Infochimps Lands $1,200,000 New Funding Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5eb701f0-b5d0-4fc8-b6ba-1fa59f0a20f0&Preview=1 Date 11/8/2010 Company Name Infochimps Mailing Address 1214 W. 6th St Austin , TX 78703 Company Description The company provides an online structured data API service. Website http://www.infochimps.org Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $1,200,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes The company plans to spend the funding on gathering more data (both by hiring more engineers to grow its data scraping tools, and by buying more data sets ) and on improving the user experience. M&A Terms Venture Investor DFJ Mercury