included Insight Venture Partners

Twitter Confirms Funding; Reportedly $100M at $1B Valuation

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 28, 2009 - 6:00am.
San Francisco - Microblogging service Twitter on Friday confirmed that it has landed a "significant round of funding," which The Wall Street Journal reported was $100 million at a valuation of about $1 billion -- four times its valuation from earlier this year. The company said that investors included Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital.