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Elevation Partners Invests $32 Million More In MarketShare

Apr 14, 2011 2:35 PM

Elevation Partners, the PE firm known for its big bets on *Palm*, Forbes, Yelp, and, more recently, Facebook is putting more cash into a lesser known firm in its portfolio: MarketShare Partners. Elevation is investing $32 million in the marketing analytics firm in what it is describing as a follow-on…

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Posted In: Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, elevation partners, marketshare partners

Elevation Partners To Invest Up To $100 Million In Yelp

Jan 27, 2010 7:00 PM

Apparently unable to nail down a deal to sell itself to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for upwards of $500 million, Yelp is taking more venture capital cash instead. The local reviews site has raised $25 million in a fifth round of funding from Elevation Partners; Elevation has also agreed to invest…

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Posted In: Advertising, Local, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, elevation partners, yelp

Elevation Invests In Analytics Company MarketShare Partners

Mar 2, 2009 5:01 PM

MarketShare Partners has picked up an undisclosed amount of first-round funding from private equity firm Elevation Partners. Cofounded in 2005 by Dr. Dominique Hanssens, Wes Nichols and Jon Vein, the LA-based marketing analytics company pitches itself as “a strategic decision sciences firm offering the world’s leading capabilities around accountability and…

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Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Research & Metrics, Metrics, elevation partners

@ FOBM: Amid Consolidation, Forbes.com Looks To Further Define Itself Against Its Print Version

Oct 30, 2007 7:01 AM

One year after Forbes sold a significant minority stake to Elevation Partners, Rafat Ali, ContentNext’s publisher and editor, opened the Future of Business Media Conference at the Walforf=Astoria in NYC discussing the issues that have confronted the website as it sought to differentiate itself from its print counterpart and the…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Magazines, Companies, Acacia, contentnext media, elevation partners, forbes, jim spanfeller, rafat ali, roger mcnamee

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