After graduating from Y Combinator, Crowdtilt launched in February of last year to become “the Kickstarter for any group.” More specifically, the startup has been on a mission to become the platform of record for all manners of group fundraising — anything that isn’t a good fit for crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, for example.
Today, TechCrunch has lea
Global expansion doesn’t come cheap, and to that end, mobile app marketing platform, Trademob, has raised a Series B of $15 million led by Kennet Partners. Specifically, Kennet has invested $12.5 million into the Berlin-based startup, with additional funds coming via what is effectively a follow on round from existing investors, Tengelmann Ventures, and High-Tech Gründerfonds.
There’s lots of free content on the web and in mobile apps. But there’s also a whole lot of content that users want but aren’t willing to pay for — and that publishers aren’t willing to give up for free. Enter Selectable Media, which solves that problem by getting users to “pay” for things by opting in to viewing brand video advertising.
MoPub, the Accel-backed mobile advertising startup founded by ex-AdMob and Google employees, is today announcing a $12 million round of Series B funding, which the company says will be used for hiring and international expansion, putting folks on the ground in Europe, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region.
The round was led by Jafco Ventures and saw participation from existing inv
Samba Mobile, a UK startup founded in 2010 which incentivises ad-watching by offering free 3G mobile broadband for desktop PC, laptop and tablet users in exchange for watching video adverts, has raised just shy of £1m — £929,000 — in equity capital in its second round of angel investment.
Investors include David Wheldon, formerly an ad director at Coca Cola, ex Tempus Board Member and
Jibe Mobile has closed an $8.3 million funding round from investors including Vodafone Ventures, the VC arm of the telco, and Japanese mobile content provider MTI, plus other unnamed investors.
You may recall Jibe from 2008 — when it was offering a mobile app for sharing content on social networking sites.
Mediafire is without a doubt one of the most successful cloud storage solutions out there— thanks to its 30 million user base (and counting). To celebrate this momentous occasion, it has announced that it has completely revamped its its native media player, which is now being rolled out to Android devices everywhere.
It seems like every cable company is building apps to help deliver content to multiple screens. But up until this point, most had to build not just their own apps, but their own backend for hooking into their billing and operating systems and delivering the right content to the right customers.
When it comes to popular mobile apps for messaging and sharing content like Facebook and Twitter, carriers have been on the edges of the picture as data network providers rather than the developers of those services themselves. But a deal signed today between Jibe Mobile and MetroPCS underscores one example of how they hope to become more central players.
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