Minor Ventures was a

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

firm that backs early-stage tech and media companies. The company was founded in 2005 by

CNET ''CNET'' (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally. ''CNET'' originally produced content for radio and televi ...

co-founder

Halsey Minor Halsey McLean Minor Sr. is an American businessman who is known for founding CNET in 1993, the first comprehensive consumer-facing technology content publisher. He is also the founder or co-founder of the technology companies such as the virtual ...

and run by Ron Palmeri from its founding until August 2010. The firm was based in

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Investments

As of December 2007, Minor Ventures had assisted the following companies: * 8020 Publishing — Produces the hybrid web-print magazines JPG and Everywhere. *

GrandCentral Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. phone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace (G Suite by October 2020) customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switz ...

— A web-based service allowing users to use a single phone number with multiple devices; acquired by

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in July 2007, relaunched in March 2009 as

Google Voice Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. phone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace (G Suite by October 2020) customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switz ...

. * Kareo — A web-based billing service for physicians. * Minor Studios — A currently defunct creative studio responsible for the game ''Atmosphir''. *

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— A free

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service provider. *

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— An ad revenue service for

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s. * Swivel — An

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for sharing data, graphs, and maps. * Scout Labs — A

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monitoring & analysis service launched in February 2009.

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