February 19th, 2013

Artspace.com Raises $8.5M Series B To Expand Online Marketplace For Fine Art

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The art world doesn’t always get a lot of love from the VC community, but Artspace.com is ready to change all that with a new round from Canaan Partners. The Series B round adds another $8.5 million on to ArtSpace’s original $3.7 million in venture and Series A funding. Artspace.com is an ecommerce platform that acts as an online marketplace for high-end art. It was founded back in… → Read More

October 31st, 2012

Auto Advertising Startup adverCar Raises $2M From Canaan Partners, 1-800-Flowers, And Others

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AdverCar, a startup promising to make it easy for drivers to turn their vehicles into rolling advertisements, has raised a $2 million seed round.

The funding was led by Canaan Partners, with participation from 1-800-FLOWERS, Branford Castle Private Equity, New Orleans Startup Fund, Jit Saxena, and the TiE Angels Boston. 1-800-Flowers CEO Jim McCann and Canaan partner Deepak Kamra are joining… → Read More

October 11th, 2012

Bridging The Gap Between Pawn Shop And Bank, Borro Raises $26M Led By Canaan Partners

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Borro, a personal asset lending platform, has just received a massive $26 million funding round led by Canaan Partners. The service essentially classes up the idea of collateral loans, offering up to $1 million secured against high-end personal assets. → Read More

November 2nd, 2010

LiveU Raises $11 Million For Wireless Video Transmission Technology

LiveU, which markets solutions for live video transmissions over wireless networks, this morning announced that it has raised $11 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Pitango Venture Capital and joined by existing investors Carmel Ventures and Canaan Partners.

LiveU has raised a total of $23 million in venture capital to date. → Read More

August 16th, 2010

Purchase Tracking Company Cardlytics Secures $18 Million Round

Cardlytics, which provides solutions for transaction marketing within banking, this morning announced that it has raised $18 million in financing. New investors ITC Holdings and Kinetic Ventures led the round.

According to the press release, all of Cardlytics’ previous investors participated, including Canaan Partners, Polaris Venture Partners and Total Technology Ventures. → Read More

May 19th, 2010

Web TV Network Blip.tv Raises $10.1 Million More From Canaan And Bain

Online TV network blip.tv today announced the closing of its third round of institutional capital, which effectively more than doubles the amount of money the company has secured to date. The Series C round was led by Canaan Partners and existing investors Bain Capital Ventures.

The company says it will use its new funding to accelerate the growth of the independent Web shows that the network… → Read More

April 14th, 2010

Peer Lending Site Lending Club Raises $24.5 Million Series C Round

A big round for a company that originally started out as a Facebook app: peer lending network operator Lending Club has secured a $24.5 million Series C financing round led by Foundation Capital and joined by existing investors including Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Canaan Partners.

This brings the total of capital injected into the company to $52.7 million. → Read More