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Who Funded Who - VC List

I'm starting a 'handy little list' identifying the VC's and key investors behind online personals (internet dating, mobile dating and flirt, social networking and business networking) companies. You'll find the Handy Little Lists on the right bar of this site. As always with the Handy Lists, it's a work in progress. I'd greatly appreciate your comments for additions for the list. Thanks - Mark Brooks

Social Networks

Bebo - Benchmark (also funded eBay, Betfair, MySQL)
Community Connect - Comcast Interactive Capital, Connect / Insight, Sandler
Facebook - Accel
Friendster - Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Sequoia
...also Kent Lindstrom, Mark Pincus, Peter Thiel, Ram Shriram, Reid Hoffman, Tim Koogle
iBloks - Maveron (Starbucks founder's VC firm)
eBuddy - Lowland Capital Partners
PeopleInteractive (runs a matrimony portal, Shaadi.com) - Sequoia Capital India, then called WestBridge Capital
PlanetOut - AOL, Mayfield, Sequioa Link
Plaxo - Cisco, Sequoia
Piczo - Sierra
Sconex - Alloy
Tagged - Mayfield
Tagworld - DFJ
Tribe - Knight Ridder Digital (now owned by McClatchey), Washington Post Co.
Xuqa - BV
Youthnoise - Omidyar
Youtube - Sequoia

Internet Dating

Baihe - Mayfield's
eHarmony - Sequioa, Technology Crossover
Engage - Revolution, The Founders Fund (Paypal)
PerfectMatch - Ignition, Mellon
Shaadi / Fropper - Westbridge
SpringStreet Networks - Battery
WorldFriends Networks - co-founders of Lavalife.com, Nicholas Paine and Bruce Croxon

Mobile Dating

Meetmoi - Acadia Woods Partners