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Fatdoor
http://www.fatdoor.com/Last activity: 14.04.2008
Probably Closed - Reference to Perfectdomain.com
Overview
Location
United States, California, Palo Alto
Total raised
$5.5M
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 7
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| Feb 1, 2008 | eDirectree Brings Group Wiki Twist to Social Networking | A new social network called eDirectree launched today that wants to make it more fun to form groups with people online. eDirectree was founded this past November by Raj Abhyanker, who also founded Fatdoor in late 2006 but left when that sta... |
| Nov 20, 2007 | The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information | If you walk into any suburban Starbucks these days, you won’t see people’s faces, instead you’ll see laptops. Moms and dads increasingly work from home; broadband took over the US and wireless is about to do the same. Digital cameras and ce... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Neighborhood Social Network Fatdoor Raises $5.5 Million | What do you get when you have a former Microsoft Virtual Earth Lead Developer, a former Senior Exec of Yahoo! as the CEO, a huge wad of cash and a diverse team of creative programmers? You get a local social networking company called FatDoo... |
| Nov 13, 2007 | Social Network for Neighbors Fatdoor Raises $5.5M, Hires New CEO | Social network for neighbors Fatdoor has raised $5.5M in its first round of institutional funding. The company has also brought aboard ex-Yahoo Jennifer Dulski as its CEO. The investment group was led by Norwest Venture Partners with the pa... |
| May 28, 2007 | Fatdoor turns neighborhoods into online social networks | Ever wanted to get to know your neighbors before interacting with them in real life? If so, fatdoor, which launches its public beta tomorrow, might be for you. Fatdoor takes phone book data from companies like infoUSA and mashes it up with ... |
| Apr 3, 2007 | The dirt on Amazon, Steve Jobs, Topix, Fatdoor, MySpace, VC tax and more | Here’s the latest action: Amazon’s odd and scary patent — First, Amazon rolled out a product called Mechancial Turk (image left), where people do tasks for you that a machine couldn’t perform. Strange name, we thought, but nicely couched in... |
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FAQ about Fatdoor
How much funding has Fatdoor raised?
Fatdoor has raised $5.5M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Fatdoor?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning Fatdoor, among them “eDirectree Brings Group Wiki Twist to Social Networking” (Feb 1, 2008) and “The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information” (Nov 20, 2007).
Is Fatdoor still active?
Fatdoor is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 14, 2008.