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Though associates at VC firms can always find mentors, there are a few things that the Kauffman Fellows might not tell you. Remmy Oxley gives his five unexpected tips for upping your venture capital game. Read more »

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A startup called Color has raised a whopping $41 million from a group of funds including Sequoia Capital. Is the company’s photo-sharing app worth that much? Probably not. The funding is likely just a bet that the team involved will eventually come up with something worthwhile. Read more »

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Cheezburger — the blog network that brought you I Can Has Cheezburger, the Fail blog and many other similar humor-oriented sites — today announced that it has closed a $30-million round of funding from a group of venture capital firms including Foundry Group and SoftBank Capital. Read more »

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Kontiki announced this morning that it has raised a $10.7 million funding round led by MK Capital, with New World Ventures and Cross Creek Capital also participating in the funding. It says it will use the funds to expand product development and sales and marketing programs. Read more »

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Angels are winning the startup-funding race, and that appears to be accelerating an ongoing shift in the venture capital market. As more startups are turning to angels for funding, recent data shows that the amount of money raised by traditional VC funds continues to shrink. Read more »

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Eventbrite has closed $20 million in Series D funding led by DAG Ventures, and including Tenaya Capital as well as previous investor Sequoia Capital. The four-year-old, San Francisco-based company has now raised a total of $29.5 million. Read more »

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Online video companies in China continue to attract investors, as they battle it out for the attention of the 1.3 billion people that reside there. The latest to raise money is Tudou.com, which just announced a $50 million Series E investment led by Singapore-based Temasek Holdings. Read more »

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Amidst widespread discussion and fear of collecting personal data for ad targeting, one of the leading marketplaces for such audience data has raised a big round of venture funding. New York City-based eXelate today announced a $15 million Series B round led by Menlo Ventures. Read more »

Foursquare, which has been nearly as exhibitionist about sharing the details of its corporate dealings as some of its users are about sharing their locations, has finally closed its second funding round of $20 million led by Andreessen Horowitz and including previous investors. Read more »

Pandora, the music streaming provider and Silicon Valley darling, has raised additional late-stage funding of an undisclosed amount. Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy said in an emailed statement the funding would be used “to invest in resources we need to continue to execute on our strategy.” Read more »

Beyond just connecting us through voice and text, our mobile phone numbers are quickly becoming our identities and our wallets. Now they can also receive physical gifts! Well kind of — Giiv, a newly funded year-old startup, allows users to send each other virtual gift cards. Read more »

5to1, a company founded by former Fox Interactive executives including Ross Levinsohn, is out raising funding again. The San Francisco-based startup helps publishers find better ads for their sites, and has raised the first $68,000 of what looks to be a $3.45 million convertible note. Read more »

SimpleGeo, the impeccably timed geo-location infrastructure startup, has raised a $8.14 million Series A. And at only a year old, it’s remarkable how quickly SimpleGeo has been able to capitalize on the excitement around geo-location technology and be recognized as a thought leader in the space. Read more »

Etacts, which makes useful tools for managing email and phone contacts, has raised $650,000 in angel funding. The two-man Etacts team has been busy since completing the Y Combinator program, adding features at a rapid clip and closing a round from well-respected investors. Read more »

Turns out collective buying isn’t the only path down which LivingSocial is following local coupon hotshot Groupon. Less than two weeks after Groupon closed a $135 million Series C round, LivingSocial has raised a $14 million Series C round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. Read more »

When the just-released iPad rivals your device for browser share, you know you have a problem. Research In Motion needs to expand beyond its email expertise and get a WebKit browser on its devices. Read more »

TweetPhoto, which allows users to share photos through Twitter, announced a funding round of $2.6 million today from several venture investors. But is the company just a “hole filler” for Twitter? Tweetphoto says its service also works with other social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Read more »

Stitcher, a company that creates personalized talk radio streams (like Pandora but for non-music content), has raised a $6 million Series B round. It’s trying to help people bring audio to their mobile devices and cars, and along the way introduce them to new content. Read more »

Just so you know, this is not an April Fool’s joke: video conferencing startup Vidyo — the same company that powers the ultra-popular Google Talk video chat client — has raised a $25 million Series C round of financing, it announced today. With the new cash, […] Read more »

At least in terms of branding and industry recognition, Clicker is doing the best job so far of being a television guide for the web. The company — which only launched three months ago at our NewTeeVee Live conference — has been rewarded with an $11 […] Read more »

At least in terms of branding and industry recognition, Clicker is doing the best job so far of being a television guide for the web. That’s why the company — which only launched three months ago — just got $11 million in Series B funding. Read more »

Video ad network YuMe announced today that it has reached profitability and added a big new financing round worth $25 million. The new funding was led by Menlo Ventures, with existing investors Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures, BV Capital and DAG Ventures also participating. Along with the […] Read more »

TidalTV has completed a $16 million financing round, wrapping up funding that was first made public through an SEC filing back in October. The funding was led by Comcast Interactive Capital, the cable company’s investment arm, and includes existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Valhalla […] Read more »

BrightRoll said today that it’s wrapped up a $10 million Series C round of financing — after reaching profitability. The video ad network, which claims to be “bigger than Hulu,” plans to use the funds to expand even further, adding to its technology platform and growing […] Read more »

Ustream has nabbed a major strategic investment by Japan’s Softbank that could be worth $75 million over the next 18 months. With the new funding, Ustream will look to expand in Japan, China, Korea, and India, opening offices and hiring employees to tap dramatic mobile phone […] Read more »

Apisphere, a Berkeley-Calif.-based startup founded in 2006, has found itself in the middle of the current geo-location craze, and raised $4.6 million in funding. Apisphere has explored a variety of location-based mobile services, starting with tracking salespeople. Read more »

Yelp, like Facebook and Zynga before it, has taken a large late-stage funding round that includes measures to cash out employee shares. In doing so, the local reviews startup effectively negates internal pressure for a public offering to make early employees rich. Read more »

Morgan Solar, a Toronto-based startup developing acrylic solar concentrators, told us today it has raised $8.2 million in its first round of venture-capital funding from Spanish utility Iberdrola, plastics manufacturer Nypro, and Turnstone Capital Management, which led the round. Back in October, when Morgan Solar announced […] Read more »

Hungry Machine Inc., the application developer behind LivingSocial.com, the social cataloging service, has raised $5 million in a new round, bringing its total funding to $10 million. Existing investors Steve and Jean Case and Grotech Capital Group contributed to the round alongside company CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy. Read more »

Video encoding provider Envivio has raised $1 million worth of debt in a convertible note filed today with the SEC. The South San Francisco, Calif.-based company, which was one of the first allowed onto Apple’s new HTTP streaming platform, had last raised funding in 2008, when […] Read more »

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Bitgravity co-founder and former CTO Barrett Lyon has a new venture, which he recently introduced by announcing a round of funding from Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson, Storm Ventures and Greenwich Technology Associates. Lyon wouldn’t give much in the way of detail on the new company, called 3Crowd, […] Read more »

While the shakeout in the online video market has already occurred in the U.S. with YouTube reigning supreme over other sites, in China it’s a different story — which is why Chinese video site Youku.com was able to raise $40 million in a funding round announced […] Read more »

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Widevine has nabbed an additional $15 million in a strategic investment from Liberty Global, a global cable operator, and Samsung Ventures to boost its business for multiplatform digital rights management. The DRM provider is looking to use the funding to expand its ability to offer TV […] Read more »

Gowalla, maker of a 10-week-old geo-location app with some 50,000 users, said today it’s raised $8.4 million in a second round of funding. The money will be used “to strengthen growth efforts and further enhance Gowalla’s development capability,” the Austin, Texas-based startup said in a release. Read more »

We’re at an odd time in the technology industry. While there’s bound to be some pre-holiday layoffs around the corner, it shouldn’t be like the carnage of last winter. The market wreck isn’t over, yet new venture deals have been coming across our desk in droves. Read more »

Video ad network ScanScout today said it had (finally) closed its Series B round by bringing in funding from Singapore-based EDB Investments. We’d previously written about the round in March, when the company had raised $5.1 million of a planned $8.1 million round, according to a […] Read more »

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