• By Nicholas Carlson
    Mar 13, 2008 1:40 PM 776
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    Casual games maker for "Ohio shut-ins" gets $83.3 milllion
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    Balderton Capital partners cashed a $140 million check from AOL today and you didn't

    BaldertonPartners.jpgAOL's new social network Bebo is based in San Francisco, but it does most of its business in Europe. So it's fitting that Benchmark Capital's spun-off European wing — Balderton Capital, led by Irishman Barry Maloney — took home the $140 million jackpot. Maloney and his partners sold the firm's entire 15.7 stake in Bebo, which they purchased for $15 million back in 2006.


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