A periodic roundup of funding news from the NY-area tech media community:
- Gaming company Oberon Media raised $20 million from Infinity Equity‘s I-China Fund for Chinese expansion (Mediapost’s Online Media Daily)
- ZocDoc, a site that allows appointments to be made with New York City doctors, received funding from Jeff Bezo‘s Bezo’s Expeditions and Marc Benioff (Silicon Alley Insider)
- On demand alerting and response services company Send Word Now raised $14 million in a funding round led by Palisade Capital Management (CenterNetworks)
- Execu, developer of an information search platform for businesses, raised $2.2 million in its first round of funding led by Connecticut Innovations (Connecticut Innovations)
- Telecom software developer Connectiva Systems raised $16.78 million in Series D Funding from NEA-IndoUS Ventures, SAP, International Finance Corp., Ovation Capital Partners and Carthage Capital Group (NYConvergence.com)
- Proclivity Systems raised $5.5 million in Series B Funding led by Capital Fung USA Fund, with WPP and Pilot Group co-investing (MarketWatch)
In other related news, NYC-based Union Square Ventures invests in tech startups in exchange for a relativley small rate of five to twelve percent. (The New York Times)
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