Friday, November 2, 2007

Worktopia-Direct Online Booking Engine-Got $5 Million in Series A Funding Led by DFJ Gotham Ventures

What Company is offering:
Worktopia, the first direct online booking engine for meeting space in hotels, airport lounges and other venues.Worktopia enables companies to procure meeting space and office space when they want it, where they want it... On Demand.

How It Works:
At worktopia.com, visitors can search based on their specific requirements, compare live pricing proposals, and even book the workspace from our live database of availability...24/7. Our Service provides the tools you need, to save time and money while enhancing your options and increasing your team's productivity.Worktopia is the first and only global reservation system for short term workspace, including meeting and training rooms as well as instant office space. A perfect procurement service for a distributed workforce. Our supply partners include over 1,800 hotels, conference centers, business centers and traditional office properties around the world.

How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced that it has completed a $5 million financing from a syndicate led by New York-based DFJ Gotham Ventures and including Milestone Venture Partners and High Peaks Venture Partners.

What's The Purpose Of Raising Fund:
Worktopia will deploy the additional capital to drive expansion of its network of hotel partners, to build on its foundation of corporate travel distribution relationships and to extend its leadership position. Worktopia is the first service to allow meeting planners to search, compare and book meeting space, equipment and simple catering online in real-time, a $24 billion market that has until now been conducted over the telephone.
More at:http://www.worktopia.com/

Fortumo-For Set Up Of Your Own Sms Business

What Company Is Offering:
Fortumo’s goal is to make creating mobile services as easy as it is to create a blog or a home page. Anyone, from students and home-based workers to web entrepreneurs, can create their own SMS service in 5 minutes and start earning revenue. Moreover, Fortumo services have a number of advanced features and competitive revenue sharing, which makes it a good choice for large-volume mobile services.
How It Works:
At the moment, one user can create up to 30 services. If you need to create more than 30 services, please let them know (support@fortumo.com) and they will find a way how you individually can create additional services.Creating Fortumo services is free of charge and will remain so.You can also delete services on the service settings edit page. History of all deleted services is preserved, so you can always analyse the results of your services and view history.
Where They Are Working:
At the moment, the services function in the following countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. They are planning to add new countries on a regular basis. SMS services created by Fortumo users function for the customers of all mobile operators of the above listed countries.
More at:http://www.fortumo.com/

Complete Targeting Solutions -Specific Media is the only ad network to offer a complete suite of targeting capabilities on one platform.

What Company Is Offering:
Specific Media provides advertisers, marketers and agencies with leading-edge targeting technologies that enable them to reach specific target audiences on the Web.Specific Media offers a suite of services that enable advertisers to reach specific audiences online.
How It Works:

The company develops, targets and places online advertising campaigns that reach advertisers' desired audience segments, while driving advertising revenue for web publishers. The result is a win-win business model that benefits advertisers as well as web publishers. Specific Media delivers these services through its premium and performance ad networks.

Who is Behind The Company:

1.Tim Vanderhook
Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer

Tim Vanderhook co-founded Specific Media in July 1999 when he recognized a need in the industry for an ad network that offered premium-site publishers and delivered efficient ROI results for advertisers.

Tim was largely responsible for creating the pop-under ad unit in 2001, when the dot com fallout began. Web publishers needed a new source of revenue to continue operating their companies and advertisers lost sight of the value traditional banners offered.Since 2002, he has developed one of the most advanced ad serving platforms in the industry, which gives advertisers the unique ability to serve ads to users based on demographic, behavioral, contextual and geographic data across the web's most popular brand publishers. Today, Specific Media's Premium Network boasts the biggest roster of brand publishers on the web with brand names such as Yahoo, Marketwatch, ABCNews, FOX Sports, MLB.com and virtually every other major media company.
2.Chris Vanderhook
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer

Before assuming his current title, Chris served as the company's Senior Vice President, overseeing day-to-day operations including all aspects of sales, media buying and ad operations.

Prior to joining Specific Media, Chris was a Personal Banker specializing in small business financing at Bank of America. He became a top-ranked associate regionally and nationally for his outstanding achievement in the procurement of new business finance clientele.
For more at:http://www.specificmedia.com/about-us-our-team.php
Website:http://www.specificmedia.com/

DISCUS– Virtual Library

What Company is Offering:
DISCUS – South Carolina’s Virtual Library is the “information place” for all South Carolinians. DISCUS – which stands for Digital Information for South Carolina USers – provides free access to an electronic library that’s available 24/7.
How It Works:
DISCUS provides a variety of organized resources, called databases, for individuals of all ages, educational levels and interests. The databases include:
magazine, professional journals, newspapers, encyclopedias ,e-books, reference material,student and teacher resources ,maps, pictures, recommended Web links and much more.
How Is It Different From Google:
DISCUS resources use the Internet merely as a delivery tool to provide accurate information from recognized publishers. The DISCUS databases include high-quality publications and documents that are updated regularly and organized so you can quickly find the information you need. Google and other Internet search engines are designed to search the open Web.
More at:http://www.scdiscus.org/

Sharedreviews announced funding by Frank Schilling and Monster Venture Partners

What Company Is Offering:
Sharedreviews was born to solve the frustration of content creators in their attempts to monetize their contributions by marrying their efforts with a growing demand for targeted user generated content.

With established third party distribution partners looking to increase value within their advertising networks, SharedReviews is in a unique position to bridge the gap between market demand and content creators in an open, honest, transparency.
How Much They Got FRom VCs:
SharedReviews announced today the closing of a first round investment. The funding round was done by Frank Schilling and Monster Venture Partners. Also participating in the current round of financing is Internet Real Estate Group, a leading developer of premium Internet domain names.

Rob Monster, Managing Director of Monster Venture Partners, said, “The boundary between producers and consumers of digital content is blurring as user-generated content is playing an ever increasing role in influencing attitudes and behaviors of online consumers.
Frank Schilling, founder of Name Administration, is known to many as the world’s most successful domain portfolio manager with a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of high quality generic internet domains. Frank is also viewed as an authority on domain industry trends and is a frequent speaker on topics related to domain monetization.

Internet Real Estate Group rounded out the financing and also brings a network of Internet domains as well as deep knowledge of the Internet domain landscape.

Who Is Behind This Site:

1.Peter brings 13 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience focused solely on technology and the Internet. Having founded multiple startups, he fits the classic definition of a "Serial" Entrepreneur.

His professional experience includes working as the President and Founder of 1001Canada.com, Channel Sales Manager for Tucows.com Inc., Regional Sales Manager for WWWI, Management and Operational Consultant for GoBIGmedia.com, and Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Tele-Global Direct Corp.

2.Frank is an Internet specialist who brings over 12 years of Business & Technology expertise in the Internet vertical, with many accomplishments building and consulting for Web Development projects since 1995.

His professional experience includes President and Founder of Degap Ltd., President and Founder of Cyberteam.com, Senior Sales Engineer at Tucows.com Inc., and publisher of the renowned DomainEditorial.com.

3.Michael started his career in Web development in early 1998 where he quickly began teaching his approach in Web design to college students enrolled in Multimedia.

Speaking more specifically to Community Development, Michael has created, managed and subsequently leveraged niche communities since 2000, where the largest generates approximately 110 million hits per year with an average of 25,000 unique users.
More at:http://www.sharedreviews.com/

movingmonkey.co.uk is A one stop shop for individuals wanting to obtain quotations from removal companies free of charge to customers

What company Is offering:
movingmonkey.co.uk is not a removal company, but is a free to client moving brokerage service that can be used by anyone who wants to move within the UK, Europe, or even to another continent. We do not undertake any removals ourselves, but match customers with contractors suited and available to undertake your move.
How It Works;
It will allow you to book your move with the confidence that you know you are getting the best possible price, whether you are moving down the road or around the world. A one stop shop for individuals wanting to obtain quotations from removal companies free of charge to customers. Clients enter details of the address they are moving from, and to, select items of furniture to be moved, and the information is submitted to removal companies who bid on the work. The client selects the contractor to work with, and moves house.Once you have submitted your details to movingmonkey.co.uk, we will automatically request local & national moving contractors who are skilled to undertake the work required, to submit a competitive price to you, so you can then pick the company and price that best suits your requirements and then deal with the selected company directly.


More at;http://movingmonkey.co.uk/

Gaia, the popular anime virtual world, has added a new feature that lets you bring online videos into your Gaia world

What company is offering:
Gaia, the popular anime virtual world, has added a new feature that lets you bring online videos into your Gaia world. The new tool is called Gaia VJ, and it lets you collect web videos to create your own channel of streaming content. This acts in a similar manner to online video aggregators that were oh so popular this year.
How It Works:

Gaia VJ is pulling content from the major video-sharing networks, including YouTube, Metacafe, EyeSpot, iFilm and Break. It’s own collection system has a bit of networking itself: you can find content by checking out playlists that other users have already created. Built on Adobe Flex, it’s pretty easy to make playlists.

You can search by video-sharing network, or keyword. A preview of the clip will play to the right, and just drag the clips you’d like in your playlist to the bottom of the screen. Once you’ve created your playlist, there’s an option to view it directly in a private cinema.

What’s fun about Gaia’s implementation of its VJ video aggregation feature is that it exists within the virtual world of Gaia. So once you’ve got your channel of video content, you can play it in your own, virtual private cinema. From there you can invite friends to join you, and then chat it up with each other for real-time commentary while the videos play on. And for those of you that have always wanted to throw tomatoes or popcorn at the screen when something really sucks, now you can, with Gaia VJ.

more at:http://www.gaiaonline.com/

FrameChannel is a free web-based tool that lets you select and manage image content for your wireless picture frame or desktop

What Company Is Offering:
FrameChannel is a free web-based tool that lets you select and manage image content for your wireless picture frame or desktop. With over 200 channels of dynamic content, FrameChannel allows you to easily combine your own photos with news and entertainment channels, feeds from popular photo sharing sites, as well as photos sent by your friends and family who you can invite to contribute directly to your frame. You set it up once, tell it your preferences, and it updates every fifteen minutes!
How it works:
It’s service is proposed as a way to create dynamic and interesting content for your digital picture frame, but this works for desktop widgets, web widgets and screen savers as well.

So anything that can be delivered via RSS can be placed on your digital picture frame using this service. That includes social networking items (like weekend recap pictures from Facebook), blog content, and more.

With Frame Media your feed delivery can be scheduled. You can have your weather and stock reports delivered in the morning, and your friends’ photos sent later on in the afternoon.
more at:http://www.framechannel.com/

Distillingfinance.com is a venue for the collaborative analysis of finance

What Company is Offering:
They created distillingfinance.com to solve a problem they faced themselves while managing their own personal investments: there's too much financial information out there. No one person can possibly sort through it all. Distillingfinance.com is a venue for the collaborative analysis of it.
How It Works:

They are building an online community with a common interest in understanding economics and the financial markets, two of the most complex fields ever developed in human history. Through this site, they can exchange ideas and views on the vast intricacies of modern finance to all of our mutual benefit. Nobody can possibly know it all; it's only by working together that we can realize our goals and ambitions.

Who Is Backing Them:

Paul Legato, the technical mastermind
Aman Singh, the business intelligence geek
Leroy Ratnayake, the business management guy
Greg Ross-Munro, the graphic designer responsible for our look and feel

More at;http://www.distillingfinance.com/

Brijit For Best Content On Net In Short "For Busy People"

What Company is Offering:
Brijit aggregates the world's best long-form content and abstracts it in 100 words or less, providing busy, omnivorous, and increasingly mobile readers with rich, qualitative summaries as well as better guideposts for what to read, watch or listen to now.
Brijit is a privately-owned, angel-financed online media startup with teams based in Washington, DC, Mountain View, CA and Beijing. The Company was founded in 2006 and employs a distributed team of editors and writers.


How It Works:
They produce these abstracts in concert with their readers, as one community of readers, writers and editors. Think of us as your well-read friend who leads you to that can't miss article, video clip or product. Brijit's mission is simple: make it easy for all of us to discover and access the world's best content, quickly, inexpensively and on our own terms.
more at:http://www.brijit.com/

Easy Projects .NET -----For Managing And Tracking Your Projects

What Company is offering:
Easy Projects .NET — the latest generation web based application for managing and tracking software development, IT, manufacturing, financial and many other types of projects. It is called "Easy Projects" for a good reason - it was specifically designed to make project management hassle free and straightforward.
Easy Projects .NET is a product developed by Logic Software, Inc. - Toronto-based custom software development company. Logic Software has delivered hundreds of cost effective and high-quality software solutions for a wide range of industries and domains, including consumer and business software development, web hosting, retail, manufacturing, real estate, community service, and many others.
How It Works:
Easy Projects .NET has only those tools and features that you need. No bells and whistles. No need to worry about a sophisticated setup process. It is all easy as ABC. An intuitive interface and contextual tips will allow you to concentrate on your project instead of spending time trying to figure out how to use the system.

Its Features:
You will be able to track and organize virtually any type of project by using the following powerful features:

Projects with multi-nested tasks
Detailed statistics and reports
Email notifications and alerts
Issue and request tracking
Message board
Many other useful features
more at:http://www.easyprojects.net/

b2bCRM is a web-based CRM system

What Company is offering:
b2bCRM offers web-based CRM systems. b2bCRM is easy to start-up and easy to use in your daily business. Consequently your company can choose b2bCRM with significant benefits and avoid spending a lot of money and human resources to get started. Your b2bCRM system may fulfil only 98% of your requirements, but you may prefer this to a system where you only use 25% of its features and still pay 100%. Once you get started you can create and edit fields, screen images and reports your self - with no need for consultants.
How It Works:
With b2bCRM you get started within a few hours after you have received the link to your system. It is easy to import existing data from Excel or your current CRM system. Fields can be edited and created by yourself in order to match your requirements. You can also design and format reports as you please and all data can be downloaded to Excel as well as other formats.

more at:http://www.b2bcrm.net/