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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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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