This Week in Venture Capital - Scott Painter, Founder & CEO of Zag

This week we have Scott Painter, Founder & CEO of Zag. For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com. Mark Suster hosts This Week in Venture Capital. You can read a more detailed account of the shownotes on his blog http://bothsidesofthetable.com/

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VENTURE FINANCINGS

Foursquare

http://foursquare.com

-A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements

Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

Total Raised: $21.4mm

http://tcrn.ch/98m0Xb

Kontagent

http://kontagent.com

-A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data

Total raised: $6.0mm

http://tcrn.ch/cWl12B

Geodelic

http://geodelic.com

-Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc)

Total raised: $10.5mm

http://tcrn.ch/9u23xl

Vopium

http://vopium.com

-Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by Pakistani entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif

Total raised: $22mm

http://bit.ly/cx7u3J

Palantir

http://palantir.com

-Palantir's products are used for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing multiple large datasets

Total raised: $125mm

http://tcrn.ch/bGIEwk

Triggit

http://triggit.com

-A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it

Total raised: $6.0mm

http://tcrn.ch/cy0WvS

GetJar

http://getjar.com

-Fast-growing application store with more than 1billion apps downloaded (second in size only to Apple)

Total raised: $17mm

paidContent

M&A

Gigbot

-Music event listing and promotion website

-Acquired by Ticketfly (which just recently raised $3.0mm) which helps concert promoters sell tickets, leveraging social media

http://bit.ly/bFnSjV

DMS Insights

-Research and online sampling technology

-AOL acquired DMS Insights in 1999

http://tcrn.ch/afr0P4

OTHER NEWS

Hulu launches premium subscription service for $9.99/month; includes HD access to full season of shows and works across platforms (PCs, iPhone, PS3, +) http://tcrn.ch/cgmOUE

Tesla IPO skyrockets: Prices at $17/sh, opens at $19 and closes up 40% at $23.89. Valuing ocmpany at $2.0bn+ http://tcrn.ch/ad1pa4

Apple sells 1.7mm iPhone 4s in 3 days.

http://tcrn.ch/b6Mg2H

Elevation Partners invested $120mm more for 5mm shares in Facebook.

http://tcrn.ch/cBrTvy

.XXX Top Level Domain name gets initial approval from ICANN

http://bit.ly/cymKoq