DailyMotion — the European YouTube — grabs $25M
DailyMotion, the online video company in Europe that resembles YouTube, announced that it brought in a $25 million round of capital led by French Sovereign Fund, a firm nearly half-owned by the French government, and designed to take minority stakes in promising French companies.
Based in… Continue Reading
F-Secure buys Steek to bulk up online storage
F-Secure, maker of anti-virus and anti-spyware software for internet security, has acquired Steek,
a provider of online storage and data management applications for
mobile operators. The deal will expand F-Secure’s portfolio of software
offerings, making it a more versatile choice for its customerbase, made
up mostly of mobile operators… Continue Reading
Talend scores $12M for open-source data integration
Talend, maker of open-source data integration software, announced that it brought in $12 million in a third round of funding from Balderton Capital and AGF Private Equity to continue to scale its market presence around the world, especially in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East,… Continue Reading
Crocus snags $15.8M to develop magnetic memory chips
French semiconductor maker Crocus Technology has raised $15.8 million in second round financing, in addition to $4.1 million from OSEO, France’s public agency for funding innovation.
The company plans to use the round for continued development of its magnetic random access memory (MRAM) chips, which can… Continue Reading
Criteo raises $10 million for product recommendation service
Criteo provides a white-label widget for e-commerce sites that shows shoppers other items they might be interested in buying. The Paris, France-based has just raised funding: A $10.4 million round from Index Ventures.
The company asks users to rate products, and it analyses the historical web-browsing… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007
Featured companies: American Aerogel, Clinicient, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Genome Diagnostics, RadPharm, RainDance Technologies, Vivacta
UPDATED: Expanded items on Vitae, RadPharm, Vivacta and Genome Diagnostics. Intelligent Bio-Systems is now covered in a standalone item here.
Vitae Pharma takes in $15M for blood pressure, diabetes drugs — Vitae Pharmaceuticals, a Fort… Continue Reading
The rush to people search: Viadeo, ZoomInfo, Yahoo China, Spock…and PeekYou
For years, technology to search for people has been neglected, compared to most parts of the Web. Until now, that is.
A wave of new entrants are making it much easier to find out everything about a person, from their job, to their personalities, their age… Continue Reading
Video site Dailymotion raises $34M to grab lead in Europe
Dailymotion, a Paris, France-based video-sharing site that’s a distant competitor to YouTube, has raised $34 million in funding, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The site, like many others, lets you share personal videos privately with friends or publicly with anyone. Like its competitors, people can… Continue Reading
Curse, a maker of social networks for multi-player games
Curse, another online company that offers social networking around multi-player online games, has received a $5 million in a first round of venture capital funding.
Curse offers gamers the standard social networking features around their games, from image and video uploading, to blogging, social bookmarking, wikis,… Continue Reading
Talend, open source “data integration” software company, raises $3.5M
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Talend, a provider of open source “data integration” software, said it has raised $3.5 million in a second round of financing.
The funding came from existing backers, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners.
Earlier this year, the company, based in Suresnes, France, had raised $3.5 million… Continue Reading
Yoono, a social search engine — without tagging
Yoono is a tool that finds pages relevant to the one you are surfing on, and locates people who are also interested in that site.
This company is notable because similar players like StumbleUpon have become popular lately.
France-based Yoono relies on the goodwill of other users,… Continue Reading