Brilliant Telecom dials up $7.6M to sync wireless carriers

Brilliant Telecom, a company that designs, develops and distributes network timing solutions for telecommunications equipment, has brought in $7.6 million in convertible debt from Onset Ventures, NovAtel, Asset Management, Draper Associates, Draper Richards, Xilinx and a handful of individual investors, reports Dow Jones VentureWire. Based… Continue Reading

Ooma dials up $18.3M for free landlines via VoIP

Ooma dials up $18.3M for free landlines via VoIP

Ooma, provider of a voice-over-internet box that lets users make free land-line calls, brought in $18.3 million in a fourth round of venture financing, reports paidContent. It raised $14 million of this sum back in June.

Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company says it now… Continue Reading

RichRelevance snags $12.5M for e-commerce recommendations

RichRelevance, a company that provides consumers with e-commerce recommendations tailored to their preferences and interests, has brought in $12.5 million in second-round funding from Greylock Partners, Tugboat Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper Richards, reports VentureWire.

Zimbio raises $6.8M for online magazines

Zimbio, a Redwood City, Calif.-based creator of online magazines, has raised $6.8 million in a first round of funding, according to VentureWire. Zimbio allows users to create “wikizines,” which the company says are interactive magazines. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from… Continue Reading

Ahead of deployment, Brilliant Telecom adds to its round

Sometimes a funding is all about timing. In Brilliant Telecommunications‘ case, everything it does is about timing. The Campbell, Calif.-based company makes timing devices for the telecom industry.

Gearing up for its deployment of wireless products with a European carrier, the company has added $4.9 million… Continue Reading

Dimdim raises $6M for free web meetings

Dimdim raises $6M for free web meetings

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Dimdim, the free, open-source web meeting company, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding.

The concept is pretty simple — like WebEx, but free. Dimdim offers all the basic tools that you’d expect from a web meeting service, including a collaborative whiteboard, desktop… Continue Reading

NileGuide takes another $8 million to enrich travel experiences

NileGuide, the online service that aims to help with every part of a trip, has raised a second round of funding.

The company now offers comprehensive travel planning to over 75 destinations around the world and claims to be adding five new ones a month. This… Continue Reading

EoPlex Technologies piles on another $4M for advanced cell phone antennas

Redwood City, Calif.-based EoPlex Technologies, an advanced materials firm that builds small devices to generate and manage energy for various manufacturing components, has tacked on another $4 million to its third funding round — bringing the total to $12 million. ATA Ventures once again led… Continue Reading

Richrelevance, latest personalized recommendation company, raises $4.2M

Richrelevance, latest personalized recommendation company, raises $4.2M

Richrelevance, a new San Francisco company offering personalized recommendations for online shopping businesses, has raised $4.2 million in a second round of financing.

The company joins a host of other companies — including Amazon, Aggregrate Knowledge and Wunderloop (see our coverage ) — that track what… Continue Reading

LiveUniverse rumored to purchase video site Revver

LiveUniverse rumored to purchase video site Revver

Online entertainment network LiveUniverse has purchased struggling video site Revver, according to NewTeeVee.

The purchase price was substantially more than the $500,000 to $1.5 million Revver was supposedly asking for, says NewTeeVee’s unnamed source, but it was also under $5 million. Revver’s staff will continue to… Continue Reading

Power Reviews raises $15M for product reviews

Power Reviews raises $15M for product reviews

Considering the number of competitors in the product review market and the difficulty of establishing a successful destination site, it seems somewhat staggering that Power Reviews, the company that runs the product review site Buzzillions, has raised $15 million.

We’ve covered Power Reviews before, and it… Continue Reading

Jaxtr raises $10 million, doubles users in one month

Jaxtr raises $10 million, doubles users in one month

Jaxtr, a service for dodging international calling fees using your phone, has raised $10 million in series A round led by August Capital.

It says it has doubled in size in the last month to a million users.

The Menlo Park, Calif. company (more detail from our… Continue Reading

Jott raises $5.4M for voice-to-text

Jott raises $5.4M for voice-to-text

Jott, the convenient voice-to-text service we reviewed favorably in March, has raised $5.4 million in its latest round of financing.

Jott, of Seattle, allows you to call a number, record a message, and then have that message translated into text and e-mailed to you or one… Continue Reading

NearbyNow, shopping mall search engine, confirms $5M investment

NearbyNow, the Los Altos, Calif. shopping mall search engine company, announced it has raised $5 million from DFJ and Draper Richards. We reported this two months ago (see story).

Kyte.tv goes live, with the kitchen sink

Kyte.tv goes live, with the kitchen sink

Kyte.tv, the service that wants to be your own interactive TV channel, has finally launched.

We wrote wrote about the company two months ago, after first getting a demo.

You can host your photos, slide-shows, videos all in one place — the Kyte channel — and… Continue Reading

Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Buzzillions, offering “power reviews”

Have you ever searched for product reviews online at and come away unsatisfied?

We have. Sometimes we can’t find reviews for a niche product. At Amazon for books, or at Yelp for restaurants, we often get that sneaky feeling a reviewer is biased (written by a… Continue Reading

Jott, a convenient voice-to-text service

Jott, a convenient voice-to-text service

Jott rocks.

Jott, a company based in Seattle, offers a convenient new service that lets you speak messages and send them to yourself or others — as a transcribed text message.

Or as a voice message, if you prefer.

Sign up at Jott.com takes a minute, with… Continue Reading

Flurry, offering free email for your phone, raises $3.5M

Flurry, offering free email for your phone, raises $3.5M

Flurry, a San Francisco company that offers an easy download for your mobile phone to let you email and read news for free, has raised $3.5 million in a first round of financing.

Flurry is useful because it helps you get email without having to buy… Continue Reading

EoPlex raises $8M for miniature energy devices

EoPlex Technologies, a Redwood City, Calif. company that sells miniature devices to generate and manage power for things like sensors and manufacturing processes, has raised $8 million in a third round of financing.

ATA Ventures led the financing with investments from existing investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson,… Continue Reading

The new video players: Kyte, DimDim

The new video players: Kyte, DimDim

There are a ton of “video player” companies out there, and they’re starting to blur.

It takes a lot to impress these days. A video player in 2007 should be able to upload any video file — from your desktop or from the Web —… Continue Reading