Digital marketing technology company DataPop has raised $7 million in Series B funding. MK Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors Rincon Venture Partners, IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures and Accelerator Ventures. PRESS RELEASE By delivering on the real promise of internet advertising, DataPop, a fast growing digital marketing technology company, has raised $7MM [...]

TransferWise said it raised seed funding of $1.3 million in a round led by IA Ventures, Index Ventures, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and a group of strategic angel investors. The company operates a crowd-sourced money transfer service. PRESS RELEASE Game-changing money transfer service TransferWise lands 1.3 million dollars from leading smart finance investors London, United [...]

The University of Texas Management Company is among the largest investors in Roger Ehrenberg’s second fund, with a 30% stake of his new IA Ventures Strategies Fund II, according to a recent UTIMCO portfolio report.

Thursday’s First Read comes with some harsh words for the JOBS bill, some more harsh words from the CEO of OMGPOP, and why it isn’t too early to start thinking about water parks.

Waltham, Mass.-based SavingStar, which allows users to link to special grocery store savings via mobile devices, has raised $9 million in Series C financing led by venture firm DCM. Flybridge Capital Partners, First Round Capital, IA Ventures also contributed to the round. PRESS RELEASE SavingStar, the only national fully digital grocery savings service, announced today [...]

IA Ventures formally announced that it has raised a second fund, which peHUB was the first to report on last October.

IA Ventures and Softbank led a $1.7 million investment in Visual Revenue, the predictive analytics firm for online publishing, and were joined by the company’s existing investors. Visual Revenue concurrently announced new job opportunities in engineering at the firm.

PlaceIQ said it raised $4.2 million of Series A funding in a round with new investors U.S. Venture Partners and Valhalla Partners, and existing investors IA Ventures, kbs+p ventures, and angel investor Jerry Neumann. The ad targeting company moved from Boulder, Colo., to New York City. The company confirmed the news by tweeting the following [...]

NewsCred has raised a $4M Series A led by FirstMark Capital with participation from Lerer Ventures, AOL Ventures and Advancit Capital. This is the website’s second institutional round. Last September, it raised a $750K seed round from FLOODGATE, IA Ventures and Naval Ravikant. All existing investors participated in the Series A financing. PRESS RELEASE Later [...]

NewsCred said it raised a $4 million Series A round of funding led by FirstMark Capital and joined by Lerer Ventures, AOL Ventures and Advancit Capital. The company said the funding closed last month. It also said that last September it raised a $750,000 seed round from FLOODGATE, IA Ventures and Naval Ravikant, all of [...]