Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Proficiency, Inc that enable manufacturers and their suppliers to extract and share product knowledge raised $4.25 million in funding

What Company Is Offering:
Proficiency, Inc., is the leading developer of solutions that enable manufacturers and their suppliers to extract and share product knowledge from diverse engineering and manufacturing environments.

The solution significantly reduces cost, risks, and errors while improving profitability by shortening delivery times, promoting re-use and protecting intellectual property (IP) assets during collaboration.

Global enterprises in the automotive, aerospace & defense, and heavy machinery industries such as Ford Motor Company, Boeing, European Aeronautic Defense & Space Company (EADS), and Bombardier, Inc. use Proficiency's Collaboration Gateway™ in their heterogeneous PLM and multi-CAD environments to ensure effective product knowledge integration (PKI) during design and manufacturing processes.

How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced that it has raised $4.25 million in funding led by Catalyst Investment. Current investors, Carmel Ventures and Pitango Venture Capital also participated in the funding. Proficiency, with mature and proven CAD interoperability solutions, will use the funding to expand its market penetration and to further its already strong technological lead in the industry by developing new applications and breakthrough solutions.

About VCs:
Catalyst Funds are Israeli-based private equity funds investing in mature technology-related companies that are in pre-IPO, expansion, buyouts, or turnaround phases. Investment targets consist of companies with technologies and products that answer market needs, strong management and significant growth potential in the European and North American market. Their goal is to provide maturing companies with the necessary resources to attain global leadership in their respective market sectors. Catalyst enhances the value of invested companies by using its wide European network, available operating platforms of its partners and the diverse background of our general partners.http://www.catalyst-fund.com.

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

mywaves is the fastest-growing mobile video destination for consumer

What Company Is Offering:
mywaves is the fastest-growing mobile video destination for consumers, driving millions to its mobile site each day. Consumers from around the world can browse through 300,000 channels of professional, user-generated and personal videos and have their favorites automatically updated and delivered to their phones. The service also helps users discover content by connecting them to a vast international mobile community of people with a shared passion for entertainment.

The free service works globally across all 3G, EDGE, BREW and EV-DO carriers as well as most video-capable mobile phones.

How It Works:

mywaves provides advertisers and content owners an entirely new level of reach and engagement with the mobile consumer. In just its first year, mywaves has amassed the largest mobile video audience in the world, with users from over 175 countries accessing the service.
Go into “My Stuff” and click on “Edit Your Profile” next to your picture. You’ll be taken to your Account Settings where you can edit all of your information.
Head into “My Stuff” and you’ll see three icons to the left of your picture: Auto Channel, Personal Channel, and RSS Channel. Click on one to create a Channel of your choice.

To delete a Channel, click on the Channel you wish to delete. You’ll then go to the channel’s editing page. To delete it, click on “Remove Channel” at the top right above the video player.
Go into “Edit Your Profile” and you’ll see your Channels separated into Private and Public lists. Click on the link to the right of the Channel name to make it Public or Private.

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

Business Intelligence International launched Aline that enables users to document and assess the design of controls, track the testing

About Company:
Business Intelligence International (BII) is a global software and consulting company specializing in the development of web-based business intelligence solutions to provide GRC+P functionality to companies of all sizes. Since 1996, BI International has provided robust, flexible and secure solutions to enable customers worldwide to cost-effectively manage their compliance, risk and performance initiatives.

BI International offers a suite of affordable yet powerful and easy-to-use tools that provide a single repository of data along with integrated analytics and standard reporting.

Recent Updates:
They announced the launch of its new Web site, http://www.aline4value.com, now featuring role-based functionality.

Aline™ is built on a user-friendly Software as a Service (SaaS) platform with its foundation based on the Aline4SOX module that helps companies automate and streamline their SOX process while reducing their total cost of compliance. The product enables users to document and assess the design of controls, track the testing of their effectiveness and easily locate and remedy any deficiencies.

The new site design allows current and prospective clients, partners or auditors to navigate content catered specifically to their own, individual compliance needs through an interactive interface on the homepage. Whether it be a non-accelerated filer like current client Millennium Cell (NASDAQ: MCEL) or an accelerated filer such as Crown Holdings (NYSE: CCK), all companies looking for SOX compliance can now simply click on the role that best suits them and instantly find information on the easy-to-use, Web-based compliance software within the Aline™ platform. The role-based functionality is also designed specifically around the individual role that a current or prospective client holds within his/her compliance department. Financial executives, internal auditors, process owners and external auditors can all navigate www.aline4value.com based on the needs and responsibility that their job entails.

More at:
Business Intelligence International
Nick Eubanks
610-993-0100 x255
neubanks@aline4value.com
www.aline4value.com

eGain is a leading provider of multichannel customer service and knowledge management software for in-house or on-demand SaaS deployment

What Company Is Offering:
eGain is a leading provider of multichannel customer service and knowledge management software for in-house or on-demand SaaS deployment. For more than a decade, the world's largest companies have relied on eGain to transform their traditional call centers, help desks, and web customer service operations into multichannel customer interaction hubs. Based on the Power of One™, the concept of one unified platform for multichannel customer interaction and knowledge management, these hubs enable dramatically improved customer experience, end-to-end service process efficiencies, increased sales, and enhanced contact center performance.

How It Works:
eGain Service is the industry's most comprehensive software suite for multichannel customer service and knowledge management. Available on-premise or on-demand, eGain Service includes integrated, award-winning applications for call tracking and resolution, case management, contact center knowledge management, multi-modal web self-service, email management, chat, web collaboration, fax and postal mail management, notifications, and service fulfillment.

eGain Service is built on eGain CIH™, the industry's most integrated and flexible customer interaction hub platform. Based on a 100% J2EE architecture, it includes out-of-the-box integration with leading business applications, content management systems, and call center infrastructure solutions. With its fine-grained service-oriented architecture (SOA), the eGain CIH platform enables rapid development of powerful applications.
More at:http://www.egain.com/

Conversionstats.com is a professional conversion tracking system, meant to improve website's conversion rate

What Company Is Offering:
Conversionstats.com is a professional conversion tracking system, meant to improve website's conversion rate. Conversionstats is a highly serviceable and easy-to-handle tool which can be used both for business and personal use.

Their goal is to provide the most efficient conversion tracking system which meets the requirements of their clients and allows them to succeed in the Internet marketing. Offering first-rate analytics and statistical reporting, Conversionstats enables to study the dynamics of website's development. Focused on boosting your profits, Conversionstats proudly presents an effective tool for website performance analyzing. They do care for your success in online business and will help you to achieve it.

How It Works:
Conversionstats.com offers the unique tool which allows to watch your conversion rate and to increase it. The genuine conversion tracking system studies thoroughly the conversion rate of your website, comparing conversions via search engines, pay per click programs, advertising campaigns and referrers. Thanks to Conversionstats, you will know what exactly makes money on your site and make your investment more effective.

How Is It Different:
Conversionstats allows to compare multiple sites and products simultaneously, while other stats tools can track only one product at a time.To apply this conversion tracking system you don't have to be a programmer or at least an experienced user, as its interface is really unsophisticated. Moreover, Conversionstats is able to track SEO-friendly links, taking into account all referrers to your site without including any code. This specification allows to take advantage not only of campaign tracking but also of SEO.

Unlike other system providers, Conversionstats.com offers 24 hours support and is always ready to help you. While such giants as Google deliver analyzing services as well, they are involved in advertising business, and you may not want to share important data with them. In this case Conversionstats is an ideal solution, as it guarantees full protection of your information from hackers and third parties.

One of the most attractive characteristics of Conversionstats is that it works in real time mode, tracking conversions as soon as you need. Owing to this option you don't have to wait for the stats updates, saving time and getting more relevant results.

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

FriendFeed combines innovative technology and social solutions to make content on the web more relevant and useful raised $5 million in Series A fund

What Company Is Offering:
FriendFeed Inc. today announced the official launch of FriendFeed, a site where people can stay up-to-date on the Web pages, photos, videos and music that their friends and family are sharing. FriendFeed combines innovative technology and social solutions to make content on the web more relevant and useful.FriendFeed was founded by former Google employees Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh, and is headquartered in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit friendfeed.com.

How Much They Got From VCs:
The company announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A financing from co-founders Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh and Benchmark Capital.

About VCs:
Benchmark Capital, a leading international venture capital firm, was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs with original ideas build successful technology companies. Benchmark's general partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm's portfolio companies. Benchmark's portfolio includes high-profile start-ups like Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, Second Life, Tellme, Yelp, and Zillow, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat. The firm manages nearly $2.8 billion in committed venture capital. For more information on Benchmark Capital, visit its website at www.benchmark.com.

More at:http://friendfeed.com/

Keybroker delivers increased online sales for major advertisers through search advertising got 5 million from Investor Growth Capital

What Company Is Offering:
Keybroker delivers increased online sales for major advertisers through search advertising (sponsored links) on the Internet, from an international Delivery Centre in Stockholm. Keybroker develops advanced technology ,the CampaignControl platform for large scale campaign management and automated advertising processes. Keybroker AB is the parent company of Keybroker Scandinavia (operations in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark), led by managing director Jennie Skogsborn.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Keybroker, a Sweden-based provider of search advertising solutions for the European market, has raised EUR 5 million from Investor Growth Capital.

How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
The search advertising market is worth close to EUR 1.5 billion in the UK alone this year and is continuing to grow with double-digit figures across Europe. This is a new global market and with Investor Keybroker has found a perfect industrial and international partner, says Fredrik Arnander.

- The future of advertising is digital, result based and exactly measurable. The right technology will be the difference between winning and losing in this financially driven market. At Keybroker, we are very excited to increase and accelerate our systems development and to launch new winning products, says Fredrik Holm.

About VCs:
Investor Growth Capital is the wholly owned venture capital arm of Investor AB (Investor). Investor, publicly traded on the Stockholm exchange, is the largest listed industrial holding company in the Nordic region. Since its formation in the mid-1990s, Investor Growth Capital has continued to invest in high-quality, growth-oriented companies, primarily in the information technology and healthcare industries, in North America, Northern Europe and Asia.

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Outbrain is a platform for ratings and recommendations of blog, news and RSS content got $5M A-round investment

What Company Is offering:
Outbrain is a platform for ratings and recommendations of blog, news and RSS content. Bloggers and publishers can use Outbrain's free widget or API to provide readers with rating functionality and personalized reading recommendations. The widget can be installed with one click, and most leading blogging/RSS platforms are supported ? Blogger.com, TypePad, WordPress.org, Drupal, FeedFlare, MoveableType, etc. Thousands of websites have already installed the Outbrain widget, and millions of ratings and recommendations are being served by Outbrain daily.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Outbrain Inc. today announced the closing of a $5M A-round investment led by Gemini Israel Funds and Lightspeed Venture Partners .GlenRock Israel Leon Recanati's investment company which backed Outbrain since its inception, also participated in the round.

About VCs:
1.The partners of Lightspeed have invested over $800M in more than 100 technology companies over the past two decades and invests across the U.S., China, India and Israel. Lightspeed has contributed strong operational and sector expertise to market leaders such as Blue Nile, Brocade, Ciena, eHealthinsurance, Galileo Technology, Informatica, Kiva Software, Metasolv, Phone.com, Quantum Effect Devices, Riverbed, Sirocco, Virsa Systems and Waveset, working closely with these companies throughout the early stages of their business development lifecycles.
www.lightspeedvp.com
2.
A pioneer in Israel's venture capital industry, Gemini Israel Funds has grown to be the leading Israeli seed and early stage fund in the Information Technology arena. The firm, founded in 1993, manages more than $700 million in five funds. Investments are focused on the areas of Communications and Wireless Technologies, Enterprise Software, Internet, Consumer Electronics and Semiconductors, and more recently in Greentech. Through offices in Israel and Silicon Valley, Gemini offers portfolio companies access to top-tier U.S. based investors and a global network of corporate partners. As investment professionals, Gemini's key contributions include an ability to make daring investment decisions and the capability to utilize past operational experience in assisting portfolio companies. Past successes include: Allot, Mellanox, Saifun, Precise, Traiana, Butterfly, Commtouch, Ornet, Verisity, Jacada, Ceragon, Riverhead, nLayers, Itemfield and others.
www.gemini.co.il

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

FixMyMovie-- They make movies from your mobile phone, digital camera, or webcam look great

What Company Is Offering:
FixMyMovie is a video sharing site powered by MotionDSP's patent-pending video enhancement technology. They make movies from your mobile phone, digital camera, or webcam look great.

How It Works:
FixMyMovie users MotionDSP's patent-pending multi-frame enhancement technology which studies your video and finds the unique information present in each frame of video. It scans the neighboring video frames to match the scene (background) and objects (foreground), combining more than 5 frames of information to make a cleaner, higher-resolution video.


FixMyMovie lets you grab high-res JPEG captures from you videos. Did you capture a moment you'd love have a photo of?

First, upload your video to www.FixMyMovie.com
Then, play your original video, and hit the pause button (or drag the slider) to select the moment you want to capture
Click the "Capture" button on the flash player. We'll start processing it right away.
Then, click the "Stills" tab at the top of the video player, and view your enhanced stills.
To see the enhancement better, click on the "full screen" button and use the slider to compare before/after.
Click on the "Download" icon to download the high-res JPEG to your hard drive.

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

Linkspank is the irreverent way to share new videos, articles, and links. 100% free

What Company Is Offering:
Linkspank is the irreverent way to share new videos, articles, and links. 100% free. Win prizes as a master spanker... or because it's your destiny. A linkspank is a video, article, or any link that you share with your buddies.

It is like an email forward, except you can do all kinds of super-special stuff with linkspanks.

How It Works:

With a profile, you will enjoy all things what Linkspank has to offer you.
Interaction with your friends. On Linkspank, friends are more than just a list of faces on your profile - they are people who you share content with.
Better stuff. With a profile, you get personal recommendations from your friends - and from Linkspank.
Prizes. Just by logging in, you have a chance to win free prizes on Linkspank.

You can linkspank on this site by clicking the hand by any link:

You can also share a new site. Click "start a linkspank" at the top of the page -- or get a button to start a linkspank from any web page.
When you send a linkspank, your public username, photo, and profile information is available on the Map Page () for that link.

Your profile and your Wall are also publicly viewable.

Your real name and email address are not displayed and they are available only to people who search for them specifically or who have you in their contacts.

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

ShifD is a mobile application that provides users the capability to seamlessly shift content back and forth between their desktop computers and mobile

What Company Is Offering:
ShifD is a mobile application that provides users the capability to seamlessly shift content back and forth between their desktop computers and mobile devices.

How It Works:

Users can update information:
- From any Web browser by logging into http://shifd.com;
- Through their mobile Web browser on the ShifD mobile site by going to shifd.com from the mobile phones, or;
- By using the downloadable Adobe Air application on their desktop.

Information added through any of the various methods is saved to the user’s ShifD page and automatically updated and accessible on all devices.
Everything on your ShifD page falls into three categories: notes, places and links.
Within these categories, users can use single tags. If you have a book, you can create a “book” tag, or you can make labels for articles, news, to-do’s, or favorite restaurants.

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

Frrvrr is a revolutionary tool for connecting and communicating

What Company Is Offering:
Frrvrr is a revolutionary tool for connecting and communicating with people that share your interests. Photos, politics, music, books, medical history, movies–anything you can think of! And the best part is, Frrvrr does all the work.

Frrvrr uses cutting-edge technology to identify topics you might be interested in based on your browsing history, public records, health records, email activity, legal filings, and web profiles. Frrvrr then directs you to those topics and connects you with similar-minded people. It's part social network, part search engine, part recommendation-aggregator. In short, it uses your existing Internet habits to deliver a richer, more personalized web experience.

How It Works:
When you sign up, Frrvrr's AvaTroll Accelerator™ will download itself onto your desktop and begin cataloguing your web history, or "webtory," from the past eight months. Once it gathers all of your information, it creates a personalized avatar of you based on the snapshot of you gleaned from web usage and sites visited.

Once you've completed the registration process, your Frrvrr avatar will send itself to everyone in your address book, showing off your new look and inviting them to join. And every week, your personal avatar will update its appearance based on your past week's web habits and resend itself to your contacts to keep them updated on what you're up to.

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

Dipiti’s goal is to help online users gain answers and support through available and hard to find online resources

What Company Is Offering:
Dipiti solves the problem by providing online users an immediate and trusted connection to answers and support across the web by aggregating valuable message board and service provider content relating to urgent life matters including health, legal, money and pet care.

How It Works:

Dipiti currently connects online users to 2,322 communities and 28,979,436 conversations. Dipiti does this by discovering, qualifying, and organizing thousands sites of all sizes across the web so online users can quickly and easily find the most relevant information, connect with others on communities and expert sites, and gain answers and support.

Message board and professional provider sites are an excellent source of helpful, unbiased information and professional connections – one can gain companionship, encouraging discussion, knowledge, and advice. Additionally, communities also allow one to access information and quickly disseminate ideas, providing social and emotional support.

Dipiti’s goal is to help online users gain answers and support through available and hard to find online resources.

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

Communiversity gives real students a place to take pride in their school, and share the inside information

WHat Company Is Offering:
Communiversity gives real students a place to take pride in their school, and share the inside information every prospective student wants to know.


How It Works:
Upload pictures that capture the memorable moments on campus.

Embed YouTube videos of those over time tie breakers, or the food fight you witnessed last week in the cafeteria.

Create your own pages under any category and edit/ update how you please.

Let others add their content and start comment threads about your pages.

Send us new feature ideas on what you would like to see on Communiversity!

This is your place to take control of your school and let others know what it’s like to be a college student.

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