Airbnb raised $7.2 million from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners. The company is a lodgings booking setup that focuses on unusual options, and no reservation hotels.
Mixed Media Labs raised $5 million from Andreessen Horowitz. Mixed Media Labs is the creator of, among other things, the photo sharing tool PixPlz.
DeNA Co., one of the biggest developer of social games for mobile phones in Japan, is looking to partener. The company is interested in either Facebook Inc. or Zynga. The deal would be part of DeNA’s attempts to expand further in to the US Market.
SkyFire, a mobile browser for the iPhone that focuses on allowing users to play Flash video on their iPhone, has reached in $1 million in sales. The app reached the last Thursday,
YuMe, a video ad network, has launched an SDKs for iOS devices, as well as two new mobile video ad units. This is the company’s first foray into mobile ads
Mozilla released a and feature, an add-on called F1 for the Firefox browser. The add-on creates a button on the top-right of the browser window. The button with let users share the page they are viewing via Gmail, Facebook or Twitter.
LeisureLink raised $9 million in its third round of fundraising. The Pasadena, Calif.-based company provides specialty lodging places and helps hotels distribute their data to travel booking websites.
DataPop raised $1.7 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Rincon Venture Partners. Other investors in the round include IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, Accelerator Ventures and a group of angel investors. The company, which optimizes ad copy for online distribution, is in private beta for now, but it is planning a full release in 2011.
