Parakey

Y Combinator // YC S05 starting 2005-06-01

Key notes: Parakey is a web-based operating system that synchronizes the user’s desktop environment with the web.

Office address: Mountain View, California, United States

Description: Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/Firefox fame. [Little has been revealed](http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696) 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](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/Facebook) on July 19, 2007. Sequoia Capital seeded Parakey's operations in early 2005.

View details on Crunchbase:

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/parakey

Seed-DB Exit data:

Exit value = $ 5,000,000. (Confidence = L)

Angellist Page:

https://angel.co/parakey

Funding Rounds

Date Name $ Invested Crunchbase link
2007-03-01 seed Detailed data

Investors

Round Date Round Name Investor Crunchbase Link
2007-03-01 seed Y Combinator Investor Profile

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Created: 11-Jul-2012, 22:05

Last Crunchbase update: 12-Feb-2019, 05:04

Last modified: 09-Mar-2021, 05:06

Country: USA