Nextdoor Announces $18.6 Million in Funding As It Brings Community Back to Neighborhoods
Summary
Nextdoor, the private social network for the neighborhood that we covered earlier this year, has raised $18.6 million in a new round of financing from Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners and Shasta Ventures. Other investors include Allen & Company and Pinnacle Ventures, along with individual investors Rich Barton, Anthony Noto and Dave Goldberg.We believe we are building a real world community by using technology to meet the people you live close to, noted Nirav Tolia, Co-Founder and CEO of Nextdoor. Nextdoors site provides a Facebook wall-like forum for general topics, a Craigslist-like listing for buying, selling or giving away things and a database for neighbor-recommended local services.Nextdoor is not the place to post pictures of your recent family vacation, Tolia explains. The platform strongly emphasizes privacy and quality of interaction.As your life changes and you get older, where you live becomes an integral part of who you are, says Tolia. The following infographic from Nextdoor explains more about what happens when neighbors start talking:Guest author Stephanie Nguyen loves digital storytelling, the data way.
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