Funding roundup - week ending 05/27/11

Ronny Kerr · May 27, 2011 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/1ae8

The king of funding this week has to be social gaming stalwart Kabam, with an $85 million Series D

Seed-stage

Unsocial, a mobile app for connecting with new people at business events like conferences and tradeshows, secured an undisclosed round of seed funding from several unnamed angel investors.

 

Early-stage

Brightpearl, provider of Web-based accounting for small businesses, secured $5 million in Series A funding from Notion Capital and Eden Ventures.

Conversocial, a social media management system, raised a £1.5 million ($2.4 million) Series A funding round from European venture capital firm DFJ Esprit.

Crimson Hexagon, a social intelligence company providing social media monitoring and analysis, secured $5 million in Series B funding from Charles F. Dolan, founder and chairman of Cablevision Systems Corporation.

Intel Capital invested an undisclosed amount in social and mobile gaming studio Crowdstar. The venture arm actually invested a total of $24.5 million in four different startups, including Crowdstar.

Venture capital firm Tiger Global Management led a $16 million funding round for Exclusively.in, a members-only Indian fashion e-tailer.

 Fotomoto, a service for buying and selling photos, has raised a $1.2 million Series A round from Adams Capital.

Milyoni raised $3 million in a round of Series A funding led by returning seed investors ATA Ventures and Thornvest Ventures.

 

Real-time Web analytics platform Mixpanel raised $1.25 million from new investors Sequoia Capital and Keith Rabois, COO at Square, and existing investors.

Rent the Runway raised $15 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Project Slice, a startup emerging from stealth, completed raising $9.4 million in Series A financing in a round led by DCM and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other participants include Bebo creator Michael Birch, FLOODGATE (Mike Maples), Innovation Endeavors (Eric Schmidt) and Playdom founder Rick Thompson.

VYou, the conversational video platform, closed a $3 million Series A financing round led by RRE Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.

 

 Zozi, which offers deals on unique local activities, raised $7 million in Series B financing from existing investors, including LaunchCapital, the Pritzker/Vlock Family Office, 500Startups, ZIG Capital, Thomas & Peter Lehrman, David Tisch and others.

 

Late-stage

BuzzLogic, a B2B advertising and analytics company, closed a $7.8 million Series C round of funding led by Bridgescale Partners.

Eightfold Logic, which just launched social writing application InboundWriter, closed $2 million in Series C funding from existing investors.

Business and tech media company GigaOM raised $6 million in expansion funding led by Reed Elsevier Ventures.

Social gaming stalwarts Kabam raised $85 million in a fourth round of funding from Google Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Performance Equity and SK Telecom Ventures, in addition to its earlier investors.

 

Travelmenu, a Russia-based online travel site targeting its home country and the Ukraine, raised $1.6 million in growth capital from Almaz Capital Partners and Runa Capital, two VC firms based in Russia.

ViajaNet, a Brazil-based online travel agency, raised $19 million in a growth round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from General Catalyst.

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Kabam is an interactive entertainment company leading the next wave in social gaming, developing and publishing massively multiplayer social games (MMSG’s), including the popular and critically praised title Kingdoms of Camelot and Dragons of Atlantis. Our studios focus on combining the best elements of traditional and social gaming to appeal to a growing audience of players looking for deeper, more engaging social games. The first wave of Kabam’s new games for Facebook and leading media sites have been widely recognized for their depth of play and social interaction.