Klout
Measures Online Influence
Klout measures influence based on the ability to drive action across the social web. Any person can connect their social network accounts and Klout will generate a score on a scale of 1-100 that represents their ability to engage other people and...Founded in 2008
Employees: 79
Homepage: http://klout.com
Blog: http://klout.com/blog
Total money raised: $40M
San Francisco
USA CA
Klout at CrunchBase
Joe Fernandez CEO
Emil Michael COO
Matt Thomson VP of Business Development and Platform
Binh Tran Co-founder
Paige Craig Investor & Advisor
Kevin Liu Director of Product Engineering
Kelly Perdew Investor
Tom McInerney Advisor
Ben Ramirez Creative Director
Bing Gordon Board of Directors
Chi-Hua Chien Board of Directors
Ding Zhou Director of Engineering
David Pakman Investor
Michael Tucci Account Executive
David Bill Advisor
Lou Kerner Investor
Robert Johnston Investor
Nova Spivack Investor & Advisor
Joseph Morin Advisor
Max Rayner Investor
Don Hoang Director of Business Development
Eliot Durbin Investor
Jerry Murdock Investor/ Advisor
Nemanja Spasojevic Senior Software Engineer
Noel Hartshorn Mobile Lead
Past
Tim Mahlman Chief Revenue Officer
Gregarious Narain VP Product
Charles Dudley Senior Designer
John Frankel Director, Investor
Jay Taylor Senior Engineer
September, 2012
Klout raised unknown amount in unattributed round from Microsoft
May, 2012
February, 2012
Klout acquired Blockboard
January, 2012
Klout raised $30M in a Series C round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock, Institutional Venture Partners, ff Venture Capital, Paige Craig, and CrunchFund
July, 2011
Klout adds Foursquare to its measurement system
April, 2011
January, 2011
Klout raised $8.5M in a Series B round from Tom McInerney, Paige Craig, Bobby Yazdani, Howard Lindzon, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greycroft Partners, and Jason Finger
September, 2010
April, 2010
Klout raised $1.5M in a Series A round from Mayfield Fund, ff Venture Capital, Bobby Yazdani, Lucid Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Thomas Korte, Paige Craig, Michael Yavonditte, Jason Finger, and Tom McInerney
July, 2009
Klout raised unknown amount in seed round from Allen Morgan, Auren Hoffman, and Nova Spivack
August, 2008
Klout was founded on August, 2008