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GoInstant is the first shared web browsing service. Within just a few seconds and with no downloads or plugins, users can share an interactive browsing experience.
GoInstant’s unique technology unleashes new business opportunities to improve customer support and enhance sales on the web.
GoInstant’s unique technology unleashes new business opportunities to improve customer support and enhance sales on the web.
Overview
Location
United States, California
Employees
1-10
Total raised
$1.7M
Founded date
2011
Investors 2
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| Hello World | helloworldvc.com |
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 15
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| Feb 11, 2014 | Former Node leader takes big money, launches Node startup | $2.6 million is a pretty hefty seed round. But given this startup’s provenance, it makes perfect sense. “Everybody told me that raising would take forever, but it actually happened pretty fast,” Npm, Inc. COO Rod Boothby told VentureBeat in... |
| Feb 11, 2014 | npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round To Support Node.js Developers | Relatively easy to learn and highly scalable, Node.js has become a very popular platform for developing apps. Now npm, a package manager that installs, publishes and manages node programs, has raised $2.6 million in seed funding, led by Tru... |
| Jul 17, 2013 | GoInstant’s Next Chapter Is A Developer Platform For The “Multiplayer Web” | GoInstant, the startup that Salesforce.com bought for $70 million, has launched a new developer platform for what it calls the “multiplayer web.” The company, which operates as a separate entity within Salesforce, uses the term to describe ... |
| Jan 17, 2013 | Who Should—and Shouldn’t—Become A Tech Investor? Freestyle Weighs In | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a former entrepreneur in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of investments. Or to put it another way: If you’re a 30-ye... |
| Sep 17, 2012 | Firefly: Screen Sharing For Customer Service And Competition To Salesforce.com’s GoInstant | Firefly is a new browser-sharing service that has striking similarities to GoInstant, the company that Salesforce.com acquired earlier this year for $70 million. Like GoInstant, Firefly has found a way to break through the complications of ... |
| Sep 16, 2012 | CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince On Beating Disrupt Battlefield Nerves And Avoiding Site Meltdowns | CloudFlare launched almost exactly two years ago at the first TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. It was an incredible experience for us, and we owe a significant amount of our success to the stage Disrupt provided us. Since then, we’ve ro... |
| Sep 3, 2012 | From Disrupt Runner-Up To $22 Million In Funding, CloudFlare Tells All | According to Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, the service that makes websites faster and more secure, he and co-founder Michelle Zatlyn, had their heart set on launching at TechCrunch Disrupt ever since it was called TechCrunch50. They ev... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | The Future Of Customer Experience – 3 Examples Of Virtual Assistants, Biometrics And Siri-Style Services | The future of customer service is less about the people than it is the sound of a person or the virtual image of an individual. Humans are just so inefficient. But they can be improved, too, through interfaces that provide them more automat... |
| Jul 9, 2012 | Salesforce.com Reported To Buy GoInstant For $70 Million | GoInstant made its debut at TechCrunch Disrupt last fall. Today, the browser collaboration startup has reportedly been acquired by Salesforce.com for $70 million, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. [GoInstant has since confirm... |
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FAQ about GoInstant
When was GoInstant founded?
GoInstant was founded in 2011.
How much funding has GoInstant raised?
GoInstant has raised $1.7M in total across 1 funding round.
Who has invested in GoInstant?
Parsers VC lists 2 investors of GoInstant, among them Hello World.
What has the press written about GoInstant?
Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning GoInstant, among them “Former Node leader takes big money, launches Node startup” (Feb 11, 2014) and “npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round To Support Node.js Developers” (Feb 11, 2014).
Is GoInstant still active?
Yes, GoInstant is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 30, 2020.