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Acquired byYahoo!
Price$2.87B
Date1/99
TermsCash

General Information

Websiteyahoo.geocities.com
CategoryNetwork/Hosting
Employees
Founded1996
DescriptionYahoo! Personal Web Hosting

Offices

Former People

SVP, Sales & Business Development

Funding

Total$40M
Series A, 1995
CMGI @Ventures
$2M
Series B, 1996
Flatiron Partners
$8M
Series C, 1997
Flatiron Partners
CMGI @Ventures
$5M
Series D, 1998
Yahoo!
Softbank Capital
$25M

Tags

GeoCities

Yahoo! GeoCities offers a free web site and all the tools you need to build a hosted, dynamic personal site. Features include easy-to-use site building tools. Yahoo! announced in April 2009 that GeoCities will be shutting down late in the year.

Milestones

  • Acquired by Yahoo! for $2.87B. (1/28/99)
    Posted 9/30/08 at 2:46pm
  • Received $25M in Series D funding. (1998)
    Posted 4/24/09 at 11:23am
  • Received $5M in Series C funding. (1997)
    Posted 4/24/09 at 11:23am
  • Received $8M in Series B funding. (1996)
    Posted 4/24/09 at 11:23am
  • Received $2M in Series A funding. (1995)
    Posted 4/24/09 at 11:23am
  • Michael Barrett, SVP, Sales & Business Development added.
    Posted 6/22/09 at 3:41pm

Videos

Screenshots

GeoCities screenshot
Above: Yahoo! Geocities
Uploaded: 4/23/09
GeoCities screenshot
Above: Geocities Closign
Uploaded: 4/23/09

Sources

  1. Yahoo completes GeoCities acquisition (news.cnet.com) [edit]
  2. GeoCities (avc.com) [edit]
  3. GeoCities (avc.com) [edit]
  4. avc.com [edit]
  5. avc.com [edit]
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