iPhone Developer Ngmoco Gets Google Ventures Backing
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Ngmoco, the games developer focused on iPhone platform and venture-backed by the iFund, has gotten some unspecified funding from Google (NS… Read more »
Spanfeller Media Group Names SoftBank’s Perlis Chairman
Softbank CEO Mike Perlis has agreed to serve as chairman of Spanfeller Media Group as the online content startup prepares to launch its firs… Read more »
Skype Doesn’t Need To Float: One VC’s View
“I don’t understand why they need to IPO,” Mike Chalfen, a partner with Advent Venture Partners, tells paidContent:UK, after Skype filed for… Read more »
Mobile Ads Provider Medialets Raises $6 Million Second Round
The mobile ad space is continuing its rapid growth and so Medialets has chosen a good time to close a $6 million second round funding. The r… Read more »
Chinese Video Site Tudou Raises $50 Million
Chinese video site Tudou, which says it’s trying to transform itself into a “media house” complete with original video programming, has rais… Read more »
C2Call Gets $2 Million For Internet Calling Service
C2Call, a startup behind a fast-growing internet calling service called FriendCaller, has raised $2 (£1.28) million in a first round of fun… Read more »
BoxTone Raises $7.5 Million For Enterprise Smartphone Tools
The second company in two days has received money to help build tools to make managing smartphones in the enterprise easier. BoxTone has rai… Read more »
WeShop Raises $4.25 Million Round; Marries Targeting And User Control
WeShop is the latest social shopper to hit the scene, having just closed a $4.25 million first round, paidContent has learned. But the start… Read more »
MobileIron Raises $16 Million To Manage Smartphones In The Enterprise
Mountain View, Calif.-based MobileIron has raised $16 million in a third round of funding to help develop a platform that manages everything… Read more »
Behavioral Targeter eXelate Raises $15 Million Second Round
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The “shadowy” world of selling and using online audience data has been in discussion a lot lately, and investors have been taking notice. Th… Read more »
Affiliate Link Startup VigLink Buys Rival DrivingRevenue
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VigLink, a Google-backed startup that helps publishers monetize the traffic they send to e-commerce sites, is buying more established rival… Read more »
Payfone Raises $11 Million From BlackBerry Fund, Ex-Apple Exec
Payfone is going public today with its plans for developing a mobile alternative to Visa and MasterCard, fueled by an infusion of $11 millio… Read more »
AdMeld Raises $15 Million Round; Time Warner Among New Backers
Ad inventory optimizer AdMeld has raised a $15 million third round as it expects to attract more publishers making the move to online ad exc… Read more »
Confirmed: Zynga Raises $150 Million From Softbank
Zynga is confirming this evening that it has indeed raised $150 million in funding from Japanese internet and telecom firm Softbank. Reports… Read more »
Business Insider Raises $3 Million In Fourth Round
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Business Insider, which has established itself as an aggressive online source of a wide range of business news and commentary, has raised $3… Read more »
EU Q2 VC: Tech, Web Services Are Attractive Again
European venture funding in Q2 bounced back by 50 percent from a record low a year ago, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Here’s a break… Read more »
CloudMade Raises $12.3 Million For Do-It-Yourself Mobile Maps
CloudMade has raised $12.3 million to help build an alternative mapping platform, fueled by a fleet of volunteers using their cellphones. Th… Read more »
Disney’s Steamboat, Others Put $7.5 Million In Elemental Technologies
Elemental Technologies, a Portland, OR.-based startup that sells video processing systems used by content companies, has raised $7.5 million… Read more »
Triangulate Gets Cash From Playdom Chairman, Others For Facebook Dating App
Triangulate, a startup trying to build an online dating business on Facebook, has raised $750,000 from Trinity Ventures and Playdom Chairman… Read more »
BuzzLogic Raises $8.8 Million Second Round; Adds Custom Rich Media Unit
Online conversational marketing tracker BuzzLogic has raised an $8.8 million second round. The funding, from returning backers, comes a mont… Read more »
Sling Co-founder Jason Krikorian Joins DCM
Jason Krikorian, co-founder of video technology company Sling Media, has joined venture capital firm DCM as a general partner. In January ’0… Read more »
Cloud-Based Gamer Gaikai Adds Intel and Limelight As Backers
Gaikai, a much-buzzed about startup that promises to let users play PC-based games in their web browsers, has added two big names to its lis… Read more »
Investors Bet $3 Million On Social Betting Site Betable
Betable, a site that lets web users create their own bets for people to wager against, has attracted a $3 million first-round venture fundin… Read more »
ThisNext Adds On To Third Round, Brings In Federated Media For Ads
Social shopping site ThisNext has raised some additional funding to the $1.2 million round from February, and says it will begin working wit… Read more »
Search Ads Provider Trada Looks To Display Expansion With Google’s Help
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Search ad optimizer Trada has raised a $5.75 million third round led by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures. The Foundry Group, a previous backer,… Read more »
Photo Ad Network Pixazza Raises $12 Million
Pixazza, the Google-backed photo ad network, has raised $12 million in a new funding round. Pixazza’s technology adds ads to photos which po… Read more »
More Deals But Slightly Less Money For Media Firms Raising VC Cash
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The market for companies looking to raise funding from venture capital firms is undoubtedly on the rebound — but it looks like the media an… Read more »
Foursquare Founders’ Payout From Latest Round: $4.6 Million
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About that $20 million Foursquare raised last month … $4.6 million of the total went to co-founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai,… Read more »
Flirtomatic Attracts $9 Million
Online flirting service Flirtomatic has raised $9 million in a third round of funding, which it will use to redo its mobile apps and continu… Read more »
Doctor Search Site ZocDoc Adds $15 Million
Online doctor search and appointment site ZocDoc has raised $15 million in its second round of funding. On ZocDoc, users designate their cit… Read more »
ITV’s Hazlitt Among Investors In Branded Games Start-Up We R Interactive
By Mark Sweney: ITV’s new commercial head, Fru Hazlitt, the advertising veteran Peter Mead and Eric Fellner, the co-chairman of the Four Wed… Read more »
Web Publishing Platform Squarespace Raises $38.5 Million
Squarespace, the popular web publishing platform, has raised $38.5 million in a first round of funding led by Index Ventures and Accel Partn… Read more »
NBC Universal’s Peacock Equity Backs In-Game Voice Service Vivox
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and GE Capital joint venture Peacock Equity is the latest investor to back Vivox, which powers voice chat in online… Read more »
Social Network Hi5 Raises $14 Million
More than a year after reportedly being forced to lay off half of its staff because it was unable to raise new cash, social network Hi5 has… Read more »
Mobile Ad Network InMobi Raises $8 Million To Face Apple, Google
InMobi, the mobile advertising network that started in India three years ago and has expanded globally, has raised $8 million in a second ro… Read more »
Internet Voting Firm Scytl Gets $9.2 Million Funding
Is democracy the next big business opportunity? Last week, Omidyar Network gave MySociety $575,000. Today, Scytl, a firm which makes interne… Read more »
Affiliate Ad Net Adsmarket Raises $17 Million
Affiliate ad network Adsmarket has raised $17 million from PE firm Viola Private Equity, which is taking a 21 percent stake in the company.… Read more »
Social Sports TV Startup Holds Up Jaiku Founders, Ex Footballer
Social media nuts have been reminding us how they used Twitter and such like to “share” World Cup TV viewing.
Now Sofanatics, a Finnish sta… Read more »
AOL Launches Open-Source Maps Projects In U.S., UK
Hoping to mount a challenge to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Map’s dominance, AOL’s MapQuest is embracing open-source mapping on a global scale, start… Read more »
How A Sino-Russian-African Bloc Is Setting Online Pace
Digital Sky Technologies, Naspers and Tencent are amongst the hottest digital media investment actors in Russia, South Africa and China.
An… Read more »
