Pinterest

Organize and share things you love.

Pinterest is a social networking site with a visually-pleasing “virtual pinboard” interface. Users collect photos and link to products they love, creating their own pinboards and following the pinboards of other people whom they find...

Founded in 2009
Employees: 100
Homepage: http://pinterest.com/
Blog: http://xgoweb.com/
Total money raised: $337.5M

World Headquarters

94103 808 Brannan Street

San Francisco
USA CA

Updated on Apr 7, 2013
Pinterest at CrunchBase

Tags: pinterest

Evan Sharp Co-Founder
Ben Silbermann Co-founder
Paul Sciarra Co-founder
Ryan Probasco Engineer
Marty Weiner Engineer
Naveen Gavini Engineer
Scott Belsky Advisor/Investor
Tracy Chou Infrastructure Engineer
Dave Dash Engineer
Steven Ramkumar
Yashwanth Nelapati Engineer
Enid Hwang Community Manager
Justin Edmund Product Designer
Mohammad Shahangian Data Engineer
Scott Belsky Advisor/Investor
Kent Brewster Front-End Engineer
Joshua Inkenbrandt Engineer
Sunny Rochiramani Software Engineer
Past
Sahil Lavingia Designer/engineer
Cynthia Maxwell Mobile Development Lead
Ryan Park Technical Operations Lead

March, 2013

Pinterest acquired Livestar

Pinterest Acquires Livestar, The Mobile Recommendations Startup Founded By Fritz Lanman

February, 2013

Pinterest raised $200M in a Series D round from Valiant Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and FirstMark Capital

Pinterest Confirms Massive New $200 Million Series D Funding Round And $2.5 Billion Valuation

Pinterest’s next funding round could be valued as high $2.5 billion

venturebeat.com

January, 2013

Pinterest acquired Punchfork

Pinterest Acquires And Will Shut Down Recipe Discovery Site Punchfork

May, 2012

Pinterest raised $100M in a Series C round from Rakuten, Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital, and Bessemer Venture Partners

US start-up Pinterest raises $100 million in funding: Wall Street Journal

economictimes.indiatimes.com

October, 2011

Pinterest raised $27M in a Series B round from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and FirstMark Capital

Confirmed: Pinterest Raises $27 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz

May, 2011

Pinterest raised $10M in a Series A round from Bessemer Venture Partners, Kevin Hartz, Max Levchin, Jack Abraham, Michael Birch, Ron Conway, and FirstMark Capital

Pinterest Has Already Pinned Down $10M At A $40M Valuation

April, 2011

Pinterest Working On A Huge Round At A Big Valuation

businessinsider.com

January, 2010

Pinterest raised $500K in angel funding from Jack Abraham, Michael Birch, Scott Belsky, Shana Fisher, Kevin Hartz, Jeremy Stoppelman, Brian Cohen, Fritz Lanman, Hank Vigil, and FirstMark Capital

Pinterest / Team

2009

Pinterest was founded in 2009