{"id":4195,"date":"2013-03-13T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2018-11-25T19:56:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T03:56:20","slug":"fnmentoring-joe-kraus-google-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foundersnetwork.com\/fnmentoring-joe-kraus-google-ventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Seed Funding with Joe Kraus of Google Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

fnMentoring functions accelerate your startup and expand your high-tech network through mentoring sessions with founders and featured guest experts. Functions are free to members but require your\u00a0RSVP. If you are not a member you can apply here<\/a>. \u00a0Next week\u2019s featured topic & guest will be:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/a>

Joe Kraus, Partner at Google Ventures<\/p><\/div>\n

Topic Desciption:<\/strong> Seed Funding<\/p>\n

Name:<\/strong> Joe Kraus<\/a><\/p>\n

Bio:<\/strong> Joe is currently a partner at Google Ventures, Google’s private market investment arm. His primary focus areas are: mobile internet, payment and financing services, gaming and local services.<\/p>\n

Google acquired JotSpot (the previous company he co-founded and ran) in October of 2006 and he worked at Google as a Director of Product Management in the Apps group working on Google’s social initiatives including Google’s efforts on OpenSocial, FriendConnect and Blogger.<\/p>\n

Before being at Google, he was the CEO and co-founder of JotSpot, a wiki ASP brought wiki technology to the mainstream and transformed wikis into a method of rapidly building lightweight business applications.<\/p>\n

Before JotSpot, he co-founded Excite.com in 1993. After raising his first round of VC, he held roles in business development, international, marketing and product management. He left in April of 2000 when he was running the product side of excite.com and the broadband excite.<\/p>\n

After Excite, he co-founded Digitalconsumer.org, a grassroots consumer and political organization with more than 49,000 members dedicated to protecting consumer\u2019s fair-use rights to digital media and to safeguarding the ability of technology companies to innovate freely.<\/p>\n

He is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and an angel investor in several internet companies including LinkedIn, OpenCandy, Aardvark (acquired by Google in 2\/10) among others.<\/p>\n

Company:\u00a0<\/strong>Google Ventures<\/a> is a\u00a0radically different kind of venture fund. Their hands-on teams work with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering. Startup Lab is a dedicated facility and educational program where companies can meet, learn, work, and share. They invest hundreds of millions of dollars each year in entrepreneurs with a healthy disregard for the impossible.\u00a0They are not a typical corporate VC. Their team is diverse and so is their appetite for investing \u2014 they work with companies in virtually any sector and at any stage of their journey.<\/p>\n

fnMentoring is on Wednesday, March 20th 2013, beginning at 10:30 am. RSVP to participate in this event.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are a tech startup founder and want to learn more about the benefits of Founders Network please click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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