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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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JUNE 1, 2011

Shapiro was the former founder of Veoh Networks and head of MySpace Music. 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. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Altly , the latest startup of Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and former CTo of MySpace Music, has officially thrown down the gauntlet, saying in a blog post this week that it there is a need for an alternative to Facebook--and the firm is going to create that alternative. 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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