Funding roundup - week ending 05/20/11

Ronny Kerr · May 20, 2011 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/1aa9

Hipsters, BeeTVs, Eventbrites and more: read all of the week's most notable funding announcements

Seed-stage

Local Q&A site Hipster raised $1 million in seed funding from several angel investors: Mitch Kapor, Dave McClure/500 Startups, Lightbank, Google Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Max Ventilla, TechStars David Cohen and David Tisch, Google’s Don Dodge, Paige Craig, Ludlow Ventures, Lerer Ventures and others.

Saygent, a voice response and analysis SaaS, raised $1 million in seed funding from 500 Startups, Innovation Endeavors, Juvo Capital and more.

 

Early-stage

Bee TV raised $1.5 million from Italian venture capital firm Innogest to fund its new social TV watching app on the iPad.

 

 

Mobile payments startup Billing Revolution raised $6.6 million in Series B funding led by DCM and SK Telecom Ventures.

Boticca, a platform that connects customers with top independent designers, closed a $2.5 million funding round led by ISAI.

Cognitive Match, a company that connects targeting across display ads and online content, raised $6 million from new investor Antrak Capital and previous backer Dawn Capital.

Datameer, provider of business user-facing analytics solutions built on Apache Hadoop, secured $9.25 million in Series B financing led by Kleiner Perkins.

Dealfind, a local daily deals site based in Toronto, secured $31 million in funding from Insight Venture Partners, Georgian Partners and the Ontario Venture Capital Fund.

First to File (FTF), provider of IP document management solutions, closed a $2 million Series B venture capital financing led by existing investor Foundation Capital, bringing the company’s total funding to $4 million.

Sequoia Capital confirmed its latest early-stage Internet investment in the U.S: Humble Bundle, a distributor of digital games.

Jibe, a site for finding jobs based on your social connections, raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and DFJ Gotham with existing investors, Polaris Venture Partners, Zelkova Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Thrive Capital and Stanford University Endowment participating in the round.

 

 

 

NextSpace, which has developed an office where work-at-home employees can work productively, closed a $625,000 round of angel funding.

 

 

 

Onavo, provider of data management apps for smartphones and tablets, announced Wednesday it has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and Magma Venture Partners.

European social games publisher Pretty Simple raised €2.5 million from Idinvest Partners (formerly AGF Private Equity).

 

 

 

 Silk, the Amsterdam-based Web startup, has completed a €320,000 ($475,000) funding round led by Atomico, the venture capital firm led by Niklas Zennström, who also co-founded Skype.

 

StackMob, a platform for developing, deploying and managing mobile applications in the cloud, closed a $7.5 million round of funding led by Trinity Ventures.

Tradeshift, the social network for business, announced new capital fundraising of up to $7 million from Notion Capital.

Tripl.com, a new social travel startup, secured $300,000 from unnamed investors in the European travel market and New York City.

 

 

 

uma, provider of semantic Web technology, closed an 800,000 Euro round ($1.1 million) of funding from TheMerger.com as well as private European investors.

 

 

Late-stage

Online events and ticketing site Eventbrite raised a $50 million Series E round of funding led by Tiger Global with participation from several other firms.

 

 

Social recruiting solutions provider Jobvite landed $15 million in a Series C round of funding led by Trident Capital, with help from existing investors.

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