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Websiteseekingalpha.com
Blogseekingalpha.com/...
Twitter@SeekingAlpha
CategoryConsumer Web
Emailcontact-website@s...
Employees
Founded2004
Descriptionstock market news, analysis & community

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New York, USA
231 W 29th St
New York, NY, 10001
USA

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TOTAL $7M
FUNDING TOTAL $7M
Series A, 9/06
Benchmark
Accel Partners
Series B, 12/09
DAG Ventures
Benchmark
Accel Partners
$7M

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Seeking Alpha

Seeking Alpha is the premier website for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, and vibrant, intelligent finance discussion.

Seeking Alpha gives a voice to over 5000 of the world’s top market blogs, money managers, financial experts and investment newsletters. The company provides a community of the nation’s most savvy and inquisitive investors with tools to exchange and discuss investing ideas.

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Seeking Alpha

Websiteseekingalpha.com
StageLive
Launch DateJuly 14, 2004
Tags finance, stock-market, community, investors

Seeking Alpha is community for financially savvy investors launched in early 2004 by founder David Jackson. They are based out of New York and received an undisclosed round of financing from Benchmark Capital in September 2006. In November 2009 they completed a series B round with new investor DAG Ventures leading the round and full participation from existing investors Accel and Benchmark.

In September 2006, they announced a deal with Yahoo to include their content in Yahoo Finance with no profits being shared either way. They subsequently announced a similar partnership with Nasdaq.com. Seeking Alpha earns revenue by placing ads on their website.

When you go to the site you find that it’s not a news aggregator, like TechMeme, in that Seeking Alpha uses editors to hand-pick articles from over 5000 contributors. Seeking Alpha’s editors select interesting articles, edit them to guarantee quality and consistency, and arrange and tag them so they can be easily found and subscribed to by stock ticker, sector and theme.

The articles are written by investors, which include hedge fund managers and financial newsletter authors. Seeking Alpha’s editors select articles with the following readers in mind: money managers, investment bankers and individual investors.

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  1. benchmark.com [edit]
  2. Silicon Alley Insider (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  3. Seeking Alpha Passes One Million Members (seekingalpha.com) [edit]
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