Who’s Funding Who – Ultimate List of Online Personals VC’s
Thursday, 29. June 2006 - 6:03 pm
OPW — June 28 — I'm starting a 'handy little list' identifying the VC's and key investors behind online personals (internet dating, mobile dating and flirt, social networking and business networking) companies. You'll find the Handy Little Lists on the right bar of this site. As always with the Handy Lists, it's a work in progress. I'd greatly appreciate your comments for additions for the list. Thanks – Mark Brooks
900 Seconds – Sutter Hill, Trinity
Bebo – Benchmark
Community Connect – Comcast Interactive Capital, Connect / Insight, Sandler
Facebook – Accel
Friendster – Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Sequoia
…also Kent Lindstrom, Mark Pincus, Peter Thiel, Ram Shriram, Reid Hoffman, Tim Koogle
eHarmony – Sequioa, Technology Crossover
Engage – Revolution, The Founders Fund (Paypal)
iBloks – Maveron (Starbucks founder's VC firm)
PerfectMatch – Ignition, Mellon
PlanetOut – AOL, Mayfield, Sequioa Link
Plaxo – Cisco, Sequoia Link
Piczo – Sierra
Sconex – Alloy
Shaadi / Fropper – Westbridge
SpringStreet Networks – Battery
Tagged – Mayfield
Tagworld – DFJ
Tribe – Knight Ridder Digital (now owned by McClatchey), Washington Post Co.
Xuqa – BV Link
Youthnoise – Omidyar
Youtube – Sequoia