Venture Capital Deals
JuiceCaster is a mobile social networking community got $6M in new venture capital funding
By admin at December 17, 2007 | 11:00 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering:JuiceCaster is a mobile social networking community which lets anyone who has a cell phone connect with friends and meet new people. JuiceCaster allows the user to publish content right from their phone to any person, group, Web site or desktop. People can view content on their phone to make new friends and stay in touch with current buddies. more...
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Pyxis Mobile is the leading provider of innovative wireless software that meets the diverse needs of the financial services , has raised $1.95m
By admin at December 4, 2007 | 11:22 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering:Pyxis Mobile is the leading provider of innovative wireless software that meets the diverse needs of the financial services industry. Pyxis Mobile mPlatform® solutions are used by mobile financial professionals to extend critical business data from internal enterprise systems to the mobile device of their choice.Pyxis Mobile is a privately held more...
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Fotolog Acquired By French Internet company Hi-Media At $90 million
By admin at November 30, 2007 | 4:17 am | 0 Comment
What Company is Offering:Fotolog is the world's leading photo-blogging site, one of the world's largest social networking sites and a global cultural phenomenon. More than 10 million members in more than 200 countries use Fotolog as a simple and fun way to express themselves through online photo diaries or photo blogs. What makes Fotolog special is not just the ability more...
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Yodle,a New York-based provider of local online advertising and lead generation got$12 million in second-round funding
By admin at November 26, 2007 | 8:13 pm | 0 Comment
What Company Is Offering:Yodle provides local businesses with a simple way to get more customers and phone calls using online marketing. Yodle, a company funded by Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is transforming local online advertising by connecting local business owners with consumers in a simple, measurable and relevant way. Yodle has developed more...
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Redbaby Got $25 million in new VC funding
By admin at November 23, 2007 | 11:07 pm | 0 Comment
VCS Funding: Redbaby Information Technology Co. Ltd., an ecommerce company focused on baby products for the China market, reportedly has raised $25 million in new VC funding. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the deal, and was joined by return backers NEA and Northern Light Venture Capital It plans to go public next year on an overseas exchange. more...
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FatDoor got $5.5 million from an investment group led by Norwest Venture Partners
By admin at November 14, 2007 | 5:05 am | 0 Comment
What Company is Offering:FatDoor is a way to get to know your neighbors on a very local level, and displays information over a Microsoft Virtual Earth map that can toggle between 2D and 3D views. It’s like a Wikipedia for the White Pages. FatDoor isn’t limited to people, though. Information regarding your local businesses, events, shopping deals and organizations are more...
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MerchantCircle Got $10MM in Funding from Square 1 Bank and Equity Investors
By admin at November 9, 2007 | 11:16 pm | 0 Comment
About Company: MerchantCircle helps you tap into the power of the Local Internet to reach these potential local customers, who are online right now, searching for deals, recommendations and information in your community. We created simple tools to help you to promote your products and services, and designed our site to get your business listed higher in search engine more...
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RVS Ventures, Acquired beRecruited.com
By admin at November 5, 2007 | 4:42 am | 0 Comment
What Company is offering: beRecruited provides a platform for student athletes to connect and interact with college coaches across the nation, giving students the tools to research and build profiles of verified athletic and academic information, as well as providing coaches with a vast, searchable database of potential recruits. To date, beRecruited has more than 100,000 more...
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FORA.tv got seed round fund from Adobe Systems and venture capitalist Will Hearst
By admin at October 31, 2007 | 4:07 am | 0 Comment
What company is Offering: FORA.tv the leading provider of online video content focused on discourse, discussion and debates surrounding the world’s most compelling political, social and cultural issues. How Much They Got From VCs:They announced the closing of its seed round of financing with an investment from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe joins noted investor and more...
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"mvmpartners" bring experienced senior executive leadership and bridge funding to emerging companies to achieve early business results
By admin at October 18, 2007 | 4:13 am | 0 Comment
About Company:They bring experienced senior executive leadership and bridge funding to emerging companies to achieve early business results and develop credibility in order to secure institutional funding and transform ideas, technologies and products into sustainable, successful businesses."Tal Golan knew he invented potentially game-changing technology in the fight more...
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YuMe, which has raised $9 million
By admin at October 16, 2007 | 8:19 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is about; YuMe provides a variety of online video ad formats, including pre, mid, and post-roll, as well as the interactive overlay style featured by the likes of VideoEgg. The company also offers its advertising solutions for different types of video, from online streams, to downloads, to mobile devices. About VCs Deal:An online video advertising network more...
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Webcam avatar community fix8 has raised $3 million
By admin at October 15, 2007 | 8:30 pm | 0 Comment
What Company is About: fix8 lets you create animated avatars with your webcam by reading your expressions and gestures. There are loads of tools that you can play around with, including fix8’s wide selection of avatars, and other accessories like voice manipulation, graphics and editing tools. These clips can then be embedded in your website or social networking more...
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HowStuffWorks is the latest acquisition by Discovery Communications, for $250 million
By admin at October 15, 2007 | 3:53 am | 0 Comment
What Company is About:HowStuffWorks is an online reference tool with a reported 11 million users around the world and 3.8 million unique US visitors per month. Why Its in News?....because the reference site will be merged with Discovery’s video content, as well as its future programs. This is all in an effort to improve Discovery’s own websites, which are in need of more...
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Electronic Arts Inc to acquire VG Holdings for $860 million
By admin at October 12, 2007 | 4:54 am | 0 Comment
About VCs Deal:Electronic Arts Inc. sealed a deal with private-equity firm Elevation Partners to buy a videogame-development company for $860 million, bolstering its pipeline of action, adventure and role-playing titles with 10 yet-to-be released games.How The Deal Is? Elevation Partners will sell its VG Holdings Corp., the parent company of game makers BioWare Corp. and more...
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Who Is behind ThFunded.com?
By admin at October 1, 2007 | 4:19 am | 0 Comment
As a successful venture capitalist, Howard Hartenbaum had grown accustomed to some measure of deference from the entrepreneurs who pitched him. So when one particularly brash CEO called him a "nut case" and then said that a meeting with him "made me want to vomit," Hartenbaum was livid.Hartenbaum, a partner at Draper Richards in San Francisco and an early backer of the more...
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VC’s Talk And Advice For Entrepreneurs
By admin at September 15, 2007 | 11:02 pm | 0 Comment
Avnish Bajaj, Matrix Partners: My advice to entrepreneurs? May be I shouldn't be telling them because it will become harder for me to negotiate… But you know the negotiation will be around valuation. So as an investor, I will put up 10 points, all of which are important to me. And if the entrepreneur is only thinking: 'valuation, valuation, valuation', I will make sure more...
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Finding The Right VC
By admin at July 14, 2007 | 4:59 am | 0 Comment
Finding the right VC is a lot like dating–networking, friendly introductions and sheer luck all play a role. Discover how 3 entrepreneurs met their VCs and started lasting relationships that helped their businesses grow. Smoothie-maker LightFull Foods was cooked up at 2-year-old Bay Area incubator Brand New Brands in May 2006. The San Francisco company received $6.1 more...
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Alternative Of VC’s Funding
By admin at June 19, 2007 | 5:09 am | 0 Comment
If you’re struggling to find success in your quest for venture capital, maybe you’re looking in the wrong place.Here are few alternative of VCs:There are plenty of other options available when it comes to finding capital. From angels to credit cards, here are 25 alternatives to consider when it comes to funding your business.1. AngelsMost venture capital funds will more...
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On Start Up Finanancing
By admin at May 10, 2007 | 1:11 am | 0 Comment
A panel discussion at MIT on the topic of raising funding for an early stage startup. Also on the panel was Michael Greeley from IDG Ventures. Michael was representing the VC perspective .Here are some of the questions that came up in the panel. Please note that this is not legal advice and if you are raising funding, you should consult counsel on all legal matters. 1. more...
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