Technorati quietly raises $3 million more

August 16, 2006 | Matt Marshall

Silicon Valley blog search engine Technorati, fresh from a facelift, has raised $3 million more — after they’d already announced $7.6 million in third-round funding last month. We contacted the company early yesterday about this, but they have chosen not to confirm this to anyone, as far as we can tell — including us.

So why did Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital return with more? Don’t know, but one reason, of course, is that competitor Feedster announced a round of capital right after Technorati did. And then there was Sphere, which also raised cash. It’s good to have bragging rights.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.