which clients care about online. The company’s services enable its clients to listen, engage, measure, and lead social media conversations. It monitors [Twitter](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter), [FriendFeed](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/friendfeed), [Backtype](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backtype), and other social networks. Filtrbox was founded in April 2007 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

BackType

Seed Round in 2009
BackType is a marketing intelligence platform that aids brands and agencies in assessing the business impact of social media. The company operates a search engine that allows users to find, follow, and share comments from blogs and social news sites. Additionally, BackType offers features that enable users to search query results through RSS feeds and emails. With its technology, BackType supports social functionalities for over 100 organizations, including notable entities such as The New York Times, Slideshare, and Automattic, the creators of WordPress.

FiltrBox

Seed Round in 2008
Filtrbox provides a social media monitoring platform for marketers, PR professionals, brand managers, and customer service teams. The company’s services include Filtrbox G2 that delivers critical market intelligence to executives, sales professionals, investors, and marketers as well as discovers new articles in a range of online sources and delivers a daily list of qualified results based on its clients’ business logic. The company also provides Filtrbox Basic that enables to track the things which clients care about online. The company’s services enable its clients to listen, engage, measure, and lead social media conversations. It monitors [Twitter](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter), [FriendFeed](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/friendfeed), [Backtype](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/backtype), and other social networks. Filtrbox was founded in April 2007 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Maya's Mom

Angel Round in 2006
Maya's Mom is a social network and advice site for parents, specifically females. Parents can share their thoughts via "journals", join specific groups to get advice and ask questions, and find other parents to connect and share pictures with. The site is based around parenting so you'll find plenty of postings on kids taking first steps, silly kid quotes and general parenting advice. The site has weekly journal topics like "Songs You Can't Get Out of Your Head" that all parents can choose to write about. Parents can also submit suggestions for future topics. In the "group talk" section, parents can join groups like "Expecting Moms" and "Stay at Home Moms" and ask questions and give each other advice. The group page shows the most popular groups and tracks group conversation activity, so parents can see what topics and issues are relevant to the community. Paidcontent.org recently announced that BabyCenter, owned by J&J, acquired Maya's Mom for an undisclosed amount. BabyCenter will leave Maya's Mom as a standalone site but will use Maya's Mom's backend social software across its network of sites and blogs. Along with True Ventures, investors in their angel round included Jeff Clavier, James Currier, Caterina Fake, Geoff Ralston, Raymond Stern, and Michael Tanne. Competitors include [Minti](http://techcrunch.com/tag/minti) and [MothersClick](http://www.mothersclick.com/).

Meebo

Series A in 2005
Meebo is a consumer internet company headquartered in Mountain View, California, that focuses on enhancing user engagement across the web through its advertising-supported social media platform. The company's primary product, the Meebo Bar, is an embedded solution for websites that allows publishers and advertisers to integrate content engagement and brand experiences into users' online interactions. In addition to this, Meebo offers a web sharing tool that enables users to share multimedia content and articles across various social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, while also providing metrics on the engagement of their shared links. Originally launched in September 2005 as an instant messenger aggregator by founders Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry, Meebo has since expanded its operations to include multiple offices in major U.S. cities. The company is supported by several notable venture capital firms, including True Ventures and Sequoia Capital.

Meebo

Venture Round in 2005
Meebo is a consumer internet company headquartered in Mountain View, California, that focuses on enhancing user engagement across the web through its advertising-supported social media platform. The company's primary product, the Meebo Bar, is an embedded solution for websites that allows publishers and advertisers to integrate content engagement and brand experiences into users' online interactions. In addition to this, Meebo offers a web sharing tool that enables users to share multimedia content and articles across various social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, while also providing metrics on the engagement of their shared links. Originally launched in September 2005 as an instant messenger aggregator by founders Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry, Meebo has since expanded its operations to include multiple offices in major U.S. cities. The company is supported by several notable venture capital firms, including True Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
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