Omidyar Network

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Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to their communities.

They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives—Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.

Milestones

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  Omidyar Network invested in Global Integrity. (11/09)
  Posted 11/4/09 at 8:17pm
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  Omidyar Network invested in Wikimedia Foundation. (8/25/09)
  Posted 8/25/09 at 12:11pm
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  Omidyar Network invested in Socialtext. (4/3/09)
  Posted 4/3/09 at 3:02pm
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  Omidyar Network invested in Goodmail Systems. (1/12/09)
  Posted 2/18/09 at 11:30am
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  Omidyar Network invested in Comat Technologies. (10/1/08)
  Posted 7/19/09 at 8:07pm
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  Omidyar Network invested in Digg. (9/24/08)
  Posted 9/24/08 at 10:17am
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  Omidyar Network invested in Seesmic. (6/20/08)
  Posted 6/20/08 at 8:44am
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  Omidyar Network invested in Federated Media. (4/08)
  Posted 4/14/08 at 8:08am
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  Omidyar Network invested in Nanosolar. (3/08)
  Posted 8/30/08 at 7:11pm
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  Omidyar Network invested in Metaweb Technologies. (1/15/08)
  Posted 6/19/08 at 11:40am
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  Omidyar Network invested in Socialtext. (11/1/07)
  Posted 11/18/07 at 11:02am
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  Omidyar Network invested in Federated Media. (8/1/07)
  Posted 8/24/07 at 11:10am
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  Omidyar Network invested in Prosper. (6/1/07)
  Posted 6/20/07 at 9:16pm
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  Omidyar Network invested in Platial. (2/1/07)
  Posted 10/18/07 at 2:59am
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  Omidyar Network invested in Digg. (12/1/06)
  Posted 7/3/07 at 8:52pm
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  Omidyar Network invested in World of Good. (11/6/06)
  Posted 9/17/09 at 1:46am

Investments

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1. Omidyar Network puts $2.4 million into government transparency abroad (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Wikipedia gets $2M from Omidyar Network (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Socialtext Raises Fourth Round (pehub.com) [edit]
4. Updated: Goodmail Systems Adds $5 Million To Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. Sriram Raghavan founded Comat Technologies raises $15 Million (siliconindia.com) [edit]
6. press release (techcrunch.com) []
7. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
8. Rumor: Ad network Federated Media raises $50M from Oak Hill Capital Partners, at $200M valuation (venturebeat.com) [edit]
9. media.cleantech.com [edit]
10. MetaWeb Gets $42 Million Second Round For Online Database (paidcontent.org) [edit]
11. venturebeat.com [edit]
12. Federated Media Raises $4.5M In Series B (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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14. techcrunch.com [edit]
15. marketingvox.com []
16. World of Good raises $4M for “fair trade” goods (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
17. about.eventful.com [edit]
18. FM Financing Release (blog.federatedmedia.net) [edit]
19. eBay's Affinity for Meetup.com (businessweek.com) [edit]
20. 'Second Life' scores $11 million in funding (news.com) [edit]
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23. goliath.ecnext.com []
24. techcrunch.com [edit]
25. FM Financing (blog.federatedmedia.net) [edit]
26. about.eventful.com [edit]
27. Second Life Boosted with $8 Million in New Financing; Linden Lab and Benchmark Capital Aim for the Metaverse (allbusiness.com) [edit]
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