Hunch gets $10 million from Khosla Ventures, others | Digital Media - hot News
Hunch, a buzzy start-up that answers questions using crowdsourced recommendations, has resolved one query of its own: who's going to fund our B round? Sources tell me that Khosla Ventures is leading a new round that will add another $10 million to $12 million to the start-up's bank account. General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Ron Conway, who put $2 million into the company a year ago, are reinvesting. I'm told that Gideon Yu, the former chief financial officer of both Facebook and YouTube, is steering the investment for Khosla. Hunch was co-founded by Caterina Fake, who founded Flickr and sold it to Yahoo in 2005, and Chris Dixon, who built SiteAdvisor and sold it to McAfee in 2006. Hunch is still a modest-sized site--its internal numbers put it at 1.2 million unique visitors--but Fake and Dixon are well-regarded entrepreneurs. And while they don't like to be compared with Aardvark, which has a vaguely similar concept, the linkage does have some upside: last month, Google bought that site for $50 million. I asked Fake, Dixon, and Yu for comment. Until I hear from them, you can read up on Hunch in Kara Swisher's story from last month. Or you can watch this interview. Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved. Additional stories from AllThingsD8a
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