LinkedIn is out pitching for a major round at the staggering $1B pre-money

Published in May 6th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Allen & Co, Bessemer Venture Partners, Business, European Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock, Internet, Investments, Money, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Society, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, the European Founders Fund
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The rumors across the valley are that LinkedIn is out trying to raise a new round at $1B pre-money valuation. They are using the service of the New York based secretive investment bank Allen & Co. where the Managing Director Dave Wehner seems to be engaged with the effort to help LinkedIn secure its next […]

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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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Imeem confirms the acquisition of Snocap for reportedly less than $5M off more than $10M in venture capital taken by the company!

Published in April 7th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Entertainment, Internet, Media, Money, Morgenthaler Ventures, Music, Ron Conway, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, WaldenVC, Web 2.0
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An acquisition that was announced in late February has today been confirmed. Imeem confirms the acquisition of Snocap. As we have then written Snocap has been in a long quest for a buyer (at least since Sept last year) and has gone through some massive layoffs, so it was clear the company had little to […]

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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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Snocap has been acquired by Imeem

Published in March 1st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Entertainment, Internet, Media, Money, Morgenthaler Ventures, Music, Ron Conway, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Software, Technology, WaldenVC, Web 2.0
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Snocap was known to be searching for a new home for quite some time and it seems they have shopped themselves successfully as Imeem has bought them last month. Snocap is digital music wholesaler and Imeem is music streaming site so the synergy seems quite logical here. Terms were not disclosed publicly.
Snocap was founded in […]

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Sequoia Capital invested in TokBox, hoping for Web’s next big communication tool

Published in February 5th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Sequoia Capital, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, video
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Sequoia Capital has recently provided $4 million in Series A round of funding to Tokbox - a new startup providing real-time video chat via a browser. Sequoia joins an already impressive collection of angel investors including founding members of YouTube, Bebo, and Netscape along with execs from Slide, PayPal and Cisco. This investor network alone […]

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RockYou named one of the top innovations for 2007

Published in January 2nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Entertainment, Facebook, Games, Internet, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Media, Multimedia, Music, Partech International, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, Yahoo, video
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RockYou is amongst the top 6 innovation leaps for 2007 according CNN. Below is what Michael V. Copeland from Fortune wrote about the company.
While the giants of social networking battle for the attention of Internet users, the guys behind RockYou are happy to sit in the middle. They make their money shipping the tiny apps […]

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Some of the web’s biggest acquisition deals during 2007

Published in December 31st, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Cisco, Disney, Entertainment, Facebook, Funding, Games, Goldman Sachs, Google, Hewlett Packard, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, IPO, Internet, Investments, MSNBC, Marketing, Media, Microsoft, Mobile, Money, Multimedia, Music, Naspers, Nokia, Oracle, Public Companies, Retail, Ron Conway, SAP, Search Engines, Sequoia Capital, Shopping, Social Networking, Software, Technology, TomTom, Virtual Worlds, WPP Group, Web 2.0, Yahoo, eBay, eCommerce, video
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As the end of the year approaches us we would like to briefly sum up some of the web’s biggest acquisition deals for the 2007, as we know them. 
All deals will logically be ranked by their sizes and less weight will be put on the time the deal happened through out the year. Deals from […]

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Oddly WalMart jumps into the search engine marketing business, joins Kenshoo & Fathomonline

Published in December 28th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Google, Internet, Marketing, Public Companies, Retail, Sequoia Capital, eCommerce
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In a recent announcement the company seems to be entering the SEM (search engine marketing) business and are offering services to users willing to advertise on Google AdWords through AdSense.
An interesting questions popped up into my mind, does that involve any strategic agreement with Google for reselling their AdWords packages across the country in the brick and […]

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Sequoia Funding for Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Firm Kenshoo

Published in December 18th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Funding, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Media, Money, Sequoia Capital, Software, Technology, Web 2.0
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Kenshoo, a search engine marketing firm, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Sequoia Capital. The end-to-end search marketing solution aimed at advertisers and ad agencies operates on an automated technology for advertising campaigns, and a core feature of the company’s suite of offerings relies on the longtail keyword expansion. It is an exclusive […]

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Exclusive: Imeem inks a deal with the world’s largest record company

Published in December 10th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Internet, Money, Morgenthaler, Music, Public Companies, Sequoia Capital, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0
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In what is believed to be a big leap for the relatively small social networking site called Imeem they announced today a licensing agreement allowing its users to listen free to the music of Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group.
Universal Music, the world’s largest record company, has opened a new chapter in the industry’s experiment with […]

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Meebo received funding from Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Published in November 22nd, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Funding, Sequoia Capital
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Meebo confirmed (Dec ‘05) that they have received funding from Sequoia Capital on their blog. Meebo.com is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over […]

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