Movie-focused Social Network Flixster Secures $5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 4, 2008 - 7:56am.

San Francisco - Flixster, a movie-focused online social network, has received $5 million of an $8 million second round of venture capital financing, from Pinnacle Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.

San Francisco-based Flixster lets users create profiles and rate and review movies; the site also features movie news and actor profiles.

The site claims over 15 million unique monthly visitors, and says users have collectively rated over 1 billion films.

http://www.flixster.com

Published in DMW Daily, April 4, 2008

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financial social network

Submitted by Albert Aimers (not verified) on April 4, 2008 - 7:46pm.

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Biggest Web 2.0 bubble

Submitted by Biggest Web 2.0 bubble! (not verified) on May 26, 2008 - 12:13pm.

Yeah, who really use them! Audience from abroad (using cheap labor & click gimmics) doesn’t count. Duhh… This is Web 2.0 bubble at its best (worst?). Unless Lightspeed and Pinnacle get lucky, they will suck this bullet! Suckers! No doubt... this is one big case of huffing & puffing!