NetShelter raises $11.1 million for online media networkmo
NetShelter Technology Media has quietly built a big ad network for fast-growing technology web sites whose collective reach is bigger than CBS’s CNET tech news site.
Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $11.1 million in a new round of funding as the nine-year-old ad network for tech properties seeks to expand the reach of its 150 partners who run technology content web sites.
Backers include Montreal-based Rho Canada, GrowthWorks Canadian Fund and JLA Ventures…. Continue Reading
Makeover Solutions lets us all find out what we’d look like blond, raises $7mm
Women on the internet are hot.
First we had the women-centric ad network, Glam, raising $200 million and signing a $1 billion deal, then we saw the woman-centric publisher, Sugar Inc, acquiring the woman-centric sites, ShopStyle and Coutorture.
Now, New York’s Makeover Solutions, a site that lets you upload your headshot and adorn it with a variety of hair-styles, accessories, and makeup combinations, has raised $7 million to expand its offering. The impressive technology automatically and accurately… Continue Reading
NowPublic, citizen journalism site, expands with $10.6M
NowPublic, the citizen journalism site that lets individuals take pictures and post articles about news they see going on around them, has raised $10.6 million in a first round of capital.
NowPublic, based in Vancouver, says it now has 118,000 contributing journalists, more than the 50,000 or so journalists at a competing site, OhmyNews. Once NowPublic contributors submit their news, NowPublic puts it on its own Web site, but also offers it up to news organizations,… Continue Reading