Yardbarker takes $1.5M to connect fans with athlete blogs
Yardbarker, a site that connects sports fans with their favorite athletes via their blogs and other news, has raised $1.5 million in a third round of funding, according to paidContent. Based in Emeryville, Calif., the company allows users to define their preferences — which athletes they want to follow, which sports interest them most — and delivers the requisite aggregated content.
In the last 24 hours, Los Angeles Dodger Matt Kemp posted a video featuring Snoop… Continue Reading
Yardbarker scores $634K to connect pro athletes with fans
Yardbarker, the blog aggregation site that allows fans to connect with their favorite professional athletes, has raised $634,000 of a targeted $660,000 round of securities. Based in San Francisco, the company allows readers to define preferences for the types of blogs and sports news they would be interested in — providing them with a customized digest of information every day from both athletes and popular sports writers.
It last raised money in April 2008, capturing $6… Continue Reading
Roundup: FunnyOrDie, StumbleUpon sale?, Google’s latest and more
Latest action:
VC firm Sequoia Capital backs Will Ferrell and Adam McKay comedy video site — Called FunnyOrDie.com, the site features a two-minute clip that won a reported 1.5 million page views in less than a week.
StumbleUpon to be acquired? — Several folks (Techcrunch/GigaOm) are reporting that San Francisco social Web site StumbleUpon is in talks to being acquired by AOL, Google or eBay, for a rumored $40 million to $75 million. That’s not very high for… Continue Reading
Yardbarker raises another “large” seed round, for sports news site
Yardbarker, an Emeryville, Calif. company that runs a site aggregating content from sports bloggers, has raised another seed round of capital.
Yardbarker lets users rank the sports news they like — which pushes the best news to the top. We first covered the company after its August launch (scroll down).
The company wouldn’t disclose the size of the round, saying only that it was a “large” seed round.
It has since compiled feedback and created a new release… Continue Reading