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el 15-Sep-2008 |  Union Square Ventures adds another blogging-related software company to their portfolio: The VC firm's latest investment is Slovenia- and London-based Zemanta, a service that makes blogging "simpler and easier," according to USV's Fred Wilson:
Currently, Zemanta suggests stories/posts/research you might want to read as you compose your post, images you might want to include in the post, words you might want to hyperlink out with, and tags for search engines and other services to use to discover your content. A number of us at Union Square Ventures have been using the Zemanta service for several months and we universally like it and have found that we feel less equipped when we try to blog without it. I used the Zemanta service to add the related links at the end of this post and several of the links in it.
Why invest in Zemanta? Wilson is particularly interested in the recommendation engine -- "AdWords for content creators" -- and says he's eager to see Zemanta open that engine to other Web apps and services, like text and graphical ads, affiliate links, video, quotes, music, etc.
USV joins UK investors Eden Ventures and The Accelerator Group for Zemanta's seed round; the investment will fund a U.S.-based bizdev team in the SF and NY areas.
By the way, have you heard of any other US-based VCs investing in Slovenia? Fred hasn't:
This is our second investment in Europe and it is possibly the first investment in a Slovenian tech company by a US venture capital investor. So we are making a bit of history here and that's exciting too. The founders of Zemanta, Bo tjan peti? and Andra? Tori, are leading members of the Slovenian tech community and have built an amazing team of developers.
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Following on investments in Feedburner, Tacoda, Twitter, Bug Labs, Etsy, Indeed, and about a dozen other thriving companies, USV just invested in Meetup. Brad says the firm's next batch of investments will likely follow this "Web Meets World" theme:
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| The Power Of Google Juice |  When you type fred wilson into google, you get my blog as the first result. It's been that way for the past three or four years. You also get my bio on the Union Square Ventures weblog, [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Jun-2008 by Silicon in General
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| NYT, Meet USV | | One of Silicon Alley Insider's unspoken assumptions is that our readers know who Fred Wilson, Brad Burnham, and the rest of the Union Square Ventures team are, and care a lot about what they think and do. That's why we write about them all the time, and why we're happy to run Fred's posts as often as possible. But if you need a refresher course, here's the NYT:
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| Search Ad Firm Clickable Makes Executive Hires | | New York-based search marketing firm Clickable made a number of hires from Google, Microsoft, Leapfrog Online, and Boeing. The company, which makes software to manage search ad campaigns, raised a $6 million Series A funding round from Union Square Ventures and Pequot Ventures in December. The new hires include:
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