Jul 11, 2011 9:31 AM
DataSift, a UK startup that aggregates and analyses data from social media sites like Twitter, has picked up $6 million in a first round of funding. The investment is yet another vote of confidence in the demand for more data crunching in the long tail of social media content.
Posted In: Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Companies, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Countries, Europe, UK, datasift, grp partners, ia ventures
May 11, 2010 5:20 PM
Doesn’t look like Twitter’s decision to introduce an ad platform of its own is getting in the way of fundraising efforts by startups building alternate ad models around the site. Ad.ly, an ad network that matches popular Tweeters with advertisers, has raised $5 million in a first round of funding,…
Posted In: Advertising, Companies, Twitter, ad.ly, greycroft partners, grp partners, matt coffin
May 4, 2010 8:00 AM
Last week I was in Los Angeles, and met up with Mark Suster, General Partner at VC firm GRP Partners. A 2X entrepreneur with very successful exits, he is a relatively new VC, at least compared to the others in the industry, but has made a big mark out of…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, grp partners, mark suster
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