Tuesday, April 1, 2008

ConcertAttack.com is a place to share videos, pictures and reviews of live music events and concerts

What Company Is Offering:

ConcertAttack.com is a place to share videos, pictures and reviews of live music events and concerts. It's also a great place to make new friends based off your musical tastes.

ConcertAttack.com is the number one online community for sharing your concert reviews, pictures and videos. Think Myspace/FaceBook meets YouTube, flickr and Fandango.com but, focused solely on concerts.

How It Works:

They are a Concert Experience Archive and Concert News Outlet. That means they organize your concert reviews, tour journals, pictures and videos by artist and concert date which, makes them easy to find and makes them part of history. When you post your concert pictures of your favorite artists just in your Myspace profile or Facebook, that makes it hard for other fans to find them and comment on them. On those kinds of sites it is difficult to share pictures and reviews of the concert you went to with fellow fans outside your network because they won't be able to find or access them. Post your concert content here and you won't have to search thousands of web pages and social network profiles to find out about what's going on at your favorite artists' concerts and you will be able to easily share your concert stuff with fellow fans.

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

Market Lodge represents a significant opportunity for vendors of all types of products

What Company Is Offering:
Market Lodge represents a significant opportunity for vendors of all types of products to rapidly connect with and sell to the 1.2 BILLION members of social networks. Market Lodge technology enables members of social networks to rapidly create personalized market places in their own online space. Members then leverage their own personal social network of friends, family and colleagues to present and sell your products.

How It Works;

Market Lodge has helped vendors across the United States and in Canada sell thousands of products to customers across the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii).They creates the perfect sales channel for your products! It is highly targeted. Your products are seen by people who share interest, enthusiasm and even product knowledge. Using open APIs (application programming interface) made available by Google for many social networks including MySpace and Linked in and other open networks like Facebook, we bring your products directly to the millions of social network members. And, they leverage their connections to enable your products to be seen by the perfect target market – people who are interested in what you offer!

The system offers you the ability to have complete control over your inventory. Even if you have a very limited item with say as few as five on-hand products you can enter that number and the system will automatically delete the product from the network when those are sold. If you have unlimited inventory that’s fine also. This works for small vendors with a few specialized products and for large vendors with thousands of on-hand products.

More at;http://www.themarketlodge.com/

Slicethepie enables artists to raise money directly from their fans to professionally record and release an album

What Company Is Offering:

Slicethepie enables artists to raise money directly from their fans to professionally record and release an album.

How It Works:


Artists sign up, upload their profile and join an Arena. When the Arena is full (up to 1,000 Artists) the Scout Room opens.
Music fans earn money scouting each track at least 10 times rating it 1-10 and writing detailed reviews.
The 20 highest rated artists from the Scout Room go forward to the Showcase.
Music fans vote for and finance Showcase Artists by buying Backstage Passes.
Backstage Passes give fans exclusive access to the artist, participation in the recording process, a free copy of the album and exclusive rights to buy Contracts in the artist at a discount.
Fans buy Contracts that entitle them to a return based on the number of singles and albums sold by the Artist over a 2 year period
The Artist receives the money (non-recoupable) and goes off to record the album, keeping in close contact with Backstage Pass holders in a private area of the site.
The Contracts become fully tradable on the Slicethepie Exchange, fluctuating in value depending on the anticipated number of album and single sales.
The album is released and Slicethepie receives £2 royalty on every album sale.
The Artist keeps all their copyright and publishing rights and remains free to sign a record deal at any time.

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

ELASTRA Is to provide companies building applications a way to radically innovate the way they develop their products

What Company Is Offering:
ELASTRA’s mission is to provide companies building applications a way to radically innovate the way they develop their products and deliver them on IT infrastructure.

How It Works:
Their customers shorten their application life-cycles, and bring better products to market more quickly and efficiently, while gaining better utilization of both infrastructure software and hardware. They enable their customers to do this by significantly simplifying and automating how they architect, deploy, manage and pay for their database and application infrastructure.

Their customers unlock the value of cloud computing by using virtualized hardware environments with cloud-provisioned database and infrastructure software that are easily configurable and do not require scripting, respond elastically to changing load and are delivered in the cloud with meter-based pricing. We believe wherever possible in leveraging industry-standard software and open software languages that our customers already know how to use and providing them with the flexibility of leveraging the cloud provider of their choice, be it public or their own private clouds or both.

Ultimately, the end result is to make application operations as easy as uploading applications and instantly turning them on — while simplifying the complex process of architecting, scaling and managing the underlying infrastructure software and eliminating the capital-intensive investments dictated by traditional software and hardware pricing models.

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

buzvia ----To track clicks from both incoming and outgoing links, giving you credit in the process

What Company Is Offering:
The buzvia system was developed to track clicks from both incoming and outgoing links, giving you credit in the process.
buzvia is a system that is created and programmed by i3DS International Corporation, a company that has been in business for well over a decade offering a host of customized services from 3D animation to dynamic programming.

How Is It Different:

All links within buzvia DO NOT have a “no-follow” as you are not paying for the links, this will help increase your Google PR and spread the word about your site to others. The more you use buzvia, the more links coming from your website will appear in the statistics of other sites, promoting your potential business even more. For example, if you are a corporation that sells tires and you create a buzvia link to five manufacturers, they will see that they got direct traffic from your site from the first click on.

Statistics get updated every half-hour and are based on a per month basis. Their buzboat, which searches for claimed domains, goes out every two hours and sends back an e-mail to those who have successfully claimed a domain. The members only area has a pulldown to allow you to see stats on a per month and year basis, meaning if you joined this month, it's quite possible you already have data from the previous months.

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

An online community of trade show exhibitors, marketing directors, event coordinators

What Company Is Offering:
An online community of trade show exhibitors, marketing directors, event coordinators and anyone that wants to know more about exhibiting at tradeshows.


How It Works:

They’re here to help you find the answers to your tradeshow questions.
Feel free to ask any questions that are trade show related or have to do with exhibiting at conventions, show services forms, exhibit displays, graphics or services and they’ll post both your question and any answers others in the trade show industry may have.


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

Undertone Networks, an Intercept Interactive company, is a premier online advertising network got funding

What Company Is Offering:
Undertone Networks, an Intercept Interactive company, is a premier online advertising network comprised of today's top media properties. Undertone provides online solutions that help advertisers achieve their brand and performance-based initiatives via a comprehensive selection of ad formats, rich media, targeting capabilities and personalized service. The company is headquartered in New York and has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Undertone Networks, a premium online advertising network, announced that it has received a strategic investment from JMI Equity. JMI, a private equity firm exclusively focused on investments in growing software and business services companies, will work closely with Undertone's management team to help the company continue to grow, deliver innovative services to its clients and create opportunities for its employees. As part of the transaction, Brad Woloson, a General Partner at JMI, has joined Undertone's Board of Directors. ORIX Venture Finance led the financing for the transaction. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Working with leading traditional and digital advertising agencies and their clients, Undertone executes and strategically manages online advertising campaigns that allow clients to maximize their return on investment. The funding from JMI will enable Undertone to accelerate new product development and research, and further expand its presence in both U.S. and international markets. Currently, Undertone has offices in seven major media markets across the U.S. and offers a full suite of interactive advertising solutions that include video, behavioral targeting and high impact ad solutions across a collection of the Internet's most well known and regarded Web properties.

More at: www.undertonenetworks.com

Vindicia offers an integrated, on-demand billing and fraud management solution for online merchants has secured $5.6 million

What Company Is Offering:
Vindicia offers an integrated, on-demand billing and fraud management solution for online merchants. Vindicia CashBox is a best-of-breed billing system for creating and managing recurring and real-time payments and helps merchants improve customer retention and maximize profit. Vindicia ChargeGuard provides automated fraud screening and chargeback management services that enable merchants to recover lost revenue.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Vindicia, a leading provider of on-demand payment management software, announced that it has secured $5.6 million in series C financing. Leader Ventures co-led the financing in partnership with existing investor, DCM. Vindicia has raised a total of $8.7 million in equity since its inception.

Vindicia also announced that it has added a fraud screening module to its solution, enabling online merchants to adopt the more sophisticated commerce models required to build revenue (see related release, "Vindicia Delivers Next-Generation Billing and Fraud Management Offering for Online Merchants.") The Vindicia fraud screening module helps merchants identify and manage true fraud while limiting revenue-inhibiting "false positives." By optimizing the true fraud chargeback rate, merchants can focus on growing customer acquisition rates.

About VCs:
1.
Leader Ventures is a private investment firm providing debt and equity financing to a diversified portfolio of private and public companies. With offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park, the firm invests primarily in the U.S. and employs a variety of loan and equity structures to invest in companies at different developmental stages, across diverse industry segments. For more information, please visit www.leaderventures.com.
2.
DCM is an early stage venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs building world-class technology companies. The firm's partners manage US$1.6 billion and have funded leading technology companies including 2Wire, 51job, @Motion (Openwave), About.com (The New York Times Co.), All About, Arroyo (Cisco), Clearwire, Dang Dang, eDreams (TA), Foundry Networks, HireRight, Internap, IPivot (Intel), JCI, Neopath Networks (Cisco), Neutral Tandem, nQuire (Siebel), PGP Corporation, Recourse Technologies (Symantec), Sigmatel, SMIC, Sling Media (EchoStar), VanceInfo and Vimicro. DCM offers hands-on operational guidance and access to an extensive network of resources, including close relationships with many of the Pacific Rim's leading companies and investors. For more information, visit www.dcm.com.

More at: www.vindicia.com

Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform has raised $2.75 million in their Series A financing

What Company Is Offering:
Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform, designed to empower the world's journalists to discover, organize, and rank the most important news -- to benefit their own reporting, their newsrooms, and all news consumers on the web. Co-founded in 2007 by Scott Karp and Robert Young, Publish2 is backed by Velocity Interactive Group and is based in Reston, Virginia. Publish2's board of directors includes Velocity partners Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn, as well as Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine.com and Luke Beatty, founder and President of Associated Content, Inc. Publish2 is also advised by a group of influential journalists and journalism innovators.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Publish2, Inc. announced it has raised $2.75 million in their Series A financing from Velocity Interactive Group, a leading global digital media and communications investment firm. Co-founded by Scott Karp and Robert Young, Publish2 is an online news aggregation platform, designed to empower the world's journalists to discover, organize, and rank the most important news -- to benefit their own reporting, their newsrooms, and all news consumers on the web. The site has been in stealth mode and is now in private Beta.

The money raised will be used to accelerate Publish2’s strategic growth initiatives, including hiring key team members, completing development of the technology platform, and making Publish2 an indispensable tool for a critical mass of journalists, editors, and newsrooms.

About VCs:
Velocity Interactive Group is a leading investment firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Velocity Interactive Group has a global presence in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, India and China.www.velocityig.com

More at:www.publish2.com



NetSquared----Remixing The Web For Social Change

What Company Is Offering:

Their mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There's a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as "Web 2.0"; they call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.Non-profits and NGOs thrive on relationships – which means the social web holds tremendous potential to transform their effectiveness and impact. They want to help you build the strategic capacity, knowledge and skills you need to put these powerful new online tools to work achieving positive changes.


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

Sermo enables you to exchange medical knowledge with your colleagues instantaneously

What Company is Offering:

Sermo enables you to exchange medical knowledge with your colleagues instantaneously, and even send postings to colleagues who are not members of the community.

Once you are part of the Sermo community, you are free to discuss any topic relevant to the medical community, ask questions, monitor physicians observations, comment on postings, use keywords to search for information, search for postings within your specialty, submit an image to the community, bookmark and track your favorite postings, tell others how relevant you think a posting really is.

How It Works:

Sermo's clients will use data collected from the Sermo system to help forecast potential problems or new uses for commercially significant medical products and therapies, gain early insight into outbreaks and other changes in disease states and conditions that can affect the public health, perform epidemiologic research investigations, survey the opinion of practicing physicians on topics related to medical care, assess the success and adoption of best practice recommendations, look for opportunities to improve medical practice, and protect and promote patient safety and the public health.

Sermo doesn't presume the relative value of any piece of information. They leave it up to their clients to perceive that value and assign a dollar value on any piece of information that reflects their interest in a particular topic. Clients use it to further their goals and get information, the same way physicians use it to get their questions answered. By maintaining system availability to all different parties it creates a more diverse community. So all kinds of different ideas are afforded potential value as opposed to being given a pre-assigned market value. It is truly grassroots.

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

Jivox is a web-based video advertising service enabling businesses to better communicate their products and services

What Company Is Offering:

Jivox online video advertising is a powerful new way to tell your customers about your business beyond the visual and geographic limitations of search engines and banners.Jivox is a web-based video advertising service enabling businesses to better communicate their products and services to a micro-targeted audience in a more customized, relevant way than most traditional mass advertising methods, and internet banners and search engines. Jivox is headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices in Bangalore and Delhi in India.

How It Works:

With Jivox, you can easily create Free professional video advertisements for your business with music, visuals, and more. Through the exclusive Jivox network your ad will appear "on the digital air." Jivox pinpoints the sites your customers go to in the markets you need to reach them. You only pay for the actual sites where your video ad runs.

Who Is Backing Them:
Diaz Nesamoney founder of Jivox has had two prior successful ventures. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest, raised over $20M in venture capital, and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos Corporation. Celequest introduced the market’s first BI appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition by Cognos.

He was previously co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999 with a market capitalization of over a billion dollars. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with over $400M in revenue.

Diaz is a trustee of the American India Foundation, a leading international development organization charged with the mission of accelerating social and economic change in India.

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

Quamut Is the most comprehensive how-to guide available on any subject

What Company Is Offering:

Quamut takes on subjects big and small and presents them on concise printable charts that you can take anywhere. Want a compact, well-organized guide to how to knit, play the harmonica, or watch football? Only Quamut has it.

How It Works:

Every Quamut chart is written by an expert, reviewed by a fact-checker, and produced by their editorial team at Barnes & Noble's headquarters in New York, all of which helps to make their content authoritative, consistent and reliable. All of their guides are springboards toward a more in-depth discussion of the topic. Their wiki features enable each Quamut to expand into the most comprehensive how-to guide available on any subject.

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

Boxxet brings together the "best of" news, blogs, videos, photos, gear and much more on your favorite subjects

What Company Is Offering:

Boxxet (pronounced "box set") brings together the "best of" news, blogs, videos, photos, gear and much more on your favorite subjects. For the things you care about (teams, hobbies, interests, schools, towns, etc), Boxxet's unique combination of computer automation and community participation produces the most diverse and complete best-of compilations.


How It Works:
Any contribution you can make, however small, will produce a better Boxxet for you and your fellow readers. From rating items to submitting stories, ideas or links of your own, Boxxet wants you to be part of the Boxxet. Go to your favorite Boxxet and get started!.

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

Evolvist is the online resource for smarter, more sustainable living

What Company Is Offering:
Evolvist is the online resource for smarter, more sustainable living. So many of us want to do the right thing, but simply don’t know where to begin. Evolvist makes it simple to find the best businesses and worthy organizations committed to shaping a more environmentally and socially responsible society. Evolvist operates as an interactive and dynamic directory, helping you find and share businesses and organizations—from delis to dry cleaners, from financial advisors to farmers markets, from spas to solar-installers—who commit to sustainability and social responsibility.

How It Works:

Find local resources. Search existing listings using keywords, names, and terms, or browse local listings by categories. You'll get relevant results of all the businesses and organizations fitting your search or browse parameters.
Get specific. Drill down into your results by location, or filter further by a set of relevant “eco-labels,” each representative of a biz' s specific sustainable offerings.
Geo-locate. Maps will show you right where everything is, so that you can find what's most convenient.
Learn more. Click on a listing to learn all about the biz in question, and find out exactly what they do, what products or services they offer, and read what others have to say about them.
Share. Send listings to friends and family who you think would want to know about them.
Rinse, repeat. Browse or search anew from any results or listing page from the convenient navigation banner up top.

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