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CrowdGather Adds $7.85 Million In Part For Forum Acquisitions

Mar 4, 2011 6:07 PM

CrowdGather, the very acquisitive community forums owner, has raised $7.85 million in a private placement by selling stock and warrants in what it is calling its “most significant financing round to date.” The publicly-traded company tells Venturebeat that it will use the cash in part to fund additional acquisitions.

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Posted In: Money, Social Media, Community, Companies, crowdgather

Crowdgather Acquires Forums Host Lefora

Jul 26, 2010 8:33 AM

Community forums publisher CrowdGather has bought forum host provider Lefora, its fourth acquisition in less than a year. The acquisition is for San Francisco, CA-based Lefora’s technical assets. The details of the transaction weren’t disclosed, but Crowdgather did say the deal involved an all-stock purchase.

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Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, crowdgather, lefora

CrowdGather Buys Digital Ad Agency Adisn For $5.5 Million

Jun 10, 2010 12:40 PM

Community forums owner CrowdGather has purchased digital ad agency Adisn for $5.5 million in stock. CrowdGather is known for its acquisitve ways—it has now made four acquisitions since last August—but says the Adisn buy is the biggest in its history. Adisn builds ads that can automatically be changed based on…

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Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Community, adisn, crowdgather

CrowdGather Buys FreeForums.org For $1 Million

Mar 16, 2010 2:40 PM

CrowdGather, which owns a network of community forums, is buying up FreeForums.org, for $1 million in cash and stock (An SEC filing shows that FreeForums’ owner, Phil Santoro, is getting $600,000 in cash, as well as $400,000 in CrowdGather stock and additional compensation based on traffic). The three-year-old site lets…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Community, crowdgather, freeforums.org

Zune Community Site Zuneboards Sold For $62K

Aug 26, 2008 4:36 PM

I’ll resist the temptation to make a crack about how at least somebody is making money on the Zune, but… Zuneboards, a community site devoted to Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) iPod rival, was sold for $62k to Crowdgather, according to the OC Register (via Boston Herald). The Santa Ana, CA-based site…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Community, Companies, Microsoft, crowdgather, zune, zuneboards

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