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StockTwits Gets $800K to Follow Investor Chatter on Twitter

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 19, 2009 - 9:54am.
New York - StockTwits, a service that aggregates conversations about stock trading taking place on the Twitter microblogging service, has raised $800,000 in new funding from True Ventures, All Things D reports.

Online Game Platform VoxPop.TV Lands $1.5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 19, 2009 - 8:50am.
San Francisco - VoxPop.TV, a developer of pop-culture games, said that it has raised $1.5 million in its second round of funding, led by Hearst Interactive Media.

Socialcast Raises $1.4 Million for Business Social Networking

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 7, 2009 - 10:46am.
San Francisco - Socialcast, a developer of Web-based business social networking tools, said that it has secured $1.4 million in its first round of funding, which the company will use to relocate its headquarters from Irvine to San Francisco this summer.

BackType Gets $300K Seed Funding for Comments Tracking

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 6, 2009 - 8:27am.
Los Angeles - BackType, a service that lets users find, follow and share comments from across the Web, has received $300,000 in seed funding from True Ventures, TechCrunch reported.

Mobile Entertainment Firm SendMe Secures $12 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 5, 2009 - 6:52am.
San Francisco - Mobile entertainment distributor SendMe announced on Thursday that it has secured $12 million in its fourth round of financing, led by new investor Triangle Peak Partners.

Filtrbox Gets $1.4 Million for Web Market Intelligence Tools

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 17, 2009 - 9:24am.
Boulder, Colo. - Filtrbox, a provider of online market intelligence services, has raised $1.4 million in its first round of funding, led by Flywheel Ventures and True Ventures, TechCrunch reported.

Semantic Search Firm TextDigger Raises $4.3 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 3, 2009 - 8:19am.

San Jose, Calif. - TextDigger, a developer of semantic profiling, text mining and search tools, announced on Tuesday that it has closed a $4.3 million round of financing, led by True Ventures.

Social Media Advertising Firm Appssavvy Lands $3.1 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 7, 2008 - 7:18am.

New York - Appssavvy, a provider of social media advertising services, announced on Tuesday that it has secured a $3.1 million first round of funding, led by True Ventures with participation from About.com founder Scott Kurnit.

Blog Publisher Giga Omni Media Raises $4.5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 6, 2008 - 8:10am.

New York - Giga Omni Media, the blog publisher whose network includes GigaOm and NewTeeVee, has raised $4.5 million in a new round of funding led by Alloy Ventures, according to a blog post from founder Om Malik.

Game Developer XPD Media Lands $2 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 7, 2008 - 7:30am.

Los Angeles - XPD Media, a start-up that is developing video games for multiple platforms, has raised over $2 million in its first round of financing, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.

Video Game Screencast Service WeGame Lands $3 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 17, 2008 - 6:17am.

San Francisco - WeGame, a service that allows gamers to capture video while playing and upload and share the results, has raised $3 million in its second round of financing, led by True Ventures, TechCrunch reported.

Casual Games Developer Three Rings Gets $3.5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 5, 2008 - 10:36am.

San Francisco - Casual games developer Three Rings has raised $3.5 million in new funding, led by True Ventures, VentureBeat reported.

WordPress Developer Automattic Gets $29.5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 23, 2008 - 8:03am.

New York - Automattic, the developer of the WordPress blog publishing software, has raised $29.5 million in new financing from Polaris Venture Partners, True Ventures, Radar Partners and The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), The Times reported.

WeGame Debuts Video-Sharing for Video Game Screencasts

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 11, 2008 - 10:23am.

San Francisco - WeGame this week debuted its service that lets gamers capture video of their gameplay and publish it to the company's website for sharing. The company has so far raised $500,000 from True Ventures and The Hit Forge, TechCrunch reported. San Francisco-based WeGame's service utilizes Microsoft's DirectX technology in an application that can capture "screencasts" for the 16 PC games currently supported. The service then automatically shrinks the resulting video file to a size easily uploaded to WeGame's YouTube-like video-sharing site.

Social Network Goodreads Gets Angel Funding

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 18, 2007 - 5:34am.

Los Angeles - Goodreads, a social networking site where users discuss the books they're reading, announced that it has raised an undisclosed sum of new funding from angel investors, led by James Currier, founder of Ooga Labs and Tickle.com.

Tech Blog Publisher GigaOmniMedia Raises $1 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 15, 2007 - 8:42am.

Los Angeles - GigaOmniMedia, the publisher of blogs including NewTeeVee and GigaOM, has raised about $1 million in its second round of venture capital financing, from True Ventures and several angel investors, Beet.tv reports.

Online Video Ad Firm BrightRoll Lands $5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 19, 2007 - 10:17am.

San Francisco - BrightRoll, the operator of an online video advertising network, has raised around $5 million in its second round of venture capital financing, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.

Online Game Technology Start-up WeGame.com Gets $500,000

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 9, 2007 - 6:27am.

San Francisco - WeGame.com, a San Francisco-based, stealth-mode online games start-up, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from True Ventures and The Hit Forge, PEHub.com reported.

Online Video Aggregation Service VodPod Secures Funding

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 20, 2007 - 10:50am.

San Francisco - VodPod, a service that lets users collect and organize videos from more than 1,000 video-sharing sites, has raised an undisclosed sum in its first round of venture capital financing from True Ventures, PaidContent.org reported.

Online Chess Community Chesspark.com Secures Funding

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 13, 2007 - 11:47am.

West Palm Beach, Fla. - Chesspark.com, an online chess community, said on Friday that it has completed a new investment round with angel investor Jon Callaghan of True Ventures, Burnt Norton, Inc. and Eaglebrook School.