Amit Chowdhry | January 30, 2011 | 1,047 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under David Lee, Digital Sky Technologies, DST, Ron Conway, Start Fund, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Yuri Milner

Venture capitalists Yuri Milner of DST and Ron Conway of SV Angel have launched a new fund called The Start Fund. The first order of business is to invest $150,000 in every Y Combinator start-up company. The $150,000 investment will be convertible debt with no cap and discount.

Amit Chowdhry | August 20, 2010 | 3,755 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under BNTER, Chris Dixon, David Lee, Founder Collective, High Line Venture Partners, Lauren Leto, Michigan State University, Patrick Moberg, Shana Fisher, SV Angel, TextsFromLastNight.com

You may know Lauren Leto best as being the co-founder of TextsFromLastNight.com. Now Leto is working on her second start-up called BNTER. Leto raised funding for BNTER from several angel investors that include Founder Collective (Chris Dixon), SV Angel (David Lee), and High Line Venture Partners (Shana Fisher).

Amit Chowdhry | March 11, 2010 | 1,698 views | 2 Comments
Categorized under Auren Hoffman, Aydin Senkut, BlueRun Ventures, Brian Pokomy, Chomp.com, David Lee, Ron Conway

Chomp.com is an iPhone application recommendation service that has about 300,000 users that left about 1.5 million reviews. Now Chomp has raised about $2 million in funding.
Chomp also has an iPhone application that allows users to click Like or Dislike for applications. Based on your reviews Chomp puts together a list of other apps you might like.
The $2 million in funding is from Bluerun Ventures, David Lee, and Brian Pokomy. Chomp previously raised $556,000 from Ron Conway, Auren Hoffman, Aydin Senkut. [VentureBeat]