Diffbot Raises $2 Million Angel Round For Web Content Extraction Technology

Diffbot, the super-geeky/awesome visual learning robot technology which aims to "see" the web the way that people do, is today announcing a new infusion of capital. The company has closed $2 million in funding from a number of technology veterans, including EarthLink founder Sky Dayton;?Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems;?Joi Ito, Director of MIT Media Lab;?Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of YouSendIt (and formerly of TechCrunch parent company AOL), Maynard Webb, LiveOps CEO, formerly eBay COO; Elad Gil,?VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter;?Jonathan Heiliger, former VP of Technical Operations at Facebook; Redbeacon co-founder?Aaron Lee; and founder of VitalSigns?Montgomery Kersten. Matrix Partners also participated in the round. Of the new investors, Sky Dayton will be the first to join Diffbot's board and will be taking an active role in the company, including plans to go hands-on with various Diffbot projects.

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