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SlideShare adds Venrock to influential roster of backers

Posted on May 08, 2008

Presentation-sharing site SlideShare Inc. landed blue-chip venture backer Venrock in a modest $3 million round that allows the company to continue developing its technology and marketing of its social media platform. One-year-old SlideShare already boasts investors and advisors including Google Inc. [GOOG] chief economist Hal Varian, former Apple Inc. [AAPL] chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki, celebrity rich guy Marc Cuban and other influential Internet entrepreneurs. Bringing in Venrock, the legacy Rockefeller family venture fund as its first institutional investor, further strengthens the ...

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