Fox Interactive exec Mickie Rosen will join investment firm Velocity Interactive. Rosen, who served as FIM’s SVP and GM, Entertainment, had a wide-ranging brief at FIM: She ran properties like Rotten Tomatoes, oversaw content acquisitions and managed Fox on Demand on MySpace, the company’s foray into streaming video. As an…

Online advertising optimization tech firm FatTail has raised $3 million in its first round of funding.  Velocity Interactive Group led the round, and Velocity partner Ross Levinsohn will join FatTail’s board. Woodland Hills, CA.-based FatTail launched in 2004 and rolled out AdBook, a yield management platform that helps large publishers…

This is the number one question I get when people talk about Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn and their VC firm Velocity...now they are have cleared it up a bit with Richard Siklos of Fortune: “they insist Velocity is not just a parking spot until another big corporate job comes…

Publish2, an as-yet unlaunched news aggregation service aimed for journalists and media companies, has received $2.75 million in its first round of funding from Velocity Interactive Group, the very-prolific VC firm which includes Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn. The service is being described as “an online news aggregation platform, designed…

In a keynote conversation on the fracturing content landscape and how to make money from it, Velocity Interactive Group’s general partner Ross Levinsohn and founding partner Jon Miller pointed to interactive media as the big monkeymaker. Facilitated by Jack Feuer, editorial director of UCLA Magazine and MediaX columnist for MediaPost,…

Velocity is on a tear: the investment group led by Jon Miller (ex-AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO) and Ross Levinsohn (ex-Fox Interactive Head) has now become an investor in Motricity…this was part of the big December 2007 round of $185 million. The investment was discretely mentioned in a press release today…

Online video production and distribution service NextNew Networks has received $15 million in a new second round of funding…the round was co-led by Goldman Sachs and Velocity Interactive Group (Jon Miller is already on the board from before). Previous investors Spark Capital has invested again as has Saban Media Group…

Generate, the Santa Monica-based multi-platform video production and talent management firm co-founded by Jordan Levin, the former CEO of The WB, has received $6 million in its first round of funding. The round was co-led by Velocity Interactive Group, the digital-media investment firm headed by Ross Levinsohn and Jonathan Miller,…

Radar Networks, the parent company behind the semantic web application Twine, has raised a second round of funding from Velocity Interactive Group, according to PE Hub. (The announcement with details is planned for Monday.) The round was likely in the $15-$20 million range, reports VentureBeat (see update below), which also…

MixerCast, a company that provides social media marketing tools and services, has received $6 million in its second round led by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital along with Onset Ventures and returning investor Velocity Interactive Group (the investment earlier was from ComVentures, which changed its name recently). The San Mateo, CA-based…

Broadband Enterprises, the online video advertising and distribution provider based in New York City, has received $10 million in funding from Velocity Interactive Group, the investment group including Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn. This is Velocity’s first announced investment in a company…it recently merged with ComVentures. Velocity partner Jon Miller…

Just four months after finally announcing their investment firm Velocity Investment Group, former FIM (NYSE: NWS) president Ross Levinsohn and former AOL (NYSE: TWX) chairman Jon Miller are merging with ComVentures to form Velocity Interactive Group. Call it the investment equivalent of marrying for love—and into money. ComVentures brings more…