Capital Chaos

hi5 (San Francisco, CA) which is one of the most popular social networks out there (#8 Globally according to Alexa), just raised additional capital but in the form of debt. The transaction which was led by Hercules Technology Growth Capital who clearly sees value in the international application of hi5 which while it claims […]

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Yonja (San Francisco), which is by far the largest Turkish social networking site pulled in a hefty Series A round of $12.5M led by Greywolf Capital and Tiger Global Management. The parent company of Yonja, Yonja Media Group, has been pretty active launching products geared towards the Turkish demo with sites like MetroListe.com (a […]

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 Votigo (Oakland, CA) has pulled in $1.26 in its initial round of funding led by Headwaters Capital.  The company has created an online social media platform that aims to helps marketers engage their customers through the use of user-generated content, branded social-networking communities, contests and promotions.  Each one of their categories offers contests (i.e. Fat […]

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 Big Tent (San Francisco, CA) has landed $5M in Series A led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Mohr Davidow Ventures (who recently invested in Visible Measures).  The company prides itself on being a social networking site for families, group and neighborhoods - very community driven similar to the groups you see in Facebook etc but […]

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