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Techcrunch 40, where are they now?

21 pointsjeffrese12 comments

Which companies from Techcrunch 40 besides mint.com are doing well? And is mint.com really doing all that well?

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It's too early to tell, but here's what's happened so far:

powerset acquired $100mm 7/08

cubic telecom acquired $6mm 1/08

viewdle additional funding 3/08

yap series A $6.5mm 6/08

flock seies D $15mm 5/08

docstoc series B $3.25mm 4/08

mint series B $12mm 3/08

clickable series B $14.5mm 7/08

pubmatic series A $7mm 1/08

zocdoc series A $3mm 8/08

befunky series A $550k 6/08

flowplay series A $3.7mm 2/08

metaplace launched 3/08

woome series B $12.5mm 6/08

zivity series B $7mm 3/08

kaltura series B ?? 6/08

I don't think Powerset got acquired because of their TC50 appearance. :)

I also don't think series A, B, Q or Z funding should be a measure of success.

What about TC40 DemoPit companies?

Cubic Telecom were not acquired. It would have been big news here in Ireland if they had been. You can see from the founder's blog that they actually just partnered with Global Roaming: http://patphelan.net/cubic-telecom-and-global-roaming-allign...

If anything, it seems like they have completely lost focus on their original, supposedly revolutionary offering and instead fallen back on roaming SIM cards (not so exciting).

Their Crunchbase profile incorrectly states they were acquired (how convenient) and the ostensible acquisition value is oddly similar to the total amount of capital they've raised: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cubictelecom

The TechCrunch40 list is here: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2007/

... just in case you forgot the names.

Xobni has gotten quite a bit of very favorable press. I don't know enough about their market or their product to say whether they're doing well...but the acquisition overtures from MS seem to be indicative of something good.

And, I suspect Mint will be a huge success story. It's a gigantic market, and Quicken leaves a lot of room at the bottom (and, frankly, Quicken fails the online thing in so many regards that even if Mint were to cost more, it'd probably still gather some customers...but Mint is dramatically cheaper than Quicken, practically infinitely so).

Flock and Docstoc had some good press a while back. But, I don't really recognize any of the other names. And, other than Mint, I've never used any of them (and I knew about, and was a fan of, Mint before TC40).

I would love to have xobni for my thunderbird/Mail.app on OSX (I don't really want to move to outlook just for it on the mac, if outlook even runs on the mac??).

You can see http://www.crunchbase.com/conference/2007 for funding and exit information for the 2007 companies. You can also see the companies' investors, as well as the list of experts for the 2007 event.

IF TC 40 was a VC what would be their rate of return?

You can't know yet. It's only been a year. The average exit for a VC-backed venture in the valley takes seven years. Very few companies, even those with smaller angel or seed level investment, have an exit within a year.

Viewdle is very, very cool. http://www.viewdle.com

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