Vantage Media Raises $70M Series A Private Placement
Vantage Media Secures Series A Financing of $70 Million
VENICE, CA – February 28, 2007 – Vantage Media, a leader in performance-based search engine marketing and online lead generation, today announced it has completed a $70 million Series A preferred financing by Scale Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures, and Integral Capital Partners.
Founded in 2002, Vantage Media was one of the first companies to offer search marketing solutions on a performance basis. As an early customer of both Google and Yahoo, Vantage has gained unique insight into the inner-workings of these search engines and how to harness them to benefit its clients. Vantage currently manages more than 40 million keywords yielding over one billion impressions per year, and is one of the largest providers of search-based marketing leads for educational institutions.
About Scale Venture Partners
Scale Venture Partners employs a thesis-based strategy to identify innovative development-stage technology and healthcare investments. The Scale team helps technology and healthcare companies accelerate their growth and become more valuable to entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Based in Foster City, California, the Scale team collectively offers decades of technology and venture industry experience to development-stage companies in hardware, software, healthcare and medical devices. Representative portfolio companies include Alimera, Frontbridge, Glu Mobile, Good Technology, Monolithic Power Systems, Omniture, Orexigen, Placeware, Scansafe, Seattle Genetics, Somaxon, Wayport and Xceive. For more information, please visit www.scalevp.com.
About Vantage Media
Founded in 2002, Vantage Media was one of the first companies to offer search marketing solutions on a performance basis. As an early customer of both Google and Yahoo, Vantage has gained unique insight into the inner-workings of these search engines and how to harness them to benefit its clients. Vantage currently manages more than 40 million keywords yielding over one billion impressions per year, and is one of the largest providers of search-based marketing leads for educational institutions.+
Since its inception, Vantage Media has grown each year without external financing or acquisitions. Vantage is unique in its focus on high quality leads from search engines, versus lower-quality alternatives. Vantage Media is based in Venice, California. For more information, please visit www.vantagemedia.com.
