Tuesday, January 15, 2008

DrMove.com offers flat rate moving price all ONLINE at the convenience of your home, office, or anywhere you have Internet access

What Company Is Offering:
Customers log on to Dr. Move’s website, enter the number of items they want moved, and get an instant quote. Dr. Move e-mails customers a contract, which includes an inventory of items that are to be moved. Customers fax or e-mail the contract back to Dr. Move and pay for their reservations online. Customers can view and edit their reservation and inventory online at any time.

How It Works:

DrMove.com offers a revolutionary, GUARANTEED flat rate moving price all ONLINE at the convenience of your home, office, or anywhere you have Internet access.

Book your next move with Dr. Move and you’ll never need an “estimator” to come to your home or business to give you a price for your move. Our guaranteed, flat rate moving prices are BINDING, which means its 110% guaranteed not to change on your moving date.

Their revolutionary online software method eliminates the questionable pricing practices that many moving companies impose on you during your move. From their CEO down to the movers and drivers who handle your belongings, everyone is here for one purpose —to heal your moving pain.
More at:http://www.drmove.com/

ShowClix is a live music search engine and online ticketing company created to connect musicians, venues and show promoters with live music fans

What Company Is Offering:
ShowClix is a live music search engine and online ticketing company created to connect musicians, venues and show promoters with live music fans around the world. The website combines an open, live music database with an online ticketing platform, giving users an innovative, affordable way to promote their shows and sell tickets to music fans that search for, track and share concert information on the site.

How It Works:
Live music fans can now find information on more than 18,000 concerts taking place in over 2,000 cities around the world. Live music search engine is not just a resource to help music fans find and share concert information – Live music venues, concert promoters and musicians from around the world can now promote their international tour dates on ShowClix.com by adding them to the website’s live music database, free of charge.

Anyone can post concerts to the website to create awareness for the band or concert date. This is a key success that ShowClix has managed to get right from the get go by opening up their site to anyone and everyone, enabling them to reach both fans and musicians on a personal level without restriction.
More at: www.showclix.com.

Navtrak vehicle tracking system delivers valuable information about location, engine status, speed, fuel usage, etc

What Company Is Offering:
Navtrak, is an industry leader providing GPS tracking systems, fleet management solutions and vehicle tracking systems for businesses with mobile workforces. , Navtrak is committed to Driving Business Productivity with valuable, real-time fleet tracking, reporting and communication tools that improve efficiency and enhance customer service.

How It Works:
It's about delivering practical, up-to-the-minute information about your mobile workforce's activity that you can use to become more profitable and productive.

Navtrak understands this, which is why their approach to fleet management is refreshingly different. Theirr GPS tracking system is a powerful and flexible management tool that helps you to better understand and manage your field operations on a day-to-day, real-time basis. Fleet tracking is only the beginning - Navtrak offers a suite of productivity-enhancing solutions for your most common fleet management challenges.

Unique Features:
Navtrak's vehicle tracking system delivers valuable information about your mobile workforce's activities in real-time (location, engine status, speed, fuel usage, etc.) - and an immediate boost in productivity and profitability as well.

Tired of wasting valuable time and money trying to find and re-route your vehicles in response to changing circumstances and customer inquiries? Navtrak's real-time service dispatch tools and route planner have been proven to drastically improve mobile workforce efficiency.


Navtrak's nTouch Messaging Suite makes two-way messaging easy - and adds another layer to your fleet management capabilities.

Tracking and scheduling regular maintenance for multiple vehicles can be a real headache - unless you have Navtrak! Explore the benefits of their convenient, easy-to-use nGauge Maintenance Manager solution.

More at:http://www.navtrak.net/

GenieTown is building the online marketplace for local services

What Company Is Offering:
GenieTown is building the online marketplace for local services. The company helps consumers hire quality service providers who get the job done. Services are offered in nearly every category. On GenieTown, anyone can be a Genie and everyone can find the right Genie for the job.

How It Works:
GenieTown is an online marketplace where customers submit home improvement requests to reputable service providers. Customers looking to carry out home improvement projects join GenieTown, describe their projects, and, based on their needs and location, are matched to qualified genies (service providers). Customers view genie profiles and reviews, select the ones they wish to work with and ask them to bid on their projects. Submitting and receiving requests are free of charge to both customers and genies.

Local services that require physical presence of the provider are still hard to find online. GenieTown leverages the power of the Web and matches consumers with local service providers in a safe, efficient, and trusted manner

GenieTown not only features home improvement service providers in the San Francisco Bay Area but provides the opportunity to any one to become a Genie and offer services on a local level as well as seek service providers.

More at:http://www.genietown.com/

Shareling is aimed at sharing car in order to minimize both financial expenses and environmental impact

What Company Is Offering:
Shareling is aimed at sharing car in order to minimize both financial expenses and environmental impact. It's the union of supply and demand of world travellers; the place where those who plan to travel somewhere and those who are actually travelling somewhere and wish to have some company on the road finally meet up. Shareling is the way to solve your transportation necessities.Financial and energy saving, as well as meeting people: this is what Shareling is all about!

How It Works:
In Shareling there are two types of users: those who wish to travel, but have no means of transportation , and those who have a means of transportation but wish to share expenses.

You just have to click and write down your offer, if you wish to take somebody with you, or your demand, if you wish to travel with someone.

As soon as somebody's request matches yours, you will be sent a contact e-mail. You are more than welcome to do so! Just go to the main page, search the route you wish to do and contact all the matching people!
More at:http://www.shareling.com/

Shocking Technologies Got $4 million in debt financing

What Company Is Offering:
Shocking Technologies has created a revolutionary technology that offers several competitive advantages over current discrete devices used, including increased reliability with reduced cost, size and time to market.Shocking Technologies has developed a polymer voltage switch dielectric material. The polymer, less than 25 microns thick, is embedded into Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and semiconductor chip packages to protect the device from ESD damage.

How Much They Got From Vcs:
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, the premier specialty finance company providing venture debt and equity to venture capital and private equity backed technology and life science companies at all stages of development, announced that it provided $4 million in debt financing to Shocking Technologies, Inc. The privately-held company is developing various applications for its patented voltage switchable dielectric material technology.

More at:http://www.shockingtech.com/

The jaanix web site combines an easy-to-use publishing tool with a personalized post aggregator

What Company Is Offering:
The jaanix web site combines an easy-to-use publishing tool with a personalized post aggregator .

How It Works:

The publishing tool lets you save anything you like to your blog. Such a post can be anything - a link, an image, a video, a full rich posting or something you found on the Internet. Others will see it on the radar and will be able to rank it or save it to their blog too.

The radar is powered by a recommendation algorithm that takes into account your personal context - your interests, your friends and your past rankings, both implicit (extracted from your history) and explicit. While only registered users can submit posts and comments, anyone can use the radar to see and tune their own aggregation of posts.

Once you have registered, you can post your own content. Or share anything you find on the Internet. You can also leave comments to other posts. And Jaanix will not automatically expire all your tunings and ratings after 2 weeks, as it does for unregistered users.

More at:http://jaanix.com/

NetStreams, the global leader in networked entertainment systems based on Internet protocol technologyraised a total of $18.2 million

What Company Is Offering:

NetStreams, the global leader in networked entertainment systems based on Internet protocol technology.NetStreams delivers the Ultimate IP A/V Experience by distributing high definition audio and video over TCP/IP networks. NetStreams' products, designed for commercial and residential use, offer unprecedented levels of performance, functionality, simplicity, reliability, and expandability.

How Much They Got From VCs:

It has completed the final stage of its series B round of funding. The company has raised a total of $18.2 million in its series B round from series A investor Austin Ventures. The funding will be used to continue NetStreams’ rapid growth and market expansion through the development and sale of NetStreams’ IP A/V products.

About VCs:

Austin Ventures has been working with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies since 1979. With $3 billion under management, AV is the most active venture and growth equity firm in Texas, and one of the most established in the nation. With a focus on business services, information services, integrated media, computer and communications hardware, and enterprise software, Austin Ventures invests at all stages of company development, from $100,000 "planned experiments" to $50+ million investments in management buyouts. Visit www.austinventures.com for more information.

More at:www.netstreams.com.

Kadoink, a web telephony service for social media has closed $7 million in financing

What Company Is Offering:
Kadoink is a powerful web-telephony platform that seamlessly integrates SMS, IM and voice into a single hosted system compatible with any carrier or handset. Through its patented technology, Kadoink provides a suite of communication applications and services such as phonecasting, audioblogging, microblogging, instant and large scale group communication (calling & texting) as well as mobile advertising (SMS and audio interstitials).

How It Works;
Kadoink offers API’s that allow social application developers to integrate advanced mobile telephony and messaging capabilities into their offerings. Kadoink un-tethers users from their computers and instantly expands their current mobile phone capabilities, giving them a fun, always-present, easy-to-use tool to anonymously connect with an expansive network of family, friends and online communities without ever having to disclose their actual phone numbers.

How Much They Got From Vcs:

Kadoink, a web telephony service for social media that enables enhanced group communication and mass distribution of SMS, live and recorded voice messaging and audio file streams over the voice channel, has closed $7 million in financing with Sutter Hill Ventures.

More at:www.kadoink.com

ReachForce provider of data and software solutions that enable B2B companies to target marketing and sales got $5 million in Vcs funding

What Company Is Offering:
ReachForce, Inc. is a worldwide provider of data and software solutions that enable B2B companies to target marketing and sales initiatives at the right person in the right company, every time. ReachForce’s revolutionary approach increases lead generation effectiveness and accelerates sales cycles. ReachForce customers have experienced increased results by 20 to 30 times for every dollar spent on marketing and sales initiatives – maximizing the value of CRM and marketing automation investments.

How It Works:
ReachForce delivers data services and software as a service (SaaS) solutions that enable B2B companies to target lead generation at the right buyers within target companies. ReachForce OnDemand software provides real-time analytics of CRM data by highlighting winning market segment ‘sweet spots’ and automatically recommending the right businesses to target. ReachForce Data Services deliver role-based contact information within these target companies enabling marketers to drive their lead generation efforts to the right buyers in the right companies.


How Much They Got From VCs:
ReachForce got Series B financing led by Greenhill SAVP (GSAVP). Existing investor G-51 Capital also participated in the Series B round. It will use the $5 million Series B capital to accelerate new customer acquisition and product technology initiatives. As a result of this financing, Steve Brotman, Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP, will join the ReachForce Board of Directors.

More at: www.reachforce.com.

NComputing, the leading provider of desktop virtualization software and hardware got $28m in VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
The company's patented technology drastically lowers desktop computing costs, improves manageability, and reduces both energy consumption and e-waste. NComputing has offices in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Korea, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States and distributes products to over 70 countries.

How It Works:
The NComputing solution is based on a simple fact: today's PCs are so powerful that the vast majority of applications only use a small fraction of the computer's capacity. NComputing's virtualization software and hardware tap this unused capacity so that it can be simultaneously shared by multiple users. The NComputing virtualization software is loaded onto a standard Windows or Linux PC. Each user's monitor, keyboard, and mouse connect to the shared PC through a small and highly reliable NComputing access device. The device itself has no CPU, memory, or moving parts so it is easy to deploy and maintain. Over 500,000 NComputing systems have been deployed by 15,000 organizations to slash their computing costs as much as 70% and electric consumption by 90%. NComputing has been deployed by schools, colleges, governments and businesses to bring computing access to its students and employees.

How Much They Got From VCs:

NComputing, the leading provider of desktop virtualization software and hardware, announced it has secured $28 million in a Series B round of financing. The funds will be used to expand sales and operations in key countries where affordable computing is out of reach for many schools, businesses and governments. The funds will also be used to support ongoing research and development into the company's patented virtual computing technology that enables computing access for as little as $70 per user.
More at:www.ncomputing.com

Seekler makes it easy to find and create lists of the best stuff

What Company is Offering
Seekler makes it easy to find and create lists of the best stuff. That stuff might be songs, movies, comics, jokes, restaurants, or anything else you can think of.

These lists are great resources for discovering new stuff. For example, if you want to find a new video game, you can quickly scan the list of best games for your system. Only interested in sports games? With Seekler lists, you can easily narrow the list down to only the games you're interested in.


How It works:
You can start by browsing lists and looking for lists that interest you. Or, you can create your first list right away (you'll need to create an account or login first). Simply create a list and start adding items to it - your opinions will immediately be included in the community list!


Creating lists is really easy. It's a lot easier to rank your favorite movies than to write detailed reviews for each one. Anyone can make their voice heard on Seekler in just a few minutes.

Seekler users submit their opinions in the form of lists, similar to the popular "Top 10" or "Top 100" lists you may see on TV or in magazines - only they can be on any topic and can be as long as you want.

Seekler then collects all these lists and presents you with a single list that represents the opinion of the entire Seekler community.

How Is It Different:
Filtering allows you to narrow down a list to only see the items that are interesting to you.

You can filter a list on item names and tags. For instance, if you were browsing through the 'Movies' list, filtering by 'action' would show only those items that either had the word 'action' in their name or were tagged with the word 'action'. Filtering is case-insensitive, so filtering on 'Action' and 'action' will give the same results.

More at:http://seekler.com/

ProQuo’s is to help consumers control their personal information

What Company Is Offering:
ProQuo’s is to help consumers control their personal information. ProQuo helps consumers remove their personal information from marketing lists, data brokers, and other organizations responsible for a large amount of junk mail. ProQuo does this by helping people request removal directly from these sources. In many cases, ProQuo will send these requests electronically to the specific organizations that consumers select. For companies that don’t accept electronic requests, ProQuo helps consumers to print out forms for mailing or directs consumers to third party web sites.

How It Works:

After creating your ProQuo account, you will have your own electronic “dashboard.” Here you can request removal of your personal information from thousands of lists and organizations that have your information on file. Depending on the lists you choose, they will either electronically transmit your requests on your behalf or guide you through the removal process.

Recent Updates:
ProQuo late last year has raised $5 million in funding, this service deals with physical mail–not email spam. Things look to be going very well with ProQuo, as Draper Fisher Jurvestson has decided to participate in a Series B round of funding, which was led by Mission Ventures, totaling $8 million.

http://www.proquo.com/learn-more/

Lyro to find individual contact information including: name, job title, company, address, phone & FAX numbers, and web address

What Company Is Offering:
Lyro is a service that helps people expand their individual-level professional identity on the Internet. In today’s global economy, it is more important than ever that each of us is discoverable online. Using technology, innovation, and user-driven features, it is the mission of Lyro to empower our customers through the formation and marketing of their personal-level professional brand, resulting in improved visibility and broader opportunities.

How It Works:

Lyro is Simple, Searchable, and Professional. When a user visits www.Lyro.com, they are able to search and find individual contact information including: name, job title, company, address, phone & FAX numbers, and web address. Many users include a photo as well. Users have a messaging system that allows them to contact other users without publicly displaying the sender or recipient's email address. Lyro aspires to help people cast a wider net of opportunity. With the help of their user base, they're addressing the critical needs of business people to maximize their prospects by being accessible to much larger audiences. With this goal in mind, they are finding innovative ways to help our users get indexed by all major search engines, including: Google,Yahoo,Ask,MSN Search, and AOL. Lyro makes it faster and easier for potential customers, business partners, colleagues and acquaintances to search, find, and contact our users. Lyro also provides ways for others to access their users’ information without making a special trip to the Lyro website. The Lyro Badge enables users to post a micro card anywhere on the web and link it to their professional profile. When a user changes jobs they just update their Lyro profile and their Badge information is instantly updated across the internet as well.

More at:http://www.lyro.com/

WhosOff is a free on demand delivered application to manage staff holiday for small to medium sized business

What Company Is Offering:
WhosOff is a free on demand delivered application to manage staff holiday for small to medium sized business.

Every company has difficulty tracking staff holiday ? WhosOff delivers an answer to this enduring problem, by allowing staff to request.holiday whilst applying simple initial controls, checking the number of days a staff member has left etc. and yet still passing the logged request on for final approval by an appointed approver. WhosOff is empowering all employers to have full visual control over staff holiday and its approval.

How It Works:
WhosOff is for companies wanting to deal with staff holiday applications swiftly yet fairly, whilst allowing all involved a clear overview of the companies? holiday commitment.
WhosOff is a place for companies to look after their staff holiday planning and tracking, sharing the classic office wall planner with all their staff securely online. WhosOff started as a holiday planning service for just one of our customers but soon attracted over 2500 companies to this free holiday planner.

WhosOff is building a community of dynamic business who want to deal with staff holiday request quickly and securely. This is a free service.

Unique Features:

Know who's off at the click of a button.
Take the initial legwork out of checking holiday requests.
Free up secretaries, and managers? time.
Browse through departments and see WhosOff when - or who's been off.
Get the detail on an individual member of staffs leave for the whole year.
Print all those holiday details; department by department or even by individual.
Track sickness and unpaid leave.
Empower staff to make informed holiday requests..
Easily get control of staff holiday planning.

With WhosOff Your staff can:

Know who's in and who's off.
See at a glance their holiday allocation and that of their immediate colleagues.
Be less frustrated over holiday requests.
Make more informed leave requests.
View online from home to enable discussion with partners as to when holiday may be possible.
Make quick and easy applications with a clear recorded outcome.

More at:http://www.whosoff.com/