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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…

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The Rush Out To VCs: Facebook’s Cohler Joins Benchmark - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 11:09 AM PST

This is the month of senior executives leaving the starts and big media and Internet companies: just yesterday the CEOs of Hearst and Hachette were circled out on the east…

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Grockit Raises $8 Million Second Round For Educational MMO - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 02 Jun 2008 12:11 PM PST

Grockit, a stealth startup developing an MMO for online learning, has raised an $8 million second round led by Integral Capital Partners and past backer Benchmark Capital. The company has…

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Video Streaming Firm Move Networks Raises Big $46 Million Third Round - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 14 Apr 2008 09:42 AM PST

Red hot Move Networks, the heavily-backed provider of high quality online video streaming, has raised a huge $46 million third round led by Benchmark Capital, as well as Cisco (NSDQ:…

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Marin Software Raises $7.25 Million Second Round For Search Marketing Software - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 08 Apr 2008 11:45 AM PST

Marin Software, a provider of web-based software to manage search marketing campaigns, has raised a $7.25 million second round led by Benchmark Capital. The company’s first round has not been…

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Social Net Glassdoor Gets $3 Million Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 28 Mar 2008 01:37 PM PST

Sausalito, CA-based social net Glassdoor has raised a $3 million second round led by Benchmark Capital, according to peHUB. The stealthy company has not previously announced its first round. Other…

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Widget Analytics Firm Gigya Gets $9.5 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 10 Mar 2008 10:11 AM PST

Gigya, the online widgets tracker and analytics firm based in Palo Alto CA, has raised $9.5 million in a second round of funding from Mayfield Fund and two existing investors,…

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Internet TV Network ManiaTV Gets $9.5 Million Third Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 04 Mar 2008 08:11 PM PST

Updated below: Denver-based ManiaTV, a youth-based online TV network, has raised a $9.5 million third round from DAG Ventures, reports PE Hub. Previous backers Benchmark Capital, Centennial Ventures and Intel…

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Social Networker FriendFeed Raises $5 Million First Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 26 Feb 2008 08:13 AM PST

FriendFeed, a social networking service incubated out of Benchmark Capital, has raised a $5 million first round from the VC firm and its founders Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh. The…

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Industry Moves: Dan Finnegan Joins Benchmark As EIR - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 15 Feb 2008 12:31 AM PST

Speaking of newspaper ad consortiums, Dan Finnegan, the primary architect at Yahoo-newspaper consortium who left Yahoo in summer last year, has now joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR), which…

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Toolbar Company Conduit Raises $8 Million In Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 17 Jan 2008 11:00 AM PST

Conduit, a web community toolbars provider, has today announced it raised $8 million in its second round of funding from Benchmark Capital. In addition to enabling web publishers to maintain…

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Vivox Raises $7.8 Million Second Round for In-Game Voice Services - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 13 Nov 2007 12:23 PM PST

Vivox, a Framingham, Mass.-based provider of voice services for online games and virtual worlds, has raised $7.8 million in a second round led by Benchmark Capital. Previous investors GrandBanks Capital…

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