Seesmic Raises $4 Million With Help From New Collaborator, Salesforce.com
Twitter client Seesmic has raised a $4 million third round from customer relationship manager Salesforce.com and an unidentified company man… Read more »
Voddler Picks Up Another $8 Million In Funding For VOD, Led By Nokia
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music — shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service — but it is not giving up on… Read more »
Skype Founders’ Music Venture Rdio Gets Funded By Mangrove Capital
The mobile music space has just picked up a bit more capital: Rdio, music discovery and sharing startup, has raised financing from Mangrove… Read more »
Mobile Ad Optimizer Smaato Raises $7 Million To Expand In Asia
More mobile advertising funding: Smaato, the mobile advertising aggregator and opimizer, has raised a round of funding totalling $7 million.… Read more »
Mobile Ad Platform Celtra Raises $5 Million
Yet another self-service ad platform has picked up some significant funding. Celtra, which provides a self-service rich-media advertising an… Read more »
Auditude Raises $11 Million More For Its Online Video Ad Platform
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Auditude, which sells a platform used by a number of top sites to manage their online video ads, has raised $11 million in a second round of… Read more »
It’s Official: Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion
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There was never really any doubt, but Facebook has now officially raised $1.5 billion from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies in a d… Read more »
Leaderboard: Europe’s Biggest Tech Exits
Europe’s digital media economy is doing just fine, if investor returns are anything to go by – Lovefilm is only one of 13 online software co… Read more »
‘Open’ Textbooks Provider Flat World Inks Berteslmann Investment
Germany’s Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments is leading a $15 million investment in to New York-based Flat World Knowledge, which gives a… Read more »
Social Gamer Kabam Raises $30 Million For Acquistions, Studio Expansion
Kabam, a developer of massive multiplayer games like Kingdoms of Camelot, has raised a $30 million third round of funding to support its acq… Read more »
Interview: Lovefilm Investor Says Amazon Exit Is A Win-Win
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Lovefilm eschewed a possible IPO option because Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) gives it a global-scale parent with resources enough to land the rights… Read more »
Video Remixer Masher Takes £250k North-East Funding
Masher, a video remix and sharing service that was spun out of BBC Worldwide, has raised a further £250,000 from the Northern Film + Media… Read more »
Qualcomm Invests In Mobile Search Firm ChaCha
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Wireless firm Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is joining a growing list of investors that are betting on ChaCha, a service that lets users call or tex… Read more »
India Ad Net Komli Raises $15 Million For Regional Expansion
Following two fairly big acquisitions designed to expand its regional presence, Indian ad network Komli is preparing to do some deals. The M… Read more »
Where Did Anssi Vanjoki Go After Nokia? To Play Golf
Things at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have not turned out as planned for Anssi Vanjoki, the former EVP of devices who had been the heir apparent t… Read more »
Scribd Raises $13 Million To Support Mobile Moves, Product Expansion
Social publishing site Scribd has closed $13 million third round, as it looks toward rolling out new mobile features and additional products… Read more »
Mobile App Platform Startup Kony Raises $19.1 Million
Concerned about fragmentation in the mobile world? Given the growth of so many different platforms, that may be a difficult tide to stem. In… Read more »
India Digital Marketer Ybrant Raises $48 Million Financing
Hyderabad-based digital marketer Ybrant Digital took a break from its international shopping spree last year, but it says its looking to buy… Read more »
I Can Has $30 Million: Cheezburger Network Raises Hefty Round
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The Cheezburger Network, known for some of the top procrastination sites on the web, including I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL blog, and The Da… Read more »
Perfect Market Raises $9 Million In A Round Led By Comcast
For the second time in less than a year, a major media company is investing in Perfect Market, a startup that helps publishers better moneti… Read more »
Plastic Logic Is Raising $700 Million To Open A New Factory In Russia
Plastic Logic is raising $700 million to open a new factory in Russia that will produce “next-generation plastic displays.” The company had… Read more »
SnagFilms Raises $10 Million From Comcast, NEA; Will Expand Beyond Docs
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SnagFilms, founded in 2008 by Ted Leonsis, has raised its first major outside capital: a $10 million round led by New Enterprise Associates… Read more »
Index Ventures Opens In Bay Area For Transatlantic Digital Investing
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In a further sign European tech VCs are looking to give their companies U.S. scale and to invest in American startups, Britain’s Index Ventu… Read more »
LivingSocial Expands Abroad By Buying A Stake In Let’s Bonus
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Only a day after Groupon said it would expand aggressively abroad through the purchase of three daily deals services in India, Israel and So… Read more »
Funding Roundup: Formspring, Baynote, PrimeSense
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– Formspring: The question and answer service has raised $11.5 million in a first round of funding led by Redpoint Ventures, bringing its t… Read more »
Adknowledge Raises $200 Million In Debt, Equity Financing
Ad network Adknowledge has raised a huge $200 million in a combination of debt and equity financing with a particular goal in mind: buying m… Read more »
Mobile VC Investment Was A Massive $6.1B In 2010. Google, Intel Led The Way
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Boutique investment house Rutberg & Company have released their numbers on VC and M&A activity in the mobile sector, and the figures confirm… Read more »
Social Net Builder SocialGO Needs More Money From The City
White-label social network builder SocialGO says it is issuing new shares on London’s AIM market in order to raise £300,000 ($466.93) for a… Read more »
Sharing App Bump Picks Up $16M To Expand Business To Payments And More
Bump Technologies, which makes an app that lets users share information with each other by bumping their iPhones/iPods or Android devices to… Read more »
Groupon Closes Its $950 Million Round
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Groupon, which decided to raise more outside backing rather than take a reported $6 billion offer from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), has completed a… Read more »
Hearst Backs Discount Restaurant Site VillageVines
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Hearst Interactive Media is investing in VillageVines, as part of the restaurant deal site’s $3 million first round. With VillageVines, memb… Read more »
Social Media Measurement Firm Klout Raises $8.5 Million
Klout, a company that markets online influence measurement services, has raised $8.5 million as social media ad spending is expected to be i… Read more »
Arty Movie Service MUBI Takes $2.4 Million Funding
MUBI, an online access service for independent and artistic films, has taken on a $2.4 million investment round for extra capital and to gro… Read more »
SoundCloud Gets Investment From Union Square, Index
Berlin-based audio hosting website SoundCloud says it’s taking investment from Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. Read more »
IPO Readiness: How Facebook And LinkedIn Compare To Previous Tech Giants
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Industry watchers had said 2011 would be a big year for IPOs, and, if week one of the new year is any indication, they’re already right. Bot… Read more »
Swedish Music Service Launching In U.S. (No, Not That One)
While many continue fretting over whether and when Spotify will open up Stateside, another digital music company from Sweden is going ahead… Read more »
France’s Bon-Prive Raises €1.5 Million In Daily Deals Craze
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With Groupon having raised $500 million over Christmas, the kindling is well alight under the deals-buying paradigm. And investments are sti… Read more »
Tapjoy Raises $21 Million As It Bounces Back
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It looks like Offerpal — now known as Tapjoy — has fully recovered from the PR scandal that culminated in the resignation of its CEO last… Read more »
Gaming Startup OMGPOP Raises $10 Million
OMGPOP, which began as a multiplayer game developer on the web but has since expanded into mobile and Facebook, has raised $10.1 million in… Read more »
Jinni Raises $5 Million For Its Video ‘Discovery Engine’
Jinni, a website which offers visitors movie and TV show recommendations, has raised $5 million in a new funding round led by two strategic… Read more »
