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Digg, Inc. is a privately-held online content providing company. Digg offers online news, videos and pictures of the best news, voted on by the Digg community. Users can share videos, articles, news and podcasts through the site. Digg was founded in 2004 by Kevin Rose and based in San Francisco, California.
| Company Tags: | VC Backed |
| Year Founded: | 2004 |
| Fiscal Year End: | 12/31 |
| 1YR Revenue Growth Rate: | View % |
| 3YR Revenue Growth Rate (CAGR): | View % |
| 1YR Employee Growth Rate: | View % |
| City: | San Francisco |
| State/Province: | California |
| Country: | United States |
| Phone: | View |
| Website: | www.digg.com |
| Founders: | Kevin Rose Owen Byrne Ron Gorodetzky Jay Adelson |
| Internet > Internet Content Providers > Online Databases |
| Internet > Internet Content Providers > Other Internet Content Providers |
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$99 Single Company AccessInstant Full Site-Wide Access| Date | Status | Target | Buyer | Deal Type | Price | |
| Details | May. 2006 | Exploring / Rumored | View | View | Acquisition | View |
| Details | Jul. 2008 | Canceled | View | View | Acquisition | View |
| Details | Jul. 2012 | Completed | View1 | View | Acquisition Intellectual Property Sale (IP) | View |
| Details | Jul. 2012 | Completed | View | View | Acquisition Intellectual Property Sale (IP) | View |
| Details | Jul. 2012 | Completed | View2 | View | Acq-Hire | View |
| Details | Jul. 2012 | Announced | View | View | Merger | View |
| 1 | Betaworks paid $500,000 for Digg's...Read More → |
| 2 | 15 staff...Read More → |
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$99 Single Company AccessInstant Full Site-Wide Access| Date | Investor | Round | Investor Type | |
| Oct. 2005 | Greylock Partners | A | Venture Capital | |
| Oct. 2005 | Omidyar Network | A | Venture Capital | |
| Oct. 2005 | Marc Andreessen | A | Angel / Individual | |
| Oct. 2005 | Reid Hoffman | A | Angel / Individual | |
| Oct. 2005 | Ron Conway | A | Angel / Individual | |
| Oct. 2005 | Mike Maples | A | Angel / Individual | |
| Oct. 2005 | Al Avery | A | Angel / Individual | |
| Oct. 2005 | Floodgate Fund, L.P. | A | Venture Capital | |
| Details | Total Round A $2,800,000 | |||
| Dec. 2006 | View | B | Venture Capital | |
| Dec. 2006 | View | B | Venture Capital | |
| Details | Total Round B View | |||
| Sep. 2008 | View | C | Venture Capital | |
| Sep. 2008 | View | C | Venture Capital | |
| Sep. 2008 | View | C | Venture Capital | |
| Sep. 2008 | View | C | Corporate | |
| Details | Total Round C View | |||
| Jul. 2011 | View | D | ||
| Details | Total Round D View | |||
| Total of Funding Shown Above View | ||||
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Privately-held Digg, Inc. is a community news website built around popularity ranking of user-suggested internet content. Since its founding in late 2004 by Kevin Rose, Digg has grown into one of the most popular sources of information on the web. Digg has been made into a social news website made for people to discover and share contents from anywhere on the internet either by submitting links and stories or voting and commenting on the submitted links and stories. Voting stories is the major process which is done up and down in the site"s cornerstone function, respectively called "digging".
Digg as a social content website is divided into two major sections: "Popular" and "Upcoming" stories. Content is submitted by users is first directed to the "Upcoming" stories section where it is published for other users to read and to vote on (or "Digg") what they like best. If a story receives enough votes, or Diggs, then it is moved to the "Popular" section and… Continue Reading →
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