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General Information

Websitealleninvestments.com
Phone(212) 832-8001
Employees
Founded1922

Funds

Offices

New York, USA
711 5th Ave
New York, NY, 10022
USA

People

Non-Executive Chairman
President, CEO, and Director
Managing Director and CFO

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Allen & Company

Allen & Company is a privately-held merchant banking operation founded in 1922. They focus on media, new media, communications & technology. The company has a history of principal investing as well as of advisory work.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Evernote 5/12Series D$70M5
Struq 4/12Series A$8.5M3
TaskRabbit 12/11Series B$17.8M8
New Relic 11/11Venture Round$15M6
Business Insider 9/11Venture Round$7M6
TrueCar 9/11Venture Round$200M11
Lascaux Co. 7/11Seed$600k4
The Climate Corporation 2/11Series B$42M8
CashStar 2/11Series B$5M2
Personal 1/11Series A$7.6M4
Gather 11/10Series E$2.4M4
ConnectEdu 11/10Series D$7M1
New Relic 10/10Series C$10M4
Business Insider 7/10Series D$3M5
Silicon Alley Insider 7/10Series D$3M5
Pandora Media 6/10Series E2
Vox Media 7/09Series B$8M4
Gather 6/09Series D$5.3M5
Business Insider 5/09Series C$2.7M2
Vox Media 1/09Venture Round$5M2
Nabbr 11/08Series B$2.57M2
Vox Media 10/08Venture Round3
Northern Power Systems 9/08Series C$37M2
CityVoter 9/08Series B$2.6M2
BitGravity 8/08Series A$2.5M2
Fon 4/08Series C€6M6
Ning 4/08Series D$60M1
The Climate Corporation 10/07Series A$12.6M6
Donnerwood Media 9/07Series C$5.4M3
RotoHog 8/07Series A$6M5
PayScale 7/07Series C$10.3M7
Cartoon Doll Emporium 7/07Series A1
Brightcove 1/07Series C$59.5M10
Spot Runner 10/06Series B$40M10
Gather 12/05Series B$6.75M3
eJamming 10/05Series A$1.69M3
Indeed 8/05Series A$5M3
Cellerant Therapeutics 5/05Series B$16M4
MusicGremlin 2/05Series B$8.6M1
MusicGremlin 12/03Series A$3M1

Videos

Sources

  1. Evernote Raises $70M At A $1B Valuation To Prep For An IPO, And The Next 100 Years (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Struq Secures $8.5 million From Reed Elsevier, Pentech, Allen & Co (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Cloud App Management Platform New Relic Raises $15M From DAG, Benchmark (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. IVP Leads $7 Million Investment In Business Insider (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Comment 0 inShare44 Car Price Comparison Company TrueCar Raises $200M+, Gears Up For IPO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  8. WeatherBill Brings in $42M From Google, Khosla (gigaom.com) [edit]
  9. PDF Icon CashStar Raises $5 Million to Support Rapid Growth in Digital Gifting and Incentives Industry (cashstar.com) [edit]
  10. Personal Closes $7.6M Series A Round of Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  11. Gather Raises $2.4 Million, Makes Demand Media-Esque Pivot (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. ConnectEDU Lands $7 Million For Online College And Career Planning Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. New Relic Gets Another $10M, Proves SaaS Profitability (cloud.gigaom.com) [edit]
  14. PaidContent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  15. Business Insider Gets $3 Million for Online Publishing (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
  16. Pandora Raises Its Fifth Funding Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  17. Updated: Sports Blog Site SBNation Gets $8 Million More, From Comcast And Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  18. NPR-Audience-Heavy Social Network Gather.com Raises $5.3 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  19. Business Insider, SAI’s Parent, Closes Third Round; Round Around $5 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  20. SB Nation Got $5 Million In Funding For Sports Blogs (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  21. Nabbr nabs $2.6M for social network marketing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  22. Tech leaders back sports blog network (sportsbusinessjournal.com) [edit]
  23. Northern Power parent Wind Power Holdings LLC raises in excess of $50 million. (northernpower.com) [edit]
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  25. BitGravity receives $2.5 M VC funding, Sling Media's Krikorian joins board (demo.com) [edit]
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  38. CELLERANT THERAPEUTICS RAISES $16 MILLION TO ADVANCE STEM CELL-BASED THERAPIES FOR LIFE-THREATENING DISEASES (cellerant.com) [edit]
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