Hong Kong Based Meme Website 9GAG Raises $2.8 Million

9GAG is a meme website that competes against websites like KnowYourMeme and Quickmeme. 9GAG, a company that participated in Dave McClure’s 500 Startups incubator, has raised $2.8 million from Silicon Valley investors like True Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Scott Banister, Chris Sacca, David Tisch, Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Ben Ling, Karl Jacob, James Hong, Philip Kaplan, and several others. The Hong Kong-based 9GAG has 70 million global unique visitors and over a billion page views per month. [AllThingsD]

Jan 28, 2012

Amit Chowdhry

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Karl Jacob, Gordon Tucker, Dharmesh Shah, 500 Startups, Auren Hoffman

Curebit Raises $1.2 Million, Gets Caught Stealing 37Signals Design

Curebit is an online customer referral platform company that utilizes “word-of-mouth” advertising. The company has raised $1.2 million in funding from 500 Startups, Karl Jacob, Auren Hoffman, Dharmesh Shah, Gordon Tucker, Alex Lloyd, and several others. Curebit will use the funding for product development and expanding their team. This is great news for the company, but VentureBeat noticed that their homepage used to be a direct copy from 37signals.
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Mar 6, 2011

Amit Chowdhry

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Mark Wachen, DFJ, Karl Jacob, Eniac Ventures, Vince Monical

Mobile Q&A Service Opinionaided Raises $1 Million

Opinionaided is a mobile Q&A service that has raised $1 million in funding several venture capital companies and angel investors. The investors include General Catalyst, SoftBank Capital, DFJ, ENIAC Ventures, Mark Wachen, Jonah Goodhart, Karl Jacob, and Vince Monical.
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Oct 19, 2010

Amit Chowdhry

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Causes, Sean Parker, Marc Benioff, Dustin Moskovitz, The Founders Fund

Prominent Investors Plug $9 Million In Funding For Causes.com

Causes is an online philanthropy service that was started by Joe Green and Sean Parker. Causes recently raised $9 million in Series C funding from Founders Fund, Marc Benioff, Dustin Moskovitz, Karl Jacob, Keith Rabois, and Ron Conway. Scott Sandell will also be joining as an observer on the Causes board of directors. Green said that the company plans to use the funding for building their team.
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Sep 12, 2010

Amit Chowdhry

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Steve Blank, Jude Gomila, Jawed Karim, Jeremy Stoppelman, David Wu

InDinero Raises $1.2 Million From Prominent Angels

InDinero claims that they are like a Mint.com for Quickbooks. The company has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from several prominent angel investors.
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Karl Jacob Posts

Hong Kong Based Meme Website 9GAG Raises $2.8 Million

Curebit Raises $1.2 Million, Gets Caught Stealing 37Signals Design

Mobile Q&A Service Opinionaided Raises $1 Million

Prominent Investors Plug $9 Million In Funding For Causes.com

InDinero Raises $1.2 Million From Prominent Angels