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Venture Capital
by tj on July 6, 2007
was reaching my inbox lately - the latest deal data for July 20th 2007 (remember today is July 6th).

Certainly a typo was just the source of this but nevertheless there were a couple of very interesting rounds that show investors appetites for more big risky plays again:
Prosper.com the godfather of online lending sites brings it's total amount raised to $40 million
Right90 gets an additional backer for its sales forecast software - maybe one of the last niches in enterprise software?
4Info the mobile search pioneer gets a series D (!) form existing investors:
Also 'plays' that would have ben bootstrapped or angel financed now go into venture pipelines again:

Certainly a typo was just the source of this but nevertheless there were a couple of very interesting rounds that show investors appetites for more big risky plays again:
Prosper.com the godfather of online lending sites brings it's total amount raised to $40 million
Prosper Marketplace Inc., a San Francisco-based P2P loan company, has raised $20 million in Series C funding. DAG Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners co-led the deal, and were joined by return backers Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, Fidelity Ventures and Omidyar Network. Prosper has raised $40 million in total VC funding since 2005.
Right90 gets an additional backer for its sales forecast software - maybe one of the last niches in enterprise software?
Right90 Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based provider of performance management systems, has secured $11 million of a $12.27 million Series B round, according to a regulatory filing. InterWest Partners joined return backers Shasta Ventures and U.S. Venture Partners.
4Info the mobile search pioneer gets a series D (!) form existing investors:
4Info Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile search company, has raised $10 million in Series D funding. gannett Co. led the deal, and was joined by Sand Hill Capital and return backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners.
Also 'plays' that would have ben bootstrapped or angel financed now go into venture pipelines again:
SupplyFrame Inc., a Pasadena, Calif.-based vertical search engine for electronic components, has raised $7 million in Series B funding. U.S. Venture Partners led the deal, and was joined by return backers Clearstone Venture Partners and Arcturus Capital.
VHT Inc., a Des Plaines, Ill.-based provider of video marketing and related services to the real estate industry, has raised $3.8 million in Series B funding led by Hopewell Ventures.
Recommended Reading Inc., a Bethesda, Md.-based developer of a search engine that operates on user recommendations, has raised $1.55 million in Series A funding led by Intersouth Partners, according to a regulatory filing.
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