ClearTrip Travel Services, a Mumbai, India-based travel website operator, has raised $18.5 million in Series C funding, venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson led the round with $10 million investment, while Mahindra Group and the four VC firms that had previously invested in Cleartrip pumped in the rest $8.5 million. Which brings the total investment in the company to $30.2 million. The company flush with funds would use the money to improve its online and offline presence.

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ClairMail’s breakthrough technology allows companies to offer convenient, secure and always-on 2-way mobile services to their customers by using any mobile phone’s existing software and standard capabilities. They designed the ClairMail system to be straightforward for companies to implement and intuitive for their customers to use.

ClairMail was formed by an experienced team who recognized the power and potential of mobile phones to change the landscape of customer interaction.

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Meetmoi, the mobile dating start-up with hopes to revolutionize social networking with the first truly location-based mobile dating service.

Meetmoi service allows registered members to meet and date other users simply by sending a text message from their phone with a specified location. Meetmoi then registers the user as “available” and sends the user’s profile and photo via text message to other users who meet specified criteria and are within a proximity preference. Members have the option of preserving their anonymity while chatting through the gateway of Meetmoi.

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UpDown.com, a new social networking site for virtual investing,is launching a $10,000 student investing contest that begins March 1st 2008 and goes through the end of May’2008.

Awards: Compete to win more than $10,000 in prizes for the highest portfolio returns and the most powerful stock analysis.

“This contest is particularly exciting for students who are interested in launching careers in finance, because it offers them an unprecedented way to demonstrate their investing talent to recruiters and potential employers,” says Michael Reich, CEO and Co-Founder, UpDown.com. “Additionally, the contest provides a no-risk opportunity to earn some real money—which nearly all students can use.”

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SellPoint, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand video product tours, has secured $7 million in series C funding from Granite Ventures, LLC and previous investor Menlo Ventures LLC. SellPoint will use this additional funding to fuel current momentum and expansion of its business.

SellPoint doubled its client roster in 2007. Key brands such as Brother, Canon, Epson, Fuji, Hitachi, Panasonic, Pentax, SanDisk, and TiVo choose the company’s Active Product Tours� to present their products to online shoppers. In addition, SellPoint added numerous retailers to its Retail Syndication Network, which includes over 100 of the top online retailers such as Amazon.com, Best Buy, Buy.com, Circuit City, Costco.com, OfficeMax, Sears, Staples, Toys R Us Wal-Mart, and more. Read More »

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Trackur is an online reputation monitoring tool. With Trackur you can setup searches and automatically monitor the web for keywords that are important to you.

Trackur is the perfect solution for anyone that wants to track news, blogs, and other social media. You can track your own name, your company brands, industry trends, or even your competitor’s news! In fact, you can monitor any keywords you wish.When you create your Trackur account, you’ll be given the option to purchase a service plan or simply proceed to a two week free trial.

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Outbrain closes $5 million A round led by Gemini Israel Funds and Lightspeed Venture Partners. GlenRock Israel, Leon Recanati’s investment company which backed Outbrain since its inception, also participated in the round.

Outbrain is a platform for ratings and recommendations of blog, news and RSS content. Bloggers and publishers can use Outbrain’s free widget or API to provide readers with rating functionality and personalized reading recommendations. The widget can be installed with one click, and most leading blogging/RSS platforms are supported – Blogger.com, TypePad, WordPress.org, Drupal, FeedFlare, MoveableType, etc. Thousands of websites have already installed the Outbrain widget, and millions of ratings and recommendations are being served by Outbrain daily. Read More »

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Friendfeed announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A financing from co-founders Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh (who created the first version of Gmail ) and Benchmark Capital.

Friendfeed, a site where people can stay up-to-date on the Web pages, photos, videos and music that their friends and family are sharing. FriendFeed combines innovative technology and social solutions to make content on the web more relevant and useful. FriendFeed was founded by former Google employees Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh, and is headquartered in Silicon Valley. Read More »

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GeoLearning, Inc., the leading provider of Managed Learning Services and on-demand learning and performance platforms, today announced that it has secured a growth equity investment of $31 million from Fidelity Ventures. The funds, which represent the first institutional investment for GeoLearning, will be utilized to accelerate the company’s sales and marketing efforts, continue to build its international presence and channel partner network, and potential acquisitions.

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Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning is a New Zealander who joined Google in 2000 as a Senior Research Scientist to develop more precise search techniques. Previously, Craig was an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department of Rutgers University, where he conducted research in data compression, information retrieval and computational biology. Before that, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Biochemistry Department of Stanford University, where he developed a software suite used by pharmaceutical research laboratories to identify the role of particular proteins within cells.

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