Archive for September, 2006

Deals of the Day

Posted in Internet, Digital Media & Software, News on September 7th, 2006 by daveliu

Trovix Inc., a Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of intelligent search technology, has raised $13 million in Series B funding. Granite Ventures led the deal, and was joined by return backers U.S. Venture Partners and 3i Group.

Eloqua Corp., a Toronto-based supplier of automated demand generation software and services for B2B marketers, has raised US$12.8 million in Series B funding. Bay Partners was joined by return backer JMI Equity.

Course Advisor Inc., a Wakefield, Mass.-based provider of online lead generation and marketing solutions for the post-secondary education market, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. ABS Capital Partners led the deal, and was joined by The Washington Post Co.

Exeros Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of data mapping and automated data relationship discovery software, has raised $12 million in Series B funding. AllianceBernstein Holding (NYSE: AB) led the deal, and was joined by return backers Bay Partners and Globespan Capital Partners.

Laszlo Systems, a San Mateo, Calif.-based developer of an open-source platform for building and deploying Ajax applications, has raised $8 million in Series C funding. WI Harper Group led the deal, and was joined by return backers General Catalyst Partners, Sofinnova Ventures and Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners.

BMG Seltec, a Livermore, Calif.-based provider of support software and other services to the bulk construction materials market, has raised $6 million in VC funding from DFJ Element.

Tumri Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of contextual online advertising solutions, has raised $5.42 million in Series B equity funding, according to a regulatory filing. Shasta Ventures led the deal, which also included around $1.09 million in convertible promissory notes.

Serendipity Technologies Inc., an Israel-based provider of enterprise infrastructure software, has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding. Genesis Partners led the deal, and was joined by Index Ventures and Shlomo Kramer (Checkpoint Software co-founder, Imperva CEO). Genesis and Kramer previously had provided $500,000 in seed funding.

vSocial Inc., a Tempe, Ariz.-based online video sharing site, has raised around $1.5 million in Series A funding led by Consor Capital, according to a regulatory filing.

ITN Networks Inc, a New Yorkbased television advertising platform for national broadcast advertisers, has raised an undisclosed amount of private equity funding from VSS, ZelnickMedia Corp. and Sony Pictures Television.

Offertrax, a provider of RSS-based shopping applications for merchants and consumers, has raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from The Boston Associates.

TA Associates has completed its acquisition of SmartStream Technologies from 3i Group. No financial terms were disclosed, except that RBS provided senior leverage. SmartStream is a London-based provider of transaction lifecycle management solutions.