SlideShare, Inc., an online community for sharing presentations, has secured $3 million in series A funding, led by Venrock. As part of this round, SlideShare will be adding David Siminoff, a general partner at Venrock, to its board of directors.
Siminoff joins an esteemed group of SlideShare investors and advisory board, including Hal R. Varian, chief economist at Google; Guy Kawasaki, founder, Truemors and Alltop and managing director of Garage Technology Ventures; Ross Mayfield, co-founder and chairman at Socialtext; Dave McClure, startup advisor and angel investor; Marc Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com; Ariel Poler, internet entrepreneur and investor; Yee Lee, entrepreneur and startup advisor; Jonathan Abrams, founder and CEO at Socializr and Saul Klein, founding partner of The Accelerator Group.
SlideShare will use the financing to expand its San Francisco operations, invest in product development and accelerate customer adoption. Using SlideShare, individuals and organizations can easily upload presentations for free, to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses. Anyone on the web can find presentations on topics that interest them. They can also tag, download, or embed presentations into their own blogs, websites, or social networks. Slideshows can be shared publicly or privately, and can be combined with audio to make “slidecastsâ€.
Originally posted on May 8, 2008 @ 12:37 pm