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| Mar 29, 2016 | Cyan Banister joins Founders Fund as partner | Cyan Banister, a renowned angel investor and startup founder, has joined Founders Fund. She’s the 11-year-old firm’s first female investing partner.
According to a Bloomberg story, investors at the San Francisco-based outfit now include its... |
| Dec 10, 2011 | A Modest Proposal For Immigration: The $100,000 Green Card | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Scott Banister is an American serial entrepreneur and investor. He most recently co-founded Zivity with his wife, Cyan Banister, who is also a TechCrunch columnist.
Permanent residence in the USA is a valuab... |
| Dec 5, 2011 | PayPal Restores Zivity’s Account After Saying It Was Obscene, But Now It’s Not | PayPal restored sexy social network Zivity’s account tonight after a weeklong battle over whether the website violates its policy. Zivity bills itself as “Hotness. In Person” where “76,102 people just like you rub elbows with models, photog... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | EcoMom raises $1.1M for eco-parenting site | Angels Cyan Banister, Dave McClure, Scott Banister, and more invest in healthy-living website
EcoMom, a website focused on healthier and more environmentally friendly products for families and households, today raised $1.1 million in a Seri... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Never Compromise On Fart Jokes | The 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail has an honored place on my dusty DVD shelf, along with every other Monty Python Movie, Caddyshack, Fletch and a variety of other movies that shaped my childhood and helped me get through many e... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | Women in tech debate takes center stage | The Women in Tech panel at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco just wrapped up. There was plenty of argument among the women on the panel — not least from TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy (pictured), who moderated the discussion but a... |
| Aug 28, 2010 | Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. | Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | AP Tries Its Hardest To Tie Rand Paul To Porn Industry | Kentucky senate candidate Rand Paul is being partially bankrolled by the porn industry, apparently. At least that’s the story that the AP’s Bruce Schreiner is pushing today. This is what appears to be the AP’s most recent hit job on Paul. S... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | Zivity Lands A Tantalizing Deal With Playboy For More Exposure | Zivity is a great site for women and photographers who aren’t afraid to get a little racy to express themselves and potentially be discovered. That said, they obviously don’t have the reach of something like Playboy. But thanks to a new par... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Zivity’s clickable new product: Sponsored posts of photogenic women | 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!
Zivity founder Cyan Banister (that’s not her in t... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Zivity’s clickable new product: Sponsored posts of photogenic women | Zivity founder Cyan Banister (that’s not her in the photo, that’s Zivity model Vivka) based her startup on a simple premise: Some women really like to pose for the camera in varying states of undress. Banister’s unique skill is in keeping t... |
| Jul 1, 2010 | TechCrunch TV: Speaking Of… Hustling | Cyan Banister is CEO of Zivity. The first episode of her new show, ‘Speaking of…’ has just aired on TechCrunch TV and is now available on demand. In this guest post, she previews the first episode, and explains the concept for the show…
I’m... |
| May 1, 2010 | Delivering Happiness: A Movement | Editor’s Note: The following guest post was written by Cyan Banister, the founder and CEO of Zivity, a venture-funded adult content site that invites users to interact with models and photographers. Banister is also an active angel investor... |
| Apr 4, 2010 | NSFW: It's Easier To Run, And Other Lessons That Entrepreneurs Can Learn From ELEW | February 2009, and mid-way through the ever–controversial TED conference in Long Beach, California, a pianist called ‘ELEW‘ took to the stage.
Dressed in a black suit and white shirt – cuffs open and flapping at his wrists – he sat in front... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Zivity founder finally takes it all off | Cyan Banister founded Zivity, a site dedicated to R-rated photos of mostly young, photogenic women, in 2007. She uploaded her own safe-for-work photos to prime the pump.
After launching the company onstage at the first TechCrunch40 conferen... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Zivity founder finally takes it all off | 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!
Cyan Banister founded Zivity, a site dedicated to... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | Zivity Adds Dudes. Let Me Know How It Goes (#zividude) | Venture backed adult site Zivity finally figured out that there’s a whole other market out there beyond guys (and a few women) who want to look at naked women. Lots of women (and a few men) apparently want to look at naked guys, too. So in ... |
| Jul 27, 2009 | Zivity CEO explains her new, less-profitable strategy | 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!
Cyan Banister, co-founder of adult photography co... |
| Jul 27, 2009 | Zivity CEO explains her new, less-profitable strategy | Cyan Banister, co-founder of adult photography community site Zivity — a place where photographers and models post cheesecakey photo shoots in hopes of attracting fans — has been wrestling with the site’s slower-than-hoped-for growth rate s... |
| Jul 23, 2009 | Zivity Splits Employees, Execs, Venture Funding Into Two Companies | In a highly unusual transaction, Zivity, a venture funded adult content startup, has spun off the majority of its assets, employees and venture funding into a new company called Top Fans. Zivity first launched at TechCrunch40 in 2007 and ha... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | Let's Not Put Tagged In The DeadPool Just Yet | Harsh words from peHUB yesterday about social networking site Tagged. They took an article complaining about invitation spam and drew a line practically putting the company into the deadpool. In our opinion, Tagged is actually humming along... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | WeedMaps Wants To Be A Yelp For Cannabis Clubs | With the increasing number of states approving marijuana use for medical purposes (and the recent proposed legislation to legalize the drug entirely in California), it’s no surprise that startups are popping up looking to capitalize on the ... |
| Mar 10, 2009 | AdultSpace Gets A $1.3 Million Boost For Its Adult Social Network | AdultSpace [NSFW], an adult social network in the same vein as Adult Friend Finder, has closed a $1.3 million funding round led by a number of angel investors. The new funding brings AdultSpace’s total financing to $2.3 million since its la... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| Jan 7, 2009 | Crunchies Countdown: Voting Ends Tonight, Party With DJ ZTrip Afterwards | Just two more days until the second annual Crunchies award ceremony where we’ll give out sixteen gorilla awards in categories ranging from Best Technology Innovation to Best Startup or Product of 2008.
Nearly a third of a million votes have... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | Adult Startup Zivity Cuts 1/3 Of Staff | Zivity, the adult social network and media site that describes itself as a “community-powered showcase of female beauty”, has laid off 1/3 of its staff, cutting back from 22 employees to 14. (Again, 1/3 seems to be the magic number – Jive a... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | More job cuts hit Silicon Valley: Zivity and hi5 | Even as the startup world watched bubbles popping in other industries over the past year, we hoped it wouldn’t hit us quite as hard. But it looks like we were hoping in vain. During the past week, a number of startups have announced job cut... |
| Jul 26, 2008 | Techcrunch August Capital Event Wrapup | Thank you to the nearly 1,100 people who flowed through the Quadras Conference Center for our Mobile Web Wars event and the party at August Capital immediately afterwards. We were able to donate $7,500 to Malaria No More, which will protect... |
| Jul 25, 2008 | Details For Tonight's 3rd Annual TechCrunch Meet-Up At August Capital | We look forward to seeing you tonight at the 3rd Annual August Capital Meet-Up (the pictures are from last year’s event). Details on the event are below. If you are attending, things kick off at 5:30, right after the Mobile Wars round table... |
| May 29, 2008 | 1938 Media Interview With Zivity Cofounder Cyan Banister. Guest Appearance By Scoble At End | Fake Shel interviews Zivity Cofounder Cyan Banister and, as usual, there’s a surprise at the end (although regular TechCrunch readers may not be so surprised). I’ve managed to stop laughing long enough to get this post up.
Note: Not fully s... |
| May 9, 2008 | Zivity Nabs Napster Co-founder As CTO | San Francisco based Zivity, a self described “community-powered showcase of female beauty,” will add a high profile technologist to their executive team next week. Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter, who was subsequently the CTO of Cloudmark ... |
| May 6, 2008 | Online gambling is illegal, right? Not quite; the poker is still going on PurePlay | It’s pretty rare that venture capitalists will bet on a company that shows a hint of impropriety. Yet happens occasionally, for companies that don’t push the envelope too far.
In March, for instance, soft-porn site Zivity got $7 million fro... |
| Mar 9, 2008 | No Longer Under Age: Zivity Takes $7 Million In Venture Financing For Adult Content Social Network | Zivity is an adult content social network and user generated content site (they call it “Promoting Beauty 2.0”). It has the distinction of being one of the first adult content startups to be backed by venture capital via a $1 million seed r... |
| Feb 14, 2008 | No Date For Valentine's Day? Get Some "Adult Content" At Zivity | Zivity, the venture-backed adult content site, which we first covered in August 2007, is starting to get mainstream press attention – co-founder Scott Banister appeared on the Fox Business Channel late last year, and Forbes wrote a long pie... |
| Jan 16, 2008 | As Promised, Zivity Founder Does The Full Monty | I wrote two weeks ago that Zivity founder Cyan Banister was not just an executive at her adult-focused photography startup, she was beginning to model for it as well. At the time, though, she was still partially clothed.
Now, she’s starting... |
| Dec 30, 2007 | Zivity Founder Bares All To Promote Her Startup | Zivity is definitely one of the most controversial startups of 2007. It’s the first (as far as we know) adult site to have received Silicon Valley backing, including an announced $1 million angel round. And they certainly livened things up ... |
| Sep 18, 2007 | Mint wins Techcrunch. Latest start-ups: mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Flowplay | This just in: The winner of the Techcrunch40 event is Mint, the personal finance company (see our coverage here).
Meanwhile, below is the last batch of Techcrunch companies, from Tuesday’s afternoon session. After hitting VentureBeat reader... |
| Sep 18, 2007 | TechCrunch40: Entertainment for All Ages | This was the final session on Day 2 – and the title said it all. Some of these 5 entertainment startups target kids, some target adults! FlowPlay
FlowPlay is a gaming social networking site that targets the teen demographic. It consists of ... |
| Aug 19, 2007 | Zivity: Silicon Valley Elite Dabble in Adult Content | Porn is big business, and the industry has been quick to adapt by copying successful features of new consumer Internet sites. But one thing we haven’t seen until now: respected Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors taking a direct inte... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | Zivity, an adult social network, raises $1M before launch | Zivity, a new adult social network start-up, has raised a $1 million round of seed capital from Silicon Valley investors — as it prepares for launch.
It’s not a porn site, such as the newer sites Eroshare (pictures) or Pornotube (vidoes). R... |
