REAL TIME VC & PRIVATE EQUITY DEALS AND NEWS
ThisWeekIn, Inc., a Santa Monica, CA-based Live Web TV network, has received a venture capital investment from media pioneer Jarl Mohn, who joined the company’s board of directors. Founder of E! Entertainment and E! Online through a joint venture with CNET, Mr. Mohn currently makes venture capital and buyout investments, serving as a corporate director […]
ZIO Studios, a Bogota, Colombia-based animation and gaming company, closed a $1.3m first funding round from Promotora. The company intends to use the funds to double its current staff of 45 in Colombia, create new games and open offices in California by summer of 2011. Led by co-founder and newly appointed CEO Alejandro Gonzalez, ZIO […]
Fundly, a Palo Alto, CA-based SaaS Social Fundraising platform, raised $2m in funding. Investors in the round include Kapor Capital (Mitch Kapor & Stephen DeBerry), Correlation Ventures (Trevor Kienzle), Charles River Ventures (George Zachary), AngelHub (Jeff Fluhr), Accelerator Ventures (Alex Lloyd), Endeavor Group (Michael Tanne–Board of Directors), Seraph Group (Tuff Yen), Peterson Capital (Brandon Cope), […]
SeatGeek, a New York-based a ticket search engine that enables users to find the best prices for sports and concert events on the secondary ticket market, has received a strategic investment of undisclosed amount from A-Grade Investment. The new shareholder join existing backers including Founder Collective and NYC Seed, Stage One Capital, Trisiras Group, PKS […]
MyCityWay, a New York-based start up that operates an interactive app for urban exploration and discovery on mobile devices, has received a strategic investment from BMW i Ventures. MyCityWay is designed to help users navigate and explore the cities of the world. For example, it allows to find restaurants, locate wireless hotspots, buy tickets, connect […]
Existing shareholders of Efectivox, a Spanish company that specializes in the treatment and transport of values (and formerly known as Blindados Grupo Norte, have subscribed a €4,5m capital increase. The increase was subscribed by Vector Capital, SCR (venture arm of Caixa Penedès), Caja España-Duero and Banca Cívica, which each own an equal 27,67% stake in […]
TinyCo (previously known as Brooklyn Packet), a San Francisco, CA-based start up, has raised $18m in Series A funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Ron Conway and Keith Rabois and other angel investors. The company intends to use the funds to grow its team and portfolio of games. In conjunction […]
SnapRetail, a Pittsburgh, PA-based provider of a digital marketing & content aggregation system designed to improve the marketing and selling needs of independent retailers, closed a $6m Series A venture capital funding. The round was led by Adams Capital Management, which committed $2.25m. The firm’s senior management team also participated. SnapRetail intends to use the […]
NBGI Private Equity has backed the £9m management buyout of Facilities Services Group Ltd (FSG), an Aylesbury, UK-based provider of hard facilities management services to large, multi-site operators, mainly in the retail and leisure sectors, from Spice Ltd. Through the transaction, NBGIPE has backed the company’s existing management team, led by Managing Director George Lilley […]
Making Fun, Inc. , the San Francisco, Calif.-based social game publishing division of News Corp. Digital Media Group, has announced that it is actively seeking additional independent game studios to develop innovative, high-quality social games. The company intends to build new relationships with experienced, passionate development teams to grow concepts into franchises. Its initial target […]
Ingeniatrics, a Seville, Spain-based technology company with over 50 patents and applications in Flow Focusing and Flow Blurring micro and nanoscale production technologies of aerosols, particles, emulsions and microencapsulation, has raised €1.6m in funding. Investors include Caixa Capital Risc and Invercaria (via the Jeremie Fund), and the company’s management team. Ingeniatrics intends to use the […]
Osage University Partners held the final close of a venture capital fund focused on investing in companies that are commercializing university technologies at $100m. Osage University Partners I collaborates with universities to invest in their life and physical science startups and shares its profit with those institutions. It has signed contracts with California Institute of […]
Catch Media Inc., a Beverly Hills, CA-based provider of a patented licensed digital rights locker platform called Play Anywhere®, received a strategic financing from Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI), through its investment arm, Motorola Mobility Ventures. As also stated by Yaacov Ben-Yaacov, co-founder and CEO of Catch Media, Motorola Mobility’s support will enable the […]
CupidsPlay, a Bellevue, WA-based company that operates a new dating website that makes online dating fun through social games, raised seed funding from Clearstone Venture Partners. Led by CEO and co-founder Philip Yuen, CupidsPlay is an online dating platform that helps members initiate relevant contact with potential dates using social games as a shared topic […]
Syncapse Corp., a Toronto, Canada-based provider of cloud-based software and strategic services to help enterprises build, manage and measure their social media presence, has agreed with ABS Capital Partners to receive a $25m investment A $20m portion of the investment has already closed. Syncapse intends to use the funds to invest in sales, marketing, and […]