Startup profile for Clipboard: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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Clipboard funding, valuation and investors

Web clipping and social bookmarking service for saving rich web snippets (Clipboard.com).

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Seed

Amount not disclosed · 2011

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

Not publicly disclosed

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

acquired

acquired · San Francisco, California

Investors in latest funding

Other: Andreessen Horowitz , Index Ventures , First Round

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Clipboard let users save, organize, and share rich web snippets with embedded media and collaborative boards. Salesforce acquired Clipboard in May 2013 for its team-collaboration technology and discontinued the consumer product in June 2013.

Why Clipboard is interesting

Gary Flake reinvented web clipping with rich embeds — a16z and Index backed it before Salesforce acquired and shut the consumer service in 2013.

Product & use cases

Web clipping service for saving rich web snippets with embedded media on collaborative boards.

  • Rich web snippet saving and sharing
  • Collaborative content curation boards
  • Knowledge capture with formatting preserved

Key facts

  • Acquired by Salesforce (May 2013): ~$12M; consumer service shut Jun 2013 (TechCrunch)
  • Seed (2011): a16z, Index Ventures, First Round, CrunchFund, DFJ (TechCrunch)
  • Source: https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/09/clipboard-acquired-by-salesforce-will-be-shuttered-on-june-30th/

Funding history (newest first)

Seed

2011

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Clipboard's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz Index Ventures First Round

Competitive landscape

Edge: Gary Flake reinvented web clipping with rich embeds — a16z and Index backed it before Salesforce acquired and shut the consumer service in 2013.

Clipboard operates in consumer. Gary Flake reinvented web clipping with rich embeds — a16z and Index backed it before Salesforce acquired and shut the consumer service in 2013.

  • Pinterest adjacent

    Visual bookmarking at scale.

  • Evernote Web Clipper adjacent

    Note-taking with web clip feature.

  • Notion Web Clipper adjacent

    Modern knowledge capture.

Notable stories

  • Gary Flake founded Clipboard for rich web clipping.
  • Salesforce acquired May 2013 for ~$12M; shut down June 2013.

Industries

Consumer

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FAQs about Clipboard

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Clipboard was a web clipping service that let users save rich snippets from any webpage — with images, formatting, and embeds intact — and share them on collaborative boards.
Andreessen Horowitz (see /fund/andreessen-horowitz), Index Ventures (see /fund/index-ventures), and First Round (see /fund/first-round) backed Clipboard's seed round in 2011.
Clipboard had raised seed funding before Salesforce acquired it in May 2013 for approximately $12M.
Clipboard pioneered rich web clipping with social sharing — a precursor to Pinterest-style curation and modern knowledge-capture tools, though the consumer product did not survive post-acquisition.
No. Salesforce acquired Clipboard in May 2013 and shut down the consumer service on June 30, 2013.
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Founding year not publicly disclosed in sources we index.
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Clipboard let users save, organize, and share rich web snippets with embedded media and collaborative boards. Salesforce acquired Clipboard in May 2013 for its team-collaboration technology and discon...
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