The Search Agency (TSA), a leading search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) firm, announced today that it has received a strategic investment from JMI Equity. JMI, a private equity firm focused on investments in growing software and business services companies, will work closely with TSA management to support its strong growth in providing search marketing services to clients worldwide. Peter Arrowsmith, a General Partner at JMI, has joined TSA's Board of Directors. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
TSA provides SEM and SEO to online advertisers through a suite of paid search and organic search tools, including its AdMax platform. The company's unique approach to online marketing is based on combining proprietary technology with a robust service offering, and has resulted in annual growth rates exceeding 100% and market leading client retention rates. TSA plans to use the investment from JMI to expand its sales and marketing efforts, and to support the continued research and development of the company's proprietary technology.
"We welcome the opportunity to partner with JMI," said David Hughes, Chief Executive Officer of TSA. "In our focus to accelerate TSA's growth and gain market share, we were seeking an investment firm who is highly knowledgeable in the online marketing space. The fact that JMI has proven experience in our industry resonated with us. They clearly understand our strategic plan and we are excited about the significant value they can provide both strategically and financially to our organization."
"The Search Agency's ability to offer first rate service supported and enhanced by technology is unique in the marketplace today," said Mr. Arrowsmith of JMI. "We look forward to working with David and his team to build on the company's success, help enhance its competitive position and continue to generate profitable growth over the long term."
Via-PEhub
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
SoarPort provides a rich user experience for viewing large dimension images via an interactive "SoarPort"
What Company Is Offering:
SoarPort provides a rich user experience for viewing large dimension images via an interactive "SoarPort" which allows users to control the motion of the image as if they were soaring overhead.
How It Works:
First, sign up and you will have access to the tools you will need to get started. Adding an image to SoarPort is simple: you can upload a single, large dimension image. Once the upload is complete, we do the rest - zooming and configuring your source image into the format required for our engine.
Once your SoarPort is complete, you can embed your SoarPort right within your own pages. Your SoarPort will look as though you coded it yourself. Its kind of like how YouTube embeds videos in web pages. You add a small amount of HTML to your own web page, and they do the rest.
More at:http://www.soarport.com/
SoarPort provides a rich user experience for viewing large dimension images via an interactive "SoarPort" which allows users to control the motion of the image as if they were soaring overhead.
How It Works:
First, sign up and you will have access to the tools you will need to get started. Adding an image to SoarPort is simple: you can upload a single, large dimension image. Once the upload is complete, we do the rest - zooming and configuring your source image into the format required for our engine.
Once your SoarPort is complete, you can embed your SoarPort right within your own pages. Your SoarPort will look as though you coded it yourself. Its kind of like how YouTube embeds videos in web pages. You add a small amount of HTML to your own web page, and they do the rest.
More at:http://www.soarport.com/
Trading Mastermind is a community of Traders who are committed to sharing insights and experiences of forex trading
What Company Is Offering:
Trading Mastermind Offers online forex trading, currency forex trading courses and forex trading training.Trading Mastermind is a community of Traders who are committed to sharing insights and experiences for the benefit of the entire community. Their trading principles Like Forex Trading Courses, online currency trading and Forex Training methods can be applied to any of the financial markets and some are focused on Futures, Commodities, Bonds, and other instruments.
How It Works:
Their expert will provide you the best forex training and courses to help you generate more revenue with forex trading. If you are a Forex currency trading beginner, your first order of business is to get yourself informed. Forex trading can truly be highly profitably. However, without knowing its essentials, you will not earn one single dollar from it and may even lose your investment. Trading foreign currencies is a challenging and potentially profitable opportunity for educated and experienced investors. However, before deciding to participate in the Forex market, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk appetite. Most importantly, do not invest money you cannot afford to lose.
More at:http://www.forextradingseminar.com/
Trading Mastermind Offers online forex trading, currency forex trading courses and forex trading training.Trading Mastermind is a community of Traders who are committed to sharing insights and experiences for the benefit of the entire community. Their trading principles Like Forex Trading Courses, online currency trading and Forex Training methods can be applied to any of the financial markets and some are focused on Futures, Commodities, Bonds, and other instruments.
How It Works:
Their expert will provide you the best forex training and courses to help you generate more revenue with forex trading. If you are a Forex currency trading beginner, your first order of business is to get yourself informed. Forex trading can truly be highly profitably. However, without knowing its essentials, you will not earn one single dollar from it and may even lose your investment. Trading foreign currencies is a challenging and potentially profitable opportunity for educated and experienced investors. However, before deciding to participate in the Forex market, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk appetite. Most importantly, do not invest money you cannot afford to lose.
More at:http://www.forextradingseminar.com/
Musiic.net is a music meta-search tool
What Company Is Offering:
Musiic.net is a music meta-search tool that allow you to look for music, mp3, videos, images, songs, albums, news, blog posts, Web site, ... about your favorite artist.
Musiic.net is a mashup Web application retrieving information from search engines like The Hype Machine, SeeqPod, Yahoo! and Google and from music social networks like Last.fm.
More at:http://www.musiic.net/
Musiic.net is a music meta-search tool that allow you to look for music, mp3, videos, images, songs, albums, news, blog posts, Web site, ... about your favorite artist.
Musiic.net is a mashup Web application retrieving information from search engines like The Hype Machine, SeeqPod, Yahoo! and Google and from music social networks like Last.fm.
More at:http://www.musiic.net/
Shopflick is Video Shopping
What Company Is Offering:
Shopflick is Video Shopping!They are bringing you a great new way to discover and experience the most fascinating sellers and coolest new products online.
How It Works:
Buying is as easy as clicking on the video! And Shopflick is a new social experience where you can connect with your favorite sellers and products at their online stores, share their videos with your friends and embed them in your social networks and blogs.Watch entertaining videos directly from the designers, merchants, entrepreneurs and companies selling today's best items. Then see their products come to life through videos showing you features, details and stories way beyond still images.
More at:http://beta.shopflick.com/
Shopflick is Video Shopping!They are bringing you a great new way to discover and experience the most fascinating sellers and coolest new products online.
How It Works:
Buying is as easy as clicking on the video! And Shopflick is a new social experience where you can connect with your favorite sellers and products at their online stores, share their videos with your friends and embed them in your social networks and blogs.Watch entertaining videos directly from the designers, merchants, entrepreneurs and companies selling today's best items. Then see their products come to life through videos showing you features, details and stories way beyond still images.
More at:http://beta.shopflick.com/
MarketGuru is an investor community that helps you create your ideal portfolio based on your investment philosophy
What Company Is Offering:
MarketGuru is an investor community that helps you create your ideal portfolio based on your investment philosophy and the risk level you're willing to assume.
MarketGuru is like no other site. All their members are categorized by the risk their portfolios carry and ranked by their performance.
How It Works:
MarketGuru's mission is to bring together investors from around the world. They identify individual excellence based on proven track records and allow members to follow their peers of choice, increasing their personal knowledge base and level of information their trading decisions are based on. This knowledge is aimed at positively impacting portfolio gains and member confidence in the ability to invest well and reach personal investing goals.
MarketGuru is about providing the infrastructure for the worlds' investors to converge together, share ideas and wisdom and be rewarded financially for a job well done. For this reason they pay out 50% of all premium membership fees and divide them among Gurus (members who have at least one follower*) according to the number of followers each Guru has. Any member can become a Guru and you will never be asked to identify yourself.
They've provided the basic tools you'll need to make the most out of our community and are committed to keep working hard at understanding your needs and providing you with state of the art tools to make your investing experience as fun and rewarding as possible. You don't need to actually own a portfolio to participate in our community.
More at:http://www.marketguru.com/
MarketGuru is an investor community that helps you create your ideal portfolio based on your investment philosophy and the risk level you're willing to assume.
MarketGuru is like no other site. All their members are categorized by the risk their portfolios carry and ranked by their performance.
How It Works:
MarketGuru's mission is to bring together investors from around the world. They identify individual excellence based on proven track records and allow members to follow their peers of choice, increasing their personal knowledge base and level of information their trading decisions are based on. This knowledge is aimed at positively impacting portfolio gains and member confidence in the ability to invest well and reach personal investing goals.
MarketGuru is about providing the infrastructure for the worlds' investors to converge together, share ideas and wisdom and be rewarded financially for a job well done. For this reason they pay out 50% of all premium membership fees and divide them among Gurus (members who have at least one follower*) according to the number of followers each Guru has. Any member can become a Guru and you will never be asked to identify yourself.
They've provided the basic tools you'll need to make the most out of our community and are committed to keep working hard at understanding your needs and providing you with state of the art tools to make your investing experience as fun and rewarding as possible. You don't need to actually own a portfolio to participate in our community.
More at:http://www.marketguru.com/
IndexTools provides e-business leaders accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their Web efforts
What Company Is Offering:
IndexTools provides e-business leaders accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their Web efforts, thereby helping them to increase sales, reduce marketing costs and provide a higher level of service to their customers and partners. IndexTools specializes in delivering a highly customizable and scalable analytics platform, and serves its worldwide client base directly and through a network of over 200 local partners in over 25 countries around the globe.
How It Works:
It is to help you turn your IndexTools Web Analytics service into a key e-business performance management tool. By employing their expertise, you will gain greater insight into and control over your online initiatives. To achieve this goal, they follow a simple, three-step implementation methodology that ensures successful deployment and quick adoption of the service across your organization.
Initial consultations are provided free of charge and they will never charge you before starting a well defined project or task!
More at:http://indextools.com/
IndexTools provides e-business leaders accurate, insightful and timely intelligence about the effectiveness of their Web efforts, thereby helping them to increase sales, reduce marketing costs and provide a higher level of service to their customers and partners. IndexTools specializes in delivering a highly customizable and scalable analytics platform, and serves its worldwide client base directly and through a network of over 200 local partners in over 25 countries around the globe.
How It Works:
It is to help you turn your IndexTools Web Analytics service into a key e-business performance management tool. By employing their expertise, you will gain greater insight into and control over your online initiatives. To achieve this goal, they follow a simple, three-step implementation methodology that ensures successful deployment and quick adoption of the service across your organization.
Initial consultations are provided free of charge and they will never charge you before starting a well defined project or task!
More at:http://indextools.com/
Jobster Inc., a Seattle-based provider of online recruiting tools and services, has raised $7 million in Series D funding
What Company Is Offering:
Jobster is the leading innovator in online recruitment technology. Thousands of employers rely on Jobster to connect with valuable audiences of active and passive candidates through a range of services for employers and recruiting teams of all sizes. It's what we call "social recruiting™."
Whether you're looking to post jobs, search for candidates, feature your company on Facebook, or build a Talent Network of recruiting contacts, Jobster is here to help you connect.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Jobster Inc., a Seattle-based provider of online recruiting tools and services, has raised $7 million in Series D funding. Return backers include Ignition Venture Partners, Mayfield, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Trinity Ventures. Jobster has now raised around $53.5 million in total VC funding since 2004.
More at:http://www.jobster.com/
Jobster is the leading innovator in online recruitment technology. Thousands of employers rely on Jobster to connect with valuable audiences of active and passive candidates through a range of services for employers and recruiting teams of all sizes. It's what we call "social recruiting™."
Whether you're looking to post jobs, search for candidates, feature your company on Facebook, or build a Talent Network of recruiting contacts, Jobster is here to help you connect.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Jobster Inc., a Seattle-based provider of online recruiting tools and services, has raised $7 million in Series D funding. Return backers include Ignition Venture Partners, Mayfield, Reed Elsevier Ventures and Trinity Ventures. Jobster has now raised around $53.5 million in total VC funding since 2004.
More at:http://www.jobster.com/
WhyPark offers an innovative alternative to traditional domain parking got funding
What Company Is Offering:
WhyPark offers an innovative alternative to traditional domain parking. It delivers relevant and up-to-date information to generate niche-based visitor traffic. As a result, it creates value for domain names in addition to continual advertising revenue for domain owners.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WhyPark's new investment comes from one of its clients is revealing. Users seem to agree with the company's model and many say they are profiting from it.
"Being one of the first customers of WhyPark, I was amazed at how quickly Craig Rowe developed a user friendly platform which drastically increased the monetization of my domain portfolio," explained Macomber. "The rapid pace of improvements to the WhyPark platform over the last two years has been incredible. The keyword research function, the WhyPark ad feed, image driven templates, SEO tools, as well as the traffic, click and revenue tracking features have all been funded by the company's internal cash flow."
Macomber believes his investment, combined with talented management, will enable this early growth stage company to become a leader in the monetization of large domain portfolios. "When the new development program underway at WhyPark is finished, domain investors will be provided with an incredible suite of tools to quickly build out a website which provides a great user experience and a generous revenue stream," Macomber pointed out.
WhyPark currently hosts over 41,000 domains and says that owners of those sites can expect to see upgrades to the platform as a result of the new investment in the coming months.
More at:www.WhyPark.com
WhyPark offers an innovative alternative to traditional domain parking. It delivers relevant and up-to-date information to generate niche-based visitor traffic. As a result, it creates value for domain names in addition to continual advertising revenue for domain owners.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WhyPark's new investment comes from one of its clients is revealing. Users seem to agree with the company's model and many say they are profiting from it.
"Being one of the first customers of WhyPark, I was amazed at how quickly Craig Rowe developed a user friendly platform which drastically increased the monetization of my domain portfolio," explained Macomber. "The rapid pace of improvements to the WhyPark platform over the last two years has been incredible. The keyword research function, the WhyPark ad feed, image driven templates, SEO tools, as well as the traffic, click and revenue tracking features have all been funded by the company's internal cash flow."
Macomber believes his investment, combined with talented management, will enable this early growth stage company to become a leader in the monetization of large domain portfolios. "When the new development program underway at WhyPark is finished, domain investors will be provided with an incredible suite of tools to quickly build out a website which provides a great user experience and a generous revenue stream," Macomber pointed out.
WhyPark currently hosts over 41,000 domains and says that owners of those sites can expect to see upgrades to the platform as a result of the new investment in the coming months.
More at:www.WhyPark.com
InvenSense, Inc. the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile consumer applications has secured $19 million
What Company Is Offering:
InvenSense is the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile applications, with proven technology and millions of units shipped to major OEMs worldwide. The company’s MEMS motion sensing technology addresses emerging mass-market applications such as image stabilization, mobile navigation, location-based services and smart user interfaces that use hand motion and gesture-based commands.
How Much They Got From VCs:
InvenSense, Inc. the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile consumer applications, today announced it has secured $19 million dollars in Series C venture capital financing. The round was led by new investor Sierra Ventures, with participation from previous investors Artiman Ventures, Partech International and Qualcomm Ventures. Several strategic investors also participated in the Series C investment round including Foxconn, Inventec Appliances Corp, both from Taiwan; Skylake Ventures from Korea; DoCoMo Capital, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo Japan, and VentureTech Alliance (whose majority LP is TSMC). Ben Yu, managing director at Sierra Ventures, will join InvenSense’s board of directors. The round will bring InvenSense’s total funding to date to $38 million.
About VCs:
Sierra Ventures, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of the Information Technology sector from semiconductors to enterprise software. Sierra Ventures has managed eight venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. More information is available at www.sierraventures.com.
More at:www.InvenSense.com.
InvenSense is the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile applications, with proven technology and millions of units shipped to major OEMs worldwide. The company’s MEMS motion sensing technology addresses emerging mass-market applications such as image stabilization, mobile navigation, location-based services and smart user interfaces that use hand motion and gesture-based commands.
How Much They Got From VCs:
InvenSense, Inc. the leading provider of motion sensing solutions for mobile consumer applications, today announced it has secured $19 million dollars in Series C venture capital financing. The round was led by new investor Sierra Ventures, with participation from previous investors Artiman Ventures, Partech International and Qualcomm Ventures. Several strategic investors also participated in the Series C investment round including Foxconn, Inventec Appliances Corp, both from Taiwan; Skylake Ventures from Korea; DoCoMo Capital, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo Japan, and VentureTech Alliance (whose majority LP is TSMC). Ben Yu, managing director at Sierra Ventures, will join InvenSense’s board of directors. The round will bring InvenSense’s total funding to date to $38 million.
About VCs:
Sierra Ventures, is a privately held venture capital firm focused on investments across all areas of the Information Technology sector from semiconductors to enterprise software. Sierra Ventures has managed eight venture capital partnerships and currently has more than $1.5 billion of capital under management. More information is available at www.sierraventures.com.
More at:www.InvenSense.com.
LeadPoint , the world's first and largest online leads exchange has secured $6 million in series E financing
What Company Is Offering:
LeadPoint is the world's first and largest leads exchange marketplace. Leads are competitively priced based on criteria and bidding by members of the LeadPoint community. The platform allows buyers to change bids in real time, and enables sellers to more efficiently sell leads and to enter multiple verticals simultaneously. LeadPoint trades leads in numerous verticals, including consumer lending, consumer credit, education, autos and business services, and provides a single platform that allows thousands of buyers and sellers to simultaneously engage in trading leads.
How Much They Got From VCs:
LeadPoint , the world's first and largest online leads exchange, today announced it has secured $6 million in series E financing. This latest round of funding comes from Silicon Valley Bank Ventures, wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares, with additional funding from Redpoint Ventures, a premier Silicon Valley venture capital firm. LeadPoint will use the funding to add bench strength to the company, launch into new verticals and expand marketing and sales.
More at:www.leadpoint.com
LeadPoint is the world's first and largest leads exchange marketplace. Leads are competitively priced based on criteria and bidding by members of the LeadPoint community. The platform allows buyers to change bids in real time, and enables sellers to more efficiently sell leads and to enter multiple verticals simultaneously. LeadPoint trades leads in numerous verticals, including consumer lending, consumer credit, education, autos and business services, and provides a single platform that allows thousands of buyers and sellers to simultaneously engage in trading leads.
How Much They Got From VCs:
LeadPoint , the world's first and largest online leads exchange, today announced it has secured $6 million in series E financing. This latest round of funding comes from Silicon Valley Bank Ventures, wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares, with additional funding from Redpoint Ventures, a premier Silicon Valley venture capital firm. LeadPoint will use the funding to add bench strength to the company, launch into new verticals and expand marketing and sales.
More at:www.leadpoint.com
No-NSFW is a people powered Not-Safe-For-Work content warning system
About Company:
No-NSFW is a people powered Not-Safe-For-Work content warning system.
When you hover on an external link, the plugin gets the rating (NSFW, SFW or unrated) for that link.
This is displayed on the bottom-right of the screen as a small unintrusive warning.
Click on the No-NSFW icon on the Firefox status bar and select "Mark NSFW".
How It Works:
No-NSFW is a Firefox extension, which pops up a non-intrusive rating (NSFW, SFW, unrated) for each external link that you hover on. Ratings are determined by user votes.
Currently No-NSFW works at a link-level, not domain level. However, some domains are always safe, and some are always unsafe, and the white-listing and black-listing of domains is to be added soon.
More at:http://nonsfw.com/
No-NSFW is a people powered Not-Safe-For-Work content warning system.
When you hover on an external link, the plugin gets the rating (NSFW, SFW or unrated) for that link.
This is displayed on the bottom-right of the screen as a small unintrusive warning.
Click on the No-NSFW icon on the Firefox status bar and select "Mark NSFW".
How It Works:
No-NSFW is a Firefox extension, which pops up a non-intrusive rating (NSFW, SFW, unrated) for each external link that you hover on. Ratings are determined by user votes.
Currently No-NSFW works at a link-level, not domain level. However, some domains are always safe, and some are always unsafe, and the white-listing and black-listing of domains is to be added soon.
More at:http://nonsfw.com/
Roar is a notification widget that streamlines incoming messages
What Company Is Offering:
Roar is a notification widget that streamlines incoming messages, such as updates or errors, without distracting the user from their browser experience or breaking their work-flow by displaying obtrusive alerts. Roar is inspired by Growl, the notification system for Mac OS X and is realised with MooTools.
Unique Features:
Show any informations you want and style them with class-names.
Messages are queued and interactive.
Hover them to read them longer.
Add optional click-interaction to provide more information.
Customize them via external CSS to your own needs.
More at:http://digitarald.de/
Roar is a notification widget that streamlines incoming messages, such as updates or errors, without distracting the user from their browser experience or breaking their work-flow by displaying obtrusive alerts. Roar is inspired by Growl, the notification system for Mac OS X and is realised with MooTools.
Unique Features:
Show any informations you want and style them with class-names.
Messages are queued and interactive.
Hover them to read them longer.
Add optional click-interaction to provide more information.
Customize them via external CSS to your own needs.
More at:http://digitarald.de/
Blubert.com is a technology portal
What Company Is Offering:
Blubert.com is a technology portal that has a number of purposes.Intelligently ranks the top news stories from around the web. Provides numerous downloads from around the web.Provides numerous videos/audioclips concerning technology from around the Internet. Reviews Internet Startups. Provides a marketplace forum where users can sell/buy websites/web services.
More at:http://blubert.com/
Blubert.com is a technology portal that has a number of purposes.Intelligently ranks the top news stories from around the web. Provides numerous downloads from around the web.Provides numerous videos/audioclips concerning technology from around the Internet. Reviews Internet Startups. Provides a marketplace forum where users can sell/buy websites/web services.
More at:http://blubert.com/
Create Your Own Countdown And To Get In Contact With People Waiting For The Same Thing
What Company Is Offering:
It offers everyone the possibility to create their own countdown and to get in contact with people waiting for the same thing. This makes waiting so much more fun - and it creates community.
Today this service tries to create a connection between people who share the fact that they are waiting.
More at:
http://www.countdown2zero.com/
It offers everyone the possibility to create their own countdown and to get in contact with people waiting for the same thing. This makes waiting so much more fun - and it creates community.
Today this service tries to create a connection between people who share the fact that they are waiting.
More at:
http://www.countdown2zero.com/
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