Investors flock to Flock with a new $15 million round
Social web browser Flock has garnered a lot of hype since its release in 2005. It’s also won a lot of fans. Both likely played a role in its new $15 million fourth round of funding announced today. The round was led by Fidelity Ventures, with all previous lead investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures, participating.
Impressively, this round of funding actually surpasses all of Flock’s previous rounds combined.
This money will be… Continue Reading
Minggl ports social networks into your browser
FriendFeed has garnered a lot of popularity within the tech community for its ability to aggregate information across a wide range of social networks, and layer a new conversation on top of that. Minggl is a new service attempting to do something similar, only via the browser rather than a web page.
I sat down with Minggl founder Dewey Gaedcke and marketing director Brian Buser to go over the service and have them show me what… Continue Reading