socalTECH
JANUARY 26, 2022
Koji was founded by startup veteran Dmitry Shapiro, along with Sean Thielen. 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.
socalTECH
APRIL 20, 2011
Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and most recently the CTO of MySpace Music, is looking to build an alternative to Facebook at his new startup, Altly. The stealth mode startup has yet to detail its plans, however, Shapiro gave a hint of its plans in a Twitter post this morning.
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socalTECH
JANUARY 27, 2012
Dmitry Shapiro , the former founder and CEO of Veoh, and later head of MySpace Music and Facebook alternative Altly, said Thursday that he has launched Uberpaper , a new, online news reading service to help people read and navigate news.
socalTECH
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>>.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
The last startup he did raised $70 million for the online video space before being sued for more than $1 billion by Universal. I’ll let you watch the video to find out what we thought , but we covered: Why YouTube took off when Veoh and others didn’t. We had a chance to discuss many issues of our day.
socalTECH
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. Shapiro was most recently at Google, but also had served at Anybeat, MySpace Music, and founded video site Veoh. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
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.
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