Robert Andrews
May 20, 2010 12:00 PM
Less than a year after taking a $2 million investment, desktop and mobile Twitter app Tweetdeck has gone back to its investors for a $3 million second round. Betaworks leads this round, just as it did last time. Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, The Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg and Howard Lindzon…
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Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, accelerator group, betaworks, danny rimer, howard lindzon, roger ehrenberg, ron conway, tweetdeck
Staci D. Kramer
Sep 11, 2009 1:30 AM
Mike Volpi kept the role of chairman when Joost switched to a white-label tech provider and he left as CEO for Index Ventures, an investor in the video startup. That’s over, too. Volpi told paidContent, following a report on SAI that he was out as chairman, “I will confirm that…
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Industry Moves, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, danny rimer, index ventures, joost, mike volpi
Staci D. Kramer
Sep 1, 2009 3:20 PM
It only looks like deja vu all over again for Index Ventures, the early backer of Skype that is now part of the investor group buying 65 percent of the company from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) for $1.9 billion in cash. This time Index Ventures is investing in a profitable company—not…
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, danny rimer, ebay, index ventures, josh silverman, skype
Staci D. Kramer
Jul 6, 2009 8:50 AM
So much for any of the whispers that had Mike Volpi moving to another executive operations role—less than a week after stepping down as CEO of struggling video company Joost, Volpi has surfaced as a partner at venture capital firm Index Ventures. Index was one of the investors in the…
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