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David Kaplan
Jun 16, 2010 12:00 AM
Just when you were wondering what the next big thing in online advertising would be after demand-side platforms, one possible answer is firms that use search data to re-target users for an ad campaign. Magnetic is one company that specializes in re-targeting and has been able to rack up deals…
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Robert Andrews
May 20, 2010 12:00 PM
Less than a year after taking a $2 million investment, desktop and mobile Twitter app Tweetdeck has gone back to its investors for a $3 million second round. Betaworks leads this round, just as it did last time. Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, The Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg and Howard Lindzon…
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David Kaplan
Apr 6, 2010 9:00 AM
Stitcher, a service that lets talk radio listeners move programs to their mobile devices, has completed a $6 million second round funding. The round was led by Benchmark Capital. Previous backer New Atlantic Ventures also participated, as did individual investors Ed Scott and Ron Conway. San Francisco-based Stitcher plans to…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 3, 2010 4:10 AM
Yammer has raised $10 million in a second round of funding led by Emergence Capital; serial angel investor Ron Conway, along with existing investors Charles River Ventures and Goldcrest Investments also participated in the round. Essentially a Twitter for businesses, Yammer lets co-workers communicate with each other by sending out…
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Tameka Kee
Nov 5, 2009 12:55 PM
Credit Karma, a site that lets users get free access to their credit scores in exchange for receiving targeted ads, has raised $1.5 million worth of a $2.5 million round of funding, per an SEC filing. The company said QED Investors led, with participation from Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Founders…
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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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Tameka Kee
Oct 27, 2009 1:40 PM
“Twitter is worth more than a billion dollars,” insists Ron Conway. Conway, a Twitter investor and board member, Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet and StockTwits backer Howard Lindzon dug into Twitter’s sky-high valuation during the 140Conf today. They also offered up predictions for where we’ll see the next wave of Twitter-related…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Aug 6, 2008 4:22 PM
750 Industries, a stealthy SF-based startup, has raised a $1 million first round from Ron Conway, Maples Investments and Baseline Ventures, TechCrunch reported. What’s the company do? Not clear. It’s notable because one of its co-founders wrote a controversial guest post on TC, which was basically a tutorial on how…
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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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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 23, 2008 1:32 PM
As someone that once had 156 tabs open in a single Firefox window, this sounds appealing: Vysr, a start-up offering a new way to browse that promises fewer tabs, has raised $2 million from angles, according to VentureBeat. Investors include Ron Conway, The Sandhill Group and Mark Sherman of Battery…
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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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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 16, 2008 12:45 PM
Buddy Media, a developer of social networking apps, has raised a $6.5 million second round from Softbank, European Founders Fund, Greycroft Partners, Ron Conway, as well as its previous backers.. The NYC-based company previously raised $1.5 million from Howard Lindzon, Peter Thiel, Roger Ehrenberg Mark Pincus and James Altucher, so…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Mar 23, 2008 7:43 PM
TradeVibes, a Mountain View, CA-based wiki for info on startups, has raised a $900,000 seed round, says VentureBeat. Investors include Ron Conway, Dave McClure, the Kinsey Hills Group and Felicis Ventures. Not only is the site seeking to build a thorough startup database (fundings, management, etc.), it’s hoping to become…
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