Overview
Location
United States, California, Livermore
Employees
51-200
Total raised
$20M
Funding Rounds 2
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| Aug 3, 2006 | Funding round | $8M |
Mentions in press and media 9
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| Mar 5, 2008 | Roundup: WordPress to launch BuddyPress, Craig Venter gets rid of Co2, and why Google’s click-throughs flattened | Here’s the latest action: 1. WordPress launching social networking feature, BuddyPress 2. Elon Musk pumps money into ocean-seeding venture, Climos 3. Craig Venter’s 4th generation biofuels get rid of Co2 4. Cleantech already becoming a circ... |
| Mar 3, 2008 | AllPeers Closes – What Happened to the Glorious Future of P2P? | Today we heard that P2P browser plug-in AllPeers has shut down, a blow to a market that seemed very promising back in 2006. Indeed, with AllPeer’s closure and the lack of progress of similar services such as Skyrider, we have to wonder abou... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | SkyRider raises $12M for aggressive P2P search engine | See our story today. VentureBeat VentureBeat's mission is to be a digital townsquare for technical decision makers to gain knowledge about transformative technology and transact. Our site delivers essential information on data technolo... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | SkyRider Receives $12 Million For P2P Search Marketing | Skyrider, a Mountain View, CA-based company has just announced that $12 million has just been added to the company bank account from investors ComVentures, Sequoia Capital, and Charles River Ventures. Skyrider has also raised $8 million wit... |
| Oct 23, 2006 | SkyRider gets $12M more for aggressive P2P search engine | Updated SkyRider, the Mountain View start-up developing an aggressive search engine for peer-to-peer traffic, has raised another $12 million in venture capital. The round, led by ComVentures, comes just two months after it raised $8 million... |
| Aug 6, 2006 | Skyrider and The Future Of P2P | In my search for innovative web and Internet applications, I noted the buzz around new P2P company Skyrider at the end of last week. While it’s hard to say whether Skyrider is truly innovative, seeing as they don’t actually have a product o... |
| Aug 3, 2006 | SkyRider aims to monetize P2P | Mountain View based stealth P2P company SkyRider formally announced their company’s existence today but was maddeningly vague about what they will actually do when they launch this fall. The company, which is headed by former Cisco CTO Edwa... |
| Aug 3, 2006 | Skyrider gets $8M to launch new sort of search engine: of peer-to-peer | Skyrider, a Mountain View start-up, is developing technology that will be able to search peer-to-peer traffic, in order to help media and other companies become more profitable. The two-year old company has raised $8 million from Silicon Va... |
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FAQ about SkyRider
How much funding has SkyRider raised?
SkyRider has raised $20M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has SkyRider raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of SkyRider, among them a funding round of $8M on Aug 3, 2006.
What has the press written about SkyRider?
Parsers VC has collected 9 articles mentioning SkyRider, among them “Roundup: WordPress to launch BuddyPress, Craig Venter gets rid of Co2, and why Google’s click-throughs flattened” (Mar 5, 2008) and “AllPeers Closes – What Happened to the Glorious Future of P2P?” (Mar 3, 2008).
Is SkyRider still active?
Yes, SkyRider is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 15, 2008.