socialmedian: Vineet Buch Leaves BlueRun Ventures; Back To His Startup

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Vineet Buch Leaves BlueRun Ventures; Back To His Startup

Source: VC Circle

Jul 03, 2009

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Vineet Buch, a venture partner at BlueRun Ventures, has left the investing job and has returned to Like.com Inc, a startup he helped found in 2004. Buch is joining Like.com as Vice President, Corporate Development, reports Wall Street Journal.

Like.com is a visual-search company, which helps improve shopping experience of people. WSJ quotes from Buch's email to his contacts: “We are building the leading fashion shopping experience at Like.com, and are expanding our offerings through strategic acquisitions as well as organic growth.”

Like.com, which has raised more than $50 million from a bunch of venture firms including BlueRun, is looking at making some strategic acquisitions to expand its offering to fashion shopping. Buch currently serves on the board of Like.com.

Buch was also one of the co-founders of Riya.com, a visual serach firm founded by the same team of Like.com Inc. Buch had left the startup and joined BlueRun Ventures in 2005.

In his previous roles, Buch had also co-founded systems management software provider, Karient. He was also the CTO at Karie

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