Venture Capital

Media6Degrees Raises $2 Million Note For Ad Analytics - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 01 May 2008 11:39 AM PST

Media6Degrees, a provider of ad analytics, has raised $2 million via a convertible note from Coriolis Ventures, VentureBeat reported. The NY-based company’s pitch is pretty straightforward: it promises to make…

Game Community Kongregate Gets $3 Million From Bezos Expeditions - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 01 May 2008 05:38 AM PST

Kongregate, the SF-based game community, has raised $3 million from Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions. The company, which allows developers to create and distribute their own games, says the funding will…

Time Warner and Others Invest $25 Million in Meebo; Korea, Japan Expansion Plans - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 09:00 PM PST

As we reported first earlier today, social IM firm Meebo has closed its third round of funding, and it came in at a big amount: $25 million. The lead investor…

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Social IM Firm Meebo Closes Funding; Announcement Tomorrow - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 01:22 PM PST

Mountain View, CA-based Meebo, the popular web-based IM service, has closed its big round of funding, we have learned, and the announcement is coming as soon as tonight or tomorrow.…

MMO Developer Turbine Raises $25 Million Of $40 Million Third Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 30 Apr 2008 09:54 AM PST

Turbine, a developer of MMO games, has raised $25 million of a planned $40 million third round report peHUB. The Westwood, MA-based company has now raised over $90 million. Investors…

Softbank Buys Stake in Chinese Internet Firm Oak; Could Go Up To $385 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 07:58 AM PST

The Japanese teleco and online firm Softbank has bought about 14 percent of Chinese online holding firm Oak Pacific Interactive (OPI), with the intent of increasing the stake to 40…

@ EconSM: Deals And Dealmakers: The Outlook For 2008 - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Apr 2008 05:17 PM PST

The final panel at EconSM was the deals panel, which ContentNext Editor and Publisher Rafat Ali described as the “flagship” panel. Economy and outlook for 2008: Geoff Yang, Redpoint…

Music Community Site Mog Gets $2.8 Strategic Investment From UMG, Sony BMG, And Angels - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Apr 2008 12:00 PM PST

Mog, the Berkeley, CA-based music community site, has taken a $2.8 million strategic investment from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, as well as various angels. The site, which competes with…

Domain Monetizer WhyPark Raises $230k From Angel - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Apr 2008 11:19 AM PST

WhyPark, a service for monetizing unused domains, has raised a $230,000 angel round from Alan Macomber, a customer of the service, according to Domain Name Wire. The company argues that…

Social Gamer Akoha Raises C$1.9 Million From Angels - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Apr 2008 11:16 AM PST

Akoha, a developer of online and offline social games has raised C$1.9 (US$1.86) million from a long list of Canadian angel investors. The full list of investors, which includes the…

Serious Business Raises $4 Million For Facebook Apps - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Apr 2008 09:47 AM PST

Serious Business, the developer of the “Sell Your Friends” app on Facebook, has raised a $4 million first round from Lightspeed Ventures. The popular app claims over 600,000 daily active…

Document Sharer DocStoc Raises $3.25 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Apr 2008 09:01 AM PST

DocStoc, a service for sharing and embedding professional documents, has raised a $3.25 million second round from Rustic Canyon Partners. The Beverly Hills-based company previously raised $750,000, bringing its total…

LeadPoint Raises $6 Million Fifth Round For Lead Gen Exchange - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 28 Apr 2008 11:03 AM PST

LeadPoint, a B2B lead-gen exchange, has raised a $5 million fifth round from Silicon Valley Bank Ventures, as well as RedPoint ventures. The company has now raised a total of…

AV Launches Another Rollup Fund: $50 Million For Corp. Social Networking, With Dachis - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Apr 2008 12:56 AM PST

Austin Ventures, the VC and private equity firm, has launched its eighth mini-rollup fund in the last five years, and this is an intriguing one: it is putting $50 million…

Chinese Video Site Tudou Receives Another Big Round of $57 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Apr 2008 12:44 AM PST

The Chinese online video site Tudou, which has a huge repository of illegal versions of Hollywood and TV content (check Sidereel.com: half of the TV show links lead to Tudou…

Social Networking Jobs Site Jobster Raises Another $7 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 25 Apr 2008 10:41 AM PST

Jobster, the money-burning recruitment-meets-social networking service, has raised another $7 million, on top of the $48 million its previously raised, reports Seattle PI. News that the Seattle-based company was out…

Gamer SCI Raises $119 Million From Warner Bros., Property Investor Tchenguiz - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 25 Apr 2008 09:06 AM PST

Turns out that earlier reports of London-traded game developer SCi selling a major chunk to NBCU were false: Instead, the company has announced a $119 million (£60 million) raise from…

Ex-Googler’s Mechanical Zoo To Launch With $750K Convertible Debt - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Apr 2008 11:40 AM PST

Mechanical Zoo, a social start-up started by some ex-Googlers, has raised $750k in convertible debt, as it preps for a beta launch, reported News.com. The unidentified angels (including former colleagues)…

SaysMe.TV Raises First Round For User-Gen Political Ads; Intel, Ashton Kutcher Invest - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 24 Apr 2008 11:39 AM PST

Supporters of the various candidates for president are already producing and uploading their own ads, so why not turn that into a business. Drawing inspiration from SpotRunner, SaysMe.TV has created…

Buzzd Raises First Round For Location-Based Mobile Networking - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 24 Apr 2008 09:31 AM PST

Buzzd, which is developing a location-based social network that revolves around entertainment listings, plans to announce today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of capital in a first round…

Play Hard Sports Raises $5 Million First Round For Casual Online Sports Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 23 Apr 2008 11:42 AM PST

Play Hard Sports, a start-up games studio with a casual sports bent, has raised a $5 million first round from New Enterprise Associates. The Foxboro, MA-based company argues that by…

Vysr Raises $2 Million From For New Browsing Method - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 23 Apr 2008 11:32 AM PST

As someone that once had 156 tabs open in a single Firefox window, this sounds appealing: Vysr, a start-up offering a new way to browse that promises fewer tabs, has…

Urban Transit Site HopStop Raises Angel Rounding - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 11:30 AM PST

HopStop, a service that lets users map out the quickest subway route between two points in a city, has raised unspecified angel funding from a group of investors that includes…

Korean Social Gamer Nurien Software Raises $15 Million First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 11:19 AM PST

Nurien Software, a social gaming service based in Korea, has raised a $15 million first round from Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC), Globespan Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and…

Video News Site Mediascrape Raises $3.16 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:37 PM PST

Mediascrape, a site that aggregates news video, has raised C$3.2 million (US$3.16 million) from unidentified investors. The Montreal-based company aggregates video from a variety of sources, including BBC and CBC,…