Boxee raises $6M more to bring web content to your living room
Boxee, a company that has won ardent fans of its software for viewing online video and web content on your TV, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding.
The New York startup raised $4 million at the end of 2008, so it seems awfully soon to be bringing on more cash. Founder and chief executive Avner Ronen says raising a new round seemed like a good way to help Boxee build on its… Continue Reading
Marketing software company HubSpot raises $12M
HubSpot, a startup that offers a free “website grader” to promote its marketing software, just received the venture equivalent of an “A” — namely, a $12 million second round of funding led by Matrix Partners.
The Cambridge, Mass. startup specializes in what it calls “inbound marketing” — in other words, it focuses less on trying to grab people’s attention wherever possible, and more about drawing people to a company’s website and then converting those visitors into… Continue Reading
Yahoo buying Maven Networks, to serve online video ads for big media
update 2/12: The acquisition price has been confirmed at $160 million.
Yahoo is buying a broadband television distribution company called Maven Networks, for $150 million, according to Techcrunch and for between $160 million and $170 million according to NewTeeVee.
If true, Maven will be a promising new way for Yahoo to sell more online video ads that run on large media companies’ videos.
Maven hosts videos for large media companies, then offers ways to syndicate videos, including video… Continue Reading
Visible Measures, with fresh funding, launches audience analytics for video
Visible Measures is the latest company trying to give publishers better knowledge of how users react to their videos — so that they can insert advertising in the right places.
The core of Visible Measures’ technology is a tracker that content owners attach to their videos. Once installed, they can see what viewers do with the video — how long they watch for, whether they use controls like the pause, whether they rewind or jump forward… Continue Reading
Roost, a new real estate search engine, launching today
The days of the real estate boom are over, but nobody sent the memo to the internet companies.
Startups like Zillow and Trulia are still battling to become king of the listings market (see Trulia’s announcement about overtaking Zillow in popularity), while other sites like ActiveRain, which was just funded, seek to explore niches including real estate blogging and social networking.
The latest entrant: Roost, a real estate search engine that says its listings will be more… Continue Reading
QuickPlay Media, mobile video delivery co., raises $15M more
QuickPlay Media, a Toronto company that provides mobile TV and video technology to carriers, said it has raised $15 million in a third round of capital. See statement here.
The financing was led by Ventures West, and included General Catalyst, J.L. Albright Venture Partners and Up Capital.
From the statement:
“QuickPlay’s OpenVideo platform powers mobile video services for 10 major mobile operators in Canada and the United States, providing both live and on demand content from over 120… Continue Reading
Video search company PodZinger becomes EveryZing, raises $10 million
Cambridge, Mass-based PodZinger, previously branded as a search engine for podcasts, has re-named itself EveryZing, and raised $10 million to expand its services.
EveryZing has a video and audio search engine for consumers, which we’ve covered before, but CEO Tom Wilde says that the company is using the money to change focus: EveryZing will use its speech-to-text technology to help publishers get their content into major search engines’ results and get related advertising.
Wilde claims that this… Continue Reading