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Posterous


Web Publishing Platform

Posterous emerged from Y Combinator in the summer of 2008 as an innovative company focused on making blogging simple - as simple as sending an email - and now has more than 15 million monthly users. With the launch of Posterous Spaces, the company...

Founded in 2008
Employees: 9
Homepage:
Blog: http://blog.posterous.com/
Total money raised: $10.1M

San Francisco
USA CA
Updated on May 8, 2013
Posterous at CrunchBase
Tags:   blog   blogging   blogging-platform   network   networking   photo   photo-blog   platform   social   social-networking

Sachin Agarwal Founder/CEO/Board of Directors
Timothy Ferriss Advisor
Chris Sacca Advisor
Past
Garry Tan Co-Founder
Rich Pearson VP, Marketing
Brett Gibson Co-Founder
M. Jackson Wilkinson Director of User Experience
Ryan Brown Marketing Intern
Satish Dharmaraj Board of Directors
Adam Singer Tech Lead
Ryan Brown Product Marketing Manager

March, 2012

Posterous was acquired by Twitter
for $10M

What Twitter & LinkedIn’s Recent Acquisitions Tells Us About Their Plans    simplyzesty.com

September, 2011

Posterous raised $5M in a Series B round from Redpoint Ventures and Jafco Ventures

Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Program: Posterous Raises $5 Million    techcrunch.com

May, 2010

Viral Notebook bb 4 strategies for mliboe learning & teaching-Part 1 Over the next few posts, I'm planning to share strategies that I recently used for mliboe learning (mlearning) and teaching in one of my courses. I hope you find viral-notebook.com/ /4

Lead411 launches "Hottest Companies in San Francisco" awards    facebook.com

March, 2010

Posterous raised $4.4M in a Series A round from Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures, SV Angel, Founder Collective, Lowercase Capital, Brian Pokorny, XG Ventures, and Felicis Ventures

June, 2009

Posterous acquired slinkset

Posterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset    techcrunch.com

December, 2008

Posterous raised $725K in angel funding from Satish Dharmaraj, Eric Hahn, Peter Barrett, David Sloo, Bill Lee, Bill Warner, Timothy Ferriss, Guy Kawasaki, Mitch Kapor, XG Ventures, and Felicis Ventures

Group Blogging Via Email's Posterous Raises $725K    thealarmclock.com

May, 2008

Posterous raised $15K in seed round from Y Combinator

Posterous was founded on May, 2008