Saturday, March 1, 2008

Monitoring Division, Inc., a revolutionary network performance monitoring company has raised $3.85 million

What Company Is Offering:

Monitoring Division Inc. is a revolutionary network performance monitoring company. It provides telecommunications system and sub-system vendors with technology that provides new generation monitoring solutions, including capabilities for ROADM-suitable in-band OSNR monitors, DCU's, PMD and CD Monitors, Multi-impairment Monitors and Multi-Impairment Test & Measurement. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale California and has an office in Melbourne, Australia.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Monitoring Division, Inc., a revolutionary network performance monitoring company launched this month, today announced at The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) that it has raised $3.85 million in its initial round of funding, led by Starfish Ventures and National ICT Australia (NICTA). The company will use the funds to further establish and prove its network performance intelligence technology.

About VCs:
Starfish Ventures is an Australian owned venture capital fund manager seeking superior returns through active investment in innovative technology companies. Starfish Ventures has over $350 million in funds under management and has made investments in over 30 companies to date. Starfish Ventures seeks investments in emerging Australian businesses across all technologies sectors including information and communications technology, biotechnology and life sciences, industrial technology, material sciences and cleantech. For more information go to www.starfishvc.com



More at: www.monitoringdivision.com.

Akimbo provides a complete solution for monetizing video over the Internet has raised $8 million

What Company Is Offering:

Akimbo provides a complete solution for monetizing video over the Internet from content providers’ own websites. As a widely-acknowledged pioneer in Internet-delivered VOD, Akimbo offers unparalleled marketing experience and a proven technology platform.

How It Works:

Akimbo, a San Mateo, Calif.-based online video technology company, has raised $8 million in fourth-round funding. Return backers include AT&T, Blueprint Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Zone Ventures. The company has now raised around $56 million in total VC funding since 1999.

More at:www.akimbo.com

Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites

What Company Is Offering:
Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites. By utilizing a distributed network, Yoggin.com is able to target the entire workforce compared to only 16% targeted by traditional job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, and HotJobs.com.

How It Works:

By combining a traditional job board with their distributed network, they are able to serve appropriate job listings to qualified prospects. By indexing content, Yoggin.com can determine if the content is related to specific industries so they can serve relevant job openings. In addition, we’re able to present job openings to candidates that previously weren’t looking for a job. These candidates Yoggin.com targets tend to be more qualified and loyal than employees who are looking for a new job. This equates to a significant competitive advantage for organizations.

At any given time, only 16% of the workforce is actively looking for a job. By using traditional job boards, you’re limited to sifting through this 16% of the workforce to fill your positions. Yoggin.com expands this reach to 100% by placing job listings where people go on a daily basis. Their job ads run on news, blogs, email, and article related sites as text ads. Partner sites are entered into channels on the Yoggin.com system. Job listings are also entered into channels when submitted on the Yoggin.com job board. By matching channels and content, they deliver exceptional results for hiring employers. Expand your reach and gain a competitive advantage with Yoggin.com.

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

thecareermole.com--Recruitment via an employee referral scheme

What Company Is Offering:
Get a step ahead in your career: Network and develop new relationships with people doing the job you want, and then apply via employee referral. Job hunting, the smart way.The process is quick, simple and intuitive for candidates, employees (our Moles), and employers.

How It Works:

Job hunters speak to Moles and make informed career decisions about a company, before they apply and get the job that is right for them; employees (Moles) can develop their Mole Network and will earn recognition and rewards by successfully referring talented candidates the meet through TheCareerMole; and employers can recruit the best talent at a greatly reduced cost compared to other recruitment methods. They think of it as everyone's unfair advantage

A Mole is an employee at a company that has an employee referral scheme/program. The Mole refer suitable candidate applications to the company's recruitment process via the employee referral program and provide real, unbiased information about their company, job and career.

How Is It Different:

An employee referral scheme is a relatively new, and completely under-utilised, recruitment method whereby an employer offers their employees rewards if they successfully refer candidate applications to the company's recruitment process,if the candidate is subsequently hired. Your employer may reward you with anything from financial bonuses to prizes - check your employer's referral policy for details. TheCareerMole is not a middleman - we do not pay referral bonuses - we just help you to earn them from your employer.

Recruitment via an employee referral scheme is more efficient and effective than traditional recruitment - if every job hunter knew about employee referral schemes - they wouldn't apply for jobs in any other way.

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

PharmaLiveSearch.com – the only pharmaceutical-industry specific search engine

What Company Is Offering:

PharmaLiveSearch.com generates more precise results than general search engines, eliminating irrelevant links. PharmaLiveSearch.com suggests broader and narrower search terms, recommends related search terms, and displays the most popular searches.


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

Scred is a community-oriented cost balancing tool aimed as a 'street credit' between trusted people

What Company Is Offering:

Scred is a community-oriented cost balancing tool aimed as a 'street credit' between trusted people.

How It Works:

With Scred you can:

Create a pool for your friends or for an activity.
Invite other friends to Scred.
Manage transactions in multiple currencies and Scred will work out the rates .
Let Scred tell you who owes what after a long trip.
Use Scred on a mobile phone, even without a network connection on the phone .
All basic Scred features are totally free of charge.

More at: https://www.scred.com/

A wholesale marketplace for small- to mid-sized businesses specializing in exclusive designer products

What Company Is Offering:
A wholesale marketplace for small- to mid-sized businesses specializing in exclusive designer products.
The Erayo platform was designed to help you find the perfect products quickly and easily. Any product on Erayo can be 'found' using many different search approaches. Search by product types or by materials, search by style or season. You can search by seller or price, using filtering or sorting features. Erayo has a word-based search engine that incorporates the use of TAGs, which allow for a more intuitive semantically-based search.

How It Works:
The Erayo marketplace is specially designed to meet the needs of small businesses
and to enable them to conduct business successfully. Managed by a team of experienced
industry veterans, Erayo features a robust, yet easy-to-use business platform, as well
as a growing interactive community. Erayo is driving the next generation in e-commerce,
bringing businesses and consumers the best of the virtual and brick-and-mortar worlds
My Erayo" is the Erayo member's business hub. This page concentrates all of the important information an Erayo member needs to do business on the platform. The page also links you to every important feature relevant to your membership type (buyer/seller). For example, on the "My Erayo" page you can: receive orders, track deliveries and payments, see sales statistics, message your business partners, and rate them as well. The "My Erayo" page will definitely be the page you visit most while doing business on Erayo.

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