Storify announces Khosla Ventures is joining us as an investor

We are thrilled to announce Khosla Ventures is joining us as an investor to help advance Storify's vision of building the future of storytelling and publishing.

  1. Storify is excited to announce that Khosla Ventures is joining us as an investor to help us advance our vision of building the future of journalism and storytelling online.
  2. A new era of journalism: chronicling Egypt's social-media revolution as told through social media: bit.ly/gtr2nl
  3. Since launching our private beta at the end of September, Storify stories have been viewed more than 4.5 million times across the Web. Our beta users have included major news organizations:
  4. RT @acarvin: It's just sinking in that we just documented a revolution. Thank you all for your help. bit.ly/gXJlBY #sidibouzid
  5. companies:
  6. and bloggers and individuals:
  7. wow, lots of responses to my "why's facebook need investment" tweet. I compiled them all, if you're curious bit.ly/fQOpiH
  8. Using Storify to track how Ellen Weiss' resignation from NPR played out in social media. journ.us/gIvbZG
  9. The power of what we believe in -- helping the voices that matter be heard -- has been even more evident in the recent events in Egypt. News organizations and others have been using Storify to help track and make sense of the fast-changing situation in the country. 
  10. Amazing photo ( twitpic.com/3tmlos) is making the rounds on Twitter. Added to our social media blog. ow.ly/3KKO3 (@evanchill)
  11. To help them do so, we recently offered beta invites for people wanting to use Storify for the story, and some examples of their work can be seen here.
  12. We remain in private beta as we work to scale the service and add new features. But even so, we have been thrilled to see the positive feedback and all the excitement around this early version of our product. We will start giving out more and more invites: please sign up at http://storify.com.
  13. I know I'm a little late to the party on this- but I really want a @Storify invite!
  14. @Storify would love, love, love an invite for @kqednews. Sent an email to info at storify.
  15. We have only just started building what we see as the future of storytelling, and will use the funding to grow our team so we can move more quickly to iterate and respond to our users. 

    As we expand our platform, we will offer you more sources and ways to create stories, and give you more options to display your work. We also encourage developers to work with our many open APIs.

    We believe that a revolution is long overdue in online publishing, and are creating a platform that fully embraces the interactive nature of the social, real-time Web.
  16. To help us, we are hiring people who love design, storytelling, social media and Javascript (our whole stack is Javascript and based on node.js). 

    If that sounds like you, please get in touch at jobs (at) storify (dot) com and tell us your story.
  17. And lastly, we want to say a big thank you to all our users who have already created so many wonderful stories in Storify. We are working for you so that you can concentrate on what you do best: telling great stories.
  18. Burt (@burtherman) and Xavier (@xdamman)
    Co-founders of Storify
    And team (@dshaw, @csanz)

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