Capital Chaos

Yelp! (San Francisco, CA) is about to announce its latest round of funding for $15M led by DAG Ventures (Duff Ackerman & Goodrich) according to TechCrunch.  The company which has created one of the more successful local review sites has started to post some very significant numbers so far this year in terms of traffic […]

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 Crains reported today that a new Illinois-based venture capital fund for start-up firms announced Monday that it has invested in its first three companies — two in technology and one in consumer products.
The Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund, which recently achieved its $10-million goal in capital commitments, chose Viewpoints.com in Chicago, One Llama Media Inc. of […]

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Glam Media (Brisbane, CA) reported that they have finalized their fourth round of funding for $85M of which $65M is in cash and another $20M in venture debt.  This all comes on top of the already $30M raised over the past four years that Glam has been around.
This latest round included a slew of investors […]

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Tiny Pictures (San Francisco, CA) just locked in $7.2M in a Series B round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson .  This latest investment comes on the backend of a Series A round of $4m led by Mohr Davidow which also participated in this latest round. 
The mobile photo-sharing company offers a service called Radar which lets […]

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