Amit Chowdhry | December 29, 2010 | 1,200 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Anthem Ventures, BeachMint, Cher Coulter, Diego Berdakin, Josh Berman, Kate Bosworth, New Enterprise Associates, Stanford University, Trinity Ventures

BeachMint.com is a social commerce company that has raised $10 million in funding. The investment was led by Trinity Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Anthem Ventures, and Stanford University. BeachMint was founded by MySpace co-founder Josh Berman. Diego Berdakin is the other co-founder of BeachMint. Below is the full press release:

Amit Chowdhry | June 16, 2010 | 1,346 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Anthem Venture Partners, BeachMint, Diego Berdakin, Josh Berman, New Enterprise Associates, News Corp, News Corporation, Slingshot Labs

BeachMint is a social commerce service founded by Diego Berdakin and Josh Berman. The two left News Corp’s Slingshot Labs about two months ago. BeachMint is currently in stealth mode. The investors include New Enterprise Associates and Anthem Venture Partners. More information about BeachMint after it launches. [VentureBeat]
Amit Chowdhry | April 19, 2010 | 2,023 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Aber Whitcomb, Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro, Diego Berkadin, Josh Berman, MySpace, News Corp, News Corporation, Slingshot Labs, Tom Anderson

Slingshot Labs, the R&D arm of MySpace recently saw two of their key executives resign. The two executives are EVP of Strategy and Product Diego Berkadin and President Josh Berman. According to a source with TechCrunch, the two executives gave in their resignations to News Corp. Digital Chief Jon Miller last week. Slingshot Labs is supposed to be working on a “LinkedIn Killer” service that would be integrated with The Wall Street Journal. The progress on that project is unknown.
Another reason why Berman’s resignation is significant is because this means that all of MySpace founders are no longer with News Corporation. Josh Berman was COO of MySpace when News Corp. bought them out. Chris DeWolf, Tom Anderson, Aber Whitcomb, and Colin Digiaro did not stick around for long after News Corp. bought MySpace. [TechCrunch]