BookRenter Raises $10 Million More For Online Textbook Rentals
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More cash is flowing into online textbook rentals: BookRenter, which lets college students rent textbooks so they don’t have to buy them, ha… Read more »
Search Marketer Marin Software Closes $11.2 Million Fourth Round
Marin Software has raised an $11.2 million fourth round. All of Marin Read more »
Reply.com Raises $15 Million More — But IPO Is Still On
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Online lead generator Reply.com, which filed for a $60 million IPO earlier this year, has raised $15 million in new funding from Hercules Te… Read more »
Pandora Raises Its Fifth Funding Round
Music discovery service Pandora has raised an undisclosed amount of funding to promote continued growth, the company said in a statement.… Read more »
Hyperlocal Network Mainstreet Connect Raises $3.97 Million First Round
Mainstreet Connect, the latest entrant into the hyperlocal news space, has raised a $3.97 million first round, according to an SEC filing. L… Read more »
Mobile Gift Card Company Giiv Gets $3.35 Million From Google’s Schmidt
As things migrate from the web to mobile, so will gift cards. Or at least that’s the thought behind Giiv, a mobile start-up that allows peop… Read more »
Snapfinger Snaps Up $7 Million For Ordering Food By Mobile Phone
Snapfinger.com, which allows users to order and pay for meals at national chains such as California Pizza Kitchen, Outback Steakhouse, and B… Read more »
Experian Follows Google In Backing TV Ad Targeter Invidi
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TV ad targeter Invidi Technologies, which raised $23 million in a fourth round of funding led by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) earlier this month, now… Read more »
BlackBerry Partners Fund Expands To China With $100 Million To Burn
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The BlackBerry Partners Fund has expanded to China with a $100 million fund through a new joint venture with China Broadband Capital Partner… Read more »
Boku Raises More Money From New Advisors Andreessen Horowitz
This is more about the connections than it is the money, but mobile payments company Boku has raised even more money following its $25 milli… Read more »
Rob Glaser Joins Accel Partners; Picks Venture Capital To Stay ‘Plugged In’
Rob Glaser has landed at his next gig, relatively quickly. He is joining one of the bluechip VC firms Accel Partners, as a Venture Partner,… Read more »
Gaikai Raises $10 Million For PC Games In The Browser
Gaikai, a startup that promises to let users play PC-based games in their web browsers, has raised another $10 million-plus. Gaikai installs… Read more »
Parenting Site Babble Gets $3 Million More
Babble, frequently referred to as a “hipster” parenting site, has raised another $3 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The thre… Read more »
TweetDeck Raises Another $3 Million For Its ‘Real-Time Browser’
Less than a year after taking a $2 million investment, desktop and mobile Twitter app Tweetdeck has gone back to its investors for a $3 mill… Read more »
VC Round-Up: Birch For Punktilio, Swisscom For Poken, Samwers For Panfu
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– Punktilio: Bebo co-founder Michael Birch’s latest investment after cashing out of the social network – an undisclosed sum in Punktilio, a… Read more »
LibreDigital Raises $8 Million For E-Book Distribution
Electronic book and newspaper distributor LibreDigital has raised $8.1 million in a third round of funding. The company’s technology helps b… Read more »
Blip.tv Raises $10.1 Million To Promote Indie Web Programs
As it approaches its fifth anniversary, online video provider Blip.tv has closed a $10.1 million third round. The round was led by Canaan Pa… Read more »
Spotify Community ShareMyPlaylists Has Six-Figure Funding To Go Proper
When it first launched, Spotify said there was no need for it to add social sharing features, because there were already social networks and… Read more »
Russia’s Quintura Raises $1 Million For Mobile Visual Search
Russian visual search vendor Quintura says it’s raised $1 million to make in-roads in to mobile search. Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov didn’t… Read more »
Smartphone Security Provider Lookout Raises $11 Million
As the mobile web increasingly looks a lot more like the PC-based one, companies like Lookout are hoping to make a name for themselves in pr… Read more »
Group Collab Service Huddle Raises $10.2 Million For U.S. Drive
London-based Huddle, a software-as-a-service team web collaboration tool, says it’s raised million in VC funds to try making an entry to th… Read more »
Another Private Sales Deal: Brandsclub Raises $17 Million
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The rush of private sales deal-making continues; This time, it’s Brazilian private sales firm Brandsclub, which has raised $17 million in a… Read more »
Booyah Gets $20 Million For Its Check-In App
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Booyah, a startup battling rivals Gowalla and FourSquare in the very hot location-based mobile app market, has raised $20 million. Like Gowa… Read more »
Private Sales Startup Gilt Groupe Raises Another $35 Million
Gilt Groupe, the very fast-growing online private sales startup, has raised $35 million more to expand its businesses, which in addition to… Read more »
Jelli Gets $7 Million For Crowdsourced Radio
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Jelli, a startup trying to shake up the traditional radio industry by letting listeners control what songs are played on air, has raised $7… Read more »
Viral Content Tracker BuzzFeed Raises $8 Million
BuzzFeed, the self-proclaimed tracker of the “web’s obsessions,” has raised $8 million in its second round of funding. The site’s home page… Read more »
Wales Gets New-Look Investment Fund, Digital Director
Wales is getting a new digital director and a new-look investment arm for creative multimedia projects.
They were two recommendations of a… Read more »
A Purchase-Sharing Frenzy? Swipely Raises $7.5 Million
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At least two startups — and a long list of prominent investors — are now betting that people will happily put aside any privacy concerns i… Read more »
Vantrix Raises $14 Million To Manage Increasing Mobile Video Demands
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Vantrix, the Montreal-based company that helps carriers deliver video to mobile phones, has raised $14 million in funding.
The third round… Read more »
NYU Launching a Seed Fund For Univ Startups; Hires MD to Run It
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New York University, not wanting to be left behind in the craze for starting up new seed funds (and I realize the glibness of my comment), i… Read more »
Search Marketing Startup WordStream Gets $6 Million
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WordStream, one of a series of startups pitching easy-to-use search marketing tools, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. Wor… Read more »
Indie Blog Publisher Hybrid News Mulls New Launches After Investment
The independent publishing startup behind regional blog aggregator AsianCorrespondent.com is considering launching in other verticals, after… Read more »
Paid Personal Finance Site HelloWallet Gets $3.6 Million From Case, Others
HelloWallet, a new paid site designed to help people manage their personal finances, has raised $3.6 million in a first round of funding. Th… Read more »
M&A Round-Up: UBM Buys CenTradeX, GfK Invests, Kayak Buys Swoodoo
A mini-flurry of Thursday activity…
– UBM buys CenTradeX: United Business Media (LSE: UBM) is laying down $544,000, plus a potential $10… Read more »
BlackBerry Leads $10 Million VC In Mobile Web APIs Firm Aepona
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BlackBerry is putting down some investment money to try to ensure app developers can more easily tap in to mobile networks’ resources.
Its… Read more »
Video News Service Newsy Raises $2 Million Second Round
Right in time for video news site Newsy to promote its iPad app, the company says it has raised $2 million in a second round of funding. New… Read more »
Invidi Technologies Gets $23 Million Fourth Round From Google, GroupM
TV ad targeter Invidi Technologies has netted a huge $23 million fourth round led by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and WPP media unit GroupM. When WPP… Read more »
Video Interview: Mark Suster, GRP Partners, On Changing VC & Startup Land
Last week I was in Los Angeles, and met up with Mark Suster, General Partner at VC firm GRP Partners. A 2X entrepreneur with very successful… Read more »
Google Ventures Looks Beyond Strategic Investments
We’ve been typing out a series of “Google (NSDQ: GOOG) acquires” stories of late, as CEO Eric Schmidt makes good on his promise to pick up a… Read more »
Playboy Hires Peacock Equity’s Paul Lee To Head Digital Ventures
Although talks of selling Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) has cooled over the past few months, it looks like the company is looking at doing… Read more »
