Jim S. Young, Ph.D is a founder of Perceptual Networks. Dr. Young oversees the company’s technology development and jointly oversees product development.Dr. Young previously was co-founder, CTO and CEO of HotOrNot.com. In this capacity, he singlehandedly scaled a web property from launch to being a top 25 web property in less than three months, and was responsible for one of the earliest large scale deployments of the LAMP architecture. Dr. Young also was a founding partner at I/O Ventures, a startup accelerator in San Francisco. He holds a doctorate in EE/CS from the University of California at Berkeley and is a board member of the Berkeley Engineering Fund.
Date | Company Name | Round | Money Raised | Industry | |
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Oct 13, 2011 | DuckDuckGo | Series Unknown | $3M | Internet | Detail |