BlackArrow took $12 Million to tackle the video advertising, relies on cable companies

Published in February 9th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Advertising, Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Capital, Funding, Intel Capital, Internet, Investments, Mayfield Fund, Media, Money, Multimedia, Polaris Venture Partners, Software, TV, Technology, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, video
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A couple of months ago BlackArrow has taken a big round of money - $12 million in Series B funding.
The company offers an advertising management platform for video, allowing web sites to monitor their inventory while enabling advertisers to insert ads on-the-fly. BlackArrow’s money for its Series B funding came from Comcast Interactive Capital, Cisco […]

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More deals in the enterprise search sector

Published in January 23rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Ampersand Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Business, DN Capital, Enterprise, Granite Global Ventures, Intel Capital, Internet, Investments, Lehman Brothers, Money, SAP, SAP Ventures, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Venrock Associates, Venture Capital
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A couple of weeks after Microsoft announced its $1.2 billion acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer, enterprise search competitor Endeca is getting a $15 million cash infusion from both Intel Capital and SAP Ventures. This is on top of the $50 million Endeca has already raised in the past few years from Lehman Brothers, Granite […]

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More deals in the storage space, Fabrik acquires G-Technology

Published in January 16th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in 3i, Acquisitions, Business, Comventures, Intel Capital, Internet, Money, Software, Technology
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Just it was a couple of weeks ago when we reported and analyzed the two major acquisitions within the online storage sector IBM announced it has acquired XIV, an Israeli company for what is believed to be $350M and some months ago EMC Corporation has snatched up Mozy for $76M. A few days ago eSureIt, […]

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LogMeIn files for an IPO hoping to raise $86M

Published in January 15th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Enterprise, Funding, IPO, Integral Capital Partners, Intel Capital, Internet, Investments, Money, Polaris Venture Partners, Prism Venture Partners, Public Companies, Software, Technologieholding Central, Technology
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It seems it is time for small-sized Internet and technology IPOs. After Internet Brands, Inc. went public on NASDAQ it is now turn of yet another second-tier technology company LogMeIn, Inc. to do the same looking for pretty much the same amount to raise. It has filed to trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol LOGM.
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MyPunchBowl gets angel funding, relies on algorithm to recommend best dates

Published in December 17th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Business, Entertainment, Funding, Intel Capital, Internet, Investments, Money, Shopping, Technology, Web 2.0, eCoast Angels
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MyPunchBowl, the event planning site that has joined the new crowd of Evite rivals, has recently been angel funded. According to some sources like VentureBeat and Mashable, the exact amount of funding has not been disclosed, but it’s less than $1 million, and is enough to keep the team in development for another year, at […]

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Edgeio closes doors after burning $5M in one year

Published in December 7th, 2007
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Funding, Intel Capital, Internet, Jeff Clavier, RSS Investors Fund, Ron Conway, Technology, Transcosmos & Business Development Inc, Web 2.0
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In a final board meeting last evening Edgeio’s board members have decided to shut down operations of the company.
This failure is sort of symbolic for the Web 2.0 sector. Why? What Edgeio is interesting with? First off it has been co-founded by Michael Arrington from Techcrunch, an influential, probably the most, blog that is symbolic […]

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