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Booyah Raises $4.5 Million from Kleiner Perkins
pehub.com - 10/14/2008
Booyah Raises $4.5 Million from Kleiner Perkins
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Booyah is stew-like food prepared en masse for large gatherings, and has become an exclamatory catchphrase for broadcasters like Jim Cramer and Stuart Scott. More quietly, it’s also become the name of an online content startup funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The Silicon ...

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Stealth Content Startup Booyah Raises $4.5 Million From Kleiner Perkins
paidContent — ... , a web and mobile content company founded by three gaming vets, has raised roughly $4.5 million from VC firm Kleiner Perkins, according to PEHub. One clue about what binds the two together: the company is advertising for a "senior iPhone engineer" and an "iPhone engineer" and says notices of its service could incur SMS costs. KP, of course, has an iPhone developers fund. Founders Sam Christiansen, Keith Lee and Brian Morrisroe, worked at World of War home Blizzard Entertainment. Their own site also mentions experience with Activision ( ...

Content provider Booyah scores $4.5M from Kleiner Perkins
VentureBeat — Mobile and web content producer Booyah announced today that it received $4.5 million from Kleiner Perkins. The two seem like a good match, considering the company’s job listings for iPhone engineers and the investor’s special iPhone developers fund. The Silicon Valley-based startup remains in stealth mode, and KP is its only named backer so far. Still, there are reasons to believe they might come out with something special. Its founders — Sam Christiansen, Keith Lee and Brian ...

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