Slide, the San Francisco start-up that lets you create slide shows from your photos or other content, has raised a large third round of funding from Khosla Ventures and Mayfield Fund.
The amount remains undisclosed, but we’ve heard it is more than the company got for its second round, which was $8 million. That gives the company near or north of $20 million in total funding, putting it comfortably on the list of best-funded Web 2.0 companies in Silicon Valley — and apparently making it the biggest of any of the latest generations of photo-related sites.
The site lets you push slideshows, onto your blog for example, or to share your favorite photos with friends and family. But it also lets you pull them, accepting a slideshow of images fed from your friends or from your favorite Web sites. It is the latter feature, where people might pull slideshows of products from their favorite retailers, for example, where Slide sees a business model. Slide also lets eBay sellers feature their wares in slideshows. It’s unclear whether Slide has made progress in making money.
Here is our previous story about Slide.
Levchin (pictured above) said he hit it off with Vinod Khosla, the well-known venture capitalist who runs Khosla Ventures. Khosla grasped Levchin’s vision for slides more quickly than others, Levchin said.
The funding also included previous investors, BlueRun Ventures and Founders Fund.
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GigaOM » Slide Raises Third Round said:
[...] Photo widget site Slide, led by PayPal mafia boss Max Levchin, has raised another round of funding. The amount is undisclosed, but VentureBeat reasonably conjectures it’s more than the $8 million the company raised last time around. Slide has boomed amidst concerns that MySpace controls the fate of it and many other widget makers. Still, we can’t say we get the big idea. [...]
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Unfortune said:
[...] Photo-sharing startup Slide received a new round of venture capital today from Khosla Ventures and Mayfield. I chatted with Slide founder Max Levchin (also a co-founder of PayPal) about the company. He was tight-lipped about the actual amount he raised (speculation puts it at north of the $8 million he got in his last round, or more than a total of $20 million raised so far). He was also tight-lipped about exactly how many people are using Slide. [...]
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Respectance.com » Blog Archive » Slide gets big VC round for its slideshow product said:
[...] (Venturebeat) The amount remains undisclosed, but we’ve heard it is more than the company got for its second round, which was $8 million. That gives the company near or north of $20 million in total funding, putting it comfortably on the list of best-funded Web 2.0 companies in Silicon Valley — and apparently making it the biggest of any of the latest generations of photo-related sites. More… [...]
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VentureBeat » Slide raising round? A show of support for Facebook applications? said:
[...] that it raised in 2006 from Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund, BlueRun Ventures and Founders Fund (our coverage). Tagged N/A VentureBeat [...]