Amit Chowdhry | January 12, 2011 | 536 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Allen & Company, Eric Semler, Grotech Ventures, Personal, Revolution LLC, Steve Case

Personal has raised $7.6 million in Series A funding from Grotech Ventures, Revolution LLC, Allen & Company, and Eric Semler. Personal is a company that wants to give Internet users power over what kind of information they give away. It helps users prevent companies from tracking them. Personal is currently in private beta. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | May 25, 2010 | 684 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under David Golden, Jean-Michel Valette, Jon Moramarco, Michael Jellison, N. Colin Lind, Philippe Bourguignon, Revolution LLC, Steve Case, Vinfolio

Wine enthusiast website Vinfolio.com has raised funding from AOL co-founder Steve Case. Vinfolio has information about wine selling and buying, featured wines, new cellars, and special promotions. Below is the full press release.

Amit Chowdhry | April 29, 2010 | 2,828 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Grotech Ventures, Groupon.com, Lightspeed Venture Partners, LivingSocial, Revolution LLC, Steve Case, Tim O'Shaughnessy, U.S. Venture Partners

This morning I went on YouTube.com and saw a huge banner at the top that features LivingSocial.com’s Daily Deal in the city of Detroit. If you go to LivingSocial.com right now, it will show you how their daily deals work — for me the website says “We’re coming soon to Ann Arbor.” I actually had no idea that LivingSocial was planning to compete with Groupon.com. And they have raised $14 million in Series C to do so.
