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 fall depending on the time of year, time of week, popularity of resorts and quality of snowfall — that way users will be able to find the most affordable prices… 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 reported the news this morning.
DAG Ventures led the round, with includes participation from new investor Focus Ventures and existing investors Benchmark Capital and Amicus Capital. Chris Lien, chief executive of… 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, Boston, and most recently, Philadelphia. What it lacks in geographic reach it makes up in completeness; the company claims to partner with more than half the restaurants offering to deliver… 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 have gained substantial traction in their own right.
Users can find and download games, ringtones and mobile wallpapers on these sites, and participate in sweepstakes for a subscription fee of $10… 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 to see what other visitors are interested in.
At the time, we noted that Collarity offers a interesting tool, but we also said the company faces some stiff competition from the… Continue Reading
Attributor scans web for copyright violations
Updated
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 a good summary in the WSJ today.
This service has an obvious market, highlighted by YouTube’s continued hosting of pirated video and music. Publishers need tools to find that content, in… Continue Reading