article thumbnail

Calacanis Invests In DNS Provider Dyn

socalTECH

Angel investor Jason Calacanis has made another angel investment and scored another board seat this morning -- this time, all the way out in Manchester, New Hampshire. The investment came as part of a $38M, Series A fund which has been led by North Bridge, as well as Borealis Ventures.

Invest 145
article thumbnail

Calacanis Backs Mobile Social Networking Service

socalTECH

Jason Calacanis , the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in a mobile social networking service, Gowalla , the company said today. Tags: jason calacanis angel investment venture capital social networking gowalla. Series B funding for the firm. Series B funding for the firm.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Calacanis Takes A Bite Of Ramen's Crowdfunding Site

socalTECH

No, Jason Calacanis , the Santa Monica angel investor, and CEO and founder of Mahalo , isn''t bootstrapping a new company and reverting to the hungry''s entrepreneur diet. The size of the investment round was not announced. ramen software crowdfunding finance project development jason calacanis mahalo launch conference'

Mahalo 140
article thumbnail

Calacanis Boosts Thumbtack

socalTECH

Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Mahalo, host of This Week In Startups, and angel investor, is one of the angel investors in Bay Area startup Thumbtack.com. in angel investor from Calacanis, along with a long list of Silicon Valley angels, for its local services marketplace. Thumbtack said today that it received $1.2M READ MORE>>.

Mahalo 140
article thumbnail

Open Angel Forum Eyes Boston

socalTECH

The Open Angel Forum , the new angel investment group started by Mahalo's Jason Calacanis, has set its eyes on Boston for a new chapter of the group. According to the OAF, it has set up an event in Boston for June 18th, where it will look to bring together 5 startups with angels and service providers.

Angel 140
article thumbnail

MySpace, Ad.ly Link On In-Stream Advertising

socalTECH

The deal comes shortly after Twitter said it would not be allowing other companies to automatically insert ads into its service, which looked to most direclty impact Ad.ly. is an investment of GRP's Mark Suster, who hosts This Week in Venture Capital along with Mahalo's Jason Calacanis. According to MySpace, it will use Ad.ly

article thumbnail

This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. The SimpleGeo API will provide you access to these services. Lookout – SaaS provider of security and data back-up services for smart phones.