Friday, March 7, 2008

Matching people with meaningful opportunities…

What Company Is Offering:

Matching people with meaningful opportunities…

They help match their clients with college students and recent graduates for internships and entry-level jobs.

How Is It Different:

Placement firms are experts in placement, period. They are experts in the up and coming generation first, placement second. This is an important difference. This means they have the expertise to help young professionals uncover what they really want to do and where they will truly excel, prior to making a match – hence the “meaningful” part.

More at:http://www.fahrenheight360.com/

Aggregate Knowledge --Connects consumers to the hottest products, hidden content gems and coolest items from industry leading retailers and media co.

What Company Is Offering:
Aggregate Knowledge provides the Pique Discovery Network. The Pique Discovery Network connects consumers to the hottest products, hidden content gems and coolest items from industry leading retailers and media companies. Pique Discovery Network companies improve engagement and sales conversions, create new revenue opportunities and deliver differentiated experiences on their web sites.

How It Works:

The Aggregate Knowledge Pique Discovery Network is the Internet's first Discovery Network that emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built on top of a sophisticated super computing architecture, Pique technology harnesses the collective behavior of Internet users to drive the most relevant content and product placements on customers' web sites, across multiple network sites and through email and affiliate promotions. Pique offerings help companies improve engagement and conversions, create new revenue opportunities and deliver differentiated experiences on their web sites.

Who Is Backing Them:

Funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures, the company's management team includes veterans from Blockbuster, IBM, Kodak, Mercury, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun Microsystems and Tribe.net.

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

Enablr is about creating a suite of extremely simple tools that help you to communicate better on the web

What Company Is Offering:
Enablr is about creating a suite of extremely simple tools that help you to communicate better on the web.

How It Works:

A subscription-based service that will monitor your podcast feed and automatically start the transcription process.Not sure if it's worth paying for transcription? Let your audience tell you! The Transcribr Now module will let you add a tip jar specifically for the purpose of transcribing your podcast.

Maintain a profile including your past recipients, preferences for letter format, and create an email address for grandma@stenographr.com so you can write to her via e-mail.

Tag your blog posts for specific recipients or groups of recipients, and they will receive a weekly or monthly digest of your writing.

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

One Brick is a non-profit volunteer organization that brings volunteers together to support other local non-profit organizations

What Company Is Offering:

One Brick is a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer organization that brings volunteers together to support other local non-profit organizations by adopting an innovative twist to the volunteer experience: they create a friendly and social atmosphere around volunteering, and after each volunteer event -- which typically lasts only 3 to 4 hours --they invite volunteers to gather at a local restaurant or café where they can get to know one another in a relaxed social setting. Through their volunteer projects, they provide non-profits with the much-needed labor to carry out their visions. At the same time they also foster an environment in which to meet new people, both socially and professionally.

More at:http://www.onebrick.org/

Anchor Intelligence provides the most comprehensive analysis of web traffic quality available on the market today

What Company Is Offering:

Anchor Intelligence provides the most comprehensive analysis of web traffic quality available on the market today. Their methodology uses a wide range of innovative modeling techniques, proprietary analytics, and extensive network security intelligence to determine the quality of traffic on your site.The company was founded on the principles of transparency and accountability in online advertising and is committed to upholding high standards of trust and integrity.

How It Works:

Anchor Intelligence provides search networks, advertisers, agencies, and ad networks with cutting edge solutions to confidently assess the quality of traffic on their network.

Their goal is to provide rigorous analysis of web traffic to enable advertisers to make informed choices about the dollars they spend online, and to help ad and search networks capitalize on monetization opportunities that benefit both advertisers and themselves.

No two visitors to your site are the same...and neither are the clicks they generate. Anchor Intelligence takes the mystery out of calculating true ROI on advertising spend by evaluating each click, and assessing a quality score based on all known characteristics of that click. Anchor's traffic quality solutions enable you to reduce the volume of illegitimate visitors to your site while aligning your business with its most valuable customers.

They have a world-class team of practitioners, scientists, and engineers who have proven track records in fraud, risk management, online advertising, and security. They are committed to building solutions that scale with their customers and providing insights that drive critical business decisions.

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

Betpuls.com scout for news that is relevant for people that work in the online gambling industry

What Company Is Offering:
Betpuls.com scout for news that is relevant for people that work in the online gambling industry. Betpuls.com will help feed the business with knowledge. Each article has its own comments section where discussion help the visitor to get more information. Information given by other members or visitors are often more valuable than the article itself.

All companies in the gambling industry are interested about legal news, new jurisdictions, news regarding monopoly changes and how that can affect their business, by using Betpuls.com data like this is accessible. Everyone can now start building their knowledge-bank that leads to higher value on the work market for the individual visitor. With many talented people already using Betpuls.com, the section for job opportunities http://www.betpuls.com/List/23/job-opportunities.html is a highly visited section. Betpuls.com charge no fee for providing this service, neither for the visitor or publisher. Both software suppliers http://www.betpuls.com/List/21/software-suppliers.html and other gambling companies can contact jobs@betpuls.com and have their vacancies published.

During the one month that Betpuls.com has been live, over 400 high value, carefully selected articles have been shared and more are being published every day.

Betpuls.com listens to each visitor and welcomes feedback of new sections and type of news to scout for. Visitors are also given the option to upload their own articles that are relevant to the online gambling industry.

Company Info;
betpuls.com
Anders Svensson
+44 77 895 845 06
news@betpuls.com
www.betpuls.com

NutraNutra.com

What Company Says:
NutraNutra.com was created by an industry professional with over 10 years experience that include marketing, formulation, resale, distribution and product design in various aspects of the Nutraceutical Industry.
Essentially the website was created to be an online one-stop shopping site specific to the Nutraceutical Industry. You now have the ability to do hours of research in minutes, reach large numbers of buyers and industry executives quickly and effortlessly and access supplier availability and company contact and profile information instantly. We encourage you to embrace NutraNutra.com and use it as the business and marketing tool it has been designed to be.

How It Works:

To list your item simply click on the Sell link found on the header navigational bar. The listing process is split up into several main sections, notably:-

Category selection
Item Details
Auction Settings
Shipping and Payment
Listing preview
Listing confirmation
The listing process is developed in such a way that you are guided through every step seamlessly.

The first part of the process is to choose the category you wish to list your item in, this can be revised at any time by using the Previous Step navigation button.



Step two enables you to enter your item title and description, an editor is in place to enable you to use HTML descriptions.

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

MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace

What Company Is Offering:
MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace, offers a patented online process that enables the buying and selling of print advertising space in U.S. newspapers and magazines. Advertisers and publications can interact through an advertiser auction, in which advertisers place print advertising dollars up for bid and publications compete, or through advertising offers in which publications place ad space up for sale and advertisers can purchase instantly. MediaBids also provides traditional print media planning and buying to all registered advertisers. To date, over 12,000 businesses have registered on MediaBids.com to purchase advertising and over 4,600 newspapers and magazines have registered their print publications to sell ad space.

Recent Updates:
MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace, announced today that it has added over 325 newspapers and magazines to its print advertising marketplace so far in 2008.

To date, over 4,600 U.S. print publications have registered on MediaBids to use their online processes to sell ad space in their print editions. Publications can sell ad space via two primary online methods – a straight-sales option and a reverse advertising auction. In the straight-sale format, publications can simply post available advertising inventory for sale in the MediaBids marketplace which is then immediately available for advertisers to purchase. The patented reverse-auction method allows advertisers to place their advertising dollars up for bid using a simple online RFP auction form, and publications can then bid using their ad space as currency.

More at:
Mediabids, Inc.
Jessica Lampron
1-866-236-2259
jlampron@mediabids.com
http://www.mediabids.com

Kapow Technologies, the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence got $11.6 million in VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:

Kapow Technologies is the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence with software that turns the Web into the world's largest database. Based on the company's patented, visual scripting method, the Kapow Mashup Server powers solutions in reputation management, competitive intelligence, asymmetric intelligence, content aggregation, content syndication, content migration, SOA enablement and business automation at a fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional software methods.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Kapow Technologies, the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence with software that turns the web into the world's largest database, today announced that it has signed definitive documents to complete a Series-C financing round of $11.6 million. Closing is expected to occur by March 31. New investors include Steamboat Ventures, a venture capital firm affiliated with The Walt Disney Company, and Morgan Stanley's Strategic Investments Group. Previous investors Kennet Partners and NorthCap Partners also participated in the round.

The new funds will enable the company to significantly enhance its software as a service (SaaS) platform and expand its global sales operations in the media, financial services, manufacturing, transportation and government sectors where the company has established a leadership position.

More at:
Kapow Technologies:
Kurt Foeller
+1 415-578-3251
kurt.foeller@kapowtech.com

Coveo Solutions Inc., a global provider of enterprise search technology got$2.5M in Funding

What Company Is Offering:
Coveo offers search solutions that empower people to instantly and securely access and navigate the critical knowledge they need from disparate systems otherwise not integrated. Whether it's to meet regulatory compliance, improve customer response, protect intellectual property or improve organizational efficiencies, Coveo's enterprise search technology enables organizations to find, understand and act on critical information located anywhere in the enterprise. Coveo's enterprise clients include: HP, Procter & Gamble, CA, Rabobank, PwC, Deloitte, Nomura, National Grid, AMN Healthcare, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NASA, AC Nielsen, US Navy, Yellow Pages Group (Canada), Haley & Aldrich, simyo GmbH etc.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Coveo Solutions Inc., a global provider of enterprise search technology, is pleased to announce the completion of an investment round of $2.5M led by Louis Tetu, the former founder, CEO and Chairman of Taleo Corporation [NASDAQ:TLEO], the global leader of on demand, unified talent management solutions. In addition to the investment, Mr. Tetu will join Coveo as executive chairman, where he will serve on the management team helping direct the explosive growth of the company.

Other investors include Mr. Patrick O'Leary, former VP of Business Strategy of Cognos, and Mr. Jean Lavigueur and Mr. Benoit Leclerc, respectively the former CFO and EVP Sales of Taleo Corporation and currently CFO and EVP Sales of Coveo, Inc.

More at: www.coveo.com

Coveo Solutions, Inc.
Peter J. Gorman, +1 781-371-0511, ext. 2 (USA)
pgorman@coveo.com
or
L’Impresario Communications
Marie-Josée Gagné, 418-682-2402 (Canada)
mjgagne@limpresario.com

Rapid Mobile Media Ltd, providers of innovative mobile advertising and mobile application provisioning software platforms got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
Rapid Mobile Media are an Edinburgh-based software company licensing platforms that enable automatic optimisation, delivery and installation of applications and content on any mobile phone, without the need for user intervention or device-side agents. Their Active Provisioning platform and ThinkPhone design environment allow the rapid deployment of any type of service to the mobile environment, and have to date automatically provisioned more than 3,000 phone types. The Ad360 platform provides complete management of mobile advertising campaigns, allowing graphical and textual adverts to automatically be delivered to the selected WAP, SMS, MMS or application channels at the highest possible quality.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Rapid Mobile Media Ltd, providers of innovative mobile advertising and mobile application provisioning software platforms, announced the completion of a second investment round of Gbp2m led by US venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) who were joined by Alliance Trust Equity Partners (ATEP) as new investors in the company. Existing investors Pentech Ventures and Scottish Enterprise's Scottish Venture Fund also participated in the round.

About VCs:

1.
Alliance Trust Equity Partners Limited is the private equity arm of Alliance Trust PLC, a FTSE-100 company heading an international investment and financial services group that has offices in Dundee, Edinburgh, London and Hong Kong. Through its financial services subsidiaries Alliance Trust offers asset management for other companies and clients and investment accounts, share-dealing and self-invested personal pensions. ATEP manages third party funds and invests on behalf of Alliance Trust PLC. http://www.atep.co.uk

2.
Pentech Ventures is modelled on "Silicon Valley" venture capital organisations, and takes an active role in working with entrepreneurs to build highly successful technology companies. The executives have a mix of technology, business, and corporate finance experience and are supported by Venture Partners, each of whom have all founded, developed, and sold technology businesses. All at Pentech have a thorough understanding of what it takes to build successful organisations. Pentech invest in best-of-breed teams and ideas and aims to work with entrepreneurial teams that want their venture partner to take an active, critical and wealth-building role in developing their business. Their investment focus is on software infrastructure and applications, for internet content creation and management, communications, and for the new range of internet access devices. Pentech is a division of Penta Capital Partners, an independent private equity house formed in September 1999. For more information on Penta, please visit www.pentacapital.com. Pentech is a division of Penta Capital Partners Limited, Regulated by the FSA.


3.
The Scottish Venture Fund provides investments of up to £2m per transaction in partnership with the private sector on at least a matched funding basis in syndicated transactions, typically, between £2m and £10m. Further information on Scottish Enterprise investments is available at www.scottish-enterprise.com/equity.

More at:http://www.rapid-mobile.com/

The Livebookings Network is a global marketing and real-time restaurant booking service got VCs funding

What Company Is Offering:
The Livebookings Network is a global marketing and real-time restaurant booking service. The Livebookings Network is continually expanding. By creating strong partnerships with high profile websites, it can give restaurants access to free marketing channels and more potential diners every month. The Network manages the entire integration process for its booking partners, working closely with a company's technical team to deliver entirely customisable customer and booking communications, in tune with their website's needs.

How It Works:
By selecting one of the six integrated reservations management solutions available, Livebookings' restaurant members are able to receive real-time internet bookings from more than 500 independent booking partners – including Time Out, lastminute.com, Laterooms.com, MSN, Eniro, Ticketmaster and American Express – with a collective potential market in excess of 30 million diners.
Operating on a 24/7 real-time system, the Livebookings Network provides a reliable confirmation service and accurate table occupancy information to prospective diners around the clock.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Livebookings the European leading online restaurant reservations and marketing network, announces it has secured Gbp6.5m of funding led by Balderton Capital, the leading venture capital firm behind Bebo, Codemasters and Setanta. The investment will be used to fund growth plans in Europe and develop the company's infrastructure and technology.

About VCs:
Balderton Capital is one of Europe's largest venture capital firms, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, it manages approximately USD 1.5 billion in committed venture capital.

Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 70 companies across a wide variety of technology sectors and geographies, including throughout Europe, and in the US and China. Notable investments include Bebo (the leading social networking site), Betfair (online betting exchange) Codemasters (video games developer and publisher), Habbo Hotel (teen social networking site), MySQL (open-source database business) and Setanta Sports (the European sports broadcaster).

TriHealix, a developer of innovative technology to streamline healthcare payments and consumer account settlements got $7 Million in Series C

What Company Is Offering:
TriHealix provides an integrated healthcare and financial transaction platform designed to administer complex health insurance products and streamline the settlement process between payors and providers, including dental, medical, pharmacy, and vision practitioners. The TriHealix Multi-Authorization Processing platform enables simultaneous, electronic communication and data sharing by all parties to a healthcare transaction – from point of care, to insurance companies, to consumer financial institutions, and back. To connect providers to its platform, TriHealix offers a Web-based portal that integrates payment card acceptance with eligibility verification, as well as other services designed to help providers with revenue cycle management.

How Much They Got From VCs:

TriHealix, a developer of innovative technology to streamline healthcare payments and consumer account settlements, has secured $7 Million in Series C financing. The funds will support the continued development and deployment of its patent-pending Multi-Authorization Processing (MAP) technology and proprietary integrated transaction processing platform.

About VCs:
Lemhi Ventures (www.lemhiventures.com), a Minneapolis-based venture capital firm, led the financing. "Lemhi Ventures invests in companies that bring disruptive change to the healthcare services industry," said Randy Schmidt, Lemhi Ventures Venture Partner and a member of the TriHealix board of directors. "We believe TriHealix is poised to re-invent the healthcare payments business and become one of those companies."



More at: www.trihealix.com

Add to Any is a single-button solution that saves you precious page space and from cluttering your pages

What Company Is Offering:
Add to Any is a single-button solution that saves you precious page space and from cluttering your pages with a bunch of Add to [Service] buttons.

How It Works:

Users of Add to Any typically save their services so that any Add to Any button, including the one on your page, is a one-click link to the service(s) they use.
Your feed becomes exposed to the widest possible audience since Add to Any includes every user's feed reader.
The Add to Any button/link reminds your visitors to bookmark your pages, and links to every online bookmark manager.
FeedBurner provides you with traffic analytics. Add to Any enables your visitors to visually choose among any feed reading service and is completely about making feed subscriptions (and bookmarking) extremely convenient for visitors. You can use FeedBurner in conjunction with Add to Any by entering your FeedBurner feed url.

Without specifying a URL, Add to Any will automatically detect the current page using JavaScript. The problem is, some people don't have JavaScript enabled in their browsers. By typing in the page URL, those people will still be able to bookmark your page.


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

Asterpix--Convert videos from across the web into interactive videos

What Company Is Offering:

Asterpix is the place to view and create interactive video:

Convert videos from across the web into interactive videos,
Share your interactive videos on Asterpix, blogs, social network profile pages or other websites.

How It Works:

Asterpix enables users to easily create hypervideos and share them through websites, blogs and email. Analogous to hypertext, hypervideo provides an interactive experience by allowing viewers to select objects of interest to get more information or navigate the video.

Hypervideo is comparable to hypertext in some respects. Hypertext makes text an interactive experience, allowing you to create and click on “hot” links to navigate a document. Hypertext has changed the way we navigate documents. For example, when we open a simple text document such as a printed book, we often look at the table of contents first and then turn to the page of interest. When we open a hypertext document, the table of contents typically comprises links to the appropriate portions of the document. Simply clicking on these links takes us to the relevant sections and subsections. Hypertext documents contain links to other hypertext documents allowing the reader to navigate large quantities of information quickly to gather what is of interest at that moment.

More at:http://asterpix.com/

Joint Contact is a great solution for busy project managers, business owners and individuals that need a quick and easy way to manage multiple project

What Company Is Offering:
Joint Contact is an online project collaboration solution that supports group management and creation of documents, discussions, schedules, cases, tasks and team information. Available online or hosted at your company, Joint Contact supports companies in their efforts to maintain "high trust" person-to-person (P2P) and business-to-business (B2B) relationships.

How It Works:
Joint Contact facilitates a simple and intuitive way to collaborate, so your team can start using it within minutes. For example, a user can share documents, participate in online discussions, coordinate a project, or post status reports with team members, partners or even customers. Companies can also choose to extend and/or integrate Joint Contact with existing line-of-business applications, company websites or other web applications.
Joint Contact is a great solution for busy project managers, business owners and individuals that need a quick and easy way to manage multiple projects involving different team members. Joint Contact allows you to easily organize both business and personal projects in a single unified view, keeping your team organized and making information quicker to access. Read our examples to see how Joint Contact can benefit your business.

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