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Estimated Value: $200 million

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Business: A video hosting and streaming site. Strong in Europe.

Location: Palo Alto, California

CEO: Erick Hachenburg

Investors: Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Highland Capital Partners

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Analysis: One of the few non-YouTube video sites that will likely survive the video shakeout, at least in some form. Metacafe pays some of its content partners. According to TV Week, the company has paid out more than a million dollars to producers and is looking to further expand its original offerings.

Metacafe was ranked as the third place independent video provider in January 2008, with 20.6 million views, per comScore. We expect to see a wave of consolidation in this space, and we believe Metacafe could fetch perhaps $200 million.

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