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i/o Ventures

i/o Ventures

i/o Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based startup funding firm.

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Organization
Venture capital firm
Venture capital firm
Company
Company
Investor
Investor

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Industry
Wealth management
Wealth management
Business development
Business development
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Finance
Accelerator
Accelerator
Startup
Startup
B2X
B2B
B2B
Founder
Ashwin Navin
Ashwin Navin
Aber Whitcomb
Aber Whitcomb
Jim Young (entrepreneur)
Jim Young (entrepreneur)
Paul Bragiel
Paul Bragiel
AngelList URL
angel.co/io
Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles.../51502-15
Wellfound ID
io

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Appstores
Appstores
Iron Ox
Iron Ox
Pieceable
Pieceable
Cortex (social media)
Cortex (social media)
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Onefeat
Ravn
Ravn
Cozy (company)
Cozy (company)
vidIQ
vidIQ
Blog
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...entures

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Active

i/o Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based startup funding firm, started in 2009 by Aber Whitcomb (co-founder of MySpace), Ashwin Navin (co-founder of BitTorrent), Jim Young (co-founder of Hot Or Not), and Paul Bragiel (co-founder of Lefora). i/o Ventures provides seed money, advice, and connections during a 6-month program conducted at company's San Francisco Mission District office. The fund receives 8% of the company's common stock on average. i/o Ventures typically invests $25,000 in its startups.

Mentorship

i/o Ventures emphasizes its mentorship on its website and the availability of experienced entrepreneurs to its startups. Its roster of well-known mentors includes:

Aaron Patzer, founder and CEO of Mint.com

Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO of MySpace

Darcy Antonellis, CTO of Warner Bros.

David Ulevitch, founder and CEO of OpenDNS

David Weekly, founder of SuperHappyDevHouse, HackerDojo, PBworks

Jameson Hsu, founder and CEO of Mochi Media

Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube

Kevin Rose, founder of Digg

Mike Arrington, founder and CEO of TechCrunch

Philip J. Kaplan, co-founder of AdBrite, Blippy

Richard Yoo, co-founder and former CEO of Rackspace

Maryse Thomas, founder and CEO of Pokeware

Russel Simmons, co-founder and CTO of Yelp, Inc.

Ted Rheingold, founder and CEO of Dogster, Inc.

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