Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 26, 2010 12:15 PM
FreeWheel has added $16.8 million in strategic funding from several top investors. The online video monetization startup says its fourth round of funding is coming from Walt Disney’s Steamboat Ventures, as well as existing backers Turner Broadcasting System, Battery Ventures and Foundation Capital (It’s the first time that FreeWheel has…
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David Kaplan
Feb 24, 2010 10:54 AM
Beijing-based ad network Yoyi Media has raised first round led by Disney’s Steamboat Ventures and Gobi Partners. Online advertising is still expected to grow at a rapid pace throughout Asia. Three-year-old Yoyi expects to capitalize on that growth. The company plans to build up its ad platforms and refine its…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 5, 2010 6:00 PM
Scrapbooking site Scrapblog has raised another $2.5 million from Disney’s Steamboat Ventures, the company tells us. Scrapblog lets users choose from various themes that they can use as backdrops for their photos; the scrapbooks can either be shared online or printed. This is a competitive market, which has generated quite…
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Amanda Natividad
Mar 3, 2009 6:34 PM
Fanzter, the creator of celebrity and style-focused site Coolspotters has closed its second round of funding for $2 million. Disney-backed Steamboat Ventures led the round, with Second Avenue Partners, the lead investor in the $2 million first round, also participating. The Collinsville, Conn.-based company was co-founded in 2007 by former…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jul 28, 2008 4:53 PM
PopularMedia, a developer of social media marketing tools, has raised an $8 million third round led by DAG ventures, along with past backers Sequoia Capital and Steamboat, reports VentureWire, via VentureBeat. The company raised $4.25 million last year, though its totals haven’t been publicly announced. Offerings include tools to make…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Dec 10, 2007 7:24 AM
EdgeCast Networks, an LA-based content delivery network (CDN), has raised a $6 million second round led by Steamboat Ventures, Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) VC arm. The startup has now raised more than $10 million, having raised first round money from such investors as Mark Amin, chairman of CinemaNow and Jon Feltheimer,…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Nov 13, 2007 10:28 PM
Santa Clara-based Vobile, a maker of anti-piracy technology, has received a sub-$10 million investment round from AT&T and Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) Steamboat Ventures, according to the WSJ. The funding was also noted in a BusinessWeek article last week on AT&T’s anti-piracy initiatives, which mentioned NBC as an investor. Additionally, the…
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Rafat Ali
Oct 2, 2007 5:34 PM
Move Networks has been out there raising a big round for a while now, and it has finally closed: the company, based in American Fork, Utah, has raised $34 million from Steamboat Ventures (part of Disney) and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and others, bringing its total haul to $45 million,…
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