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 (recently merged), Constellation Services, 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.

Milestones

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• Invested in Palaran. (9/09)
  Posted 10/20/09 at 6:12pm
• Invested in ChallengePost. (6/29/09)
  Posted 6/30/09 at 1:08pm
• Invested in Airship Ventures. (3/09)
  Posted 4/14/09 at 3:43am
• Invested in Dopplr. (9/14/08)
  Posted 9/16/08 at 9:22pm
• Invested in Wee Web. (9/08)
  Posted 5/12/09 at 1:14pm
• Invested in Good Data. (7/23/08)
  Posted 7/23/08 at 6:31am
• Invested in OrganizedWisdom. (6/08)
  Posted 3/16/08 at 9:26pm
• Invested in Airship Ventures. (5/9/08)
  Posted 4/14/09 at 3:43am
• Invested in Power.com. (2/08)
  Posted 12/1/08 at 9:50am
• Invested in Outside.in. (10/1/07)
  Posted 11/13/07 at 2:03am
• Invested in Noovo. (10/07)
  Posted 4/3/08 at 8:23am
• Invested in Outside.in. (2/1/07)
  Posted 11/13/07 at 1:55am
• Invested in Visible Path. (3/1/06)
  Posted 7/26/07 at 1:50am
• Invested in Visible Path. (3/1/06)
  Posted 7/26/07 at 1:54am
• Invested in Vizu. (2/20/06)
  Posted 3/7/08 at 7:08pm
• Invested in SkyGrid. (2006)
  Posted 1/4/09 at 1:51am
• Invested in Plazes. (2006)
  Posted 6/22/08 at 11:31pm
• Added position as Board at Eventful.
  Posted 7/18/07 at 10:48pm
• Added position as Board at Voxiva.
  Posted 3/11/08 at 1:16pm
• Invested in Joobili.
  Posted 4/10/09 at 1:51am
• Added position as Board at Yandex.
  Posted 6/19/08 at 8:26pm
• Added position as Founding Member at Yandex.
  Posted 1/5/09 at 11:51am
• Added position as Board at Meetup.
  Posted 3/11/08 at 1:16pm
• Added position as Investor, Adviser at OrganizedWisdom.
  Posted 1/5/09 at 11:51am
• Added position as Board member at Evernote.
  Posted 1/5/09 at 11:59am
• Added position as Advisor at Radar Networks.
  Posted 10/19/07 at 3:39am
• Added to Joobili.
  Posted 4/10/09 at 1:51am
• Added position as Board at Fon.
  Posted 10/4/07 at 2:33am
• Added position as Investor at Wee Web.
  Posted 5/11/09 at 8:44am
• Added position as Board Member at Boxbe.
  Posted 7/9/09 at 8:01am
• Added position as Board at 23andMe.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 9:26am
• Added position as Advisory board member at Factual.
  Posted 10/12/09 at 9:33pm

Videos

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1. Citation Needed [add]
2. ChallengePost launches problem-solving site with Wozniak, Betaworks onboard (venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Airship Ventures raises $2.5M to bring zeppelins to the Bay Area (venturebeat.com) [edit]
4. Business Travel Social Net Dopplr Gets Funding From Tom Glocer, Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. Citation Needed [add]
6. Good Data Secures Initial Funding (businesswire.com) [edit]
7. OrganizedWisdom, the “Mahalo For Health”, Raises $2.3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Look, up in the sky: Zeppelin company Airship Ventures raises $8M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
9. techcrunch.com [edit]
10. villageventures.com [edit]
11. Angel Investors [edit]
12. villageventures.com [edit]
13. paidcontent.org [edit]
14. paidcontent.org [edit]
15. answers.vizu.com [edit]
16. Citation Needed [add]
17. Citation Needed [add]
18. Joobili Secures Seed Funding (travolution.co.uk) [edit]