Joseph Tartakoff
Dec 9, 2010 12:45 PM
Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, who made a fortune from the sale of the social network to AOL (NYSE: AOL) two and a half years ago, is once again investing in the site. AOL sold Bebo to private equity firm Criterion Capital Partners this summer; Criterion now says Birch is joining…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 12, 2010 2:44 PM
Analytics startup Mixpanel has raised $500,000 from PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, according to Venturebeat. The startup provides a custom analytics tool, which it claims is more robust than those offered by rivals, like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Analytics. For instance, Mixpanel says it provides data in…
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Tameka Kee
Nov 2, 2009 4:19 PM
No wonder serial investor Ron Conway talked up Scoopler during his panel at the 140Conf last week—he’s an investor in the real-time search startup. Scoopler co-founder A.J. Asver tells VentureWire (subs req) that the startup raised between $500,000 and $1 million in this angel round. Conway, Bebo co-founder Michael Birch,…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 9, 2009 11:16 PM
Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo who made gazillions handing it over to AOL (NYSE: TWX) and leaving with the deal, has *so much money* he doesn’t know what to do with it, so he does the next best thing: launch a digital media fund. We had some details on…
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