Friday, January 25, 2008

Zuora is a Benchmark funded start-up has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding

About Company:
Zuora, Inc is a Benchmark funded start-up based in Redwood Shores, CA led by veterans from WebEx, Salesforce.com, Accenture, DiCarta, Postini and Oracle.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Zuora Inc., a Calif.-based software-as-a-service startup, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. Benchmark Capital led the deal, with Benchmark partner Peter Fenton taking a board seat.

About VCs:
They invest in technology-driven companies that seek to create new markets with significant growth potential. They focus on early-stage investing and take a labor-intensive, service-oriented approach in markets where we have direct experience. These include enterprise software and services, communications & security, semiconductors, mobile computing, consumer services and financial services.

And, to ensure that each portfolio company gets the support it needs to succeed, we actively limit the number of companies we invest in. This gives us an unusually high partner-to-company ratio and guarantees that our portfolio companies get the attention they deserve.

Their investments range in size from as little as $100,000 to as much as $10 or $15 million. Typically, they invest $3 to $5 million initially and expect to invest $5 to $15 million over the life of a company. They invest for the long haul, not 'quick flips,' and look for entrepreneurs with a similar perspective.
http://www.benchmark.com/

Company Details:
Zuora, Inc
1400 Bridge Pkwy, Suite 201
Redwood City, CA 94065
Maps & driving directions

Tel: 650-641-3777
Fax: 650-376-1317
Email: info@zuora.com
Careers: careers@zuora.com

tvduck.com is a site where you can simply browse and watch all of your favourite T.V shows online

What Company Is Offering:
tvduck.com is a site where you can simply browse and watch all of your favourite T.V shows online.

How It Works:
If you know the name of an episode, simply type it in the search box. You may also search for it through our T.V show genres and/or through our T.V show list. Once you have found the show you are interested in, click on the link next to your show and you will be automatically directed to the streaming video.

To add a video search for the episode you wish to add and then click on the add link next to the episode name. You will be automatically directed to a page where you will be able to add the URL of the link. Once you have done that, you will have to wait for the site team to approve the link.

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

CivilAnswers----For Answering Your Legal Questions

What Company Is Offering:
The main goals of CivilAnswers is to provide their client's with a general overview, guidelines, tips, opinions, and information on what other individuals have experienced. Promote Your Firm or Business.Assist Individuals Statewide. Gain Exposure. Post Your Article


How It Works:
Asking a question is Simple. Type in your Question, select the best legal Category and insert your Email address. And You’re Done!

Your question will circulate among registered network of professional experts that are handpicked by CivilAnswers to assist their clients with their questions. If the expert is an attorney, you will receive general information regarding the attorney and their background. Experts that are not attorneys, will provide you general guidlines and opinions regarding your question.

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

DealShouter.com

What Company Is Offering:
DealShouter.com, is a web service that allows users to submit deals, bargains, coupon codes, rebate offers or other special offers that may result in savings. The deals are sorted by popularity based on the votes that their users submit.

How It Works:

The "Latest Deals" page display the deals that have been last submitted by their users and have not been yet classified as "Popular". You can vote for deals to increase their popularity.
Find the best online deals, bargains, coupons, rebate offers, special discounts and freebies at DealShouter.com.
Computer and laptop deals, consumer electronics deals, clothing and apparel, service subscriptions and more.

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

QQ Games incorporates AIM Chat

What Company Is Offering:
Tencent seeks to provide cutting-edge Internet services to users around the world, and they believe that the Internet is about entertainment, leisure, community. They want QQ Games to be a place where users can go and safely build relationships through gaming. They strive to create an online experience so deep, that you feel like you are in the same room with someone else, having a great time, even though you may be thousands of miles apart.

Theye're launching the QQ Games service via a special relationship with AOL's AIM® Serviceservice, the #1 IM service in the U.S. They believe that AIM service with QQ Games will be a great combination for the U.S. market. For AIM users, they want to ensure that the are the best massive multiplayer casual gaming experience in the market..

How It Works:

QQ Games incorporates AIM Chat so if you are uncomfortable allowing AIM you can mange who can contact you with IM’s in your "Settings" menu in AIM under "Privacy".
The QQ Games Plugin and ALL QQ Games are FREE! There are no added costs.QQ Games will not sell or transfer your information to 3rd parties without your permission. QQ Games uses your AIM Login information (Screen Name and Password) to login to QQ Games. QQ Games does NOT save this information.
More at:http://www.qqgames.com/

EVO Landing has announced its domain development platform, which aims to create value and traffic for your domain while making you money

What Company Is Offering:
EVO Landing has announced the release of its domain development platform, which aims to create value and traffic for your domain while making you money.

EVO Landing is a next-generation domain monetization platform built around its ability to instantly generate topic-relevant, media-rich websites.EVO Landing is updated dynamically, daily, and automatically with relevant, rich-media (articles, listings, products, photos, videos, downloads).
Domain names can now be truly regarded as online investments as they enjoy the added monetary benefits of multiple ad-network integration, multiple affiliate program integration, and exclusive partnerships.

How Much They Got From VCs:
The Company received initial funding from Seattle angel investors in November 2007 and then closed its Series A round in December 2007 with Monster Venture Partners .

About VCs:

Monster Venture Partners (‘MVP’) is a new breed of early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle. MVP’s investment philosophy is to engage in a genuine hands-on partnership with founders to jointly create value for all stakeholders. For larger opportunities, MVP co-invests with leading investors from around the world, selecting from a universe of like-minded investors who are able to add strategic value. MVP is focused on three primary verticals: marketing technology, consumer healthcare, and global consumer Internet.

More at:www.evolanding.com

FlipFact is place for people to share facts

What Company Is Offering:

FlipFact is place for people to share facts they may or may not believe. You are encouraged to participate by voting on the factuality of statements, adding comments, and posting your own statements of fact.

How It Works:

You post new statements of fact for the community to see. You can also attach an image and write up additional details about the fact. Other registered users can vote on the truthfulness of your statement. In addition, anonymous visitors can also vote once.As a sufficient number of votes are collected, your statement becomes classified as fact or fiction. Some statements may remain mysteries because the votes are split. You can post comments and discuss the facts.

You can post all kinds of facts. You could post conspiracy theories. You might want to promote your own web site. You could say something controversial. You can post cultural myths.

You don't even have to believe what you're saying. The best facts are the ones that are uncertain — the ones that people need to think about.

Just remember to phrase them in the affirmative.

More at:http://flipfact.com/

Adchemy Is next-generation online customer acquisition technology company chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners

Adchemy, Inc., a next-generation online customer acquisition technology company, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. Adchemy was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Adchemy and the OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies will be honored at the OnMedia conference scheduled to occur on January 28-30, 2008 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. This two-and-a-half day executive event will feature technology CEO's from Silicon Valley leading presentations and high-level debates with the global advertising and media establishment, about disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.

Fifty of the top CEO's from the OnMedia 100 will present their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in a "CEO Showcase."

"The OnMedia 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the advertising, marketing, public relations, and promotion industry," said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. "We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and venues for marketers to have at their fingertips and for use to take their business to the next level in innovation."

The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community platform, mobile advertising, marketing, and Web analytic sectors from around the world.
A full list of all the OnMedia 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at www.alwayson.goingon.com.

outquib is the world's source of opinions

What Company is Offering:
outquib is the world's source of opinions. Discuss what you are passionate about. Show the world what you think!

Whether you are a computer geek who cannot decide what operating system is best or a college student still deciding who to vote for, outquib is a better way to inform yourself.
How It Works:
The content on the site is made up almost entirely of users’ posted opinions. These can display in some areas on an individual basis, meaning a module showing the top opinion posts can each be on a variety of topics, and will be displayed without the context of their larger discussions. You can see the main topic for this opinion post, as well as the user that created it. There’s an option, in this case, to continue on to the larger discussion page that’s been created.

Each debate has an overview, displaying how most people feel one way or another, and a list of the influential posts. These are the posts that have been rated by users in a positive manner, meaning they’ve gained the most support and have now become influential.

More at:http://www.outquib.com/
Via-Mashable

TrustedWord--- Product Recommendations

What Company Is Offering:
TrustedWord is a community powered site that allows you to voice your opinion of the services you like or dislike in your community. Their goal is to be the most efficient way for you to share your rolodex and to quickly gain access to your friends recommendations.

How It Works:

When you invite a friend you get access to their recommendations and also to the recommendations of their friends. This gives you the ability to sort your results based on your most trusted social circles. You can easily refine these results to only those friends you trust the most. TrustedWord allows you to quickly search your friends and neighbors recommendations. Its like having instant access to a giant rolodex. No longer do you have to blindly choose a provider and hope that it works out.
More at:http://www.trustedword.com/

MonkeySee--Share your skills and knowledge on video

What Company Is Offering:
MonkeySee is a new destination website where accomplished experts from all walks of life share their skills and knowledge on video. MonkeySee provides free access to a wide range of how-to videos across multiple content categories.

How it Works:
An Expert is someone who has uploaded a how-to video through our "Upload a Video" function. It's easy to become a MonkeySee Expert. All you need to do is create a video that meets our Expert Video Guidelines, then upload it. Expert videos can be made by anyone with a video camcorder and some basic video skills, and you can create and upload as many videos as you like. You will also have your own channel page where you can showcase your videos and actively promote your business or hobby.
Anyone who submits a video is automatically a MonkeySee Expert.
There is also a process for someone to become a MonkeySee Featured Expert.MonkeySee Featured Experts occupy a premium position on the site in return for adhering to our Video Production Standards for Featured Expert Videos . Because most experts won't have the equipment and skills to meet these standards, these videos are usually created with the assistance of a professional filmmaker. MonkeySee provides free access to videos for all visitors, but registration provides visitors with enhanced site functionality.

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

Ponoko --- Trade your product ideas

What Company is Offering:
Ponoko is the world's first personal manufacturing platform. It's the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand.

How It Works:

The ponoko.com marketplace connects creators, consumers, digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote, make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites. Ponoko makes the parts of an existing jigsaw fit together. It makes it easier and cheaper for designers to bring their ideas to market and makes it easier and cheaper for consumers to buy products that aren't mass produced. Products can be made anywhere in the world. Because they can be made close to where a buyer lives, they don't have to be shipped over great distances or stored in bulk in warehouses. This keeps costs down and is kinder on the environment. Digital manufacturers get access to pre-paid customers. Our online system makes it easy and straightforward for them to quote jobs, communicate with customers, receive design files and order materials.

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