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Parakey (YC S05) — accelerator company

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.

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Parakey

New accelerator entry · 2012-01-17 · the record

Summer 2005
batch
2
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchSummer 2005
Announced2012-01-17
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size2
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://parakey.com

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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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