Posts tagged “venture capital”

Finnish webhoster Nebula gets VC funding

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Rite Venture has acquired 30% of Finnish webhosting company Nebula (via). Funny thing, not sure if the Rite Ventures acquisition had anything to do with it but we had our pipes broken this morning (Nebula is our ISP as well). It’s nice to see some Finnish companies seeking growth and not only in Finland – [...]

Last.fm on sale for $450M?

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There are rumours running around that Viacom is expected to buy Last.fm for 450 million USD. Mashable reports on a DealBreaker.com rumour that Viacom is chucking in an offer for the “YouTube” of music. Looks interesting – especially as this will be one of the first large web2.0 music capitalisations. Furthermore, there might be something [...]

$100 Million valuation for Geni.com

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Just read something amazing (if that’s a good thing or not) on Techcrunch: $100 Million Valuation For Geni. Geni.com is a website to gather your family data and build a family tree out of it. Looks interesting and it’s very easy to use – two important factors in creating a viral product (not forgetting the [...]