Gowalla

“Thank you for going out with Gowalla. It was a pleasure to journey with you around the world. Download your check-ins, photos and lists here soon.” This was the message on the site of Gowalla. The company was acquired wholly by Facebook, its founders and several team members joined Facebook and moved to Palo Alto headquarters.

Gowalla was a location-based social network launched in 2007 by Josh Williams and Scott Raymond. The firm had raised a total of $10.4 million in two rounds of funding from investors like Alsop Louie Partners, Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventures and several others.