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Evernote Raises $70 Million At A $1 Billion Valuation
Evernote has raised a $70 million Series D round of funding at a $1 billion valuation. Meritech Capital and CBC Capital lead the round because these companies could eventually help the company go public. Evernote did not even need this round of funding because a lot of the $96 million that they have raised from the previous round is still left over in their bank account, plus they have one million paying customers out of their 25 million users.
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Netflix Raising $400 Million But Is Expected To Lose Money Next Year
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) was trading at $300 per share five months ago and it is now trading at less than $75. The company is now planning on raising $400 million to fund their new content investments. Netflix will be raising $400 million by selling $200 million in zero coupon convertible notes to Technology Crossover Ventures and $200 million worth of stock to T. Rowe Price. But the problem is that the Netflix is going to lose money next year as well. Netflix had this information in the prospectus for the stock portion of its stock and convertible bond offerings.
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LivingSocial Expected To Announce $200 Million Investment This Week
This past September, I wrote about how LivingSocial was expected to raise $200 million in funding instead of going the IPO route for now. This week the company is expected to confirm the investment as provided by JP Morgan Asset Management, Amazon.com, and T.Rowe Price. This would put LivingSocial’s valuation at between $5 and $6 billion. LivingSocial is also expected to receive a $100 million revolving credit facility from JP Morgan that would allow them to draw funds without singing for a loan each time. [NYT]
How Much Groupon Executives and Investors Made From The IPO
Yesterday Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ:GRPN) had an initial public offering. The company set their stock price at $20 and yesterday it closed at $26.11. The company was given a valuation of over $17 billion. BusinessInsider.com has compiled a list of how much the executives and investors made from the IPO. Below is the list:
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Categories Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Andrew Mason, Battery Ventures, Brad Keywell, Brian Totty, Digital Sky Technologies, Elizabeth Lefkofsky, Eric Lefkofsky, Fidelity Investments, Greylock Partners, Groupon, Groupon.com, Howard Schultz, Kenneth M. Pelletier, Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Maverick Fund, Morgan Stanley, New Enterprise Associates, Robert Solomon, T. Rowe Price, Technology Crossover Ventures, Ted Leonsis, The European Founders Fund, The Growth Fund of America
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T. Rowe Price Reveals Social Media Investments: $190.5M In Facebook, $71.8M In Zynga, And $86.8M In Groupon
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TROW) has revealed some of their investments in social media companies. They have invested a total of $190.5 million in Facebook as of the end of March. The company also invested $71.8 million in Zynga and $86.8 million in Groupon. Two years ago T. Rowe participated in a $100 million round in Twitter along with Insight Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, and Morgan Stanley. Other investments include $10 million worth of equity in Ning, $35 million equity in Angie’s List, and $114 million equity in YouKu.com. [NYT]
Categories Angie's List, Facebook, Groupon, Ning, T. Rowe Price, Twitter, Youku, Zynga
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LivingSocial Raises $400 Million
Less than four months ago LivingSocial raised $175 million from Amazon.com and now they have raised an additional $400 million. The investors in this round include Amazon.com, Lightspeed Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This puts LivingSocial at a $3 billion valuation.
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Groupon Hits Half Of Its $950 Million Series G Goal
Last month a document revealed that Groupon.com had plans to raise $950 million in Series G. So far the company has raised half of that amount. Investors in this round include DST Global, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Capital Group, and Morgan Stanley. This investment gives Groupon a $4.75 billion valuation. This is $1.25 billion less than what Google offered to buy them out at. [AllThingsD]
Groupon Discloses $500 Million From Unknown Investors
Group coupon service Groupon.com has raised $500 million in venture capital funding. After turning down a $6 billion offer from Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), the company decided to file for permission to raise $950 million in Series G.
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RUMOR: Twitter Raising $100 Million From T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners, Spark, and IVP
Micro-blogging company Twitter.com is rumored to be closing a deal worth $100 million in venture funding. The rumor is according to a Wall Street Journal source. The investors involved are T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This is double the rumor that a TechCrunch source predicted earlier this month.
Spark Capital and IVP are previous investors in Twitter. In Twitter’s last round of funding, their valuation was $255 million. At an additional $100 million round of funding, the company is expected to be valuated beyond $1 billion. Despite the valuation Twitter has, the company does not have any substantial revenue model. But as we have learned from YouTube’s acquisition, that really doesn’t matter. YouTube was burning through VC funding before Google bought them out.
How many users does Twitter have? The company expects to have 25 million users by the end of this year. Twitter rival Facebook.com has about 300 million users. At one point Facebook made an offer to buy out Twitter for $500 million, $100 million in cash and $400 million in stock options. Rather than buying out Twitter, Facebook bought out FriendFeed.
Slide Over That $50 Million, I’ve Got Photo Widgets!
As you give a goofy look at the camera pointing at you in a photo kiosk at an entertainment venue, you begin to wonder what captions and background you’ll use. Now take this concept, slap it on the Internet in the form of a widget that can be Facebooked or MySpaced, and you’re ready to raise $50 million.
Business-savvy Internet entrepreneur and PayPal co-founder, Max Levchin did exactly that, as mentioned in BusinessWeek. Slide raised $50 million and increased their valuation to $500 million. This fourth round of investment was provided by Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price.
Photo widget companies is a proven model for acquisition targets, but is also a proven model for its vulnerability of mooching on other social networks’ user base. For example, Photobucket was acquired by News Corp. in May 2007 at a price of $250 million in cash. But before the acquisition, MySpace completely blocked Photobucket from accessing their users because of an advertising violation before making a truce.Â
Altogether, Slide has raised over $75 million including investments from other PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel and venture capitalist, Vinod Khosla. Thiel is an early investor of Facebook. The other founders of Slide include Jared Kopf and Scott Banister, both also former PayPal employees.
Previous Slide coverage is available at: http://pulse2.com/category/slide/.