Liftopia elevated by $1M for real-time ski lift discounts
Liftopia, a web site that provides a pricing and discount directory for ski lift tickets at various resorts, has taken in $1 million in a second round of funding just in time for winter. The San Francisco, Calif. company tracks prices as they rise and… Continue Reading
Marin Software raises $13M to help brands manage paid search campaigns
Marin Software, which offers software to advertisers and agencies to manage ad campaigns across search engines, has raised $13 million in a third round of funding.
The software, delivered online (SaaS), manages these paid search ad campaigns across sites such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. VentureWire… Continue Reading
GrubHub raises $2M for restaurant deliveries
GrubHub, a website for finding and ordering from restaurants that deliver, has raised $2 million in a second round of funding.
The Chicago company was founded in 2004, and has slowly expanded from its home city to include other metropolitan areas — New York, San Francisco,… Continue Reading
SendMe nabs another $12 million for mobile entertainment content
SendMe, the San Francisco company that sells direct-to-mobile entertainment content through several linked web sites, just landed $12 million in a fourth round of financing to fuel its acquisition strategy. Its web sites, SendMeMobile.com, SoLow.com and mBuzzy.com, each offer a different type of content and… Continue Reading
Collarity raising $7.8M to help sites learn about their users
Collarity, a company that helps monetize websites by monitoring user activity, is raising a second funding round of up to $7.8 million, VentureBeat has learned.
We wrote about the company back in 2006, when its emphasis was on a social search tool that allows site visitors… Continue Reading
Attributor scans web for copyright violations
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Attributor, a Redwood City start-up, is scanning the Web to fingerprint pages for copyrighted audio, video, images and text, to give publishers a way to request that Web sites take down priated content — or pay for it, at least.
The company’s statement is here; there’s… Continue Reading