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More stories of companies getting X million to build the Next Big Thing....
TripIt San Francisco-based TripIt is a travel site that just raised $1 million in a first round funding from O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. It's yet to launch.
NearbyNow - NearbyNow lets you search for "products, brands, and sales available at local shopping centers using the Internet or mobile phones." Just raised $5 million in Series B funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper Richards - the Series A round was $2.5 million.