Staci D. Kramer
Oct 31, 2011 10:19 PM
As of Tuesday, SB Nation no longer stands alone. The sports site, which has grown from a federation of sports blogs to a prominent network and sports hub, will joined by The Verge, a personal tech site from Joshua Topolsky and the team that once pumped energy into Engadget. It’s…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 4, 2011 1:50 AM
We have an answer to the tech publishing world’s version of And Then There Were None: the core team formerly known as Engadget has surfaced as the expansion franchise for SB Nation. Jim Bankoff, CEO of the DC-based startup, has had expansion to new verticals in mind from the start.…
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David Kaplan
Mar 3, 2011 12:03 PM
A few months after taking a $10.5 million funding round, sports blog network SB Nation has made two acquisitions that will broaden its coverage of college sports and international soccer, said the company’s CEO Jim Bankoff in an appearance at the paidContent 2011 conference at the Times Center this morning.
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Staci D. Kramer
Nov 8, 2010 5:00 AM
Eager to expand its sales team and continue its momentum, sports blog network SB Nation has raised another $10.5 million in a third round of funding. CEO Jim Bankoff confirmed the round, which was led by Khosla Ventures. Previous investors Accel Partners and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Capital also took…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 10, 2009 3:56 PM
So what does a five-year-old sports start-up do with $13 million in funding? Blog network SBNation is spending some of it on a new strategy that adds a layer of senior editors and a real-time, edited news stream, pulling the 212 blogs into what CEO Jim Bankoff now calls a…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Nov 1, 2007 11:03 AM
Qloud, a social music service backed by Steve Case’s Revolution LLC, has officially launched, unveiling a list of investors and directors. In typical Case fashion (see the recently announced Revolution Money), the company sports a number of other big name investors, including AOL (NYSE: TWX) Vice Chairman Emeritus Ted Leonsis,…
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