Friday, May 2, 2008

FTRANS enables business-to-business (B2B) sellers to receive a loan against accounts receivables to shorten cash collections got Vcs funding

What Company Is offering:
FTRANS enables business-to-business (B2B) sellers to receive a loan against accounts receivables (A/R) to shorten cash collections for less than the cost of accepting a credit card payment or operating an internal credit system. Typically, sellers receive their cash in 24-48 hours after submitting an invoice. FTRANS acts as an interchange and delivers a web-based service that integrates and processes transactions between B2B sellers, buyers, and banks.


How Much They Got From VCs:

Greenhill SAVP announced today that it has invested in FTRANS, Corp. ("FTRANS"). Greenhill SAVP led the financing round of $7.5 million, with an investment of $2.5 million, and was joined by existing institutional investors Total Technology Ventures and New Atlantic Ventures (formerly Draper Atlantic). As a result of this financing, Brian Hirsch, Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP, will join the FTRANS Board of Directors.

About VCs;

With over $100 million under management, Greenhill SAVP makes early stage venture investments in technology-enabled services and business information services companies. Prior fund manager investments include LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), OpenWave (NASDAQ: OPWV), YellowJacket (acquired by the Intercontinental Exchange, NYSE:ICE), UGO Networks (acquired by Hearst Corporation), and KnowledgeStorm (acquired by TechTarget, NASDAQ: TTGT).
Greenhill SAVP leverages its deep domain expertise, a proven investment track-record, and a global corporate network to create significant portfolio value. For more information about Greenhill SAVP, please visit www.gsavp.com.

More at:www.ftrans.ne

Rupiz Ads provides digital marketing solutions to global web businesses

What Company Is Offering:
Rupiz Ads provides digital marketing solutions to global web businesses, helping them seek perfect alliances through a comprehensive advertising network.The network is one of the ventures of Rupiz Infotech, a leading organization that has sheltered several businesses.

How It Works:

Whether you are an advertiser or an agency, their banner ad campaigns will help you maximize returns by collaborating with the best of publishers belonging to varied industry verticals. Their network functions on a Pay-on-Performance basis, delivering multi-channel solutions that encompass all digital media platforms.

The Rupiz Ads team comprises marketing professionals with extensive knowledge and experience in this domain. On the technical front, our expertise with latest web software applications and technology platforms assures that you have the very best in user interface and back-end operations. They provide their clients with dedicated Account Managers, and a scalable tracking and reporting system that facilitates reliability and ease of operations. Join Rupiz Ads to monetize your web traffic and earn increased revenues by building long-term, global partnerships that are mutually beneficial.

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

cvSpot is a all-in-one resume maker

What Company Is Offering:

cvSpot is a all-in-one resume maker that makes life easier and will help you land the job you want. By allowing you to create your own beautiful resume within minutes to show to your new employer online.

More at:http://www.cvspot.net/

Fax Documents Over the Internet for Free to any phone

About Company:
drop.io (pronounced as "drop-ee-o") lets you fax Word documents, PDF files and even Excel a spreadsheet via Internet to any phone number in the United States for free.

You can send unlimited number of faxes without registration, there are no ads attached to the fax sheets and each fax document can have up to 20 pages.

To send a fax, just upload the document (or PDF) to drop.io and click the "Drop It" button. On the next screen, click the ’send as fax’ near your document and enter the 10 digit fax number of the recipient.

More at:http://drop.io/

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showdango is a new web site that provides a community-driven index of webinars/webcasts

What Company Is Offering:
showdango is a new web site that provides a community-driven index of webinars/webcasts. Simply stated, a webinar, or webcast, is a seminar or workshop that is conducted online via the web.

The power of webinars/webcasts is that they enable just about anyone to share/learn information from others without any geographic boundaries. As a webinar attendee you can educate yourself on a variety of topics without having to travel anywhere. As a webinar presenter, you can reach a broader and more diverse audience in different parts of the world.

Who Is Behind showdango:

showdango itself is sponsorsed and managed by CartoSoft, an emerging technologies company based out of Portland, Oregon. CartoSoft specializes in Internet Mapping Solutions (based on Geographic Information Systems), and showdango is a side project of one its founders.

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

Localeze---Helps merchants, marketers and distributors cash in on the >1 billion local searches made monthly by bringing buyers and sellers together

What Company Is Offering:
The Localeze data repository brings together local merchant information from several places, including Yellow Pages directories, authorized brand-dealer lists, Web sites and many other sources. What makes this data special is we also collect detailed business information provided by the merchants themselves — the most accurate business data you can find. Helps merchants, marketers and distributors cash in on the >1 billion local searches made monthly by bringing buyers and sellers together.

How It Works:

Using their Web tools, merchants can create and update comprehensive business listings quickly and easily. That way, not only do search engines get the freshest, richest content, but merchants also get the chance to present an accurate, detailed snapshot of their businesses.

Whether you're a local merchant who wants to attract new customers or a national retailer hoping to raise the profile of your stores, Localeze offers the tools you need. We let merchants of all sizes create powerful, rich business listings that don't get buried in search results. While other directories allow you to list only the basic details about your business, our Merchant Profile Manager allows you to add much richer content to your listings - including business category, specific products, brands, services, hours of operation, payment options and much more — making your stores much more "findable" for consumers. That's why more than 250,000 local merchants and a growing list of top retail brands have chosen Localeze to boost their visibility in local searches.


Localeze is the leading provider of local merchant data for the search and online Yellow Pages industries. They distribute their content to over 45 search sites that represent over 85% of all local searches, as well as a number of the largest directory sites on the Web. Their data repository contains 16 million records that have been verified and validated. And with the incorporation of their taxonomy engine, which delivers additional links related to important search terms, distributors can provide richer and more relevant results. Searchers get the right local business information at just the right time — and that's the kind of results that turn casual visitors into loyal users.

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

EnterTo is a privately-held, new patent-pending technology for defeating spam and junk e-mail

What Company Is Offering:
EnterTo is a privately-held, new patent-pending technology for defeating spam and junk e-mail. Its Version 2.0 e-mail system incorporates the most advanced and automated capabilities for spam and junk e-mail defense, and can be deployed to protect any existing e-mail system without replacing or disrupting the existing system. EnterTo is head-quartered in San Rafael, California, with satellite facilities around the world.The company invites all e-mail users everywhere in the world to sign up for a no-cost "spam-free" e-mail account at EnterTo.com and immediately begin leaving behind the distractions, wasted time and worries associated with spam and junk e-mails.


How It Works:

EnterTo's "spam-free" E-mail System Version 2.0 includes an improved version of the company's proven patent-pending "Channels" method – an innovative approach that makes even the most sophisticated and comprehensive filtering technologies obsolete – for defeating spam and junk e-mail of any type, from any source.
With EnterTo's "spam-free" E-mail System Version 2.0, there’s no danger of mistakenly blocking an e-mail you want to receive, and no risk in posting your e-mail address on the Internet or providing it when you fill in a form or sign up for an information service.

The Version 2.0 offers seamless, effortless management of both the "Public Channels" and the "Private Channels" that give the system so much power to block unwanted messages, as well as to sort and organize the heaviest loads of inbound e-mail that can otherwise soak up more time than they're worth.

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

SensorLogic, the pioneer of intelligent asset management got $9 million Series C round of funding

What Company Is Offering:
SensorLogic is a market leader in providing hosted M2M applications and web-based development platforms. SensorLogic’s XpressIQ service suite combines a fully integrated wireless data network, finished application products and a hosted service infrastructure that makes deploying M2M applications happen in days, not months. SensorLogic customers using XpressIQ will increase their time to market with applications that improve asset visibility, extend the life of assets, create new revenue streams, distinguish them from competition and retain strong customer relationships for future sales.

How Much They Got From VCs:

SensorLogic, the pioneer of intelligent asset management, announced the closing of a $9 million Series C round of funding, which brings the current total to $25 million in support of SensorLogic’s 2008 market launch of XpressIQ Service Suite – the first software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for M2M solutions. SensorLogic’s blue-chip investors include Boston Millennia Partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, Hunt Ventures, STARTech Early Ventures, UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund and Star Ventures.

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

On Deck Capital is a leading financing network for small businesses has raised $10 million

What Company Is Offering:
On Deck Capital is a leading financing network for small businesses that are unable to obtain traditional loans or need fast access to capital. By focusing on the success of the business rather than the personal credit score of the business owner, we can offer strong businesses quick access to affordable loans so they can meet their daily operating needs and achieve long-term goals.


How Much They Got From VCs:

On Deck Capital Inc., a New York-based provider of financing for small businesses that wouldn't normally qualify for bank loans, has raised $10 million in Series B funding. RRE Ventures led the round, and was joined by Village Ventures, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures and Contour Venture Partners. The deal closed last December.

More at:www.ondeckcapital.com

Watercooler is developer of entertainment applications for social networks raised $4 million in first-round

What Company Is Offering:
The Watercooler platform enables television and sports fans to connect with other fans inside their favorite social networks.Watercooler aims to make connecting with your friends, family, and other fans of your favorite TV shows or Sports teams more compelling than ever before. By bringing fan communities into the context of your social network, Watercooler enables more engaging TV and Sports fan experiences. Fans are able to access Watercooler's services no matter where they are on the web: Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and more.


How Much They Got From VCs:

Watercooler, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of entertainment applications for social networks, last October raised $4 million in first-round funding from Canaan Partners.

More at:www.watercooler-inc.com

TickerHound is a place where investors can come, share their knowledge and experiences with other investors

What Company Is Offering:
TickerHound is a place where investors can come, share their knowledge and experiences with other investors in order to help each other perform better in the market.

How Is It Different:

TickerHound is better than something like a message board, forum or chat room for a number of reasons, but here’s the main reason why TickerHound should be the first place you come to for financial advice:

You get answers here – not endless discussions. That means you can take those answers and use them to either make or save money, right away!

The TickerHound Points are there to help you quickly know how experienced other community members are.

Somebody with 10,000 points has answered a lot more questions and given a lot more to the community than someone with 100 points. This can save you a lot of time by giving you a quick read on the quality, reliability and the accuracy of somebody’s answers.

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

digsby ---IM+Email Notification+ Social Networking

What Company Is Offering:

digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.

digsby is an email notification tool that alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as 'Delete' or 'Report Spam' with just one click.

digsby is a social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live Newsfeed of what your friends are up to.


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

Current TV has been the world's leading peer-to-peer news and information network

What Company Is Offering:
Current TV has been the world's leading peer-to-peer news and information network. Current is the only 24/7 cable and satellite television network and Internet site produced and programmed in collaboration with its audience.


How It Works:

Current connects young adults with what is going on in their world, from their perspective, in their own voices.

Current pioneered the television industry's leading model of interactive viewer created content (VC2). Comprising roughly one-third of Current's on-air broadcast, this content is submitted via short-form, non-fiction video "pods". Viewer Created Ad Messages (VCAMs) are also open to viewers participation.

Current's programming ranges from daily pop culture coverage to political satire in "SuperNews," unprecedented music journalism in "The Current Fix," and unique insights into global stories through Vanguard and Citizen Journalism.

Current TV pods are nonfiction videos that are anywhere from one minute to seven or eight minutes; it's a self-contained story, a profile of an interesting character or a dose of information. It's like the atom of the Current TV universe.

You can submit a pod, or even just part of a pod for consideration by Current's Collective Journalism team. There are assignments on the CJ page, or you can upload something you think needs to be covered. Just make sure to tag your upload "Collective Journalism".

More at:http://current.com/

WidgetEasy is a simple tool to increase linkages and readership on your site

What Company Is Offering:
Widgeteasy is the best way to get more traffic, promote your users to add your widget in their blog so that they get to show a snippet of your content and inreturn you get some Traffic.

How It Works:

WidgetEasy is a simple tool to increase linkages and readership on your site. By simply pasting your feed URL into the text box on the home page, and clicking “easy” you will be given a line of code, which has, in effect, turned your feed URL into a widget that can be used on any platform. You can also browse through already created RSS widgets and insert them on your site, which will increase browser traffic. Your site’s widget will also be included on this list, so others can display your RSS information as well.

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