Feedster joins crowd, at last

December 9, 2004 | Matt Marshall

Feedster, the San Francisco search engine of feeds from blogs and other news sources, has at last gotten venture backing — though we’re not sure how much. The investor, the Omidyar Network, is known to support socially good causes and for investing relatively small amounts, but this space is interesting enough — including for VCs — that we shouldn’t conclude Feedster is becoming a philanthropy effort just yet.

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About the Author, Matt Marshall

Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.

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