Divvio, latest effort to find Web content matching your tastes

March 12, 2007 | Matt Marshall

Updated

Divvio is the latest start-up to try to deliver you multi-media content each morning, gathered from crawling the Web for material matching your tastes.

Run by a former AT&T technologist, Hossein Eslambolchi, it will find audio, video and other material, to create channels that are updated each time you sign on, according to BusinessWeek. It picks out material based on past requests you’ve made. It is backed by more than $2 million ~~$3 million-plus raised~~ from angel investors including former executives of Yahoo and eBay. The BW piece provides no explanation, however, on how this would be any better than a personalized home page where you have your favorite pre-selected feeds all in one place. It launches tomorrow.

Update: The company said BW got the funding amount wrong. It says the company raised more than $2 million but less than $3 million from a group of investors including Allegis Capital, Presidio STX, Sachio Semmoto, founder of Japanese broadband company EAccess, 3Com’s Chairman Eric Benhamou, former Yahoo executive Geoff Ralston and Litescape chief executive Farzad Naimi, according to VentureWire.

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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.