Tuesday, April 13, 2010

MyLikes Nabs $630K From Ex-Googlers

San Francisco-based MyLikes said Tuesday that it has raised $630,000 in a seed funding round, and added Robert Scoble and Louis Gray as strategic advisors at the firm. MyLikes was founded by Bindu Reddy and Arvind Sundararajan, both former Google employees. According to the company,the funding was limited to only ex-Googlers and former colleagues of Reddy and Sundararajan. Reddy was head of Product Management for Google Apps, and Sundararajan was tech lead on Google AdSense. MyLikes operates a service which connects influencers and advertisers, where those influencers endorse products and brands, posting those endorsements to Twitter, blogs, and other sites.