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Soldsie Scores $1M for Facebook AppSoldsie, a service that allows users to make purchases within comments on Facebook, has raised $1 million in seed funding. Backers include 500 Startups, e.ventures and FundersClub. Former Facebook employees Yun-Fang Juan and Jonathan Ehrlich, Peanut Labs founder Prosper Nwankpa, and angel investors Elliot Loh and Tom Kelly also participated, the company said.
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- Video Ad Startup Virool Raises $6.62 Million
Virool, a year-old San Francisco-based video advertising startup, has closed on $6.62 million in funding from a long list of investors in what the company claims is the biggest seed round raised so far by a graduate of the the Y Combinator incubator program. (Virool came out of the program last summer.) The company's institutional investors include Draper Fisher Juvetson and Menlo Ventures; individuals who contributed to the funding include Paul Buchheit, Dave McClure, and Yuri Milner.
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- FundersClub Online Platform Funds Five Companies
FundersClub said it completed investments in Coinbase, Sponsorfied and Tracks.by. The investments, along with those in Virool and FundersClub itself, are the first made by the online marketplace that lets accredited investors become equity holders in managed venture capital funds . The companies are among the Y Combinator summer 2012 batch. Investments by the 5-month-old investment platform now total $1.3 million.
- FundersClub Backs Virool
Newly launched FundersClub has put $509,800 in social video advertising startup Virool, joining other investors Y Combinator, 500 Startups and Yuri Milner. Formed in 2012, FundersClub is an online marketplace that allows accredited investors become equity holders in FundersClub-managed venture funds.
- FundersClub Raises Significant Seed Round
FundersClub, a marketplace for private investing, has closed a significant round of seed funding. Investors in the round included First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Draper Associates, Felicis Ventures, Spark Capital, Digital Garage, Intel Capital, Y Combinator-affiliated funds (Andreessen Horowitz, Start Fund, SV Angel, and General Catalyst Partners), Investmon Sarl, NetPrice, Global Venture Alliance and Plug and Play Tech Center.
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