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	February 16th, 2013 黙示録 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 4 宙からの使者。 Virool (YC S12) raises $6.6M to bring viral video to the masses. Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Series A crunch? Who cares with seed rounds like this? Today, Y Combinator-backed Virool, a self-service social video advertising platform, is announcing its monster “seed” round of $6.62 million. And Virool even got to pick from their choice of investors, institutional and otherwise, according to co-founder and CEO Alex Debelov. No single VC led the funding, but the line-up of who invested is a fairly large list. On the VC side, there’sThomvest Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurveston, 500 Startups, Phenomen Ventures,TMT Ventures, DominateFund (err, #DominateFund?), and FundersClub. Individual investors include YC partners Paul Buchheit and Garry Tan, Loopt Co-Founder Sam Altman, Yuri Milner, Lady Gaga’s manager Troy Carter, former Yahoo CTO Farzad (Zod) Nazem, early Zappos investor Erik Moore, and Promus Ventures Founder Mike Collett. Read the full article on Techcrunch Balanced (YC W11) releases Balanced Payouts, letting developers get next-day ACH deposits Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Marketplace payment service Balanced has announced the official releaseof its Balanced Payouts, a standalone API that allows developers to tap into next-day ACH deposits . While not a new feature for the company, it is the first time it has been released on its own — previously it was part of the company’s full marketplace payments offering. This is the latest update from the Y Combinator alumnus, formerly known as PoundPay. Since last October, the company tells us that it has seen growth increase five-times and has seen 100,000 API calls per day. Read the full article on The Next Web FlightCar (YC W13) launches its 'Airbnb for airport car rentals' service at SFO Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous 2 Airport car rentals are a $10 billion business. But until recently, most travelers were stuck with poor customer service and high rates from the incumbent rental car agencies. Y Combinator-backed startup FlightCar wants to offer a much cheaper alternative to those companies in airports around the country, and it’s starting in San Francisco. FlightCar provides a peer-to-peer marketplace for car rentals at airports, connecting travelers with vehicles at much lower rates than they’d find if they went through one of the incumbent rental car agencies. It’s able to do that because it is renting out cars that would have otherwise been left in long-term parking. Read the full article on Techcrunch Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.