Eons.com is a social networking site for baby boomers, launched by Monster.com

Monster.com

Monster.com is one of the largest employment websites in the world, owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. Monster is one of the 20 most visited websites out of 100 million worldwide, according to comScore Media Metrics...

 founder Jeff Taylor

Jeff Taylor

Jeff Taylor is a founder of the online jobs site Monster.com. He is a graduate of the program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In August 2005, he left Monster to found a new venture called Eons.com, a social networking website for people over age 50. In 2008, Taylor started...

 in July 2006. The site provides games, photo and video sharing, groups, how-to lists, interviews, links and information on health, relationships, fitness, debt, retirement and insurance.

Eons is backed by venture capital financing from General Catalyst Partners

General Catalyst Partners

General Catalyst Partners is a private equity firm focused on venture capital investments in early stage technology-based companies including software, infrastructure software and applied technology businesses. The firm has also includes a growth capital team that focuses on later stage...

, Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a Californian venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The Wall Street Journal has called Sequoia Capital "one of the highest-caliber venture firms", and noted that it is "one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture-capital firms"...

, Charles River Ventures

Charles River Ventures

Charles River Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in technology and new media companies.The firm, which is based in Waltham, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California, was founded in 1970 to commercialise research that came out of MIT...

, Intel Capital and Humana, Inc.

External links

• Official website
• Eons.com website snapshot on Businessweek
  BusinessWeek
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• "Eons: 'MySpace' for the boomer set", USAToday, September 9, 2006
• "Monster.com founder’s new venture to die for", Condé Nast Portfolio
  Condé Nast Portfolio
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  , May 5, 2008
• http://www.socialnetworkingwatch.com/2010/09/jeffrey-c-taylor-founder-and-ceo-of-eonscom-and-linda-natansohn-coo.html, Interview with CEO, Socialnetworkingwatch, September 2010