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GoPollGo, Inc.

http://gopollgo.com/

Last activity: 10.05.2013

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Employees: 11-50

Total raised: $325K

Funding Rounds 1

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
27.07.2011	-	$325K	Idealab

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Date	Title	Description
10.05.2013	GoPollGo Acquired by Yahoo!	Palo Alto, CA-based social polling site GoPollGo has been acquired by Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO). The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Led by Ben Schaechter, Sam Grossberg and Paul Kompfner, GoPollGo is a social polling site with Twitte...
09.05.2013	Yahoo Acquires Mobile Social Polling Tool GoPollGo; Shuts Down Services	GoPollGo, a real-time polling tool that lets brands and media properties collect and analyse feedback, has announced that it has been acquired by Yahoo. The news comes just one week after the search giant announced the acquisition of mobile...
09.05.2013	Big spender Yahoo snaps up GoPollGo & Milewise	Yahoo has been on a bit of a spending spree of late, and this morning it acquired two small startups, GoPollGo and Milewise. CEO Marissa Mayer’s strategy is to prioritize mobile and content. With all the recent acquisitions and acqui-hires,...
01.03.2013	Successful Woman Gets Attacked For Standing Out Too Much, Again	There’s no aphorism that describes successful women more than “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Yet, thankfully we keep doing. As we are Millennial women who’ve worked under plenty of women, and are now on our second female CEO, we’v...
25.01.2013	Realtime Polling Startup GoPollGo Begins To Show Real Business Potential With “Promoted Polls”	Back in early 2011, Ben Schaechter, Sam Grossberg and Paul Kompfner launched GoPollGo to address a perceived deficiency in analytics, geographical info and social integrations from the Web’s go-to polling platforms. Six-months later, with a...
12.01.2013	The Boy Who Cried Facebook Phone	In The Lord of the Rings, when Sauron’s forces capture Gollum, they torture him in Mordor but are only able to get two things out of him: “Shire” and “Baggins”. Over the past few days, we’ve had similar frustrations in trying to track down ...
04.05.2012	Facebook Likes Just Got Cray Cray	In light of its impending multi-billion-dollar IPO, its user base of 900 million and its increasingly sprawling design and user experience, some people have come to believe that Facebook has gone crazy. Excuse me, “cray cray.” What’s more, ...
26.03.2012	The Girl Who Cried Sexism	A long time ago a friend and I were discussing another female tech blogger. “You know what?” he said, “The truth is — please don’t kill me — the truth is that men just don’t care what women think about tech.” Hmmm… Whether or not you or I b...
13.12.2011	Startup Trials: Quipol Looks To Disrupt Online Polling In A Crowded Market	It’s a tender situation, being a startup, isn’t it? Here you have what you think is a great product, maybe it’s even a little disruptive, but you’re not naive enough to think that you’re the only one who’s ever thought of this idea/product....
11.11.2011	Stop Making Apps	There are a bunch of iPhone apps I own though I have no clue what they do. These apps include but aren’t limited to; FLUD, Apptitude, Cartoonatic, Can’t Wait!, Punch, Pah, Prize Claw, Traveler, Concur, Jajah, Fast Customer, Pimple Popper an...
05.10.2011	Hallmark Has Something To Worry About	Once, while I was unemployed and bored, I made a list of everyone I cared about, bought Christmas cards, and sat there and personally addressed between 40-50 cards to people, including personal messages, for what must have been hours. The e...
30.08.2011	“Respect Explorer’s Heritage”	When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up. Or maybe they were from some Apple fan making fun of Microsoft’s design aesthe...
05.08.2011	The Startup You Want To Work At The Most Is Your Own	By now it is a common axiom in Silicon Valley small talk that good engineers are, at the moment, murder to come by. While the most prominent talent battles have thus far been between Facebook and Google, I was curious whether there was a sp...
02.08.2011	Tech Moves: BlueKai names Amazon, Yahoo vets to new roles	Jon Ingalls Here’s a look at some key hires, appointments and people on the move in the Pacific Northwest technology industry BlueKai has named Jon Ingalls as the company’s first chief marketing officer and Sam Wolff as the company’s first ...
27.07.2011	GoPollGo Raises Seed Funding from Idealab	GoPollGo, Inc., a Palo Alto, California-based online polling service, has received a seed funding of undisclosed amount from Idealab. The company intends to use the capital to build its development team in order to move the product forward ...
27.07.2011	Polling Startup Gopollgo Redesigns With Realtime Analytics, Raises $325K From Idealab	Polling site Gopollgo has recently closed a $325K seed round of funding from Idealab, in addition to launching a product and site refresh with a focus on gleaning more insights from Twitter followers. With the new wood-paneled Gopollgo site...
27.07.2011	GoPollGo, With Idealab Backing, Launches Twitter Polling Service	Pasadena-based Idealab has made another investment in a Twitter-related service, in GoPollGo, which said today that it has launched an online polling service based on Twitter. GoPollGo, which is based in Palo Alto, said it is bringing onlin...
15.06.2011	What Photo Sharing App Should You Use?	Well who isn’t building a photo sharing app these days? At this point I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Google came out with its elaborately named attempt like tomorrow. But seriously, with such a glut in the mobile photo sharing market, ...
24.03.2011	Digital Polling Utility CivicScience Scores $1.2 Million In Seed Funding	Pittsburgh-based startup CivicScience, an intelligent polling utility that offers a host of audience measurement and analytics tools for publishers and advertisers, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from a group of institutional and a...
14.01.2011	Want To Know What Your Friends Think? Ask Polling Site GoPollGo	Former TechCrunch developer Ben Schaechter left TC a couple months ago to launch his own startup and today we finally get to see the fruits of his labor. Sick of the poor analytics, lack of geographical information and little vote analysis ...
-	The Weekly Report: Top 10 Funding/Acquisitions you must know about	You might say the week is never really done in startup and technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Report on Inc42, a quick peek back at the Top Funding bids and Acquisitions for...

GoPollGo, Inc.

Funding Rounds 1

Mentions in press and media 21

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