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Virgin USA

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Virgin USA is the North American investment arm of the Virgin Group, the UK-based Richard Branson company. Virgin USA oversees the group’s existing North American businesses and is primarily responsible for starting new Virgin branded companies. Virgin USA is also responsible for making unbranded investments, deploying the group’s capital in a venture capital fashion towards various consumer focused web properties.

Milestones

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• Invested in Pikum. (3/3/08)
  Posted 3/22/08 at 3:14am
• Acquired Pikum.com. (3/08)
  Posted 3/24/08 at 1:24pm
• Acquired Smart Charter. (6/07)
  Posted 3/24/08 at 4:11pm
• Acquired CircleLending. (5/17/07)
  Posted 8/28/07 at 5:56am
• Richard Branson, Founder added.
  Posted 6/27/08 at 10:45am
• Porter Gale, VP Marketing added.
  Posted 7/1/09 at 1:00pm

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Sources

1. Tech Crunch UK - Pikum (uk.techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Tech Crunch - Smart Charter (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. P2P Lending News (p2plendingnews.com) [edit]
4. Press release - UK Techcrunch (uk.techcrunch.com) [edit]