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Venture capital firm Austin Ventures is putting up $50 million to back Dachis' new venture, a consultancy that plans to help companies use social networks as well as sell them the software tools they need. Razorfish eventually made a comeback of sorts and was acquired by aQuantive and renamed Avenue A Razorfish. So what does Dachis know about social networking? It's hard to tell from his bio.

He was a senior partner at Bond Art and Science, a firm "specializing in information architecture and user experience design," according to a press release from Austin Ventures. Back in 2001, with Razorfish, the company he cofounded 1995, in full nosedive, pundits asked whether the company's meteoric rise was due to Dachis' skill or luck. I guess we'll see.

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