Juxta Labs

Games for 150 million high school classmates

  • Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Gaming
  • Location United States
  • Currency USD
  • Employees 8
  • Website juxtalabs.com

Company Summary

Juxta is building games for our 30 million users and 150 million of their classmates in our database. The Yearbook app helps users connect with past classmates. We have two games in production that focus on the competition and nostalgia associated with high school. Our games let classmates compete, show off, share memories, and reminisce. High school is the ultimate social game and we're capturing that experience in our social/mobile games.

Team

  • Jared Allgood
    CEO

    I've been in startups my 11 year career. I like building new things. I'm interested in using social and gaming mechanics to get people to do things and solve big problems (serious and non-serious problems). Some other stuff about me:
    * First recipient of the fbFund grant
    * Presented at the f8 conference in 2008
    * Twice voted by peers to the v100 - top 100 entrepreneurs in Utah
    * Speak Spanish fluently
    * Studied at Brigham Young University

  • Jayson Ahlstrom
    President/COO

    I'm a statistician turned entrepreneur. Co-founded Juxta Labs focused on social apps with over 30 million users. In 2006 I co-founded ClassTop, Inc and built software for Higher Ed. Previous board member of Symbii (sold to NASDAQ: ENSG). Expert in building social/viral apps and the analytics behind them. I’m an EIR at the U of U and a judge for the Wharton and BYU business plan competitions. Graduate of BYU in Statistics/Business Analysis.

  • John Dupaix
    Sr. Facebook Developer

    John has spent 10 years in software and web development with 4 years on the Facebook platform. John launched his first Facebook app (CourseFeed) just 5 months after Facebook launched its open API. The CourseFeed app was 1 of 20 fbFund recipients out of 5000 applicants. John built the Yearbook application in 2009 and currently leads scaling the application for its 30 million users. John graduated from Brigham Young University in Computer Science.

  • Robert Taylor
    Sr. Flash Architect

    Rob Taylor is a software entrepreneur, consultant, and the guru behind FlashExtensions.com. Recently Rob served as VP of Engineering for Legato Media and UBMV. In 12 years of consulting Rob has led major engineering projects for Adobe, Nike, Certiport, MonaVie, Alfred Publishing, and the U.S. Airforce. Early in his career Rob built Genesis – a Flex-like development framework for Flash.

Advisors

  • Carman Lehnhof Israelsen
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Squire Co.
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Kickstart Seed Fund
    Unconfirmed
    Alta Ventures Mexico
    Unconfirmed
    fb Fund
    Unconfirmed

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