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Outbrain Adds Another $35 Million For European Expansion
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Outbrain, whose content recommendation engine lets publisher sites add related news links, is taking a $35 (£22.6) million fourth funding r… Read more »
Index Ventures Launches $690M Fund To Invest In Late-Stage Startups
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Index Ventures, the London-based venture capital firm best known for investing in LoveFilm and Skype, has defied the eurozone debt crisis to… Read more »
Grey Area Gets $2.6 Million To Build Out Location-Aware Gaming Business
Nokia’s stock may have dipped to 1998 levels in the last few days on worries about its new smartphone strategy with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT),… Read more »
Updated: Path Picks Up $8.65 Million; Reaches Two Million “Moments”
Photo sharing app Path has secured a Series A round of financing worth $8.65 million, with investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,… Read more »
Index Ventures Opens In Bay Area For Transatlantic Digital Investing
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In a further sign European tech VCs are looking to give their companies U.S. scale and to invest in American startups, Britain’s Index Ventu… Read more »
SoundCloud Gets Investment From Union Square, Index
Berlin-based audio hosting website SoundCloud says it’s taking investment from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. Read more »
Real-Time Analytics Startup Chartbeat Raises $3 Million
Chartbeat, an analytics startup that provides subscribers with a snapshot of how people are interacting with their sites — in real time –… Read more »
Etsy Raises Another $20 Million For $300 Million Valuation
Crafts buying site Etsy has raised a fifth VC round of $20 million from Index Ventures, the investor announced through TechCrunch, though no… Read more »
Web Publishing Platform Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million
Squarespace, the popular web publishing platform, has raised $38.5 million in a first round of funding led by Index Ventures and Accel Partn… Read more »
Sonos Gets $25 Million For Wireless Music System
Sonos, which sells a digital music system that can be used to play music throughout a home, has raised $25 million in a third round of fundi… Read more »
Boku Raises $25 Million To Expand Mobile Payments Services
San Francisco-based Boku has raised a sizable round of funding totaling $25 million to build a mobile-payments company that they believe can… Read more »
Updated: EBay Confirms Deal With Skype Cofounders; They Get 14 Percent Stake In Spinoff
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As expected, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) announced a deal today between the Skype investor group and Joltid, the owner of the code that runs Skype. Jo… Read more »
Industry Moves: Volpi Out As Joost Chairman
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Mike Volpi kept the role of chairman when Joost switched to a white-label tech provider and he left as CEO for Index Ventures, an investor i… Read more »
Interview: Index Ventures' Danny Rimer On New Skype Investment
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It only looks like deja vu all over again for Index Ventures, the early backer of Skype that is now part of the investor group buying 65 per… Read more »
Industry Moves: Former Joost CEO Volpi Lands At Index Ventures
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So much for any of the whispers that had Mike Volpi moving to another executive operations role — less than a week after stepping down as C… Read more »
Media Software Startup doubleTwist Raises $5 million From Ovitz, Others
DoubleTwist has raised $5 million in a round of funding from a set of high-profile investors. They include Horizon Ventures, the investment… Read more »
Index Gathers Another
Big-Five tech VC house Index Ventures, which has backed Last.fm, Skype and Joost amongst others, has raised a Read more »
Gig Recommendation Engine Songkick Bags $4 Million Funds
East London-based music concert recommendation engine startup Songkick has raised $3.5 million of what PEHub says is a $4 million in first-r… Read more »
Dating Site be2.com Lands
Dating site be2.com is looking to expand its business worldwide after receiving Read more »
