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Joi Ito is a venture capitalist and angel investor. He is the founder and CEO of the venture capital firm Neoteny Co., Ltd. 

Ito was an early stage investor in Six Apart, Technorati, Flickr, SocialText, Dopplr, Last.fm, Rupture, Kongregate, etology Inc and other Internet companies. He is also on the board of Machinima.com, EPIC, Technorati, Digital Garage, WITNESS and Global Voices Online. 

Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons. In October 2004, he was named to the board of ICANN for a three-year term starting December 2004. In August 2005, he joined the board of the Mozilla Foundation. He served on the board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) from March 2005 until April 2007. He currently serves as a Board Emeritus for OSI.

==Links==
*Blog: http://joi.ito.com
*Wikipedia bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi_Ito
*CrunchBase: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/joi-ito
*Twitter: http://twitter.com/Joi/

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