May 2nd, 2013

Despite A Staff Shakeup, AOL Ventures Lives On With Co-Founder Jon Brod At The Helm

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Fortune reported earlier today that Mike Brown Jr. and much of the team that ran AOL’s venture funding arm have formed their own VC firm — Bowery Capital — that aims to find and fund enterprise-friendly startups. While it’s somewhat heartening to see a new firm set up shop in New York City, there’s another weighty question here that hasn’t been answered yet: now that nearly all of its… → Read More

January 15th, 2013

Hipster’s Doug Ludlow Joins AOL Ventures As Its First ‘Innovation Partner’

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Doug Ludlow, formerly the CEO of AOL-acquired photosharing startup Hipster, is leaving the company’s mobile team (where he was a senior director) to become the first innovation partner at AOL Ventures.

Since this is a new role, it sounds like a lot of the details are going to be figured out on-the-job. Ludlow said the position arose from discussions he had with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and AOL… → Read More