#waywire

http://waywire.com/

Last activity: 17.04.2014

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Curated video – the best of everything | www.waywire.com

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Location

United States, New York

Employees

51-200

Founded date

2012

Mentions in press and media 21

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Mar 13, 2014	Gary Sharma's Highlights From SXSW 2014 – Assange, Grumpy Cat, Wrecking Ball, 3D Oreos & more!	This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu...
Oct 17, 2013	How Money And Politics Brought Waywire And Magnify Together	It’s official: Today, New York City-based startup Magnify has acquired Waywire, the once-hyped startup founded by Senator-elect Cory Booker. That’s been widely expected ever since AllThingsD broke the news over the weekend that the deal wou...
Oct 14, 2013	Cory Booker's Waywire sold to video startup Magnify	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! Waywire, the crowdsourced video curation site fro...
Aug 16, 2013	Waywire CEO Nathan Richardson Departs As Company Shifts Focus From Content Creation To Curation	The CEO of Waywire — the startup co-founded by Newark mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker — is stepping down, TechCrunch has learned. The resignation comes as the company is in the midst of a strategic shift from content creation to cont...
Apr 16, 2013	Cory Booker’s #Waywire Becomes A “Pinterest For Video” With Refocus On Curation	Where do you put the videos you find around the web, and how do they express your identity? #waywire 2.0 aims to be the answer. Co-founded by Newark Mayor Cory Booker and launched nine months ago, #Waywire focused on original and user-gener...
Apr 16, 2013	Video curation site Waywire unveils new Pinterest-like design	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! Waywire, the hyped video site co-founded by Newar...
Apr 16, 2013	Video curation site Waywire unveils new Pinterest-like design	Waywire, the hyped video site co-founded by Newark mayor Cory Booker, has released a new version of the service today that borrows plenty of design cues from Pinterest and adds some new functionality. The service allows you to organize vide...
Mar 11, 2013	Cory Booker confirms that LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman is among WayWire’s angel investors	AUSTIN, TX — WayWire, the video startup that counts super-hero Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker among its founders, has confirmed to VentureBeat that LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is one of its angel investors. WayWire is a video ser...
Mar 11, 2013	Cory Booker confirms that LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman is among WayWire’s angel investors	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! AUSTIN, TX — WayWire, the video startup that coun...
Nov 23, 2012	The Weekly Good: Cory Booker On Public Service, Twitter, And…Burning Buildings	[Note: This is the first of a weekly series, if your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out.] It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…Newark, New Jersey Mayor, Cory Booke...
Sep 10, 2012	Cory Booker Opens Video Service #Waywire In A Public Alpha	#Waywire (yes, the name comes in hashtag format), the video news-sharing service co-created by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, just opened to everyone in a public alpha. Booker made the announcement on-stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, where he pitche...
Aug 13, 2012	Hands On With #waywire, Cory Booker’s Video Service That Turns You Into A Newscaster	Don’t let big media decide what’s important. #waywire enters private alpha today to let you collect, curate, and share video news from across the Internet. Clips from top-tier broadcasters, citizen journalists, and original web content crea...
Jul 3, 2012	First Round Capital invests in #waywire, Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s new interactive media startup [VIDEO]	Newark’s seemingly superhuman mayor Cory Booker can now add tech startup advisor to his resume, Fast Company reports. He’s working on a video site called #waywire that he hopes will give young people a voice. Josh Kopelman’s First Round Cap...
Jul 2, 2012	#waywire Closes Seed Funding	#waywire, a New York-based network that will provide original, syndicated and community created video content, has closed a seed capital funding of undisclosed amount. The round was led by First Round Capital and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation E...
Jul 2, 2012	Funding daily: a Mexican-English wedding with a side of Oprah	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! Whether you’re interested in trading dollars for ...
Jul 2, 2012	Funding daily: a Mexican-English wedding with a side of Oprah	Whether you’re interested in trading dollars for yen, donating to a school in Costa Rica, or buying a top-of-the-line office chair, tech companies are raising money across the board to help you do just that, as today’s funding news shows. (...
Jul 2, 2012	Oprah and Eric Schmidt Back Cory Booker’s New Startup #waywire, a Media Site for Millenials	While you were clinging to your A/C unit over the weekend, Newark mayor and Twitter addict Cory Booker was ushering his new startup out of stealth mode. The company, called #waywire, is a media platform that combines original and syndicated...
Jun 30, 2012	#waywire, a video news network for Gen Y, gets backing from Eric Schmidt and Oprah	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! Raised on the Internet and versed in social media...
Jun 30, 2012	#waywire, Cory Booker’s Personalized News Startup, Uses Video To Give Youth A Voice	“There’s an oligarchy in the media and that needs to be broken up” Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker tells me. So he’s building #waywire, a news site that features original and syndicated video content, but that also lets viewers record and shar...
	Dois prefeitos e suas startupices: o governo local como vetor de inovação	Acho interessante notar duas iniciativas que políticos norte-americanos foram convidados a discutir aqui em San Francisco no palco do TC Disrupt. Ed Lee, prefeito de San Francisco, anunciou um “Mapa das Startups” que vai ajudar as pessoas a...

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FAQ about #waywire

When was #waywire founded?

#waywire was founded in 2012.

What has the press written about #waywire?

Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning #waywire, among them “Gary Sharma's Highlights From SXSW 2014 – Assange, Grumpy Cat, Wrecking Ball, 3D Oreos & more!” (Mar 13, 2014) and “How Money And Politics Brought Waywire And Magnify Together” (Oct 17, 2013).

Is #waywire still active?

#waywire is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 17, 2014.