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Blog Platform Posterous Raises $4.4 Million More

Mar 5, 2010 4:01 PM

Posterous, the popular quick blogging platform, has raised $4.4 million in additional funding, CEO Sachin Agarwal tells us. The site—which is likely best known for letting users blog simply by e-mailing text, photos, or files to a default Posterous account—has grand ambitions for its service; it says it “wants to…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, founder collective, lowercase capital, posterous, redpoint ventures, sv angel, trinity ventures, xg ventures

Real-Time Searcher Scoopler Raises Seed Round From Ron Conway, Others

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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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Search, Social Media, avalon ventures, michael birch, ron conway, xg ventures, y combinator

Quick Blogging Platform Posterous Gets $725K In Funding

Dec 22, 2008 11:13 AM

Another investment in the quick and simplified blogging space ... Posterous, a startup that lets users post multimedia entries to a blog via email, has picked up $725,000 in what it is calling a second round of angel funding, TechCrunch reports. We confirmed the amount and that Zimbra CEO Satish…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, eric hahn, posterous, satish dharmaraj, xg ventures

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