Online sports and lifestyle content publisher Rant Media Network Inc. raised $4 million in a private offering of its common stock.
The funding round for the Irvine-based startup was led by serial investor Barry Honig, a former co-chairman of interClick Inc., an online advertising technology company that was acquired in 2011 by Yahoo! Inc. for $270 million.
Also leading Rant Media’s latest investment round were a couple of new investors: Southpaw Asset Management in Greenwich, Conn., and Craig Dubow, former chief executive and chairman of Gannett Co. in McLean, Va.
Rant Media was founded in 2010 by Brett Rosin and Grant Brown. It has raised $7.3 million overall.
