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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 19, 2010 12:25 PM
Pixazza, the Google-backed photo ad network, has raised $12 million in a new funding round. Pixazza’s technology adds ads to photos which pop up when a viewer mouses over them. The ads typically show where users can purchase the objects found in the photo; for instance, somebody who mouses over…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 30, 2010 12:01 AM
Click Forensics, which provides tools to online advertisers and publishers so that they can reduce click fraud, has raised $6 million in its third round of funding. While click fraud rates have fallen off somewhat in recent years, it remains a significant problem, accounting for about 15.3 percent of overall…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 28, 2010 1:10 PM
Geodelic, which is behind the popular location-based smartphone app of the same name, has raised $7 million in a second round of funding. The company’s app—which is available for the iPhone and Android—automatically pulls information about a user’s surroundings; for instance, users can click on an icon for “coffee shop”…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 5, 2010 3:14 PM
Career site Doostang has raised $1.25 million in a funding round from Shasta Ventures, the company tells us. The site promises its users “inside access to thousands of jobs from top employers.” A basic version is free, although Doostang charges for a premium version, which includes unlimited access to job…
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Tameka Kee
Nov 12, 2009 5:05 AM
Eldercare site and community Caring.com has raised $10 million in a second round of funding. New investor Shasta Ventures led, with participation from previous backers DCM and Split Rock Partners. The company says it will use the money for new hires, as well as an expansion of the core Caring.com…
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Tameka Kee
May 7, 2009 11:11 AM
Yes, another social gaming startup is getting funding. S.F.-based WonderHill has picked up $7 million from Charles River Ventures and Shasta Ventures. It raised $750,000 in seed funding from software developer Ooga Labs, before being spun off, according to VentureBeat. WonderHill says it stands apart from competitors like Zynga and…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Sep 18, 2008 3:16 PM
UpTake, a travel search startup, has raised a $10 million second round led by Trinity Ventures and Shasta Ventures. The Palo Alto, CA-based company previously raised $4 million from Shasta last December, for a total raise of $14 million. The company was founded by Yen Lee, formerly the GM of…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Aug 21, 2008 7:00 AM
Ad net Turn Inc. has announced its second big raise just this year… The Redwood City, CA-based company has taken a $15 million third round led by Focus Ventures, along with past backers, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Trident Capital, and Shasta Ventures. The company announced a $15 million raise back…
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Matt Kapko
Aug 6, 2008 11:35 AM
Eye-Fi, a company out of Mountain View, Calif. has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. Translink Capital and LMS Capital led the round with existing investors Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures participating. To date, the company has raised $17.5 million. The company makes memory cards with built-in…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jul 22, 2008 10:00 PM
ResponseLogix, a provider of lead response services for the online automotive industry, has raised an $8 million first round led by RP Partners and Shasta Ventures along with sister firms A.H. Belo (NYSE: BLC) Corporation and the Belo Corp. The SF-based startup, which launched last year, claims that online auto…
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Rafat Ali
Jun 30, 2008 9:33 AM
Lithium Technologies, an Emeryville, CA-based provider of white-label social networking tools, has raised $12 million in its second round funding, led by Benchmark Capital. Benchmark joins Emergence Capital and Shasta Ventures, which co-led a $9 million first round in April 2007. The company, which has been around for almost seven…
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Joseph Weisenthal
May 22, 2008 6:44 AM
It hasn’t sustained the massive buzz it got when it first launched, but Flock, the browser that specializes in social networking, has raised a big $15 million fourth round led by Fidelity Ventures. Past backers of the Redwood City, CA-based company Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures also…
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David Kaplan
Mar 14, 2008 1:30 PM
Online video trivia gamer PopJax has raised $4.7 million funding from Shasta Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Selby Ventures, NewTeeVee reports. The year-old San Francisco company has hired a team of professional game show writers to come up with about 10,000 questions on topics related to the Academy Awards, Super…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Mar 12, 2008 10:05 AM
Austin, TX-based Click Forensics, a provider of technology to combat click fraud, has raised a $10 million second round led by previous investors Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. The company previously raised $5 million last year, so it’s total haul now stands at $15 million. Funding will help the company…
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David Kaplan
Mar 3, 2008 2:51 PM
Online ad network Turn has raised a $15 million second round funding, a spokeswoman for the company said. The Redwood City’s investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital, and Shasta Ventures. The company, which was co-founded by former AltaVista CEO Jim Barnett, raised an $8.5 million first round from its…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Feb 4, 2008 2:14 PM
SF-based Clickability, a web-based content management firm, has raised an $8 million second round, led by Shasta Ventures, with participation from previous backer Convergence Partners. The company has now raised a total of $15.6 million. Clikability claims its on-demand solution enables non-technical users to manage the entire content lifecycle, from…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Dec 18, 2007 12:18 PM
Palo Alto-based Kango, an aggregator of online travel info, has raised a $4 million first round from Shasta Ventures. The service uses semantic search technology to bring together travel reviews and recommendations from over 1000 sites, including blogs and community sites, allowing travelers to research their plans. Founder Yen Lee…
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