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Viral Tracking Pop Culture Website BuzzFeed Raises $15.5 Million
BuzzFeed is one of my most favorite time-pass websites because they have interesting galleries and lists of pop culture. BuzzFeed has raised $15.5 million in Series C funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Other investors that participated include Lerer Ventures, Hearst Media, SoftBank, and RRE Capital. NEA General Partner Patrick Kerins will be joining the BuzzFeed board of directors. Ken Lerer, the Huffington Post co-founder and BuzzFeed board member, will become the BuzzFeed executive chairman.
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BuzzFeed Raises $8 Million From RRE Ventures, Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Others
BuzzFeed is a New York-based website that has raised $8 million from RRE Ventures, Ron Conway, and Chris Dixon. BuzzFeed raised a $3.5 million Series A in 2008 from Hearst, Softbank, and Ken Lerer — who all participated in this round also. BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti was also one of the founding partners in The Huffington Post.
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BuzzFeed Raises $3.5 Million In First Round
BuzzFeed is like a combination of Techmeme and Digg. Stories that appear on the homepage of Buzzfeed has related links on the site. A lot of the content on BuzzFeed appears to be for adults. BuzzFeed also has a heavy focus on celebrities.
BuzzFeed raised $3.5 million in their first round of funding yesterday. Finding the stories for the homepage and the related links is human-driven and partially algorithm-driven. Jonah Peretti is one of the founders of BuzzFeed and he stated that BuzzFeed is in the information business. Peretti added that BuzzFeed can be used by advertisers to spot emerging trends.
BuzzFeed receives about 1 million monthly visitors. The company was founded in October 2006. After Google acquired Feedburner last year, Eric Olson left to join BuzzFeed.
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