Online ad company Kontera raises $10.3m

Carmel Ventures, and two current investors Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers Venture Capital, participated in the round. According to IVC Online, the company has raised $18 million to date. Kontera is developing personalized context-based advertising, but collates the advertisements in a different way from AdSense. Kontera positions advertisements as information accompanying the pertinent online text, where as AdSense positions the advertisements on the side of the webpage.

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