Friday, April 25, 2008

Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding

What Company Is Offering:
Silverpop is a premier email service provider delivering a comprehensive array of on-demand, Web-based software solutions serving the online relationship marketing needs of enterprise-level organizations throughout the world. Its Software-as-a-Service approach makes it easy and affordable for marketers to create, automate and execute lifecycle multi-channel marketing campaigns that are timely, relevant and measurable. With highly scalable tools supporting both high-volume BtoC marketing initiatives as well as demand generation activities for BtoB sales processes, Silverpop delivers a robust suite of marketing tools not available elsewhere in the marketplace.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Silverpop, a leading provider of on-demand marketing technology, has closed a $15 million round of funding. The funds are earmarked for international expansion, R&D acceleration and to fund additional acquisitions to round out the company's on-demand marketing suite.
The company has been recognized by Deloitte as the second fastest-growing technology company in Georgia, and Silverpop is the only company that has consistently been named by JupiterResearch as one of the top two enterprise-oriented email service providers each of the last four years.

"On-demand marketing solutions are changing how marketers do their jobs. They are able to be more flexible, more responsive and more competitive, all with lower costs," said Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey. "The demand for Software-as-a-Service marketing solutions is growing at an amazing rate, and investors are beginning to realize the tremendous upside of this market."

More at: www.silverpop.com

FirstRain is the leading provider of search-driven research applications for investment professionals and corporate executives

What Company Is Offering:
FirstRain is the leading provider of search-driven research applications for investment professionals and corporate executives. They fill the information gap that exists in the research process for portfolio managers, analysts and management teams, uncovering information they would not see otherwise, and help theirr clients ask and answer more effective questions, identify emerging trends, and generate better ideas-faster.

How It Works:

FirstRain combines cutting-edge technology with models of companies and topics in their market context to extract only the most relevant intelligence from the web-including hard-to-find sources such as sector-specific sources, premium subscription sites, influential blogs and local and international news. They deliver personalized results tailored to our clients' particular strategy and view of the market via email or web access.

FirstRain delivers personalized, robust data to keep you abreast of developments impacting your investments. Their search-driven research fits the investment professional's workflow by applying pattern detection and adaptive models of business concepts, companies and industries to the web to uncover information that you would not see otherwise. FirstRain extends your information reach and sharpens your edge.

FirstRain is a privately held company, headquartered in Foster City, CA. The company has sales client-services offices in New York, NY, and research and development facilities in Gurgaon. Investors include Oak Investment Partners, Ampersand Ventures, Diamondhead Ventures and Split Rock Partners.

More at:http://firstrain.com/

Campusfood.com

What Company Is Offering:

Campusfood.com, Inc. is the leading network of restaurants, providing innovative marketing to restaurant partners and offering online menus with interactive ordering for students and local communities.


How It Works:

Through a virtual food court, Campusfood connects millions to a national base of over 1,500 chain and independent restaurants at more than 300 of the top campuses across the country. Campusfood continues to grow each year, adding campuses and restaurants to their roster. Campusfood.com is the easiest, fastest and least expensive way to order food from your favorite restaurants. Avoid busy signals, miscommunications, AND save tons of money by taking advantage of exclusive meal deals and specials.

Campusfood.com customer service is standing by...7 days a week, 9AM - 3AM EST.


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

Feedables is your source for up to date content that is categorized and presented specifically for you

What Company Is Offering:
Feedables is your source for up to date content that is categorized and presented specifically for you.


If you’ve got a big appetite for knowledge, or when you need to keep up to date on a specific topic - turn to Feedables for sizzling hot content .

How It Works:

Feedable is an aggregation website covering a specific topic of information utilizing rss technology.

When they create a Feedables site they scour the deepest parts of the web to find the most pertinent information on that particuliar topic. They harness the power of news articles, podcasts, video and imagery from the biggest news sources to the most niche blogs.

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

The Thread Buddy is a threaded discussion tool that uses wildcard DNS, so you can pick your own discussion URL

What Company Is Offering:
The Thread Buddy is a threaded discussion tool that uses wildcard DNS, so you can pick your own discussion URL. The thread is tied to the *.www.threadbuddy.com URL that you choose, so there are endless open "channels" to use. The thread buddy is search engine friendly since it has an integrated plaintext and rss feed. Also, the thread buddy can easily be integrated into any site. See the help page for how to integrate a Thread Buddy into your site.

How It Works:

It is easy to add a Thread Buddy to your site! Just replace the URL in the iframe tag below with your own thread buddy (yourname.threadbuddy.com), it's that simple.At a minimum, the following is code is all that is needed to put a Thread Buddy on your site.

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

RealDealDocs is a leading online legal document resource offering millions of sample legal agreements, contracts and clauses

What Company Is Offering:
RealDealDocs is a leading online legal document resource offering millions of sample legal agreements, contracts and clauses. Members can edit, print and download copies of real legal documents used and drafted by the top law firms for both Fortune 500 Companies and small cap operations.

How It Works:

RealDealDocs.com provides a wide variety of legal agreements ranging from executive employment agreements, confidentiality agreements mortgage loan agreements, lease agreements, and more. RealDealDocs.com offers over 10 million other legal documents and clauses in addition to the independent contractor and aforementioned agreements.

Documents and clauses found at RealDealDocs.com are drafted by some of the top law firms for Fortune 500 companies as well as for the smallest of small cap companies. Since these legal documents have been drafted by the best law firms in the country, they are not only relevant work products, but also individual opportunities to gain important competitive intelligence about how top law firms are negotiating and drafting agreements for their clients; not to mention an invaluable peek at the inner workings of the World’s largest companies.

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

Greenengineseo.com--new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms

What Company Is Offering:
Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms.

How It Works:
Their mission is to help brands harness the power of the Internet to create value for their customers. Solutions are driven by your needs and your competitive position. Ultimately they endeavor to increase online traffic, sales and profits.


The first move is to initiate a dialogue. As experts who care about helping businesses outperform the competition, this is your opportunity to find out more about their skills, expertise and philosophy.They are available to give you candid feedback on your website and media plan. Due to demand, they only take on new clients on a case by case basis but they are certainly available to give you competitive advice.



Recent Updates:

Greenengineseo.com, a premiere new media agency that focuses on organic search engine optimization and strategic online marketing campaigns for Automotive firms. announced a new campaign for a leading automotive manufacturer.

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

KeepandShare.com

What Company Is Offering:
KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group file & calendar sharing easy. With a few clicks, anyone can create a secure group file or calendar sharing center in 30 seconds. Keepandshare.com is a private 'sharing space' where families, friends, clients, businesses, and groups of any kind can keep and share calendars, files, documents, lists, journals and photos safely and privately. With over 280,000 registered members KeepandShare.com is among the web's fastest growing sites.




How It Works:
Its free online secure file sharing resource center. With free online file sharing combined with extensive web-based file sharing resources, KeepandShare's announcement today of their free secure file sharing resource center means users can create file sharing program and share online file sharing faster than ever before. Impressive new file sharing features mean users can do even more with their private file sharing software KeepandShare account.

KeepandShare's free secure file sharing online web center is available now at:

http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php

The private file sharing software is secure because it's 100% private to you, but you can share file at any time by just inviting friends to have access to the file or entire folders. You can even mark files public. Lastly, the web-based file sharing in KeepandShare can be combined with creating native documents and sharing online calendars, so it's truly a complete solution for group sharing needs. Kudos to KeepandShare."

KeepandShare.com is the free website that makes group sharing easy. KeepandShare's free secure file and calendar sharing accounts can be accessed securely from any Internet connected computer.

More at:http://www.keepandshare.com/htm/free_file_sharing.php

Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones got $20 million in funding

What Company Is Offering:
Obopay, Inc. is a pioneering service that lets consumers and businesses purchase, pay, and transfer money through any mobile phone using Obopay's mobile application, text message, mobile Web, widget or Obopay.com. As the first mobile payment service created exclusively for the mobile phone, only Obopay works on any phone and any carrier to empower consumers and businesses with the convenience of mobile payments.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Obopay, Inc., the pioneering service provider for payments via mobile phones, announced the closing of its $20 million fourth round of venture funding and the addition of two new board members. This latest round of investment builds on Obopay's enormous momentum in its business and high-profile partnerships.

"This round of investment builds on Obopay's proven success in the mobile payments market," explained Carol Realini, CEO of Obopay. "With our continuing focus on delivering services built on specific feedback from consumers, such as the ability to send money from and receive money to any US bank account, the success of our partnerships and our international expansion, we remain confident in the viability of the American -- and global -- mobile payments market."

More at:www.obopay.com

Retail Convergence Inc., a newly formed corporation comprised of a portfolio of ecommerce companies has closed a $25 million Series A round

About Company:
Retail Convergence Inc. is a portfolio of ecommerce companies leveraging a common platform, infrastructure, customer file and brand relationships. Current portfolio companies include RueLaLa.com and SmartBargains.com. Retail Convergence is a privately-held company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Retail Convergence Inc., a newly formed corporation comprised of a portfolio of ecommerce companies, today announced it has closed a $25 million Series A round of financing.

Lead investors include New England Development, Breakaway Ventures, Mugar Enterprises and General Catalyst Partners. The first initiative for the new organization included the acquisition of SmartBargains.com, the leading online, off-price retailer. Additionally, Retail Convergence today announced the launch of RueLaLa.com, the invitation-only, private sale ecommerce site driven exclusively by user-generated membership.

RueLaLa.com is an exciting addition to the Retail Convergence portfolio as it offers an entirely new shopping experience. The private sale model provides consumers exclusive access to scheduled sales of upscale brands. Each private sale is brand-specific, lasts 2 days and features current season merchandise. Membership is completely user-generated – the only way an individual can join RueLaLa.com is through an invitation from an existing member. In today’s tepid retail environment this unique peer-to-peer, viral marketing driven model addresses consumers’ demand for unique shopping experiences.

More at:www.ruelala.com
www.smartbargains.com.

RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing serviceshas secured $4.5 million in first-round venture fund

What Company Is Offering:
RightScale, Inc. delivers the platform, tools and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web solutions on cloud computing services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less. Funded by Benchmark Capital, RightScale is a private company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.

How Much They Got From VCs:
RightScale, Inc., the leading automated management platform for Internet cloud computing services, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in first-round venture financing from Benchmark Capital. RightScale will use the funds to accelerate customer growth and develop more tools that enable developers to create and automate reliable, scalable and high-performing web applications for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Benchmark Capital general partner Kevin Harvey will join the company's board of directors.

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

Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging

What Company Is Offering:
Plugoo offers you several communication tools based on instant messaging:

Plugoo Widget, to interact LIVE with your website visitors;
Planet Plugoo, to meet people from all over the world, share your interests and chat with them instantly.

How It Works:

Plugoo Widget enables your website visitors (blog, social network profile, online shop…) to get in touch with you in real time, directly on your Instant Messenger (MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, ICQ, Jabber…). If your messenger status is online, visitors can send you an instant message through the Plugoo Buddy in your messenger buddy list. You can thus chat with them, answer their questions or comments Live!

Your visitors don’t need neither to download a software nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone.

Planet Plugoo is the Plugoo Members’ community. Planet Plugoo is a micro-social chat-centric network. You can share your interests with people from all over the world, meet new friends and chat with them. You can browse Planet Plugoo using tags about interests, localization… Your personal information (email address, instant messaging username) are never revealed to other Planet Plugoo Members.

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

Cerizmo is a system for selling and delivering downloadable files of all kinds

What Company Is Offering:
Cerizmo is a system for selling and delivering downloadable files of all kinds. It is a hosted, on-demand service that provides everything you need to start selling - a customizable online store, a control panel to manage it, payment integration, and automatic delivery of downloads. There's no software to install or configure - they manage everything on their servers.

And the best part - the money goes straight into your own merchant account instantly when you make a sale.

Unique Features:

Sell any kind of Download

Software, ebooks, digital photos and artwork, screencasts, music, manuals, documents, videos, schematics - if it's a file, you can sell it with our system. You can even bundle multiple downloads on one item.

Automatic Download Delivery

A secure direct download link is automatically delivered to your customer after they order. The download links automatically expire, and the location of the files is protected from unauthorized access.

Your Own Customizable Store

Sell your digital goods through your store - complete with shopping cart, checkout, and payment integration. Quickly customize the look and feel with your own HTML layout and stylesheet files.

Merchant Control Panel

Setup and control everything from your own private Merchant Control Panel. Setup and customize your store, view your orders and sales statistics, and view information about your customers. It's all there.

PayPal Integration

Integrates seamlessly with your own PayPal account. There's no waiting to get paid - the money goes straight into your account when you make a sale.

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

Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction

What Company Is Offering:
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.


How It Works:

After registering, you have a couple of different ways to post content. First off, you can start a new story by clicking the "Protagonize!" link from your right-hand menu. That will get you started with a fresh, brand new story. If you're not signed in to your Protagonize account, you'll be prompted to do so before posting anything.


Protagonize lets you explore your inner author: simply read and be amazed by the creative prowess of other writers, subscribe via RSS, or contribute to stories yourself. Registered members get their own author profile page, can write new stories, branches and chapters, add page markers, keep track of their favourite authors, add comments, rate stories, and more.

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