Involver, Inc. was a provider of

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management software, offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools to help businesses manage their marketing efforts on social media sites such as

Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin ...

and

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

. It was acquired by

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on July 10, 2012. Founded in

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in 2007 by

Rahim Fazal Rahim Fazal is a Canadian-born technology entrepreneur. He is notable for co-founding Involver, Inc., a provider of social media management software. Involver was co-founded by Fazal and Noah Horton in San Francisco in 2007 and was acquired by Or ...

and Noah Horton, the company was originally known as RapOuts, Inc. and changed its name to Involver Inc. in August, 2008. The company offers software and services to publish, manage, moderate and measure customer relations across the social web. In 2008, Involver powered advertising campaigns on Facebook for several customers and its founders were named to Inc. Magazine's top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 list. Involver was the technology platform that powered the first sponsorship of a Facebook Page and the first studio album from a recording artist that was released through a social network. Involver was recommended by Facebook as one of 14 original "Preferred Developer Consultants."

partnered with Involver to build applications for large events like Election Day, The World Cup, and the Super Bowl. Involver raised venture capital money from

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, Western Technology Investment, and Cervin Ventures. Involver's main competitors in this space were Buddy Media (acquired by

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), Vitrue (also acquired by

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), and Wildfire (acquired by

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