LivingSocial Raises Another $14 Million To Expand Group Buying Sites
Here’s another sign of how much promise investors think there is in the group-buying market: LivingSocial, which runs a group-buying service… Read more »
Mobile Ad Firm Mojiva Gets $7 Million Second VC Round
Suddenly, there’s a flurry of mobile advertising platform activity. The latest on the pile – Mojiva has landed a $7 million second venture f… Read more »
Europe’s IT Investment Recovery Slipping Back
Investments in European information technology companies dipped to a year low between January and March, according to DowJones VentureSource… Read more »
Online Video Ad Network Tremor Media Raises $40 Million
Tremor Media has raised $40 million in a fourth round of funding — becoming the latest online video ad network to raise a double-digit mill… Read more »
Mobile Analytics Provider Ground Truth Raises $7 Million In Second Round
Ground Truth has raised $7 million in a second round of financing after coming out of stealth mode in January.
The Seattle-based company co… Read more »
Mobile Payment Provider Zong Raises $15 Million Following Spin-Off
Mobile payment provider Zong of Palo Alto, Calif. has spun off from its Swiss parent Echovox and has raised $15 million to help pay for its… Read more »
Online Health Firm Healthline Raises $14 Million More
Healthline Networks, which has landed two very high-profile content and ad deals over the last month and says it is now profitable, has rais… Read more »
Online Video Monetization Firm FreeWheel Gets $16.8 Million From Disney’s Steamboat, Others
FreeWheel has added $16.8 million in strategic funding from several top investors. The online video monetization startup says its fourth rou… Read more »
TheWrap Raises $2 Million in Second Round, From Maveron, Others
TheWrap.com, the Hollywood business focused blog started by former NYT Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman, has closed a $2 million secon… Read more »
Index Ventures Ringfences Part Of Fund For Seed Investments
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Web venture capital firms may be getting more stringent on the kinds of businesses they invest in, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still m… Read more »
An Over-Sharing Blunder Follows Blippy’s Big Round
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Here’s a serious lesson in the dangers of over-sharing: Blippy, the site both loved and vilified for letting users share their latest purcha… Read more »
News Corp. Invests In Music Start-Up Beyond Oblivion
News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) has invested in Beyond Oblivion, a one-year-old music start-up, as part of a second round of funding worth $10 millio… Read more »
MXP4 Raises $4 Million Funding For Its Interactive Music Widgets
VCs are still keen to put their money in to online music startups, it seems. Paris-based MXP4, which makes web players that let users remix… Read more »
Chinese Classifieds Site 58.com Raises $15 Million
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58.com, a Chinese classified ad site, has raised $15 million in a round of funding. 58.com — which is currently in 320 cities in China and… Read more »
TV Promotions Platform Simulmedia Raises $8 Million Second Round
Simulmedia, a company that aims to lift TV ratings through analysis of set-top box data, has raised a $8 million second round led by Time Wa… Read more »
Tumblr Raises $5 Million Third Round, With Marketplace Modeled On App Store
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When microblogging site Tumblr raised $4.5 million in funding a year-and-a-half ago, it said it was preparing some paid services. Now that t… Read more »
BlackArrow Raises $20 Million More For “New TV” Ad Systems
BlackArrow, which sells ad systems designed to reach what the company calls users of “new-TV” (DVR customers, mobile TV etc.) has raised $20… Read more »
A Real Deal: Groupon Adds $135 Million In Additional Funding
Barely six months after raising $30 million in funding, social deal-finding site Groupon has received a huge $135 million add on from previo… Read more »
Xobni Raises $16 Million In Third Round For Outlook Plug-In
Xobni, which sells a Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Outlook plug-in that helps users keep track of their mail and contacts, has raised $16.2 million… Read more »
PubMatic Raises $7.5 Million Third Round; Platform Adds IAC, United Online
PubMatic, the sell-side ad platform, has raised $7.5 million in a third round funding. The Palo Alto company has now raised $18 million sinc… Read more »
UK E-Tailer Hut Lands £14 Million For Buying Spree, Then IPO
UK online retailer The Hut Group, which last year salvaged Zavvi.co.uk, is taking a big £14 million ($21.7 million) investment for an acqui… Read more »
Patricof’s Greycoft Raises $130.7 Million Second Digital Media Fund
It took a year, 160 first meetings and a lot of travel time but Greycroft Partners finally has closed its second fund, $130.7 million Greycr… Read more »
TweetPhoto Gets $2.6 Million For Its Own Funding Hole
Forget about all those clever headlines about “hole-filler” filling its own funding hole. With no discernible business model, and very tough… Read more »
Former iCrossing President Forms Online Ad Services Company Tallwave
Former execs from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and iCrossing are pulling the curtain up on a new venture… Read more »
Bill Gross Launches TweetUp, Twitter Search With Sponsored Tweets
Just as the growth of blogs opened up a space for dedicated blog search sites and filters, so, too, the twittersphere may have reached that… Read more »
Ex Yahoo Exec Coppel Joins Virgin’s Cleantech Investment Arm
Toby Coppel, who left as Yahoo’s Europe and Canada MD in November 2008, is joining Richard Branson-backed private equity eco firm Virgin Gre… Read more »
UK Govt. Gives Part Of £200 Million To DFJ Esprit For Tech Investment
The UK Future Technologies Fund – a venture “fund of funds” financed equally by the UK government and the European Investment Fund – says it… Read more »
Sofia’s Diary Maker Campbell Ryan Takes Investment
Multiplatform TV producer Campbell Ryan says it’s taking “a significant investment” from Portugal-based larger prodco beActive Entertainment… Read more »
Rojas And Block’s Gdgt Raises $3 Million
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Gdgt, the newish gadget community site started by the founders of Engadget and Gizmodo, has raised about $3 million in funding, according to… Read more »
Personalized Talk Radio Service Stitcher Closes $6 Million Second Round
Stitcher, a service that lets talk radio listeners move programs to their mobile devices, has completed a $6 million second round funding.… Read more »
Brightcove Raises Another $12 Million; Says An IPO May Come Next Year
Online video platform company Brightcove has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding — and is now talking about going public as soo… Read more »
Personal Finance Site For Women LearnVest Gets $4.5 Million
LearnVest, a personal finance site for women, has raised $4.5 million in a first round of funding. LearnVest’s pitch: Women control 80 perce… Read more »
Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield’s Online Gaming Startup Raises $5 Million
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Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has raised $5 million in funding for his new online gaming venture, Tiny Speck. Word that Butterfield,… Read more »
Social Net Hi5 Raises $3 Million in Debt
Social network Hi5, which has been morphing into more of a social gaming service, has received about $3 million in debt financing a big $23… Read more »
Deal Activity In The Gaming Sector: Pure Console’s Flat; Online & Mobile’s It
Tim Merel, a director at IBIS Capital, the media investment bank based in London, just came out with a very informative report on the deal a… Read more »
Yelp Co-Founder Stoppelman Invests In Eventbrite
Online events registration service Eventbrite — which already counts YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim and Bebo co-founder Michael Birch among… Read more »
Where Are the iPad Venture Funds? Oh Wait…Nevermind.
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Less than four days to go before the second coming of, well, the tablet gods, just in time to save the newspaper and magazine industries. Bu… Read more »
Social Shopping Craze Attracting More Investment, More Candidates In Europe
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The flurry of shopping club activity doesn’t look like abating. This time, Turkish private buying club Markafoni, which has over 870,000 mem… Read more »
Web Accounting Service FreeAgent Takes Investment
FreeAgent, one of the crop of software-as-a-service expenses and accountancy packages, is taking funding from business software seller IRIS… Read more »
BlogTalkRadio Raises $1.9 Million Second Round
Live webcasting service BlogTalkRadio has raised a $1.9 million second round funding, Techcrunch reported. The company plans to use the proc… Read more »
