Venture Capital

Elite Social Networker Spire Gets $9 Million First Round From Hearst, Others - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 08 Jul 2008 01:19 PM PST

Because the elite can’t be seen networking with the rest of us… Spire.com, a social networking site for folks whose net worth is $250k or more, has raised a rich-looking,…

Xiaonei Rips Another Page From The Facebook: Opens Platform, Launches Developer Fund - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 08 Jul 2008 01:11 PM PST

Chinese social networking site Xiaonei already has a reputation for basically being a Facebook knock-off. Now it’s copying Facebook’s strategy too. The company, owned by Oak Pacific Interactive, has announced…

JS-KIT Acquires Blog Comment System Haloscan - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 08 Jul 2008 10:25 AM PST

JS-KIT, a provider of widgets and services for blogs, has acquired Haloscan, the old commenting platform, often seen on blogspot-hosted blogs, according to CenterNetworks and other reports. Deal terms are…

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Alerts.com Raises $1.2 Million First Round For, Well, Alerts - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 08 Jul 2008 07:16 AM PST

Alerts.com, a Seattle-based info alerts service, has raised a $1.2 million first round led by Monster Venture Partners, reports SeattlePI. The basic idea: a single site to consolidate all of…

Topspin Media Gets Second Round For Online Music Marketing - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Jul 2008 07:54 PM PST

Topspin Media, a music marketing firm helmed by ex-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Ian Rogers, has raised a second round of funding led by Foundry Group. In April Last September, the company…

SynapticMash Raises $3 Million For Online Education Tools - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 07 Jul 2008 12:34 PM PST

SynapticMash, a Seattle-based online education startup, has raised a $3 million first round from Raycliff Capital and Vantage Partners, according to SeattlePI. The company’s business has multiple facets: The platform…

Industry Moves: Former About.com CEO Scott Meyer Joins Warburg As EIR; Focus on Mid-Market - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 07 Jul 2008 05:00 AM PST

Scott Meyer, the former CEO of About.com who left the company in February this year, is joining private equity firm Warburg Pincus, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence, starting today. Meyer will be based…

Gaming Site GameDuell Scores $17.45 Million For Expansion - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 03 Jul 2008 06:59 AM PST

Berlin- and San Francisco-based online casual gaming platform GameDuell has received an €11 million ($17.45 million) second-round investment from Wellington Partners with the cash due to be used for international…

Indian Online Ad Network Ozone Media Gets $4 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jul 2008 05:55 AM PST

Bangalore, India-based online advertising network Ozone Media Solutions Pvt Ltd has received its first round of funding from IDG Ventures India. Kiran Gopinath, founder and CEO of Ozone Media confirmed…

Giant Interactive Invests $51 Million in Chinese Social Networking Site 51.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Pearl Research - Tue 01 Jul 2008 04:39 PM PST

Chinese online games publisher Giant Interactive (NYSE: GA) is acquiring about 25 percent stake in Five One Network Development (51.com), a Chinese online social networking service provider, for approximately $51…

Investment Firm Ru-Net Takes Majority Stake In Russian Advertiser IConText - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 01 Jul 2008 09:51 AM PST

Ru-Net, the Russian internet investment firm, has acquired a 51 percent stake in IConText, a Russian contextual ad firm, reports Vedomosti (via Quintura). The deal may be valued around $7…

Grou.ps Raises $1.1 Million First Round For Social Networking Tools - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 01 Jul 2008 09:36 AM PST

More money for white-labelish social networking.... Grou.ps has raised a $1.1 million first round from Golden Horn Ventures, according to VentureBeat and others. The SF-based start-up offers tools for users…

Product Review Site TopTenREVIEWS Gets $6 Million First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 01 Jul 2008 09:36 AM PST

TopTenREVIEWS, a technology review site, has raised a $6 million first round from Highway 12 Ventures and Village Ventures. The Ogdan, Utah-based company will use the money to add employees…

Yoono Gets $4 Million For Social Browser Plugin - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:38 PM PST

Yoono, a startup offering a social browser plugin, has raised a $4 million first round led by AGR Private Equity. The SF-based company is one of a number of firms…

Mashery Raises $2 Million More For Web APIs - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 30 Jun 2008 10:05 AM PST

Mashery, a provider of tools to help companies build APIs and open up their content, has raised $2 million from .406 Ventures, Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, and past backers…

Chinese Video Site Youku Raises $40 Million Fourth Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 30 Jun 2008 08:53 AM PST

Concerns over online video limitations in China aren’t stopping the flow of money into the sector… Youku says it has raised a $40 million fourth round from past backers Brookside…

White Label Social Net Lithium Gets $12 Million Second Round - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 30 Jun 2008 07:33 AM PST

Lithium Technologies, an Emeryville, CA-based provider of white-label social networking tools, has raised $12 million in its second round funding, led by Benchmark Capital. Benchmark joins Emergence Capital and Shasta…

Social Gamer I’m In Like With You Raises $1.5 Million First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 27 Jun 2008 10:05 AM PST

I’m in Like With You, a NY-based social gaming startup, has raised $1.5 million led by Spark Capital, along with Baseline Ventures, Betaworks, Ron Conway, and Marc Andreesen. The news…

Israeli Animation Site Aniboom Raises $10 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 27 Jun 2008 04:31 AM PST

Aniboom, an Israeli animation network, has raised a $10 million second round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures, along with past backer Evergreen Venture Partners. The…

Concert Rec Engine Songkick Closes First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 26 Jun 2008 09:56 PM PST

Songkick, a US-UK concert recommendation engine, has closed its first round, estimated by VentureBeat at $1.1 million from the Accelerator Group’s Saul Klein. Based in Brooklyn and London, the company…

Product Rater RateItAll Gets First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 25 Jun 2008 12:09 PM PST

RateItAll, a company whose platform provides online consumer ratings of products, has raised an unspecified first round. Investors include various funds and individuals including Accelerator Ventures, JAIC America, Pacific I&T…

Opinion Community SodaHead Gets $8.4 Million Second Round - 3 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 25 Jun 2008 10:16 AM PST

SodaHead, a community site for the debate of serious topics, has raised an $8.4 million second round led by Mission Ventures, along with past backer Mohr Davidow. The Santa Clara,…

Online Radio Hosting Site BlogTalkRadio Gets $4.6 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 25 Jun 2008 08:39 AM PST

BlogTalkRadio, a popular online radio hosting site which allows anyone to webcast a radio/live feed, has received $4.6 million in funding, led by The Kraft Group, the owners of the…

Twitter Officially Announces Its Funding; Jeff Bezos Participates - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:11 PM PST

Finally Twitter announces its funding. The popular microblogging/messaging service says its newest investors are Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund. That Spark was participating was already…

Ad Optimizer AdMeld Raises $5 Million First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 24 Jun 2008 10:30 AM PST

AdMeld, a provider of ad optimization technology, has raised $5 million of a planned $6 million first round according to peHUB, citing regulatory filings. Investors include Foundry Group and Spark…