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Exclusive: What's Former Omniture CEO Josh James Been Doing Since Leaving Adobe? Raising LOTS Of Money (Updated)

in Enterprise on April 27, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

The former CEO of Web analytics powerhouse Omniture, who left Adobe after less than a year, has a new stealth venture cooking, and investors are lining up to get in on the action. Update: Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and Benchmark Capital.

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Early Adopter: Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel

in News on January 14, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

It’s a fine line between keeping your potholes filled and walls graffiti free and being a civic tattletale. Civic nuisance reporting app SeeClickFix lets you toe the line, and just got another $1.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech and Omidyar to help users keep at it.

How to Win at Farmville: Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group Sells Zynga Shares

in Media on June 25, 2010 at 11:11 am PT

Zynga generates most of its revenue selling virtual goods for hit games like Farmville. And that has turned into real money for at least one of its investors.

A Sheriff for Web Ads Gets $10 Million

in Media on March 8, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Web advertising is a big business, but it’s a young and rowdy one, too. Does it need a sheriff? That’s the job DoubleVerify wants. And the start-up just raised more money to help it get the gig. Institutional Venture Partners led a $10 million B round for the company,

Another Bet on Video: How-To Start-Up 5min Raises $7.5 Million

in Media on July 23, 2009 at 6:43 am PT

Web video companies that wanted to take on YouTube are having a very hard time. But Web video isn’t going away, either, and there has to be some way to make it work for users, publishers and investors. Right? Hence, another round of funding for 5min, a video start-up that just raised a $7.5 million B round. New investor Globespan Capital Partners led the round, and Spark Capital, the VC shop that has made several video bets (along with a big one in Twitter) made a second investment.
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