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| Youth Sports Site WePlay Raises $4.5 Million | | Little League meets MySpace: WePlay.com, a social networking site for youth sports that is set to launch in mid-April, has landed $4.5 million in financing, the NYT reports. That includes a $1.87 million A-1 round PEHub uncovered from Pequot Private Equity, the Creative Artists Agency, and Major League Baseball.
The idea: An ad-supported site where coaches can manage teams and update pa [..] Read complete article |  | Published 26-Mar-2008 by Silicon in General
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| Travel Ad Network Raises $15 Million Series A | | Our protestations notwithstanding, investors still think there's room for more online ad networks. Example of the evening: NY-based Travel Ad Network, which has raised $15 million in Series A financing led by Rho Ventures and Village Ventures. TAN claims 12.5 million uniques and says its audience has surpassed that of Yahoo Travel. Details here.
See Also: People, Please [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Apr-2008 by Silicon in General
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| Flixster Can't Sell To IAC, Raises $5 Million Instead | | Movie rating site/social network/Facebook app Flixster has raised $5 million, according to a regulatory filing picked up by peHUB. The fresh financing comes after Flixster was unable to sell itself to IAC (IACI) or anyone else -- probably because it was looking for too much money, around $150 million.
Leading the round: Pinnacle Ventures, which joined previous backer Lightspeed Venture P [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Apr-2008 by Silicon in IACI
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| Blip.TV's Series B: $5.2 Million | | How much did NYC-based Web video site Blip.TV raise in its series B financing, led by Bain Capital and announced in October? $5.2 million, according to a regulatory filing dug up by PEHub.
(PEHub is owned by Thomson Reuters, the SEC's records copying contractor.)
Earlier: Blip.tv Scores Bain Cash Just Before World Ends
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| Giant Realm Raises $2 Million, Names New BizDev VP | | New York-based Giant Realm, which runs sites for male gamer geeks and their ilk, just landed $2 million in financing from VC firm Softbank Capital. That rounds off a $5.5 Series A round. Last month, the company got $3.5 million in backing from Comcast Interactive Capital, Edison Venture Fund and the William Morris Agency.
The startup, whose sites like GiantRealm.com attracted 4.2 millio [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-May-2008 by Silicon in General
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New York-based WePlay, a.k.a. "Little League meets MySpace," has raised $8.6 million in Series B financing led by Deep Fork Capital. Also participating in the round were FirstMark Capital and star athletes Derek Jeter, LeBron James, and Peyton Manning. The site has raised a total of $13 million including its initial round of financing in March.
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Buenos Aires-based Sonico, a social networking site that boasts some 17 million users, has raised a $4.3 million Series A financing round. Leading the round: DN Capital and private investor [..] 
BuzzFeed, another site trying to aggregate the wackiest/zaniest news and trends, has raised $3.5 million in Series A financing from Softbank and Hearst. (See screenshot to see the sort of stuf [..] 
Web video publishing/streaming/stats firm Move Networks has just raised a huge round: $46 million of new financing. Benchmark Capital led the round; other investors include Cisco (CSCO), [..] 
Technorati, the once-promising, but has-been blog search engine, has raised $7.5 million of a $10 million Series D round, PE Hub reports, citing a regulatory filing. Returning to in [..] 
Chinese video sharing site Youku.com raised a $40 million second round, including $30 million in new VC funding and a $10 million technology loan from Western Technology Investment, the co [..] 
