cleanup to meet wikipedia s quality standards . no cleanup reason has been specified . please help improve this article if you can . november 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message i o ventures type limited liability company industry venture capital founded 2009 headquarters san francisco california u.s. products business incubator investments venture capital growth capital number of employees 5 website www.ventures.io i o ventures is a silicon valley based startup funding firm started in 2009 by aber whitcomb co founder of myspace ashwin navin co founder of bittorrent jim young co founder of hot or not and paul bragiel co founder of lefora . i o ventures provides seed money advice and connections during a 6 month program conducted at company s san francisco mission district office . the fund receives 8 % of the company s common stock on average . 1 i o ventures typically invests 25 000 in its startups . 2 contents 1 mentorship 2 portfolio companies 3 see also 4 references 5 external links mentorship edit i o ventures emphasizes its mentorship on its website and the availability of experienced entrepreneurs to its startups . its roster of well known mentors is noteworthy including aaron patzer founder and ceo of mint.com chris dewolfe co founder and ceo of myspace darcy antonellis cto of warner bros. david ulevitch founder and ceo of opendns david weekly founder of superhappydevhouse hackerdojo pbworks jameson hsu founder and ceo of mochi media jawed karim co founder of youtube kevin rose founder of digg mike arrington founder and ceo of techcrunch philip j. kaplan co founder of adbrite blippy richard yoo co founder and former ceo of rackspace maryse thomas founder and ceo of pokeware russel simmons co founder and cto of yelp inc. ted rheingold founder and ceo of dogster inc. portfolio companies edit on october 12 2010 i o ventures held its first ever demo day announcing its first six investments . 3 the number of startups in the initial class were six appbistro a marketplace for business applications on facebook including user reviews and a payments service . the company says 25 000 applications have already been installed through its marketplace and it s earning 5 000 in monthly revenue it takes 30 percent of the purchase fees . it also just announced the appbistro appstores program where other application platforms like constant contact and twilio can customize appbistro to create their own app stores . socialvision a tool for publishers to add chat capabilities to their videos . socialvision is testing out the functionality on a site called youtube social . the company says users spend an average 12 minutes per session on youtube social compared to 6 minutes on youtube proper . it s also supposedly working with directv on proof of concept tests . anomaly innovations a company that tries to uses algorithms to determine what s most relevant in a stream of content . its first site is the cadmus which sorts your twitter stream by relevance . damn the radio a service that helps businesses and brands design campaigns that reward users for promoting products on social networks . for example a band could offer a free song to listeners who post a facebook update about their new album . the company says it already has 2 million active users and its clients include sony music wrangler jeans and the dave matthews band . skyara a not yet launched marketplace for finding activities . the goal is to help people find exciting activities that are off the beaten path . if you know how to bartend you could offer to train someone or if you re a good kayaker you could take someone with you . the people offering activities will be able to accept payment a charity donation or just help out for fun . apprats builds facebook apps for youtube stars and wannabe youtube stars to help them interact with fans and make money . apprats says it already works with 50 of the top 100 youtube stars . see also edit business incubator venture capital y combinator techstars seed money references edit http ventures.io info about . missing or empty title help i o ventures frequently asked questions . io ventures launches startups from a san francisco coffee shop . external links edit company website crunchbase profile techcrunch video interview with i o ventures founders and preview of the incubator cafe space v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies 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