Thursday, November 22, 2007

Photo-sharing site Phanfare Got $2.5 million In VCs Funding

What Company Says:
Photo-sharing site is downloadable application offers quick upload options and integrates with its web-based service for syncing and easy online-sharing.
They created Phanfare(Photo-sharing site) because they wanted permanent, polished, ad-free online photo and video albums. And they wanted to reduce the time and effort needed to create and share our albums. But mostly they created Phanfare because they wanted to make photo and video sharing fun again!

How Much They Got From VCs:
Photo-sharing site Phanfare has received $2.5 million in additional funding. In this third round, the funding was led by Azure Capital Partners and other undisclosed investors.

Who is backing The company :

Andrew Erlichson (andrew@phanfare.com), Founder, CEO, member of the Board

Prior to Phanfare, Andrew Erlichson was CEO & co-founder of Flashbase, which was acquired by DoubleClick in 2000. At DoubleClick, he was Vice President of Technology for the Research and Development Group. He has worked at Mips Computer Systems, Silicon Graphics and BlackRock Financial Management. Andrew Erlichson received his AB from Dartmouth College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Mark Heinrich (mark@phanfare.com), Founder, CTO, member of the Board

Mark Heinrich is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF), and a founder of its Computer Systems Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and was a principal designer of the FLASH multiprocessor under his advisor, John Hennessy. Dr. Heinrich also received his MS from Stanford in 1993, and his BSE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University in 1991. His research interests include parallel computer architecture, high-throughput computing, scalable cache coherence protocols, and active memory and I/O subsystems. Dr. Heinrich was also the co-founder and Chief Architect of Flashbase, Inc. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an IBM Faculty Award, and is a member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
More at:http://www.phanfare.com/

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