Deal Highlights US
Name: Currensee Sector: Consumer Web CEO: Dave Lemont
Investors: Egan-Managed Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Vernon & Park Capital
Deal Value: $4 million
Currensee puts the power of investing in world currency markets in the hands of every investor. Currensee strives to deliver profitability, transparency and control to investors around the world. The program gives investors the ability to follow and automatically execute the trades of top Currensee traders called Trade Leaders. Currensee Trade Leaders are top Forex traders handpicked from the thousands of members of the Currensee Forex trading social network.
Name: Ticketfly Sector: eCommerce CEO: Dan Teree & Andrew Dreskin
Investors: Contour Venture Partners, High Peaks Venture Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Angel investors
Deal Value: $12 million
Ticketfly is the fastest-growing, independent ticketing and social marketing platform. An entirely centralized event promotion and ticketing process, Ticketfly offers next-generation ticketing and powerful website and social marketing tools, saving time and money while simultaneously cutting consumer service fees. Ticketfly is changing the ticketing industry with its approach to ticketing through Online, Mobile, Community and Marketing innovations technologies and advancements.
Name: Kabam Sector: Social Gaming CEO: Kevin Chou
Investors: Google Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Performance Equity, SK Telecom Ventures, Canaan Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Intel Capital
Deal Value: $85 million
Kabam is an interactive entertainment company that is developing the next wave in social gaming, massively multiplayer social games (MMSG’s), including the popular and critically praised title Kingdoms of Camelot, voted IGN Reader’s Choice Best Facebook Game of 2010. The company’s studios focus on combining the best elements of traditional and social gaming to appeal to a growing audience of players looking for deeper, more engaging social games.
Name: Prosper Sector: Consumer lending CEO: Chris Larsen
Investors: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Crosslink Capital, Accel Partners, CompuCredit, DAG Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Omidyar Network, TomorrowVentures, Volition Capital.
Deal Value: $17.2 million
Prosper is a people-to-people lending marketplace that attempts to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding, by allowing people to invest in each other. On Prosper, borrowers list loan requests between $2,000 and $25,000 and individual lenders invest as little as $25 in each loan listing they select. In addition to criteria commonly used by institutional lenders, such as credit scores, people who lend can consider borrowers’ group affiliations.
Name: Foursquare Sector: Mobile/Wireless CEO: Dennis Crowley
Investors: Andreessen-Horowitz, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Private investors
Deal Value: $50 million
Foursquare is a geographical location based social network that incorporates gaming elements. Users share their location with friends by “checking in” via a smartphone app or by text message. Points are awarded for checking in at various venues. Users can connect their Foursquare accounts to their Twitter and Facebook accounts, which can update when a check in is registered. Various venues have embraced Foursquare, and offer special deals to users.
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