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Techcrunch 40, where are they now?

by jeffrese on 9/8/08, 5:41 PM with 12 comments

Which companies from Techcrunch 40 besides mint.com are doing well? And is mint.com really doing all that well?

  • by jyu on 9/8/08, 7:46 PM

    It's too early to tell, but here's what's happened so far:

    powerset acquired $100mm 7/08

    cubic telecom acquired $6mm 1/08

    viewdle additional funding 3/08

    yap series A $6.5mm 6/08

    flock seies D $15mm 5/08

    docstoc series B $3.25mm 4/08

    mint series B $12mm 3/08

    clickable series B $14.5mm 7/08

    pubmatic series A $7mm 1/08

    zocdoc series A $3mm 8/08

    befunky series A $550k 6/08

    flowplay series A $3.7mm 2/08

    metaplace launched 3/08

    woome series B $12.5mm 6/08

    zivity series B $7mm 3/08

    kaltura series B ?? 6/08

  • by calvin on 9/8/08, 6:46 PM

    The TechCrunch40 list is here: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2007/

    ... just in case you forgot the names.

  • by SwellJoe on 9/8/08, 7:14 PM

    Xobni has gotten quite a bit of very favorable press. I don't know enough about their market or their product to say whether they're doing well...but the acquisition overtures from MS seem to be indicative of something good.

    And, I suspect Mint will be a huge success story. It's a gigantic market, and Quicken leaves a lot of room at the bottom (and, frankly, Quicken fails the online thing in so many regards that even if Mint were to cost more, it'd probably still gather some customers...but Mint is dramatically cheaper than Quicken, practically infinitely so).

    Flock and Docstoc had some good press a while back. But, I don't really recognize any of the other names. And, other than Mint, I've never used any of them (and I knew about, and was a fan of, Mint before TC40).

  • by mmcgrana on 9/8/08, 8:39 PM

    You can see http://www.crunchbase.com/conference/2007 for funding and exit information for the 2007 companies. You can also see the companies' investors, as well as the list of experts for the 2007 event.

  • by Mugurm on 9/8/08, 6:40 PM

    IF TC 40 was a VC what would be their rate of return?

  • by schtog on 9/9/08, 1:11 AM

    Viewdle is very, very cool. http://www.viewdle.com