Become a partner in a huge web 2.0 site

The huge contextual platform LinkedWords, we are covering and using since its launch back in July 2006, went out this Saturday (March the 10th) with an ad in the The Economist looking for investors!

Below is an extraction from the page as found over here: http://linkedwords.com/admin/investors.html

LinkedWords.com™ is a unique and innovative concept built upon massive web 2.0 contextual platform. With 38 Million English words, phrases and whole sentences built-in, which web sites use to get contextually linked with, it aims to maximize the contextual linking on web.

Currently the platform is rapidly growing** and reshaping the way web sites do links on web by shifting the focus from off-text links (links outside the content / simple links) to in-text links (links in the context / contextual links). By linking strategic words in the text, web sites connect in a contextual way to LinkedWords.com's platform and to other sites with the same content, which results in dramatically increased web visibility and precisely targeted visitors for the sites involved. Our ambitious vision for the future is to start helping the common web users find information in the context of the subject they are reading by clicking on the same contextually... linked words.

We launched in July 2006 and since then the site had tremendous growth and the last month (February '07) it ended up with:

• More than 38 Million static pages;
• More than 5 Million+ page views;
• 1 Million+ visits;
• 200,000+ unique visitors;
• 226,000+ back links according to Yahoo!;
• 30,000+ contextual links (in-text linked words);
• 6/10 Google PageRank™;
• 300,000+ indexed pages;
• Alexa Ranking in the range of 8,000/16,000, the highest so far was 4,888;
• Quantcast measured traffic ~270,000 uniques/month.

The company has its own well-established back-end IT firm based in the European Union
Interested?

We are looking for one or two more private investors*** or partners*** to accelerate our growth further.

Email them at: info@linkedwords.com

*38,000,000 and counting web pages

**More than 5 Million+ page views (February '07)

***Only serious investors will be considered and replied further

Geni raised a $10 million

Seven week old Geni raised a $10 million second round of financing last week, led by Charles River Ventures with a post-money valuation of $100 million. George Zachary from CRV is joining the Geni board of directors.
This is a 10x increase in valuation for Geni. The company’s first round of financing, led by Founders Fund, was $1.5 million, at a $10 million post-money valuation.

Geni is a unique approach to solving the problem of genealogy, which is the question of how everyone is related. Geni lets you create a family tree through our fun simple interface. When you add a relative's email address, he or she will be invited to join your tree. That relative can then add other relatives, and so on. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives. more...

Colin Dowling has commented on:

This information is easy to monetize, even without repeat users. Need to send out wedding invitations or birth announcements? Pull the addresses from Genie. Putting together a family reunion? Pull the family info from Genie. Want to send an e-birthday card to your mom’s 2nd cousins daughter but don’t want to have to remember? Set Genie to do it for you.

Now, imagine if Genie had affiliates printing the wedding invites or birth announcements and mailing them out for you? Affiliates for making T-shirts for the family reunion. Affiliates for buying Christmas gifts and having them sent automatically…on and on and on.

Data about relationships between people is perhaps the most valuable kind of data there is simply because “relationships” lead to transactions, which can cost money. Genie is compiling a network of the most valuable of those relationships: family.

With that kind of early growth, they are going to really have to screw up not to be a nice, viable, profitable site. On the other hand, if they just cover it with Google Ads (LAZY), I’ll be the first to pile on.

On the other hand many other people and experts pointed out that there are other competitors in the field such as myfamily.com, ancestry.com, or CMGI and geni is not different from them aside the fact it uses flash, which makes it not better.

Mozes Raises $5m

SMS call-and-response service Mozes will announce in the morning that the company has raised $5 million in series A venture funding from Northwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.
Mozes connects you with your friends and the things you care about (it sounds like yet another social networking site). Your Mozes keyword is the easiest way to create and share content on your mobile phone.

There you can:

• Connect with your favorite bands
• Update your friends
• Text your friends from the weband send them quick polls

More...

The site: Mozes

More Funding for Brightcove

Brightcove Raises $59.5 million!

Brightcove, an online video platform and destination start-up has raised $59.5 million in new funding from strategic and large-scale institutional investors. The new investors include Maverick Capital, Brookside Capital, AllianceBernstein, The New York Times Company and Transcosmos. Existing investors such as Allen & Company, AOL, and Accel Partners participated in this round of financing.