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Startup News

Venture firms pour $200M into open source  (Benchmark Capital Jobs)    BioTrove files for IPO  Benchmark entrepreneur talks making money from open source  (Benchmark Capital Jobs) Spot Runner is raising money at high valuation, announces political ads    Fenwick & West’s San Francisco Bay Area Life Science Venture Capital Survey Reveals 45% Increase in Valuations in 2007    Viewdle Funded by KIT Capital, Partners with ROO    Loopt Embraced by Verizon; Starts to Spread Its Mobile Wings   (Loopt Jobs) Revision3 Acquired By Fox News, Says Kevin Rose    Venture Capitalists Fight Back Against TheFunded    Bubble Motion hopes to rise with voice SMS   (Bubble Motion Jobs)  How does a small angel investment impact a future VC round?    Women’s ad network Glam buys fashion site StyleMob    Vivaty offers 3D virtual world for any web site  (MDV Jobs) Xoopit Turns Inbox Into a Social Network   (Xoopit Jobs) TheUnFunded asks entrepreneurs: You can dish it out, but can you take it?

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

Funding News

Razz pulls down $1.87 million for mobile music entertainment  (Mayfield Fund Jobs) Twinity metaverse wins Balderton backing  (Balderton Capital Jobs) (Metaversum Jobs) ScaleMP Raises $8 Million in New Round of Funding   (ScaleMP Jobs) Predictify, for crowd-sourced predictions, raises $4.3M    Chinese site Yaolan.com raises $17.7M for mommy community  (Foundation Capital Jobs) Gear6 Secures $10 Million Financing Round from Horizon Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and InterWest Partners    Publish2, Inc. Raises $2.75 Million in Series A Financing from Velocity Interactive Group  (Publish2 Jobs) MPM Capital and NEA Lead $65 million Series A Preferred Round to Finance Spinout of TriVascular from Boston Scientific    Digital Union Secures $1.7 Million Series A Funding    Tendril Completes $12 Million in Series B Funding to Secure Leadership Position in the Energy Management Market    WePlay Takes $1.87 Million, Wants Rights To Kids Videos Before They Are Stars    Popjax raises $4.7 million for Internet quiz show games    Stealth finance software firm Verient raises an additional $1.5 million    Arxx Building Products raises $5M for green building materials    CMEA Ventures raises $400M fund, to target energy and other science start-ups    iBiquity Digital raises yet another round to fuel HD Radio ambitions    Realtime Worlds raises $50 million for online games    Stealth startup Glassdoor raises $3M   (Benchmark Capital Jobs) Reality Digital, a white-label video service, gets funding to expand    Publish2 raises a round, aims to bring more journalists to the web  (Publish2 Jobs) MIT Solar Spin-off Snags $12.4M  Iovation Secures $15M    GridPoint Gets $15M and Big-Name Advisers    Solera Networks Closes $5 Million Financing Announces Key Executive Hires    AdGent 007 Lives and Lets Die With $5.3M Round    Video Conferencings Digital Union Raises $1.7M First Round    ReliOn raises over $17M for hydrogen fuel cells    Investors find Chumby endearing as well with new $12.5 million round    Tendril, an energy efficiency startup, grabs $12M    Alt Energy Is Hopping: Range Fuels Does $130M Round; Nanosolar Goes With $50M   (Nanosolar Jobs) Vlingo Wins Product and Financial Backing From Yahoo!   (Vlingo Jobs) ESPN Founders CollegeFanz Closes First Round

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