Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Rustic Canyon Partners is part of a group investing $50M in private equity in San Francisco-based LoopNet, which operates an online marketplace for commercial real estate. According to LoopNet, Calera Capital, Trinity Ventures, and Rustic Canyon Partners are investing $50M in convertible preferred stock in the publicly held firm. According to LoopNet, the financing will provide it with additional resources in an "unprecedented market environment." ...Tags: Tags: rustic canyon venture capital loopnet realestate real

Pasadena-based Perfect Market , a provider of software which enables monetization of long tail content of publishers such as newspapers, has raised $6.0M According to the filing, funding included new backer Mayfield Fund, along with prior investors Idealab, Rustic Canyon Partners, and Trinity Ventures and others. Perfect Market is a spinout of Idealab. in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. No details on the funding have been announced by the company.

Pasadena-based Perfect Market, which is developing technology to help publishers monetize their archive content, said Monday that it has acquired technology from Mediariver, which can be used to match content and advertising to any web page. Perfect Market said that the entire MediaRiver team, including its founder and CTO, have joined the company. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. MediaRiver CTO Dr.

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Altadena-based Perfect Market , which is developing technology to help publishers monetize their long tail content, confirmed today that it has raised $6M in a Series C funding round. The firm said the round was led by Tribune Company, and also included Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, and Idealab. According to Perfect Market, the new funding will go to market and deploy its Perfect Market said that the Tribune Company has been using its product on a number of its web properties. As part of the funding, Dan Kazan, Senior Vice Preisdent of Corporate

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Pasadena-based Perfect Market, the Idealab startup which is looking to monetize dormant content from publishers, said this morning that the firm's CTO, Dr. Budzik joined Perfect Market in November, after the firm acquired Chicago-based MediaRiver, a developer of content being used to match advertising to web pages. Perfect Market is funded by Idealab, Trinity Venture, and Rustic Canyon Ventures. Jay Budzik, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, by the Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich. Budzik is a

The firm, which develops flywheel energy storage systems, said the funding will go to fuel expansion of the firm into new markets. The company said the funding came from existing investors in the firm, although specific investors in the funding round were not disclosed; the company has previously scored funding from Nth Power, DTE Energy, Energy Innovation Portfolio, Semptra Energy, Rustic Canyon Partners, Electricite de France, Loudwater Investment Partners, and Ben Rosen. Chatsworth-based Pentadyne Power said Monday that it has raised $22M in a financing round. Pentadyne's flywheel

Santa Monica-based business document sharing site Docstoc.com has made two executives hires, saying Wednesday that it has hired Robyn Ward as Vice President of Business Development, and Serena Ehrlich as Director of Marketing. Ward was most recently VP of Operations and Strategy at Verified Person; Ehrlich was most recently in sales, marketing, and management at Business Wire. According to Docstoc, Ward will focus on growing product distribution, key partnerships, and sponsorship opportunities; Ehrlich will be reponsible for growing user generated content and related revenue opportunities.

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