For the college students pining for the good ol’ days when Facebook was only for them: CollegeWikis, a group messaging and info platform, has closed a $2 million round led…

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Online “wikizine” company Zimbio has raised a $6.8 million first round led by Menlo Ventures, with Draper Richards participating, according to Venture Wire (via VentureBeat). The Redwood City, Calif. company…

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We hadn’t heard about Ambient Devices for a long time now, but it is back in news: the “information orb” and datacasting company has received its first institutional round of…

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After several months in beta, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is going wide with content site Knol. While the site appears to be a challenge to Wikipedia, Google stresses that the articles…

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Wiki publisher Wetpaint has raised a big $25 million third round led by DAG Ventures, an unspecified financial investor (Update: Kara reports that it’s Fidelity, which also invested in Slide’s…

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The Wikimedia Foundation has picked up $3 million in grants from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The philanthropy will parcel out its grant in $1 million installments over three years to…

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TradeVibes, a Mountain View, CA-based wiki for info on startups, has raised a $900,000 seed round, says VentureBeat. Investors include Ron Conway, Dave McClure, the Kinsey Hills Group and Felicis…

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Palo Alto-based SocialText, a maker of wiki software for enterprise users, has raised a $9.5 million third round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures and Omidyar Network, all of which…

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Community investing site Wikinvest has raised $2.5 million in an initial round led by DCM.  The company has created a platform where people can share financial information, research companies and…

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Enterprise social software company SocialText has secured $3 million as it looks to raise a $6.5 million third round financing, PEHub reports, citing a regulatory filing. The company, which makes…

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Wiki hosting site PBwiki has received $2 million in funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures, as well as an additional $100,000 from previous investors Ron Conway and Chris Yeh, Techcrunch reported.…

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Penguin claims to be the first major publishing house to use a wiki for writing a novel from scratch. A Million Penguins went live Thursday; using wiki software it can…

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Blog and media search company Wikio has closed a first round of funding of $5.3 million. The financing was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners along with Gemini Israel Funds. Luxembourg-based…

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Wiki publisher Wetpaint has raised $9.5 million through second funding led by Accel Partners. Venturebeat reports that the funding comes after Google bought popular wiki site JotSpot last year and…

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We have mentioned this funding before, but the amount came out today through SEC filings, picked up by PEHub: Amazon was the sole investor in Wikia’s second round, and the…

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Through a new service called OpenServing, Wikia will provide free bandwidth, computing power, storage and software for collaborative content—and those who have a Google ad code will get 100 percent…

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Amazon is the sole investor in Wikia’s second round; amount undisclosed. It’s a shift from the crowd that invested in the$4 million first round earlier this year from a group…

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AboutUs Inc., a Portland, OR-based business Wiki developer, has closed a $1 million initial financing round for its wiki....the round was led by investment firms Capybara Ventures and Northwest Technology…

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PBWiki, a Wiki tool maker based in has raised $350,000 in angel money, from Seraph (an angel group), Chris Yeh (Symphoniq) and Ron Conway (prolific angel investor), reports VB. The…

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