Simple Star, and haven't we heard this before?
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Believe it or not, start-ups focused on helping you manage, edit and share your photos/videos are still raising venture capital.
There has got to be a dozen of these. The latest to grab our attention is Simple Star, of San Francisco, which has been around since 2001, and which two days ago named Dennis Mudd, of Musicmatch fame, to its board.
We’ve also just noticed that Simple Star raised $6.3 million in a third round from Venrock Associates a few months ago.
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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.
