Prosper Marketplace Inc., has successfully closed a the new funding round, which it announced two weeks ago. Prosper receives 14.7 million US$ from new investors Tomorrow Ventures and CompuCredit Holdings and existing investors Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Omidyar Network, QED Investors and Volition Capital. TomorrowVentures is the investment vehicle for Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
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Prosper raises $20 million venture capital
Prosper.com has raised another 20 million US$ in funding from DAG Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners. Previous investors also participated in this round. (Source: VentureBeat)
It is speculated that Prosper might use the money to further develop its p2p lending model in order to enhance competitiveness with Zopa and others in the US.