| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.05.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 5/7/16 | Adobe bought Livefyre; LinkedIn acquired Run Hop; Pinterest purchased URX
Video-sharing website Vimeo acquired VHX, a platform that allows video creators sell their content from their own websites. No financial terms of the deal were disclo... |
| 06.05.2016 | Adobe Acquires Livefyre | Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) is to acquire Livefyre, a San Francisco, CA-based content curation and audience engagement company.
The terms of the deal was not disclosed.
The acquisition will enable Adobe to integrate Livefyre into Adobe Experience M... |
| 03.05.2016 |
Greycroft, Paige Craig Get Exit As Adobe Buys LiveFyre
| Two, Los Angeles area investors--venture investment firm Greycroft Pratners, and angel investor Paige Craig--are among the investors seeing an exit today, as Adobe said acquired blog commenting tools maker LiveFyre. Financial terms of the a... |
| 03.05.2016 | Adobe acquires social engagement platform Livefyre | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Livefyre has been acquired by Adobe, which was co... |
| 03.05.2016 | Adobe acquires Livefyre | Adobe today announced that it plans to acquire Livefyre, the service that’s probably best known for its online commenting system. On top of this service, the company also offers a number of tools for brands to engage with their audiences as... |
| 03.05.2016 | Adobe acquires social engagement platform Livefyre | Livefyre has been acquired by Adobe, which was confirmed by Livefyre’s chief executive Jordan Kretchmer. Adobe plans to integrate the content curation and audience engagement service into its Experience Manager offering and also make it par... |
| 01.03.2016 | Livefyre’s Storify gets an upgrade so large newsrooms can publish real-time stories | It’s been three years since Livefyre acquired social aggregator Storify, and the company hasn’t really made major waves in the service — until now. Livefyre announced today the launch of Storify 2, an upgrade to the real-time storytelling p... |
| 01.03.2016 | Livefyre’s Storify gets an upgrade so large newsrooms can publish real-time stories | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s been three years since Livefyre acquired soc... |
| 03.11.2015 | Livefyre’s Engagement Cloud helps brands create sites around user-generated content | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Social content platform Livefyre has launched a p... |
| 03.11.2015 | Livefyre Launches New Platform To Help Marketers Harness User Content | There’s been a big push from startups promising to help marketers and publishers take advantage of all the user-generated content that’s posted to social media, but Livefyre CEO Jordan Kretchmer suggested that one area has been relatively n... |
| 16.09.2015 | Livefyre is now the only natively integrated service in Salesforce and Adobe for user-generated content | Social aggregation and curation service Livefyre has been busy with integrations this week.
Today, the San Francisco-based company is announcing a native integration with Salesforce’s Community Cloud for community management. Earlier this w... |
| 16.09.2015 | Livefyre is now the only natively integrated service in Salesforce and Adobe for user-generated content | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Social aggregation and curation service Livefyre ... |
| 13.04.2015 | Stackla launches in U.S. with a Hootsuite-integrated social-curation tool | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
American businesses will start hearing today abou... |
| 13.04.2015 | Stackla launches in U.S. with a Hootsuite-integrated social-curation tool | American businesses will start hearing today about another option for social curation.
Stackla, founded in Sydney, Australia three years ago, is now launching in the U.S. market, with new headquarters in San Francisco and an office in New Y... |
| 24.02.2015 | Livefyre Raises $32 Million In Series D Funding | Livefyre is a real-time content marketing and engagement platform that has raised $47 million in funding from Adobe, Greycroft Partners, Cue Ball, Hillsven Capital, Salesforce Ventures and U.S. Venture Partners. This round includes a $32 mi... |
| 20.02.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/20/15 | K2, Grovo, NewCo, Coffee Meets Bagel, Onfido, WorldRemit, Apptimize, Tealium, Shopa, Notey, Carmudi
Seed stage
Event startup NewCo raised a $1.7 million seed round from Obvious Ventures, True Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Transmedia Capital, Fr... |
| 20.02.2015 | Livefyre Raises $47M in Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leading real-time content marketing and engagement platform, today announced that it has raised $47 million in funding.
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| 19.02.2015 | Content Curation Startup Livefyre Raises $47M More, Brings On Adobe And Salesforce As New Investors | Livefyre is announcing that it has raised $47 million in new funding.
That number includes a $15 million addition to the company’s Series C — founder and CEO Jordan Kretchmer told me that the company didn’t bother to announce that “opportun... |
| 19.02.2015 | Livefyre raises $47M to fund ‘strategic growth’ and target international markets | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Social content company Livefyre has announced it ... |
| 19.02.2015 | Livefyre Raises $47M in Series C2 and D Funding Round | Livefyre, a San Francisco, New York, London and Sydney-based real-time content marketing and engagement platform, raised $47m in funding.
The deal included $15m in Series C2 and $32M in Series D round.
Backers included Adobe, Cue Ball, Grey... |
| 19.02.2015 | Livefyre raises $47M to fund ‘strategic growth’ and target international markets | Social content company Livefyre has announced it has raised $47 million in funding, which includes a $32 million series D and $15 million series C2 round — the latter wasn’t announced previously due to its proximity to the upcoming larger r... |
| 23.12.2014 | Is your social marketing strategy future-proof? | This sponsored post is produced by Livefyre.
Social networks have to make money — and they can’t do it by continuing to offer their audience engagement platforms to brands for free. So, with Facebook at the helm, they’re evolving into ad pl... |
| 21.11.2014 | Livefyre updates its social content platform with app-creating Studio | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The social Web offers a huge flood of opinions an... |
| 21.11.2014 | Livefyre Studio Puts The Company’s Focus On User Generated Content And Social Media Curation | At this point, I should probably stop calling Livefyre a commenting platform.
Actually, the company has been expanding beyond comments for a while. It launched its StreamHub product, which included more social media widgets, back in 2012. A... |
| 21.11.2014 | Livefyre updates its social content platform with app-creating Studio | The social Web offers a huge flood of opinions and content on everything under the sun, and Livefyre‘s mission in life has been to harness all that expression for publishers and brands.
As a next step in that goal, the San Francisco-based c... |
| 16.04.2014 | Livefyre Takes A New Approach To Commenting With Web Annotation Product Sidenotes | Online comments are usually cordoned off at the bottom of a page, but Livefyre is hoping to bring them into the content itself with the launch of a new product called Sidenotes.
Basically, it’s a product that allows visitors to annotate and... |
| 23.11.2013 | Livefyre Acquires Realtidbits | Livefyre, a provider of a real-time conversation and social curation platform, acquired the assets and team of Realtidbits, an enterprise social application provider.
Led by Kelly Abbott, Co-Founder and CEO, Realtidbits provides a suite of ... |
| 21.11.2013 | Commenting Startup Livefyre Acquires Realtidbits For Its Move Into Analytics | Commenting platform Livefyre is announcing today that it has acquired a company called Realtidbits. Apparently Realtidbits makes a number of social applications (we covered its real-time forum product, for example), but Livefyre founder and... |
| 17.09.2013 | Livefyre Opens London Sales Office To Expand Amongst European Publishers | Following it’s acquisition of Storify just the other week, Livefyre a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, has announced that it’s opened an office in London to serve the UK/European markets. It’s already bagged some c... |
| 11.09.2013 | Startup Rundown: Viners Test Out Zero Gravity and Livefyre Acquires Storify | Apple drop incoming. (Photo: YouTube)
Zero gravity Vines Newton would be proud – in honor of Gravity Day, September 8, GE asked Viners to film themselves catching an apple at the top of their screen and dropping it down through the bottom. ... |
| 10.09.2013 | Livefyre Acquires Storify | Livefyre, the San Francisco, CA-based provider of commenting tools, acquired Storify, the platform that allows users to create stories using social media.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
The entire team of Storify – led by ... |
| 09.09.2013 | Livefyre Acquires Storify, Says The Social Curation Service Will Still Operate As Standalone Product | Livefyre, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, is announcing that it has acquired social curation startup Storify.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Livefyre says the five-person Storify team wi... |
| 09.09.2013 | Comment platform Livefyre buys Storify | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Livefyre, a popular comment platform used by many... |
| 09.09.2013 | Livefyre acquires social curation startup Storify | Storify will be integrated into StreamHub, which adds social media content to websites
Comment-hosting platform Livefyre has made its first-ever acquisition in its four-year long history, picking up social curation startup Storify.
No finan... |
| 09.09.2013 | Livefyre Acquires Storify | Livefyre, the real-time conversation and social curation platform that serves over 400 world brands and companies, today announced the acquisition of Storify to enhance their services. Currently, Storify helps over 850,000 marketers and jou... |
| 09.09.2013 | Comment platform Livefyre buys Storify | Livefyre, a popular comment platform used by many news blogs and active forums, has acquired social startup Storify, the company announced today. Neither company disclosed financial terms.
Livefyre’s comment platform enables people to use a... |
| 30.04.2013 | How to get a top 10 website to pay attention to your startup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This is part two of a five part series sponsored ... |
| 25.03.2013 | How Online Comments Are Becoming A Big Business | They almost seem like an afterthought, the comments attached to Internet content. These scribblings may seem like the anonymous musings of the masses, but many corporations are viewing them as a high-powered vehicle to drive lead generation... |
| 06.02.2013 | Livefyre raises $15M to rule comments and social, now 10M users strong | The race to own online comments continues: Livefyre, which provides commenting software that wraps in social media conversations for publishers, announced today that it has raised $15 million in a third round of funding.
The round was led b... |
| 06.02.2013 | Livefyre Closes $15M Series C Funding | Livefyre, a San Francisco, California-based provider of real-time social software for businesses, brands, events and media companies, closed $15m Series C funding.
The round, which brings the total funding to date to over $20m, was led by U... |
| 06.02.2013 | Social Commenting Platform Livefyre Raises $15M To Scale Mobile Experiences, Moderating Features And More | Social commenting platform Livefyre has raised $15 million in funding led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and included existing investors Greycroft Partners, Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital. This brings the startup’s total ... |
| 06.02.2013 | Livefyre Raises $15M in Series C |
Leading provider of real-time social media software for businesses, brands and media announced the closing of its Series C round of funding.
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| 06.02.2013 | Livefyre raises $15M to rule comments and social, now 10M users strong | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The race to own online comments continues: Livefy... |
| 09.01.2013 | Want To Know What’s Up At CES But Aren’t Going? | So, you’re borderline-unhealthy obsessed with CES, you want to know what everyone is posting, uploading and tweeting…but you can’t make the pricey Vegas show. What to do, what to do…?
You could either wile away in woe, set up multiple Googl... |
| 11.09.2012 | Livefyre Goes Beyond Comments with StreamHub — Liveblogging, Live Chatting, Social Widgets, And More | Livefyre is best known as a commenting system, but it’s launching a new product today for large brands and publishers called StreamHub — comments are part of StreamHub, but just one part.
There are two big pieces to the new system. First, t... |
| 05.01.2012 | 7 Ways to Love Blog Comments Again | Comments on blogs, what are they good for? Sometimes it’s hard to remember, but you know there’s a lot of potential in taking the democratization of publishing to the next level and letting people comment on your blog-written comments on th... |
| 03.01.2012 | Storify Curation Tool Adds Conversation With Livefyre Comments | Storify, the Twitter and multi-media curation service that’s taken the indie and mainstream media worlds by storm, finally added the ability to post comments on stories tonight with the experimental addition of independent commenting platfo... |
| 18.10.2011 | Livefyre secures $4.5M round to become the ultimate commenting tool | Commenting platform Livefyre has raised a new $4.5 million round of funding, the company announced today.
Livefyre is a social commenting tool for publishers that turns commenting into a live conversation. It also adds support for push noti... |
| 18.10.2011 | Dropbox, Tidemark, Livefyre: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Numbers make the world go round—and Dropbox is seeing some big ones this week.
$1.2 billion—The likely closing size of the tenth fund at San Francisco- and Chicago-based priva... |
| 18.10.2011 | Livefyre’s SocialSync Brings Twitter & Facebook Back to Blog Comments | Commenting system Livefyre has announced version 2.0 of its platform, introducing new features to bring conversations from the social Web into on-site comments. SocialSync grabs related Twitter and Facebook comments automatically, so there’... |
| 18.10.2011 | Livefyre Closes $4.5M Series B Financing | Livefyre, a San Francisco, California-based provider of social commenting and real-time applications, has closed a $4.5m Series B financing.
The round was led by Greycroft Partners, with participation from Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff V... |
| 18.10.2011 |
Livefyre, Backed by Paige Craig, Scores More Funding
| San Francisco-based Livefyre, one of the many companies backed by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig, has scored a new round of funding, the firm said today. LiveFyre said it raised $4.5M in a Series B round, led by Greycroft P... |
| 18.10.2011 | Livefyre secures $4.5M round to become the ultimate commenting tool | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Commenting platform Livefyre has raised a new $4.... |
| 31.08.2011 | Impermium Launches Social Spam Index; Finds That Up To 40 Percent Of Online IDs Are Fake | In June, we covered the launch of Impermium, a young startup aimed at zapping the Internet’s social spam wherever it hides. Not only is the startup bringing the heat to user generated spam like spammy comments, hacked accounts, and fraudule... |
| 27.06.2011 | Former Yahoo Spam Ninjas Unveil Impermium | The world is getting a first look at Impermium, a new startup that aims to help sites fight growing user generated spam – spammy comments, hacked accounts and (my personal favorite) fraudulent registrations.
Sounds like a useful service. An... |
| 06.05.2011 | Disqus Brings @Mentions To Comment Threads | Popular commenting platform Disqus, which recently raised $10 million from North Bridge Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures, is adding support for a feature that’s both nifty and familiar: mentions within comments. It may not sound p... |
| 31.01.2011 | Facebook Comments Have Been Around for a Year and Haven’t Taken Over Yet | Earlier today, everyone was talking about Facebook and how it is “planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks.” The only problem, of course, is that Facebook Comments already exists as a plug-in for third-party s... |
| 17.12.2010 | Top 10 Real-Time Web Products of 2010 | Last year, when we looked at the top real-time Web products of 2009, we predicted that in 2010 the real-time Web was “likely to become a standard expectation on sites all around the world”. Indeed, as we look back on the last year we find t... |
| 09.07.2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 07/09/10 | AdSafe Media, BuyWithMe, Livefyre, My-Wardrobe, Soho OS, and ThredUp--the VC industry is still alive
Six companies made our funding roundup this week, considerably less than roundups from previous weeks. Maybe it was the 4th of July or mayb... |
| 08.07.2010 | Livefyre Raises Series A Funding | Livefyre, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based real-time conversation and commenting platform, received a Series A funding of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Hillsven Capital, with participation from early stage venture funds, Zelkova V... |
| 06.07.2010 | Livefyre Aims To Put Out The Comment Troll Problem; Gets Funding To Do So | Commenting on the web is broken. Visit just about any site large enough on the Internet and you’ll notice it. Sure, there are useful comments every once in a while, but there are more comments that are either jokes, stupid, or just downrigh... |
| 06.07.2010 | Livefyre raises $800K to break down comment silos | Livefyre, a startup preparing to launch its new system for managing comments across the Web, announced today that it has raised $800,000 in a first round of funding.
The San Francisco company says its goal is to break down the silos between... |
| 04.06.2010 | Yum! Brizzly Picnics Go Live To Turn Twitter Into A Private Chatroom | Brizzly has long been one of my favorite Twitter clients. But as Twitter itself has kept adding new features, there’s been less and less of a reason to use it. But a new feature that just rolled out may bring me back: Picnics.
We’ve written... |
| 24.03.2010 | With Version 2, Lissn Quiets The Noise And Focuses On Individuals. But Is It Too Quiet? | When Lissn launched at TechCrunch50 this past year, it had what seemed to be a hot basic premise: Twitter meets Google Wave. Unfortunately, as time has proven, Google Wave has yet to catch on in a meaningful way, as it’s too noisy for most ... |
| 07.12.2009 | LiveFyre Wants To Ignite Realtime Intelligent Conversations On The Web | People often attempt to have conversations with others on Twitter, but if it goes more than a few tweets deep, it’s a mess. FriendFeed was a better haven for conversations, but those were often just based on tweets moved over to a small com... |
