Nextdoor, a hyper-local social network that launched in October 2011, today rolled out a second version and announced a $21.6-million round of funding.
Here Comes the Neighborhood: Nextdoor Hyper-Local Social Network Gains Traction
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Sequoia Capital managing member Michael Moritz was appointed to the board of directors at LinkedIn, replacing Mark Kvamme, who relinquished the board seat he had held since 2003.
Moritz has been with Sequoia for 25 years, and he has served o the boards of Flextronics, Yahoo!, PayPal, and Google.
Kvamme joined the LinkedIn board in 2003, when Sequoia became the professional networking site’s first outside investor. He will become director of the Ohio Department of Development.
The other LinkedIn board members are Skip Battle, Reid Hoffman, Leslie Kilgore, Stan Meresman, and David Sze.
And Then There Were Seven: LinkedIn Adds Stan Meresman to Board
Professional network LinkedIn added a seventh member to its board of directors, welcoming former Technology Crossover Ventures general partner and chief operating officer and Silicon Graphics senior vice president and chief financial officer Stan Meresman.
Meresman is also on the boards of Riverbed Technology, Meru Networks, and HyTrust, and he previously served on the boards of Polycom, VMware, Starfish Software, and Lightsurf, and as an advisor to Silicon Image, Inktomi, and RealNetworks.
He joins A. George “Skip” Battle, Reid Hoffman, Leslie Kilgore, Mark Kvamme, David Sze, and Jeff Weiner on the LinkedIn board.
