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The largest professional networking service on Facebook with over 25 million registered users and 500 million professional profiles. BranchOut allows users to find all of their inside connections for jobs, recruiting, sales and career networking. BranchOut is also the largest job board on Facebook with over 3 million jobs and internships. The company has raised $49 million from Accel, Redpoint, Norwest and Mayfield.

Founders
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  • Rick Marini
    Founder & CEO of BranchOut. Prior Co-Founder of Tickle (sold to Monster). Advisor to several Bay Area start-ups.
Previous Investors
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  • Dave Morin
    Entrepreneur
  • Tim Chang
    Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
  • Matt Mullenweg
    WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, Polldaddy, VaultPress, Gravatar... http://ma.tt/
  • Benjamin Ling
    COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
  • Philip Kaplan
    Maker of websites & mobile apps. Blippy, AdBrite, F-ckedcompany, TinyLetter, Mobog, BritePic, Tweetname, HitMeLater, Fast140, QuickRot, more. Author & drummer.
  • Josh Elman
    Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Advisors
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  • Blake Commagere
    Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
  • Tyler Willis
    BD at Unified. Advisor to BranchOut. Was employee #6 at Involver, grew customer base to more than 100K as the Head of Marketing (now at over 1m).
  • Stan Chudnovsky
    Co-Founder, Ooga Labs
Employees
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  • Adam Robertson
    Founder, CTO @ Cooked.it. Passionate about utilizing new technologies to build the apps of the future. UT CS, Dir @ Playdom.
  • Zack Onisko
    Director of Product Design at BranchOut
  • Nathan Smith
    Senior software engineer at Tickle.com, founding engineer of BranchOut. BSE in CSE at UCD, B.
  • Irina Lukashuk
    EA to CEO, BranchOut, Inc.
  • Satya Boora
    Scalability, Java, Solr/Lucene, Distributed Systems, HTML/JavaScript, Product Development
  • Mike DeVerna
    Product Manager (Virals/Analytics) at BranchOut. 4 years building apps on Facebook, previously in gaming. Passionate about startups.