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Esther Dyson

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Esther Dyson is an active investor in a variety of start-ups, focusing on technology. Her portfolio of private space and air travel investments includes XCOR Aerospace, Space Adventures/Zero G, Icon Aircraft, Coastal Aviation Software and Airship Ventures. She has flown weightless on Zero-G four times, but hopes to go up again soon.

She is also the organizer of Flight School, an executive workshop for start-ups in air and space. It’s in hiatus for 2008, but will resume in 2009.

On the IT side, her investments have included Flickr and del.icio.us, both sold to Yahoo! and Medstory, sold to Microsoft. Currently, she sits on the boards of 23andMe, Meetup, WPP Group, Eventful.com, Evernote, Boxbe and Yandex, the leading Russian search company.

Dyson sold her business EDventure Holdings, along with its Release1.0 newsletter and PC Forum conference, to CNET Networks in 2004; PC Forum and Release 1.0 played key roles in the early development of the PC software marketplace and the commercial Internet. Dyson left CNET at the end of 2006 and (with permission) has resumed doing business under the name of EDventure Holdings.

Recent Milestones

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  Esther Dyson invested in Social Bicycles. (5/1/13)
  Posted 5/5/13 at 10:37pm via techcrunch.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in Science Exchange. (5/1/13)
  Posted 5/2/13 at 10:38pm via finsmes.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in Amicus. (11/13/12)
  Posted 11/13/12 at 2:08pm via techcrunch.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in VitaPortal. (10/31/12)
  Posted 10/31/12 at 7:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in PayPerks. (9/1/12)
  Posted 12/17/12 at 7:51pm
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  Esther Dyson invested in Singly. (4/23/12)
  Posted 4/23/12 at 7:54pm via allthingsd.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in Amicus. (2/1/12)
  Posted 3/22/12 at 10:13am via techcrunch.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in Urtak. (1/11/12)
  Posted 9/12/11 at 9:11am via techcrunch.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in Zeel. (1/9/12)
  Posted 1/8/12 at 4:38pm via techcrunch.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in Apiary. (12/23/11)
  Posted 10/22/12 at 3:45pm
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  Esther Dyson invested in Omada Health. (12/21/11)
  Posted 12/21/11 at 6:37pm via techcrunch.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in SponsorHub. (12/8/11)
  Posted 12/8/11 at 5:26am via sponsorhub.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in SponsorHub. (12/8/11)
  Posted 12/8/11 at 5:26am via sponsorhub.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in HealthRally. (12/1/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 7:36pm via finsmes.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in Zingaya. (10/26/11)
  Posted 10/26/11 at 6:04pm via techcrunch.com
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  Esther Dyson invested in Lanyrd. (9/6/11)
  Posted 9/6/11 at 9:42am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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Russia’s ‘Foursquare’ funded by top funds and angel investor Esther Dyson (ewdn.com) [edit]
1. Social Bicycles Raises $1.1 Million To Expand Bike Sharing Project (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Science Exchange Raises $3M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
3. YC’s Amicus Pulls In $3.2 Million To Bring Social Graph Smarts To Non-Profit Fundraising (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Russian Online Health Startup, VitaPortal, Raises $2M Series A Led By Prostor Capital And Backed By Esther Dyson (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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6. Singly Receives $7M Investment (allthingsd.com) [edit]
7. Amicus Wants To Socialize Nonprofit Fundraising And Outreach, Raises $580K Itself (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Urtak Raises $500k To Ask You The Big Questions: Yes? No? Don’t Care? (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. techcrunch.com [edit]
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11. Omada Health Raises $850K From Esther Dyson & More To Take On Diabetes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. SPONSORHUB ANNOUNCES INVESTORS IN FIRST ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR EVENT SPONSORSHIP INDUSTRY (sponsorhub.com) [edit]
13. SPONSORHUB ANNOUNCES INVESTORS IN FIRST ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR EVENT SPONSORSHIP INDUSTRY (sponsorhub.com) [edit]
14. HealthRally Raises more than $400K in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
15. Zingaya Secures $1.15m To Take On Russian Click-to-call Market (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Lanyrd Secures $1.4 million In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. ChallengePost Picks Up $4.1M in Series A Funding to Help Run Online Contests for New Ideas (xconomy.com) [edit]
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19. AlterGeo, The Foursquare-Of-Russia, Raises $10M From Intel Capital And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. ToutApp Raises Seed Round from Esther Dyson, Dave McClure, Eric Ries and others. (www1.toutapp.com) [edit]
21. Ostrovok Raises $13.6M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
22. HealthTap Raises $2.35 Million To Help People Manage Their Health (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. YC-backed Crowdbooster Launches Social Media Monitoring Dashboard That Does The Thinking For You (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Valkee Raises €400K in Angel Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
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26. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
27. The Extraordinaries raises $1.1M for “micro-volunteering (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
28. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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30. Silicon Alley Insider (businessinsider.com) [edit]
31. Company Communication [edit]
32. Stealth Web Startup Palaran Raises $1 Million In Funding From True Ventures (paidcontent.org) [edit]
33. EDGAR [edit]
34. ChallengePost launches problem-solving site with Wozniak, Betaworks onboard (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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36. Airship Ventures raises $2.5M to bring zeppelins to the Bay Area (venturebeat.com) [edit]
37. Joobili Secures Seed Funding (travolution.co.uk) [edit]
38. Esther Dyson to be next high-techie to blast into space (networkworld.com) [edit]
39. Business Travel Social Net Dopplr Gets Funding From Tom Glocer, Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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41. Good Data Secures Initial Funding (businesswire.com) [edit]
42. OrganizedWisdom, the “Mahalo For Health”, Raises $2.3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Look, up in the sky: Zeppelin company Airship Ventures raises $8M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
44. techcrunch.com [edit]
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46. Angel Investors [edit]
47. villageventures.com [edit]
48. Boston Harbor Angels Invests in XCOR Aerospace (xcor.com) [edit]
49. villageventures.com [edit]
50. venturebeat.com [edit]
51. paidcontent.org [edit]
52. paidcontent.org [edit]
53. answers.vizu.com [edit]
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57. Esther Dyson On The Future Of Space Travel: We Are Only At “The End Of The Beginning” (techcrunch.com) [edit]