Peter Leahy starts venture capital firm for videos games/entertainment Demand Media Buys Pluck for $75 million (Pluck Jobs) Yelp’s Stoppelman says no IPO until at least 2010 (Yelp Jobs) Feds pick ARCH, Foundation and KPCB for energy partnerships (KPCB Jobs) Social Networking Goes Corporate (Facebook Jobs) VCs Pump $3B into Clean Tech in ’07 ‘Q&A’ with Foundation Capital: Smart Grid (Foundation Capital) Jaxtr Ends Beta, Begins Selling Ads (Jaxtr Jobs) Boston-area CFOs expect an increase in hires Handango Secures Additional 9.5 Million in Venture Funding to Expand Its Growth Initiatives in the Global Smartphone Content Market
Kilopass, maker of non-volatile memory technology, raises $17.9M TNS buys Web traffic analysis company Compete for $75M (Compete Jobs) (Quantcast Jobs) Dace Ventures leads $7M Series B in local search startup EveryScape Magnify.net Raises $1M for Video Discovery, Broadcasting YieldBuild Raises $6 Million Series B For Optimizing Ads Velocity Finances Generate, A Professional Studio for Online Video Content Mzinga gets $32 million, acquires Prospero QCEPT TECHNOLOGIES SECURES $9.5 MILLION IN SERIES C FUNDING RingCentral Secures $12 Million Series B Funding, Passes 50,000-Customer (RingCentral Jobs) Wave Energy’s ORECon Raises $24M (Wellington Partners) White Label SocNet Builder Mzinga Raises $32.5M; Buys Prospero Product Video Maker Sellpoint Raises Further $7M Charitable Giving Startup Givezooks Raises Angel Funding
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