TechCrunch has learned that Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, is downsizing. It has shut down its San Diego office, laying off all but two of the staff who will now work remotely. The company has also laid off “around 30%” of its head office in Seattle, with its chief product officer Michael Walton among those going.
After undergoing a round of layoffs in January, Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, is shutting down its photo sharing API (a.k.a. Plixi). The news was posted by Plixi founder Rodney Rumford via a Tweet.
Lockerz acquired Plixi (formerly Tweetphoto) in January 2011, for a price believed to be between $10 million and $15 million.
Looks like Lockerz, the social commerce and photo sharing service, may be moving on to yet another chapter in its life.
After laying off 30% of its Seattle HQ staff, closing down its San Diego office, and shutting down its Plixi photo sharing API earlier this year, the company is now launching a new fashion site, Ador.
Extole, a startup offering tools for brands to manage their “social advocacy” programs, has raised $7.5 million in new funding.
The round is a follow-on to the $10 million Series C that Extole raised about a year ago, and it comes from existing investors, including Shasta Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Trident Capital.
Digital marketing company Kenshoo has raised $12 million in new funding.
The round was led by late-stage investment firm Tenaya Capital, with participation from all past investors, including Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Growth Fund, and Arts Alliance.
BuzzFeed, the online social publishing powerhouse with 40 million readers started and headed by Jonah Peretti, today announced that it has raised another $19.3 million to continue building out its empire.
Janrain, a company that develops a social log-in management platform for developers, has raised $33 million in funding led by Millennium Technology Value Partners with Split Rock Partners, Epic Ventures, Salesforce, as well as existing investors Emergence Capital, RPM Ventures, DFJ Frontier and Anthem Venture Partners participating.
Analytics company Datameer raised $6 million today, according documents filed with the SEC. The company’s PR manager Susan Puccinelli confirmed the funding and said the round came from Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.
Datameer makes a spreadsheet-style interface for Apache Hadoop and makes the big data analytics platform easier for non-developers to use.
SocialFlow, the makers of social marketing optimization technology that helps brands determine when to post their messages to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, as well as which messages they should promote, has today closed on $10 million in Series B funding.
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