Blog search startup Lijit raises $7.1M to launch ad network
Lijit, a startup whose widget allows blog readers to search across multiple sites and accounts, is planning to launch an ad network on top of its search tool, and has raised $7.1 million to make it happen.
The Boulder, Colo. company offers basic search services, but its most interesting feature is a tool that lets bloggers tie all of their accounts into a Lijit search. So if you’re just dying to follow not only my VentureBeat… Continue Reading
Lijit raises $3.3M for intimate blog search
Lijit, a provider of a more extensive search service for blogs, has said it raised a $3.3M second round of funding.
Lijit, of Louisville, Colorado, doesn’t limit readers to searching blog posts. It also provides them results from the host blogger’s own accounts at Flickr, Digg, Del.icio.us, and any other place online they store information. Blogging is a cult-like sport, and this is one more way for readers to find out more about their favorite scribes…. Continue Reading
BaroFold pulls in $12M for protein-refolding technology
BaroFold, a Boulder, Colo., biotech raised $12 million in a first round of funding. The company is developing PreEMT, a technology that uses high levels of fluid pressure to “unclump” biotech-drug proteins that have stuck together and to force proteins that have folded up incorrectly to unfold and refold into a proper configuration. The technology may be useful in boosting production yields of recombinant, or genetically engineered, proteins, which form the basis of many biotech… Continue Reading