About the company

Location: 2 West 5h Ave Suite 300 , San Mateo, California 94402, United States flags/United States.gif
Stage: Revenue generating
Number of employees: 31-50
Funding history:
- Date: 10/2008, Series C: $17.0M
Investors: Softbank Japan, SK Telecom. Source: VentureWire
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/70b
Profile creation: June 13, 2008
Last updated: June 16, 2008

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RockYou!

It's All You
Startup/business
flags/United States.gif California, United States
http://www.rockyou.com

RockYou is a leading provider of applications and widgets on the web. RockYou widgets include photo slideshows, glitter text, customized Facebook applications and voicemail accessories that are simple to use and enable people to frequently refresh their online style. Founded in 2006, RockYou has over 35 million users, serving over 180 million widget views per day in more than 200 countries. RockYou applications are customized for easy integration across all social networks including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Tagged and hi5.
 

Management Bio

Lance Tokuda (CEO/Founder):
Lance is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of RockYou, and brings over 15 years of software and management experience to the company. Prior to RockYou, Lance held Vice President & Chief Technology Officer positions in consumer and enterprise web services companies Iconix and Open Harbor, and was an early employee (number four) at Resumix, now Yahoo! HotJobs. Lance holds patents in text extraction and document categorization, with an email patent pending as well, and has received the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Award of Innovation for work on spatial text understanding. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas.
 

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Worldwide traffic of RockYou!

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Feedback and testimonials


  • Cyril Brignone June 16, 2008
    Congratulation on the funding!
  • Gary Silver June 14, 2008
    We all love cool products, but where do you make money?
  • Jia Shen June 13, 2008
    We're excited to have raised $35 million.
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