Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Nirav Tolia http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Stack Overflow Raises $6 Million From Union Square and Several Angels http://pulse2.com/2010/05/05/stack-overflow-raises-6-million-from-union-square-and-several-angels/ http://pulse2.com/2010/05/05/stack-overflow-raises-6-million-from-union-square-and-several-angels/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 20:33:55 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=30670 Continue reading →]]>
Stack Overflow is a website where users can ask technical and programming languages. The website has just raised $6 million in their first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures. Other investors include Ron Conway, Caterina Fake, Chris Dixon, Bob Pasker, Micah Siegel, Naval Ravikant, Nirav Tolia, and Joshua Schachter.

Stack Overflow describes themselves as a wiki, a blog, a forum, and a social website. Stack Overflow receives 7.1 million unique visitors per month. While the company receives high traffic, they had a hard time charging for their services. This may be one of the reasons why they needed to raise funding according to VentureBeat.

[VentureBeat via NYT]

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Fanbase.com officially launched today.  Fanbase has been in development over the last 18 months and was even backed with $5 million in funding from Benchmark Capital.  Fanbase aims to connect sports fans from all over the world through sharing of information that covers every team, every athlete, and every sport.

As of right now about 500,000 users have made about 60,000 contributions to the website.  Now there is information available across 1.7 million athletes and 20,000 teams.  Now that there is a large amount of information on teams and athletes, the next step is getting as many photos and videos in the website.

Fanbase was co-founded by Nirav Tolia who also led Epinions.com in a previous job.  Epinions was eventually sold to eBay.

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