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Trada raises $2.2M to crowdsource paid search

Company wants to handle keyword search ad campaigns for mom-and-pop shops

by Matt Bowman - March 18, 2010
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Andreessen doesn’t need to worry about Ning

by Matt Bowman, March 16, 2010 | Comments

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Co-founder can’t help but make a killing, regardless of executive shuffle.

By now you probably know that Gina Bianchini, the very visible CEO of white-label social network platform Ning has left the company and been replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal. The reasons for the move remain shrouded in mystery, but it appears that Bianchini left of her own accord, in order to spend time with her family. Rosenthal told PE Hub ...

BrightEdge lands $6.5 million

by Chris Caceres, March 16, 2010 | Comments

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Battery Ventures, Altos Ventures and Illuminate Ventures invest in SEO management platform

BrightEdge, a startup offering a search engine optimization platform, announced on Tuesday it raised $6.5 million in funding. Battery Ventures led the round, with existing investors Altos Ventures and Illuminate Ventures also particpating. The San Mateo, California-based startup aims to help Websites improve their ranking on search engines, like Google or Yahoo for example. BrightEdge offers its product as an ...

LivingSocial raises $25 million

by Chris Caceres, March 11, 2010 | Comments

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U.S. Venture Partners and Grotech Ventures pouring cash into online group buying startup

LivingSocial, a startup offering daily retail discounts, announced on Thursday it raised $25 million in Series B funding. U.S. Venture Partners led the round with Grotech Ventures and Revolution, LLC participating. With this round, the company has raised $30 million in total VC funding. The company is in an emerging sector, in which sites offer daily deals for a particular ...

Battery Ventures raises $750 million

by Matt Bowman, March 11, 2010 | Comments (2)

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The multi-stage venture firm is looking to pump cash into tech companies at any stage.

Waltham-based Battery Ventures has finalized $750 million in commitments for its ninth venture fund. The firm casts a wide net for deals—it’s stage-agnostic, global (with most of its money going to North America, Israel and India) and almost sector agnostic (within technology). The firm says it wants to help companies focused on “Internet and Digital Media, financial and information services, ...

Why Sen. Franken is wrong about online media

by Mark Cuban, March 10, 2010 | Comments

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His request to put all TV shows online for free is idiotic and he's wrong about the future of media

“In written questions to Comcast and NBC Universal regarding their $30 billion proposed marriage, Sen. Franken — who has been one of the harshest critics of the deal — wants Comcast and NBC Universal to promise that it will put all its television shows online. He also wants assurances that shows that the companies put online be made available to ...

Todacell scores $1 million

by Chris Caceres, March 9, 2010 | Comments

	More money for mobile ad networks Mobile ad network Todacell, announced on Tuesday it's raised an additional $1 million round of funding from existing investor AfterDox. The extra $1 million will be added to another $1 million round the company raised in June of 2009 from AfterDox. The start also raised $350,000 in seed funding from the Fore Group. The funding comes at an interesting time ...
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Israeli venture fundraising plummets

by Matt Bowman, March 9, 2010 | Comments

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Funds raised by VC firms tumbled 72% in '09. $1.2B still available for investment.

It’s a little known fact that of all the innovation hubs around the world, Israel’s was hit the hardest by the credit crunch in terms of dollars invested in startups. New data out Monday from the country’s top venture capital research firm suggests that hard times are here to stay, at least for a while. Israel’s IVC Research Center found ...

Blogging platform Posterous pulls in $4.4M

by Ronny Kerr, March 5, 2010 | Comments (2)

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With new funding from Redpoint Ventures, others, Posterous wants to be the Google of Web posting

Blogging platform Posterous has raised a $4.4 million Series A round of funding from Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and a few angel investors: SV Angel, Founder Collective, Lowercase Capital, Brian Pokorny, Aydin Senkut, XG Ventures. Satish Dharmaraj, a partner at Redpoint, led the round and joins the company's board of directors.A Y Combinator company founded in 2008 as a simple ...

Stylesight raises $10 million

by Chris Caceres, March 5, 2010 | Comments

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Cue Ball Capital and Volition Capital invest in fashion forecasting site

Stylesight, an online destination which provides trend forecasting and product development tools for the fashion industry, announced it's closed a $10 million equity investment from Cue Ball Capital and return backer Volition Capital. The startup previously raised $16 million back in 2008.Founded back in 2003, the New York-based startup offers a closed Website for folks working in the fashion industry ...

Thiel could reap $1.4B from Facebook IPO

by Matt Bowman, March 5, 2010 | Comments

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Facebook's angel investors stand to make a pretty penny when the company goes public.

In light of Facebook’s eventual IPO plans and the valuations being thrown around by analysts, I asked our friend Lorenzo Carver at Liquid Scenarios to run some estimates on how Facebook’s investors might make out if the company IPOs next year. First of all, Carver notes that the $30 to $40 billion market cap that the Wall Street Journal’s sources ...

Playdom acquires Offbeat Creations

by Chris Caceres, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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M&A's heating up in the social gaming space

Playdom, a major player in the social gaming space, announced on Wednesday it has acquired Offbeat Creations, a developer of social games for Facebook. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.Offbeat Creations is known for games like Super Farkle, a popular dice game which sports over one million monthly active users. Other games it owns include, Be a Tycoon, ...

Perfect Market raises $6 million

by Chris Caceres, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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Startup looking to deploy its solution across online papers, magazines and other publishers

Perfect Market, a startup which offers publishers a service to monetize their online content, announced it has raised $6 million in Series C funding. Tribune Company led the round while existing investors Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners and Idealab also participated. The company previously raised a total $15.6 million back in 2008. What Perfect Market has to offer is a ...

SharesPost launches venture-backed index

by Matt Bowman, March 3, 2010 | Comments

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The “eBay of private company stock” is sticking pricetags on Facebook, Twitter, Tesla and more.

If you follow tech news, you’ve probably heard that Facebook was once valued at $15 billion, and that Twitter is worth around $1 billion. Normally, such estimations are impossible to make because they rely on information from financing rounds that usually remains confidential. It takes a leak or an investment from a public company for such valuations to make it ...

Apple suing HTC for patent infringement

by Chris Caceres, March 2, 2010 | Comments

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Makers of the iPhone going after competitor which builds the Nexus One and G1

Is Apple a little upset over the rise of Android-based smartphones? The maker of the ever popular and industry changing iPhone announced this morning it has filed a lawsuit against HTC, makers of the G1 (the first Android phone), and more recently the well received Nexus One, both which operate on Google's Android operating system.In Apple's statement, Steve Jobs commented, ...

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