Meebo raised $25M on reportedly $200M pre-money

Published in May 5th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Jafco Ventures, KTB Ventures, Money, Montgomery & Co., Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Time Warner Investments, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, myspace
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The rumors were lately that Meebo failed to sell and that’s why it went into this new round of funding instead and not at the initial $250M pre-money valuation they were hoping for but at $175 - $200M (as it seems $200M). Some sources claim that companies like Fox/MySpace and AOL have taken a long look […]

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The $250M pre-money seems did not work for Meebo and they go now for $175M

Published in April 14th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Montgomery & Co., Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, myspace
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The rumor has it that Meebo fails to sell to date and is may be trying to raise new round of funding instead and not at the initial $250M pre-money valuation they were hoping for but at $175 - $200M. Some sources claim that companies like Fox/MySpace and AOL have taken a long look at […]

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Glam seems to be cutting off revenues for publishers

Published in March 31st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich Ventures, Entertainment, Funding, GLG Partners, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Hubert Burda Media, Information Capital, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Money, Venture Capital, Walden Ventures
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Something really interesting is going on with Glam Media. To make a long story short Glam is basically a controversial site that runs both a network of its own web sites as well as runs ads on a network of third party sites geared towards women online and has just recently raised a massive amount […]

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Meebo tries to raise $25M in return of only 10% equity valuing the company at the whopping $250M

Published in March 18th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Montgomery & Co., Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, myspace
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Meebo is a popular and rapidly growing web based instant messaging start up that was backed up by Sequoia Capital and is said to have roughly 4.6M unique visitors per month according to comScore’s publicly available stats. That’s valuing each of their visitors at the $54 mark, which is significantly more than what AOL has just […]

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Some of the Silicon Valley’s top non-Web innovations VCs spent money on

Published in March 5th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Battery Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Funding, Games, In-Q-Tel, Investments, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo Ventures, Money, Multimedia, Pitango Venture Capital, Retail, Semantic Apps, Sequoia Capital, Shopping, Software, Spencer Trask Ventures, Technology, Venture Capital, angel investors, ePlanet Ventures, video
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Forbes has assembled a very interesting list of some of the Silicon Valley’s most interesting and coolest innovations beyond the web start-ups. What is being said as a fact is that venture capitalists have poured over $30B into more than 2500 new ventures in 2007 alone. Some of them have to be non-traditional the media […]

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Glam Media raises a massive round of funding - $85M

Published in February 25th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Advertising, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Duff Ackerman & Goodrich Ventures, Entertainment, Funding, GLG Partners, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Hubert Burda Media, Information Capital, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Money, Venture Capital, Walden Ventures
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A controversial site Glam that runs both a network of its own web sites as well as runs ads on a network of third party sites geared towards women online has raised a massive amount of funding - $85M.
Glam Publishing Network operates more than 450 popular and influential lifestyle websites, blogs and magazines, but it […]

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Revver, the video-revenue sharing site finally sells out, but the price is not hefty

Published in February 15th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Bessemer Venture Partners, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Richards, Entertainment, Internet, Money, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, William Randolph Hearst III, video
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The site best known as the first video site that started to split the ad revenue with publishers and video creators and producers on a 50/50 basis is being reported sold. The troubled video site Revver was bought by Brad Greenspan’s LiveUniverse for what is rumored on several tech blogs to be under $5 million. […]

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Technorati’s total funding revealed - $21.6 to date in 3 rounds

Published in January 13th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, August Capital, Business, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Francisco Partners, Funding, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Mobius Venture Capital, Money, Search Engines, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, video
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Technorati, the blog search engine, has always been quite secretive about the funding it got over the years leaving people like us, always interested in the money behind the Web 2.0, speculate about the right numbers.  
Things changed the last month when we have read over multiple trusted sources on Web that the company has raised […]

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Google files patent for recognizing text in images

Published in January 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Adobe, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Google, Internet, Public Companies, Ron Conway, Search Engines, Semantic Web, Software, Technology, Web 2.0, video
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Google has filed a patent application in July 2007, which has just recently become public claiming methods where robots can read and understand text in images and video. The basic idea here is Google to be able to index videos and images and made them available and searchable by text or keywords located inside the […]

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Two major acquisition deals within the online storage space

Published in January 3rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Business, Draper Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, EMC, IBM, Internet, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Web 2.0
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IBM today announced it has acquired XIV, a privately-held storage technology company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. XIV, its technologies and employees, will become part of the IBM System Storage business unit of the IBM Systems and Technology Group. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed but sources tell the price was $350M. 
XIV’s main product Nextra […]

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