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Feedster Raises Additional Funding, Names New President

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 13, 2006 - 11:01am.
San Francisco - Feedster, a San Francisco-based provider of news, blog and podcast search services, said on Thursday that it has raised an unspecified amount of venture capital in a new funding round. Participants included previous investors Selby Venture Partners, Omidyar Network, Mitsui & Co. and Josh Kopelman's Midas Capital, as well as new investor Felicis Ventures.
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Blog Search Engine Feedster Raises Funds

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 7, 2005 - 5:18am.
San Francisco -- Feedster, a provider of RSS search services and index of 13 million syndicated feeds and blogs, announced on Wednesday that it has received an undisclosed investment from Japan's Mitsui & Co. Ltd. Founded in 2003, San Francisco-based Feedster aggregates RSS feeds from providers ranging from bloggers to 75,000 professionally published sources that include The New York Times, BBC, CNET and Wired News, adding some 50,000 new sources daily. "We will expand their business horizon in cooperation with our existing e-Marketing services, and leverage our assets to enhance the corporate value of Feedster," said Mitsui general manager Katsuhiko Oizumi.
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Blog Search Engine Feedster Closes First Round of Funding

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 3, 2005 - 2:36am.
San Francisco -- Feedster, a San Francisco-based Internet search engine and advertising network for blogs and RSS feeds, said on Thursday that it has raised an undisclosed amount in its first round of funding. The company said that it will use the money to accelerate development and marketing, as well as "greatly expand" its server infrastructure. Selby Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Omidyar Network, members of the New York Angels and other prominent angel investors. Feedster’s angel investors include Kevin Hartz, the co-founder of Xoom; Joe Kraus, the co-founder of Excite and Jotspot; Josh Kopelman, the founder of Half.com; Scott Kurnit, the founder of About.com; Mark Pincus, the founder of Tribe.net and Support.com; and Narendra Rocherolle, the founder of Webshots.
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RSS-Based News Search Engine Feedster Receives Financing

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 10, 2004 - 3:11am.
San Francisco -- Feedster, a news search engine that delivers results from over 1 million RSS and weblog syndicated sources, announced that it received an undisclosed amount of funding from Omidyar Network, a venture capital firm created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. The company has also received funding from members of the New York Angels. Feedster culls its results from 50,000 professional news sources, including The New York Times, BBC and CNET, in addition to hundreds of thousands of independently-produced news websites, and sorts the results by source type. The company recently teamed with WashingtonPost.com to facilitate the selection of nominees for that site's "The Best Blogs -- Politics & Elections 2004 Readers' Choice Awards." "We recognize that Feedster is fulfilling a need in the marketplace by delivering more relevant information from individual commentary, blogs, and edited news sources," said Doug Solomon, vice president of investments for Omidyar Network. "By leveling the playing field between consumers, web services developers, traditional media publishers and organizations, Feedster enables the public to create a richer, more diverse and connected exchange of information."
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