June 30, 2010 Leave a comment
This should be called top “consumer” internet exits. As a rule to qualify the exit must have a sales price > 100mm. There were very few in the 2001-2005 area, so this is most of them in the last decade. Please feel free to comment and I will include it. Current count: 32 exits.
1. Advertising (4.4 B in exits)
- Tacoda (270 M AOL) July 2007
- Right Media (680 M Yahoo) July 2007
- Blue Lithium (300 M Yahoo) Sept 2007
- Quigo (340 M AOL) Dec 2007
- Adify (300 M Cox) Apr 2008
- Admob (750 M Google) Nov 2009
- Quatro (275 M Apple) Jan 2010
- QuinnStreet (853 M IPO) Jan 2010
- ReachLocal ( 386 M IPO) May 2010
- iCrossing (325 M Hearst) June 2010
2. Ecommerce (4.3B exits)
- LowerMyBills (330M Experian) May 2005
- Shopzilla (525M Scripps) June 2005
- Shopping.com (634 M eBay) Aug 2005
- PriceGrabber (485 M Experian) Dec 2005
- StubHub (310M Ebay)
- BillMeLater (820 M eBay) Oct 2008
- Zappos (890 M Amazon) July 2009
- Woot (100 M Amazon) June 2010
- NetQuote (200M Bankrate) June 2010
- CreditCards (100M Bankrate) June 2010
3. Social Networks (1.8 B in exits)
- Myspace/intermix (650 M NewsCorp) July 2005
- Xing (200 M IPO) Dec 2006
- Studievz ( 112M Hollzpring) Jan 2007
- Bebo (890 M AOL) Mar 2008
4. Video/Photo (total 1.7BB exits)
- YouTube (1.5 B Google) Oct 2005
- Divx (435 M IPO) Sep 2006
- PhotoBucket (250 M NewsCorp) May 2007
5. Games (625M exits)
- xFire (102 M Viacom) April 2006
- Harmonix (175 M Viacom) Sept 2006
- Playfish (350 M EA) Nov 2009
6. Content / Directories (570M in exits)
- Business.com (345MM RR Donnelly) May 2007
- Daily Candy (120M Comcast) Aug 2008
- Associated Content (100M Yahoo) May 2010
7. Music (280M in exits)
- LastFM (280 M CBS) May 2007
