Thursday, January 31, 2008

Flowgram Gets Funding From Reid Hoffman, Others

Flowgram, a stealth startup headed by Accel Venture partner Abhay Parekh, has quietly received funding from Reid Hoffman, Josh Kopelman, the founders of Flickr, Bud Coligan, Rajeev Motwani, along with the the founding team of WebEx and Tibco Software. The funding has not yet been announced. According to the firm, it is developing a "new multimedia-empowered way to communicate." Financial details of the funding were not disclosed. Reid Hoffman is CEO of LinkedIn and was a founder at Paypal; Josh Kopelman is at First Round Capital; and Bud Coligan was founding CEO of Macromedia. More information »