Monthly Archives: August 2007

Interview with American Venture Magazine

American Venture interviews Zivity co-founder Cyan Banister. How will Zivity photography be clean enough for squeamish investors yet exciting enough to drive traffic? How will the models and photographers profit?
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The SF Chronicle gets hip to Zivity

“Taking it off for the Web”
Zivity, a social-networking startup that invites users to rate sexy photos submitted by other users, said Tuesday that it had raised $1 million.
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Techcrunch

Zivity: Silicon Valley Elite Dabble in Adult Content
by Michael Arrington
Porn is big business, and the industry has been quick to adapt by copying successful features of new consumer Internet sites. But one thing we haven’t seen until now: respected Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors taking a direct interest in funding or running these sites.
The potential […]

Zivity:VentureBeat Funding Announcement

Zivity, a new adult social network start-up, has raised a $1 million round of seed capital from Silicon Valley investors — as it prepares for launch.
It’s not a porn site…Rather, it likens itself to a mixture of MySpace and Playboy magazine with popularity/voting features thrown in.
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