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Marin Software Raises $16 Million In Series E
Marin Software is a company that makes search engine management tools for advertising companies. They have raised $16 million in Series E funding led by Crosslink Capital. DAG Ventures, Focus Ventures, Benchmark Capital, and Triangle Peak Partners also participated in this round. Marin now has a total of $51 million in funding.
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Stoke Raises $17 Million In Series E
Stoke Inc. is a mobile broadband solutions company that has raised $17 million in Series E funding. Stoke has raised a total of $92 million thus far. The full press release is below:
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Turn.com Raises $20 Million
Turn.com is an ad technology company that has raised $20 million in funding. This brings the company’s total funding to $57 million. This round is the fourth and it was led by Greenspring Associates. Turn plans to use the funding to expand in Europe. Other existing investors that participated in this round include Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital, Shasta Ventures, and Focus Ventures. [paidContent]
QuinStreet Filing For $250 Million IPO
QuinStreet is an online media and marketing company that owns the domain names Insure.com and Internet.com. Insure.com was bought for about $16 million and Internet.com was bought for $18 million. Quinstreet has filed an IPO in order to raise $250 million. The company will be listed under the Nasdaq index with the symbol “QNST.”
Quinstreet was founded in 1999 and has $60 million in funding from Sutter Hill Ventures, Split Rock Partners, Granite Global Ventures, Catterton Partners, Focus Ventures, Rosewood Capital, Charter Growth Capital, VSP Capital, J&W Seligman, and Stanford University. Quinstreet earned $260 million in revenue this year and had net income of $17.2 million.
Delivery Agent Raises $25 Million In Fourth Round
Delivery Agent is an advertising platform company that designs applications for publishers to sell entertainment products. The company recently raised $25 million as they help build “click-to-buy” applications for selling products centered around 125 major entertainment properties. The company now has a total of $60 million in funding.
“We launched the market for shopping-enabled entertainment when we made it possible for television viewers to go online and buy things related to their favorite shows. Today, as so much entertainment content becomes and is available on other platforms, our expanded commerce and marketing technology will make it possible for our entertainment partners to reach, influence and transact with audiences wherever and whenever they happen to be watching premium content, whether through their television, mobile phone, online video player or whatever else is next,” stated Delivery Agent Mike Fitzsimmons in a press release.
This round of funding was led by Focus Ventures. Other investors include T-Venture, Coral Group, Ironwood Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, and Cardinal Venture Capital.