Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur wrote a long blog post about his $6 million Series A round of funding today (I am an investor in this company). Most of the round was taken by Atomico (founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis), and rounded out with a long list of angel investors. Much of this was reported late last year.
This is Loic’s fourth or fifth startup, but his first in the U.S. (he’s French). Seesmic, a video-focused startup that is very twitter-like in its ability to facilitate random discussions, is doing well in its closed beta period. We aren’t covering it much given the conflict of interest, but this is a company I expect great things from, which is why I invested. See Dave Winer, VentureBeat, Mark Evans, Ryan Stewart, TheNextWeb and others for their thoughts.
Mike get some sleep. Do you nap all day?
Congrats to Loic Le Meur. Very interesting service.Good integration with twitter
” but this is a company I expect great things from which is why I invested”
in other words Mike is hoping for a pay day!
mike have any of your investments had a ROI thus far?
Check out the new launched twitxr.com, it’s twitter+pictures+geolocation
We have a native iPhone client available on the official repositories from Installer.App (it’s under Network category)
plop ,
i think it may be roughly in the same space as youtube but it is totally different product. youtube is pretty passive for most visitors whereas seesmic is all about conversations. it has an incredible investor base and has a great chance of being a success.
ethics check, anyone? how can you write about companies you invest in? this is astonishing
Loic has done excellent PR, but Seesmic video conversations are very boring. Sorry! Community of what? Bored people with nothing to do.
I can understand bloggers think that the world evolves around them, but no one has time to watch junk video conversations. (unless, you belong to the bored and nothing to do community)
Would you watch this comment in video? Hey, I wouldn’t even read it, forget about watching!!
So it’s a bunch of people video posting themselves for themselves.
A bunch of people video posting themselves for themselves is called Vimeo. We already knew 4 years ago that doesn’t work.
Most of our friends do not watch TV anymore or watch it only with a laptop on their knees. TV will totally change in the future, while we are focusing on the high end video content.
No offense Mike, but you’re not really best known for your great investment insights.
This has D E A D P O O L written all over it…
Loic makes great PR and is well connected, but I agree, seesmic is boring, time consuming and has no idea how to make money. should you need a conversation, go out there to the next bar and start one. much better.
anyhow, let’s see how this one goes.
Mike can you share with us Seesmic’s plan to monetize?
A youtube for conversations, and a youtube for dancing. Quite an investment portfolio Mike. You got hammer for dancejam or whatever its called, why don’t you get an expert conversationalist for this one?
lol
the comments are funny, mine obviously wasn’t since you deleted it. Whats so bad about the deadpool word anyway?
Deadpools are the best.
I took everything I’ve read and think about Seesmic and put it here:
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/.....ion-today/