Joseph Tartakoff
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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Joseph Tartakoff
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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Staci D. Kramer
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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David Kaplan
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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