A couple of weeks ago we realized the shopping pattern of Live Universe is to buy failed, but over funded, start ups on the cheap and the deal we read about a few days ago makes no exception. Just over a few week ago the founders of and five engineers from VoIP services provider Jangl […]
Live Universe acquires yet another deadpooled start-up on the cheap
Published in May 21st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Internet, LiveUniverse, Mobile, Money, Social Networking, Software, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
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Facebook raised $100M more, total is now at $493M
Published in May 12th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Advertising, Facebook, Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock Partners, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, IPO, Internet, Investments, Li Ka-shing, Meritech Capital, Money, Peter Thiel, Social Networking, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
Facebook keeps on growing so does its expenditures. The latest news from the company is that they have raised yet another $100M round of funding. The company says this time all the money will go for buying servers, lots of servers. BusinessWeek has estimated they are going to scale things up with 50,000 new servers […]
Live Universe acquires yet another over funded start-up on the cheap
Published in May 9th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, DEFTA Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Venture Capital, Entertainment, FCPR Israel Discovery Fund, Internet, JPMorgan, Labrador Ventures, LiveUniverse, Marketing, Money, Multimedia, TV, The Bay Area Equity Fund, Venture Capital, WaldenVC, Web 2.0, video
It appears that the buyer’s profile of Live Universe is to buy web 2.0 companies in trouble on the cheap, yet preferably over funded, with some traffic and good technology, if possible. After they have bought video site Revver (also relatively cheap, price perhaps was in the $1M range) in February 2008, they have also […]
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
Angel investors have invested as much as $26 billion in start ups last year, almost as much as VCs did
Published in April 18th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Band of Angels, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Keiretsu Forum, Money, Software, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, eCoast Angels
Today we have read over a few technology and business blogs that angel investors have poured $26B in start-up companies for the last year alone. Aside the fact this is an impressive amount of money it is also very close to what VCs did themselves - $29B. Furthermore the number of deals backed up by […]
Federated Media raises huge round of funding - $50M
Published in April 17th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, JP Morgan, Marketing, Media, Money, Oak Investment Partners, Omidyar Network, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
In a period full with launch of new ad networks and deals about such Federated Media has raised a huge amount of money - $50 million in a C round led by Oak Investment Partners and Omidyar Network as a returning investor from their first round. The rumor has it the company has turned down […]
Nice exit for Sphere.com
Published in April 16th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Hearst Corporation, Internet, Media, Money, Public Companies, Radar Partners, Software, Technology, Trident Capital, True Ventures, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Winton Partners
While AOL is trying to shop itself around they seem are not stopping the shopping spree themselves and keep on buying second tier web companies. After snatching Bebo last month, they have bought yesterday the related content engine Sphere, which is mainly used across blogs on Web. So it seems to be official already: AOL has […]
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
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 […]
MeeVee put itself up for sale
Published in April 8th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, DEFTA Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Venture Capital, Entertainment, FCPR Israel Discovery Fund, Internet, JPMorgan, Labrador Ventures, Marketing, Money, Multimedia, TV, The Bay Area Equity Fund, Venture Capital, WaldenVC, Web 2.0, video
An interesting approach is taken at MeeVee. They are trying to sell themselves through a press release. This morning we have seen a short press announcement put up on Yahoo through BusinessWire giving relatively short details about the company and soliciting interested parties to contact a person at his email as indicated in the pr.
MeeVee […]
fix8 takes more money to fiddle around animated avatars
Published in April 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Entertainment, Funding, Games, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Multimedia, SK Telecom, Social Networking, Software, TV, Technology, Venture Capital, Vickers Financial Group, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0
It was just a few months ago when fix8 took their first round of funding from Vickers Venture Group. The amount taken was then $3M. Vickers Venture Group is a Singapore-based private equity firm. This time the company says it has landed SK Telecom, which is a leading South Korean telecom, taking some $3M more […]
Looks like SpinVox is about to get a real run for the money, Nuance enters their niche
Published in April 2nd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in ABN Amro, Allen & Co, Blue Mountain Capital Management, Funding, GLG Partners, Goldman Sachs, Investments, Mobile, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Telecom, Toscafund Asset Management, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
Everything leads us to the simple conclusion that Nuance is taking on SpinVox’s voice-to-text technology. It has always been interestingly enough to see how pouring big VC money into an idea, market niche, product or solution is always attracting some bigger player to try and exploit it. It seems the case with SpinVox today is […]
Yet another Digg clone
Published in April 1st, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Software, Technology, Velocity Interactive Group, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
Reading the blogs today we came across a new Digg like service (clone) called Publish2. Essentially the service is Digg meets del.icio.us aimed at journalists where anyone is said to be able to seed links in the system but only journalists are given with the chance to vote for them. However, one person testing the […]
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
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 […]
More instructional videos on the horizon
Published in March 30th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Education, Funding, Internet, Investments, Media, Money, Multimedia, Technology, True Ventures, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, video
Creating educational and instructional videos, clips and episodes is something hot lately. The space is crowded and has just emerged from the popularization of the online video sector. MindBites is yet another player jumping the bandwagon. MindBites is a self-publishing platform and social marketplace for instructional content, which enables people to share their unique knowledge, […]
An online career community that connects people through personal relationships and affiliations
Published in March 29th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Funding, Internet, Investments, Money, Shasta Ventures, Social Networking, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
Doostang is an interesting concept built upon the belief that over 50% up to 70% of recruiting today is done through the personal network of contacts and a large portion of which is done by email communication. Using your personal network is the most effective way to find the right candidate for a position and […]
Li Ka-shing invests $40M more in Facebook; total funding is now $378M from $338M before
Published in March 28th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Advertising, Facebook, Founders Fund, Funding, Greylock Partners, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, IPO, Internet, Investments, Li Ka-shing, Meritech Capital, Mobile, Money, Peter Thiel, Social Networking, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital, Web 2.0
The Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has reveled in a recent conference call that he raised his stake in the social networking site Facebook with some $40M more. That amount comes on top of his previous commitment of $60M, which brings his total investment in the popular site to $100M. What is his actually equity […]
Wisdom of the crowds principle effectively applied to predict markets, events
Published in March 25th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Entertainment, Internet, Investments, Marketing, Money, Sherpalo Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Society, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors
While doing our daily research on the web 2.0 deals we came across a very interesting start up that deserves to make our web 2.0 innovations list - Predictify.
Essentially it is a very interesting and pretty innovative idea of using the wisdom of the crowds and the collective intelligence principles to predict in behalf of […]
Modu, an innovative approach to cell phones, is on its way to raise $100M
Published in March 24th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Funding, Gemini Israel Funds, Genesis Partners, Investments, Mobile, Money, Technology, Telecom, Venture Capital
In a week full with $100M funding deals (9You & SpinVox) here is the next one – Modu is an Israel based start up founded just in 2007 and has already raised $20M in its Series A round of funding. In that first round the backers are Gemini Israel Funds and Genesis Partners. Today there […]
SocialMedia totals $4M in funding and is one of the top ad platforms for Facebook
Published in March 23rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Business, Charles River Ventures, Facebook, Funding, Internet, Investments, Jeff Clavier, Marketing, Media, Money, Social Networking, SoftTechVC, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, angel investors, myspace
Creating Facebook applications is already big business online. Facebook created a special fund to invest in popular applications for their social platform and there are also several venture capital firms who are keeping an eye on the sector for the next hot or modern Facebook application to invest in. Monetizing the traffic generated from those […]
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