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Got Funds? Todacell Scores a Cool Million
ADOTAS – After securing $1 million last summer, Todacell has gone and done it again, taking home another cool million from existing investor AfterDox. With this new investment, the company will open five new offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London and Bombay. Pretty ambitious for a company that came [...] more...
Got Funds? DataXu and DoubleVerify
ADOTAS – Series B funding rounds ended quite bountifully for both DataXu and DoubleVerify, with the two raking in $11 million and $10 million, respectively. Menlo Ventures led the bidding for real-time bidding platform DataXu. Also participating were Flybridge Capital Partners, who bankrolled the company’s Series A round last April, and [...] more...
Got Funds? ShopIgniter and Arkayne
ADOTAS – Social media and ecommerce integration is an idea venture capitalist are opening their checkbooks to: ShopIgnite garnered $3 million from a Series A round of funding led by Madrona Venture Group In addition, Madrona partner and former Yahoo! VP Matt Compton is grabbing the reigns as CEO of the [...] more...
Got Funds? YuMe Scores $25 million
ADOTAS – YuMe has a new admirer in Menlo Ventures, which led a round of funding that stuffed $25 million into the video ad tech company’s pockets. Existing investors Accel Partners, BV Capital, DAG Ventures and Khosla Ventures joined in the cash-raising and Menlo Managing Director will join YuMe’s board [...] more...
Funding Gives Urban Airship a Push
ADOTAS – Despite the seemingly endless parade of alerts and updates smartphone users are hit with, Scott Kveton, CEO of mobile infrastructure builder Urban Airship, doesn’t see a wave of notificaion fatigue hitting mobile users anytime soon. Rather, users are demanding more targeted notifications and ones that provide actionable data. Investors [...] more...
Got Funds? BlueKai Rakes in $21 Million
ADOTAS – To call it a windfall seems an understatement — after raising $13.7 million in two rounds of funding, BlueKai walked away from a C round of financing with $21 million in its wallet. The round was led by GVC Ventures (once known as Granite Global Ventures) while previous [...] more...
Got Funds? SMS GupShup, Image Space Media and Inuvo
ADOTAS – In India — where the use of personal computers and the Internet is minuscule compared to the U.S., but cell phones are still rampant — the most popular form of digital social networking is via text message. The country’s largest social network, SMS GupShup (which means “chitchat” in [...] more...
Got Funds? Flurry
ADOTAS – As it breaks the milestone of tracking more than a billion end user app sessions per month, mobile application analytics provider Flurry announced it has raised $7 million in a Series B round of financing. Then leading investor was venture capital firm InterWest Partners, but legacy investors Draper Fisher [...] more...
Got Funds? Aggregate
ADOTAS – Who’s in the money? Aggregate Knowledge, that’s who, to the tune of $9 million as a round of Series C financing closes. OVP Venture Partners is in the front row of investors, while Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and DAG Ventures also anted up. Lucinda Stewart, managing director of [...] more...
Got Funds? Rocket Fuel & Kenshoo
ADOTAS – Ho ho ho! Looks like Santa (or venture capitalists dressed in Santa costumes) came a little early for a few online advertising companies that have been extra good. Rocket Fuel picked up a cool $3 million in venture funding led by existing investor Mohr Davidow Ventures. The growing company [...] more...
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