7 posts and columns on Omidyar Network

CouchSurfing Finds $7.6 Million Underneath the Cushions

in Commerce on August 24, 2011 at 6:09 pm PT

CouchSurfing, which connects travelers online with a place to stay in someone’s home, is reinventing itself by changing its status from a nonprofit.
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Seesmic Raises $4 Million in Funding From Salesforce.com

in News on February 1, 2011 at 5:39 am PT

In an interesting social enterprise move, popular social networking collaboration tool Seesmic is taking a $4 million investment from Salesforce.com, as well as from Softbank. The San Francisco-based Seesmic has one of the top desktop and mobile applications for monitoring a consumer’s various feeds from Twitter, Facebook and more.

Early Adopter: Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel

in News on January 14, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

It’s a fine line between keeping your potholes filled and walls graffiti free and being a civic tattletale. Civic nuisance reporting app SeeClickFix lets you toe the line, and just got another $1.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech and Omidyar to help users keep at it.

Wikipedia: "Free" as in Thanks for Your $2 Million Donation

in News on August 25, 2009 at 3:44 pm PT

August has been a lucrative month for the Wikimedia Foundation. Last week, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia received a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Now it has been given a $2 million grant from the Omidyar Network.
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Wikipedia: “Free” as in Thanks for Your $2 Million Donation

in News on August 25, 2009 at 3:44 pm PT

August has been a lucrative month for the Wikimedia Foundation. Last week, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia received a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Now it has been given a $2 million grant from the Omidyar Network.
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Federated Media Will Search for New Leader Says Founder and CEO Battelle (Plus a Web Squared and Double-D Video!)

in News on May 15, 2009 at 10:32 am PT

John Battelle, the founder, chairman and CEO of Federated Media Publishing, told his staff this morning that he will begin a search for a new top exec to take the company into its next stage of growth. In a post on the FM Web site, Battelle said that he was not leaving the San Francisco-based company and wrote that the new exec–whose title could be CEO–would report to him.
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Digg Dugg: $28.7 Million

in News on September 24, 2008 at 11:29 am PT

Digg, the social news site that’s long been rumored to be up for sale, has raised $28.7 million in a Series C venture round led by Highland Capital Partners. Existing backers Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network also participated.