Investments
15Portfolio Exits
8About Caterina Fake
Fake is the co-founder of Hunch, a collective intelligence decision-making system that uses decision trees to make decisions based on users' interests. It launched in June 2009.<br /><br />Prior to Hunch, Fake was co-founder of Flickr, a photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Flickr ushered in the so-called Web 2.0 integrating features such as social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that surfaced the best, or more interesting content. At Yahoo! she ran the Technology Development group, known for its Hack Yahoo! program, a stimulus to innovation and creativity, and Brickhouse, a rapid development environment for new products. Fake resigned from Yahoo in June 2006.<br /><br />She is also part of Founder Collective, a super angel fund, based in New York city. Her investments as part of Founder Collective can be seen there.
Caterina Fake Headquarter Location
San Francisco, California,
United States
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Latest Caterina Fake News
Jun 3, 2021
Stack Overflow, the leading knowledge-sharing community for developers and technologists, is being acquired by Prosus, an internet holding company and investment firm, in a transaction that values the company at $1.8BM.– Prashanth ChandrasekarFounded in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Stack Overflow has raised a total of $153M in total equity funding.Investors in the company include Stack Overflow, Prosus, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Founder Collective, Union Square Ventures, GIC, GIC, Naval Ravikant, Bezos Expeditions, Joshua Schachter, Dharmesh Shah, Bob Pasker, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Silver Lake Waterman, Nirav Tolia, Times Bridge, and Micah Siegel.Stack Overflow receives more than 100M monthly visitors, making it one of the 50 most visited websites.“We are delighted to be welcoming Stack Overflow to the Prosus family as we increasingly focus on the future of workplace learning, remarked Larry Illg, CEO of EdTech at Prosus. Disclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated & summarized by a computer program and has not been created by StartupAround.
Caterina Fake Investments
15 Investments
Caterina Fake has made 15 investments. Their latest investment was in Soundcheck as part of their Seed VC on November 11, 2019.
Caterina Fake Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11/4/2019 | Seed VC | Soundcheck | $1.5M | Yes | 1 | |
6/26/2017 | Seed VC | Outschool | $1.4M | Yes | 2 | |
1/18/2016 | Seed VC | Sudden Coffee | $0.28M | Yes | 2 | |
1/30/2014 | Series B | |||||
2/16/2011 | Unattributed VC |
Date | 11/4/2019 | 6/26/2017 | 1/18/2016 | 1/30/2014 | 2/16/2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Seed VC | Seed VC | Seed VC | Series B | Unattributed VC |
Company | Soundcheck | Outschool | Sudden Coffee | ||
Amount | $1.5M | $1.4M | $0.28M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Caterina Fake Portfolio Exits
8 Portfolio Exits
Caterina Fake has 8 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Stack Exchange on June 02, 2021.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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6/2/2021 | Acquired | 13 | |||
Date | 6/2/2021 | ||||
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Sources | 13 |