David Kaplan
Sep 22, 2011 12:30 PM
Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a “ton more cool stuff over the next couple of years.”
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David Kaplan
Jun 2, 2010 4:10 PM
Music discovery service Pandora has raised an undisclosed amount of funding to promote continued growth, the company said in a statement. The round was led by GGV Capital, with additional investment from Allen & Company. The funding comes almost a year after Pandora nearly faced extinction in its battle with…
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Tameka Kee
Nov 24, 2008 2:23 PM
Online marketing and widget development firm Nabbr has raised $2.57 million in its latest round of funding, peHub reports. Previous investors Allen & Co. and Avalon Ventures participated in the round, though we could not confirm whether there were additional investors. Chicago-based Nabbr has raised money from a number of…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Sep 22, 2008 10:23 AM
Local papers often have an end-of-the-year poll, listing reader favorites in categories like “Best Mexican Restaurant” or “Best Piano Tuner”... CityVoters has raised a $2.6 million second round to take that concept to the web. Investors include Allen & Co. and past backer Dace Ventures. The Cambridge, Mass.-based startup, whose…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 5, 2008 11:26 AM
BitGravity, the much-hyped content delivery network startup based in Burlingame, CA, has closed a $2.5 million “seed” round, from Allen & Co. and Sling founder and CEO Blake Krikorian. The company launched its service last year, and focuses on high resolution and live video delivery, and says it is at…
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Rafat Ali
Jun 8, 2008 9:58 PM
At our EconAds conference last week, the most anticipated part was the interview with Nancy Peretsman, managing director at Allen & Co...among the most powerful bankers in the media sector, she has been part of marquee deals such as Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) 5 percent stake in AOL (NYSE: TWX), the…
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David Kaplan
Dec 6, 2007 6:11 PM
Nabbr, a distributor of music videos via widgets, has completed a third round financing led by Allen & Co., a company representative said. The amount of this and the last two fundings were not disclosed. As we reported last July, music label S-Curve Records participated in its second round. In…
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