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 Paris, the company has also been backed by Advent Venture Partners, AGF Private Equity, Atlas Venture and Partech International. Drawing about 60 million unique monthly visitors from around the world,… 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 — it will also bring new operators into
its fold.
San Jose, Calif.-based F-Secure paid $38.4 million for France-based Steek
– but it may have to kick in $3.5 million more in 2010… 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, Africa and the South Pacific region.
The Los Altos, Calif. company says its flagship product, Talend Open Studio, has a client base of 400 and is already used by big-name paying… 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 store information using magnetic fields. These chips are less volatile, suck less power and are generally faster than the flash memory used in most computers and handheld electronics.
Crocus expects that… 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 behavior of its users. Recommendations are based on what similar people to you have purchased, and what pages they’ve viewed.
Criteo has been doing well this past year. More than 4000… 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 Washington, Pa., biotech focused on new drugs for hypertension and metabolic disorders, raised $15 million in a fourth funding round, VentureWire reports (subscription required). Boehringer Ingelheim, which struck a major… 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 and even where they live. Forget the privacy implications, the race is on.
LinkedIn, a social network for professionals, had the field to itself a few years ago. Sites like Friendster… 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 also comment on each other’s videos, embed Dailymotion video clips in other sites, tag videos, view selected channels, etc.
However, Dailymotion has distinguished itself by tailoring its site to country locations…. 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, databases, forums and guild website hosting.
The funding, which comes from France’s AGF Private Equity and other individual investors, follows more than $800,000 in angel money, the company said in a… 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 in an initial round of backing, and opened a U.S headquarters office in Palo Alto.
From the company’s statement:
Talend Open Studio, available for download free of charge at www.talend.com, is… 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, however, requiring them 1) to download Yoono’s toolbar (and some users are now overwhelmed by toolbars) and then 2) give Yoono permission to search their bookmarks, which it then stores… Continue Reading