Venture Capital Update

AdMeld assist publishers in optimizing their revenue. AdMeld takes over the advertising inventory on a website, pulls ads from various sources, and optimizes the sites revenue.

With their publisher-centric approach they also pay close attention to the ads being served so as to not damage the publishers brand with ads they may not want to be associated with. They also focus on premium publishers. Over the past six months, AdMeld’s customer base has grown five-fold and it expanded into Europe by opening a London-based office and data center.

Presidium provides managed services in the education industry. Specifically a fully managed multi channel contact center for Education Services Management.

The managed services are meant to improve the student experience and support academic technology and learning based enterprises.

AdWhirl is an iPhone advertising network rotator. While there are multiple advertising networks for iPhone advertisements you may not know which is best for your iPhone application. Instead of using each one at a time you can use AdWhirl to rotate ads from each network to optimize the ads and compare them.

YuMe is a video advertising network, particularly web video. They state they have the ability to identify, classify and track content to ensure brand safety, contextual relevance, controlled syndication and consistent delivery across all screens - PC, Mobile, TV - whether streamed or downloaded.

Zoosk is a social dating network. This social online dating destination is for singles to interact and search for their matches. Zoosk integrates with the most popular social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and Hi5.

InStream's 1 to 1 advertising solution allows an advertisement to be placed on a receipt at a retailer. You are probably familiar with the coupons that are attached to your receipt at the grocery store. This solution does just that, places targeted marketing messages at the bottom of receipts at brick and mortar retailers at the point of sale.

Their marketing solution is patent-pending.

RotoHog is a software developer and operator of fantasy sports games. RotoHog has developed fantasy games for NBA.com, LG Electronics, GoDaddy.com, Pro Football Weekly, Fathead and Grupo RBS and others.

They not only create fantasy games, but casual games and social network applications as well. They have a stock exchange game which has a traditional points scoring system with a stock market-style trading floor to make a very exciting and addictive game.

TongXue means "classmates". TongXue is a social networking site, a global one, focusing on Chinese students. Originally it was created for Chinese students studying in the U.S., however it has grown to over 10,000,000 registered members.

SendMe mobile received another round of funding. Originally SendMe appeared to link to other mobile services and now it looks like, unless I am wrong, that they are now providing mobile services themselves. This is round D with a large amount of money being raised.

Someone believes there is a business here.

Provides a platform for buying and selling hard to get tickets. This was a quiet funding, finding additional information was difficult.