Curbed.com raises $1.5M for real estate blog network

October 31, 2007 | Matt Marshall

Curbed.com, a popular real estate blog network with sites in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, has obtained $1.5 million in financing to expand into new cities and add staff members, according to the New York Times.

According to Lockhart Steele, the network’s publisher, traffic is growing 10 percent a month and the site is drawing national advertisers.

Curbed.com, which also focuses on restaurants and shopping, received its backing from Brad Inman, founder and publisher of the real-estate news service Inman News; Zach Nelson, CEO at NetSuite Inc.; Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media; Joanne Wilson, wife of Union Square Venture Partners’ Fred Wilson; and Mo Koyfman, previously a vice president at IAC/InteractiveCorp. Gawker media also invested.

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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.