According to VentureBeat, Accelerator program and investment group 500 Startups which proudly uses the domain name 500.co, just announced $44.1 million in new seed fund today, the second the group has raised since launching. The second fund is also substantially higher than its initial $29.6 million fund from 2011. "As for 500 Startups, the group typically invests $25,000 to $250,000 in … [Read more...]
CommonBond.Co Raises Over $100 Million
According to the Term Sheet, CommonBond, a New York-based student lending platform, has raised over $100 million in new equity and debt financing. Tribeca Venture Partners and The Social + Capital Partnership led the equity tranche, and were joined by Vikram Pandit (ex-Citi CEO), Tom Glocer (ex-Thomson Reuters CEO) and Tom Kalaris (ex-Barclays exec). The company's website is … [Read more...]
WordPress.com Adds .CO As Only The 5th TLD For Custom Domain Name Option For Fully Hosted WP Sites
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced today on the company blog, that it has added .CO domain names as a custom domain name option for fully hosted WordPress.com sites. .CO becomes only the 5th TLD joining .com, .org, .net and .me as one of only five custom domain options available through WordPress.com. There are currently over 33 million websites and blogs in over 120 … [Read more...]
Juan Calle On Plans For Future Growth Of The .Co Registry: “We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market”
Juan Diego Calle the CEO of the company that operates the .CO registry, just published a post on the .Co blog in part laying out plans for future growth of the .CO registry and of its parent company Straat as it moves into the new gTLD program. Here is a portion of the post: We’re Doubling Down on Our Target Market. First, we’re putting more emphasis than ever on our target market of … [Read more...]
Sedo: .Co Sales Stand At $2.6M With YTD Average Sales Price Ahead Of .Com
Sedo, today unveiled a report, detailing the growth and success of the .CO domain extension three years after its launch. There are currently over 1.5 million .CO domain names registered by people in over 200 countries. Data revealed in the .CO Market Report includes the following highlights: The total value of .CO sales at Sedo since July 2010 is $2.6 million … [Read more...]
LaunchRock Switches From .Com to .Co
LauchRock.co which bills itself as "A Platform For New Startups" has switched its main URL from LaunchRock.com to LaunchRock.co effective July 1, 2013. In a email sent to users, LaunchRock.com announced the change: """ From: LaunchRock <hello@launchrock.com> Date: 2013/7/1 Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: Keep your LaunchRock account from being retired Hello … [Read more...]
Brit.Co Bought For $4,750, Gets $6.3 Million In Funding Including Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer
Another .Co domain name is in the news today as Brit + Co., a San Francisco-based media company focused on DIY ideas for “creative living in the digital age,” has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding according to The Term Sheet. Oak Investment Partners led the round, and was joined by Index Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Cowboy Ventures and returning angel investors like Marissa Mayer who is the … [Read more...]