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Booyah Gets $20 Million For Its Check-In App

May 17, 2010 3:44 AM

Booyah, a startup battling rivals Gowalla and FourSquare in the very hot location-based mobile app market, has raised $20 million. Like Gowalla and FourSquare, Booyah’s app, MyTown, lets users check in at actual locations. They can also “buy” locations and charge rent when others visit. The company says in a…

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Posted In: Advertising, Local, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, accel partners, booyah, dag ventures, kpcb

Stealth Content Startup Booyah Raises $4.5 Million From Kleiner Perkins

Oct 14, 2008 2:49 PM

Stealth start-up Booyah, a web and mobile content company founded by three gaming vets, has raised roughly $4.5 million from VC firm Kleiner Perkins, according to PEHub. One clue about what binds the two together: the company is advertising for a “senior iPhone engineer” and an “iPhone engineer” and says…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, booyah, kpcb

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