Capital Chaos

Zivity (San Francisco, CA) seems to have broken the barrier between mainstream and adult by securing $7M in VC money from some very reputable sources for an online adult content social network.  The Series A Round led by BlueRun Ventures and FoundersFund (Peter Theil of PayPal fame and co.) comes on the heals of a […]

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Magnify.net (New York, NY) announced that it has secured its first round of funding which included investors from the New York Angels, Next Stage Capital, Rose Tech Ventures, Active Angel Investors, Ogden Capital, Gideon Gartner and Chris Anderson (Author of The Long Tail).
The company has developed a creative way to aggregate user generated videos and […]

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FriendFeed, the social feed aggregator, is finally our of beta and open to the public with a fresh round of funding.  Most of this Series A was invested by the founders, - ex-Googlers (AKA Google Mafia) Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh but also included Benchmark Capital loot. 
The concept of FriendFeed is pretty cool in that […]

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 Social Vibe (West Hollywood, CA) just raked in an unusual denomination of $4.12M led by Redpoint Ventures.  The company (which is also called Archetype Media), believes that brands put value in you as an entity within a social network and that they would be interested in sponsoring you.  In return, the thought is that the […]

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