September 24th, 2012

Ad Tech Company eXelate Raises $12M C Round Led By NewSpring Capital

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Ad tech company eXelate, a provider of data and analytics to help advertisers know more about who to target and how, has announced that it’s raised a $12 million C round, led by NewSpring Capital with participation from existing investors Carmel Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Trident Capital. The new capital brings the total raised by eXelate to $32 million, following its $15 million B round in… → Read More

September 17th, 2011

Six Must-Watch Backstage Videos From Disrupt Plus The Music (TCTV)

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It’s been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the Six Must-Watch On-Stage Videos from Disrupt. But there was a lot of activity going on backstage too. We did more than 60 interviews with entrepreneurs, VC’s, Angels, CEO’s, and a Mayor.

Also, if… → Read More

November 15th, 2010

Data Storage Company Coraid Raises $25 Million Series B

Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, this morning announced that it has closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. All of Coraid’s Series A ($10 million) backers, including Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners, participated in this round.

The reason why it’s interesting that Menlo Ventures led this sizeable financing round (sorry, Om) is because… → Read More

August 3rd, 2010

eXelate Raises $15 Million For Behavioral Targeting Data Marketplace

eXelate, a New York-based provider of data management tools for online publishers and operator of an open marketplace for audience targeting data, has raised $15 million in Series B funding in a round led by Silicon Valley’s Menlo Ventures with participation of Israeli VC firm Carmel Ventures.

The latter led the company’s initial $4 million financing round back in October 2007. → Read More

June 10th, 2010

Crowdcast Raises $6 Million For 'Social Business Intelligence' Solutions

Crowdcast, a provider of social business intelligence (SBI) solutions, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Alsop-Louie Partners.

The company’s name is a combination of the words ‘crowd’ and ‘forecast’, and its self-declared goal is to help companies find out what their people really know about their businesses, in order to make… → Read More

April 1st, 2010

Videoconferencing Company Vidyo Raises $25 Million More

Vidyo, which specializes in video conferencing technology, has closed a big round of financing.

The company raised $25 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers Group and joined by prior backers Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds and Star Ventures. → Read More

March 8th, 2010

TC50 Finalist DataXu Scores $11 Million More For Online Ad Bidding Platform

Boston-based DataXu, provider of a real-time online ad bidding and optimization system, has secured $11 million in Series B funding to add to the $7.8 million in financing it raised in an earlier round (April 2009).

The company, which was a finalist at last year’s edition of the TechCrunch50 conference and startup launchpad, raised the additional capital from Menlo Ventures and prior investors… → Read More

December 2nd, 2009

Branders.com Scores Another $5 Million In Venture Capital

Branders.com, an online-only promotional items store operator, raised another $5 million in venture funding, bringing the total invested in the company to $46 million. Participating in this round were Menlo Ventures, DCM, Venture Strategy Partners and Altos Ventures. → Read More