Steve Boom, formerly the senior VP of Yahoo! Inc.’s Connected Life division, has joined the Burlingame, Calif.-based global mobile community mig33 as CEO.
Mig33 makes a downloadable mobile social networking application with a long list of built-in utilities, including instant messaging, text messaging, VoIP calls, email, profiles and photo sharing. The three-year-old startup has so far raised a whopping $23.5 million from the venture firms Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and DCM.
According to the company, Steven Goh, cofounder and, until now, CEO of mig33, will “retain an active executive role with the company as executive vice president and member of the board of directors.”
Boom is among numerous former Yahoos to have a close relationship with Accel; another is Jeff Weiner, now an EIR at both Accel and Greylock Partners but previously executive VP of Yahoo’s Network Division.
