Amazon.coms CEO is testing the Web 2.0 waters with a series of internet-related investments.He backed search engine ChaChas in its $6 million Series A investment round through Bezos Expiditions this past week.
Amazon, through Amazon NV Investment Holdings, invested in Wikias $10 million Series B in December, presumably to help the for-profit sister of Wikipedia launch its Wikisari search engine.
Jeff Bezos is a limited partner in OReilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) a firm formed as a partner to book publisher and Web2.0 Summit convener OReilly Media. Bezos is one of the 19 investors that have pooled $34.3 million toward OATVs first fund through Explore Holdings, an investment fund run by his executive assistant Elizabeth Korrell.
Explore Holdings was also an investor in iRobots (Nasdaq:IRBT) $10 million Series F in 2004. Bezos is also invested in aerospace company Blue Origin.
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