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Comparison Shopper Become.com Raises $8 Million Fourth Round - 0 Comments
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…

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ON24 Gets $8 Million For Webcasting And Virtual Trade Shows - 0 Comments
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…

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BlogHer Gets $5 Million Second Round From Peacock Equity; Partnership With iVillage - 1 Comment
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…

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Privacy Certifier TRUSTe Goes For-Profit; Gets Investment From Accel - 0 Comments
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…

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Clickability Gets $3.5 Million Debt Funding For Web Content Management - 0 Comments
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…

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Cognition Technologies Raises $2.7 Million For Semantic Search - 0 Comments
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…

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YouSendIt Raises $14 Million Third Round For Large File Transfers - 0 Comments
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…

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Shopflick Raises $7 Million For Video-Based Shopping Marketplace - 0 Comments
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…

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Atomic Moguls Gets Another $1 Million For Fantasy Sports Games - 0 Comments
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…

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Gaia Online Gets $11 Million Third Round For Teen-Oriented Virtual World - 0 Comments
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…

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Social Gaming Network Adds Bezos As Investor - 1 Comment
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…

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Big Chinese Funding: Online Jobs Site Zhaopin.com Gets $110 Million Funding - 0 Comments
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…

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No Crash Here… Real Estate Site Trulia Raises $15 Million Fourth Round - 6 Comments
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…

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Social News Site Socialmedian Gets Funding From Crovitz, Hundt and Others - 0 Comments
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…

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Online Gamer Challenge Games Raises $4.5 Million First Round - 0 Comments
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…

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Riot Games Secures $7 Million From Benchmark Capital And FirstMark Capital - 0 Comments
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…

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How-To Site Graspr Raises $2.5 Million First Round - 0 Comments
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…

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Bestofmedia Group Gets Its First Funding; $35 Million From Index Ventures - 0 Comments
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…

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Italian Social Media’s Dada Buying Music Box TV Channel - 1 Comment
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…

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Car Info Site DriverSide Raises First Round - 0 Comments
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…

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Trend Site Buzzfeed Raises $3.5 Million First Round - 0 Comments
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…

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Perfect Market Raises $15 Million First Round For Archive Monetization - 0 Comments
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.…

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Video Platform The FeedRoom Gets Another $12 Million - 0 Comments
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…

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Mevio, Formerly PodShow, Raises $15 Million Third Round - 0 Comments
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…

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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,…

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