{"id":3,"date":"2007-11-22T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/2007\/11\/22\/meebo-received-funding-from-sequoia-capital\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T20:59:54","slug":"meebo-received-funding-from-sequoia-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/2007\/11\/22\/meebo-received-funding-from-sequoia-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Meebo received funding from Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">                <!--  .style3 {  &nbsp;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;  &nbsp;font-size: 12px;  }  --><\/style>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"style1 style2 style3\">Meebo <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.meebo.com\/?p=78\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/blog.meebo.com');\">confirmed<\/a> (Dec &#8217;05) that they have received funding from Sequoia Capital on their blog. <a href=\"http:\/\/Meebo.com\">Meebo.com<\/a> is a website for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedwords.com\/computers\/internet\/chat\/instant-messaging\/instant_messaging.php\">instant messaging<\/a> from absolutely anywhere. Whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at home, on campus, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"210\" src=\"http:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/i\/meebologo.png\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"61\" \/>at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style3\">Meebo launched in September 2005 and received funding from Sequoia Capital in December 2005 and Draper Fisher Jurvetson in January 2007. Today, Meebo&#8217;s users exchange over 100 million instant messages daily.<\/span><span class=\"style3\">In early 2007, Meebo gets another $9 million from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfj.com\">Draper Fisher Jurvetson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequoiacap.com\">Sequoia Capital<\/a>. Skype&#8217;s lead investor and YouTube&#8217;s lead investor are teaming up. Tim Draper, one of the early investors in Skype, did the deal for DFJ. <\/span><span class=\"style3\">Meebo&#8217;s total funding is now $12.5 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\">Please note this posting is reporting a funding which happened in 2005 and 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/\">Web 2.0 Money<\/a> is a new initiative of <a href=\"http:\/\/web2innovations.com\">Web 2.0 Innovations<\/a> to discover, report and analyze the money behind the Technology and Internet Industries. We start from some of the earliest funding deals we know about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\">[ via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.meebo.com\/?p=78\">meebo.com&#8217;s blog<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\">[ via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.business2.com\/dawnpatrol\/2007\/01\/meebo_gets_9_mi.html\">business2.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\">[ via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2005\/12\/16\/meebo-confirms-sequoia-funding\/\">Techcrunch<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meebo confirmed (Dec &#8217;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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[1372,7,6,1371],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-draper-fisher-jurvetson","category-funding","category-sequoia-capital","tag-draper-fisher-jurvetson","tag-instant-messaging","tag-meebo","tag-sequoia-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web2innovations.com\/money\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}