Jacent, online restaurant services co., raises $6.7M

Jacent Technologies, a Santa Clara, Calif. online restaurant services company, has raised $6.7 million in second-round funding. GIV Venture Partners led the deal, which included existing backers Alignment Capital, Azure Capital Partners and Wand Partners.

Firefly raises $3M to restart, revealing MVNO problems

Firefly Mobile, which sells a small mobile device for very young children with strict controls on the which numbers they can call and receive calls from, has raised $3 million more to restart.

VentureWire has the news this morning (sub required).

The company had high hopes as it went to market last year, its concept appeared compelling. But Firefly also chose to offer its own wireless service and customer service, using the infrastructure of other carriers to… Continue Reading