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Operates as an Internet browser provider. Financing Sequence: 2 Stage of Development: Early Stage
Year Established: | 2006 |
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Address: | Xmarks Inc |
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Mail: | info@xmarks.com |
Company URL: | www.xmarks.com |
Xmarks was founded in 2006 under our original name Foxmarks. Our bookmark sync browser add-on is one of the most popular in the world with over fourteen million downloads and counting. Xmarks is available as a free add-on for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari (Mac OS) and can be downloaded here.
With the launch of Xmarks, we now offer an exciting new bookmark-powered web discovery service. Xmarks helps you uncover the best sites on the web based on what millions of people like you are bookmarking in their web browser. Our products are actively used in over three million browsers and we manage over half a billion bookmarks for our users. We extract anonymous information from that corpus of bookmarks to provide web site information and similar site recommendations.
Xmarks was founded in 2006 under our original name Foxmarks. Our bookmark sync browser add-on is one of the most popular in the world with over fourteen million downloads and counting. Xmarks is available as a free add-on for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari (Mac OS) and can be downloaded here. With the launch of Xmarks, we now offer an exciting new bookmark-powered web discovery service. Xmarks helps you uncover the best sites on the web based on what millions of people like you are bookmarking in their web browser. Our products are actively used in over three million browsers and we manage over half a billion bookmarks for our users. We extract anonymous information from that corpus of bookmarks to provide web site information and similar site recommendations. Xmarks is a privately held startup backed by Redpoint Ventures. We are headquartered in a beautiful eco-friendly building in downtown San Francisco.
Redpoint Ventures
Mitchell Kapor, Chairman & Co-Founder
Mitch Kapor is a software designer, entrepreneur, activist and philanthropist. He founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 and designed Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer app" which made the PC ubiquitous in business.
He was the founding investor of UUNET, Real Networks, and Linden Labs, the maker of Second Life. He is the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the founding Chair of the Mozilla Foundation.
He is also a trustee of the Mitchell Kapor Foundation and the Level Playing Field Institute, whose mission is to enhance equal opportunity in the workplace and support the values of an inclusive society.
James Joaquin, CEO
James Joaquin is a seasoned entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building and growing consumer technology companies. As a Macintosh programmer in the 1980’s, James co-founded Clearview Software while still a computer science student at Brown University. The applications company was acquired by Apple’s Claris division and James later spent six years with Apple in engineering, product marketing, and business development management roles.
James co-founded and headed business development for When.com, an Internet calendar and events service that was acquired by America Online. After that successful acquisition, James was President and CEO of Ofoto, the leading online photo sharing and printing service and led the Ofoto team from the company’s early beginnings through the successful sale to the Eastman Kodak Company. James then ran Ofoto as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodak, expanding the service beyond the United States into Europe, China, and Japan.
More recently James served as President and CEO of Xoom Corporation, a global money transfer service providing consumers an easy and convenient way to transfer money across countries and currencies, and as Venture Partner at Bridgescale, a growth equity investment firm.
Todd Agulnick, CTO & Co-Founder
Todd is responsible for the technology decisions that make Xmarks work seamlessly and at scale. Working closely with Mitch, he developed the first version of the service.
Prior to Xmarks, Todd oversaw Excite Japan as the Director of Product Management. During his time there, he grew the search service tenfold to 10M page views a day. Before that, he managed all of Excite's revenue-generating advertising products as Director of Engineering.
Before Excite, Todd worked at GO corporation as a Sr. Software Engineer where he designed and developed handwriting recognition software and architected core portions of GO's operating system.
Penny Campbell, VP Engineering & Co-Founder
Penny leads the engineering team at Xmarks. She has years of experience in managing development teams and delivering large and complex products.
Before Xmarks, Penny held a variety of senior management roles at A9, Amazon's search subsidiary, and was responsible for the availability, customization, and scaling of Amazon Product Search. Penny helped found A9 and lay the foundation for Product Search as a technology platform for Amazon.
Prior to A9, Penny was co-founder of Blue Mug, an embedded software company that helped leading mobile phone and PDA manufacturers design and take their products to market. Before that, Penny managed projects at Geoworks, including the development of a first generation 3G handset.
David Loftesness, Software Architect & Co-Founder
David is responsible for the algorithms and infrastructure behind the search and discovery features of Xmarks. He is applying his know-how to mine hundreds of millions of bookmarks to help you find relevant content.
Prior to Xmarks, David was Product Search Architect at A9 where he developed algorithms to improve search relevance. While at A9, David also held senior management roles and formed and managed the Search Relevance, Analytics, and UI teams. David also helped found A9.
Before A9, David was co-founder and CEO of Blue Mug, an embedded software company that helped leading mobile phone and PDA manufacturers design and take their products to market. David also held engineering management positions at Geoworks, and oversaw the development of the company's mobile software platform.