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UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million, Acquires TweetDeck For $30 Million

Amit Chowdhry | February 14, 2011 | 886 views | 2 Comments
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UberMedia has raised $17.5 million in a round of funding led by Accel Partners with participation from Index Ventures and Revolution Ventures. This puts UberMedia’s valuation at about $40 million. Index Ventures. Over the weekend, Ubermedia also acquired TweetDeck for $30 million in cash and equity. UberMedia head Bill Gross and TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth are focused on building businesses within the Twitter ecosystem. Jim Breyer of Accel will be joining the UberMedia board of directors. Below is the funding press release:

Art.sy Raises $1.25 Million From Several Angel Investors

Amit Chowdhry | November 24, 2010 | 1,050 views | Add a Comment
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Art.sy is a New York City based startup company that has raised $1.25 million in funding. Investors in Art.sy include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi, Jack Dorsey (Twitter co-founder), Jim Breyer, Dash Zhukova, Founder Collective, Keith Rabois, David Tisch, Charlei Cheever, Dave Morin, and David Kidder. Art.sy’s funding was led by Thrive Capital. Art.sy raised $160,000 in seed funding and launched at TechCrunch Disrupt. Art.sy was founded by 24 year old founder Carter Cleveland and he decided to make the website private again. Now he is shifting his service to be more focused on high-end art deals. [TechCrunch]

Accel, Kleiner Perkins, and DAG Invest $20 Million Into Booyah

Amit Chowdhry | May 17, 2010 | 1,003 views | Add a Comment
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Booyah is the parent company of the MyTown location-based check-in service that competes directly with Gowalla and Foursquare. Booyah has raised $20 million in funding from Accel, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and DAG Ventures. Accel partner Jim Breyer will be joining the board of directors at Booyah.

Profile of Facebook Board Member Jim Breyer Gets Hacked

Amit Chowdhry | May 10, 2010 | 1,740 views | 1 Comment
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You know that Facebook is having security issues when they can’t even prevent their own staff member’s accounts from getting hacked. Facebook board member and investor Jim Breyer had his Facebook account hacked over the weekend. His account sent a message to over 2,300 of his Facebook friends asking them “would you like a Facebook phone number?” The link led to a website where users were prompted to enter their passwords. And then the hack spread more from there.

Jim Breyer Of Accel Cleaned Up This Week

Amit Chowdhry | September 2, 2009 | 857 views | Add a Comment
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Jim Breyer of Accel Partners had an amazing 24 hours yesterday.  Raytheon had acquired BBN Technologies and Disney bought out Marvel.  Breyer helped buy out BBN Technologies about five years ago which gave a nice return to Accel Partners.

Breyer was the third largest direct shareholder in Marvel Entertainment.  He made the investment from his own personal funds and not on behalf of Accel.  According to regulatory filings, Breyer will make $5 million personally from Disney’s acquisition of Marvel.

BBN was purchased by Bell Atlantic back in the day but ended up not gaining much traction after that.  BNN was started by three MIT professors that implemented ARPANET (the base for the founding of the Internet).  BBN was the first to create packet switching, the first router, and the first network e-mail using the @ symbol.

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