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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?

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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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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Silicon Valley added 7,300 jobs in February, compared to 2007       Survey: Fewer jobs but higher pay for 2008 college grads    Glu Mobile wraps up Superscape buy, raises revenue guidance    Bubble Dims Solar Outlook    Foundation Capital Appoints First US Department of Energy Entrepreneur in Residence   (Foundation Capital Jobs) Latest Sequoia investments highlight global focus   (Sequoia Capital Jobs) Vovici, Austin Ventures’ online research ‘category creator’   (Vovici Jobs) Second Life’s Second Phase  Party Update: Pluck Purchase Price  Microsoft Brings WeeWorld to the NHS  BrightRoll takes online video advertising high-definition  Online kids’ application Kidzui launches safe search service    Stealth Kleiner Perkins company unveils efficiency-boosting material  (KPCB Jobs) Youniversity: A more efficient form of angel investing, with some names you’ll recognize    BroadSoft Going Up Against Ribbit with VoIP Platform for Web Apps    BracketBrains Giving Sports Bettors An Edge    SlideRocket Presentation Web App Enters Private Beta; Get Your Invite Here   (SlideRocket Jobs) Sequoia’s Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever  (Sequoia Capital Jobs) Chart Me Up: Web 2.0 Venture Deals    Venture Hacks Branches Out From Blogging, Launches Recommendations System    Ning: All Our Charts Point Up And To The Right    God 2.0 Online This Easter    Get Into The SearchMe Private Beta Right Now   (SearchMe Jobs) With browser-based viewing and live sports, don’t count Joost out just yet    (Joost Jobs) Rails developers showing love for Heroku    IBeatYou launches a contest site with celebrity flair    Pre-launch Social Media Traffic Booster Adoptic VC Funded    Few Details On Sequoia-Backed CDN Startup Cotendo   (Cotendo Jobs) Anti-Child Predator Startup IMSafer Bought By Rival Crisp Thinking

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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Avenda Systems gets $5M in 2nd round    The UK’s Travel Startup Isango Raises $8M London’s SongKick Raises Further Funding For Online Concert Tools    Zuora Raises $6.5M, Joins SaaS Billing Bonanza  VC Investments Rising In Russian WiMax Service Providers    SendMe Mobile grabs $15 million for mobile media    FTVentures, the VC firm that invests in financial industry, raises $465M, but loses partner  VoloMedia raises $3.5M for download advertising and metrics   (VoloMedia Jobs) SaveOnEnergy.com takes $2.4M to offer consumers power choices    Video company Clearleap raises $9 million from Trinity Ventures and Noro-Moseley Partners    Ad network Federated Media close to raising $30M round, valued at $200M    CleanFish raises $4.2M for sustainable seafood    CafeMom cooks up $12M more in funding    SplashCast gets $4 million for interactive video widgets    RockYou, another web company looking to raise a whopper round   (RockYou Jobs) Start-up info wiki TradeVibes gets $900K  Eight Years Later, Vivisimo Raises $4 Million For Enterprise Search.    WebVisible Takes $12 Million Series B    Disqus Picks Up A Half-Million Dollars From Fred Wilson And Angels  Retrevo Raises $8M More for Aggregation of Consumer Electronics Information  Genesis Partners raising $150M fourth fund    NanoInk raises $12M for nanoscale manufacturing    How-to website SpongeFish raises $2M    Instructional Video Startup Mindbites Raises $1M    Israeli Zoolander Handset Maker Modu Raises $100M  Downloadable Media Advertising’s VoloMedia Raises $3.5M  (VoloMedia Jobs) London’s Spinvox Socks Away $100M Investment    New Sachs venture, 1366 Technologies, gets $12.4M in funding    Adimab, Inc. Announces Series B Financing    Become.com Raises $17.5 Million Investment from TPG Growth    Spiration, Inc. Raises $18.5 Million Equity Financing    OptiMedica Secures $16 Million in Series C Funding   (OptiMedica Jobs) Battelle Ventures Invests in BioNanomatrix, Leading the DNA-Analysis Company $5.1-million Series A Funding Round    Web Sales Optimization’s Amadesa Raises $5.4M

 

 

 

 

               

             

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Hi5 Gets Ready to Take OpenSocial Global  (Hi5 Jobs) PBWiki Gets An Overhaul  (PBWiki Jobs)    Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup for Spring 2008  Wundrbar: A Smart Search and Account Management Tool  Songkick Launches "Alexa For Bands"    Surprise! The Bux.to Pyramid Scheme Is A Fraud  eASIC melds custom chips with fast-turnaround approach  (eASIC Jobs) Will Price named Widgetbox’s new CEO   (Widgetbox Jobs) Microsoft buys ad yield company Rapt    Linden Lab CEO Rosedale plans to step down   (Linden Lab Jobs) "Ultra-powerful" methanol fuel cell to drive construction equipment   (Oorja Protonics Jobs)

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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Benchmark and Benioff Put $6.5 Million Into Zuora to Create a Salesforce for Online Billing  (Benchmark Capital Jobs) Streamed Gameshow PlayCafe Takes Funding  Share this post on ShareThis raising $15 million    iBloks raising $2.1M for ad creation  Five9 takes $12M for on-demand call centers   (Five9 Jobs) Peer-to-peer firm Pando raises $8.1M, on the hunt for more    Brilliant Telecommunications raising $1.65 million for telecom equipment  Thumbplay raises $18 million for wireless entertainment    Range Fuels gets $100M more to realize dream of "clean" ethanol    Defibrillator maker Cameron Health takes in $14M  Nellix raises $6.5M for aneurysm grafts    Miramar Labs gets $20M for "aesthetic" devices   (Morgenthaler Jobs) Vessel-clog remover Chestnut pulls in $7.8M    Bungee Labs raises $8M for app development platform    Liftopia slaloms into funding for niche ski-ticket site    RiverWired raises $1.5M seed for eco-friendly news and social site    Car Advisory Network raises $6.5M for auto information site    Avatar company Gizmoz raises $6.5M   (Benchmark Capital Jobs) WebVisible, an interactive ad company for local markets, gets $12M more  Luminus Devices raises $72M for LED manufacturing    Aquantia raises $25 million for highest-speed Ethernet chips  IDG Ventures Boston changes its name to Flybridge Capital – and raises $280M    RecycleBank gets $30M from Kleiner Perkins to reward recyclers  (KPCB Jobs)

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From baseball to an online fantasy gaming world: Q&A with Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling of 38 Studios       Find out who’s in charge with CogMap    Jeff Gerstmann to launch Giantbomb.com for game fans    Audio Post: Foundation’s Steve Vassallo on cleantech strategies   (Foundation Capital Jobs) Gigya helps widget companies spread across web, track advertising   (Mayfield Fund Jobs) Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop to launch to the public tomorrow    Seattle, Los Angeles and Washington emerge as vibrant start-up areas    Credit crunch hits start-ups: Comerica accounts frozen?  That Jangl You Hear is Sales  (Jaxtr Jobs) Trinity Backs MMO For Kids, Fluid Entertainment  (Trinity Ventures Jobs) Survey: Despite down economy, turnover is expected  Pluck Corp. Goes To Demand Media  Infectious.com VC Funded For Hybrid Online/Print Music Startup  Jivox Launches Sweet Video Ad Platform    Zuora offers subscription services to all those online software companies   (Benchmark Capital) AOL Buys Bebo, Time Warner Still Schizophrenic   (Bebo Jobs) Second Release of LA MeetUp Tickets: Geek Goes Chic    Content Marketplace Helium Officially Launches   (oDesk Jobs) VCs Are Like Your Mother – Without the Hugs  Foundation Capital takes flyer on aviation tech maker Naverus   (Naverus Jobs) Startups prefer raising money from family and friends    Eyeblaster, an online ad company, files for Nasdaq IPO

 

               
                  

             

 

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Tiandi Energy raises $2.5M for specialized outsourcing  Kapow raises $11.6M more to provide mashup technology    Adconion snaps up direct marketing co. with new funding   (Adconion Jobs) Investor talks making money from Mint   (Benchmark Capital) iRise gets $20M to mock-up your software  Kyte raises $6.1M to become media platform  PureSense raises $4.5M for water-saving systems    Playfish pulls in $3M seed for social gaming  SearchMe, a search engine startup with a visual interface and a lot of funding  (SearchMe Jobs) Union Square Ventures raises $156M second fund    Allegro Diagnostics lands $4M in funding, appoints science chief    Invoke Solutions lands $7M  TriHealix, Inc. Closes $7 Million Series C Financing    Climos closes on $3.5M Series A Financing with Braemar Energy Ventures    Cleantech America, Inc. Receives Strategic Investment From Asian Solar Manufacturers  Highwinds Raises $55 Million  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $100 Million iFund for iPhone Application Developers  (KPCB Jobs) LiveBookings Restaurant Reservation Biz Raises Gbp6.5M  LA’s Generate Raises $6M. Names Former WB Networks CEO Its Lead  Climos Funded To Work Have Plankton Suck Down Green House Gas    Magnify.net Raises $1M for Video Discovery, Broadcasting  WeGame’s 19 Year Old Founder Raises $3 million Financing    Laszlo Expands Series C With An Extra $6.6 Million    Cisco Invests in Hybrid Content Delivery Network, GridNetworks    Invoke Solutions Takes $7 Million  Click Forensics Raises $10 Million B Round   (Austin Ventures Jobs) Next New Networks – $15 million From Velocity Interactive Group And Goldman Sachs    Corrected: Pixim raises more money for video surveillance chips   (Pixim Jobs) Next New Networks raises $15M more for video channels    Microsoft laying down $100 million for desktop virtualization firm Kidaro    Click Forensics Closes $10 Million Series B Funding Round    Mochi Media Closes $4M For Casual Games Ad Network

 

 

 

 

               

             

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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

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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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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Estimates Put Internet Advertising at $21 Billion in U.S., $45 Billion Globally    Former Bolt.com Owner Launches Casual Gaming Ad Network, Gamers Media    SYNCY That Phone    Pingg-Invitations Done Right    SellPoint creates salesperson for the web  Fundability Launches Site To Matchmake Founders/Investors    Investors Stand-Up For Launch of Comedy.com    Start-up investment values all over the place, no sign yet of downturn

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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ParAccel, analytical database company, raises $22M more   (Mohr Davidow Ventures Jobs) Friendfeed, the best software for conversations, raises round and launches publicly   (Benchmark Capital) (Facebook Jobs) Will carbon-trading happen? Goldman hopes so, backs APX    Wireless USB on the way – Wisair grabs $24M    FusionOne raises $6M for mobile content backup services  Proofpoint, email security company, raises $28M more; Breach Security raises $17M  (Proofpoint Jobs) Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Rumored Valuation $200 Million   (Yelp Jobs) Clarus Ventures raises $660M for life sciences fund  Video player company Fliqz raises $2.5M more from internal investor to tide it over   (Mohr Davidow Ventures Jobs) Radar Networks receives $13M for Twine, plans to start opening in March    Woman’s network Glam raises $84.6 million at half a billion valuation, Adconion raises $80M   (Wellington Partners Jobs) Tiny Pictures, creator of Radar mobile photo-sharing service Radar, raises round   (Tiny Pictures Jobs) Outbrain, a news recommendation widget, raises $5M    Peak8 Solutions Closes $5 Million Series B Funding    Google Fund Backs Indian Fast Food Startup Kaati Zone    GeoLearning Raises $31M From Fidelity    Pentaho raises $12M for open source "business intelligence" software   (Pentaho Jobs) Collarity raising $7.8M to help sites learn about their users  VCs invest $928M in India in 2007, a 166 percent jump from previous year    Radar Networks receives new funding for Twine  TZero raises $20M for ultrawideband chips    SellPoint Receives $7 Million in Additional Financing From Granite Ventures and Menlo Ventures    HiveLive Inc. Raises $5.6M in First Round of Venture Financing    Intel Capital Invests in Tela Innovations  ESPN Alums Funded For Fanzter And Coolspotters Site    Advertising.com Bigs Launch TidalTV With $15M in Funding

 

 

 

 

               

             

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CVSDude to Grease oDesk’s Outsourcing Wheels     (oDesk Jobs)  Fring Adds File-Swapping To Its Mobile VoIP App    VC-backed Lovefilm Gets Amazon as Investor and Wins Its UK/German Biz  (Love Film International Jobs) Standard at the New Standard: The Game of News    Angels Back Mobile Video Ad’s Nexage    Goldman Sachs Finances Green Credits’ Exchange APX    KickApps Kicks Up its Social Media Platform    Google, Facebook Battle For Computer Science Grads. Salaries Soar.   (Facebook Jobs) Skyfire, a new way to browse the mobile web  (Trinity Ventures Jobs)

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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Canaan Partners Raises a $650 Million Venture Fund With an Eye Towards India and Israel    Advanced Technology Ventures closes new $303M fund    Rebel Monkey, a casual game developer, raises $1M  Seven Seas Water receives $20M for water desalination    HiveLive raises $2.2M to help companies build social networks    Reliable email proves to be worth $40M more for Teneros  (Teneros Jobs) Genius lets salespeople watch a web visitor’s every move, raises $19M   (Genius Jobs) Mobile TV chipmaker MediaPhy raises nearly $7 million    Online content management company Clickability raises $8 million  PEAK Surgical’s plasma electrosurgical tools net $21M  GlobalScholar Raises $27M And Buys Excelsior Software    WidgetBox Raises $8M To Lure CEO   (WidgetBox Jobs) 7digital raises $8.5M for digital media sales  (7digital Jobs) (Bebo Jobs) Social shopping site ThisNext draws $5M    Unisfair Receives $10 Million in Series B Funding from Norwest Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital  (Unisfair Jobs) Crosslink Capital Closes $400 Million Crossover Fund V    Northern Light Venture Capital Closes $350 Million Second Fund  ThisNext Takes $5 Million Series B  Efficient light company, Luxim, raises $21M more  (Sequoia Capital Jobs) Pano Logic receives $12M to replace the desktop computer  Widgetbox, a create-your-own-widget company, gets more funding  (WidgetBox Jobs) GreenRoad, for driver safety tech, raises $14.5M   (GreenRoad Technologies Jobs) NewLink Genetics raises $17M for cancer vaccine, drugs    Clear2Pay’s Backers Put in €10M More    Used Gadget Trade-In Site Second Rotation Raises $4.4M

 

 

 

 

               

             

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Euro VCs Report Flurry of Online Deals Today  (Atlas Ventures Jobs) (Index Ventures Jobs)    Associated Content uses Attributor to detect online plagiarism, grow traffic   (Attributor Jobs) Hummer Winblad Venture Capital Firm Selects VentureCareers from VentureLoop to Promote Startup Jobs for Its Portfolio Companies  (Hummer Winblad Venture Capital Jobs) OurStage Brings User Picked Content To Joost  (Joost Jobs) FunnyorDie Hangs In There: Good Content Still The Key   (FunnyorDie Jobs)

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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Certess, electronic design automation co., gets $2M more   (Index Ventures Jobs) Alfresco gets $9M for Web 2.0 content management   (Mayfield Fund Jobs)   (Facebook Jobs) Fat Spaniel bulks up with $18 million, plans expansion to Europe  Outspark Announces $11 Million in Series B Funding from Internet Powerhouse, Top VC Firms    Quantum’s Fisker Automotive Joint Venture Backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers   (KPCB Jobs) JumpStart Announces Investment in AMTI  (Jumpstart Jobs) Openads Closes $15.5 Million Series B Funding Led by Accel Partners    We7 Takes $6 Million Series A  Widget Provider MixerCast Takes $6 Million Series B    Index Ventures Raises $577 Million For Late-Stage Growth Fund  (Index Ventures Jobs) Benchmark Funds Israeli Toolbar Maker  (Benchmark Capital Jobs) $5.18B: Cleantech VC Funding Hits New Highs  No Bubble Here: VCs Invest $29.41B  Unisfair Nets $10M for Virtual Trade Shows   (Unisfair Jobs) Benchmark Capital Invests $8M in Conduit   (Benchmark Capital Jobs) Silver Peak Raises $21 Million In Series D Financing  (Silver Peak Jobs) Granicus, Inc. Announces $10 Million Strategic Investment from JMI Equity    Zynga Raises $10M From Usual Suspects For Gaming SocNet    Financial Bigs Back Slide With $500M+ Valuation   (Slide Jobs) Net Audience Measurement’s Quantcast Raises $20M    Open Source’s Zenoss Boasts 500K Downloads + $11M Investment

             

            

               
                  

 

 

 

 

               

             

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Shawn Fanning, Ready for a Rupture        Facebook Sues Porn Company Over Hacking Attempt   (Facebook Jobs) 23andMe Step 2: Spitting In A Tube   (23andMe Jobs) What Do Venture Capitalists Know?    Meebo introduces real-time chat in Facebook applications    (Meebo Jobs) Pikluk aims to child-proof the internet    Levinsohn to merge firm with Silicon Valley’s ComVentures    Nanosolar rolls out first production thin-film solar cells   (Nanosolar Jobs) Turin Networks buys Carrier Access for $92.7M  (Turin Networks) Life sciences briefing: Monday, Dec. 17, 2007    Luxury Fashion Shopping Trend Continues With Ideeli    Wellington Invests in French Vacation Company    (Wellington Jobs)

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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Acquia Receives $7 Million Series A Financing    Cardiac Dimensions(R) Inc. Announces Closing of $35.5 Million Round of Financing    Vuze Raises $20M More in Series C, Brings Aboard TiVo Co-Founder Ramsay    Intelleflex raises $15.5M for RFID equipment   (Intelleflex Jobs) Zeugma Systems raises $22.5M for next-gen broadband    Live Gamer lands $24M for virtual good trading    Founders Fund raises new fund, aims for more VC disruption    (Founders Fund) Kango makes travel search personal and raises $4mm  Second Wind raises $4M for wind measurement    PlayFirst, popular online gaming company, raises $16.5mm   (PlayFirst Jobs) GainSpan receives funding for wireless sensors    Validity raises $20M for fingerprint scanners    Web Ads Template Builder AdReady Raises $10M

 

             

            

               
                  

 

 

 

 

               

             

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LifeInTheFishBowl Is Going To Be One Awesome Dating Site        Imeem Pens a Deal with Universal Music. Now Has All the Majors.    (Imeem Jobs) Sequoia Invests in SEM-Automator Kenshoo    (Sequoia Capital Jobs) Jaxtr Racks Up Over 5 Million Users In Under 5 Months   (Jaxtr Jobs) Plaxo Offers Pulse Plugin For Outlook    AppJet Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze    NetSuite’s Billion-Dollar Dream    Lord of the Birds…Songbird    Gene Security Network aims to bolster IVF genetic tests    Pelikan Tech to push "finger friendly" diabetes testing    The fundamental biology of making biotech proteins without cells, courtesy of Fundamental Applied Biology    Loic Le Meur’s Ten Rules For Startup Success    YouTube Clone PornoTube Sued    Jaxtr Taps Former MySQL CTO   (Jaxtr Jobs)  (MySQL Jobs) There.com Lands Uber-Brand Coke    Timebridge launches scheduling tool for professionals    (Timebridge Jobs) Nanostellar investment brings diesel engines closer to clean    New Cycle Capital, a new venture firm focused on profits and social benefit

 

               
                  

             

 
               

                  

 

 

 

 

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Microsoft Buys Multimap for a Reported $50 Million Surewest Pays $163M for Everest Broadband    Evalve Completes $60 Million Series D Financing    Global Venture Capital Investment On Pace to Top $40 Billion in 2007 Amid Favorable Exit Environment    SVB Analytics Releases Venture Capital Funding Research    groSolar Raises $10 million in Growth Equity Financing    Asuragen Raises $18.5 Million in Series B Financing    Smilebox Secures $7 Million in Series B Funding Led by Bessemer Venture Partners    Kosmix Inks $10 Million from DAG Ventures    NEA Completes Investment in TechForward, Inc.    Insitu Closes $25 Million Series D from Battery Ventures    Mobius Microsystems Raises $10.22 Million in Series B Financing   (Mobius Microsystems Jobs) ConXtech raises $7.1M for innovative building system    HRJ Capital raising new $300M fund of funds    Northern Light Venture Capital raises $236M for Chinese fund    Global venture capital investments highest in six years