VCs pump more money into Flock

Matt Marshall | September 15th, 2005

Updated

bart decrem3.bmpFlock’s chief executive, Bart Decrem, reports that his Palo Alto browser start-up Flock has raised fresh capital from Bessemer, Catamount and a bunch of angels.

Worth keeping an eye on this company. We reported on them here.

Now Wired has done a piece, and generating buzz that has baffled David Cowan, the investor over at Bessemer. Namely, the Flock product isn’t even out yet.

Update: VentureWire reports (sub required) that this latest round, Flock’s so-called “A round,” was $2 million.

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  1. October 6th, 2005
    11:09 pm

    Business Logs said:

    Flock and Web 2.0: The Leaning Tower of Buzz

    Well everybody, if you haven’t been seeing PR praise for Flock on the interweb then you must have been living under a Web 1.0 rock for awhile. Wired has praised it, Bessemer Venture Partners and many others gave them tons…

  2. October 14th, 2005
    11:14 am

    PaidContent.org said:

    Funding news: YouTube’s $5 Million; Sphere’s $0.5 Million; Flock’s $2 Million

    : These fundings have not yet been announced, hence lumping them together for now. Also, they’re of the Web 2.0 variety: — Youtube: Youtube is on online video upload and sharing site (”Flickr of video”) and Om reported recently that…

  3. March 27th, 2006
    3:24 am

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4 Comments

  1. September 15th, 2005
    11:52 am

    Harzan said:

    Waste of money. These VCs are throwing away money just like in the .com years. When will they learn their lesson.

  2. September 16th, 2005
    12:13 pm

    Geoffrey said:

    I think the VCs will learn someday when they stop making double or triple digit returns on their successful investments (which disproportionately offsets the “failed” investments you are referring to). Until then, they will continue to make bets on companies and concepts that show promise: some will surely fail and some will succeed greatly.

  3. October 17th, 2005
    12:41 am

    Lloyd D Budd said:

    The photo above looks like one of my photos
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/foolswisdom/43144700/ . I license my photos under a non-commercial license and you run ads on your site, so you may be in violation of my license.

    If you had contacted me, I would have been happy to let you use the photo. I would have asked you to link to the original.

    No harm done, but please do not do it again,
    Lloyd

  4. October 17th, 2005
    8:19 am

    Matt Marshall said:

    Lloyd,

    Thanks for the note. Apologies. We looked at the license info at your site, and we obviously misunderstood it. Our bad. Photo has been replaced!

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