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Social Networking - Thursday, October 25, 2007

Evite Rival Zoji Raises $1.5M

Evite has become the Xerox or the Kleenex of online invitations but that hasn't stopped rivals like MyPunchBowl and Soji to look at Evite and saying things like that "Evite is shooting themselves by not keeping their users happy." Investors seem to feel an Evite blood-bath as Socializr has raised $1.5M, MyPunchbowl and Renkoo have also raised funding and now Seattle-based Zoji has raised $1.5M from friends and family.

Zoji was founded in March 2004 by buddies Dan Chan and Kevin Tao. We like how they view their job: "After years of bullshitting, play time was over. Wanted to see if I really had what it took to build a datacenter and web application from the ground-up. OK OK not a real one, but a poor-man's datacenter, gimme a break. So I turned off the phone, heads-down for a couple years, no life.

Decided what my age group needed was a better Evite, with integrated picture sharing and scrapbook, restaurant reviews, and thus sprung Zoji.com. "

Read - Seattle PI