Valleywag gives Loic Le Muir a hard time as he raises $6million from A list angels, including our old friend Reid Hoffman. I clicked on Seesmic site but no action. Valleywag quotes the press release shown below. Could you raise this sort of money in the Cambridge Cluster?
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 14, 2008 – Seesmic, the highly anticipated new start-up from Loic Le Meur, today announced that it has raised $6 million from internationally renowned investors. The investment is lead by Atomico – an investment group founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. The complete list of investors is:
* Michael Arrington – Founder, TechCrunch
* Steve Case – Co-Founder and former CEO and Chairman, AOL
* Jeff Clavier – Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
* Ron Conway – Early investor, Google
* Steve Garfield – Pioneering video blogger
* Dan Gillmor – Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship
* Reid Hoffman – Founder, LinkedIn
* Michael Parekh – Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
* Mark Pincus – Co-Founder and former Chairman and CEO, SupportSoft
* Ariel Poler – Founder and former CEO, IPRO and Topica
* Jeff Pulver – Chairman and Founder, Pulver.com
* Martin Varsavsky – Founder, FON
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