Serial entrepreneur Joyce Kim celebrates her second startup acquisition! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Joyce Kim co-founded Korean entertainment community website Soompi in 2006, which was acquired by Seoul-based company Enswers in 2011. This week, Joyce’s current company SimpleHoney was acquired by payment company OpenCoin for an undisclosed amount. SimpleHoney built a [...]
Posts Tagged "Acquisition"
Exitround: Demystifying Acquisitions For Founders
March 7, 2013 – 11:00 am
Is your startup almost out of money? Exitround aims to match startups open to being acquired with willing buyers. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) If your startup is almost out of money and more funding doesn’t seem to be just over the horizon, what are your options? You can keep grinding away at raising [...]
PITCH NYC 2012 Finalist Alike, Founded By CEO Maria Renhui Zhang, Acquired By Yahoo!
February 12, 2013 – 12:21 pm
Yahoo! snaps up female-founded mobile startup Alike today for an undisclosed sum – the team will be joining Yahoo! mobile in California. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today Yahoo! acquired Alike, a mobile company founded by CEO Maria Renhui Zhang. The app focused on personalization by using the restaurants and places you [...]
Mobile Startup Foodspotting, Founded By CEO Alexa Andrzejewski, Acquired by OpenTable For $10 Million Today
January 29, 2013 – 9:20 am
Congrats to Alexa Andrzejewski and her 10-person team at Foodspotting on the OpenTable acquisition! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Mobile app Foodspotting announced today an acquisition by OpenTable. Foodspotting CEO and co-founder Alexa Andrzejewski explains on the blog: “We’ve already been working closely with the OpenTable team as partners: In addition to [...]
Shutterfly Acquires ThisLife, Founded By CEO Andrea Johnson
January 7, 2013 – 1:42 pm
Meet women entrepreneurs at Founder Friday on January 11. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last September, the crowd at Founder Friday in San Francisco met Andrea Johnson, CEO and founder of photo site ThisLife. Today, Shutterfly announces acquiring ThisLife to power the next-generation photo solution. ThisLife is a cloud-based solution offering intuitive [...]
Avis To Acquire Female-Founded ZipCar For $491.2 Million
January 2, 2013 – 2:44 pm
Previous Women 2.0 Conference speaker Robin Chase founded ZipCar, which went public in April 2011 and announced plans today to be acquired by car rental giant Avis. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The 1000+ Women 2.0 Conference attendees last Valentine’s Day remember Robin Chase’s story of going from concept to customers – [...]
Founding CEO Victoria Ransom And Wildfire Interactive Team Join Google In $250M Acquisition
July 31, 2012 – 11:52 am
Google beefs up their social efforts with acquisition of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive today. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Google declared on its blog today that they will be “sparking better conversation with Wildfire”, announcing the acquisition of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive today. Wildfire was co-founded by Victoria Ransom and [...]
Exclusive Interview: Cull TV Founder And CEO Katherine De León
June 20, 2012 – 6:00 am
“Only one piece of advice? Measure everything and react fast to data.” – Katherine de León, Cull TV CEO. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Cull TV, a site featuring curated playlists of music videos from indie artists, was acquired by social video network Twitvid last month. We talk to co-founder and CEO [...]
Partner Event: RocketSpace Educational Breakfast (June 20 In SF)
June 12, 2012 – 2:08 pm
Hear tips like “Make sure that founders shares are held in the form of stock rather than options.” So you’ve been building a company for the past 18 months and you just got an email from Zuck to acquire you….now what?? Join us for bacon, eggs and acquisition talk at the RocketSpace Educational Breakfast on [...]
Emily Olson’s Foodzie Acquired By Video Shopping Site Joyus
June 5, 2012 – 3:42 pm
Joyus to expand branded categories of videos, adding “Joyus Food” with the acquisition of Foodzie. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The third female-founded startup acquisition this week (and it’s only Tuesday!) is Emily Olson‘s small-batch product subscription service Foodzie – acquired by video shopping experience startup Joyus today for an undisclosed amount [...]
