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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). They were founded in May 2009 in Boulder, CO, by Joe Stump (former lead Digg architect) and Matt Galligan (founder Social Thing).

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Endings and Beginnings

VC Adventure

This is exactly what we envisioned when we started Foundry in 2006, and today marks the public acknowledgment that, with the 2022 fund, we’re ready to stop adding new funds to the mix. I had no idea in 2006, when we started Foundry Group, what this journey would be like.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Led by General Catalyst with participation by co-founders Steve Hafner & Paul English.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

2006) [iii]. However, we believe in looking at companies first and evaluating them against the thesis the founders articulate, vs. going in with a thesis and looking for companies that fit the thesis. Corporate Financier, October 2006. [iv] Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor.

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How to Supercharge your Content Marketing with Paid Advertising

Brandanew

Based in Israel, Outbrain has been around since 2006 solely focuses on solving the content discovery problem for publishers. As a Content Marketer, your content piece can be syndicated across all these top publisher sites, for a very nominal Cost-per-Click thereby increasing the reach of your post. Outbrain. . .

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. 20+ Beautiful Camera-Themed iPhone Cases.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. 3M TO PAY $230 MILLION FOR ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY FIRM ATTENTI. . the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., in August 2010.