Joseph Tartakoff
Aug 25, 2010 12:45 PM
PayPal co-founder (and early Facebook investor) Peter Thiel is backing a new social network, which restricts membership to students with verified college e-mail addresses—much like Facebook did in its first year and a half. CollegeOnly‘s pitch: “Our site is the only one that is free from parents, potential employers, and…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 10, 2008 2:44 PM
Vator.TV, the video site for startups to pitch themselves, has raised a second round of angel funding led by Venture Farm LLC. Also participating were Jeff Peterson (QuePasa founder) and past investors Peter Thiel, Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media), and Georges Harik (formerly of Google). The funding will go towards building…
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Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, georges harik, jeff peterson, peter thiel, richard rosenblatt, vator.tv, venture farm
Joseph Weisenthal
Jan 7, 2008 4:16 PM
Big Think, a site billing itself as a “YouTube for ideas” has raised unspecified funding from a group of individual backers led by VC David Frankel, along with Peter Thiel, economist Larry Summers, TV producer Gary David Goldberg and Plum TV owner Tom Scott. The NY-based site, which is launching…
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Social Media, Video, big think, david frankel, gary david goldberg, larry summers, peter thiel, tom scott
Rafat Ali
Dec 31, 2007 1:24 PM
Israeli search startup Hooja has received $1.5 million in its first round of funding, reports Globes. The still-stealth site was funded by individual investors, including Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal. Angel investors Mike Maples, Yuval Shahar and Pascal Levensohn also participated, according to VentureBeat. The Globes story…
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