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E-commerce company MarketLive raises $20M
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MarketLive, a provider of e-commerce retail technology and services, has raised a new $20 million round of financing. Backers include new investors JAFCO Ventures and Northgate Capital, as well as Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, Globespan Capital and others. MarketLive was founded in 1995, and it's still growing. The Foster City, [...] [ VentureBeat ] - Via Orglex
Intacct raises another $15M to offer online financial management software
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Intacct Corp, a San Jose online financial management software company that competes with Intuit's Quickbooks, said it has raised an additional $15 million of financing. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners, and Sutter Hill Ventures participated. This follows the $14 million Intacct [...] [ VentureBeat ] - Via Orglex
Intacct raises $15 million funding round
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Intacct announced Monday it raised a $15 million round of venture funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The on-demand financial management and accounting applications company also received a portion of the round from its existing investors Emergence Capital, Sigma Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. That brings total funding for Intacct, [...] [ CNET News.com | Tech news blog ] - Via Orglex
RecycleBank to Widen Operations with $30 million Funding
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Up 'til now, RecycleBank operates in 40 municipalities around New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Delaware, and Connecticut. However, it seems a widening of operations is impending with the recent funding worth $30 million that RecycleBank got from Caulfield and Byers (KPCB), Perkins, Kleiner, The Westly Group, Sigma Partners, and RRE [...] [ GoodCleanTech ] - Via Orglex
Cash in trash: RecycleBank gets hefty funding
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RecycleBank on Tuesday said that it has raised $30 million to increase its operations in the U.S. and expand into Europe. The series B round came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, RRE Ventures, Sigma Partners, and The Westly Group. The company has developed a novel business model to incentivize [...] [ Green Tech blog ] - Via Orglex
Deal Radar 2008: oDesk
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Based in Menlo Park, CA, oDesk was founded by Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis in 2003. It is a platform that lets companies hire and manage remote workers from a global talent pool and pay them on an hourly or fixed rate basis. Service providers are not charged any subscription, [...] [ Sramana Mitra ] - Via Orglex
Yahoo, VC investors pump $20M into Vlingo
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Cambridge mobile voice interface software maker Vlingo Corp. has closed on $20 million in new funding led by new investor Yahoo Inc., the company announced today at the CTIA Wireless industry conference in Las Vegas. The Series B venture capital round included existing investors Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners.[...] [ BizJournals ] - Via Orglex
Vlingo Raises $20 Million Second Round For Voice-Powered-Search; Yahoo Leads
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Vlingo, a provider of voice-based mobile services, has raised a $20 million second round led by Yahoo, along with participation from past backers Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. Last August, the Cambridge, MA-based start-up raised $6.5 million, for a total raise of $26.5 million. The investment from Yahoo (NSDQ: [...] [ mocoNews.net ] - Via Orglex
Yahoo Makes Strategic Investment In Vlingo; Will Use For Voice-Powered Mobile Search
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Vlingo, a provider of voice-based mobile services, has raised a $20 million second round led by Yahoo, along with participation from past backers Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. Last August, the Cambridge, MA-based start-up raised $6.5 million, for a total raise of $26.5 million. The investment from Yahoo (NSDQ: [...] [ PaidContent.org ] - Via Orglex
Attributor Raises $12 Million to Protect Media Content
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Attributor, who helps media companies protect their content, has raised $12 million in Series C funding. The company uses what it describes as “fingerprinting algorithms” to crawl the Web and identify when and where a publisher’s articles, images, or videos are being used, and if they are being used with [...] [ Mashable ] - Via Orglex
‘Recycling means prizes’ biz lands $30 million from VCs
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There are times in life when the carrot is called for, and other times when the stick is what does the job (if you've ever tried to get a dog to fetch a carrot, or served up some boiled sticks with your Sunday roast, you'll know what Greenbang means.) Ask [...] [ Greenbang ] - Via Orglex
Sigma Partners: Had good experience with Davoli and Flanagan
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| Fund Rated 3.3 | 105 Chars in PrivateI recently had very professional experience with Bob Davoli and Paul Flanagan, who he asked to look at deal. While they eventually passed, the were professional and quick with feedback and go/no go.[...] [ The Funded ] - Via Orglex
Incipient Gathers $15.6 Million
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Storage, networking, Virtualization Wade Roush wrote: Waltham, MA-based Incipient, which makes software for managing and moving data on enterprise storage area networks, said today that it has completed a Series E financing round totaling $15.6 million. Existing investors Globespan Capital Partners, GrandBanks Capital, HLM Venture Partners, Greylock, QuestMark Partners, Sigma [...] [ Xconomy Venture Capital Feed ] - Via Orglex
Incipient Gathers $15.6 Million [Xconomy Venture Capital Feed]
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Storage, networking, Virtualization Wade Roush wrote: Waltham, MA-based Incipient, which makes software for managing and moving data on enterprise storage area networks, said today that it has completed a Series E financing round totaling $15.6 million. Existing investors Globespan Capital Partners, GrandBanks Capital, HLM Venture Partners, Greylock, QuestMark Partners, Sigma [...] [ Venture Capital Network ] - Via Orglex
Voxify raises $15M for voice recognition systems
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Voxify is an Alemeda, Calif. company that creates self-servicing systems for call centers based off templates of question-and-response menus that are specific to particular industries. Automated systems like Voxify's have gradually become better, and the company's products can handle relatively complex transactions like making reservations and addressing inquiries. The company [...] [ VentureBeat ] - Via Orglex
