Video advertising networks are hot, Brightroll gets its second round, claims...
After having covered the video ad networks BlackArrow and YuMe Networks today we have discovered that yet another one called Brightroll has also recently closed its Series B funding taking $5M more....
View ArticleJivox, yet another video ad network, has raised $2.7M
The funding was led by Opus Capital and also includes investments from individual investors including Jivox founder Diaz Nesamoney. The funds will be used to continue development of the Jivox online...
View ArticleIf your business is impacted by the weather WeatherBill might be a good...
An interesting start-up that we have on our long list with funding deals here is under no doubt WeatherBill. The San Francisco based WeatherBill started their service, which lets you cover your...
View ArticleMeebo tries to raise $25M in return of only 10% equity valuing the company at...
Meebo is a popular and rapidly growing web based instant messaging start up that was backed up by Sequoia Capital and is said to have roughly 4.6M unique visitors per month according to comScore’s...
View ArticleThe modern Boo.com and pets.com
Just like their ancestors Boo.com and pets.com during the dot com boom times companies like Geosign and Capazoo have also spent huge amounts of money in no time and reached nothing but grand failures....
View ArticleSpinVox raises $100M at a whopping $500M valuation
SpinVox, a London based voice-to-text technology is raising $100M round of funding from a bunch of high-profile investors among which are Goldman Sachs, GLG Partners, Blue Mountain Capital Management...
View ArticleSocialMedia totals $4M in funding and is one of the top ad platforms for...
Creating Facebook applications is already big business online. Facebook created a special fund to invest in popular applications for their social platform and there are also several venture capital...
View ArticleModu, an innovative approach to cell phones, is on its way to raise $100M
In a week full with $100M funding deals (9You & SpinVox) here is the next one – Modu is an Israel based start up founded just in 2007 and has already raised $20M in its Series A round of funding....
View ArticleLi Ka-shing invests $40M more in Facebook; total funding is now $378M from...
The Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing has reveled in a recent conference call that he raised his stake in the social networking site Facebook with some $40M more. That amount comes on top of his...
View ArticleAn online career community that connects people through personal...
Doostang is an interesting concept built upon the belief that over 50% up to 70% of recruiting today is done through the personal network of contacts and a large portion of which is done by email...
View ArticleGlam seems to be cutting off revenues for publishers
Something really interesting is going on with Glam Media. To make a long story short Glam is basically a controversial site that runs both a network of its own web sites as well as runs ads on a...
View ArticleYet another Digg clone
Reading the blogs today we came across a new Digg like service (clone) called Publish2. Essentially the service is Digg meets del.icio.us aimed at journalists where anyone is said to be able to seed...
View ArticleLooks like SpinVox is about to get a real run for the money, Nuance enters...
Everything leads us to the simple conclusion that Nuance is taking on SpinVox’s voice-to-text technology. It has always been interestingly enough to see how pouring big VC money into an idea, market...
View Articlefix8 takes more money to fiddle around animated avatars
It was just a few months ago when fix8 took their first round of funding from Vickers Venture Group. The amount taken was then $3M. Vickers Venture Group is a Singapore-based private equity firm. This...
View ArticleThe $250M pre-money seems did not work for Meebo and they go now for $175M
The rumor has it that Meebo fails to sell to date and is may be trying to raise new round of funding instead and not at the initial $250M pre-money valuation they were hoping for but at $175 – $200M....
View ArticleFederated Media raises huge round of funding – $50M
In a period full with launch of new ad networks and deals about such Federated Media has raised a huge amount of money – $50 million in a C round led by Oak Investment Partners and Omidyar Network as...
View ArticleMeebo raised $25M on reportedly $200M pre-money
The rumors were lately that Meebo failed to sell and that’s why it went into this new round of funding instead and not at the initial $250M pre-money valuation they were hoping for but at $175 – $200M...
View ArticleLinkedIn is out pitching for a major round at the staggering $1B pre-money
The rumors across the valley are that LinkedIn is out trying to raise a new round at $1B pre-money valuation. They are using the service of the New York based secretive investment bank Allen & Co....
View ArticleFacebook raised $100M more, total is now at $493M
Facebook keeps on growing so does its expenditures. The latest news from the company is that they have raised yet another $100M round of funding. The company says this time all the money will go for...
View ArticleBootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction
“Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time because it’s something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings of startup-to-IPO in...
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