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Byline: Daniel Wolfe The transaction marketing company Cardlytics said Monday it has raised new funding. Cardlytics sells a system that lets companies make offers based on their customers' past spending. [...]

Avere Systems, a company specializing in Demand-Driven Storage solutions, announced that investors have contributed an additional $17 million in funding bringing total investment in the company to $32 million and [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS US angel investment network Tech Coast Angels (TCA) announced on Monday it has joined the investment of a second round funding of USD1.6m in entertainment [...]

Byline: Debra Kaufman Transpera received $9 million in Series C financing to further its mobile video advertising business. BlackBerry Partners Fund, a global venture capital firm focused on applications, services [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff Golden Gate Shows Commitment To Zales Golden Gate Capital has provided publicly traded jeweler Zale Corp. with a $150 million term loan that gives the San Francisco [...]

Byline: Howard Stock Invesco Powershares has launched an exchange-traded fund, the CEF Income Composite Portfolio, which tracks yield-oriented, closed-end funds, based on the S-Network Composite Closed-End Fund Index. The index [...]

The venture capital firm has a formula to create the American dream for bank-oriented techies. Maximizing use ofcashflow, Welsh, Carson Anderson & Stowe molds leveraged buyouts that often make participants [...]

Ann Arbor Spark, Detroit-based NextEnergy, and Troy-based Automation Alley each have been repaid $250,000, with interest, for early support of Deerfield-based Limo-Reid Inc. Limo-Reid Inc. has paid back the money [...]

Spotify is understood to be close to securing about dollars 50 million worth of investment as it prepares to break into the US market. Reports have suggested that the Hong [...]

Proposed registration, reporting and disclosure laws for alternatives managers likely to be passed by Congress before year end could force a swath of smaller managers to close and could have [...]

NEW YORK -- In-text advertising, once scorned, is starting to gain momentum.At a time when venture funding is scarce, in-text ad system Kontera has closed a $15.5 million round of [...]

The online payment provider oneTXT Inc. announced Monday that it has received $2 million in Series A financing and named Lucy Hood to its board of directors. The financing round [...]

Byline: Samantha Conti CVC Gives Samsonite Additional Funding LONDON Samsonite has been granted a financial lifeline. CVC Capital Partners, which purchased the travel accessories brand for $1.7 billion in 2007, [...]

Byline: Ken Macfadyen It likely happened sooner than some might have expected, but London private equity firm Permira went ahead and did the unthinkable. The firm gave its limited partners [...]

Skandia's Multifunds platform is to close to new business from January 2009 as the firm focuses on Selestia Investment Solutions. The two platforms have been running in parallel since the […]

NEW YORK -- The Huffington Post, which this year became one of the most popular online news outlets (as ranked by Nielsen), today announced that it has secured $25 million [...]

Homeland security, a growth industry already courted by the state for investment, will soon get its own private and industry-specific venture capital fund in Michigan. The Michigan Homeland Security Resource [...]

Hargreaves Lansdown investment manager Ben Yearsley claims a number of venture capital trusts are reducing the levels at which performance fees kick in to make them more achievable. Yearsley believes […]

Skandia Investment Management says investors should not focus on the short-term returns from its UK and global best ideas funds after they underperformed in the past year. The funds have […]

Staff Boston- Bedding major Spring Air has received $22 million in new financing from H.I.G. Capital and American Capital Strategies, providing additional liquidity and growth capital for the launch of [...]

NEW YORK -- Digital audience measurement firm Quantcast is building its war chest to take on category leaders with a $20 million round of venture financing. Polaris Venture Partners and [...]

Byline: John Waugh The establishment of a series of venture capital companies by Fonterra has been suggested by former director Harry Bayliss and consultant Michael Joyce as an alternative to [...]

Organic chickpea snack maker Hippeas has secured $10m ([pounds sterling]7.6m) from specialist US food and drink investment firm Cavu Venture Partners to accelerate its global expansion. The brand was launched [...]

Tighter rules pinch players in shell game A growing number of businesses have approached Houston brokers and promoters to ask about playing the shell game, even though the cottage industry [...]

Clickable, an online advertising service, has received $6 million in funding from Pequot Ventures and Union Square Ventures. The firm plans to use this money to accelerate product development and [...]

The private equity industry is still experiencing its share of leveraged loan market challenges, but that doesn't mean the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) - one of the biggest [...]

Yodle Inc., a lead generation and online advertising services firm, plans to use a $12 million investment it received from the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson to finance its [...]

Thanks to a record pool of venture capital, hundreds of former Pfizer Inc. employees who have been hired at local small biotechs, and continuing pushes to advance alternative fuels, high-tech [...]

SmartDrive Systems Inc. has announced its $46 million Series D round of funding has concluded. The service was funded by Oak Investment Partners and New Enterprise Associates, in addition to [...]

Planar Energy Devices (Planar), a lithium-battery technology star-up company, has secured $4 million in a Series-A venture-financing commitment from Battelle Ventures and its affiliate fund, Innovation Valley Partners. Planar is [...]

To accelerate deployment of Gigabit Ethernet wireless solutions for enterprise and 4G/wiMAX backhaul, BridgeWave Communications has secured $7.8 million in series 3 financing. The funding round includes existing investors plus [...]

It takes a long time for buy-out firms to forgive and forget THE closest stockmarket investors have been to paradise in recent years has been Latin America. The average mutual […]

IRWINDALE, Calif. -- Ready Pac Foods, Inc. here said it has received a strategic investment from Bayside Capital, a leading private equity firm, terms of which were not disclosed. Ready [...]