FUND RAISING
Business: Qunar
Web: http://www.Qunar.com
Location: China, Beijing
Region: Asia
Description: Travel search engine
Contacts:
Amount raised: $15,000,000
Story Link – JLM Pacific Epoch
Details
Qunar.com confirmed it has received third-round financing of $15 million from GGV Capital as lead investor and co-investors Mayfield Fund, GSR Ventures, Tenaya Capital.
Database Fund Raising – November 2009
FUND RAISING
Business: Superfeedr
Web: http://superfeedr.com
Location: USA, New York, NY
Region: North America
Description: Transforms a wide variety of feeds into normalized XMPP or Pubsubhubbub format
Contacts:
Amount raised: Undisclosed
Story Link – Read Write Web
Details
Superfeedr has raised a seed round from real-time incubator and investment firm Betaworks, along with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban;
Database Fund Raising – November 2009
ACQUISITION
Acquirer: Thomson Reuters
Web: http://www.thomsonreuters.com
Location: USA, New York, NY
Region: North America
Description: Information for financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets Contact:
Target: Sabrix, Inc
Web: http://www.sabrix.com
Location: USA, San Ramon, CA
Region: North America
Description: Transaction tax management software applications and related services
Contacts:
Approximate value: Undisclosed
Details Thomson Reuters announces that its Tax & Accounting business has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sabrix, Inc. Headquartered in San Ramon, CA, with additional operations in Oregon and London, all 160 Sabrix employees will transfer into Tax & Accounting upon the close of the transaction, which is expected in December 2009.
Database Acquisitions – November 2009
FUND RAISING
Business: Zynga
Web: http://www.zynga.com
Location: USA, San Francisco, CA
Region: North America
Description: Social gaming company
Contacts:
Amount raised: $15,187,440
Story Link – SEC filing
Details
Zynga raised $15.18 million according to a regulatory filing. No new investors were listed, but the company now has raised $54 million in total. Previous investors include Kleiner Perkins, Avalon Ventures, Foundry Group, Union Square Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners.
Database Fund Raising – November 2009
FUND RAISING
Business: HomeShop18
Web: http://www.homeshop18.com
Location: India, Uttar Pradesh
Region: Asia
Description: TV shopping channel
Amount raised: $18.5 Mn
Story Link – Deal Curry
Details
Network 18’s TV shopping channel HomeShop18 has raised $18.5 Mn growth capital from South Korean – GS Home Shopping. Post investment, GS Shopping will hold 15% in Home Shopping valuing it close to $123 Mn.
Database Fund Raising – November 2009
FUND RAISING
Business: Rockyou
Web: http://rockyou.com
Location: USA, Redwood City, CA
Region: North America
Description: Developer and ad network built around Facebook’s platform
Contact:
Amount raised: $50,000,000
Story Link – VentureBeat
Details
RockYou has raised $50 million in venture funding from Softbank. That brings total funding to $119 million. Previous investors include Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International and DCM.
Database Fund Raising – November 2009
FUND RAISING
Business: Evernote
Web: http://www.evernote.com
Location: USA, Mountain View, CA
Description: web based multimedia note-taking service
Contact: Stepan Pachikov, founder of Evernote
Amount raised: $10,000,000
Story Link – Everview CEO’s Blog
Details
Evernote raises $10 million investment Evernote, which lets you record almost any type of data and recall it when you need it, just raised $10 million in a second round of venture-backed financing. It was led by Morgenthaler Ventures, with more funding from earlier investors including Troika Dialog.
Database: Funding November 2009
FUND RAISING
Business: Expensify
Web: https://www.expensify.com
Location: USA, San Francisco, CA
Description: Online expense report management
Contact: CEO David Barrett
Amount raised: $1,000,000
Story Link – Paid Content
Details
Expensify has raised a first round of approximately $1 million from Hillsven Capital, Baseline Capital Ventures and Red Swoosh and Scour investor Travis Kalanick.The investment will be used for for new hires and tech development, including the launch of mobile apps for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm.
Database: Funding November 2009
FUND RAISING
Business: Millennial Media
Web: http://www.millennialmedia.com
Location: USA, Baltimore, Ma
Description: Large US mobile ad network
Contact: Paul Palmieri, President and CEO
Amount raised: $16,000,000
Story Link – Press Release
Details
Millennial Media receives a $16 million investment Millennial Media announced today the company has closed on a $16M Series C round of growth funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, and Charles River Ventures participating.
Database: Funding November 2009
FUND RAISING
Business: Outright
Web: http://outright.com
Location: USA, Campbell, CA
Description: Free, simple bookkeeping app
Contacts:
Amount raised: $5,000,000
Investors include:
Investor: Sequoia Capital
Web:http://www.sequoiacap.com
Investor: Shasta Ventures
Web: http://www.shastaventures.com
Contact: Ravi Mohan: Managing Director
Investor: First Round Capital
Web: http://www.firstround.com
Contact: Rob Hayes: Partner;
Investor: SoftTech VC
Web: http://www.softtechvc.com
Contact: Jeff Clavier: Founder and Managing Partner
Link – TechCrunch
Details: Outright Raises $5 Million More For Simple Online Bookkeeping App Sequoia Capital has led a second round of funding for Outright, investing $5 million with returning backers First Round Capital, Shasta Ventures and SoftTech VC.
Database: Funding November 2009
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