VentureLoop Insider Startup News: 5/22/08

                                     

Company News

Facebook getting bigger in Spanish-speaking Latin America     (Facebook Jobs) BuzzCity is a growing new competitor in the US mobile advertising market    WeeWorld launches a cutesy virtual world   (WeeWorld  Jobs) TheFunded publishes list of top-rated venture capitalists  Alerion Capital Group and Merit Capital Partners Invest in VXI Technology Incorporated (VTI)    Zuora Aims To Be Salesforce for Online Billing; Benioff Agrees   (Benchmark capital Jobs) Me.dium makes friends with Big Brother  (Me.dium Jobs) Rearden Commerce Goes Mobile   (Foundation Capital Jobs) Teneros names new CEO   (Teneros Jobs) Grid Networks Gets Nod From Comcast    Roku Lives to Make Netflix Set-top Boxes   (Foundation Capital Jobs) Bebo is AOLed, Randy Falco Memo   (Bebo Jobs) Why WetPaint & Other UGC Sites Get Big Money   (WetPaint Jobs) ZoomInfo spins off its ad platform into Bizo, a new company   (Zoominfo Jobs)

 

                                                

                 

                          

Funding News

Behavioral Ad Network JellyCloud Raises $11.5M    Airline WiFi Vendor Row44 Raises $21M    MBC looks to raise $1.4M from membership for cancer research    Mimosa Systems gets $17M new funding   (Mimosa Systems Jobs) NearbyNow gets $11.75M in 3rd round  Mu Dynamics gets $10M in 3rd round   (Benchmark Capital Jobs) ChipVision gets $4.5M in 2nd round    Wetpaint Raises $25 Million and Launches Wetpaint Injected   (Wetpaint Jobs) HubSpot Gets $12 Million To Drive Traffic to Your Site    A $3 Million Round And A New CEO For Outside.in    Molecular Imprints Completes $12.9 Million Financing  Innovative Biosensors, Inc. (IBI) Raises $11.5 Million    Miragen Therapeutics, Inc. Receives $8 M in Venture Capital Financing for Development of MicroRNA-based Therapies   (Atlas Venture Jobs) Software Application Vendor Openbravo Secures $12m in the Largest Ever Round for Open Source ERP    EndoChoice, Inc Closes Series A Financing With River Cities Capital Funds    Kythera Biopharmaceuticals Announces $40M Financing    EnLink Geoenergy raises $30M for geothermal heat pump installations    Mozes Secures $11.5 Million in Series B Financing Led by Consumer-Focused Maveron    CerviLenz Receives JumpStart Investment   (JumpStart Jobs) Novasys Medical Secures $49.5 Million in Series D Financing to Expand Commercialization of Its Renessa(R) Treatment for Incontinence in Women    OmniGuide(R) Secures $25 Million in Funding to Support Continued Growth and New Market Penetration    ACG Receives 2.5 Million in Venture Financing From Tracer Capital    SilkRoad technology, inc. Completes $54 Million Round Of Equity Financing   (Foundation Capital Jobs) EoPlex Technologies piles on another $4M for advanced cell phone antennas    Publishing software consulting company Really Strategies raises $1.8M    Moblyng Gets $5.7M to Bring Flash to Phones   (MDV Jobs) Arteris gets $7.5M new funding    ANTs Software raises $7.5M    Veotag raises $1.2M for better video tagging and discovery    Widget infrastructure company Clearspring raises $18M    CamSemi raises $8M for energy-efficient semiconductors    Aragon Consulting Group gets $2.5M for software dev services    Principle Power takes $2.3M for clean energy development    Online billing company Aria Systems gets funding from industry vet    eTix Secures Strategic Investment From Southern Capitol Ventures    ImageShack Rumored To Raise Money From Sequoia   (Sequoia Capital Jobs)    Twitter VC Funding Done, Raises $15M    Web browser Flock raises $15 million    Unitrends Secures $9 Million in Series C Funding    Mocana Closes $7M in Series B Funding    Ecore raises $29M from Element Partners for rubber recycling business    Smart grid investments come hot and heavy - SmartSynch gets another $20M for talkative electrical meters