Kontagent Raises $4.5 Million For Facebook Analytics Platform

Only a few months after the company raised $1 million in funding, Kontagent , an fbFund winner and social analytics platform, has raised $4.5 million in new funding.

BrightEdge Debuts Powerful SEO Platform For Businesses, Signs MySpace And Others

San Mateo, CA-based BrightEdge is today taking the wraps of its enterprise-class, on-demand SEO platform, after hammering on it for the past couple of years along with some early adopting key customers such as MySpace, Symantec and VMware. Originally founded in 2007 by former Salesforce.com exec Jim Yu and Lemuel Park , BrightEdge provides online marketers with cloud-based SEO software designed to help them increase revenue from organic search in a measurable way

Strength In Numbers: Canadian Entrepreneurs Flock To The C100

It’s a rare day that I find the opportunity to write about entrepreneurism and Canada in a single post. It’s rarer still that I’m able to do it twice in one day.

Branders.com Scores Another $5 Million In Venture Capital

Branders.com , an online-only promotional items store operator, raised another $5 million in venture funding, bringing the total invested in the company to $46 million. Participating in this round were Menlo Ventures, DCM, Venture Strategy Partners and Altos Ventures, all of whom backed the company in the past