Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Reunion.com http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 18:16:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Reunion.com Buys Wink.com To Create A Merged Social Network/Search Engine http://pulse2.com/2008/11/04/reunioncom-buys-winkcom-to-create-a-merged-social-network-engine/ http://pulse2.com/2008/11/04/reunioncom-buys-winkcom-to-create-a-merged-social-network-engine/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:41:21 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=6657 Continue reading →]]>
Wink.com has been acquired by Reunion.com.  Wink.com is a search engine focused on individuals.  Reunion.com is both a social network and a search engine.  Both Wink and Reunion will be merging and launching a new website.  The new site will be launching in early 2009.

Reunion.com first partnered with Wink.com in April 2007.  Wink’s people profiles became available to Reunion’s members.  Last year Reunion.com acquired ZoomInfo.  Reunion.com was started with $1.4 million in angel funding and raised $25 million Series A from Oak Investment Partners.

Wink’s original investors was Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel.  Cambrian Ventures and Greylock invested $6.2 million Series A in Wink around January 2005.

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