Sencha, Subtext, Sociable Labs: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Xconomy
Summary
$151 million—The price Google paid to acquire restaurant review aggregator Zagat back in September, according to a regulatory filing examined by Reuters. Past investors include Artiman Ventures of East Palo Alto, CA, and Partech International of San Francisco. $15 million—A Series B venture round for Sencha, the Redwood City, CA-based maker of development tools and Web services for builders of HTML5 applications. $7 million—A Series B financing round for Sociable Labs, a San Mateo, CA-startup that came out of stealth mode this week with a system that lets companies test and compare different social media marketing strategies. $3 million—A seed funding round for Subtext, a Palo Alto, CA, startup that released a new reading platform this week for the Apple iPad.
