And Odeo gets funded, too
We mentioned the VC funding of PodShow this morning. Ev Williams chimes in to announce that his podcasting start-up Odeo was just funded as well. Odeo is local. Charles River Ventures led the deal, along with some local tech notables, including Joe Kraus, Tim O'Reilly, Ron Conway and Mitch Kapor.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/cgi-bin/mt331/mt-tb.cgi/602
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Lots of money flowing into podcasting ventures today.
Excerpt: Ray Lane (Kliener Perkins) figures Adam Curry knows what he is doing so he decided to dump $8.85MM into Podshow. Oh and not to be outdone, Evan Williams just raised another round for Odeo from Charles River and Amicus. ...
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Tracked: August 11, 2005 12:53 AM
Odeo Receives VC Funding
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Tracked: August 14, 2005 5:29 PM
Podcasting update
Excerpt: Despite being pooh-poohed all over the Web, podcasting seems to be picking up steam and green: Podshow received a nice chunk o’ cash from some VC heavyweights from the Valley. Not to be outdone, Odeo announces some VC funding on the same day...
Tracked: August 16, 2005 7:34 PM
BitTorrent, its VC backing and RSS
Excerpt: Updated Here's the story (free registration) that ran in the Merc yesterday about the hot San Francisco file distributing company BitTorrent, and the backing by DCM's David Chao -- who as we've mentioned before, is on a bit of a roll. Note BitTorrent's...
Tracked: September 30, 2005 8:21 PM
Veoh Networks, also got funded this week. They are an Internet Television Peercasting Network that does for video what Odeo does for audio. Their CEO, Dimitry Shapiro, previously built a security company that killed bit torrent in corporations. Supposedly they have rebuilt bit torrent from scratch to be better than the original, more secure, faster, etc. Have a grand vision on their web site of changing the world http://www.veoh.com
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