Boticca’s High-End Marketplace For Fashion Accessories Scores $2.5 Million

I have no idea if Lady Gaga, Jessica Alba or Cameron Diaz have good taste. But whoever is designing their fashion accessories is also selling pieces on Boticca.com. The London-based startup that launched it's high-end designer marketplace in October 2010 has been getting quite a bit of attention from investors over the last few months. Finally, the team is announcing that it has closed a £1.5 million (or $2.5 million) round - primarily for developing editorial content, additional market channels and adding new people to the team.

Boticca’s High-End Marketplace For Fashion Accessories Scores $2.5 Million

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Catch.com Scores $7 Million

Catch.com, a San Francisco-based app developer, has raised $7 million in venture funding from Excel Venture Management.

The company develops mobile and web applications for capturing, organizing, and sharing information on the go. They compete directly with Evernote, but their apps have seen more than 13 million downloads on Android phones alone.

Catch.com says they will use the new financing to "further accelerate the rapid growth of its secure notes apps built on its personal content management system for smartphones."

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Catch.com Scores $7 Million

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Yardsellr Scores $5 Million Series A From Accel To Become The eBay Of Facebook

Bringing social commerce to Facebook is a big opportunity attracting a lot of capital these days. Social swap meet Yardsellr just raised a $5 million series A financing, led by Accel Partners. Harrison Metal Capital, which previously put up $750,000 in seed funding, also participated. Yardsellr is an eBay for Facebook, except without the auctions. In fact, the company was founded by three former eBay executives, CEO Daniel Leffel (a former manager at eBay), VP of Marketing Jed Clevenger (who used to run the paid search team at eBay), and VP of Community Rachel Makool (who used to run the community team at eBay). Investor Michael Dearing of Harrison Metal is also a former SVP of eBay.com. Yardsellr is currently run out of the Harrison Metal office in Palo Alto.

Yardsellr Scores $5 Million Series A From Accel To Become The eBay Of Facebook

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