Venture Capital Update

Fliptrack Raises $1.5 Million March 28, 2007 Fliptrack raised $1.5 million from Mohr Davidow Ventures. What does Fliptrack do? Fliptrack allows you to put your pictures to music and create your own music videos. VCU says: Fliptrack allows you to upload your pictures and “put your life to music” (their tagline). You are able to [...]

Pulse Mobile Raises $7 Million in Series B March 22, 2007 Pulse Mobile raises $7 million, funding was received from Anthem Venture Partners, Draper Associates, Shea Ventures, Hikari Tsushin Group in Japan, and several other Asian and European investors. What does Pulse do? Pulse Media provides multimedia messaging and user-generated content creation technologies for mobile [...]

Channels.com receives $1.6 Million Sean Doherty founded Channels.com which was originally seed funded in 2005 by Odyssey partners, Shoreline Capital, and others. We understand that Odyssey and Will Hearst have invested this recent $1.6 Million (discovered here). What does Channels.com do? Channels.com is a video guide for professionally produced video from cable and television networks. [...]

Oodle raises $11 Million for their classified search engine March 21, 2007 Oodle raised $11 million, funding was received from JAFCO Ventures and also from previous round funders Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures, as well as independent investors. What does Oodle do? Oodle is an online classifieds search engine. They claim over 20 million listings [...]

Socializr receives $770,000 From what we have read we understand that they raised $770,000 for a team of three, who have been working since late 2006. Funding was received from Rembrandt Venture Partners and multiple independent investors. What does Socializr do? They would like to be your place for sharing event and party information with [...]

Fliqz Receives $2.5 Million in Series B Fliqz, Inc. Secures $2.5 Million in Series B funding for their plug and play video solutions. What does Fliqz do? They provide what they call a “plug and play” video solution for other websites. In short, websites are able to outsource the fullfilment of their video needs on [...]

iSkoot raises $7 Million in series B funding iSkoot, a provider of mobile Internet communications solutions and is looking to become a leader in VoIP solutions, just raised $7 Million in their Series B announced Feb 27, 2007. Their series A funding was a total of $6.2 million. What does iSkoot do? They provide software [...]

Amazon invests undisclosed amount in Shelfari Series A Amazon, the well known book (and other product) seller, invests in Shelfari a social networking site for readers. What does Shelfari do? Shelfari is a social network, to use the word loosely, focused on books, another niche network with interesting web 2.0 features. Who Invested? Amazon.com, Inc. [...]

Sportsvite raises $2 Million in their first round. Grace Drive Management led this first round raise. What does Sportsvite do? Sportsvite is a social network with a focus on sports. Who Invested? Grace drive management. We could not locate any information about them at the time of this writing. What will they use this funding [...]

Can a raise of $5 Million battle a multi-billion dollar industry? Click Forensics receives $5 Million in their quest to battle click fraud. What is Click Forensics? Click Forensics is a click fraud detection company. Who Invested? Funding was led by Austin Ventures and also received funding from Shasta Ventures. What will they use this [...]