Social Network for Opinions Gets a Dose of New Money - NYTimes.com

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"The financing round was led by Michael and Xochi Birch, the founders of Bebo, with additional contributions from Avadis Tevanian, a former top Apple technologist; Lars Rasmussen, a Facebook engineer who helped create Google Maps when he worked at the search giant; the venture firms Greylock and Lightspeed; and others.
Ms. Gansca describes Knotch as “Twitter for the 99 percent” since it doesn’t require people to develop online followings to have an audience. Knotch users can easily gravitate to like-minded people by sharing their opinions through the company’s mobile app and finding other people who have registered similar sentiments on the same topics."

Social Network for Opinions Gets a Dose of New Money - NYTimes.com