Round Two Nails Round One

Om Malik, Thursday, May 26, 2005 at 5:07 PM PT Comments (5)

Bart Decrem, a Mozilla alumnus has just nailed funding for his start-up, Round Two. The company got off the ground in April 2005. The funding has come from Bessemer Ventures. It is a small round - said to be in the $0.75-to-$1.5 million range. The company is building a new Firefox browser with special focus on security initially and other add-ons later. More details later. Back in the day, Decrem co-founded Eazel, an open source start-up that was creating a UI for Linux.

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May 27th, 2005
7:39 AM PT
SiliconBeat said:

Round Two scores Round One

Bart Decrem, the Mozilla employee who recently left to form his own start-up, has scored seed funding for his company, called Round Two, according to Om. The company, which started up last month, got money from Bessemer Ventures — said to be in the $0…

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[...] Flock was originally called Round Two and raised money (reportedly around $1 million) from Bessemer Venture Partners. For more on the fundraising and early reports, see Om Malik and SiliconBeat. [...]

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May 27th, 2005
9:38 AM PT

At least now someone knows what the business model will be, since Round Two are surely quiet on the ways they intend to make money.

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