Startups
Monkey Inferno is a Personal Incubator, a place where we dream up cool Internet projects and turn them into successful businesses.
We have no outside investors, we're fully self-funded by Michael and Xochi Birch who sold Bebo to AOL in 2008 for $850m. That kind of financial security means we're a fast-paced but low-stress workplace.
http://www.monkeyinferno.com
We have no outside investors, we're fully self-funded by Michael and Xochi Birch who sold Bebo to AOL in 2008 for $850m. That kind of financial security means we're a fast-paced but low-stress workplace.
http://www.monkeyinferno.com
Overview
Location
United States, California, San Francisco
Employees
11-50
Mentions in press and media 9
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| Feb 3, 2014 | StumbleUpon and Uber Founder Garrett Camp Is Raising $75 Million For Company-Building Venture Expa | Garrett Camp, co-founder of both StumbleUpon and Uber, is looking for help in funding his new company-building venture Expa. According to an SEC filing, Camp is looking to raise up to $75 million to bring about a portfolio of innovative new... |
| Nov 7, 2013 | Checking Up On Monkey Inferno, The Tech Incubator Where Bebo Is Working On Its Rebirth | Everyone loves a “where are they now” story — whether it’s about teen idols or once-hot tech apps. Bebo, the social networking startup that famously sold to AOL for a staggering $850 million in 2008 only to be offloaded for $10 million two ... |
| Jul 17, 2013 | New London Startup Lab Makeshift Gives Birth To Its First MVP: HireMyFriend | Makeshift, a new “Startup Lab” in London’s Eastern tech cluster, has now produced its first product, HireMyFriend. Unlike an accelerator which invests in small startups, Makeshift plans to launch its own products from internal resources. Th... |
| May 2, 2013 | Garrett Camp Distills His Uber And StumbleUpon Expertise Into New Holding Company Expa | The rise of the company builders is right. As Leena wrote in her spot-on post, “Operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operation.” The latest in a series of accomplis... |
| Feb 16, 2013 | The Rise Of Company Builders | Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operati... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | Ron Conway, Mayor Lee And Heather Harde Launch sfCITI, Want To Keep SF At The Forefront Of Tech | At a press conference at San Francisco’s Founders Den, newly elected Mayor Ed Lee announced sfCITI (San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology & Innovation), a set of tech initiatives spearheaded by investor Ron Conway, Mayor Ed L... |
| Dec 4, 2011 | Exploring The “Labs” Trend in Consumer Startups | Editor’s note: TechCrunch contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semil For those of us who studied (or suf... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Michael Birch’s WaterForward Is “Kind of a Chain Letter Pyramid Scheme” For Charity | Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo and now CEO of startup lab Monkey Inferno, wants to raise millions of dollars for Charity:Water using social networks and viral loops. His latest project is WaterForward, a non=profit which he describes as... |
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What has the press written about Monkey Inferno?
Parsers VC has collected 9 articles mentioning Monkey Inferno, among them “StumbleUpon and Uber Founder Garrett Camp Is Raising $75 Million For Company-Building Venture Expa” (Feb 3, 2014) and “Checking Up On Monkey Inferno, The Tech Incubator Where Bebo Is Working On Its Rebirth” (Nov 7, 2013).
Is Monkey Inferno still active?
Monkey Inferno is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 14, 2016.