Venture Capital Update

Brand Affinity Technologies C Round: $20,000,000 Founded: 2007 Industry: Mobile More Here Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT), an Irvine, California-based multimedia company that reinvents endorsement and celebrity marketing has closed a $20 million Series C funding from Miramar Venture Partners and was joined by CGI Opportunity Fund II and return backers RimLight Capital, Fulcrum Venture Capital, [...]

Visual IQ A Round: $3,000,000 Founded: 2009 Industry: Mobile More Here Visual IQ, a Needham, Massachusetts – based provider of enterprise software for marketing investment decisions has raised $3 million from Fog City Capital. Visual IQ plans to use this funding for expansion and growth, including building its team, advancing strong partner relationships and advancing [...]

PocketGear B Round: $15,000,000 Founded: 2008 Industry: Mobile More Here PocketGear, Inc., a Durham, N.C.-based and the world’s largest open app store and content marketplace announced the closing of its $15 Million Series B funding from Trident Capital and BlackBerry Partners Fund. PocketGear will use the funding to expand its technical operations, expand the sales [...]

Moonfruit Seed: $2,250,000 Founded: 01/2000 Industry: Publishing More Here Moonfruit, a London-based Do-It-Yourself website building company Moonfruit has raised $2.25 million (£1.5 million) to invest in further international expansion. The funding came from US-based investment bank Stephens. Stephens Inc. also has a branch located in London. The new funding will be used for a worldwide [...]

SpaceCurve Seed: $1,100,000 Founded: 2009 Industry: Data Management More Here SpaceCurve, a Seattle-based provider of massively parallel analytical database technology raised $1.1 million in equity led by Reed Elsevier Ventures and was followed by Seattle-based Divergent Ventures according to regulatory filing.   Funding Funding Total: $1,100,000 Round Date Amount Pre Amount Post Amount Seed 08/2010 [...]

DriverSide Seed: $2,000,000 Founded: 09/2007 Industry: Community More Here DriverSide, a San Francisco-based website for buying, servicing, maintaining, accessorizing or selling cars and car parts has secured $2 million of a $3 million VC round. VC firms include California based Allegis Capital and Catamount Ventures.   Funding Funding Total: $2,000,000 Round Date Amount Pre Amount [...]

Clickfree C Round: $15,000,000 Founded: 2005 Industry: Mobile More Here Clickfree also known as Storage Appliance Corp., a Toronto-based provider of automatic backup software raised US$15 million in Series C funding from fellow Canadian VC Tandem Expansion Fund. The new funds will be used to drive the rapid worldwide retail rollout by the company of [...]

Cardlytics C Round: $18,000,000 Founded: 11/2008 Industry: IT More Here Cardlytics Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of banking rewards solutions has raised $18 million in a series C Funding. ITC Holdings and Kinetic Ventures lead the round of new funding and were joined by return backers Canaan Partners, Polaris Venture Partners and Total Technology Ventures. Campbell [...]

SaveWave A Round: $2,300,000 Founded: 06/2010 Industry: eCommerce More Here SaveWave, a Belmont, Massachusetts-based provider of digital promotion, distribution and rewards solutions raised $2.3 million in Series A funding. Flybridge Capital Partners and First Round Capital both lead the rounds and were followed by top VC firms Founder Collective, IA Capital and some angel investors [...]

PlaySpan C Round: $18,000,000 Founded: Industry: More Here PlaySpan Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of game-based eCommerce has raised $18 million in Series C funding. Vodafone Ventures and Softbank Bodhi Fund co-led the round and were joined by return backers Menlo Ventures, STIC Investments and Novel TMT Ventures.   Funding Funding Total: $18,000,000 Round [...]