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GROU.PS is a do-it-yourself social networking platform that allows people to come together and form interactive communities around a shared interest or affiliation. The functionality of any online group is limited only by the members’ collective imagination and ambition. The GROU.PS platform is used to create a wide variety of community sites, including online gaming forums, e-learning classrooms, fan clubs, charity fundraising campaigns, college alumni societies, and event planning portals. In short, any organization seeking to aggregate and organize people online can greatly improve its effectiveness, engagement and appeal by migrating to the GROU.PS platform. By giving any user the ability to create an easy-to-use, yet powerful, social network, GROU.PS is propelling online collaboration, communication and content sharing in a newdirection.

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Location

United States, California, Palo Alto

Employees

11-50

Total raised

$2.1M

Founded date

2006

Funding Rounds 2

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Jun 28, 2008	Funding round	$1.1M

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May 26, 2013	Talking Shop With The Twin Behind Nigerian Social Network, Picrate.me	Nigerian technopreneurs, Chidi and Chika Nwaogwu who co-founded indigenous social network LAGBook, recently changed the name of their platform to PicRate.Me. Chidi and Chika founded the social networking in April 2010 while studying as unde...
Oct 17, 2012	Another Private Social Network For Families: Grou.ps Debuts Babyzilla App	White label social networking platform Grou.ps is the latest to join the increasingly crowded “private networks for posting about babies” space (we may need a better title for this…), which has been heating up as of late. The company has ju...
Jul 13, 2012	How To Create A Minimum Viable Product	Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Emre Sokullu, founder and chief architect of GROU.PS There’s been a lot of talk on the concept of minimum viable product lately, but not much has been written on how to actually implement one. Having g...
Jun 29, 2012	Grou.ps Launches LoveBucks, A New Subscription-Based Monetization Platform For Online Publishers	Making money in the online content business isn’t always easy, especially for publishers and bloggers who don’t have huge audiences. Besides advertising, there aren’t too many options for online publishers and even though it looked like mic...
May 7, 2012	Is Now the Time to Launch Your Social Startup?	Fourth in a five-part series. Right now you can use a service like Ning or GROU.PS to create your own social network. You can develop and launch a customized platform for little money. In short, you can be the next Mark Zuckerberg. Or maybe...
Aug 9, 2011	GROU.PS Lets You Create Your Own Private Facebook	Social groupware platform GROU.PS has just introduced several new features, the most notable of which is a Facebook template called “theBook” that lets you create your own private network with the same look and feel as Facebook . According ...
Aug 2, 2010	It's a WinWin, Grou.ps launches referral program for Ning exiles	Hoping to cash in further on Ning’s shuttering of its free version, competitor Grou.ps is upping the ante with the launch of “WinWin”, a referral program directly targeting so-called Ning exiles. The service claims to have already migrated ...
Apr 16, 2010	Grou.ps And Grouply Welcome Ning Refugees	With yesterday’s news of Ning’s move to eliminate free social networks on its platform, competitors are rushing to emphasize their free offerings for building a social network. Today, Grouply, a startup that’s built around creating and mana...
Mar 19, 2010	DIY Social Network Platform GROU.PS Now Syncs With Yahoo Groups	GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration has unveiled a synchronization tool that allows the group administrators on Yahoo Groups to sync with GROU.PS. So Yahoo Groups admins can incorporate functio...
Dec 25, 2009	GROU.PS DIY Social Network Platform Reaches 2 Million Users, Becomes More Customizable	GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration has steadily gained an impressive amount of users and added compelling features to its application. The social network platform has just hit 2 million users,...
Dec 24, 2009	Grou.ps lets publishers customize discussion groups with wikis, calendars, and more	A young San Francisco startup, Grou.ps, has launched tools to let content publishers customization discussion groups. The tools, called Elastic Modules, give publishers a lot of control over how discussion groups look and work on their site...
Dec 16, 2009	Social site Grouply gives Yahoo & Google discussion groups a Web 2.0 makeover	Internet discussion groups have been around for decades. Startup Grouply offers a wrapper for Yahoo Groups and Google Groups that makes them more comparable to Facebook and Twitter, while not changing the underlying technical architecture. ...
Jun 25, 2009	GROU.PS Finds $1 Million For DIY Social Network Platform	GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration, has raised $1 million in an extended Series A round of funding from Golden Horn Ventures. The company previously raised $1.1 million in Series A funding fro...
Jun 25, 2009	Grou.ps comes together with funding, business models	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! There are a wide variety of create-your-own socia...
Jun 25, 2009	Grou.ps comes together with funding, business models	There are a wide variety of create-your-own social networking companies out there, with the most prominent one being Ning. But a relatively young — and very scrappy — new competitor called Grou.ps is one the rise. It is seeing 25 percent gr...
Apr 15, 2009	DIY Social Network GROU.PS Adds Ranking System To Assign Privileges To Contributors	GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration is launching a new tool, ActivityRank Pipelines. The feature is a point and reward system that lets moderators of a social network measure and rank members’ ...
Dec 16, 2008	Soon, All Your Blog Comments Will Belong To Facebook (Or Google)	There are way too many comment login systems out there. Each blogging platform (WordPress, Typepad, Blogger) has its own login system, then there are the cross-platform commenting systems like Disqus and JS-KIT. But many of these will soon ...
Jun 29, 2008	Grou.ps Pulls In $1.1 Million, Opens Up Code To Take On Ning	Grou.ps, a startup based in San Francisco, has secured a $1.1 Million Series A financing round in a deal led by Golden Horn Ventures. Grou.ps will also now be open-sourcing a restricted version of its code, with a view to spreading its coll...
Jun 28, 2008	Grou.ps Raises $1.1 Million And Goes Open Source	The San Francisco based social groupware provider Grou.ps announced today that it has secured a Series A round of financing for $1.1 Million in a deal led by Golden Horn Ventures. Grou.ps has also announced that it is open sourcing a restri...
Apr 23, 2008	Grou.ps Launches Public Beta	There are a lot of ways to collaborate online – wikis, forums, social networks – but there are very few providers that package all the tools together that a group might need. Grou.ps, a social groupware provider, aims to address that proble...
Apr 22, 2008	PS: Grou.ps, another way for groups to collaborate online	There are already a few models out there for helping groups collaborate, including wikis and more complex conceptualizations of project management software. Into this competitive area of web software steps Grou.ps, a sort of group-focused w...
Apr 22, 2008	Grou.ps: All Your Collaboration Tools In One Place	There’s seemingly no end to the number of collaboration tools out there: blogs, wikis, forums, bookmarking, photos, chat. Chances are you already use one or more of them already to keep in touch with friends or coworkers. The only problem i...
Jan 10, 2007	MyBlogLog Got Spammed (and so did we)	Michael Jensen shows that it is quite easy to spam MyBlogLog (recently acquired by Yahoo), and he used TechCrunch as the guinea pig for his experiment. We, like many other blogs, display the MyBlogLog widget (right bottom sidebar), which sh...
Jan 3, 2007	OpenID and the Identity Systems of Yahoo, Google & MSN	Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus You may’ve heard of OpenID – it’s a distributed identity management system, a.k.a. a decentralized single sign-on platform. We prepared a screencast to better explain the idea (see Flas...
Dec 20, 2006	GoogleOS II: Starring Linus Torvalds	Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus Did the above image shock you? No, this is not a real Google advert! But something similar may well turn into reality. In this sequel to our original GoogleOS blockbuster, we try to cla...
Dec 12, 2006	Search 2.0 – What’s Next?	Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus You may feel relatively satisfied with the current search offerings of Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN. Search today is undoubtedly much better than what it was in the second half of the 199...
Oct 18, 2006	Personalized News: A Market Overview	Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Introduction Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news sites – the other is Power of Masses, which we will cover in a future ...
Oct 18, 2006	Personalized News: A Market Overview	Written by Guest Blogger Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Introduction Personalized Content is one of the two most popular approaches in next generation news sites – the other is Power of Masses, which we will cover in a future ...
Aug 28, 2006	Top Web Apps in Turkey	Turkey is next in this R/WW series on top international Web apps. It’s the 9th country I’ve profiled so far – the others have been Germany, Holland, Poland, Korea, United Kingdom, Russia, Spain and China. For the following information on Tu...

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