College Tonight Raises $1.6M to Compete with Facebook

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Restricted college network College Tonight has completed its reverse merger with Simex Technologies, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary of Simex. College Tonight raised $1,639,500 in equity capital as part of the transaction, and is also now part of a publicly traded company. Zachary R. Suchin, the founder ...

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IPTV Provider Avail Media Raises $25M

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

IPTV and media service company Avail Media, Inc. has just closed the final tranche of a $25 million Series B equity round. Valhalla Partners joined previous backers Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and Pioneer Ventures for this round. Along with the company’s $5 million in debt financing ...

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Yodle Raises $12 Million for Local Online Advertising

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Yodle has raised a $12 million second round for its fledgling online local advertising business. The company manages online advertising campaigns for small businesses on all of the big search engines and drives traffic to pages designed specifically to attract new leads. Yodle also includes customer management tools ...

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Synthasite Raises $5 Million for Homepage Creation Tools

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Synthasite, who offers web-based homepage creation tools, has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Columbus Venture Capital. Like many startups before it, Synthasite’s mission is to let users with no HTML or design skills create web pages. Kristen reviewed the site back in June while it ...

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