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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.

Milestones

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  Esther Dyson added a position as investor at Organized Wisdom.
  Posted 6/8/11 at 9:37pm
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Investor at ConsumerBell.
  Posted 2/21/11 at 3:51pm
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Advisory board member at Factual.
  Posted 10/12/09 at 9:33pm
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Board Member at Boxbe. (12/20/06)
  Posted 7/9/09 at 8:01am
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Investor at Wee Web.
  Posted 5/11/09 at 8:44am
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  Esther Dyson added to Joobili.
  Posted 4/10/09 at 1:51am
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Board member at Evernote.
  Posted 1/5/09 at 11:59am
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Investor, Adviser at OrganizedWisdom.
  Posted 1/5/09 at 11:51am
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Founding Member.
  Posted 1/5/09 at 11:51am
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Board at Yandex.
  Posted 6/19/08 at 8:26pm
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Board at Voxiva.
  Posted 3/11/08 at 1:16pm
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Board at Meetup.
  Posted 3/11/08 at 1:16pm
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  Esther Dyson added a position as investor at Radar Networks.
  Posted 10/19/07 at 3:39am
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  Esther Dyson added a position as director at 23andMe.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 9:26am
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  Esther Dyson added a position as Investor, advisor at Fon.
  Posted 10/4/07 at 2:33am
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  Esther Dyson added a position as director at Eventful.
  Posted 7/18/07 at 10:48pm

Investments

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1. Russia’s ‘Foursquare’ funded by top funds and angel investor Esther Dyson (ewdn.com) [edit]
2. Urtak Raises $500k To Ask You The Big Questions: Yes? No? Don’t Care? (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. techcrunch.com [edit]
4. Omada Health Raises $850K From Esther Dyson & More To Take On Diabetes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. HealthRally Raises more than $400K in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
6. Zingaya Secures $1.15m To Take On Russian Click-to-call Market (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Lanyrd Secures $1.4 million In Seed Funding To Make Conferences More Social (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. ChallengePost launches problem-solving site with Wozniak, Betaworks onboard (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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10. Ostrovok Raises $13.6M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
11. HealthTap Raises $2.35 Million To Help People Manage Their Health (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Valkee Raises €400K in Angel Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
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15. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
16. The Extraordinaries raises $1.1M for “micro-volunteering (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
17. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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20. Silicon Alley Insider (businessinsider.com) [edit]
21. Company Communication [edit]
22. Stealth Web Startup Palaran Raises $1 Million In Funding From True Ventures (paidcontent.org) [edit]
23. Cap Funding Report [edit]
24. Airship Ventures raises $2.5M to bring zeppelins to the Bay Area (venturebeat.com) [edit]
25. Joobili Secures Seed Funding (travolution.co.uk) [edit]
26. Esther Dyson to be next high-techie to blast into space (networkworld.com) [edit]
27. Business Travel Social Net Dopplr Gets Funding From Tom Glocer, Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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29. Good Data Secures Initial Funding (businesswire.com) [edit]
30. OrganizedWisdom, the “Mahalo For Health”, Raises $2.3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Look, up in the sky: Zeppelin company Airship Ventures raises $8M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
32. techcrunch.com [edit]
33. Angel Investors [edit]
34. villageventures.com [edit]
35. Boston Harbor Angels Invests in XCOR Aerospace (xcor.com) [edit]
36. villageventures.com [edit]
37. venturebeat.com [edit]
38. paidcontent.org [edit]
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40. answers.vizu.com [edit]
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44. Esther Dyson On The Future Of Space Travel: We Are Only At “The End Of The Beginning” (techcrunch.com) [edit]