What Company is Offering:
ON Networks has set out to change the way traditional TV programs are created, distributed, consumed and monetized.
They deliver high-definition shows on-demand across multiple digital platforms, including the Internet, digital cable, IPTV, and various mobile and gaming devices.
How It Works:
ON Networks is a new digital media company that is built around the
shifts in how TV shows are created, distributed, viewed and monetized.
Put simply, an ON show is coming to pretty much every glowing screen
near you – from TV to computer to mobile device.
We've created a haven for smart, engaging and entertaining programs for
every pastime and pursuit. And since we believe in the future of our
content, we ensure that all shows are produced in glorious HD.
More at:http://www.onnetworks.com/
Saturday, November 17, 2007
YOU BE THE VC-----Powered By Your Ideas
What Company is offering:
Bang Ventures is a New York based investment firm with offices in Cambridge and is focused on early stage emerging technology companies. Bang Ventures isn't a VC firm. They help smart and driven people co-found fantastic new companies, providing entrepreneurs with a roof over their heads, mentoring, a deep network of contacts, marketing support, professional services and other technical support....and yes, funding as well.
How It Works:
Bang Ventures gets into the projects at the inception phase, evaluating opportunities and empowering entrepreneurs to develop strong companies. The firm is currently focused on investing in North America and Eastern/Central Europe in sectors ranging from Web 2.0 to clean tech to medical devices.
Bang Ventures is making an open call for entrepreneurs to submit their ideas for new start-ups -- then they'll let the public decide on the next three companies we fund….after several rounds of tasks, analysis, and video pitches. That is You Be The VC in a nutshell.
Essentially the three selected companies get a company to run. Winners will get financing, programming/web development, expert mentoring, office space, legal, accounting, administrative and marketing support, as well as a stipend to live and work in Cambridge.
Who is Behind The Company:
Mark is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, executive, investor and visionary. He Co-founded New Europe Ventures, a Polish-based Venture Capital firm, as well as the Benet Group, Leonardo BioSystems, Lux Research, and the NanoBusiness Alliance. He has served as a senior executive at NanoDynamics (and continues to advise the company), Opion, GolinHarris and NRW. In addition, he has consulted for companies ranging from NanoSys to Engelhard to Mastercard to Yahoo to eSpeed to Pixar to DaimlerChrysler.
Mark is a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). He is among the most well known figures in technology and was recognized by Forbes as a "powerbroker" and has been featured in Time, Newsweek, US News, ABC, BBC, NY Times, Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, among others. Mark also appeared regularly as CNBC technology commentator and on occasion as a co-host of SquawkBox.
More at:http://www.youbethevc.com/
Bang Ventures is a New York based investment firm with offices in Cambridge and is focused on early stage emerging technology companies. Bang Ventures isn't a VC firm. They help smart and driven people co-found fantastic new companies, providing entrepreneurs with a roof over their heads, mentoring, a deep network of contacts, marketing support, professional services and other technical support....and yes, funding as well.
How It Works:
Bang Ventures gets into the projects at the inception phase, evaluating opportunities and empowering entrepreneurs to develop strong companies. The firm is currently focused on investing in North America and Eastern/Central Europe in sectors ranging from Web 2.0 to clean tech to medical devices.
Bang Ventures is making an open call for entrepreneurs to submit their ideas for new start-ups -- then they'll let the public decide on the next three companies we fund….after several rounds of tasks, analysis, and video pitches. That is You Be The VC in a nutshell.
Essentially the three selected companies get a company to run. Winners will get financing, programming/web development, expert mentoring, office space, legal, accounting, administrative and marketing support, as well as a stipend to live and work in Cambridge.
Who is Behind The Company:
Mark is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, executive, investor and visionary. He Co-founded New Europe Ventures, a Polish-based Venture Capital firm, as well as the Benet Group, Leonardo BioSystems, Lux Research, and the NanoBusiness Alliance. He has served as a senior executive at NanoDynamics (and continues to advise the company), Opion, GolinHarris and NRW. In addition, he has consulted for companies ranging from NanoSys to Engelhard to Mastercard to Yahoo to eSpeed to Pixar to DaimlerChrysler.
Mark is a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). He is among the most well known figures in technology and was recognized by Forbes as a "powerbroker" and has been featured in Time, Newsweek, US News, ABC, BBC, NY Times, Business Week, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, among others. Mark also appeared regularly as CNBC technology commentator and on occasion as a co-host of SquawkBox.
More at:http://www.youbethevc.com/
Iovation--to prevent online fraud, abusive behavior, and unauthorized access to online services got $10 million from Intel Capital
What Company is Offering:
iovation Reputation Services are built on an advanced device identification and reputation management platform to prevent online fraud, abusive behavior, and unauthorized access to online services. The system flags suspicious and hard-to-spot associations among online accounts/transactions and devices. Members of our reputation network benefit from sharing fraud intelligence to proactively stop known offenders.
iovation Reputation Services consist of several solutions built on the underlying reputation management platform called Device Reputation Authority™ (DRA).
Why to use it:
If you’re serious about managing risk, protecting your brand and customers, iovation Reputation Services™ should become a key component of your best practices program for online fraud prevention and multi-factor authentication.
Why Is it Different:
Unlike other products that help e-commerce sites identify fraudsters, Iovation doesn't track personal information. In other words, it doesn't track people, it tracks computers.
It gathers data that tells a company which computers, hand-helds or cell phones have been responsible for credit card fraud, cheating at online games, stalking or other bad actions at Iovation clients' Web sites.
Iovation tracks more than 16 million devices for its customers, quadruple the number that the company tracked at the beginning of this year.
How Much They Got from VCs:
They got $10 million from Intel Capital, with the promise of another $5 million if it cannot find more investors. It is the first outside funding for the Portland software maker.
More at:http://www.iovation.com/
iovation Reputation Services are built on an advanced device identification and reputation management platform to prevent online fraud, abusive behavior, and unauthorized access to online services. The system flags suspicious and hard-to-spot associations among online accounts/transactions and devices. Members of our reputation network benefit from sharing fraud intelligence to proactively stop known offenders.
iovation Reputation Services consist of several solutions built on the underlying reputation management platform called Device Reputation Authority™ (DRA).
Why to use it:
If you’re serious about managing risk, protecting your brand and customers, iovation Reputation Services™ should become a key component of your best practices program for online fraud prevention and multi-factor authentication.
Why Is it Different:
Unlike other products that help e-commerce sites identify fraudsters, Iovation doesn't track personal information. In other words, it doesn't track people, it tracks computers.
It gathers data that tells a company which computers, hand-helds or cell phones have been responsible for credit card fraud, cheating at online games, stalking or other bad actions at Iovation clients' Web sites.
Iovation tracks more than 16 million devices for its customers, quadruple the number that the company tracked at the beginning of this year.
How Much They Got from VCs:
They got $10 million from Intel Capital, with the promise of another $5 million if it cannot find more investors. It is the first outside funding for the Portland software maker.
More at:http://www.iovation.com/
Blowtorch is an entertainment company got $50 million in initial funding including an equity investment from Ignition Partners
What Company is Offering:
Blowtorch is an entertainment company that joins forces with you, their online legion of young, creative thinkers, to create unique feature length and short form films. You see, they kinda look at it like this, if you've helped to create something, there's a good chance you might actually like it.
And for those choosing to partake in the experience, they encourage you to put your stink on all things Blowtorch, or maybe just kick back and enjoy the deliciously stinky fruits of your peers labors.
How It Works:
Submit a video of your best short film idea. The theme can be anything at all related to “TECHNOLOGY.” Internet dating, killer robot vacuums, used time machine salesmen...whatever.
Remember, it’s all about the idea, not how you shoot it. So, a video camera is great, but a web-cam works too. Shoot it, pitch it, just get your idea out there. If yours wins, we’ll fly you out to LA to produce it for real. Submit as many as you like, just keep them under 3 minutes.
Blowtorch puts out 6 feature films per year. They play in hundreds of theaters nationwide. Any one film might be funny or edgy or scary, but if anything, they will always celebrate irreverence, engaging you in a familiar voice and attitude.
Likewise, their original live action and animated short films, or as we call them our "Blowtorch Shorts," are cut from the same cloth, just shamelessly and unapologetically making fun of anything and everything that gets in their way.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced that it has secured more than $50 million in initial funding including an equity investment from Ignition Partners.To create a media company for the young adult audience based on the belief that their media consumption behaviors require new rules for media creation. The investment enables Blowtorch to launch a three-year stream of feature films and short-form content, as well as to build the Blowtorch.com online community. The company’s first feature film release will be “You Are Here” and will debut in theaters in spring 2008.
Who Is behind Them:
The company was established by senior executives in entertainment, technology and advertising from firms including Leo Burnett, MTV, Ogilvy & Mather, Starcom MediaVest Group, Verizon and major Hollywood studios.
More at:http://bigscreen.blowtorch.com/
Blowtorch is an entertainment company that joins forces with you, their online legion of young, creative thinkers, to create unique feature length and short form films. You see, they kinda look at it like this, if you've helped to create something, there's a good chance you might actually like it.
And for those choosing to partake in the experience, they encourage you to put your stink on all things Blowtorch, or maybe just kick back and enjoy the deliciously stinky fruits of your peers labors.
How It Works:
Submit a video of your best short film idea. The theme can be anything at all related to “TECHNOLOGY.” Internet dating, killer robot vacuums, used time machine salesmen...whatever.
Remember, it’s all about the idea, not how you shoot it. So, a video camera is great, but a web-cam works too. Shoot it, pitch it, just get your idea out there. If yours wins, we’ll fly you out to LA to produce it for real. Submit as many as you like, just keep them under 3 minutes.
Blowtorch puts out 6 feature films per year. They play in hundreds of theaters nationwide. Any one film might be funny or edgy or scary, but if anything, they will always celebrate irreverence, engaging you in a familiar voice and attitude.
Likewise, their original live action and animated short films, or as we call them our "Blowtorch Shorts," are cut from the same cloth, just shamelessly and unapologetically making fun of anything and everything that gets in their way.
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced that it has secured more than $50 million in initial funding including an equity investment from Ignition Partners.To create a media company for the young adult audience based on the belief that their media consumption behaviors require new rules for media creation. The investment enables Blowtorch to launch a three-year stream of feature films and short-form content, as well as to build the Blowtorch.com online community. The company’s first feature film release will be “You Are Here” and will debut in theaters in spring 2008.
Who Is behind Them:
The company was established by senior executives in entertainment, technology and advertising from firms including Leo Burnett, MTV, Ogilvy & Mather, Starcom MediaVest Group, Verizon and major Hollywood studios.
More at:http://bigscreen.blowtorch.com/
Tilefile Your Personal Content Channel Got VCs Funding From Motorola Ventures
What Company is offering:
To bring you The Content You Care About™. Over time Tilefile will evolve to become your personal content channel, where the content you care about will be fed to you in a constant stream of Tiles, without you having to do anything. For the content that doesn't interest you, we will work hard to make sure it never gets to you.
How It Works:
When you upload photos, videos and audio to Tilefile, it gets wrapped as "Tiles" and automatically shared with your contact list. Similarly all the content your friends upload is automatically shared with you in your "Social Feed".
Instead of using emails as the vehicle for sharing your media, use Tilefiles. Tilefiles allow you to add descriptions and comments, they can be embedded into web pages, and they are evolving fast. Because they live in the web, they won't clog up your inbox.
As more people start to channel their media through Tilefile, we will add new ways of integrating with your existing social networks and services, and new devices that can upload to Tilefile and browse the service.
With Tiles you don't have to distinguish between photos, videos, audio or messages. Everything becomes simply a "Tile". When you upload a piece of media to TileFile it gets automatically turned into a Tile. This way everyone shares one format for organizing and combining their experiences. Tilefiles are "community neutral". The moment a Tile is created it is ready to be shared or embedded in other communities, blogs and websites. You may also embed folders of Tilefiles so that they appear as a "Grid" of thumbnails, ready for navigation or viewing as a slide show.
How Much They Got In VCs Funding:
Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, today announced that it has made an equity investment in Tilefile Limited.
About VC:http://www.motorola.com/
More at:http://www.tilefile.com/
To bring you The Content You Care About™. Over time Tilefile will evolve to become your personal content channel, where the content you care about will be fed to you in a constant stream of Tiles, without you having to do anything. For the content that doesn't interest you, we will work hard to make sure it never gets to you.
How It Works:
When you upload photos, videos and audio to Tilefile, it gets wrapped as "Tiles" and automatically shared with your contact list. Similarly all the content your friends upload is automatically shared with you in your "Social Feed".
Instead of using emails as the vehicle for sharing your media, use Tilefiles. Tilefiles allow you to add descriptions and comments, they can be embedded into web pages, and they are evolving fast. Because they live in the web, they won't clog up your inbox.
As more people start to channel their media through Tilefile, we will add new ways of integrating with your existing social networks and services, and new devices that can upload to Tilefile and browse the service.
With Tiles you don't have to distinguish between photos, videos, audio or messages. Everything becomes simply a "Tile". When you upload a piece of media to TileFile it gets automatically turned into a Tile. This way everyone shares one format for organizing and combining their experiences. Tilefiles are "community neutral". The moment a Tile is created it is ready to be shared or embedded in other communities, blogs and websites. You may also embed folders of Tilefiles so that they appear as a "Grid" of thumbnails, ready for navigation or viewing as a slide show.
How Much They Got In VCs Funding:
Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, today announced that it has made an equity investment in Tilefile Limited.
About VC:http://www.motorola.com/
More at:http://www.tilefile.com/
CakeMail is the world’s newest white label email marketing platform
What Company is Offering:
CakeMail is the world’s newest white label email marketing platform. It’s a true private label tool that uses a reseller’s own domain name, even for the user interface. And it can be offered in any language. Plus, it’s got an API that lets agencies and third-party developers extend, integrate and build on all that goodness. Happily, this delicious combination comes at a price that won’t make you sick to your stomach.
How It Works:
For end-users, it's a great online tool for easily creating and managing newsletter mailings. Visit a CakeMail reseller to open a user account.
For agencies, it's a true white label solution that lets you adopt CakeMail and market it as your own with total control over the design, branding and domain name.
For third-party developers, designers and translators, it's a platform that you can use to extend CakeMail's features with plugins, skins, and new interface languages.
Why to use it:
Email marketing is a terrific tool that can give agencies’ customers a real edge. So why aren’t more agencies offering it to their clients? Building and managing one’s own platform is both expensive and complicated. And many so-called white label options still redirect agencies’ customers to a domain name and an interface over which they have little control when it comes to branding, design or language. Until now.
More at:http://www.cakemail.com/
CakeMail is the world’s newest white label email marketing platform. It’s a true private label tool that uses a reseller’s own domain name, even for the user interface. And it can be offered in any language. Plus, it’s got an API that lets agencies and third-party developers extend, integrate and build on all that goodness. Happily, this delicious combination comes at a price that won’t make you sick to your stomach.
How It Works:
For end-users, it's a great online tool for easily creating and managing newsletter mailings. Visit a CakeMail reseller to open a user account.
For agencies, it's a true white label solution that lets you adopt CakeMail and market it as your own with total control over the design, branding and domain name.
For third-party developers, designers and translators, it's a platform that you can use to extend CakeMail's features with plugins, skins, and new interface languages.
Why to use it:
Email marketing is a terrific tool that can give agencies’ customers a real edge. So why aren’t more agencies offering it to their clients? Building and managing one’s own platform is both expensive and complicated. And many so-called white label options still redirect agencies’ customers to a domain name and an interface over which they have little control when it comes to branding, design or language. Until now.
More at:http://www.cakemail.com/
Rich Sage--Money Making Wisdom
What Company is Offering:
The RICH SAGE will review your web site or blog and take an article that you have written about it and publish on my network, based on category.
How It Works:
The aim of the Rich Sage is to present outstanding monetizing (online money making methods), online success building lessons, a forum and membership to help you build your online income. Since then a million places and hundreds of ad networks have sprung up all over the world. Yet, very few of these services offer the local business a way to effectively resolve their advertising needs. Furthermore, the solutions that are out there are very expensive for the local small business that has a monthly budget of a few dollars to get things done.Everything you do to build your business and the Rich Sage promoted Affiliate Programs, are discussed at richsage.com to help you and other readers build their own businesses.
And that discussion along with your membership area and affiliate program (which are also FREE) helps you start earning money online.
More at:http://www.richsage.com/
The RICH SAGE will review your web site or blog and take an article that you have written about it and publish on my network, based on category.
How It Works:
The aim of the Rich Sage is to present outstanding monetizing (online money making methods), online success building lessons, a forum and membership to help you build your online income. Since then a million places and hundreds of ad networks have sprung up all over the world. Yet, very few of these services offer the local business a way to effectively resolve their advertising needs. Furthermore, the solutions that are out there are very expensive for the local small business that has a monthly budget of a few dollars to get things done.Everything you do to build your business and the Rich Sage promoted Affiliate Programs, are discussed at richsage.com to help you and other readers build their own businesses.
And that discussion along with your membership area and affiliate program (which are also FREE) helps you start earning money online.
More at:http://www.richsage.com/
CouchTycoon ---Friend And Family Venture Network
What Company is offering:
The CouchTycoon Friends n Family Venture Network is an internet community that aims to grow to the strongest investment consortium trough the power of united internet users all over the globe. It stands for community managed ventures. The community owns equities in companies, start-ups, single projects and even standard investment products every community member can buy stakes (we call them "Asset Slips") from
CouchTycoon enables you to submit new investment ideas, to discuss and vote on them and finally to decide about major issues and invest jointly.
How It Works:
Participants can directly invest in start-ups starting at approximately $ 4 and they can trade their shares they’ve bought once. So startups get financed and quoted in real values and at their very first steps they do. To invest and trade shares of startups you must convert your dollars to "CouchChips" first, as they call their own currency. To submit a project is as easy as writing an e-mail or blogging. Describe your project like you would do in an e-mail to one of your friends. Your post will appear on the "Going to Beef Island" site as well as in the "Going to Beef Island Feed".
What's Different:
CouchTycoon lets the community participate in the success-stories of the web. Not like the other sites that let their user work for them by creating their content. CouchTycoon lets their user participate in a startups’ success.
More at:http://www.couchtycoon.net/
The CouchTycoon Friends n Family Venture Network is an internet community that aims to grow to the strongest investment consortium trough the power of united internet users all over the globe. It stands for community managed ventures. The community owns equities in companies, start-ups, single projects and even standard investment products every community member can buy stakes (we call them "Asset Slips") from
CouchTycoon enables you to submit new investment ideas, to discuss and vote on them and finally to decide about major issues and invest jointly.
How It Works:
Participants can directly invest in start-ups starting at approximately $ 4 and they can trade their shares they’ve bought once. So startups get financed and quoted in real values and at their very first steps they do. To invest and trade shares of startups you must convert your dollars to "CouchChips" first, as they call their own currency. To submit a project is as easy as writing an e-mail or blogging. Describe your project like you would do in an e-mail to one of your friends. Your post will appear on the "Going to Beef Island" site as well as in the "Going to Beef Island Feed".
What's Different:
CouchTycoon lets the community participate in the success-stories of the web. Not like the other sites that let their user work for them by creating their content. CouchTycoon lets their user participate in a startups’ success.
More at:http://www.couchtycoon.net/
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