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Venture Capital - Friday, March 30, 2007

How To Go From Angel To VC Partner: Saar Gur Joins Charles River

We spoke today with angel investor Saar Gur who has told us that he has joined Charles River Ventures. Saar was a VP with Adteractive until 2006 when he locked in on angel investing. In 2006, he made angel investments in a good number of promising Web 2.0 companies. Thus far none of his investments have seen liquidity events but several have seen huge growth in traffic and valuations from subsequent investors. Saar's angel investments include:

Social network for films buffs. TechCrunch reports that LightSpeed Ventures invested $2M in a very competitive round.

Slideshow company Rockyou raised $11M in a second round at a $50M post money valuation, most or all from Partech, reports TechCrunch. The company had previously raised $1.5M from Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Mobile ad marketplace AdMob has raised $15M in Series B funding led by Accel Partners and joined by return backer Sequoia Capital.

Pre-launch email analytics startup Xobni has secured $1.5M of a $4.26M Series A round led by Khosla Ventures.

VoiceStar is a pay per call lead generation network. First Round Capital and Felicis Ventures invested an undisclosed amount.

The SMS contest companies closed $2.3M led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures.

Video ad network BrightRoll closed a series its A round raising a total of $1M from 9 angel investors plus True Ventures.