Saturday, 20 November 2010

What?s New At Tumblr: Funding, Hires, Office, Board Member, And A Focus On Fashion

For the past several weeks, there's been a lot of talk about a large new round of funding that the social startup Tumblr was raising. That culminated today with a report in Fortune with numbers on the round. We had been hearing very similar numbers ? around $25 million on a $100 million pre-money evaluation ? but it turns out those numbers were likely low, we had heard from sources close to the funding.

But while the numbers are still a bit up in the air, we do know that as Fortune and Business Insider reported earlier, Sequoia Capital is leading this new round. And we've heard that previous investors Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures are on board once again. Further, like Business Insider, we're hearing that Sequoia's Roelof Botha will join Tumblr's Board as a part of this investment, which will likely close in the next couple of weeks.endowment sell my policy endowments

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