Online textbook rental company Chegg.com it raised $57M in a fourth round of funding. Santa Clara-based Chegg.com said the round was led by Insight Venture Partners. In addition, Chegg got a $25M credit facility, adding to the $30M in debt facility recently secured from Pinnacle Ventures and TriplePoint Capital. Including this new round of venture capital and venture debt, Chegg.com has raised more than $160 million since its founding in 2005. With Chegg, students pay a fee to rent a textbook for a semester or quarter period. Chegg.com has rented more than 1.5M textbooks this year. Chegg has had a hickup. Full story...
Play Media, out of Somerville, MA, has secured $450K of a $600K seed funding round. 3Play works on transcription, captioning, and audio search.
Ithaca,NY-based Aero Farm Systems has raised $500K in seed funding from The Quercus Trust and 21Ventures.
With solar industry still facing a cash crunch, solar cells and panels manufacturer SunPower Corp. (SPWRA, SPWRB: NASDAQ) should be expanding its project portfolio of more than 550 solar systems installed.
AMEE, a company that provides technology for enterprises to calculate greenhouse emissions, has raised $5.
Shopping club Brands4friends.de, based in Berlin, has made an investment in similar site SecretSale, although they are not disclosing.
Angel-backed EventVue has closed its doors. The startup has set-up a business to add some functions of offline events to the online world.
LA-based Ranker has raised $750K in a seed investment round and plans to tack on another $250K to the seed round.
Many of the residents of Marin County California will soon have a choice as to whom they want providing their electricity.
Mountain View-based LensVector came out of stealth today, and says it has closed $30M in a Series C and has now raised $50M.
Monthly revenue is declining by less than $1 million at Ormat Technologies’ (NYSE:ORA) Puna Power Plant in Hawaii due to a decline in the supply of steam.