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Zynga Announces New Investment from Kleiner Perkins and IVP
Fred Wilson – Jul 23, 2008
Our portfolo company Zynga closed a $29mm round of financing last week which was led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP. We participated in the round, as did other investors Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures. Bing Gordon, co-founder of Electronic Arts [...] Read more
10gen
Albert Wenger – Jul 20, 2008
My love for computers and software started as a teenager growing up in Germany. I fondly remember my Apple II which followed my TI 59. I early on discovered that I could earn money with my programming skills and wound [...] Read more
Twitter Acquires Summize
Fred Wilson – Jul 15, 2008
Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that it has acquired a company called Summize. We have known the Summize team and have followed their progress for the past year. Summize has developed a real time search engine for conversational media [...] Read more
Twitter Raises A Second Round Of Funding
Fred Wilson – Jun 24, 2008
Our portfolio company Twitter announced today that they have closed a second round of financing, led by Spark Capital and including Jeff Bezos' investment entity Bezos Expeditions. Union Square Ventures and Digital Garage, another existing investor, also participated in the [...] Read more
Internet for Everyone
Brad Burnham – Jun 24, 2008
This morning Union Square Ventures endorsed an initiative called Internet for Everyone. This group does not sponsor specific policies or legislation. Rather, it hopes to build broad popular support for a few basic principles, that hopefully will guide policy choices [...] Read more
Call for Topics
Albert Wenger – Jun 17, 2008
Charlie O'Donnell and I will be moderating a three hour startup workshop at NYC Web 2.0 Expo in September. There is a lot we could talk about from getting started to hiring to fundraising. But rather than just pick the [...] Read more