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paidcontent.org - 11/21/2008

HuffPo Raises $15 Million Third Round; $100 Million Valuation?

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The Huffington Post has raised another $15 million in funding, according to the Times , as it continues on a high growth trajectory, which also means a high cash burn....to be fair, the site's traffic went through the roof and sky during the election season, and it has been investing a lot in ...

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paidcontent.org - 11/27/2008

Shopping Site SheFinds.com Raises $1.3 Million In First Round

— paidcontent.org — White Cat Media, parent company of the Shefinds.com and MomFinds.com shopping blogs, has raised $1.3 million in... its first round. Vancouver-based Greenscape Capital Group funded the investment—its first in the Internet space—and has taken a minority ... (more) Shopping Site SheFinds.com Raises $1.3 Million In First ...

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techcrunch.com - 11/25/2008

KickApps Actually Raises $14 Million In Series B Round

— techcrunch.com — Yesterday, word leaked out that white-label social networking startup KickApps raised another round of funding. But the... amount reported by PEHub (”over $13 million”), based on an old Reg. D filing at the SEC, wasn’t exactly ... (more) KickApps Actually Raises $14 Million In Series B Round

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Huffington Post Raises $15 Million
Silicon Alley Insider — ... . PaidContent's Rafat Ali says Oak Investment Partners is leading the round. Previous investors include SoftBank Capital and Greycroft. Rafat pegs a $100 million, post-money valuation guesstimate. ...

HuffPo Fiddles With $15 Million as the Economy Burns
Wired: Epicenter — ... , according to the Times UK. Oak Investment Partners, an investment firm that has funded media companies like Federated Media, Demand Media, MobiTV and Oberon Media, will lead the round. ...

Huffington Post raises $15 million: that’s an awful lot of investigative journalism
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... and notes that the money will be used to expand The Huffington Post’s move into local journalism as well as investigative reporting. The Huffpost launched a local site for Chicago earlier this year. Paid Content claims the new round came from Oak Investment Partners. The site has previously raised $12 million over 3 rounds. Valuation on the new round was $100 million. ...

Political news site The Huffington Post may or may not have raised $15 million
VentureBeat — ... . The investor is Oak Investment Partners, PaidContent says it has confirmed, adding that the funding amount may be higher — and the round may not be closed. But these reports are “stupid and false” and “wrong across the board” a source ...

Huffington Post Nabs $25 Million in Funding–Here’s a BoomTown Interview with Oak Investment’s Fred Harman
BoomTown — ... But the most accurate posts were done by paidContent, which was the first to name Oak as the new investor and said the round was $20 million. ...

Huffington Post Funding Higher Than Expected: $25 Million
The Inquisitr » Technology — The Huffington Post has raised $25 million in new funding for its site — a full $10 million more than had originally been projected. The Huffington Post is secured the cash from Oak Venture Partners, as previously rumored and first officially reported in Kara Swisher’s BoomTown column Monday morning. The fresh funding brings the site’s valuation up to almost $100 million, according to estimates quoted in Swisher’s report. “There is an inevitable shift from offline to online with people increasingly getting their ...