Sunday, April 27, 2008

Autoquake, a U.K.-based online retailer of used cars, has closed a Gbp6 million ($11.8 million) second round of venture capital funding

What Company Is Offering:
Autoquake offers you a better way to buy a used car. No stress, no hassle - just great service and low, low prices.

Because Autoquake is an online service, there are no showrooms to pay for, or salesman waiting to take their cut. That means our prices are rock-bottom. Expect to save 15%-20% over typical forecourt prices. There's no need to haggle, either - the price you see is the price you pay.

Low prices sometimes mean a no-frills approach to service. Not at Autoquake. Every car has gone through a comprehensive mechanical inspection before it appears online. You can take a test drive at our professional hand-over centre, buy on finance or arrange a warranty for added peace of mind, just as you would at an old-fashioned car dealer. If you want to speak to someone, our helpful staff are just a phone call away, six days a week.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Autoquake, a U.K.-based online retailer of used cars, has closed a Gbp6 million ($11.8 million) second round of venture capital funding led by Highland Capital Partners in conjunction with existing investor Accel Partners. The financing is in addition to the Gbp3 million invested by Accel Partners in the summer of 2006.
More at:http://www.autoquake.com/

SaysMe Inc is provider of politics-based, consumer-driven television advertising, has closed a series A financing

What Company Is Offering:
SaysMe.tv is the primary place that individual consumers come to voice their own opinions through television, Internet and radio advertising regarding politics, sports, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (or whatever else they may be pursuing). SaysMe.tv allows you to participate in politics in a brand new way. For the first time ever, you will be able to use your campaign dollars to broadcast the messages you care about on TV. This begins in the form of sponsoring ads with your name at the end and will quickly grow into ways for you to create increasingly personalized messages by adding your own text, graphics and voice to commercials.



How Much They Got From VCs:

SaysMe Inc, a Los Angeles-based provider of politics-based, consumer-driven television advertising, has closed a series A financing led by Intel Capital and Prime Capital. Also participating were Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films, advertising pioneer Bill Apfelbaum, and other prominent angel investors. The proceeds from this funding round will be used to expand SaysMe's product offering beyond politics and to continue development of its suite of consumer-friendly technologies.
www.intelcapital.com

More at:http://www.saysme.tv/

JYGY --The Next Step In Mobile Social Networking

About Company:

JYGY is all about exploring and sharing with your friends. When you log into JYGY for the first time, you see the Dash page, this is where they put little widgets with various information and content for you. You can rearrange the page as you like. You can also add more stuff to it, just go to your account tab and customize it. While you are on the account tab, you can also set up your communication preferences, contact information and more.

JYGY has some social networking features like you have seen on other sites. However, JYGY is integrated into the mobile world from the get go. So for instance you can SMS your friends - just find them on the friends or the messages page.

You can upload media into JYGY different ways. Right now we recommend doing it on the webpage, but you will be able to MMS it to JYGY and email as well later. You can send the media to your friends from JYGY as well.

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

Compare your flight ticket in just one click with Jetcost.co.uk

What Company Is Offering:

Compare your flight ticket in just one click with Jetcost.co.uk .
Jetcost is a metasearch engine specialized in travel.

It does allow you to compare in just a second thousands of flights, hotels, car rentals, travel packages,...

How It Works:

Jetcost.co.uk compare for you flight tickets and find the cheapest flight among offers and promotions of online travel agencies, regular airlines and low-cost carrier. To book a cheap flight, you just need to launch a search and wait for the travel search engine Jetcost.co.uk to do the work for you. It will show you the best fare for your flight ticket and your airline travel. Discount flights, last minute flights, bargain airfares, charter flights offers and budget airline tickets, Jetcost is the insurance to travel at low cost and at the cheapest fare!

More at:http://www.jetcost.co.uk/

ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development and/or their businesses

What Company Is Offering:
ChemWeb.com provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research, product development, self-development, education, and/or their businesses in Chemistry and related disciplines. Easy access to abstracts, papers, books, conferences, news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com useful to our members.Membership is free and takes just a minute to register. Members have exclusive content access and can participate in the many ChemWeb community features.

How It Works:

Easy access to abstracts, papers, journals, books, conferences news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com powerful and useful to their members.ChemWeb.com members can access a growing list of journal article abstracts and databases from a variety of publishers. A number of databases offer structure-based searching and manipulation of molecular structures. ChemWeb.com services include a Jobs Search in association with sciencejobs.com, Conference and Event Center, Bookstore and the online magazine, the alchemist.

More at:http://chemweb.com/

uberVU is just an interesting way for you to keep track of all your content in this distributed world

What Company Is Offering:

uberVU helps you regain control of The Cloud. Because uberVU is just an interesting way for you to keep track of all your content in this distributed world.

The name comes from “UBER”, which is the German word for “more”, “extra”, “super”, “very”. And “VU” is just a misspelled version of “view”. The name refers to having an augmented overview of all your comment and conversations. Your uber-view of the Web you created.

How It Works:

Publish content such as blog posts, classifieds, pictures, videos, news, press releases or any other type of structured content, from one central location. More control and flexibility. Makes sense. Think of it as your publishing headquarters.

See and interact with the responses you get to your content. So if you post some content on 2 different blogs, you’ll be able to see what people from both blogs have said about it. And you can even respond to them, so that the conversation continues.

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

Sendloop is a professional yet easy-to-use email marketing and mail list management service for any kind of online/offline businesses

What Company Is Offering:
Sendloop is a professional yet easy-to-use email marketing and mail list management service for any kind of online/offline businesses.

Sendloop Help Center provides easy-to-read instructions for all sections and features of Sendloop.

How It Works:

Sendloop includes all professional features that you will need for your email marketing campaign combined with a very easy to use interface. In just a few minutes, you will get your account up and ready to send your first email campaign.

Sendloop is being improved every day to make your life easier about email marketing.

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