Oct 12, 2010 12:55 PM
Care.com, a site that lets users find “caregivers,” like babysitters, nannies, and senior caregivers, has raised $20 million in a third round of funding. On the site, users pay a monthly fee to get access to detailed profiles, which include background checks and references, of caregivers who are looking for…
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, care.com, matrix partners, new enterprise associates, trinity ventures
Oct 5, 2010 8:00 AM
The Echo Nest, which sells technology used by various music apps, including MOG and Spotify, has raised $7 million in a new round of funding. Echo Nest’s ‘Musical Brain’ platform analyzes millions of blog posts, reviews, as well as tracks themselves, and provides the data to online music apps, which…
Posted In: , commonwealth capital ventures, matrix partners, the echo nest
Sep 2, 2010 12:40 PM
Inflection, an under-the-radar startup which owns genealogy website Archives.com, has raised $30 million in a first round of funding. The company charges users $39.95 a year to access historical records and build their own family trees on the site and it is apparently doing very well, despite competition from sites…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Search, inflection, matrix partners, sutter hill ventures
May 18, 2010 4:24 AM
London-based Huddle, a software-as-a-service team web collaboration tool, says it’s raised million in VC funds to try making an entry to the U.S. market. The money sees Huddle open a San Francisco office, managed by co-founder Andy McLoughlin, and is led by Matrix Partners along with previous investors Eden Ventures,…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Community, eden ventures, huddle, matrix partners
Apr 27, 2010 6:00 AM
Mobile payment provider Zong of Palo Alto, Calif. has spun off from its Swiss parent Echovox and has raised $15 million to help pay for its rapid growth, which includes expanding into as many as two countries per month. The second round of capital was led by Matrix Partners. The…
Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Community, Technologies / Formats, SMS, matrix partners, zong
Jan 20, 2010 5:10 PM
Social shopping site BuyWithMe has raised $5.5 million in a first round of funding from Matrix Partners. BuyWithMe offers exclusive discounts at local stores—but only if enough people sign up to make a purchase (Interested buyers are encouraged to spread the word via social networking sites).
Posted In: Advertising, Local, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Community, buywithme, matrix partners
Nov 28, 2008 10:53 AM
The Chinese online video fundings are still continuing, and now seems to have graduated into more tech-backed type of deals than consumer: Video software company Baofeng.com has received $15 million in VC funding. The round was led by Matrix Partners China and IDG, and the money will be used in…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Countries, Asia, China, baofeng, idg china, matrix partners
May 16, 2008 9:50 AM
Hubspot, a maker of online marketing tools, has secured $12 million in a second round led by Matrix Partners. Previous backer General Catalyst also participated in the latest round. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company, which was formed in 2005, raised a $5 million first round last July and received $500,000 in…
Posted In: Advertising, Marketing, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, general catalyst partners, hubspot, matrix partners
Mar 11, 2008 1:56 PM
Chinese website BabyTree.com has raised $10 million in venture funding from Matrix Partners China Fund. BabyTree provides an online platform for mothers to blog and exchange ideas about raising their children. In addition, the site helps mothers and children to organize meetings and parties. The site was founded by former…
Posted In: Countries, Asia, China, babytree, matrix partners
Feb 8, 2008 12:00 PM
Silicon Valley-based Renkoo, one of many companies that’s tried to be the web 2.0 successor to Evite, has raised a $6 million second round led by Maveron Equity Partners, reports VentureBeat. Matrix Partners, which led an initial $3 million round, also participated. Its total raise is now at least $9…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, matrix partners, maveron equity partners, renkoo
Feb 5, 2008 11:57 AM
Two major Indian Internet deals today, covered in details on ContentSutra:—eBay Sells Stake in Indian Arm: Kijiji India, the Indian site for eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) classifieds, will now be jointly owned by the company and VC fund Matrix Partners..this will not affect the main eBay India site. Like most generic…
Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Yahoo, Countries, Asia, India, bharatmatrimony, canaan partners, ebay, kijiji, matrix partners, mayfield fund
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