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General Information

Websiteomidyar.com
Twitter@OmidyarNetwork
Emailinfo@omidyar.com
Employees
Founded2004

Funds

Grant, 7/10 $2.3M

Offices

HQ

People

Founder
Partner in charge of Human Capital
Partner
Director

Former People

Director
Vice President, Investments
Director

Tags

Omidyar Network

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.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
NationBuilder 6/13Series B$8M2
Change.org 5/13Series A$15M2
Prosper 1/13Private Equity$20M8
Cignifi 11/12Series A1
Amicus 11/12Seed$3.2M16
Couchsurfing 8/12Series B$15M4
Lenddo 5/12Series A$8M5
Mobile Transactions International 3/12Venture Round$4M2
Aspiring Minds 11/11Series A1
Subtext 10/11Venture Round$3M4
Finestrella 9/11Series B$13.8M2
Couchsurfing 8/11Venture Round$7.6M3
SeeClickFix 1/11Series A$1.5M2
Sunlight Foundation 1/11Grant$2.53M1
Viki 12/10Series A$4.3M14
Praekelt Foundation 12/10Venture Round$825k1
Jumo 11/10Grant$3.5M2
mySociety 7/10Venture Round$575k1
Prosper 2/10Venture Round$2M5
Global Integrity 11/09Venture Round$2.4M1
Socialtext 4/09Series D$4.5M3
Goodmail Systems 1/09Series C$5M1
Comat Technologies 10/08Series C$15M2
Digg 9/08Series C$28.7M4
Seesmic 6/08Series B$6M2
Federated Media 4/08Series C$50M2
Nanosolar 3/08Series D$300M11
Metaweb Technologies 1/08Series B$42M4
Socialtext 11/07Series C$9.5M3
Federated Media 8/07Series B$4.5M2
Prosper 6/07Series C$20M5
Platial 2/07Series A$2.6M7
Digg 12/06Series B$8.5M2
World of Good 11/06Series B$4M2
Eventful 9/06Series B$7.5M3
YouthNoise 6/06Venture Round$1.5M3
Krugle 5/06Series B$6.1M4
Federated Media 3/06Series A$2.2M6
Meetup 3/06Series C$4.5M3
Metaweb Technologies 3/06Series A$15M3
Linden Lab 3/06Series B$11M7
Wikia 3/06Series A$4M10
InnoCentive 2/06Series A$9M3
Prosper 2/06Series B$12.5M4
Digg 10/05Series A$2.8M8
Platial 10/05Angel$800k6
Federated Media 6/05Seed$750k6
SpikeSource 5/05Series A$12M4
Eventful 3/05Series A$2.1M2
Linden Lab 10/04Series A$8M5
Socialtext 1/04Angel$300k2
Meetup 11/03Series B$5.3M2

Videos

Sources

  1. Omidyar Network Hands $2.3M In Grants To Global Voices, mySociety and The XYZ Show (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. NationBuilder Community Organizing Platform Raises Another $8M (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  3. With $15M From Omidyar And 35M+ Users, Change.org Wants To Prove Socially-Minded Startups Can Attract Big Numbers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Peer-To-Peer Lending Marketplace Prosper Raises $20M From Sequoia, Eric Schmidt And Others; Brings On New CEO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Cignifi Completes Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  6. YC’s Amicus Pulls In $3.2 Million To Bring Social Graph Smarts To Non-Profit Fundraising (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. CouchSurfing Raises $15 Million Series B From General Catalyst Partners, Menlo Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Lenddo Raises $8M To Use Online Reputation For Lending In Emerging Markets (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Mobile Transactions International Raises $4.0M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  10. Aspiring Minds Raises Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  11. Subtext Raises $3 Million From Google Ventures & More To Make eBook Reading Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Finestrella Gains $13.8M Series B For Mobile-Service Plans (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  13. CouchSurfing Raises $7.6 M; Will Users Cry “Sell Out”? (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel (voices.allthingsd.com) [edit]
  15. How We Are Funded (sunlightfoundation.com) [edit]
  16. ViKi Raises $4.3 Million from VC All-Stars to Translate the World’s Video (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. Omidyar Network Supports Innovations in Mobile Technology with Grant to Praekelt Foundation in Africa (praekeltfoundation.org) [edit]
  18. techcrunch.com [edit]
  19. Politics Hackers MySociety Get $575k From Omidyar Network (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  20. Prosper Marketplace Announces $2 Million in Bridge Financing as Bankruptcy Fears Loom (americanbankingnews.com) [edit]
  21. Omidyar Network puts $2.4 million into government transparency abroad (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  22. Socialtext Raises Fourth Round (pehub.com) [edit]
  23. Updated: Goodmail Systems Adds $5 Million To Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  24. Sriram Raghavan founded Comat Technologies raises $15 Million (siliconindia.com) [edit]
  25. press release (techcrunch.com) []
  26. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
  27. Rumor: Ad network Federated Media raises $50M from Oak Hill Capital Partners, at $200M valuation (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  28. news.cnet.com [edit]
  29. MetaWeb Gets $42 Million Second Round For Online Database (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  30. venturebeat.com [edit]
  31. Federated Media Raises $4.5M In Series B (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  32. Citation Needed [add]
  33. techcrunch.com [edit]
  34. marketingvox.com []
  35. World of Good raises $4M for “fair trade” goods (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  36. about.eventful.com [edit]
  37. Social Action Network YouthNoise Raises $1.5 Million From Omidyar, Others (ezro.wordpress.com) [edit]
  38. Krugle Secures $6.1 Million in Series B Funding Led by Rustic Canyon Partners. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
  39. FM Financing Release (blog.federatedmedia.net) [edit]
  40. eBay's Affinity for Meetup.com (businessweek.com) [edit]
  41. Citation Needed [add]
  42. 'Second Life' scores $11 million in funding (news.com) [edit]
  43. wikia.com [edit]
  44. InnoCentive Secures $9 Million in Venture Capital Funding Led by Spencer Trask Ventures, Inc. (innocentive.com) [edit]
  45. Citation Needed [add]
  46. goliath.ecnext.com []
  47. techcrunch.com [edit]
  48. FM Financing (blog.federatedmedia.net) [edit]
  49. Fidelity backs SpikeSource in $12M VC round (boston.bizjournals.com) [edit]
  50. about.eventful.com [edit]
  51. Second Life Boosted with $8 Million in New Financing; Linden Lab and Benchmark Capital Aim for the Metaverse (allbusiness.com) [edit]
  52. Veni, Vidi ...Wiki? (forbes.com) [edit]
  53. Citation Needed [add]
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