About Xoopit

Xoopit's mission is to make email more useful, social, and fun. Our innovations in email-based applications and social media indexing and give us the ability to deliver on our passion- to create smart, simple applications that work for you.

Yahoo!'s acquisition of our company allows us to realize our mission and deploy it to one of the largest email user bases on the web by directly integrating our apps and technology into their products and platform. This is a special opportunity for our team to bring great products that can make a difference in people's online experience around the world.

Our Team

Carlos Bueno, Jerry Su, Rob Tsai, Jonathan Bruck, Woody Anderson, Bijan Marashi,
Jonathan Katzman, Peter Greiss, Ben Zotto, Jules Cisek

Xoopit and Yahoo! sitting in a tree, M-E-R-G-I-N-G

Our Founders

Bijan Marashi is Xoopit's Co-Founder & CEO, overseeing product strategy, marketing, and sales. Prior to Xoopit, Bijan consulted the executive teams at European portals including Telecom Italia & Gruppo Espresso on product strategy. Bijan was discovered at Inktomi, where he was the lead product manager for the Search & Directory Engine products behind services such as Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft which served over half of the world's search queries at the time. Earlier in his career, Bijan was the PM of ground breaking Internet-In-A-Box product from SPRY and was on the Windows Networking Team at Microsoft.

Jonathan Katzman is Xoopit's Co-Founder & COO, overseeing development, operations and finance. Prior to Xoopit, Jonathan was the General Manager for Tellme Networks' Directory Assistance business. Jonathan led this business from its inception, turning it into a $50M business and spawning Tellme's mobile search products. Earlier in his career, Jonathan served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Corp and was an engineering lead on the original Microsoft FrontPage team.

Xoopit's Board/Investors

Charles Moldow, Foundation Capital

View Bio

Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, Accel Partners

View Bio

Paul Gauthier

At Ludic Labs, Paul is designing and developing a new class of mass-scale, consumer Internet applications. Previously, Paul was a co-founder and CTO of Inktomi Corporation, a pioneering internet technology company. Paul invented and developed Inktomi's search engine, the first commercial search engine based on distributed-memory parallel computation, allowing it to scale with the rapid growth of the Internet. Paul's work lives on as Yahoo! Search, the world's #2 search engine.

Paul is a celebrated entrepreneur and expert in consumer internet products and businesses. He is an advisor or director to several internet startups. Paul has an MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Bijan & JK also serve on Xoopit's Board of Directors. You can find a list of our angel investors and other company details at Crunchbase.

Interviews with the company on Vator.tv