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Tempo - Thursday, December 16
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta - Twitter has completed a new financing of U.S. $ 200 million (USD 1.8 trillion) with firm value of U.S. $ 3.7 billion (Rp 33 trillion). Kleiner Perkins touted to be the main investor.
Sources told the San Francisco microblogging service that also adds two new board members: Mike McCue of Flipboard and former head of DoubleClick David Rosenblatt.
Twitter has recently added a former Netscape executive Peter Currie to the board of directors.
A spokesman for Twitter confirm funding and appointment of the council, but declined to comment further.
The move represents a big step for Twitter, which moved quickly to improve management and business model under CEO Dick Costolo. Cash that will definitely help the start-up expansion efforts.
Costolo wrote in his blog: "This week we added two new members to the board of directors of Twitter that has strong experience running technology companies: Mike McCue and David Rosenblatt. Mike CEO of Tellme Networks, now CEO at Flipboard and also worked for Netscape and Microsoft ( which acquired Tellme in 2007). David is a former CEO of DoubleClick and a former Google executive. "
"We also closed a new round of funding is significant, with new investors Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers led the round," added Costolo.
Previously, Kleiner partner John Doerr, was mentioned has been trying hard to fund Twitter, Global DST defeat of Russia.
Kleiner is a new investor in the last round, bringing total funding to $ 360 million (USD 3.2 trillion) since its inception about five years ago.
Silicon Valley company, which has been aggressively moving into Web 2.0 these days, invest U.S. $ 150 million, and the remaining U.S. $ 50 million came from existing investors.
Other investors include Benchmark Capital, Union Square Venture Partners, Spark Capital and several other venture firms and other investors.
All Things Digital
Erwin Z
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