Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim: YouTube Creators (Innovators (Kidhaven))
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Palo Alto, Calif. - Milo.com, a search engine that allows shoppers to research products and locate nearby retailers, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $4 million in its first round of financing, led by True Ventures.Other angel investors included Ron Conway; YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim; Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer; comScore CEO Magid Abraham; Felicis Ventures' Aydin Senkut;...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... was led by True Ventures. However, a number of well-known investors, including YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, comScore ( NSDQ: SCOR ) CEO Magid Abraham, Hunch CEO Chris Dixon, serial angel investor Ron Conway, and Aaron Patzer, who sold Mint.com to Intuit earlier this fall , also participated. Abraham says the cash will be used in part to develop ways to track the number of purchases...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
A couple of weeks ago, we put DotBlu (formerly known as BluBet ) in the deadpool . The San Francisco startup, which ran an online betting play at launch which later morphed to some sort of social gaming service, discontinued its operations on October 16 despite the startup being backed by a host of star investors (Jawed Karim of YouTube fame and Kevin Hartz of Xoom / Eventbrite to name...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Eventbrite, a web-based company that tracks event invitations, ticketing and RSVPs for large events, has brought in $6.5 million in equity, debt, rights and security from Sequoia Capital, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in San Francisco, it is also backed by European Founders Fund. Bebo founders Michael and Xochi Birch and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim have also contributed...
VatorNews (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
San Francisco ticketing startup seeing success by letting anyone sell tickets to their own event Eventbrite, an online event organization and ticketing service, announced it has raised $6.5 million. The Series C round comes from Sequoia Capital. Previous investors include Bebo co-founders Michael & Xochi Birch, Jeff Clavier, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, former PayPal founding...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Eventbrite announced that it has closed a Series C round of funding from Sequoia Capital, with partner Roelof Botha (previous backer of YouTube) joining as director. This brings the company's total funding to over $8 million. Previous investors include Bebo co-founders Michael & Xochi Birch, Jeff Clavier, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, former PayPal...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Eventbrite , a web-based company that tracks event invitations, ticketing and RSVPs for large events, has brought in $6.5 million in equity, debt, rights and security from Sequoia Capital , according to a filing with the SEC. Based in San Francisco, it is also backed by European Founders Fund . Bebo founders Michael and Xochi Birch and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim have also contributed...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... European Founders Fund; other backers include Bebo co-founder Michael Birch and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. We reached out to the company after we spotted the filing this morning, but they did not respond to our request for comment.
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Founders of successful companies are the celebrities of the business world. They are photographed and written-about, their every move is analyzed and speculated, and and they are the stars at industry events. Well, most of them. A few co-founders do get overlooked by the media. Why? Some choose to stay out of the spotlight. Unlike the other YouTube cofounders who joined Google, Jawed Karim...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... big-name investors include Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, Jeff Clavier, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, and Flixster co-founder Saran Chari. Eventbrite provides online event management and ticketing services for any type of event. Eventbrite is free if your event is free. If you sell tickets to your event, Eventbrite collects 2.5% of the ticket price plus $0.99 per ticket sold.
Wisconsin Technology Network (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Founders of successful companies are the celebrities of the business world. They are photographed and written about, their every move is analyzed and speculated, and they are the stars at industry events. Well, most of them. A few co-founders do get overlooked by the media. Why? Some choose to stay out of the spotlight. Unlike the other YouTube cofounders who joined Google, Jawed Karim...
DigitalAgency (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... 9, 2006 by Google for $1.65B in Stock YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. YouTube is the leader in online video, sharing original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload… Learn More Information provided by CrunchBase via techcrunch.com Posted via web from Mike Coulter's...
Inc.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... to Valleywag , in one Palo Alto neighborhood not too far from Stanford, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim lives next door (literally) to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who for months has also been occupying a property a short walk away that serves as his social network's new headquarters. It's a modest, laid-back locale for Karim, whose estimated wealth is $64 million and...
Startup Meme (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
DotBlu , the betting site that let users place fake bets on various subjects ranging from sports to technology has lost the battle to stay online. The site had quite renowned backers including the likes of Kevin Hartz, Jawed Karim, Keith Rabois but it appears that wasn’t enough to keep it going and all it reads now is just a short note informing members about its closure. I guess...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
DotBlu , which we first covered in 2007 when it was called BluBet, had some of Silicon Valley's highest profile angel investors backing it. But it wasn't enough, and company hit the deadpool earlier this week. Investors in an early angel round included Jawed Karim (Co-Founder of YouTube), Kevin Hartz (Co-Founder of Xoom and Eventbrite), Joe Greenstein (Co-Founder and CEO of Flixster)...
