Media — paidContent

PlayFirst Raises $9.2 Million For Social Game Expansion

By Joseph Tartakoff Oct. 13, 2010, 11:06pm Comments Off

Casual gaming firm PlayFirst has raised $9.2 million in its latest round of funding, which it will use to fund an expansion into mobile and… Read More »

DECA Adds $10 Million To Digital Content War Chest

By Tameka Kee Jan. 12, 2009, 11:42pm Comments Off

Digital content incubator DECA has added $10 million to its war chest, in a second round led by new investor Rustic Canyon Partners, per a r… Read More »

Rustic Canyon Sells Part of Its Portfolio To Give Liquidity To Chandler Family, Its LP

By Rafat Ali Dec. 10, 2008, 4:52am Comments Off

A crazy but true story, along with a strange co-incidence: Rustic Canyon (RC), one of the largest VC firms in Southern California that has i… Read More »

GoFish Raises $22.5 Million In Private Placement To Erase Debt

By David Kaplan Dec. 4, 2008, 8:18pm 1 Comment

Looking to erase its $14.5 million debt burden, GoFish, the OTCBB-traded kids media company, has raised $22.5 million in a private placement… Read More »

Perfect Market Raises $15 Million First Round For Archive Monetization

By Joseph Weisenthal Jul. 9, 2008, 9:12pm Comments Off

Perfect Market, an Idealab-incubated company offering publishers tools to monetize archival content, has raised a $15.6 million from Trinity… Read More »

Document Sharer DocStoc Raises $3.25 Million Second Round

By Joseph Weisenthal Apr. 29, 2008, 9:01pm Comments Off

DocStoc, a service for sharing and embedding professional documents, has raised a $3.25 million second round from Rustic Canyon Partners. Th… Read More »

Dance Video Site DanceJam Gets $3.5 Million Second Round

By Joseph Weisenthal Feb. 13, 2008, 1:39am Comments Off

DanceJam, the dance video site started by MC Hammer and others, has raised a $3.5 million second round from Softbank Capital, Rustic Canyon… Read More »

Casual Gamer PlayFirst Gets $16.5 Million Third Round; Partners With RockYou For Facebook

By Joseph Weisenthal Dec. 19, 2007, 11:18pm Comments Off

SF-based PlayFirst, a publisher of casual games, has raised a $16.5 million third round led by DCM, with participation from previous backers… Read More »

Local Net Marketer MerchantCircle Raises $10 Million Second Round; IAC Invests

By Joseph Weisenthal Nov. 10, 2007, 1:49am 1 Comment

Palo Alto-based Read More »