Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Gigya delivers innovative discovery and monetization solutions to the social media got $9.5 million Series B round of financing

What Company Is Offering:
Gigya delivers innovative discovery and monetization solutions to the social media ecosystem, connecting brand advertisers, content publishers and an enormous audience of active social media users. Gigya serves the world’s largest brands with a full-service widget advertising model covering design, development, hosting, distribution, viral promotion and tracking. Gigya’s Wildfire technology installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day and tracks over three billion impressions per month.
How Much They Got From VCs;
Gigya, the largest performance-based widget distribution network and provider of tools and technologies for distributing, tracking and analyzing widgets, today announced the completion of a $9.5 million Series B round of financing led by Mayfield Fund, with additional investment from existing investors Benchmark Capital and First Round Capital. Gigya’s Wildfire technology currently installs hundreds of thousands of widgets per day, and tracks over three billion widget impressions per month for its clients, including Kimberly-Clark, MTV, Levis, Sprint and Toyota.

What's Aim Of Raising Funds:

Gigya will use the funds to continue its rapid growth, including the enhancement of its core Wildfire technology, its pay-per-install widget distribution network, as well as the development of additional products that facilitate the discovery and monetization of the social web.

About VCs:
Mayfield Fund has been at the forefront of investing in emerging businesses that have grown into industry leaders. Mayfield Fund invests in the U.S., China and India and currently has $2.7 billion under management. It has invested in over 480 companies of which 105 have had initial public offerings and another 160 have been acquired. Some of Mayfield past impact investments include Compaq, Amgen, SGI, 3COM, Sandisk, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Intuitive Surgical, Web Methods, Tibco, 3PAR and LSI Logic. To learn more, please visit http://www.mayfield.com.

More at:http://www.gigya.com

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