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Los Angeles-based startup GumGum has raised $2.6 million in their second round of funding. This brings their total to about $3.8 million. The company’s first round of funding was about $1 million from First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures last year.
GumGum was founded in 2006 by Ophir Tanz and provides an image licensing and monetization platform that allows websites and blogs to secure images for their sites. Advertisers and publishers alike have found GumGum to be useful to their businesses.
GumGum offers two usage models. One is a pay-per-use program that permits publishers to license content on a CPM basis, while …read more

Great news for Twitter, they’ve secured more funding:
Project: Runway Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model. However, our biggest opportunities will be worth pursuing only when we achieve our vision of Twitter as a global communication utility. To reach our goal, Twitter must be reliable and robust. Private funding gives us the runway we need to stay focused on the infrastructure that will help our business take flight. We will continue hiring systems engineers, operators, and architects, as well as consultants, scientists, and other professionals to help us realize our …read more

CBC’s Dragon’s Den is a program where startups face a panel of business leaders and VCs for a chance at winning cash to take their company to the next level.
Like any TV show of this kind, you have to qualify to get on.  So to help folks do this … Fundfindr is giving people a leg up:
Fundfindr is assisting Dragon’s Den in finding top, innovative ventures to appear on the upcoming season of CBC’s Dragon’s Den . Got a hot venture with some sales or traction? Available to head to T.O. week of June 9? Given our position in the …read more