Ingrid Lunden
Feb 2, 2011 10:54 AM
Are you spotting a trend here? Hot on the heels of mobile photo sharing site Path picking up nearly $9 million in funding, Instagram, another photo-sharing app, has picked up $7 million for itself, with the financing being led by Benchmark Capital.
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David Kaplan
Apr 6, 2010 9:00 AM
Stitcher, a service that lets talk radio listeners move programs to their mobile devices, has completed a $6 million second round funding. The round was led by Benchmark Capital. Previous backer New Atlantic Ventures also participated, as did individual investors Ed Scott and Ron Conway. San Francisco-based Stitcher plans to…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 8, 2010 12:20 PM
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Ventures is leading a round of funding in social music startup TuneWiki; HillsVen Capital, Novel TMT, Benchmark Capital and Intellect Capital Ventures (the venture fund of Nordic phone company TeliaSonera) also participated in the funding. TuneWiki, which started out as a desktop app and site nearly two…
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Tricia Duryee
Jan 19, 2010 7:00 AM
San Francisco-based Boku has raised a sizable round of funding totaling $25 million to build a mobile-payments company that they believe can one day compete against financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, and even online providers, like Paypal. The year-old company has partnered with wireless carriers around the world to let…
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Matt Kapko
Jul 10, 2008 12:19 PM
Riot Games, a two-year-old independent games developer and publisher, has received $7 million in a round of funding from Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital. The company also brought on two new members to its board – Mitch Lasky, partner at Benchmark and longtime gaming executive, and Rick Heitzmann, partner at…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 17, 2008 1:30 PM
Gizmoz, which allows users to create animated 3D characters online, said today it has raised $6.5 million in a second round of funding to expand into Asia and onto the mobile phone. Investors in the round include DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) Capital, NGI capital, Benchmark Capital and Columbia Capital. The round…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 6, 2008 3:01 AM
Numobiq, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based startup, has raised $4.5 million in a first round of funding from Benchmark Capital to develop a platform that will let feature phones interact more easily with the Internet. General Partner Mitch Lasky, the former CEO of Jamdat Mobile, said to find out if it’s raining,…
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