Eventbrite scores $6.5M for online event coordination
Eventbrite, a web-based company that tracks event invitations, ticketing and RSVPs for large events, has brought in $6.5 million in equity, debt, rights and security from Sequoia Capital, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in San Francisco, it is also backed by European Founders Fund. Bebo founders Michael and Xochi Birch and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim have also contributed to Eventbrite’s now $9.5 million in financing.
Video ad network Tremor snaps up funds from SAP
Tremor Media, the large online video advertising network, announced that it brought in an undisclosed amount from SAP Ventures, SAP’s investment arm, among others, in a strategic round of funding. According to the regulatory filing with the SEC, Tremor recently increased the round by $2 million. It plans to use the money to continue building out its offerings.
The New York company is known for its Acudeo video monetization system. It says the alliance with SAP… Continue Reading
TripIt launches iPhone app — puts itineraries at your fingertips
TripIt, the online service that lets you create and share your travel itineraries, has launched a free application for the iPhone. The app lets users view their meticulously organized travel plans on the go — even in airplane mode — eliminating the need for cumbersome maps and paper schedules, the company says.
When you view an itinerary in the app, it’s not just a list of next stops. For 500 different sites and brands — resorts,… Continue Reading
Video ad network Tremor Media raises $18M
Large video advertising network Tremor Media announced that it raised $18 million in a third round of funding so that it can invest in other video technologies, like video ad monetization platform Acudeo. Earlier this month, the New York-based company sealed a deal with web monitor comScore to provide gross rating points for online videos (just like TV commercials). According to comScore, Tremor is the fourth largest aggregator of streaming video on the web behind… Continue Reading
Netviewer nets $8.7M for collaborative screen-view service
Netviewer, a company that provides online conferencing services, has raised $8.7 million for further development of software that allows two individuals to view each other’s computer desktops simultaneously. The idea is to make remote collaboration just as easy as sitting down next to someone.
The German company already offers this product to 15,000 companies around the world, including SAP, Espresso Education and Fidelity Investments. It has bases in ten countries, but plans to use its new… Continue Reading
ReputationDefender raises $2.6M to protect your good name
ReputationDefender, a company that helps people manage their reputations and privacy online, has raised around $2.6 million in a first round of institutional funding.
There are a number of businesses providing identity theft protection, such as Lifelock, TrustedID and Debix, but ReputationDefender is a bit different — it doesn’t focus on protecting your finances, and instead gives you control over the information about you that’s available online. Its earliest and best-known product, MyReputation, provides a monthly… Continue Reading
Event ticketing companies Amiando and Eventbrite get European backing
The online event-planning market is mature. Various event web sites have gotten bought, gone out of business, or gone nowhere in the last several years.
However, two companies, Amiando and EventBrite, allow you to sell tickets to events online, and they’ve emerged with a business model: They take a cut of the ticket sale. This differs them from the slew of other sites that helped you organize events, but never made money.
Notably, the two companies have just… Continue Reading
Worktopia matches organizations with meeting space
Worktopia is trying to make it easier for business people to quickly organize small meetings. It offers a searchable online database for places like conference rooms in hotels, airport club conference rooms and other often under-used meeting places. Once you find the meeting rooms with Worktopia, you can make online reservations for your group.
The Harrison, N.Y. company is targeting organizations that want to easily put together a meeting of less than 100 people, making it… Continue Reading
Buddy Media launches another “social media” ad network, raises $6.5M
Buddy Media is a small player in the game of trying to build businesses on Facebook’s developer platform, and on other social network platforms, but it has big plans.
Today, it is rolling out an ad network of its own — meaning it is competing against fairly established companies like RockYou, Social Media, Lookery and others. It has also raised a $6.5 million round of funding led by Softbank Capital, with participation from European Founders Fund,… Continue Reading
TripIt raises $5.1M to better organize your travels
As someone who has been home for one weekend of the past six, I know that traveling can be a real pain. While the Internet has eased some burdens such as scheduling and price hunting, it has also created new ones, such as organizing trip details when plans are often made across several sites. That is where a site like TripIt comes in.
There are a lot of online traveling sites such as Kayak (our coverage),… Continue Reading
Iovation, a fraud prevention firm, caps off first round at $15M
Iovation, a Portland, Ore., company that aims to track and prevent online fraudsters, has closed off its first round of funding at $15 million.
The basic idea behind Iovation’s product is keeping track of millions of computers to pinpoint the few that are used for fraudulent activities, a scheme the company calls “device reputation fraud management.” Iovation sells its software to online retailers, banks, social networking sites and others.
Of the funding, $10 million was closed last… Continue Reading
Samwers bankrolled Facebook clone, now Twitter clone
The Samwer brothers, the well-known European trio of entrepreneurs, have invested in Frazr, an exact duplicate of Twitter.
They have thus embarked on a reputation of backing blatant rip-offs of successful U.S. companies. They backed Studi-VZ, the Facebook in Germany, for example, in 2005, shortly after Facebook became a major success.
See the images below to see how similar Frazr is to Twitter. Even the question at the top of the pages is same. Here’s a translation… Continue Reading
The new behavior advertising upstarts: Aggregate Knowledge and Wunderloop
The eye-opening performances claimed by new behavioral advertising start-ups Aggregate Knowledge and Wunderloop are sure to grab the attention from online retailers and publishers.
Take the little announcement by the nine-month-old Menlo Park company Aggregate Knowledge yesterday at DEMO: It drove more than 20 percent of all of the holiday purchases at major discount retail site Overstock.com. Considering that the annual revenue of Overstock is in the range of $700-800 million, our rough estimate is that Aggregate… Continue Reading
LinkedIn raises $12.8M to build out professional network
LinkedIn, the networking site for professionals connect, has raised $12.8 million in venture funding.
The venture capitalists, Silicon Valley’s Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund (EFF), an internet focused firm, placed a value of more than $250 million on the Palo Alto company, after the investment.
This catapults LinkedIn to the rarified group of networks that are actually worth something • though granted, this worth is still on paper • held on the books… Continue Reading