Slideshare receives funding from Venrock! Big thanks to the community… you’ve made this possible!
May 8, 02:41 am PST
First of all, a HUGE thanks to the SlideShare community for making this day happen. It would have been impossible without the millions of users who visit SlideShare every day. As a tribute, we have put together a small collage (below) of just SOME of our most active users… though I can think of thousands & thousands of other users who we would have loved to include in the visual.
Now to the news! SlideShare has secured a Series A investment to the tune of 3 million USD from Venrock, one of the prominent venture capital companies in Silicon Valley. With this investment, David Siminoff, managing partner at Venrock has joined SlideShare’s board of directors. This rounding of funding includes smaller angel investments from some prominent technology stalwarts- Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban, Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, David McClure (of 500 Hats), Saul Klein (founding partner of The Accelerator Group & ex Skype VP), Hal Varian (Chief Economist at Google), Yee Lee (ex Slide.com), Ariel Poler (former Chairman of Stumble Upon).
This funding will help us grow Slideshare better and stronger- bigger & faster servers, more engineers & employees to manage the website, bizdev folks etc.
And what better way to announce this than Meet Henry, the intensely popular & hugely infectious presentation genre that has inspired some many of our users (big thank to Ethos3 for creating this). Press releases are just so boring… they put you to sleep… why not let the lovable Henry (actually Dave, in this case) spice up the announcement just a little bit!
May 8, 11:45 am
Great news! Long live slideshare
May 8, 12:40 pm
Finally the day arrived.. all the very best to people in SlideShare and people outside SlideShare to make it such a success.
May 8, 2:06 pm
Congrats slideshare team!
And all the very best for a spectacular growth!
May 8, 9:07 pm
Hi all,
What fabulous news!
You already know that I looove Slideshare and I will continue to tell the world.
All the best for bigger, better, faster etc. Realcute.
May 10, 7:26 am
You guys deserve everything good that comes your way. You’ve worked your backsides off to make Slideshare an awesome site.
Super-stoked to be in your collage!
May 11, 5:52 am
A big thank you to the funding body and to all board members — a great success. Slideshare deserve the help to be the top of modern technology. For me, I am thankful and proud of being part as a slideshare member.
Thank you very much and the collage images looks beautiful.
May 12, 1:03 am
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May 12, 2:31 am
Congratulations!
May 21, 11:01 pm
What fantastic news! And it’s so nice when good things happen to good people…
May 22, 8:44 am
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Mar 16, 2:05 am
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