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| Type | Private (venture-backed) |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Key people | Jeff Bonforte, CEO Gabor Cselle, VP Engineering Adam M. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. i-drive (formerly idrivecom Anuvio was an online storage service founded by entrepreneur Jeff Bonforte in December 1997. Smith, Co-Founder Matt Brezina, Co-Founder |
| Industry | Email Applications |
| Website | www.xobni.com |
Xobni is a San Francisco-based email startup. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city It was founded in March 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina from Adam's dorm room in Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the Y Combinator summer founder's program. Y Combinator is a seed-stage Startup funding firm, started in 2005 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and In late 2006, it relocated to San Francisco when the founders' perception that the environment there was more suited to grow their company. [1]
In March 2007, Xobni hired its first employee, Gabor Cselle, a Software Engineer from Google[2]. He had previously worked on researching users' email organization patterns[3]. In the same month, Xobni raised $4. 26 million[4] from Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, and Atomico, along with a number of angel investors[5]. Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Pune, India) is an Indian-American Venture capitalist.
Xobni's first product, Xobni Insight, was launched into private beta on September 18, 2007, at the TechCrunch 40 conference. A software release is the distribution whether public or private of an initial or new and upgraded version of a Computer software product TechCrunch is a Blog about Web 20 products & companies many of the posts written by Michael Arrington. Xobni Insight plugs into Microsoft Outlook and offers fast search and people-based navigation of email archives. The company has hinted at plans to offer the same functionality for other email clients[6]. Xobni Insight has received mostly positive coverage[7][8][9], although initial versions had performance problems on large inboxes[10]. The company opened [11]its beta to the public on May 5, 2008.
In February 2008, Xobni hired Jeff Bonforte, a Vice President at Yahoo, as their CEO[12]. i-drive (formerly idrivecom Anuvio was an online storage service founded by entrepreneur Jeff Bonforte in December 1997. In the same month, Bill Gates gave a demo of Xobni at the Office Developer's Conference[13]. If you would like to experiment with Wikipedia please copy This led to rumors of a $20M acquisition by Microsoft, which the company reportedly rejected[14].
"Xobni" is the word "inbox" spelled backwards. It is pronounced Zob-nee[15].
External links
References
- ^ Mass High Tech: Fear, greed or comfort: What makes (Boston) VCs invest?
- ^ Gabor Cselle: A Healthy Disregard for the Impossible
- ^ Gabor Cselle: Organizing Email
- ^ Om Malik: Can Xobni cure Outlookâs ills?
- ^ Xobni Blog: List of investors
- ^ TechCrunch 40: Productivity & Web Apps - Panel Video
- ^ Venturebeat: Email Company Xobni Launches, may Steal TechCrunch Prize
- ^ MIT Technology Review: Xobni - A New Look for Outlook
- ^ Newsweek: Reinventing the Inbox
- ^ Xobni Blog: Improving performance
- ^ NY Times: If You Use Outlook E-mail, Meet Xobni
- ^ Xobni Blog: Jeff Bonforte Joins Xobni as CEO
- ^ Gabor Cselle: Bill Gates demos Xobni
- ^ TechCrunch: Microsoft may buy Email Startup Xobni
- ^ Xobni FAQ
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