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Larry Summers Brings Clout (And Some Baggage) To Silicon Valley

Jun 30, 2011 3:32 PM

Is Larry Summers about to create waves in Silicon Valley? Two weeks after joining the board of Square, the former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president has decided to lend his name to Andreessen Horowitz, the hottest venture-capital firm in the Valley these days.

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Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, andreessen horowitz, larry summers

Multilingual Video Site ViKi Raises $4.3 Million

Dec 8, 2010 3:00 PM

ViKi, an online video site that licenses the rights to international shows and then adds subtitles to them in various languages, has raised $4.3 million from a series of big-name venture capital firms and media executives. ViKi users can select to see subtitles for hundreds of shows in dozens of…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Video, Countries, Asia, Korea, andreessen horowitz, charles river ventures, viki

Andreessen Horowitz Backs Imeem Founder’s Mixed Media Labs

Nov 11, 2010 3:30 PM

Mixed Media Labs, which is behind picplz, an online and mobile app that lets users add special effects to photos, has raised $5 million from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Founder Dalton Caldwell also started social music site imeem and subsequently sold that company to MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) a year ago.…

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Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, andreessen horowitz, instagram, mixed media labs

Student E-Reader Startup Kno Raises $46 Million

Sep 8, 2010 12:00 PM

Kno, which is making an e-reader designed for students, has raised $46 million in additional equity and debt financing. Known until this spring as Kakai, the startup unveiled its device at the AllThingsD conference this year. It has two large side-by-side touchscreen displays and is supposed to be especially useful…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, andreessen horowitz, kno, silicon valley bank ventures, triplepoint capital

Foursquare Raises $20 Million In New Round (Finally)

Jun 29, 2010 6:00 PM

Foursquare, the extremely hot mobile check-in service, has finally raised a new round of funding. Since at least March, venture capital firms (and large internet companies) have been courting Foursquare, which has been growing very rapidly; at one point, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) was said to have offered as much as…

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Posted In: Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, andreessen horowitz, foursquare, o'reilly alphatech ventures, union square ventures

Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield’s Online Gaming Startup Raises $5 Million

Apr 1, 2010 2:15 PM

Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has raised $5 million in funding for his new online gaming venture, Tiny Speck. Word that Butterfield, along with some other former Flickr employees, including chief architect Cal Henderson, were working on a gaming startup first surfaced last spring. The company is developing a massively multiplayer…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Yahoo, accel partners, andreessen horowitz, stewart butterfield, tiny speck

Skype About to Be Sold to Investor Group, Including Andreessen’s New Firm: Report

Sep 1, 2009 1:33 AM

Skype is finally about to be sold by Ebay to an investor group, which includes Andreessen Horowitz, the new VC firm headed by Marc Andreessen, reports NYT, citing sources. The deal will be announced tomorrow, it says. The possible buyout was first reported by Techcrunch on Friday last week. The…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, andreessen horowitz, ebay, skype

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