BlueKai, a data services and technology company understood to have been backed by Verizon Ventures, the corporate ventuyring unit of the eponymous phone service, has been acquired by data services provider Oracle reportedly for up to $400m.
Verizon was a stealth investor in BlueKai, which raised $15m in its series D round in January 2012 from VC firms Battery Ventures, GGV Capital, Redpoint and Split Rock Partners, and $35m before that, according to data provider Crunchbase.