Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 10, 2011 11:01 AM
Search startup Tospy has raised $15 million in a new round of funding. The company, which ranks results based on what’s being shared by “influencers” on Twitter at any given moment, is a rare survivor in the once red hot real-time search market. Several former competitors have moved on to…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 28, 2011 8:59 AM
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) founder Rob Glaser’s latest project: a video chat startup. SocialEyes, which launches today, lets users find friends or strangers with a common interest and video chat with them. Glaser is chairman, while Rob Williams, who was formerly an SVP at RealNetworks, is CEO. The two men are…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Sep 9, 2010 12:00 PM
DataSphere, one of the fastest-growing players in the increasingly crowded hyperlocal news space, has raised $10 million in its third round of funding. The company, which helps TV stations set up hyperlocal websites and then monetize them, has landed several major partnerships since it last raised outside cash in January;…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 1, 2010 7:59 PM
When hyperlocal startup DataSphere raised $10.8 million in early January, the company said it had raised the cash from Ignition Partners as well as two unnamed strategic investors. The company has now revealed the identify of one of them: Fisher Communications, which owns a series of TV stations and radio…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 13, 2010 12:41 PM
Visible Technologies, which helps companies track what people are saying about them online, has raised $22 million in a third round of funding led by new investor Investor Growth Capital; existing investors Centurion Holdings, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and WPP also participated. The new funding means that the company will have…
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Tameka Kee
Jul 30, 2009 1:44 PM
Once-hyped digital and traditional film company Blowtorch Entertainment has all but shut down, the latest victim of the long-tail impact of the credit crunch. Blowtorch raised $50 million in a first round led by VC firm Ignition Partners in late 2007; VentureWire reports that the majority of the raise came…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jun 12, 2008 12:18 PM
Widgetbucks, a widget-based ad network, has raised a $10 million second round from DFJ and past backer Ignition Partners. The company has previously raised about $10 million. It came from Mpire, a comparison shopping site; as such, the Widgetbucks service is geared towards transactional, e-commerce advertisers. The Seattle-based company is…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 25, 2008 12:41 PM
Jobster, the money-burning recruitment-meets-social networking service, has raised another $7 million, on top of the $48 million its previously raised, reports Seattle PI. News that the Seattle-based company was out looking for fresh capital came out in March, along with word that it had lost $11 million in 2007. The…
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