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Last activity: 21.07.2011

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Acquired by Naspers. Owner and operator of a social shopping site Multiply.com. The company offers its members integrated media management and social shopping solution with tools that allow them to shop, and share personal content safely and securely with a relevant audience, enabling members to share photos, videos, and blogs.

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Location: United States, Florida, Boca Raton

Total raised: $16.6M

Valuation: $100M

Investors 2

Date	Name	Website
-	Western Te...	westerntec...
-	VantagePoi...	vpcp.com

Funding Rounds 1

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
06.09.2007	-	$16.6M	-

Mentions in press and media 25

Date	Title	Description
21.07.2011	g++: Google Acquires Privacy-Centric Social Network ‘Fridge’	When Google+ launched late last month, touting a heavy focus on privacy and making sure you’re only sharing content with the people you mean to, my mind drifted back to a pair of startups that launched with similar ambitions. Specifically: ...
20.09.2010	The Best Social Network You’ve Never Heard of Gets Bought Out	Multiply.com, a well-designed social network that emphasizes different levels of privacy and has a super-loyal fan base, has sold a controlling interest in its company to South African media company Naspers. Joseph Tartakoff of PaidContent ...
20.09.2010	Naspers Buys Controlling Interest In Media Sharing, Social Shopping Site Multiply	The Myriad International Holdings unit of Naspers has acquired a controlling interest in social networking and shopping site operator Multiply, we’ve learned. Multiply will continue to operate under the same management team. This company wa...
20.10.2009	rrripple: A Touchscreen-Friendly Hub For Storing And Securely Sharing Your Media	We’ve seen plenty of sites emerge over the last few years that are built around helping users share media: Facebook is the largest photo sharing site on the planet, but there’s also media-centric sites like Flickr that have devoted followin...
26.05.2009	Multiply 4.0: Social Network Photo Sharing Done Right	Multiply, a social network with a heavy focus on sharing media with friends and family, is getting a major upgrade at 10 AM tomorrow, introducing an overhauled (and much improved) interface, extensive photo editing functionality, a fully in...
07.04.2009	Who Has The Most Photos Of Them All? Hint: It Is Not Facebook	Photo-sharing on the Web keeps getting more popular as people transfer more of their digital photos from their the black holes of their computer hard drives to social networks where their friends and family can actually see them. Although F...
18.02.2009	MediaTemple Reboots Impressive Virb Social Network, Launches A Venture Fund	Virb, a social network that melds some of the customization options seen on MySpace with a mature and media-heavy atmosphere, has just launched a completely overhauled version of its service. The new site sports a very attractive new interf...
17.11.2008	Multiply Gets $100M Valuation As Southeast Asian Media Conglomerate Buys 5% Stake	Philippines-based media company ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation has paid $5 million for a 5% stake in Multiply, the media-centric social network with a userbase primarily composed of adults. The investment pegs Multiply’s valuation at $100...
12.11.2008	Multiply Launches Collaborative Professional Photo Printing	Multiply, a social network largely geared towards adults, has launched a new set of printing features that allow members to order professional prints of their photos directly from their online albums and those of their friends. Available ph...
15.10.2008	Confirmed: Microsoft Gives Up On MSN Groups, Hands It Off To Multiply	We’ve received confirmation that Microsoft is handing over the reins to its MSN Groups property to the social network Multiply. Microsoft is planning to release a new service called Windows Live Groups in November, and apparently doesn’t wa...
25.06.2008	Multiply: The Social Network That Backs Up Your Media, Too	Multiply, a media-heavy social network geared towards adults, has introduced a new backup system that will backup users’ videos and photos at full resolution. The premium service will cost users $20 per year for an unlimited amount of stora...
16.06.2008	Webjam Introduces Portable Mini Feeds, Friends Lists	http://www.webjam.com/techcrunch/~ShowBadge?title=markmhx%20on%20Webjam&location=true&activity=true&webjams=true&friends=true Widgets are the most consumer-friendly means toward data portability. Users who want to establish ...
07.11.2007	Multiply Big In The Philippines, Lands Ad Deal	Multiply has been growing rather quietly internationally. The social media aggregator now has 7 million registered users and 10.5 million monthly unique visitors according to their internal numbers, nearly triple their 2006 traffic. Comscor...
07.09.2007	Multiply.com Raises $16.6 Million	Multiply.com is a social network that claims it has 6 million members. The company also said that 1.25 million and thirteen thousand videos are added per day.
06.09.2007	Multiply, social networking for 30-somethings, raises $16.6M	Multiply, a social network aimed at 30-somethings, has just announced additional venture funding of $16.6 million The Boca Raton, Florida-based Multiply struggled after launching in late 2003. It was part of the early pack of social network...
21.06.2007	e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know	One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning. We’ve covered this topic extensively on Read/WriteWeb – and so we’re pleased to bring you this overview of e-learning 2.0...
16.01.2007	Twango Tackles Lucrative Media Sharing Market	Twango is a new media sharing service, for video, photos and other media. It’s similar to eSnips, Multiply and PeopleAggregator, in that it combines media sharing with social networking. Twango was founded by a group of 5 ex-Microsoft emplo...
16.11.2006	Let's Get This Party Started!	The TechCrunch New York Party kicks off in three hours, 7 PM EST, at BED in Manhattan. The final guest list is here, although it doesn’t include sponsor attendees and press. All attendees should have received an email confirmation of the pa...
13.11.2006	The New Multiply 3.0 vs. Vox	Privacy-centric multimedia social networking service Multiply is releasing what it calls version 3.0 of its service tonight; Multiply targets users who are interested in sharing content with people they know in real life and exercising stro...
27.10.2006	Update on TechCrunch NY Event: Wait List Opened	The 450 slots we opened up for the TechCrunch New York party on November 16, 2006 were sold out in about four hours. We know a certain number of people won’t show up, so we are now opening up a wait list for additional guests. Here’s the co...
07.10.2006	Weekly Wrap-up: Social Networking Special	For those busy souls who don’t have time to read blogs on a regular basis, here are the highlights from Read/WriteWeb this week. It turned out to be a Social Networking special, with a lot of our posts devoted to the future of social networ...
03.10.2006	Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet	Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Note: there is also a poll at end of this post, which we invite you to participate in. MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the headlines again; Bebo is growing incred...
26.07.2006	Smart Social Networks	Written by Ken Yarmosh and edited by Richard MacManus. In the real world we usually keep the professional and personal parts of our lives separate – e.g. when you meet someone you might hand them your business card, but you probably won’t t...
14.07.2006	Multiply closes first funding round	Online social network Multiply has closed a Series A funding round with $5 million from Transcosmos and $1 million from the company’s founders. Multiply is a service that filters all networking functions, from highlighted users to visible t...
03.07.2006	FileMobile raises the bar for multimedia sharing	FileMobile is a new service for storing, sharing and creating media files online. It’s a flash based site that’s in alpha mode until September. The site supports video, photos, audio and documents. There’s a flash uploader, email by phone a...

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Investors 2

Funding Rounds 1

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