- Ascential Doubles Down On MediaOcean Rival Hudson MX, Leads New $63.5 Million Round
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Hudson MX, a media-buying technology startup has closed a $63.5 million round of venture funding led by Ascential plc. The round, which comes a year after Ascential made a $ ...
- Amazon VC Fund Accused Of Stealing Ideas From Startups It Invests In
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 23, 2020
Amazon.com's venture-capital fund invested in DefinedCrowd and gained access to the technology startup’s finances and other confidential information. Four years later the marketplace launched an artificial-intelligence product that does almost exact ...
- Sequoia To Open New London Office
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Sequoia, the well-know Silicon Valley venture capital giant, is to open a London office and has poached Luciana Lixandru from European firm Accel to run it, "The Telegraph" reports. ...
- Microsoft Venture Fund M12 Invests In Kid Tech Startup
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 28, 2020
U.K.-based SuperAwesome works with brands for children to help them market and communicate with kids ages six and 16, from online to television. ...
- Predictions 2020: 4 Trends To Watch In The New Year
MediaDailyNews, Kelly Stevens - Monday, January 6, 2020
From a surge in plant-based start-ups to China flexing its cultural clout, the following are some of the top items to watch for in 2020: ...
- Algolia Secures $110 Million In Series C Funding To Finance Global Expansion
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The company now estimates it supports more than 8,000 businesses, up from 3,000 in 2017. ...
- Former Fox Ad Chief Marchese Returns To Entrepreneurism, Envisions 'New Type Of Holding Company'
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, May 30, 2019
Joe Marchese, former president of ad revenue for Fox Networks Group, Wednesday announced that his next act would be to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Human Ventures, a VC fi ...
- Venture Equity Firm Buys Another Ecommerce Search Engine
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 16, 2019
The acquisition of Nextopia on Thursday makes it the second ecommerce search company Scaleworks bought in the past few months. The first, SearchSpring, was acquired in May 2019. ...
- Adthena Locks In $14 Million In Venture Capital Funding
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 13, 2019
The latest round will allow Adthena to build out AI capabilities, support the launch of new channels, and gain a stronger U.S. foothold. ...
- Kraft Heinz Launching $100M Food-Tech Venture-Capital Fund
Marketing Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 5, 2018
The CPG food giant looks to go beyond brand extensions to fuel growth with "disruptive" food innovations. ...
- VC Reimagines Tech Investment
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, September 21, 2018
Chamath Palihapitiya has decided that he doesn’t want to run a tech venture capital firm saturated with “Stanford MBAs in fleece vests,” CNBC reports. In addition, the founder of Soci ...
- SEMrush's Integration With Yext Gives Businesses Online Listing Management Tools
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 14, 2018
The integration creates a tool that leverages the engine within the Yext Knowledge Network to control business brand data on popular digital services like Yelp, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, Facebook and Al ...
- Sigstr, First High Alpha Launch, Build Customer Base
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 13, 2018
Sigstr, provider of a email signature marketing platform, has a customer base of over 400 companies and an employee count of almost 60. The company is the first to laun ...
- SoundHound Secures $100M To Strengthen Voice AI Platform, Alliance With Major Companies
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, May 3, 2018
The funds will be used to drive adoption and distribution of its Houndify voice AI platform across verticals such as automotive, the Internet of Things, consumer products, and enterprise ap ...
- Cyabra's Fake News Detector
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 5, 2018
The technology comes from veterans of Israel's elite security and intelligence units who have accumulated 25 years of experience in online identity theft and through their military service and activi ...
- VCs Spend Billions To Back Startups, But Deals Decline
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, January 11, 2018
In 2017, PitchBook and the NVCA counted 8,076 deals taking place -- a decline compared to recent years. The researchers attribute the incongruity to the changing nature of the ...
- Guardian Media Group Creates $55 Million Venture Capital Fund
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Wednesday, October 18, 2017
The venture capital fund is looking for investments in areas ranging from improvements to readers' experience to ad tech. That includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, payment tools, and new for ...
- You & Mr. Jones Reveals $20M Investment In Pinterest, Cites Visual Search
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 17, 2017
With the investment, You & Mr. Jones becomes a stakeholder in Pinterest -- one the largest strategic venture capital infusions the company has made to date. The inspiration comes fr ...
- VC Firms Sue Trump Administration Over Immigration
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
A group of leading venture capital firms are suing the Trump administration for torpedoing the immigration program on which their collective health relies. “To the National Venture Capital Association ...
- HubSpot Offers Support To High-Tech Startups
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 1, 2017
High-tech startups with Series A funding can get support in a new program from HubSpot. The initiative could help email technology startups and other new businesses. ...
- WorkSpan Marks Global Debut With $9 Million Series A Funding
Email Marketing Daily, Jess Nelson - Wednesday, August 23, 2017
WorkSpan announced a $9 million series A funding round on Tuesday. Led by Mayfield, the financing was unveiled in conjunction with the company's global debut after an early availability prog ...
- A New $250M Tech Hub Comes To NYC
RTBlog, Tobi Elkin - Tuesday, February 21, 2017
New York City is already a hub for digital media, advertising, and all manner of tech startups. Now, the city has pledged $250 million to launch Civic Hall, a h ...
- Snap Wil Work With IPG On Startup Investment Program
Around the Net in Real-Time, Tobi Elkin - Thursday, February 2, 2017
Snap Inc. is looking to land deals with agency holding companies in advance of its initial public offering. But, as the Wall Street Journal reports, "it isn’t just cozying ...
- Google Tops List Of Corporate Venture Capital Investments For First-Half 2016
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Google now tops the list of the most active corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) making investments during the first half of 2016, according to one firm tracking investments. ...
- Metamarkets Closes $14.25 Million In Credit Loan
Real-Time Daily, Tobi Elkin - Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Metamarkets, a provider of interactive analytics for programmatic marketing, said it has closed a $14.25 million credit facility with Wellington Financial LP and City National Bank. ...
- AdStage Gets $2M From Verizon Ventures
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, September 19, 2016
Venture Beat reports that AdStage announced Monday a $2 million funding round from Verizon Ventures to establish a product suite around marketing technology. AdStage -- primarily a social advertising management service f ...
- AdTech Firm Ogury Raises $15 Million Series B Led By Idinvest Partners
Around the Net in Real-Time, Tobi Elkin - Wednesday, September 7, 2016
London ad tech firm Ogury has raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Idinvest Partners, according to Tech City News. "Existing investors Ventech, CoVent Partners and A ...
- Marketing Tech Over Ad Tech
Around the Net in Real-Time, Tobi Elkin - Friday, August 26, 2016
The Wall Street Journal reports that startups are increasingly having trouble raising funds if they call themselves an "ad tech" company. "Martech" is the preferred moniker apparently. "It has beco ...
- Refinery 29 Founders Remember The Lean Days
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, March 21, 2016
Refinery29 is one of a few leaders in the space that has tens of millions of readers and a sky-high valuation. On its site, Refinery29 attracts about 25 million monthly uniques. But wh ...
- Snapchat Snags $175M From Fidelity
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, March 4, 2016
Snapchat raised $175 million from Fidelity Investments, bringing the youth-skewing vanishing-message service to more than $1.3 billion raised to date. It maintains its $16 billion valuation. The infusion is ni ...