Deal Flow: For the Week Ending October 9, 2006
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes
Deal Flow is a new section for The Wannabe VC but those who are reading that came from my podcast will know this as the show notes from VentureWeek. I hope this will be a useful weekly wrap-up of new companies, new deals, new venture funds, etc. and I hope to see regular feedback from all of you to help me make this section better. Without further adieu, here we go!
Huge News of the Week:
- Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion (all stock)
New Companies:
- Revision3 founded by Digg co-founders and gets $1mm
- stashSpace, full length video editing online, launches
- slideshare launches: powerpoint + youtube
Fundings:
- Voxant: Video Syndication Network – gets $10.5mm
- Ecast: Digital Jukebox Firm, gets $20mm
- Wallop: Social Networking site, gets $10mm second round
- ContextWeb closes $15.5mm series C
- Nexaweb closes $10mm series B
- VideoEgg gets $12mm third round
- BuzzLogic raises $1.5mm
- Demand Media raises $100mm
- Visto secures $51mm
- Mintera secures $10mm
- PayperPost, controversial blog advertising company, raises $3mm
- Fotolog received $4.1mm third round
- Songbird gets $1mm
- Ugobe raises $8mm
- Yelp raises $10mm
- b5 media: blog network, raises $2mm
- CityVoter gets $1.1mm
- Voddler raises $2.2mm
- Ripe raises $32mm second round
New Funds:
- NGEN II Closes at $180mm
- OpenView Venture Partners launches
Interesting Notes:
- Unique International Angel/VC Community Launches in Europe and the US
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