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Twitter Gets Massive Funding as U.S. Growth Stalls
ADOTAS – For a while Twitter has been breaking potential acquirers’ hearts while charming numerous venture suitors. Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers (KPCB) presented the best offer (and beat out the Russian investors at DST Global), leading the microblogger’s latest $200 million round of funding. Former DoubleClick CEO David Rosenblatt and Flipboard [...] more...
Got Funds? Flurry Hit With Blizzard of Investor Cash
ADOTAS – Menlo Ventures led a $15 million Series C round of financing for Flurry, and Menlo Managing Director Sonja Hoel Perkins will join the board of the mobile app analytics, promotion and monetization firm. Also donating to the cause were existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, InterWest, First Round Capital [...] more...
Tech Bubble Chatter Blowing Up
ADOTAS – Nothing like a little Chicken Little-style “sky is falling” action to inject some life into this dead news season. Both Newsweek and The New York Times are trying to get the Tech Bubble 2.0 bandwagon rolling, mainly based on the prognosticating of Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson, who [...] more...
Want Funds? AlwaysOn Names Top 100 VC Firms
ADOTAS – According to AlwaysOn, the venture capitalism biz is escaping a 10-year slump featuring a few recessions and marginal returns. Certainly during my year-plus tenure Adotas, I’ve been astounded by the amount of venture pouring into ad tech firms, but as the Interactive Advertising Bureau will tell you, revenue is [...] more...
Funding Round-Up: Zemanta, CrossLoop
ADOTAS – Blogging simplifier Zemanta received about $750,000 in a seed investment from Union Square Ventures. USV describes Zemanta as “AdWords for content creators.” Peer-to-peer help desk application CrossLoop has raised $6 million in Series B funding. Venrock led the round, with El Dorado Ventures participating. Subscribe to the free Adotas.com [...] more...
Clickable Lassoes $14.5M
ADOTAS – Click on this: Clickable has raised $14.5 million in a Series B round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. Existing investors Union Square Ventures and FirstMark Capital also ponied up some cash. This brings Clickable’s coffers up to $22.5 million – not bad for a year of fund-raising. The [...] more...
Clickable Gets $6M In Funding
Clickable announced the completion of its Series A round of investment, led by Pequot Ventures and Union Square Ventures, totaling $6 million. The round included investments from strategic individual investors Peter Thiel, Managing Partner of The Founders Fund and Co-founder of PayPal and Jonathan F. Miller, former America Online Chairman and [...] more...
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Sponsormob Leads the Way Into RTB for MobileADOTAS – For more than half a decade, Berlin-based tech firm Sponsormob has remained relevant in an industry characterized by [...] more...
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