Omidyar Network

https://omidyar.net/

Last activity: 02.09.2019

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Omidyar Network is a social change venture that works to reimagine critical systems and the ideas that govern them. We focus on building more inclusive and equitable societies in which individuals have the social, economic, and democratic power to thrive.

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2004

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Aug 6, 2018	Omidyar Joins $9M Series A for Steady	ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Steady, the income-building platform for the Build-Your-Own (BYO) workforce is already serving 100,000 Americans since it launched last week. The company, which today delivers personalized income-building opportuni...
Apr 9, 2018	Omidyar leads $2.8 Mn funding round in fintech startup Kaleidofin	Fintech startup Kaleidofin, which provides tailored provides financial solutions for the informal sector, has raised about $2.8 million in a seed round led by Omidyar Network. Early-stage venture capital firm Blume Venture and individual in...
May 29, 2017	Omidyar Network Joins $4.5M Series A for Spruce	New York City-based mortgage startup Spruce has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding, according to a source familiar with the company. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round with participation from other investors that included Omidyar ...
Oct 25, 2011	Subtext launches social reading platform, gets $3M	The company raises $3M in seed funding from Google Ventures, Mayfield, NEA, and Omidyar Network There was once a time when I would’ve said that enhanced ebooks are direct evidence of a shrinking global attention span. People can’t just sit ...
May 6, 2011	What’s cooler than a million dollars? Changing a million lives	Henry Ford once said that a business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Impact investing takes that idea to a new level. Impact investors look for businesses that have a positive social or environmental impact as well as the p...
Feb 1, 2011	Seesmic lands $4M more for listening to social enterprise customers	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, today announced it has secured a third round ...
Feb 1, 2011	Seesmic lands $4M more for listening to social enterprise customers	Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, today announced it has secured a third round of funding of $4 million from popular customer relationship management service Salesforce.com, and a Soft...
Oct 27, 2010	What seed-stage star Christine Herron’s move to Intel Capital means	Well-connected early-stage investor Christine Herron is leaving seed-stage venture-capital firm First Round Capital to join Intel Capital, the chipmaker’s corporate venture arm. The move adds another voice to the ongoing controversy over wh...
Jun 26, 2009	Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come	In the past, Seesmic (sometimes known as “the Twitter of video“) had its share of detractors who wondered whether it could build a business around video conversations and comments. Now it looks like Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur has joined t...
Jun 26, 2009	Video site Seesmic’s CEO: We built it, they didn’t come	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! In the past, Seesmic (sometimes known as “the Twi...
Feb 17, 2009	World of Good raises $1.1M for socially conscious shopping	World of Good, which operates an eBay-powered online marketplace for ethical shopping, has raised another $1.1 million in funding, according to VentureWire. The Emeryville, Calif. company emphasizes small artisans in developing countries. I...
Feb 17, 2009	Aragon buys software code analysis co. Krugle	Aragon Consulting Group announced its acquisition of San Mateo, Calif.-based Krugle, a provider of code analysis and maintenance technology. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Krugle had been shopping for a buyer for a whil...
Jan 12, 2009	Goodmail working on tool for more secure email transfer	Goodmail Systems, a company that administers secure email exchanges, just added $5 million to close a third round of funding. Based in Mountain View, Calif., it says it will apply the new money to develop its flaship product, CertifiedEmail...
Nov 26, 2008	IGNIA gets another $13.6M for Latin American investment	IGNIA, a venture firm targeting companies that help Latin America’s poor, has raised another $13.6 million. That brings the total amount for its first fund to $34.2 million. Co-founder and managing partner Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui told me i...
Oct 21, 2008	Wikia cuts staff by 10 percent	Wikia, a company that provides wiki and search services and was started by Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales, has let go about 10 percent of its employees. The layoffs came as part of a restructuring that will refocus the San Francisco compan...
Jul 24, 2008	Meetup.com raises undisclosed sum from Union Square Ventures	Meetup.com, a site that enables people to organize get-togethers around their common interests, has raised an undisclosed sum from Union Square Ventures. Meetup, which was founded in 2002, has been used to organize political advocacy groups...
Jun 9, 2008	IGNIA Fund raises $20.6M to help Latin America’s poorest	The IGNIA Fund has raised $20.6 million that it plans to invest in companies targeting Latin America’s poorest residents. The round was led by Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment group created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. IGNIA...
Feb 19, 2008	Google.org, Omidyar, Soros, create small-business Indian investment company	Google.org, the Omidyar Network and the Soros Economic Development Fund are creating a $17 million investment company that will provide capital to small and medium-sized businesses in India. Microfinance lending schemes, or those that give ...
Jan 14, 2008	Shared database MetaWeb gets $42M boost	updated Metaweb Technologies, the San Francisco company developing an open shared database called Freebase to store and edit the world’s information, has just gotten a big boost from Benchmark Capital and Goldman Sachs. The two firms have i...
Mar 7, 2007	Omidyar Network appoints new leader, to double in size	Omidyar Network, the organization created eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, has appointed a new leader to help expand the group. Matt Bannick, an executive at eBay for eight years, takes over as managing partner next month. He ...
Mar 29, 2006	The Silicon Valley venturechick who blogs: Christine Herron	Christine Herron Not long ago, we wrote about the first VC female blogger, Kimberly Davis King, stepping down. While at IDG Ventures, she managed to write only a handful of quirky posts, only to recently leave the firm. We were left wonderi...
Oct 28, 2005	Digg, and you shall find VC money	Digg, the San Francisco start-up that ranks news items by letting people choose which stories they like anywhere on the Web, has just received $2.8 million in venture capital from some big-name investors, including Omidyar Network, the outf...
Oct 19, 2005	Top Five Web 2.0 Venture Capitalists	Most venture capitalists don’t understand tagging, blogs, rss, ajax, or the two way web. They scoff at social bookmarking sites and think podcasting is a fad (maybe it is). They desparately “want in” to this renaissance of the web, but can’...
Jun 16, 2005	John Battelle’s FM Publishing scores angel funding	John Battelle, who has become somewhat of a guru on the search engine industry, while writing a must-read blog about that sector, has raised a round of angel money for his new company, FM Publishing. Battelle previously founded The Industry...
Dec 9, 2004	Feedster joins crowd, at last	Feedster, the San Francisco search engine of feeds from blogs and other news sources, has at last gotten venture backing — though we’re not sure how much. The investor, the Omidyar Network, is known to support socially good causes and for i...
	Omidyar Network Led $2.8 Mn Seed Funding Round In Fintech Startup Kaleidofin	Chennai-based fintech startup Kaleidofin has raised over $2.8 Mn in seed funding from Omidyar Network. Blume Ventures and individual investors – including Israeli serial entrepreneur and inventor, Professor Shlomo Ben-Haim – have also parti...

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When was Omidyar Network founded?

Omidyar Network was founded in 2004.

What has the press written about Omidyar Network?

Parsers VC has collected 27 articles mentioning Omidyar Network, among them “Omidyar Joins $9M Series A for Steady” (Aug 6, 2018) and “Omidyar leads $2.8 Mn funding round in fintech startup Kaleidofin” (Apr 9, 2018).

Is Omidyar Network still active?

Omidyar Network is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 2, 2019.