{"id":99599,"date":"2009-12-24T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2009-12-24:article\/419-scvngr-raises-4-million-from-google-ventures-and-others"},"modified":"2009-12-24T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T20:44:12","slug":"scvngr-raises-4-million-from-google-ventures-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/99599","title":{"rendered":"SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures And Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scvngr.com\/\" title=\"SCVNGR\">SCVNGR<\/a> has raised $4 million from Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=GOOG\" class=\"ticker\" title=\"GOOG\">NSDQ: GOOG<\/a>) Ventures and its existing investor Highland Capital to continue building out its location-based platform for mobile phones. As part of the investment, Google&#8217;s Rich Miner will sit on the board. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/24\/scvngr-google\/\" title=\"TechCrunch reports\">TechCrunch reports<\/a> that the financing occurs just weeks after the company said it is cash flow positive and has more than $1 million in revenues during its first year in business. SCVNGR helps other companies build their own location-based services. For instance, dozens of major universities have used technology to give campus tours, and major companies use the scavenger hunt aspect for team-building exercises. SCVNGR will apparently need the cash for expansion. In the past 11 days, it has hired six new employees, which doubles the company\u2019s staff to 40.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9tXzu9XuNL1sVLwvkB9Bpco7PAs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9tXzu9XuNL1sVLwvkB9Bpco7PAs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9tXzu9XuNL1sVLwvkB9Bpco7PAs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9tXzu9XuNL1sVLwvkB9Bpco7PAs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=wDkI1KkCTw4:-XTsAD6OMbU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=wDkI1KkCTw4:-XTsAD6OMbU:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=wDkI1KkCTw4:-XTsAD6OMbU:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=wDkI1KkCTw4:-XTsAD6OMbU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=wDkI1KkCTw4:-XTsAD6OMbU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=wDkI1KkCTw4:-XTsAD6OMbU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=wDkI1KkCTw4:-XTsAD6OMbU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=wDkI1KkCTw4:-XTsAD6OMbU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/wDkI1KkCTw4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston-based SCVNGR has raised $4 million from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures and its existing investor Highland Capital to continue building out its location-based platform for mobile phones. As part of the investment, Google&#8217;s Rich Miner will sit on the board. TechCrunch reports that the financing occurs just weeks after the company said it is cash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}