San Francisco-based Home-Account Inc., which operates an online mortgage finding service, has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from Rembrandt Ventures and Freedom Financial Network. It previously had been seeded by Charles River Ventures’ QuickStart program as well as angels like Marc Benioff, Ron Conway, Mark Pincus, Jeff Clavier, Arjun Gupta, and Gigi Brisson. We like the financial model give that it is not reliant on the online ad market. The basic fee is $49.95. If the homeowner qualifies for a mortgage Home-Account provides automated counseling and suggests the lowest available rates and terms. 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.
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.