VentureBeat raises $320,000 seed round, traffic growing
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VentureBeat has just raised a seed round, and I wanted to be the first one to let you know. The news is beginning to leak after we filed a regulatory document.
VentureBeat has grown steadily since launching more than a year ago. We’ve been hiring writers and we have record traffic. I’ve bootstrapped the company thus far, and while it’s been rewarding, there’s just so much more we’d like to do. We’ve been pretty much in… Continue Reading
Satisfaction, the Web 2.0 customer service site, raises $1.3M
[Disclosure: Satisfaction is led by Thor Muller, who is an advisor to VentureBeat. ]
Satisfaction, a San Francisco company that aims to improve online customer service by letting the customers effectively take over the process, has raised $1.3 million seed funding.
VentureBeat reviewed the company two months ago. Satisfaction creates customer support pages for companies and their products. But it goes beyond the standard customer support pages. It gives companies a way to provide answers — but… Continue Reading
NEA hires Tivo’s Ramsay, Foundation hires Brown, for consumer investments
Top Silicon Valley firms continue to beef up on consumer related investments:
New Enterprise Associates has named Mike Ramsay (left), co-founder and former chief executive of TiVo, to venture partner. Ramsay will join NEA’s Menlo Park office to focus on consumer investments. His career speaks for itself. He built TiVo from the ground up. Few practicing venture capitalists can say they’ve founded a company and taken it public. Before TiVo, he worked at HP, Convergent Technologies… Continue Reading