The five-year-old professional networking site, LinkedIn, which yesterday received a valuation of $1 billion by investors, has received $53 million in venture capital funding by Bain Investors and and three other investors in exchange for a 5% stake in the Silicon Valley company.
It’s one of the highest valuations for a Silicon Valley start-up since Facebook’s $15 billion dollar valuation by Microsoft last year.
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