4Info,

https://4info.net/

Last activity: 22.01.2009

Probably Closed

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Total raised

$10M

Funding Rounds 1

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Jan 9, 2009	Siminoff, Venrock part ways, reasons unknown	updated David Siminoff, now former general partner at Venrock, has left the venture firm after a little over a year and a half. The move, confirmed by the firm, is significant considering Siminoff’s stature in the Silicon Valley venture com...
Oct 12, 2008	Will Verizon's New Three-Cent Hike Kill SMS Services?	On Friday, word got out that come November 1 Verizon Wireless plans to tack on an extra 3-cent charge for every SMS message sent by Web information services to any of its mobile subscribers. That hike will be on top of the 20 cents per mess...
Oct 31, 2007	4info is taking texting to the bank, gets NBC backing	(Update: The amount is $2.5 million, according to regulatory filings.) 4INFO, a Silicon Valley company that lets you search for information using text messaging, has become the official service partner for media giant NBC Universal. It has ...
Oct 31, 2007	4INFO Takes NBC Investment, Signs Mobile Partnership	Mobile media company 4INFO has taken funding from the NBC-GE joint venture Peacock Equity and a signed a provider deal with NBC. 4INFO is the sixth Peacock Equity investment since the $250 million fund was established in April. Under the de...
Aug 23, 2007	Vtap, easy mobile search	Updated Vtap is a new mobile phone service that lets you search for Web videos and other useful Internet content with impressive speed. The company will launch Sept. 10, but VentureBeat got an early look. Most Web search technologies are ex...
Aug 20, 2007	Latest jobs at VentureBeat Job Board	Check out the latest jobs on VentureBeat: They include openings for the following: Director of Software Engineering at 4INFO, the San Mateo, Calif. mobile search company; Network Design Engineer at Executive Direction in Santa Clara, Calif....
Aug 13, 2007	Latest VentureBeat job board listings	Check out the latest jobs on VentureBeat: They include openings for controller at 4INFO, the San Mateo, Calif. mobile search company, for “kick-ass” coders at Socializr, the San Francisco online event/invitation company, and for a Django We...
Jun 20, 2007	4INFO Closes Round of Funding	Today 4INFO has announced that it has completed a $10 million Series D found of funding led by Gannet, Co. Inc. Since the carefree days of VC money flowing are a thing of the past, we’re certain 4INFO will put this funding to good use, and ...
Jun 19, 2007	4Info surprises with SMS ad results — raises $10M more	4Info, the Palo Alto mobile search company we feared might become roadkill by Google and Yahoo, has surprised with solid progress in serving ads in text messages. It’s on track to serve 50 million ad units for the next quarter, at a whoppin...
May 1, 2007	Roundup: WSJ on sale?, 4Info’s SMS network, plankton, PropertyShark, more	Here’s the latest action: News Corp makes $5 billion takeover bid for Dow Jones — If the bid is accepted, the owner of Fox News would own the old, gray business media icon, the Wall Street Journal. What next? PropertyShark takes property sn...
Apr 25, 2007	Siminoff back in the game, joins Venrock	It may take them a while, but the fabulously wealthy from Dot-com boom eventually realize they miss the action. David Siminoff, the Silicon Valley investor who made billions in the late 1990s by making early investments in America Online, Y...
Apr 17, 2007	Tellme, Google 411 searches — all about the data	Tellme, the voice recognition company, has released more mobile search features, giving it a leg up on Google’s recently announced 411 service. In addition to offering voice mobile search, which Tellme announced last month, it gives you a w...
Mar 12, 2007	Roundup: March Madness, Starbucks start-ups, Zannel and more	Here’s the latest action: March Madness alerts — Palo Alto mobile search company 4INFO will send you an alert in the final minutes of any of NCAA March Madness game that looks like it could be an upset. It sends final scores too. To sign up...
Nov 15, 2006	Medio raises $30 million for mobile search — to battle Google, Jumptap, others	Medio, a Seattle start-up that gives you search results tailored for your mobile phone, has raised $30 million in a second round of funding to keep up with the mobile search Jones’. Founder Brian Lent worked side-by-side with the Google co-...
Nov 12, 2006	Clairmail lets you bank via SMS	(Updated with more info on security functions) ClairMail, a Novato, Calif. start-up, allows customers to transact business through SMS or email from their mobile phones. It has raised $12 million in second round of funding. A number of comp...
Sep 29, 2006	Roundup: 4Info, DAG backs Podshow, MySpace hype…	You can get VentureBeat at 4Info — In fact, 4Info lets anyone, not just VentureBeat, publish their blog or applications to mobile users. With its new service announced yesterday, mobile search company, 4Info said you can upload your blog or...
Aug 22, 2006	Mobile search company 4Info carries TV Guide listings	4Info, the Palo Alto mobile search start-up, has signed a deal with TV Guide to carry its listings. So now you can check TV listings on the fly, using “SMS,” otherwise known as texting. 4Info also allows you to customize the service, so tha...
Apr 10, 2006	JBoss sells, Jigsaw raises cash, Mogoo wants to, and BuzzShout cuts through hype	Miscellaneous news of Silicon Valley: JBoss tough guy Fleury sells out after all — Last week, we wrote about Marc Fleury, the abrasive chief executive of JBoss, the open source application server company turning down a reported $500 million...
Feb 8, 2006	4Info, mobile search co., raises more cash to battle Google	4Info, the Palo Alto start-up that wants to take on Google in mobile search, has raised $9.5 million in a third round of venture capital financing. Return backers include Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners. The comes on heels...
Jan 20, 2006	4Info uses guanxi to get mobile search deal done	Updated Most entrepreneurs we talked with this week said it would be crazy to go up against Google or Yahoo to try to become a mobile phone homepage destination for search, and so they’re biting off little parts. Here’s our Mercury News sto...
Nov 13, 2005	4INFO, and the story of how mobile is hot	by Patrick Tehan Here’s our Mercury News story (free registration) today about 4INFO, the Palo Alto mobile phone search engine company. It tells the story about how Pankaj Shah (left) raised his money. The story is also part of the Venture ...
Mar 22, 2005	Mobile search company 4INFO gets funding	San Mateo start-up 4INFO hasn’t been talked about much, but the mobile search service company has just snagged $8 million in funding from well-known Silicon Valley firms U.S. Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. 4INFO allows consum...

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FAQ about 4Info,

How much funding has 4Info, raised?

4Info, has raised $10M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about 4Info,?

Parsers VC has collected 23 articles mentioning 4Info,, among them “Siminoff, Venrock part ways, reasons unknown” (Jan 9, 2009) and “Will Verizon's New Three-Cent Hike Kill SMS Services?” (Oct 12, 2008).

Is 4Info, still active?

4Info, is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 22, 2009.