Tag: Funding

Digg gets more cash, $8.5 million

Tags: Digg + funding + Greylock Ventures + Omidyar Network + Marc Andreessen

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 11 months ago; via gigaom.com/2006/12/28/dig...

Digg has raised another $8.5 million in new funding from existing VCs, Greylock Ventures and Omidyar Network. The company, previously had raised close to $3 million from these two firms, and Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Ning and Netscape.

With the newest version of Digg's service, which includes the ability to post and rate podcasts and video, Adelson said that Digg will be able to maintain its lead position.

Still, new problems have arisen for Digg in the latter half of the year that could spell trouble for the company. News reports...

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Glam Media Gets $18.5 Million And A CNET Chairman

Tags: Glam Media + Jarl Mohn + Series C + funding + Duff Ackerman + Goodrich Ventures + DAG

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 11 months ago

Glam Media, a fashion and lifestyle online hub, today announced it has received $18.5 million in Series C funding led by Duff Ackerman & Goodrich Ventures (DAG), with participation from existing investors Accel Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, WaldenVC, and Information Capital. The additional capital will be used to accelerate the growth of the largest fashion and style network on the Web and expand its sales and editorial teams. In a separate release today, Glam Media also announced that CNET chairman Jarl Mohn is joining Glam Media as an...

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BigTorrent of Money for BitTorrent?

Tags: BitTorrent + funding + Doll Capital Management

felix
Posted by felix 2 years 6 days ago; via gigaom.com/2006/11/28/big...

Om Malik of GigaOM reports on the rumor:

Sources say BitTorrent, the company trying to monetize the peer-to-peer distribution software of the same name, is close to raising a substantial round of funding. The round is estimated at $15 million. BitTorrent previously raised $8.75 million from Doll Capital Management, something we also heard rumored3 before it happened.

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