April 7th, 2009

PopSugar Launches March Madness For Celebrities: PopSugar100

Sugar Inc.’s flagship celebrity news and photo blog,
PopSugar, has launched its 3rd annual PopSugar 100 tournament. It’s kind of like the NCAA’s March Madness, except this single-elimination contest is meant to determine who the most popular celebrities are in a given year.

PopSugar chose 128 celebrities and divided them into four groups and then ranked them from 1 to 32. The potential PopSugar… → Read More

October 16th, 2006

Sequoia Invests in Blog Network Sugar Publishing

Blog network Sugar Publishing (the most popular blog in the network is PopSugar) has raised “around $5 million” in a Series A round investment from Sequoia Capital. Michael Moritz will join the Team Sugar board of directors. No word on the valuation, although I suspect it’s in the $12-15 million range pre-money. Like all good rumors, the source of this one is a venture capitalist… → Read More

August 17th, 2006

Hear About PopSugar Yet?

If you haven’t heard of San Francisco-based PopSugar yet, prepare yourself. You are going to start hearing about them a lot in the mainstream press. They are a blog network, and more recently a social network, targeting young, hip women (as well as a few guys that want to hang out with young, hip women). PopSugar was founded by husband-and-wife team Lisa and Brian Sugar. Lisa began blogging… → Read More