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Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Jul 2008 10:50 AM PST
Become.com, one of many players in the comparison shopping game, has raised an $8 million fourth round, according to VentureBeat, which doesn’t know the investors. The Mountain View, CA-based company…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Jul 2008 10:42 AM PST
ON24, a provider of webcasting technology, has raised $8 million from U.S. Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, and Rho Ventures. The company has now raised over $46 million over an unspecified…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 16 Jul 2008 08:28 AM PST
BlogHer, the womens ad network, blogging community site and conference organizer, has raised a $5 million second round lead by the Peacock Equity Fund (GE and NBCU), along with past…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 15 Jul 2008 11:24 AM PST
TRUSTe, an organization that certifies websites for having good privacy practices, is turning into a for-profit enterprise, and has taken an unspecified investment from VC firm Accel. Saul Hansell at…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 15 Jul 2008 10:28 AM PST
Clickability, a provider of on-demand web content management software, has raised a $3.5 million debt round from SaaS Capital, according to VentureWire (not online). SaaS Capital is devoted exclusively to…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 15 Jul 2008 10:15 AM PST
Following Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) acquisition of Powerset, here’s more money for semantic search… Cognition Technologies, a developer of technology for the space, has raised a $2.7 million round from Draper…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 15 Jul 2008 09:38 AM PST
YouSendIt, a service that lets people share large files online, has raised a fittingly large $14 million third round led by Emergence Capital, along with past backers Sigma Partners, Alloy…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Jul 2008 07:49 PM PST
Shopflick, a site where merchants can show off their wares through video, has raised a $7 million first round from Panorama Capital and Venrock. Basically, the LA-based site lets third…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Jul 2008 04:53 PM PST
Atomic Moguls, the online sports gamer led by ex-NBA official Brenda Spoonemore, has raised another $1 million from past backer Second Avenue Partners, according to SeattlePI. Last year, the company…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Jul 2008 09:32 AM PST
Gaia Online, the teen-oriented virtual world and community site, has raised an $11 million third round led by Institutional Venture Partners. The company has disclosed over $21 million previously, not…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Jul 2008 05:00 AM PST
Social Gaming Network, a major distributor of games on Facebook and other social networks, has added Bezos Expeditions, Jeff Bezos’ investment vehicle, to its investor roles. The news comes just…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 13 Jul 2008 09:27 AM PST
The days of huge Chinese fundings are not over yet, as online video and gaming sites and others in digital media keep getting stupendous amounts: Chinese online jobs site Zhaopin.com…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Jul 2008 01:06 PM PST
The real estate market is still hot… online. Trulia, a popular real estate search site, has raised a $15 million fourth round led by Deep Fork Capital LLC, along with…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Jul 2008 11:40 AM PST
Socialmedian, the social news site started by former Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg, has been nurturing its seed round into a sapling for a while and now added more investors, or…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Jul 2008 11:28 AM PST
Challenge Games, an Austin, TX-based online gamer, has raised a $4.5 million first round led by Sequoia Capital. The company’s games include fantasy game Duels, and the newly launched Baseball…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 10 Jul 2008 10:24 AM PST
Riot Games, a two-year-old independent games developer and publisher, has received $7 million in a round of funding from Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital. The company also brought on two…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Jul 2008 09:05 AM PST
Apparently the world did need another how-to video site. The latest is Graspr, which has raised a $2.5 million first round from DFJ and various angels. The Mountain View, CA-based…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jul 2008 09:00 PM PST
Bestofmedia Group, the French tech publisher that acquired tech sites Tom’s Hardware and related sites last year, has taken its first outside funding in its 8-year history: It has raised…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 03:48 PM PST
You’re reading it here first... Italian social media entertainment operator Dada has bought a 10 percent stake in the owner of interactive on-demand TV channel Music Box for €750,000, as…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jul 2008 11:03 AM PST
DriverSide, an SF-based auto info site, has raised an unspecified first round led by Catamount Ventures. Basically, the site offers a directory of information on stuff like car parts, service…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jul 2008 09:22 AM PST
Buzzfeed, a NY-based trend-tracking site has raised a $3.5 million led by Hearst Interactive Media and Softbank, reports CNET. The site, which was co-founded in 2006 by HuffPo co-founder Jonah…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jul 2008 09:12 AM PST
Perfect Market, an Idealab-incubated company offering publishers tools to monetize archival content, has raised a $15.6 million from Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, Square 1 Bank, and founding investor Idealab.…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jul 2008 08:08 AM PST
The FeedRoom, a longtime player in the online video market, has raised another $12 million led by NewSpring Capital, with past backers BEV Capital and Velocity Equity Partners participating as…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 09 Jul 2008 05:00 AM PST
Mevio, the early commercial entrant into the podcasting game then known as PodShow, has raised a big, $15 million third round led by Crosslink Capital, with past backers Kleiner Perkins…
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,…
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