We mentioned the VC funding of PodShow this morning. Ev Williams chimes in to announce that his podcasting start-up Odeo was just funded as well. Odeo is local. Charles River Ventures led the deal, along with some local tech notables, including Joe Kraus, Tim O’Reilly, Ron Conway and Mitch Kapor.
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Robert Gonzalez said:
Veoh Networks, also got funded this week. They are an Internet Television Peercasting Network that does for video what Odeo does for audio. Their CEO, Dimitry Shapiro, previously built a security company that killed bit torrent in corporations. Supposedly they have rebuilt bit torrent from scratch to be better than the original, more secure, faster, etc. Have a grand vision on their web site of changing the world http://www.veoh.com
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7:48 pm
Texas Venture Capital Blog said:
Lots of money flowing into podcasting ventures today.
Ray Lane (Kliener Perkins) figures Adam Curry knows what he is doing so he decided to dump $8.85MM into Podshow. Oh and not to be outdone, Evan Williams just raised another round for Odeo from Charles River and Amicus.
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12:53 am
Junto Boyz said:
ODEO, MEETRO… TESTING THINGS OUT
I signed up for the Odeo beta a while back and I got an email invite over a month ago. For some weird reason, I kept that one email unread throughout all these weeks. It’s weird because I’m typically an anal email person. I read everything and delete u…
5:29 pm
Somewhat Frank said:
Odeo Receives VC Funding
As I stated in my previous post titled, Odeo Bringing Some Noise, Odeo will be an exciting company to watch as podcasting comes of age and it appears to be true as this week Charles River Ventures and a slew
8:21 pm
SiliconBeat said:
BitTorrent, its VC backing and RSS
Updated Here’s the story (free registration) that ran in the Merc yesterday about the hot San Francisco file distributing company BitTorrent, and the backing by DCM’s David Chao — who as we’ve mentioned before, is on a bit of a roll. Note BitTorrent’s…