Tech Company Financing Transactions
Metaweb Technologies Funding Round
Goldman Sachs, Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures invested in a $42.5 million Series B venture round for Metaweb Technologies. The funding round was announced on 1/15/2008.
Transaction Overview
Company Name
Announced On
1/15/2008
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$42,500,000
Round
Series B
Investors
Proceeds Purpose
Metaweb, together with the Freebase community, is building Freebase.com, an open, shared database of the world's information in which data is freely available. This global resource will one day allow people and machines everywhere to access information far more easily and quickly than is currently possible.
Company Information
Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Infrastructure
Mailing Address
631 Howard St. 400
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
Phone
Website
Email Address
Overview
Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was spun out of Applied Minds, Inc. in July, 2005 to build a better infrastructure for the Web. It is led by battle-hardened alumni of Netscape, The Internet Archive, Alexa, Tellme, Intel and Broderbund.
Profile
Social Media
Company News
Facebook
YouTube
Management Team
Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Thomas Layton
Chief Technical Officer
John Giannandrea
Co-Founder
Robert Cook
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