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Online Video Monetization Firm FreeWheel Gets $16.8 Million From Disney’s Steamboat, Others

Joseph Tartakoff

Apr 26, 2010 12:15 PM

FreeWheel has added $16.8 million in strategic funding from several top investors. The online video monetization startup says its fourth round of funding is coming from Walt Disney’s Steamboat Ventures, as well as existing backers Turner Broadcasting System, Battery Ventures and Foundation Capital (It’s the first time that FreeWheel has…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Video, Companies, Disney, ESPN, Time Warner, Turner, battery ventures, foundation capital, freewheel, steamboat ventures, turner broadcasting

Former DoubleClick Exec Launches FreeWheel: Goals Include Solving Writers’ Strike, Copyright Suits

David Kaplan

Jan 24, 2008 11:18 AM

Hoping to capitalize on the rise of online video sites, FreeWheel, a company started by former DoubleClick execs, is promising to solve issues over “who gets the ad revenue?” for syndicated video. The New York startup is certainly confident; in its launch release, FreeWheel mildly suggests that its trademarked “Monetization…

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Posted In: Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, battery ventures, doubleclick, freewheel

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