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

Where are the cleantech hot spots? Earth2Tech has the ultimate map for curious CleanTech Startup watchers. Pinpointing locales around the globe, Earth2Tech’s 101 Cleantech Startups allows you to see all the places that cleantech companies are popping up.
(from Earth2Tech) The different sectors — like solar, energy storage, biofuels and electric vehicles — are all represented by a logo, and each pin on the map has all of the vital stats for each startup (founding year, investors, technology, etc.). We admit we’ve got a bit of a Valley skew, but we’ve thrown in some of the international cleantech heavyweights as well.
Earth2Tech’s …read more