# AllBusiness.com Acquired By Dun & Bradstreet For $55 Million - Host: [gigaom.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/gigaom.com/) - Saved: December 4, 2007 (2007-12-05T00:05:46Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f3d6557a0944/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f3d6557a0944.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Online business resource AllBusiness.com has been acquired by Dun & Bradstreet for approximately $55 million to enhance its internet presence. The site will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the veteran commercial info company with Kathy Yates remaining as CEO. Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) expects the acquisition to generate about $10 million of incremental revenue in 2008, according to AP. A $55 million price tag isn't shabby but this one is attached to a site once sold for $225 million. It was founded in 1999 with $20 million in VC funds and was sold to GE subsidiary NBC Internet Inc, in 2000 for a pre-bubble $225 million. In 2002, it was sold to a private entity that thought it could be rescued, and went back to start-up phase. AllBusiness.com raised $12.4 million in third-round funding in early 2006; the round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures and included strategic investor Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) Ventures. VantagePoint Venture Partners took part in that round and contributed a $10 million second round in 2004 although the company only used $5 million. At the time, VantagePoint managing director David Carlick said they thought AllBusiness.com "is poised to become the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) for small business." That hasn't quite happened despite bringing in first Peter Horan as CEO and MarketWatch veteran Yates as COO , then CEO when Horan left for IAC, (NSDQ: IACI) although the site was able to boost traffic and move to a new level. And the price doesn't come close to the $345 million in cash plus earnout RH Donnelley paid for Business.com, the info, directory and search site, just a few months ago. The $7.5 million Skye Dayton and Jake Winebaum paid in 1999 was then the largest ever for a singe domain name. The company raised $10 million in funding in 2004 and kept building value. -- AllBusiness.com claims an "audience of more than 2 million business decision makers" and a library of "more than 2 million pieces of business information including articles, videos, blogs, forms and agreements." Related Industry Moves: Peter Horan Leaving AllBusiness.com To Head IAC's Media And Advertising Group AllBusiness.com Notches $12.4 Million In Series C Funding Industry Moves: Former MarketWatch COO Yates Joins AllBusiness.com Interview: Peter Horan, CEO, AllBusiness.com Industry Moves: Peter Horan New CEO, AllBusiness.com ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [News CorpFox Close To Deal With Apple For iTunes Movies: Report](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/15e052b40b8e/) (gigaom.com, December 3, 2007) - [Beliefnet Being Bought By News Corp; Cable Ties Possible; Not Buying LinkedIn](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/92a3c059a97a/) (gigaom.com, December 4, 2007) - [How will HD Radio fare in 2008?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/110c36c2d788/) (gigaom.com, December 9, 2007) - [Twitter's Summer Funding: $4.8 Million of a $5.4 Million Round](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3b4c3e88ada9/) (gigaom.com, December 10, 2007) - [The Exit Interview: WSJ Publisher Gordon Crovitz](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/51ab431b754b/) (gigaom.com, December 10, 2007) ## Saved the same week - [Brilliant bubble 2.0 video](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/80b612c1f89e/) (fakesteve.blogspot.com, December 4, 2007) - [Beliefnet Being Bought By News Corp; Cable Ties Possible; Not Buying LinkedIn](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/92a3c059a97a/) (gigaom.com, December 4, 2007) - [Kindle: As the Airlines Try to Keep Up](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9dcac88bf226/) (ricksegal.typepad.com, December 4, 2007) - [The Ghosts Of Web 1.0 Are Being Acquired: AllBusiness.com Sells For $55 Million](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8f9ad279a32b/) (techcrunch.com, December 4, 2007) - [Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9bd9da0f5548/) (techcrunch.com, December 4, 2007) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gigaom.com/2007/12/04/419-allbusinesscom-acquired-by-dun-bradstreet-for-about-55-million/