Facebook has raised $500m for further expansion from Goldman Sachs and Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies in a deal that values the dominant social network at $50bn.
That valuation, which implies Facebook is now worth more than Time Warner or Yahoo, is about double the amount indicated by private sales of the company’s stock on secondary markets just five months ago.
People involved said on Monday that Goldman was providing $375m and DST $125m. All the money will go to Facebook itself and none to staff, who have been able to take part in some past transactions. The deal puts a value of $100 on each of Facebook’s 500m users.
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