Overview
Total raised
$10M
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 9
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| Mar 27, 2007 | ZenZui, offering rich “visual” mobile applications | Zenzui is a significant new spin-out out from Microsoft that delivers rich mobile applications — from Amazon, to Traffic.com and travel site Kayak — to your mobile phone. Zenzui is still in closed testing mode, and will be distributed more ... |
| Sep 26, 2006 | Social networking site Wallop raises $10M | Wallop, the San Francisco social networking startup that was spun out of Microsoft Research Labs earlier this year, has raised $10 million in venture capital with an ambitious plan to become the latest cool social networking company. Wallop... |
| Sep 26, 2006 | MS' Social Networking Spinoff Launches | Microsoft spin-off Wallop launched its social networking service at the DEMOfall technology conference Tuesday, saying its unique business model is what sets itself apart from competing services like Facebook and MySpace. Unlike other socia... |
| Sep 26, 2006 | What's Hot at Demo | The DEMO conference is underway here in San Diego and some clear trends are emerging among the 67 exclusively selected companies presenting. Many of the products are just launched and still less developed than they could be, but they are ex... |
| Sep 25, 2006 | Microsoft Spinoff Wallop Launches | Wallop, previously a semi-forgotton Microsoft Research “sandbox” social network and photo sharing project, was spun off into a new, independent, venture backed business earlier this year (details here). Tonight at 9 pm California time, Wall... |
| Apr 26, 2006 | Microsoft Spins Off Social Network Site | Microsoft said late Tuesday that it had spun off a social networking tool developed by its research labs into a separate company. Named Wallop, the service will be led by experienced entrepreneur and CEO Karl Jacob. Bay Partners will provid... |
| Apr 26, 2006 | Wednesday wrap-up: Wallop, World Bank VC & other web wampum | Updated Microsoft Research’s Wallop — Microsoft has created a new social-networking spin-off called Wallop, to be run by Karl Jacob, a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur (Dimension X, Keen.com and more recently anti-spam company Cloudmark)... |
| Apr 25, 2006 | Microsoft Spins off Wallop | Wallop, previously a semi-forgotton Microsoft Research “sandbox” social network and photo sharing project, was spun off into a new, independent, venture backed business. Wallop was previously at mywallop.com – the new company is at wallop.c... |
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FAQ about Wallop
How much funding has Wallop raised?
Wallop has raised $10M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Wallop?
Parsers VC has collected 9 articles mentioning Wallop, among them “ZenZui, offering rich “visual” mobile applications” (Mar 27, 2007) and “Social networking site Wallop raises $10M” (Sep 26, 2006).
Is Wallop still active?
Wallop is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 17, 2008.