What Company Is Offering:
Smilebox makes it easy to connect with friends and family in a more creative and compelling way.Smilebox creates a new category of service called "creative messaging," which draws from related categories including photo services, scrapbooking and ecards; delivering a new medium for communication that is unparalleled in its ability to convey mood, thought and emotion.
How Is It Different:
Unlike other solutions that focus on organizing, editing, and sharing photos or sending pre-packaged ecards, the Smilebox online service enables users to create something truly powerful by choosing from hundreds of unique multimedia designs, easily personalizing them with their photos, video, music, words, and style, and then sharing them via email, blog, or print.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Smilebox, the leader in multimedia expressions technology, announced it has raised $7 million in Series B financing. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round and was joined by existing investor Frazier Technology Ventures. Rob Stavis, Managing Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will join the Smilebox board of directors.
How This Product Is Progressing:
The Series B financing comes at a time when more than 1.8 million users have installed the Smilebox service since its launch in June 2006 and more than 1.3 million unique users worldwide access it monthly.
More at:http://www.smilebox.com/about/
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
MOG music community is launching with Rhapsody digital music, for providing MOG with full song playbacks
What Company Is Offering:
MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery. With MOG, you can find, share, and talk about the music you’re into, from Abba to Zappa.
Whether you’re a die-hard music junkie, or just looking for inspiration for your latest party playlist, MOG is your essential online music source. Created by a passionate community of music lovers and powered by cutting edge music discovery technology, MOG makes it ridiculously easy to find new music, watch music videos, and read news and reviews that match your personal taste in music.
Recent Updates:
MOG music community is launching a full-site integration with Rhapsody digital music, for providing MOG with full song playbacks. This announcement comes alongside new search functionality that MOG is rolling out today as well. While MOG already began to offer full-length music with its relaunch a couple of months back, the Rhapsody integration, however, is still pretty important. It lets MOG utilize Rhapsody’s music license agreements and adds another layer of music capabilities to MOG, which revolves around the shared media and wisdom from users and others in the music industry.
And being integrated throughout the entire MOG site means that Rhapsody’s music offering will be made available in multiple ways and through various access points: the yellow “play icon beside any song title, the MOG-O-MATIC auto-profiling software and recommendations “play all” options, widgets, playlists, an legacy blog posts. Additionally, tags with blog posts that include song and artist information will automatically add Rhapsody links so other MOG users can have quick access to the full-length clips.
More at:http://mog.com/
Via-Mashable
MOG, your personalized gateway for music discovery. With MOG, you can find, share, and talk about the music you’re into, from Abba to Zappa.
Whether you’re a die-hard music junkie, or just looking for inspiration for your latest party playlist, MOG is your essential online music source. Created by a passionate community of music lovers and powered by cutting edge music discovery technology, MOG makes it ridiculously easy to find new music, watch music videos, and read news and reviews that match your personal taste in music.
Recent Updates:
MOG music community is launching a full-site integration with Rhapsody digital music, for providing MOG with full song playbacks. This announcement comes alongside new search functionality that MOG is rolling out today as well. While MOG already began to offer full-length music with its relaunch a couple of months back, the Rhapsody integration, however, is still pretty important. It lets MOG utilize Rhapsody’s music license agreements and adds another layer of music capabilities to MOG, which revolves around the shared media and wisdom from users and others in the music industry.
And being integrated throughout the entire MOG site means that Rhapsody’s music offering will be made available in multiple ways and through various access points: the yellow “play icon beside any song title, the MOG-O-MATIC auto-profiling software and recommendations “play all” options, widgets, playlists, an legacy blog posts. Additionally, tags with blog posts that include song and artist information will automatically add Rhapsody links so other MOG users can have quick access to the full-length clips.
More at:http://mog.com/
Via-Mashable
Celebitrix is a self-promotional website
What Company Is Offering:
Celebitrix is the ultimate place to seek connections and network with your closest online users. Within their subculture they believe that the extraordinary and the ordinary deserve to be a celebrity. With Celebitrix you can post video snippets, comment to friends, bling your products, blog and create stories, browse news, and much more.
How It Works:
Their aim is to supply user-generated content as well as strategic services and products to promote identity for individuals or groups in any facet of business development. Whether you're a male, female, pet, or band they'll make sure you're connected with the right people safely. Their networking system allows full privacy options.
People are using their Bling-It(TM) service to sell their bling items. This specialized service is allowing users to search for bling nation-wide and set their own pricing for ad displays. Bling-It continues to integrate new user-friendly features to create the ultimate ad posting portal online.
When you visit Celebitrix you'll soon discover a wide variety of Web Templates to initiate your web presence. Within their web template nest, startups are purchasing their ideal template design in a matter of a minutes thanks to their specific searching capability. They're adding templates daily and their inventory is forever increasing. They make templates easy to integrate for non-developers by detailing FAQ information in our highly dynamic support area.
More at:http://www.mycelebritywebsite.com/
Celebitrix is the ultimate place to seek connections and network with your closest online users. Within their subculture they believe that the extraordinary and the ordinary deserve to be a celebrity. With Celebitrix you can post video snippets, comment to friends, bling your products, blog and create stories, browse news, and much more.
How It Works:
Their aim is to supply user-generated content as well as strategic services and products to promote identity for individuals or groups in any facet of business development. Whether you're a male, female, pet, or band they'll make sure you're connected with the right people safely. Their networking system allows full privacy options.
People are using their Bling-It(TM) service to sell their bling items. This specialized service is allowing users to search for bling nation-wide and set their own pricing for ad displays. Bling-It continues to integrate new user-friendly features to create the ultimate ad posting portal online.
When you visit Celebitrix you'll soon discover a wide variety of Web Templates to initiate your web presence. Within their web template nest, startups are purchasing their ideal template design in a matter of a minutes thanks to their specific searching capability. They're adding templates daily and their inventory is forever increasing. They make templates easy to integrate for non-developers by detailing FAQ information in our highly dynamic support area.
More at:http://www.mycelebritywebsite.com/
PriceAdvance is the easiest way to compare prices while you shop, with the most accurate product matches
What Company is Offering:
PriceAdvance is the easiest way to compare prices while you shop, with the most accurate product matches.
If a product doesn't match exactly, they won't display it. This means you won't find an Angel costume if you're trying to compare prices on Halo 3.
PriceAdvance is a product of MediaNext, Inc., founded by Adam Gotterer and Roddy Richards.
How It Works:
The PriceAdvance Plugin finds you better prices for the products you're already viewing while you shop. Save time, save money. After installing the PriceAdvance FireFox addon, browse to a product page on one of our supported merchants' sites (for example, Amazon.com, Buy.com, BestBuy.com, or CircuitCity.com).
A list of merchants and prices will appear top left. These are the other merchants with the product you're already browsing, sorted by price.
More at:http://www.priceadvance.com/
PriceAdvance is the easiest way to compare prices while you shop, with the most accurate product matches.
If a product doesn't match exactly, they won't display it. This means you won't find an Angel costume if you're trying to compare prices on Halo 3.
PriceAdvance is a product of MediaNext, Inc., founded by Adam Gotterer and Roddy Richards.
How It Works:
The PriceAdvance Plugin finds you better prices for the products you're already viewing while you shop. Save time, save money. After installing the PriceAdvance FireFox addon, browse to a product page on one of our supported merchants' sites (for example, Amazon.com, Buy.com, BestBuy.com, or CircuitCity.com).
A list of merchants and prices will appear top left. These are the other merchants with the product you're already browsing, sorted by price.
More at:http://www.priceadvance.com/
HollywoodPrize--The online entertainment marketing, lead generation, CRM, mobile messaging, social networking portal
What Company Is Offering:
HollywoodPrize is a lead generation, viral loyalty rewards and direct online entertainment marketing promotions portal.
Submit or Add A Sweepstakes Contest to the new HollywoodPrize.com Daily Sweeps Directory! Simply sign up today and drive more targeted traffic to your contest. HollywoodPrize is the most comprehensive sweepstakes contest portal on the net today.
How It Works:
They offer data management and online registration solutions for various entertainment brands and companies (i.e. independent record labels, bands/musicians, filmmakers, solo artists, comedians, performance/fine artists, classical dance, theatre, casting directors, event organizers, managers, tv/film production companies, gaming, sports/athletics, book/magazine publishers and performance/fine art organizations).
Artists can run sweepstakes contests, manage online street teams and mobile marketing campaigns. Managers and agents can submit actors / actresses to casting directors while festival organizers can manage call for entries from filmmakers. HollywoodPrize is simple and easy to use. By entering into one contest, you can create an entertainment marketing profile that is a snapshot in time of your entertainment interests. Whether you are an artist, fan, consumer, manager, or general entertainment enthusiast, HollywoodPrize is the premiere portal for online entertainment and artistic registration. You can also refer a friend to each contest and earn points for each quality referral. Once you reach a certain point level, you can earn free prizes. Just create a contestant profile today and you can create your own MySummary page and share your latest promotions with friends.
More at:http://www.hollywoodprize.com/
HollywoodPrize is a lead generation, viral loyalty rewards and direct online entertainment marketing promotions portal.
Submit or Add A Sweepstakes Contest to the new HollywoodPrize.com Daily Sweeps Directory! Simply sign up today and drive more targeted traffic to your contest. HollywoodPrize is the most comprehensive sweepstakes contest portal on the net today.
How It Works:
They offer data management and online registration solutions for various entertainment brands and companies (i.e. independent record labels, bands/musicians, filmmakers, solo artists, comedians, performance/fine artists, classical dance, theatre, casting directors, event organizers, managers, tv/film production companies, gaming, sports/athletics, book/magazine publishers and performance/fine art organizations).
Artists can run sweepstakes contests, manage online street teams and mobile marketing campaigns. Managers and agents can submit actors / actresses to casting directors while festival organizers can manage call for entries from filmmakers. HollywoodPrize is simple and easy to use. By entering into one contest, you can create an entertainment marketing profile that is a snapshot in time of your entertainment interests. Whether you are an artist, fan, consumer, manager, or general entertainment enthusiast, HollywoodPrize is the premiere portal for online entertainment and artistic registration. You can also refer a friend to each contest and earn points for each quality referral. Once you reach a certain point level, you can earn free prizes. Just create a contestant profile today and you can create your own MySummary page and share your latest promotions with friends.
More at:http://www.hollywoodprize.com/
ChannelMe is the best place to register a .TV domain name for your business
What Company Is Offering:
Demand MediaTM is building a different type of new media company.
With a proprietary media platform that powers the company's highly-trafficked domains and wholly-owned content media properties, Demand Media leverages cutting edge, user-driven publishing, community and monetization tools in its quest to define the next generation of new media companies
The .TV domain extension is open to anyone, just like .COM or .NET. You don't have to be a television mogul to own one . But unlike .COM where the best names disappeared shortly after dinosaurs, fabulous .TV domains are still available. Many domain registrars offer .TV names. GoDaddy, for instance, charges $39.99. But since Demand Media owns the primary .TV engine, including a vast inventory of premium names.Thats why its free.
How It Works:
ChannelMe is the best place to register a .TV domain name for your business since you get an all-in-one channel building kit free with a $24.95 registration that will allow you to:
Program your channel: Upload your own videos, or link to others on the web. Let customers, prospects and other visitors rate and comment on your channel's content.
Create and customize your business profile: Select a channel design template; customize an avatar, display "About" text and more.
Start a blog, forum or survey: It's never been easier. Talk to your customers. Make entries public or private, with moderated or unmoderated comments.
Post photos of your products, place of business, customers, staff or whatever you like.Start your own business ( "social") network: Invite customers and prospects to view, join and participate in your business channel. Share links and build a community.Make some money: Turn on the advertising feature to include search ads on your site and share in the revenue.
More at:http://domains.channelme.tv/
Demand MediaTM is building a different type of new media company.
With a proprietary media platform that powers the company's highly-trafficked domains and wholly-owned content media properties, Demand Media leverages cutting edge, user-driven publishing, community and monetization tools in its quest to define the next generation of new media companies
The .TV domain extension is open to anyone, just like .COM or .NET. You don't have to be a television mogul to own one . But unlike .COM where the best names disappeared shortly after dinosaurs, fabulous .TV domains are still available. Many domain registrars offer .TV names. GoDaddy, for instance, charges $39.99. But since Demand Media owns the primary .TV engine, including a vast inventory of premium names.Thats why its free.
How It Works:
ChannelMe is the best place to register a .TV domain name for your business since you get an all-in-one channel building kit free with a $24.95 registration that will allow you to:
Program your channel: Upload your own videos, or link to others on the web. Let customers, prospects and other visitors rate and comment on your channel's content.
Create and customize your business profile: Select a channel design template; customize an avatar, display "About" text and more.
Start a blog, forum or survey: It's never been easier. Talk to your customers. Make entries public or private, with moderated or unmoderated comments.
Post photos of your products, place of business, customers, staff or whatever you like.Start your own business ( "social") network: Invite customers and prospects to view, join and participate in your business channel. Share links and build a community.Make some money: Turn on the advertising feature to include search ads on your site and share in the revenue.
More at:http://domains.channelme.tv/
fatfoogoo provides a player-2-player marketplace for the trading of virtual goods and services
What Company Is Offering
fatfoogoo provides a player-2-player marketplace for the trading of virtual goods and services as extension to major virtual worlds and multiplayer games. The fatfoogoo.com portal offers in-game-services, e.g. support for challenging missions or virtual tour guides to online worlds as well as virtual game goods such as weapons, currency, characters or virtual buildings.
fatfoogoo thus explores a completely new business field within a strongly growing new market setting international standards for the secondary trade with virtual goods and services.
How It Works:
fatfoogoo's revenue is generated from a cut of every transaction that runs through the platform. Creating a shop and listing articles is free. The platform offers extensive capabilities to be marketed virally through gaming clans and guildes. Integrating the feedback of the community, user ratings and votings allows to create a fair and trustful market place.
What's Market For That Kind Of Product:
The global market for trading virtual game goods and services generated revenues of around 1 billion USD in 2006 and will rise dramatically to a 7 billion Dollar market in 2009. (see Nielsen 2006 and ScreenDigest 2007). This makes electronic commerce and virtual goods/services trading an important alternative business model to classical subscription programs that are currently the dominating business pattern for projects such as World of WarcraftTM and Second LifeTM.
More at:http://www.fatfoogoo.com/
fatfoogoo provides a player-2-player marketplace for the trading of virtual goods and services as extension to major virtual worlds and multiplayer games. The fatfoogoo.com portal offers in-game-services, e.g. support for challenging missions or virtual tour guides to online worlds as well as virtual game goods such as weapons, currency, characters or virtual buildings.
fatfoogoo thus explores a completely new business field within a strongly growing new market setting international standards for the secondary trade with virtual goods and services.
How It Works:
fatfoogoo's revenue is generated from a cut of every transaction that runs through the platform. Creating a shop and listing articles is free. The platform offers extensive capabilities to be marketed virally through gaming clans and guildes. Integrating the feedback of the community, user ratings and votings allows to create a fair and trustful market place.
What's Market For That Kind Of Product:
The global market for trading virtual game goods and services generated revenues of around 1 billion USD in 2006 and will rise dramatically to a 7 billion Dollar market in 2009. (see Nielsen 2006 and ScreenDigest 2007). This makes electronic commerce and virtual goods/services trading an important alternative business model to classical subscription programs that are currently the dominating business pattern for projects such as World of WarcraftTM and Second LifeTM.
More at:http://www.fatfoogoo.com/
IDC Finds Strong Demand for Archiving and Data Protection and Recovery Software Driving Market Growth
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the worldwide storage software market experienced its 16th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2007 with revenues of $2.8 billion, a 9.8% increase over the same quarter one year ago.
"Overall market growth was driven by strong performance in both the archiving and data protection and recovery markets," according to Michael Margossian, research analyst, Storage Software at IDC. "Customer demand for storage replication seems to be cooling off, while the need for archiving appears to be picking up."
The archiving market grew 13.6% year over year, driven by e-discovery, regulatory compliance, and overall storage optimization needs. Data protection and recovery, while down from 2Q07, had strong year-over-year growth of 13.1%. This growth was perpetuated by five out of the top six vendors having double-digit growth over 3Q06.
EMC led the overall market with 25.6% revenue share in the third quarter of 2007. Symantec took the second position with 17.0% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.4% revenue share. Network Appliance finished in the fourth position with 10.9% revenue share. Again, CA and HP rounded out the top 5 in a statistical tie, with both having a 4.3% revenue share.
"Overall market growth was driven by strong performance in both the archiving and data protection and recovery markets," according to Michael Margossian, research analyst, Storage Software at IDC. "Customer demand for storage replication seems to be cooling off, while the need for archiving appears to be picking up."
The archiving market grew 13.6% year over year, driven by e-discovery, regulatory compliance, and overall storage optimization needs. Data protection and recovery, while down from 2Q07, had strong year-over-year growth of 13.1%. This growth was perpetuated by five out of the top six vendors having double-digit growth over 3Q06.
EMC led the overall market with 25.6% revenue share in the third quarter of 2007. Symantec took the second position with 17.0% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 12.4% revenue share. Network Appliance finished in the fourth position with 10.9% revenue share. Again, CA and HP rounded out the top 5 in a statistical tie, with both having a 4.3% revenue share.
RivalMap let us immediately setup a competitive intelligence platform for tracking key competitors
What Company is Offering:
RivalMap is web-based collaboration software that gives companies a central place to share and address information about competitors and their industry. If your company spends any time watching competitors and their activities, RivalMap will make the management and communication of competitive information much easier and more effective.
How It Works:
RivalMap enables new forms of communication for uncovering and sharing critical information.Break down communication barriers. Share news, files and important information. Work together to address concerns. Get information from the right people.
RivalMap let us immediately setup a competitive intelligence platform for tracking key competitors, discussing events, and sharing facts, tips, and rumors. As a hosted service, we didn't need to go through the IT and the capital planning process. We were up and running immediately and able to share this resource globally across organizational functions. RivalMap has been particularly helpful in sharing competitive intelligence with our international offices.
More at:http://www.rivalmap.com/
RivalMap is web-based collaboration software that gives companies a central place to share and address information about competitors and their industry. If your company spends any time watching competitors and their activities, RivalMap will make the management and communication of competitive information much easier and more effective.
How It Works:
RivalMap enables new forms of communication for uncovering and sharing critical information.Break down communication barriers. Share news, files and important information. Work together to address concerns. Get information from the right people.
RivalMap let us immediately setup a competitive intelligence platform for tracking key competitors, discussing events, and sharing facts, tips, and rumors. As a hosted service, we didn't need to go through the IT and the capital planning process. We were up and running immediately and able to share this resource globally across organizational functions. RivalMap has been particularly helpful in sharing competitive intelligence with our international offices.
More at:http://www.rivalmap.com/
Kenshoo, is a provider of end-to-end search marketing automated technology
What Company is Offering:
Kenshoo, is a provider of end-to-end search marketing automated technology for advertisers and agencies worldwide.
The company's flagship product KENSHOO SEARCH(TM) provides automated Quality Management for cross- platform search campaigns. Kenshoo's unique technology and approach enables advertisers and agencies worldwide to reach high volumes, optimize campaigns and to boost ROI.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sequoia Capital and Kenshoo, provider of innovative Search Marketing Automated Solutions, announced a strategic collaboration upon official closing of the institutional funding round. The investment by Sequoia Capital will be used to accelerate the company's rapid growth in key global markets, including the launch of an office in the UK in early 2008, and roll out to other global markets through the year.
About VCs:
Sequoia Capital, based in Palo Alto, California has provided startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs," Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Gaurav Garg of Redback Networks, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor, Lou Tomasetta of Vitesse Semiconductor, Steve Jobs of Apple Computer and Larry Ellison of Oracle. The companies organized by Sequoia Capital now account for about 12% of the value of NASDAQ. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit http://www.sequoiacap.com/
More at:
http://www.kenshoo.com
Kenshoo, is a provider of end-to-end search marketing automated technology for advertisers and agencies worldwide.
The company's flagship product KENSHOO SEARCH(TM) provides automated Quality Management for cross- platform search campaigns. Kenshoo's unique technology and approach enables advertisers and agencies worldwide to reach high volumes, optimize campaigns and to boost ROI.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sequoia Capital and Kenshoo, provider of innovative Search Marketing Automated Solutions, announced a strategic collaboration upon official closing of the institutional funding round. The investment by Sequoia Capital will be used to accelerate the company's rapid growth in key global markets, including the launch of an office in the UK in early 2008, and roll out to other global markets through the year.
About VCs:
Sequoia Capital, based in Palo Alto, California has provided startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs," Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Gaurav Garg of Redback Networks, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor, Lou Tomasetta of Vitesse Semiconductor, Steve Jobs of Apple Computer and Larry Ellison of Oracle. The companies organized by Sequoia Capital now account for about 12% of the value of NASDAQ. To learn more about Sequoia Capital visit http://www.sequoiacap.com/
More at:
http://www.kenshoo.com
Twenga is the leading next generation shopping search engine got VCs funding
What Company is Offering :
Twenga is the leading next generation shopping search engine, committed to giving consumers the largest choice of products and retailers online, and the tools to make smarter decisions. Twenga, meaning "straight to the point" in Swahili, prides itself on its true impartiality, listing search results by relevance. Its comprehensive product catalogue is fuelled by a proprietary crawl technology that enables the indexing of all products and retailers on the web. Founded in September 2006 and headquartered in Paris, France, Twenga currently has sites in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and, Poland. Listing 40 million products from over 25,000 merchants, the Twenga sites are growing rapidly.
How Much They Got In VCs Funding:
3i today announces a Euro2.6m investment in Twenga SA, a next generation shopping search engine, enabling consumers to compare, review and purchase the most complete range of products online.
About VCs:
3i is a world leader in private equity and venture capital. They focus on Buyouts, Growth Capital, Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Quoted Private Equity ("QPE") and invest across Europe, the United States and Asia. Their competitive advantage comes from their international network and the strength and breadth of their business relationships. These underpin the value that we deliver to our portfolio and to our shareholders.
3i's Venture Capital partners focus on investing in scaleable early to late stage technology and healthcare businesses on a global basis. The business currently manages investments across Europe, US, Asia and Israel. 3i VC plans to invest $1.5bn funds over the next five years in exciting and ambitious companies in the following areas: IT (digital media, enterprise IT and semiconductors), healthcare (biotech, medtech and specialty pharma) and clean technology.
More at:http://www.twenga.com/
Twenga is the leading next generation shopping search engine, committed to giving consumers the largest choice of products and retailers online, and the tools to make smarter decisions. Twenga, meaning "straight to the point" in Swahili, prides itself on its true impartiality, listing search results by relevance. Its comprehensive product catalogue is fuelled by a proprietary crawl technology that enables the indexing of all products and retailers on the web. Founded in September 2006 and headquartered in Paris, France, Twenga currently has sites in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and, Poland. Listing 40 million products from over 25,000 merchants, the Twenga sites are growing rapidly.
How Much They Got In VCs Funding:
3i today announces a Euro2.6m investment in Twenga SA, a next generation shopping search engine, enabling consumers to compare, review and purchase the most complete range of products online.
About VCs:
3i is a world leader in private equity and venture capital. They focus on Buyouts, Growth Capital, Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Quoted Private Equity ("QPE") and invest across Europe, the United States and Asia. Their competitive advantage comes from their international network and the strength and breadth of their business relationships. These underpin the value that we deliver to our portfolio and to our shareholders.
3i's Venture Capital partners focus on investing in scaleable early to late stage technology and healthcare businesses on a global basis. The business currently manages investments across Europe, US, Asia and Israel. 3i VC plans to invest $1.5bn funds over the next five years in exciting and ambitious companies in the following areas: IT (digital media, enterprise IT and semiconductors), healthcare (biotech, medtech and specialty pharma) and clean technology.
More at:http://www.twenga.com/
REVShare specializes in Cost-per-Action Got $20 million VCs Funding
About Company:
REVShare specializes in Cost-per-Action (CPA) television advertising. Reaching 110 million U.S. households, REVShare has relationships with more than 1,500 combined English and Spanish local market television stations, cable systems, syndicators, and networks that are willing to provide television time on a results basis. With a customer-oriented team, proven client results, state-of-the-art technology and marketing acumen, REVShare continues to lead the industry in the evolution of television advertising models to meet the challenges of the next generation of convergence and interactivity.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group and H.I.G. Ventures today announced they co-led a $20 million investment in REVShare, an exchange that allows advertisers to bid for television time on a Cost-per-Action (CPA) basis (akin to the Cost-per-Click method of web advertisers), versus the traditional method of charging based on projected audience size.
How This Company Is Progressing:
REVShare has created an innovative product and a broad network of 1,500 local market television properties that reach over 110 million U.S. households," said Josh Ofstein, a Carlyle Principal. "Similar to the Pay-per-Click model that has been so successful on the Internet, REVShare delivers a performance-based solution to advertisers, which we believe has tremendous growth potential."
About VCs:
1.The Carlyle Group.
The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm with $74.9 billion under management committed to 57 funds. Carlyle invests in buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America focusing on aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology & business services and telecommunications & media. Since 1987, the firm has invested $37.6 billion of equity in 734 transactions for a total purchase price of $212.8 billion. The Carlyle Group employs more than 990 people in 21 countries. In the aggregate, Carlyle portfolio companies have more than $87 billion in revenue and employ more than 286,000 people around the world. www.carlyle.com .
2.H.I.G. Ventures.
H.I.G. Ventures partners with entrepreneurs to provide the capital, expertise and relationships necessary to build market-leading businesses. With over $550 million in dedicated venture and growth capital under management, the firm's team invests nationally in early to later-stage information technology, life science and service businesses. H.I.G. Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a leading private equity investment firm with over $4 billion of capital under management. H.I.G. Ventures has offices in Atlanta, GA and Miami, FL. www.higventures.com .
More at:www.revshare.com
REVShare specializes in Cost-per-Action (CPA) television advertising. Reaching 110 million U.S. households, REVShare has relationships with more than 1,500 combined English and Spanish local market television stations, cable systems, syndicators, and networks that are willing to provide television time on a results basis. With a customer-oriented team, proven client results, state-of-the-art technology and marketing acumen, REVShare continues to lead the industry in the evolution of television advertising models to meet the challenges of the next generation of convergence and interactivity.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Global private equity firm The Carlyle Group and H.I.G. Ventures today announced they co-led a $20 million investment in REVShare, an exchange that allows advertisers to bid for television time on a Cost-per-Action (CPA) basis (akin to the Cost-per-Click method of web advertisers), versus the traditional method of charging based on projected audience size.
How This Company Is Progressing:
REVShare has created an innovative product and a broad network of 1,500 local market television properties that reach over 110 million U.S. households," said Josh Ofstein, a Carlyle Principal. "Similar to the Pay-per-Click model that has been so successful on the Internet, REVShare delivers a performance-based solution to advertisers, which we believe has tremendous growth potential."
About VCs:
1.The Carlyle Group.
The Carlyle Group is a global private equity firm with $74.9 billion under management committed to 57 funds. Carlyle invests in buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America focusing on aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology & business services and telecommunications & media. Since 1987, the firm has invested $37.6 billion of equity in 734 transactions for a total purchase price of $212.8 billion. The Carlyle Group employs more than 990 people in 21 countries. In the aggregate, Carlyle portfolio companies have more than $87 billion in revenue and employ more than 286,000 people around the world. www.carlyle.com .
2.H.I.G. Ventures.
H.I.G. Ventures partners with entrepreneurs to provide the capital, expertise and relationships necessary to build market-leading businesses. With over $550 million in dedicated venture and growth capital under management, the firm's team invests nationally in early to later-stage information technology, life science and service businesses. H.I.G. Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a leading private equity investment firm with over $4 billion of capital under management. H.I.G. Ventures has offices in Atlanta, GA and Miami, FL. www.higventures.com .
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Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform
What Company is Offering:
Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability.
How It Works:
Network search allows you to discover content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords or a combination of both, as well as the ability to apply these same filters to search all postings, groups, friends, or friends' friends based on your own criteria. By analyzing the associations and patterns between trusted people, sources, tags and content, Searchles is able to deliver more precise, relevant results while suggesting content and people related to your interests.
The proprietary technology behind Searchles is an evolution of the search engine Dumbfind, developed by veteran search technologist and Searchles' founder and CTO Chris Seline. Both brands are wholly-owned by Searchles, Inc., a privately-held company based in Washington, D.C. backed by angel investors.
Who Is Backing The Company :
1.Chris Seline, Founder & CTO (aka dumbfounder).
7 years in the internet industry with particular expertise in search, data-mining and analytics. Co-founder/CTO of venture backed search engine 2wrongs.com which was acquired by Cyveillance, Inc. VP of R&D at Cyveillance. Graduate of Johns Hopkins University/B.S. degree in mechanical engineering.
2.Elias Shams, CEO (aka caveman).
MS in Telecommunication Engineering from George Washington University. BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland. Experienced technologist and business manager with 16 years expertise in the telecommunications, internet, ecommerce and networking industries. A Strategist with a successful history identifying opportunities, delivering solutions and breaking into some of the most competitive markets worldwide. Shams was founder and CTO of telezoo.com, a telecom solution search platform backed by $5 M in institutional and angel investment. He elevated the company into the top five B2B internet sites in the world next to cisco.com for three consecutive years, and brought the company to cash flow positive in 2001 with revenue of $1 M when most dot com companies were struggling. Prior to Telezoo, Shams was a project manager with a top secret security clearance at Yurie Systems, in charge of managing the mission-critical design and rapid deployment of the ATM over Satellite network used to support U.S. troops on the ground in Bosnia - the first of its kind. Yurie was subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies for $1.1 billion
3.Amy M. Smith (aka mindspeakr).
19 years as a business strategist helping companies leverage strengths to gain significant market-share from large, powerful and better funded concerns through integrated grassroots PR, marketing and business development strategies. Private consultant for technology, professional services, governmental and non profit advocacy concerns. Internal leadership roles with startup and established companies. University of Georgia.
More at:http://www.searchles.com/
Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability.
How It Works:
Network search allows you to discover content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords or a combination of both, as well as the ability to apply these same filters to search all postings, groups, friends, or friends' friends based on your own criteria. By analyzing the associations and patterns between trusted people, sources, tags and content, Searchles is able to deliver more precise, relevant results while suggesting content and people related to your interests.
The proprietary technology behind Searchles is an evolution of the search engine Dumbfind, developed by veteran search technologist and Searchles' founder and CTO Chris Seline. Both brands are wholly-owned by Searchles, Inc., a privately-held company based in Washington, D.C. backed by angel investors.
Who Is Backing The Company :
1.Chris Seline, Founder & CTO (aka dumbfounder).
7 years in the internet industry with particular expertise in search, data-mining and analytics. Co-founder/CTO of venture backed search engine 2wrongs.com which was acquired by Cyveillance, Inc. VP of R&D at Cyveillance. Graduate of Johns Hopkins University/B.S. degree in mechanical engineering.
2.Elias Shams, CEO (aka caveman).
MS in Telecommunication Engineering from George Washington University. BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland. Experienced technologist and business manager with 16 years expertise in the telecommunications, internet, ecommerce and networking industries. A Strategist with a successful history identifying opportunities, delivering solutions and breaking into some of the most competitive markets worldwide. Shams was founder and CTO of telezoo.com, a telecom solution search platform backed by $5 M in institutional and angel investment. He elevated the company into the top five B2B internet sites in the world next to cisco.com for three consecutive years, and brought the company to cash flow positive in 2001 with revenue of $1 M when most dot com companies were struggling. Prior to Telezoo, Shams was a project manager with a top secret security clearance at Yurie Systems, in charge of managing the mission-critical design and rapid deployment of the ATM over Satellite network used to support U.S. troops on the ground in Bosnia - the first of its kind. Yurie was subsequently acquired by Lucent Technologies for $1.1 billion
3.Amy M. Smith (aka mindspeakr).
19 years as a business strategist helping companies leverage strengths to gain significant market-share from large, powerful and better funded concerns through integrated grassroots PR, marketing and business development strategies. Private consultant for technology, professional services, governmental and non profit advocacy concerns. Internal leadership roles with startup and established companies. University of Georgia.
More at:http://www.searchles.com/
Wikio is a personalized News Portal that combs media sites and blogs for stories
What Company Is Offering:
Wikio is a personalized News Portal that combs media sites and blogs for stories and topics that you find interesting.
How It Works:
With Wikio, you can create your own pages to follow information that interests you. All news is continuously updated!
Wikio is an interactive service: you can publish an item directly onto Wikio or comment on an existing item.
You can also vote for an item or group of items that you find interesting in order to increase the news’ visibility on the site.
Each page contains an RSS feed that allows subscribing and receiving information into the reader of your choice.
Recent Updates:
They are officially launching their "memetracker" in the US .
What Is Memetracker:
There are three main features to the Wikio interface – News, Blogs, and the option to create an unlimited amount of custom views. “Blogs” is the one most like the memetrackers you’re already familiar with, as it looks to identify the original source of a story, and then lists “discussion” links under it. Wikio also tries to build a bit of a community around the news, giving each story its own page where users can engage in discussion.
More at:http://www.wikio.com/
Wikio is a personalized News Portal that combs media sites and blogs for stories and topics that you find interesting.
How It Works:
With Wikio, you can create your own pages to follow information that interests you. All news is continuously updated!
Wikio is an interactive service: you can publish an item directly onto Wikio or comment on an existing item.
You can also vote for an item or group of items that you find interesting in order to increase the news’ visibility on the site.
Each page contains an RSS feed that allows subscribing and receiving information into the reader of your choice.
Recent Updates:
They are officially launching their "memetracker" in the US .
What Is Memetracker:
There are three main features to the Wikio interface – News, Blogs, and the option to create an unlimited amount of custom views. “Blogs” is the one most like the memetrackers you’re already familiar with, as it looks to identify the original source of a story, and then lists “discussion” links under it. Wikio also tries to build a bit of a community around the news, giving each story its own page where users can engage in discussion.
More at:http://www.wikio.com/
Zoomomail is a type of media software that enables you to share photos with your close friends and family all with a simple touch of the hand
What Company Is Offering:
Zoomomail is a type of media software that enables you to share photos with your close friends and family all with a simple touch of the hand.
Capture special moments, happy celebrations or simply the latest addition to the family's newborn smile.
Zoomomail also allows you to artistically arrange your photos to create personal, one-of-a-kind photo albums which can be sent to family and friends.
You no longer have to wait forever to download photos one by one in your inbox and then wait to open each one separately. Zoomomail takes care of all of that by providing you with a URL that you copy and paste in your email- it's that simple!
How It Works:
With Zoomomail you can share your unique photo album highlighting family celebrations, the office party or any amazing happening with all your acquaintances, while it's still fresh in their memory. It's quick and easy because your images are accessible in just a simple click.
Zoomorama is for everyone who seeks an easy, quick way to share images without overloading anyone's inbox with heavy or non-open able attachments. With Zoomorama lost attachments, overloaded inboxes, or endless waits for downloads are a thing of the past.
Zoomorama is totally FREE. All our services, including the storing of your images are at no cost to you. Zoomorama is completely financed by advertising that we do our utmost to keep to a minimum. In addition, soon we will be offering a variety of premium products and services that can be purchased for a small charge.
More at:http://www.zoomorama.com/
Zoomomail is a type of media software that enables you to share photos with your close friends and family all with a simple touch of the hand.
Capture special moments, happy celebrations or simply the latest addition to the family's newborn smile.
Zoomomail also allows you to artistically arrange your photos to create personal, one-of-a-kind photo albums which can be sent to family and friends.
You no longer have to wait forever to download photos one by one in your inbox and then wait to open each one separately. Zoomomail takes care of all of that by providing you with a URL that you copy and paste in your email- it's that simple!
How It Works:
With Zoomomail you can share your unique photo album highlighting family celebrations, the office party or any amazing happening with all your acquaintances, while it's still fresh in their memory. It's quick and easy because your images are accessible in just a simple click.
Zoomorama is for everyone who seeks an easy, quick way to share images without overloading anyone's inbox with heavy or non-open able attachments. With Zoomorama lost attachments, overloaded inboxes, or endless waits for downloads are a thing of the past.
Zoomorama is totally FREE. All our services, including the storing of your images are at no cost to you. Zoomorama is completely financed by advertising that we do our utmost to keep to a minimum. In addition, soon we will be offering a variety of premium products and services that can be purchased for a small charge.
More at:http://www.zoomorama.com/
Whereboutz is a service that allows you to share your location with friends
What Company Is Offering:
Whereboutz is a service that allows you to share your location with friends and let them know what you’re up to—it is available as a Facebook application and a free mobile application.
Once you start using Whereboutz, you’ll realize just how easy it is to meet up with friends near you. Use Whereboutz every day (many times a day!) to tell your Facebook friends where you are and what you’re up to—either from your computer, or from your cell phone. When you post, your friends can find you on a map on Facebook or their cell phone.
How It Works:
Signing up for Whereboutz is easy once you have a Facebook account. Just click the Applications link in the left-hand menu of your Facebook page, click ‘Browse Applications’ then search for Whereboutz.
Only your Facebook friends can see the history of locations that you post. However, other users may be able to see your most recent posting on your Profile page, depending on your Facebook privacy settings.
More at:http://www.whereboutz.com/
Whereboutz is a service that allows you to share your location with friends and let them know what you’re up to—it is available as a Facebook application and a free mobile application.
Once you start using Whereboutz, you’ll realize just how easy it is to meet up with friends near you. Use Whereboutz every day (many times a day!) to tell your Facebook friends where you are and what you’re up to—either from your computer, or from your cell phone. When you post, your friends can find you on a map on Facebook or their cell phone.
How It Works:
Signing up for Whereboutz is easy once you have a Facebook account. Just click the Applications link in the left-hand menu of your Facebook page, click ‘Browse Applications’ then search for Whereboutz.
Only your Facebook friends can see the history of locations that you post. However, other users may be able to see your most recent posting on your Profile page, depending on your Facebook privacy settings.
More at:http://www.whereboutz.com/
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