Venture Capital Update

ShareThis Received $15 Million for their Sharing Service ShareThis raised $15 Million second round funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. What does ShareThis do? ShareThis provides a plugin allowing you to share content you have found your contacts. VCU says: ShareThis provides a plugin for users to access their contacts across multiple networks and share content [...]

Giant Realm Received $3.5 Million for a Niche Advertising Network Giant Realm raised $3.5 Million in funding from Comcast Interactive Capital and the Edison Venture Fund. What does Giant Realm do? Giant Realm is a niche online advertising network focused on reaching the 16-34 year old demographic through aggregating sites in the video game, music [...]

Fluid Entertainment Received $3.2 Million for Online Kid’s Games Fluid Entertainment raised $3.2 Million in Series A funding from Trinity Ventures. What does Fluid Entertainment do? Fluid Entertainment creates software and interactive content for kids. VCU says: Fluid Entertainment is focused on creating games and interactive content for children, and has been doing so for [...]

nextnewnetworks Received $15 Million for their Content Production and Distribution nextnewnetworks raised $15 Million in from Goldman & Velocity Interactive Group, Spark Capital, Saban Media Group and individual investor Bob Pittman. What does nextnewnetworks do? nextnewnetworks is a content production and distribution. VCU says: You may know nextnewnetworks as the network that produced the Obama [...]

Jivox Received $2.7 Million in Funding for Video Ad Creation and Network Jivox raised a $2.7 Million seed round from Opus Capital and individual investor Diaz Nesamoney (also a founder). What does Jivox do? Jivox provides a tool to create professional video advertisements and also start a campaign. VCU says: Jivox is another video advertising [...]

Gigya Received $9.5 Million for a Widget Distribution Network Gigya raised a $9.5 Million in Series B funding from Mayfield Fund, Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital. What does Gigya do? Gigya is a widget distribution network. VCU says: Gigya currently installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day. They track over three billion widget [...]

Innovid Received $3 Million for their Video Insertion Technology Innovid raised $3 Million in a seed round from Genesis Partners. What does Innovid do? The Innovid technology dynamically inserts content into pre-defined slots of a video file. VCU says: Innovid is not yet live, however from their site they state that their technology will allow [...]

TargetSpot Received $8.6 Million for Streaming Audio Advertising Network TargetSpot raised $8.6 Million in Series B funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Union Square Ventures and Milestone Venture Partners. What does TargetSpot do? TargetSpot operates a streaming audio advertising network. VCU says: TargetSpot is an advertising network with the traditional model of advertisers and publishers. However [...]

Mint Received $12 Million for Online Money Management Mint raised $12 Million in series B from Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures and First Round Capital. Mint previously $4.7 Million in October 2007. What does Mint do? Mint provides online money management and provides savings recommendations. VCU says: Mint states that since they launched they signed more [...]

Handango Received $9.5 Million for SmartPhone Content Handango raised $9.5 Million in series C from Institutional Venture Partners, Advanced Technology Ventures, Centerpoint, Neo Carta, Pharos Capital Group and SSM Partners. What does Handango do? Handango is a provider of smartphone content. VCU says: Handango has over 16,000 content partners for smartphone applications and content, the [...]