Parakey
Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/Firefox fame. Little has been revealed about what Parakey will actually do, but it has been touted as both a platform and set of applications that will merge the desktop environment with the Web. It has also been described as a Web-based operating system. Great emphasis has b
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Sign in to follow- Same investor as Wefunder via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Webflow via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Dropbox via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Netomi via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Unbabel via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Swiftype via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as PagerDuty via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Weebly via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Kamcord via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Probo via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Typewise via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
- Same investor as Luciq via Y Combinator Source: Wikidata · Wikidata
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About the startup
Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/Firefox fame. Little has been revealed about what Parakey will actually do, but it has been touted as both a platform and set of applications that will merge the desktop environment with the Web. It has also been described as a Web-based operating system. Great emphasis has been placed on Parakey's potential to make tasks on the computer more intuitive for the average Joe. Parakey was acquired by Facebook on July 19, 2007. Sequoia Capital seeded Parakey's operations in early 2005.
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