{"id":38,"date":"2007-12-22T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/2007\/12\/22\/small-round-for-mesmotv\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T20:30:33","slug":"small-round-for-mesmotv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/2007\/12\/22\/small-round-for-mesmotv\/","title":{"rendered":"Small round for Mesmo.tv"},"content":{"rendered":"

The social video bookmarking<\/a> and recommending service Mesmo.TV<\/a> and provider of a very popular Facebook application, has secured over half of a $900,000 round of Series A financing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mesmo.TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Davin Miyoshi informed the public that Aydin Senkut\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Felicis Ventures, <\/a>Mike Maples\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Maples Investments, Naval Ravikant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Hit Forge, and Georges Harik participated in the round. Simply put their tool allows users to rate and tag the videos that they enjoy. Mesmo.TV is then recommending videos to you and introduces you to other viewers with similar viewing habits and interests.<\/p>\n

This tool, however, has not turned out to be the most successful part of Mesmo.TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business. The company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s TV Show Trivia<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Facebook application, which launched in August, has garnered over 1.3 million users and over 125,000 daily unique visitors. This puts the application amongst the top 45 applications on Facebook, and made Mesmo.TV the largest TV show community on that social network.<\/p>\n

Mesmo.TV plans to continue focusing on its social network<\/a> efforts and looks forward to expanding to other networks, such as MySpace, who might open up in the near future. The company is also talking with TV networks to bring online videos to its users.
\nAbout Mesmo TV<\/p>\n

“Mesmo TV” (formerly called TV Show Trivia) is the largest social TV application and community on the Facebook Platform. On Mesmo TV you can play TV trivia, discuss your favorite shows and share your favorite characters and quotes with your facebook friends. MesmoTV is building highly engaging, fun, social TV applications that that allow you to engage with your friends and favorite shows.<\/p>\n

Mesmo.TV has been funded by a group of talented and successful entrepreneurs and some of the key people are listed below.<\/p>\n

Davin Miyoshi Co-founder\/CEO\u00c2\u00a0
\nJesse Hull Co-founder\/CTO\u00c2\u00a0
\nDebarshi Kar Co-founder\/VP of Engineering\u00c2\u00a0
\nDaphne Carmeli Board Member\u00c2\u00a0
\nAuren Hoffman Board Member\u00c2\u00a0
\nCindy McCaffrey Board Member\u00c2\u00a0
\nMunjal Shah Board Member\u00c2\u00a0
\nBen T. Smith, IV Board Member\u00c2\u00a0
\nAydin Senkut Investor\u00c2\u00a0
\nMike Maples Investor\u00c2\u00a0
\nNaval Ravikant Investor\u00c2\u00a0
\nGeorges Harik Investor\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

More<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mesmo.tv\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/blog.mesmo.tv\/2007\/05\/about-us.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/tvtrivia\/?entrySource=mesmohomepage<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/apps.bebo.com\/mesmotv\/?entrySource=mesmohomepage<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/tvtrivia\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/mesmo.tv<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/10\/04\/social-video-company-mesmotv-raises-900000-of-series-a-funding\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.pehub.com\/article\/articledetail.php?articlepostid=8047<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/07\/17\/mesmotv-discovers-videos-you-like\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The social video bookmarking and recommending service Mesmo.TV and provider of a very popular Facebook application, has secured over half of a $900,000 round of Series A financing. Mesmo.TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Davin Miyoshi informed the public that Aydin Senkut\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Felicis Ventures, Mike Maples\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Maples Investments, Naval Ravikant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Hit Forge, and Georges Harik participated in the round. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,243,3,140,107,245,204,33,54,244,176,79],"tags":[246,1370,1399,247,1385,248,1413],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-felicis-ventures","category-funding","category-internet","category-investments","category-maples-investments","category-media","category-money","category-social-networking","category-the-hit-forge","category-video","category-web-20","tag-facebook-application","tag-funding","tag-investments","tag-mesmotv","tag-social-networking","tag-social-video-bookmarking","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}