Last week, there was a lot of press about our post titled – The need for an alternative to Facebook. There is clearly a lot of interest in an alternative, both from the community at large and the investment community. Therefore, we are very pleased to formally announce our seed financing.
We raised just over $1 million from :
Freestyle Capital – http://freestylecapital.com/
Social Leverage – http://www.socialleveragellc.com/
Arthur Bilger – http://www.sheltercap.com/ArtBilgerBio/
Draper Fisher Jurvetson – http://www.dfj.com/
Howard Lindzon – http://howardlindzon.com/
Tom Anderson – Founder and former President of MySpace
Alex Bard – https://twitter.com/alexbard
Alex Karelin – https://twitter.com/akarelin
Kenny Van Zant – https://twitter.com/kennyvz
Francis Costello – http://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscostello
Howard Lindzon and Dave Samuel of Freestyle Capital will be joining the board of directors, along with Dmitry Shapiro.
We are also, actively looking to hire additional talented developers, so please see our posts below :
http://blog.altly.com/2011/05/altly-is-hiring-experienced-web-developers/
http://blog.altly.com/2011/05/altly-is-hiring-experienced-mobile-developers/
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I wish the Atly team the best of luck. Everyone benefits from competition in the marketplace.
When you going to next level and searching for application administrators or IT Support specialists
I will ping you back. Anyway, the idea is great, wish you good luck.
Great to see some familiar names leading the round! Excited for you guys.
Go for it guy. Glad to see you moving forward.
Finally, an alternative reality I can truly believe is real
Excellent as Facebook is likely a datamining operation, with its prime directive malevolent than benevolent for our privacy and civil rights as you so aptly put it.
I look forward to seeing something new that may be better than facebook or competitive. I won’t know until I see it closer when it rolls out.
One suggestion I ask which bothers me with facebook is being able to create new walls for certain groups to see. I want one for JUST my family to write on. And another for JUST my friends, and another for private dialog between a group of people. And one for ALL FRIENDS to see as current with Face book. I think this tool would help achieve your goal to become more successful than Facebook.
My friend list doesn’t need to be shared like it is in facebook.
i like alot and agree with this suggestion. ya and its nobodys business who my friends are. they might be sacred and private to me (us). fantastik suggesrtion thankz. i hope this grows and evolves with integrity for the human evolving soul and leave money out of it. kinda like the same as a 12-step progasm
Eagerly awaiting for the Altly, Please let me know the launching date.
One thing I would like to note if I may – make a Social Network that is not geared to being a popularity contest but is there for the social aspect of it.