Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Love That Place is a net community that connects property owners and property admirers through their mutual interest in homes, property and real estat

What Company Is Offering:

Love That Place is a net community that connects property owners and property admirers through their mutual interest in homes, property and real estate.

Love That Place is not a registered real estate agent or broker, is not run by or influenced by any real estate agencies or outside corporations, and does not claim commission on any sale.

As a consumer-driven website Love That Place members have control over the content that appears on the site.

How It Works:

Everyday property owners can upload their own content and post their property for viewing and rating. You can find out how your property is viewed by others, and whether there is a potential 'buyer in the wings' who has always admired your place, giving you the ability to set your own buying or selling cycle.
Love That Place aims to provide a cost effective means of promoting your property to a massive number of potential buyers. Love That Place provides an independent meeting point for people to converse and potentially transact on a sale. This may be done privately, or you can choose Love That Place's facilitated sales process via an agent.

While Love That Place does not guarantee a successful sale, it does offer a confidential, low pressure and controlled method of monitoring the level of market interest in your property.

More at:http://www.lovethatplace.com.au/

Traackr, a digital asset tracking and social net worth measuring tool

What Company Is Offering:
Traackr, a digital asset tracking and social net worth measuring tool.
Traackr grew out of the team's frustration with the fragmented and baffling nature of the sharing landscape: too many sites, too little data. If you have digital content, how do you know whether people have engaged with it, whether you're building a following or you need to change your content to reach a broader audience?

Traackr was designed to do just that: give content creators a road map and keep them posted on how well their content is doing on the most popular sites.

How Is It Different:

Traackr is invaluable because it is the one tool that finally puts a value to your content. You put lots of energy into your content, and lots more into bringing it to the world - there is no site out there that lets you know how well you're doing. Traackr rewards you with statistics that in a snapshot tell you what your "social net worth" is: how much of an audience you're building, who's listenting to what you have to say, who's dwonloading your excellent material.

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

UNdata is the United Nations Data Access System which provides access to current, relevant and reliable statistics for free

What Company Is Offering:
UNdata is the United Nations Data Access System which provides access to current, relevant and reliable statistics for free.

How It Works:

On the UNdata homepage, type one or more keywords in the search box and click "Search". UNdata searches across all the listed databases for series which match those keywords. The system recognizes countries, years and subject areas.
You can find official statistics produced by countries and compiled by United Nations data system, as well as estimates and projections. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism. You can also find indicators such as Millennium Development Goals.

Unique Features :

- accessing different data sources through one interface,
- searching data with keywords then browsing the series which appear,
- refining search results through the application of filters, and
- customizing tables with features such as sorting, column selection and pivoting.

More at:http://data.un.org/

Holly Connects, a leader in next-generation infrastructure for telephony and speech solutions got VCs Funding

What Company Is Offering:
Holly Connects is next generation voice platforms for enterprises, carriers and hosted service providers. Following strict adherence to industry standards such as VoiceXML and VoIP the Holly Voice Platform is a leading visionary in Gartner Group’s Magic Quadrant for IVR and Enterprise Voice Portals in 2008. It was also named Next Generation IVR platform leader by Frost & Sullivan and is the only independent platform running large, complex customer deployments world-wide. Holly has deployed thousands of ports and hundreds of applications across six continents into major customer sites including Vodafone, Telstra, and US Airways. Holly customers benefit from strong multi-tenancy features, sophisticated reporting and industry leading speech recognition logging and call recording.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Holly Connects, a leader in next-generation infrastructure for telephony and speech solutions to carriers, hosted service providers and large enterprises, announced it has completed a major investment by leading venture capital firm, Starfish Ventures, a deal which will fast track the company’s strategic plans to further pursue growth through international expansion.

The investment by Starfish Ventures, a specialist in technology companies, sees the buyout of Holly’s original investors as well as providing additional growth capital to the Company.

About VCs:
Starfish Ventures is a leading Australian venture capital fund manager committed to building innovative global technology companies. Based on over 80 years of collective venture capital investing, entrepreneurship and technology experience, we understand the challenges of seeding, building and managing high growth technology businesses from an Australian base. Starfish Ventures currently manages over $350 million in investment funds and has made investments in 29 companies to date. These funds are available for investment in technology businesses that possess outstanding management teams, are commercializing innovative technology and are capable of becoming a global or regional market leader. The team's track record includes Australian technology success stories ResMed, Moldflow, Engana and Sirtex Medical.

More at www.starfishvc.com.

More at:www.holly-connects.com

Handango delivers the most diverse collection of smartphone applications directly to consumers raised an additional $9.5 million

What Company Is Offering:

Handango delivers the most diverse collection of smartphone applications directly to consumers both through its online storefront at http://www.handango.com/ and on mobile devices using the Handango's on-device client. Handango partners with many of the world's leaders in the telecommunications industry, including RIM, HP, Microsoft, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AOL, all of whom rely on Handango as an essential part of their smartphone content businesses.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Handango, the world's leading provider of smartphone content, announced that it has raised an additional $9.5 million in its Series C round of financing, which will be used to support the company's new and innovative distribution deals, improve the scalability of its infrastructure, and expand globally. Additionally, Handango plans to enhance the consumer experience to make smartphone content easier to browse, find and purchase online and directly from a mobile device. Participating in the Series C round are Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Centerpoint, Neo Carta, Pharos Capital Group and SSM Partners.

More at:https://developer.handango.com/

Xirrus is the leader in High Performance Wi-Fi has raised $25 million in Series C funding

What Company is Offering:
Xirrus is the leader in High Performance Wi-Fi. The Xirrus solution obsoletes traditional Wi-Fi offerings by delivering 2X more range, 4X more coverage, 8X more bandwidth, and 14X more throughput per cable drop - all while using 75% fewer devices, cables, switch ports, and installation time compared with any other offering.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Xirrus Inc., a Westlake Village, Calif.-based provider of WiFi solutions for the enterprise, has raised $25 million in Series C funding, according to a regulatory filing. Canaan Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers August Capital, QuestMark Partners and U.S. Venture Partners.

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

Mzinga is the leading provider of business social media solutions secured $32.5 million in a new round of financing

What Company Is Offering:
Mzinga is the leading provider of business social media solutions to drive growth, innovation, and learning. Its combination of highly scalable technology, rich domain expertise, and moderation services enables businesses to harness the collective intelligence of employees, customers, and partners to achieve tangible business results. Marketing, customer service, and human resources professionals deploy Mzinga's "pervasive community" solutions to achieve higher revenues, lower costs, and greater workplace satisfaction.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Mzinga , the leader in workplace and customer community solutions, announced it has secured $32.5 million in a new round of financing. Mzinga plans to use this new funding to accelerate product development in response to increased demand, expand into new market segments, and increase sales and marketing investments.

In support of these goals, a portion of the proceeds is being used to finance Mzinga's recent acquisition of Prospero Technologies, a Massachusetts-based social media provider with a strong client base in the media, entertainment, and publishing sectors. [Please see related press release, Mzinga Acquires Prospero, Solidifying Market Leadership in Business Social Media.]

About VCs:
1.About BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P.
BlueCrest Capital Finance, L.P., a US based commercial finance company, provides debt financing solutions to development stage companies in a broad range of industry sectors including IT, Communications, Hardware, Software, Semi-Conductor, Electronics, Energy, Medical Device and Life Science. The team, which has been together continuously since 1998, pursues debt transactions in the $1-25 million range and has consummated approximately 800 transactions with total commitments in excess of $1.8 billion.

2.About W Capital Partners
With more than $1 billion of committed capital under management, over 50 completed portfolio transactions, and investments in more than 150 companies, W Capital is the largest firm dedicated exclusively to the acquisition of direct private equity investments in the secondary market.

more at:sit http://www.mzinga.com/

YieldBuild, the leader in ad format and placement optimization got $6 million Series B round funding

What Company Is Offering:
YieldBuild maximizes ad format, layout and placements on the most popular Internet ad networks including Google AdSense, eBay Ad Context and Yahoo's Publishers Network. YieldBuild automatically tests and retests various format combinations to continually optimize revenue generation.

How Much They Got From VCs:
YieldBuild, the leader in ad format and placement optimization, announced the completion of a $6 million Series B round of financing led by Storm Ventures. Existing investor Hummer Winblad also joined the round.

YieldBuild will use the Series B proceeds to fund further growth of their YieldBuild Publishers Solution product, which provides web publishers with ad format and placement optimization technologies, and ad network management. The YieldBuild solution maximizes advertising revenue for web publishers.

About VCs:
1.Storm Ventures was founded by a seasoned group of industry veterans with the common vision of sharing our collective experience, passion and energy to help talented and driven entrepreneurs build great companies of enduring value. With over $500 million under management, Storm Ventures focuses on seed and early stage information technology companies which best leverages our operational experience and global network.

www.stormventures.com

2.Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, we've had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models. We've helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, and software as a service.

www.humwin.com


More at:www.yieldbuild.com

Knowtes --Flashcard Based Learning Engine

What Company Is Offering:
Knowtes optimizes your study. By adding a card to your Knowtes memory, it becomes due at optimized intervals.

How It Works

The Knowtes Adaptive Learning Engine then adjusts how frequently you have to study cards in your memory based on how well you do on them. No more wasting time on cards you already know by heart.

You can even visually watch your cards move from short to long-term memory as you study them!

Unique Features:

Highly customizable interface.
Dynamic study graphs.
Embed your decks on your own web page.
Integrated music player (desktop library only).

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

Alltop----They help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web

What Company Is Offering:
They help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. They’ve grouped these collections — ”aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, celebrity gossip, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, they display the latest five stories from thirty or more sites on a single page — they call this “single-page aggregation.”

How It Works:

You can think of an Alltop site as a “dashboard,” “table of contents,” or even a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. To be clear, Alltop sites are starting points — they are not destinations per se. The bottom line is that we are trying to enhance your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. In this way, our goal is the “cessation of Internet stagnation.”

They import the stories of the top news websites and blogs for any given topic and display the headlines of the five most recent stories. When you place the cursor over a headline, they display part of the story so that you can decide if you’d like to read it. To read the story, click on its title. To go to the home page of the site, click on its domain name.

More at:http://alltop.com/

Wordy Birdie -- Predict which words people you follow will use in an update and earn

What Company Is Offering:

Wordy Birdie is a Twitter based word frequency quessing game. Predict which words people you follow will use in an update and earn points when they do!

Wordy Birdie is simple. You don't even have to create a separate account. Simply sign in and create a list of 10 words. Wordy Birdie handles all of the score calculations automatically, notifying you daily with your results.

More at:http://wordybirdie.com/

World of Good, Inc. engages people in changing the world through commerce that alleviates poverty and benefits the environment

What Company Is Offering:
Their mission is to provide a trusted platform where individuals can create positive change through commerce, as part of a global community.

They believe that a growing number of individuals want to understand how the choices they make impact people and the planet. There is an important need for trusted information, and a need for transparency into how and where products are made. Their goal is to provide their community with the resources needed to make good choices and connect with others who share the same passion.

How It Works:

World of Good, Inc. engages people in changing the world through commerce that alleviates poverty and benefits the environment. To make good choices easy and accessible, World of Good, Inc. works with wholesale, retail, and online partners to create shopping experiences based on information, trust, and social impact.

In each experience, World of Good, Inc. builds a bridge of economic opportunity for mission-driven producers and their trading partners, and increases consumer understanding by convening information and trust systems.

More at:http://community.worldofgood.com/

LaterThis lets you save and manage all the links that you would like to have a second look at but don't have time for now

What Company Is Offering:

LaterThis lets you save and manage all the links that you would like to have a second look at but don't have time for now.

How It Works:

LaterThis is a hosted web application. All you need to start using LaterThis is a browser and an Internet connection.
Saving links is fast and easy with the LaterThis bookmarklets for FireFox, Safari and Explorer. One click is all that is needed.
To many links and to little time? LaterThis lets you save and manage all the links you don't have time to look at right now.

More at:http://laterthis.com/

TraceALife is a community-website where everyone can create his own personal map of the world

What Company Is Offering ?

TraceALife is a community-website where everyone can create his own personal map of the world.
Tell everyone where you were or what you did and let them browse through your world.

Did you made a exciting journey? Let's share your adventures with the other TraceALife users.

TraceALife isn't just sharing life, it's sharing your personal world.
Show the world where your life take place...

How It Works:

You want to create your own Trace and let the world know what you want to tell?
Just create an Account and log-in.
Once your logged in the 'Toolbar'-Box shows you the option 'Add new entry'.
Now drag and drop the new Marker and place it at the desired position and attach a text in the opening textbox.

You want to trace a friends life? Just enter the nickname in the 'User to Trace'-Box and click the 'Trace'-Button.
Of course you can Trace multiple users at the same time. Just enter a new nickname and use the 'Add'-Button. In order not to mix up the entries of different users you can use the Colour-Box to decide the Colour of each users Trace.

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