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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. Shapiro previously founded the video sharing site Veoh, and also was the CTO of MySpace, in addition to serving at Google. 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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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. The new name was not a surprise, as Shapiro had said the company would be renaming itself before launch.

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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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JUNE 18, 2012

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems , which develops driving safety systems for managing driving fleets, said Monday afternoon that it has raised $47m in a new funding round. The funding came on the same day the firm announced the hiring of former Veoh CEO and Overture GM Steve Mitgang as its new CEO. READ MORE>>.

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