Venture Capital Update

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 [...]

TransFS Seed: $510,000 Founded: 2008 Industry: eCommerce More Here TransFS, a Chicago-based comparison shopping site for credit card processors, has raised $510,000 in seed funding from fellow Chicago-based Hyde Park Angels and 500Startups of Mountain View, California. The startup aims to help merchants save money on credit card fees and also conducts reverse auctions to [...]

eXelate B Round: $15,000,000 Founded: 2010 Industry: Data More Here eXelate, a New York-based first and largest open marketplace for audience targeting data raised $15 million in Series B funding. Menlo Ventures led the round, and was joined by existing backer Carmel Ventures. “We’re thrilled to have the renewed support of Carmel Ventures and are [...]

C2Call A Round: $2,000,000 Founded: 2008 Industry: Mobile More Here C2Call, a provider of free Internet phone services (VoIP) from Germany has raised $2 million in Series A funding. Backers include Draper Investment Co., High-Tech Grunderfonds and Klaus Wecken, former founder of KHK Software. C2Call will use the funds for expansion into international markets for [...]

Tudou E Round: $50,000,000 Founded: 05/2005 Industry: Video More Here Tudou.com, a top Chinese online web video sharing platform raised $50 million in Series E funding. Temasek Holdings, a Singapore-based VC firm led the round with a $35 million investment, and was joined by return backers IDG Technology Venture Investment, Granite Global Ventures, General Catalyst [...]

YouSendIt D Round: $15,000,000 Founded: 03/4 Industry: Internet Applications More Here YouSendIt Inc., a California-based and number-one secure digital file delivery solutions has raised $15 million in Series D funding. Adams Street Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners and Alloy Ventures. The funding will be used to [...]

Zulily Seed: $4,600,000B Round: $6,000,000 Founded: 01/2009 Industry: eCommerce More Here Zulily, a children oriented ecommerce and shoppping site raised $6 million in Series B funding. August Capital led the round and was joined by return backer Maveron LLC. Zulily will use the funds to further advance its position as the leading children’s private-sale shopping [...]

WeShop A Round: $4,250,000 Founded: 2010 Industry: eCommerce More Here WeShop, a New York-based provider of online shopping platform start up where consumers control their data raised $4.25 million in Series A funding. VC angels include Jonathan Miller, Frank Kenny, Martin White and Carlos Sala. Antony Lee, Founder and CEO of WeShop, describes WeShop as [...]