Today's Funding: Appcelerator, Matchbin, Jivox, Seva Search and SecondMarket (Five Deals, $49.5M)
Appcelerator, makers of the mobile cloud development platform Titanium, raised $15M in Series C funding in a round led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat. The company has raised $31.5M to date.
Appcelerator
Website: http://www.appcelerator.com/
Jeff Haynie, CEO and co-founder
Twitter: @jhaynie
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jhaynie
Nolan Wright, CTO and co-founder
Twitter: @nolan_wright
Mayfield Fund
Twitter: @mayfieldfund
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/mayfield-fund
Website: www.mayfield.com/
Translink Capital
Website: http://www.translinkcapital.com/
Red Hat
Twitter: @RedHatNews
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/redhatinc
Website: http://www.redhat.com/
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CMS solutions and host company Matchbin just closed its first institutional equity financing round led by Level Equity. Greycroft Partners and vSpring Capital also participated in the $10M round.
Matchbin
Twitter: @matchbin
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Matchbin
Hal Widlansky, CEO
Twitter: @halwidansky
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/halwidlansky
Level Equity
Website: http://www.levelequity.com/
Greycroft Partners
Wesbite: http://www.greycroftpartners.com/
Twitter: @GreycroftVC
vSpring Capital
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/vspring-capital
Website: http://www.vspring.com/
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Video-based advertising company Jivox raised $8.2M in a funding round led by Fortisure Ventures. Existing investors Opus and Helion also contributed to the round. The company has raised $17.4M to date.
Jivox
Twitter: @jivox
Website: www.jivox.com
Diaz Nesamoney, CEO and founder
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nesamoney
Fortisure Ventures
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/meghna-subramanian/22/202/b3a
Opus Investment Management
Website: http://www.opusinvestment.com/opus/index.htm
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Seva Search, the creators of Seva Call, raised $1.3M in a Series A funding round that included investors like Fortify.vc, Ed Mathias, Tim Sykes and Jay Virdy.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/01/seva-search-raises-1-3-million-to-connect-consumers-with-local-businesses/
Seva Search
Website: http://www.sevasearch.com/
Gupreet Singh, CEO and founder
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gurpreet-singh/37/939/b85
Fortify.vc
Blog: http://fortify.vc/blog
Website: http://fortify.vc/
Ed Mathias
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edmathias
Website: http://www.edmathias.com/
Tim Sykes, CEO at Millionaire Media
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/timothysykes
Jay Virdy
Twitter: @jayvirdy
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/virdy
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SecondMarket, the marketplace for alternative investments, raised $15M in a Series C funding round led by The Social+Capital Partnership.
SecondMarket
Twitter: @SecondMarket
Website: https://www.secondmarket.com/
Barry E. Silbert, founder and CEO
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/barrysilbert