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Websiteaolventures.com
Employees5
Founded1/10
DescriptionVC arm of AOL

Funds

Offices

New York, USA
670 Broadway
4th Floor
New York, NY, 10012
USA
Palo Alto, USA
395 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA, 94306
USA

People

Founder, Partner
Founder, Partner
Chief of Staff
Senior Advisor
Senior Advisor
Partner
Senior Advisor
Partner
Senior Advisor

Tags

aol-ventures, aol, venture-capital

AOL Ventures

AOL Ventures is the venture capital arm of AOL, focused on early stage investing in technology-centric consumer internet companies. They are primarily interested in giving talented founders the unfair advantage they need to scale quickly and grow great companies and tend to focus on opportunities where the fund can bring a blend of their partnership’s value mixed with some flavor of AOL (parent company) involvement. AOL Ventures generally looks to invest in Seed and Series A opportunities and is broadly interested in a variety of themes around AOL’s core – content, advertising, local/mapping, paid services and consumer applications.

The fund often co-invests with San Francisco-based True Ventures and SV Angel.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
TastemakerX 2/12Series A$1.8M5
appssavvy 12/11Series A$7.1M1
NewsCred 11/11Series A$4M3
Impermium 11/11Series A$8M5
Sailthru 9/11Series A$8M6
Crittercism 7/11Seed$1.2M5
Spree Commerce 7/11Seed$1.5M3
Impermium 6/11Seed$1M9
Shopobot 6/11Seed3
Metamarkets 5/11Series A$6M4
OpenX 5/11Series D$20M4
SocialFlow 4/11Series A$7M6
MoviePass 2/11Seed$1.5M7
SalesCrunch 1/11Seed$1.4M6
bitly 10/10Series B$10M10
Schematic Labs 8/10Seed8
Solve Media 7/10Series A$4M4
Sailthru 7/10Seed$1M6
Metamarkets 6/10Seed$2.5M14
gdgt 4/10Series A$3.17M5
betaworks 3/10Series B$20M13
SolveMedia 1/10Series A7
About.me 12/09Seed$425k8

Videos

Sources

  1. TastemakerX, The App For Hipsters Who Totally Heard That Band First, Raises $1.8M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Appssavvy Just Raised $7.1 Million To Build Ads That Interrupt Your Online Game Experiences (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  3. Third Time’s The Charm? A New NewsCred Raises $4 Million To Reinvent The Newswire Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Impermium Secures $8 Million in Series-A Financing to Lead Fight Against Social Web Spam (freshnews.com) [edit]
  5. Smart Email Provider Sailthru Raises $8 Million Round Led By RRE Ventures (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  6. AngelPad's Crittercism Raises $1.2M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  7. Spree Raises $1.5 Million From True Ventures, Aol For Open Source eCommerce Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. techcrunch.com [edit]
  9. Price Tracking Service Shopobot Raises Funding From Google Ventures, AOL And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Metamarkets Raises $6 Million To Help Big Web Publishers Corral Big Data (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  11. OpenX Secures $20 Million In Series D Funding To Fuel Growth, Acquisitions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. techcrunch.com [edit]
  13. Citation Needed [add]
  14. SalesCrunch Gathers $1.4M From First Round, Accel And Angels (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  15. Bit.ly Raises $10 Million Series B, Still Growing Like Crazy (technews-vn.blogspot.com) []
  16. techcrunch.com [edit]
  17. Solve Media Finds Solution to "Banner Blindness" (navfund.com) [edit]
  18. Behavioral Email Startup Sailthru Raises $1 Million Led By DFJ Gotham (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  19. TechCrunch: Metamarkets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
  21. Investors listed on company site (betaworks.com) [edit]
  22. Citation Needed [add]
  23. techcrunch.com [edit]
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