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Ooyala Raises $22 Million Fourth Round Of Funding
Online video platform startup company Ooyala has raised $22 million as a fourth round of funding. The company plans to use the funding in order to expand global operations. Ooyala has raised $42 million over the last 3 years. This new round of funding was led by CID Group, ITOCHU Technology Investments, Sierra Ventures, and Rembrandt Venture Partners. [paidContent]
InsideView Raises $11.5 Million In Second Round
InsideView is a San Francisco, California based company that designs software called SalesView. SalesView aggregates news about companies and executives so that salespeople can identify whether they would be good for leads. InsideView uses social media tools to plug in news about companies into Salesforce.com and SugarCRM software.
InsideView raised $11.5 million in a second round of funding by Emergence Capital Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Greenhouse Capital Partners. InsideView is used by about 26,000 sales people and about 2,000 companies including Adobe. InsideView started in 2005. [VentureBeat]
Ooyala Raises $10 Million From Rembrandt and Sierra
Ooyala is a video start-up company that has raised $10 million in Series C funding. The funding will be used for aggressive growth, partnerships, and international expansion. Investors in the company include Rembrandt Venture Partners and Sierra Ventures. Ooyala created a platform called Backlot which is used for publishing and monetizing videos. Some of Ooyala’s customers include Warner Brothers and Electronic arts.
Ooyala was founded by three former employees at Google in 2007. So far the company has raised $20 million in funding. This past August, the company hired Jay Fulcher as the CEO. “We will probably be doubling, possibly even tripling our operation (from over 60 staff) over the next 12 months,” stated Fulcher in an interview with paidContent.
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InsideView Raises $6.5 Million In Second Round From Emergence Capital Partners and Rembrandt Venture Partners
InsideView, Inc. is a “Sales 2.0 leader” company that has raised $6.5 million in second round funding today. The investors involved with the funding are Emergence Capital Partners and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The funds will be used to expand their sales and marketing operation teams. The funding will also be used to enhance their platform. InsideView has raised $14 million in total funding.
“InsideView is extremely pleased to announce the close of our successful financing,” stated InsideView CEO Umberto Milletti. “It is a great time to be in the Sales 2.0 space, which enables companies to do more with less by accelerating sales cycles and increasing sales productivity. In this current economic climate, completing any kind of new venture capital funding represents a noteworthy event. This strong vote of confidence from our existing investors can be attributed to our rapid growth and success, due to the widespread, broadening recognition of the advantages that InsideView’s unique technology offers.”
InsideView’s primary product is called SalesView. SalesView crawls through 20,000 public websites and social networks. This crawling through LinkedIn, Facebook, Reuters, and SEC filings.
comScore Filing for an IPO
“We have taken traditional consumer research to the next level. For the first time ever marketers can understand all aspects of consumer activity, including critical links between online and offline behavior,” stated Gian Fulgoni, Co-Founder of comScore. comScore is an Internet information provider that monitors consumer behaviors and trends online. comScore has a plethora of lucrative clients such as Verizon, T-Mobile, Viacom, AOL, iVillage, CareerBuilder, Microsoft, and Yahoo!. All of these clients benefit from the human-computer interactions monitored by comScore. It will be comScore, Inc. will be listed under NASDAQ: SCOR.
comScore was created in 1999 and had acquired assets from NetRatings during the dot-com bust. About 12% of comScore’s 2006 $66 million in sales came from Microsoft. The company is often times cited in the press for its statistical information. In a recent Bloomberg article, comScore statistics were used for reporting how many more visitors were attracted to YouTube this year compared to last. YouTube had 133.5 million visitors this past January and 9.5 million the January before that. comScore also reported that 94.8 million visitors visited the website this past January and 38.9 million the year before.
A number of financial companies have stake in comScore. Investors include JPMorgan Partners, Accel Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Lehman Brothers, Adams Street Partners, Topspin Partners, Flatiron Partners, vSpring Capital, Devine InterVentures, and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The number of shares expected to release during the IPO is not yet known.Â