Outbrain, the news story recommendation service, gets $12M
Outbrain, a company that gives blog readers a way to rate and recommend news stories (see its widget at the bottom of this story), has raised another $12 million in a second round of funding.
VentureBeat first covered Outbrain in detail last year. It uses a recommendation technology similar to Amazon’s feature that offers up other items people like you have already enjoyed. While there are several such “collaborative filtering” recommendation engines on the market, few… Continue Reading
Payoneer raises $8M for easy MasterCard payments
Payoneer, which provides prepaid MasterCards to help businesses with international payments, has raised $8 million in a second round of venture funding. The round was led by Carmel Ventures, with Greylock Partners, Crossbar Capital, Zohar Gilon and others participating.
The New York based startup says its solution — reloadable MasterCards — make it easier for businesses to make mass payments in other countries. Customers include iStockPhoto, oDesk and Elance. Payoneer raised $4 million last year.