David Kaplan
Sep 9, 2010 12:19 PM
Online video platform startup Ooyala has raised a $22 million fourth round as part of a plan to expand globally. The company has raised a total of $42 million in the past three years and isn’t done raising capital yet. The round was over-subscribed, Mountain View-based Ooyala says, and it…
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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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Rory Maher
Apr 9, 2009 9:00 AM
TouchCommerce has raised $10 million from new investor Sierra Ventures and existing investors Emergence Capital, Hudson Ventures, Dolphin Equity and Partech International. The company operates in a fairly new space: It provides analytics to commerce sites, helping to identify the visitors most likely to make purchases and then arranging for…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Aug 6, 2008 3:37 PM
Flypaper, a service for helping people easily make online presentations, has raised a $3.5 million second round from Sierra Ventures and SCF Arizona. Both firms participated in the company’s initial $3 million round earlier this year, for a total raise of $6.5 million. The Phoenix-based startup lets users create “Flash…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Mar 26, 2008 12:57 PM
Menlo Park, CA-based Predictify, a community site for predicting future events, has raised a $4.3 million first round from Sierra Ventures and Sherpalo Ventures says Mashable. The site lets users predict outcomes on things like sporting and political events, offering cash awards for users that have a knack for correctly…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Feb 7, 2008 2:03 PM
Phoenix-based FlyPaper Studio, a startup specializing in letting people create and edit “Flash-quality” content, has raised a $3 million first round led by Sierra Ventures and SCF Arizona. The company is pitching its service to both consumers and businesses, as an easy way for users to create graphical presentations without…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Feb 2, 2008 12:46 PM
Santa Clara, CA-based ZillionTV, a provider of pay TV services, has raised a $4.01 million first round, according to PE Hub. Investors include Sierra Ventures and Concept Ventures. The company offers few details on its plans, though it appears to have previously been known as Vaenco, which is developing its…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Dec 18, 2007 10:21 PM
Ooyala, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of video distribution infrastructure, has received a big first found of funding from Sierra Ventures, paidContent.org has learned. The company, formed by ex-Googlers Bismarck Lepe, Belsasar Lepe and Sean Knapp, previously raised an angel round from unidentified backers. Right now, the company will only…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 28, 2007 5:48 AM
Amsterdam-based video advertising agency Spotzer has attracted a 10 million euro ($14.8 million) funding round to fund a US launch. Spotzer has a catalogue of stock ads that can be personalised, allows advertisers to buy spots on TV, the web and so on and can target along geographic and demographic…
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