Koofers raises $500K to pass along old exams, study guides
Every high school and college campus has unofficial channels for swapping old exams, opinions about teachers, study guides and grim grade distribution tales. Now online student community Koofers aims to centralize all of this on the web — and it just racked up a $500,000 tranche of an anticipated $2 million first round to expand to new campuses.
The site targets professors as well as students, and all members can upload documents relevant to courses and… Continue Reading
Mobile music download service mBeat Media raises $1.5M
The Reston, Virginia company owns urbmob.com, a site where artists and models can upload their own music and images, and make them available for fans to download to mobile devices and computers. The site include some interactive features like being able to vote on your favorite artist.
MBeat Media charges the subscription rate of $3.99 per month, and shares revenue with artists.
The company has recently raised $1.5 million from
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Grosvenor Funds and… Continue Reading
Lead gen service company Pontiflex raises $2.5M
Pontiflex is a ad service company, that tries to help advertisers find publishers of lead generation web sites. Its software lets an advertiser run campaigns and get reports on them in real time. A publisher gets paid by the advertisers when a lead happens, such as a user’s registration for a product, happen.
The company, based in Brooklyn, New York, has just raised $2.5 million from New Atlantic Ventures and Greenhill SAVP.
GlobalLogic raises $29.5M for offshore software development
GlobalLogic, a Vienna, Va. company that specializes in offshore software development, has raised $29.5 million in a third round of funding.
The round was led by existing investor Sequoia Capital India, with participation from GlobalLogic’s other investors New Atlantic Ventures (formerly Draper Atlantic) and New Enterprise Associates.
The funding news followed the announcement that GlobalLogic has acquired Validio Software, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company with a 320-person design center in Kharkov, Ukraine. GlobalLogic says the acquisition makes it… Continue Reading