David Kaplan
Sep 22, 2011 12:30 PM
Financial and media news online site network Business Insider has raised $7 million for what founder and editor Henry Blodget says will be a “ton more cool stuff over the next couple of years.”
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 20, 2011 7:03 PM
Co-founded by Marc Andreessen, Ning, once among the highest-profile social network startups, gave up on its grandest plans a while ago and did a full reset. Now it will be part of another startup with ambitious plans, Samir Arora’s ad network Glam Media. The combined companies would have 240 million…
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Ingrid Lunden
May 10, 2011 8:47 AM
Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), today said his company first decided to buy Skype when the two were in discussions on an advertising deal (advertising is one way Skype has hoped to make more money off those millions of people who steadfastly refuse to take up its…
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Staci D. Kramer
Sep 1, 2009 5:45 PM
EBay kicked off Tuesday with news that it’s selling Skype to an investor group for $1.9 billion in cash plus a $125 million note—and a bit of a surprise that it’s keeping a 35 percent interest. The SEC document just filed sheds a little more light on the deal, which…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 21, 2009 7:50 PM
Automagically, Ning‘s still binging on money: The social-network-in-a-box startup founded by Marc Andresseen and current CEO Gina Bianchini, has raised another $15 million, at a crazy $750 million valuation in its fifth round, from Lightspeed Venture Partners, reports Kara. This comes after it raised a $60 million round (at $500…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 6, 2009 2:55 PM
Left-of-center political news blog TalkingPointsMemo has received its first outside money, from Marc Andreessen and other angel investors, according to TC. The amount is small, and pegged between $500K to $1 million. The investment from Andreessen, his second in a blog network (the first being Business Insider), is a personal…
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Rafat Ali
Jun 24, 2009 5:55 PM
Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and ex-Opsware executive Ben Horowitz have closed their new VC fund, Andreessen Horowitz Fund I, L.P, at $241.5 million, according to a new SEC filing today. The amount was raised from a total of 44 investors. Earlier Kara reported that the fund might exceed the stated…
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Rory Maher
Feb 23, 2009 8:52 AM
Netscape founder and angel investor Marc Andreessen is partnering with long-time co-investor and Opsware executive Ben Horowitz to launch a fund to focus on venture investments of about $500,000. Andreessen and Horowitz have been co-investing as angels for years, with average investments of around $100,000 per deal; they formed the…
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Tameka Kee
Oct 22, 2008 11:34 AM
Virtual worlds developer Metaplace has raised $6.7 million in a second round of funding. Participants included existing investors Charles River Ventures and Crescendo Ventures, and new investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The San Diego-based company, formerly named Areae, has raised a total of $9.4 million. Metaplace was founded in…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jun 27, 2008 12:05 PM
I’m in Like With You, a NY-based social gaming startup, has raised $1.5 million led by Spark Capital, along with Baseline Ventures, Betaworks, Ron Conway, and Marc Andreesen. The news was first reported by CNET’s Caroline McCarthy. The company, which began as more of a dating site, raised an unspecified…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 17, 2008 12:01 AM
And yet, the funding keeps flowing in: EQAL, the new name of the production company behind the pioneering online video series Lonelygirl15, has received $5 million in funding from various investors to develop more shows beyond its first franchise and KateModern in UK. The round was led by Spark Capital,…
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Rafat Ali
Sep 25, 2006 12:11 PM
Collaborative news site Digg’s cofounders, high on the hype cycle, have launched a new online video production and podcasting firm called Revision3, and have received $1 million in funding for the venture. Investors include Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, and Greylock Partners, a previous investor in Digg. The new…
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