Venture Capital Still Running Wild in January 2008
Last week I was surprised by the number of fundings in the Internet and New Media space. This week there were even more. However I was pleasantly surprised by what I considered to be the quality of the fundings, these are all very interesting.
Week of January 28th, 2008
- Like.com Received $3.3 Million for a Virtual Shopping Engine
- Votigo Received $1.26 Million for User Generated Promotions Network
- ThisNext Received $5 Million for Social Shopping Recommendation Site
- WonderHowTo Raised Undisclosed Amount for How-To Video Search
- Standout Jobs Receives $2 Million for Web 2.0 Recruiting
- 7digital Raises $8.5 for Music and Video eCommerce Site
- TubeMogul Raises $1.5 Million for Video Analytics
- Nexage Received $500k for Hosted Mobile Video Solutions
- MocoSpace Received $4 Million for a Mobile Social Network
- Widgetbox Received $8 Million for their Widgets
- Mig33 Received $13.5 Million for a Mobile Social Network
- Etsy.com Received $27 Million for Hand Made Crafts eCommerce Site
- StyleFeeder Received $2 Million for Personal Shopping Engine
- Visible Measures Received $13.5 Million for Video Audience Tracking
- Mainstream Holdings Received $29.6 Million for Social Network Moli
- ShoZu Received $12 Million for Connecting Mobile to Social Networks
- Rubicon Project Raises $21 Million for Ad Optimization Network