Amit Kapur (entrepreneur)

Amit Kapur is an American-born internet entrepreneur. He is best known as co-founder of technology start-up Gravity[1] and as the former chief operating officer at MySpace.[2]

Early life and education

Amit grew up in a small farm town in South Dakota. He then graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Career

After graduation, Kapur worked at NBC Universal in their planning and digita strategy department.[3] Kapur joined MySpace in 2005 and was in charge of the development of MySpace Music and MySpace mobile. He was named chief operating officer of the company in January 2008.[4] In 2009, Kapur along with 2 other MySpace employees, Jim Benedetto and Steve Pearman, left the company[5] to found Santa Monica-based Gravity.[6] They raised $10 million in Series A funding in May 2009[7] and another $10.6 million in Series B funding in October 2012.[8]

Gravity was acquired by AOL in January 2014.[9][10] Since then Kapur has been in charge of AOL publisher platform.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Is Myspace Destined to Fail (Again)?". LA Weekly By Ben Westhoff May 1, 2014
  2. ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (23 August 2008). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 21–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  3. ↑ "From Myspace’s Ashes, Silicon Start-Ups Rise". New York Times. By EILENE ZIMMERMANSEPT. 7, 2013
  4. ↑ "MySpace Names Amit Kapur Chief Operating Officer". BusinessWire. January 30, 2008.
  5. ↑ Kee, Tameka (March 3, 2009). "MySpace COO Amit Kapur Leaving With Two Other Execs For Startup". GigaOM.
  6. ↑ "Our Team". Gravity.
  7. ↑ Arrington, Michael (May 20, 2009). "Former MySpace Execs Get Funding For New Venture; Some Details Leak". TechCrunch.
  8. ↑ Yeung, Ken (October 2, 2012). "Gravity to improve its personalization platform engine with new Series B funding". The Next Web.
  9. ↑ Swisher, Kara (January 23, 2014). "AOL Buys Personalization Startup Gravity for 90 Million in Cash". Re/Code.
  10. ↑ "Tech guru | Amit Kapur". New Indian Express. By Adarsh Matham 1 February 2015
  11. ↑ "Los Angeles: Dawn of a Startup Town". Techli. Lee Schneider February 11, 2015
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