"Slide made some of the hottest programs running on Facebook and News Corp's (Other OTC:NWSAF.PK - News) MySpace, including media-sharing applications Slide Shows, Top Friends, SuperPoke! and FunWall.
Max Levchin, its Ukranian-born and Chicago-raised founder, declined to name the investors. But sources close to the deal said they were Fidelity Investments and T Rowe Price (NasdaqGS:TROW - News).
The round is nearly 10 times the size of the median round of $5.18 million for Web 2.0 firms in the first half of 2007, according to Dow Jones investment tracking unit VentureOne.
This follows the roughly $500 million recently raised by Facebook from Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, giving it an implied $15 billion valuation.
Slide, incorporated in 2005, was originally self-funded by Levchin, 32, who co-founded online payments company PayPal a decade ago. He later took funding from Peter Thiel, the other founder of PayPal, which eBay Inc (NasdaqGS:EBAY - News) bought in 2002.
Subsequent funding for San Francisco-based Slide was provided by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists Mayfield Fund, former Nokia (Helsinki:NOK1V.HE - News) venture arm BlueRun Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund, Thiel's venture fund."
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