Meebo's backend was originally written with
libgaim 1.5.0. After the initial period when the project was funded exclusively by its founders, Meebo raised $100,000 as
angel investments (investors included
Auren Hoffman and
Marc Andreessen), received $3.5 million from Sequoia in 2005, and $9 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 2006. On August 2, 2006, Meebo launched the
Flash-based "Meebo Me" chat window widget for personal websites, which automatically added visitors to the site owner's Meebo Messenger contact list, offering the possibility to start a realtime chat both to site owner and visitor In May 2007, Meebo launched media-enabled chat rooms (Rooms) that can be embedded in any website page. At this point, Meebo still didn't have a revenue model. In April 2008, Meebo secured $25 million in venture capital funding from
Jafco Investment,
Time Warner and KTB Investment & Securities. During the rise of the new generation of
smartphone operating systems, Meebo released mobile applications for all major platforms:
Android,
iOS and
BlackBerry. In May 2010, the original Meebo Rooms service was discontinued, and the feature was ultimately removed in October 2011. In February 2011, Meebo acquired Mindset Media advertising company to improve its ads targeting. Meebo's staff was assigned to
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