Jack Herrick is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Founder of wikiHow.Jack founded wikiHow, which is like Wikipedia for how-to. Jack started and self financed wikiHow from inception to it's current position as one of the most popular sites on the web receiving over 25 million unique visitors per month. Prior to wikiHow, Jack was co-CEO of eHow. With Josh Hannah, Jack purchased eHow in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 eHow grew 30x in traffic and revenue and became the largest pure play how-to site on the web. Demand Media acquired eHow in 2006.In 2002 Jack co-founded Luminescent Technologies with Dan Abrams, Eli Yablonovitch, and Stan Osher. Luminescent is a computational semiconductor lithography company that has raised over $25 MM in venture capital. From 1999-2001 Jack was CEO and co-founder at BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company. BigTray was sold in 2001 and remains the largest online vendor of restaurant equipment and supplies.
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Aug 6, 2021 | Kresko Labs | Seed | $2.34M | Blockchain | Detail |
Jul 13, 2021 | ClayStack | Seed | $5.20M | Blockchain | Detail |
Jun 21, 2021 | Meson Network | Series Unknown | $3.50M | Blockchain | Detail |
May 25, 2021 | OneOf | Seed | $63M | Blockchain | Detail |
Mar 1, 2021 | SIREN | Seed | $4M | Blockchain | Detail |
Nov 13, 2020 | Axelar | Seed | $3.75M | Blockchain | Detail |
Oct 19, 2020 | Polymarket | Seed | $4M | Blockchain | Detail |
Sep 5, 2018 | Spacemesh | Series A | $15M | Blockchain | Detail |
Jun 21, 2018 | BloXroute Labs | Series A | — | Blockchain | Detail |
Feb 1, 2018 | O(1) Labs | Seed | — | Blockchain | Detail |
Dec 19, 2017 | dYdX | Seed | $2M | Blockchain | Detail |
Mar 23, 2011 | Sosh | Seed | $1M | Apps | Detail |