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JANUARY 26, 2022

San Diego-based Koji, which develops an app store for helping creators earn money, said late Tuesday that it has raised $20M in its Series B fundraising. Koji was founded by startup veteran Dmitry Shapiro, along with Sean Thielen. The company says it has now raised a total of $36M.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

San Diego-based GoMeta , a new, augmented reality startup being led by serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, and launched its app out of beta. GoMeta develops a mobile platform--currently running on iOS--that allows developers create their own augmented reality apps and worlds.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Altly detailed its plans to create an alternative to Facebook last week, complaining in a lengthy manifesto from Shapiro that an alternative to Facebook was sorely needed due to privacy and other issues with the social networking site. Shapiro was the former founder of Veoh Networks and head of MySpace Music. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

Altly , the startup headed by Dmitry Shapiro which is developing an alternative to Facebook, said Monday that it has renamed the firm to AnyBeat.com. Shapiro was formerly the founder of Veoh Networks, and head of MySpace Music. In addition to the new name, AnyBeat outlined a number of principles behind the social network.

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