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Mobile Ads VP Leaves Apple

Riley Kennysmith | August 17, 2011 | 456 views | Add a Comment
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Apple’s VP of mobile advertising, Andy Miller, has decided to leave the company to become a partner at Highland Capital. Miller has been with Apple since early 2010.

Web Advertising Company CampusLIVE Raises $3.1 Million

Amit Chowdhry | April 15, 2011 | 517 views | Add a Comment
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CampusLIVE is a web advertising company that is based in Boston, Massachusetts. CampusLIVE raised $3.1 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners, Charles River Ventures, and other angel investors. Last year CampusLIVE raised $340,000 in funding. [Xconomy]

Bamboom Labs Raises $4.5 Million In Seed Funding

Amit Chowdhry | April 15, 2011 | 523 views | Add a Comment
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Bamboom Labs is a company that develops technology for watching live TV on the Internet. Bamboom Labs has raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital. Other investors include High Line Venture Partners, SV Angel, Highland Capital Partners, and First Round Capital.

2tor Raises $32 Million In Series C

Amit Chowdhry | March 15, 2011 | 652 views | Add a Comment
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2tor is an online education website that is based in New York City. The company has raised $32 million in Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Previous investors that participated in this round include Highland Capital, Redpoint, City Light, and Novak Biddle. 2tor has raised a total of $65 million. 2tor is pursuing the higher education market and is partnering with graduate programs. 2tor plans on providing a technology platform for higher graduate programs to offer classes online.

Real Estate Community Website RentJuice Raises $6.2 Million In Series B

Amit Chowdhry | February 2, 2011 | 484 views | Add a Comment
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RentJuice is a real estate community website where real estate agents and brokers can view real estate data. RentJuice raised $6.2 million in Series B funding led by Highland Capital and Tim Draper of DFJ. RentJuice automates administrative tasks for real estate professionals, brokerages, and landlords. RentJuice helps brokers capitalize on predictions that 10 million new renters will enter the U.S. market in the enxt 5 years. RentJuice was founded in 2009 by CEO David Vivero and CTO Kunal Shah.

Pixable Raises $2.5 Million

Amit Chowdhry | November 10, 2010 | 583 views | Add a Comment
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Pixable is a New York based company that has raised $2.5 million from Highland Capital. Pixable also has announced a public beta test of a new feature called Pixable Videos. Pixable CEO and co-founder Inaki Berengeur said that the company’s goal is to allow people to choose photos from Facebook and transform them into fun videos. The videos are going to be entertaining than slide-shows. Pixable’s first product was to allow online photos into a printed photo album. After creating the Pixable Video, you can post it on YouTube, Facebook, and blogs. [VentureBeat]

Location-Based Game Company SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures and Highland Capital

Amit Chowdhry | December 24, 2009 | 2,016 views | Add a Comment
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SCVNGR is a location-based game platform company that works with mobile devices. Google Ventures and Highland Capital have both invested $4 million into SCVNGR.  Google Ventures partner Rich Miner will be joining the SCVNGR board of directors.  SCVNGR will be cash-flow positive with over $1 million in revenue.

SCVNGR focuses on a niche gaming platform.  The niche is that they make location-based scavenger hunts for companies, schools, and organizations.  Many schools use the location-based gaming platform for campus orientation.  Major companies use it for team building.  SCVNGR has about 40 employees.  The company is led by 21 year old Seth Priebatsch.

Clients include Duke University, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, the city of Rochester in New York, Yale University, MetLife, and HSBC.  SCVNGR can be used using SMS on any phone, mobile web, or through free Android and iPhone applications.

Zoove Raising $13 Million Series C

Amit Chowdhry | September 17, 2009 | 844 views | Add a Comment
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Zoove is a mobile marketing company that is planning to raise a $13 million Series C round of funding. Out of that $13 million planned round, the company has raised $5.2 million thus far according to an SEC filing. Zoove did not disclose who the investors involved are for the Series C, but the company previously raised $21.4 million over two rounds of funding from Worldview Technology Partners, Cardinal Venture Capital, and Highland Capital.

Zoove brokers ads for SMS, MMS, and WAP. Zoove also has a technology called StarStar where users press the “star” sign on the phone to respond to the ads on digital billboards and on TV.

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