Friday, May 16, 2008

15SecondPitch.com

What Company Is offering:

15SecondPitch Is a tool to help you discover who you are and what you really want. A way to focus your thinking on what is most important. A great introduction and conversation starter. A way to organize the thinking process for any new venture.An effective multi-channel personal marketing tool to communicate consistently via email, on the telephone, in person, or on your business cards.

More at:http://www.15secondpitch.com/

Study Curve allows you to connect with study buddies, form study/interest groups, ask questions to "experts"

What Company Is Offering:
Study Curve is more than just a "social network"; it is a social network with a purpose. That purpose is making your academic life easier! Study Curve allows you to connect with study buddies, form study/interest groups, ask questions to "experts", search subject areas, search tags, answer questions, and communicate with people with similar interests from all different schools and areas of knowledge.

How It Works:

Get an account and create your profile.It is important to enter as much information in you profile and questions as possible, as this is what makes the site work so well to get you in contact with the correct people. You can edit your profile after you get your account. You can use the search features to find the perfect study buddies and/or invite your friends to join your profiles and/or groups as your study buddies.

Becoming an expert in a specific subject requires you to answer a minimum of 20 questions in a particular subject/tag and maintain an average user rating score of 8 or higher. Once you become an expert you will earn an expert designation in your profile. Remember this is a social network that will make your academic life easier! Remember "give help, get help".

More at:http://studycurve.com/

Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology

What Company Is Offering:
Animoto Productions is a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out.

Their first release is Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
The heart of Animoto is its newly developed Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor.

How It Works:

It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film.

Based in New York City with an office in San Francisco, the founders of Animoto include veterans of the entertainment industry and have produced shows for MTV, Comedy Central, & ABC, studied music in London, and played in indie rock bands in Seattle. They continue to innovate in the field of creative artificial intelligence. They plan to acquire Google next year.

More at:http://animoto.com/

PutPlace is a service that helps you secure, manage and share your digital data

What Company Is Offering:
PutPlace is a service that helps you secure, manage and share your digital data over the lifetime of various devices and technologies.


PutPlace is more than file backup. It gathers all the valuable digital stuff you’ve stockpiled over your lifetime — photos, documents, email, music and home movies. Then PutPlace protects and organizes it so you can find exactly what you need, wherever you are.

How It Works:

Once you have logged in and downloaded the PutPlace client, you will need to tell PutPlace what content you want it to manage. Create what we call ‘a PutPlace’ for any folder or file that you want to upload and keep track of.

PutPlace will keep tabs on those folders and files. It will automatically check to see if you’ve made changes and, if so, will upload any new or modified content.
Click here to see a short demo.

PutPlace puts your fractured digital life back in order. No more wasted hours searching through folders and files on all your electronic gadgets. Find exactly what you need, wherever you are.

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

kwiry is a free service that turns text messages into reminders you retrieve online

What Company Is Offering:

kwiry is a free service that turns text messages into reminders you retrieve online. When you text a reminder (a product to buy, movie trailer to watch, bill to pay, etc.) to 59479 (kwiry) they store it on their website. The next time you're online you can log in to kwiry.com to manage your reminders, see search results for each one, and easily share with friends. See it. Text it. Get it. They built kwiry to help people remember things they want to save for later. They also built kwiry to help companies create offline reminders for consumers to find their products online. Their vision is to allow consumers to connect with the information and products they want, whenever they want.


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

Readersglobe.com to check what is going on around the globe quickly and easily

What Company Is Offering:
Readersglobe.com to check what is going on around the globe quickly and easily. You can also submit news or content that you want others to read, share or recommend.

Read, share and promote any news or content from around the globe. AtReadersGlobe.com you will find the best and most relevant content which is sorted by category and location and based on the fellow readers suggestions.

How It Works:

The mission of Readersglobe.com is to empowers the individual like you by facilitating a free and advanced platform where you can submit the content from around the globe and also express your thoughts.

At Readersglobe.com, you can post the content that you would like to share with the fellow readers and the fellow readers can either promote or demote your content. Your content will be sorted and will be served in that order to the fellow readers based on the fellow readers recommendation of the content. If more readers recommend your content, your content will be served to more readers as your content may appear in the first pages or even on the front page.

The content will be presented to the readers location sensitively based on the current readers location. If a reader visits Readersglobe.com from Boston,MA in USA, then the reader will be presented content from Boston,MA in USA by default. Of-course the reader can choose to read content from a different location. If user logs into an account, then the user will be presented with the content of the chosen account location.

On Readersglobe.com the content is organized in to categories and users can choose content from a particular category or from all categories. When submitting content, the content should always be submitted into one category and one geographic location.

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

PrivateSchoolExam.com

What Company Is Offering:
PrivateSchoolExam.com is a test preparation membership web site created in 2007 as a tool to help students excel on the ISEE and SSAT tests. They have helped hundreds of students raise their test scores and get admitted into very competitive schools.

How It Works:

PrivateSchoolExam.com offers online video training by two renowned SSAT and ISEE test prep experts. There are 20 videos that cover over 100 math topics, essay writing, reading comprehension, analogies, synonyms, and sentence completions. Members will also have access to vault with hundreds of interactive test prep questions, followed by the correct answer and detailed explanations.

Guiding you through the Verbal, Essay, and Strategy sections will be Heather Spiegel. Heather is a legendary Test Prep guru, professional writer, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude (Dartmouth), and Rhodes Scholar candidate. Heather is a master instructor of the ISEE, SSAT and SAT exams, and will also guide you through the hundreds of interactive test prep sample questions.

More at:http://privateschoolexam.com/

Backboard is a simple utility designed to help you get feedback on whatever you are working on

What Company Is Offering:
Backboard is a simple utility designed to help you get feedback on whatever you are working on: Managers might use Backboard to gather input on product plans.
Marketing teams can collaborate and gather feedback on graphic designs.
Web designers can get client feedback on their latest concepts.
Students might discuss and evaluate ideas for class projects.

How It Works:

Once you create a Backboard, you will be taken to a form where you can enter email addresses of teammates. We will send them an email with a link to your Backboard. Anytime you view your Backboard, click the share button near the top of the screen to access this form and send additional invitations.You can create and leave feedback on Backboards without a user account. When you create and confirm a user account, all the Backboards you have participated in with that email address are automatically added to that account. This allows you to find your backboards if you have misplaced the links.


Backboard can gather feedback on documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WPD, ODT, Text and PDF), images (GIF, JPEG and PNG), web pages or other URLs, and free-form text.

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

Out For A Ride is a brand new social networking website for bicycling enthusiasts

What Company Is Offering:
Out For A Ride is a brand new social networking website for bicycling enthusiasts and the casual biker. Out For a Ride is owned and operated by Teevio LLC, a small, but potent, design company located in the heart of Boston.

How It Works:
Out For a Ride is to provide you with an internet based community where you can connect with other bicyclists while you aren’t on the road or trail.


Unique Features:

Add, manage and review bikes. Keep track of how many miles you’ve ridden on each bike. Add, manage and review gear. Map your bicycle routes, share your routes with others and view route elevation graphs. Track your bicycle rides and which route and bicycle you used. View detailed stats about your rides, bicycles and routes.

More at:http://outforaride.com/

Play games and help the world become a better place

What Company Is Offering:

When you play a game at Gwap, you aren't just having fun. You're helping the world become a better place. By playing their games, you're training computers to solve problems for humans all over the world. Let's take the ESP Game for example. You and a partner see the same image and are asked to type in a tag for it. When you agree on a tag, you move on and are awarded points. After just a minute of play, you've agreed on six or seven tags. We record those six or seven tags and associate them with the images.

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

Mozes, Inc.,the interactive mobile marketing service has raised $11.5 million

What Company Is Offering:
Mozes is the interactive mobile marketing service that connects people to what they love. Comprehensive mobile campaigns that incorporate voice, text and web are built on an easy-to-use marketing platform and are further extended by online widgets that integrate a mobile campaign with online properties like MySpace and Facebook. Using Mozes anyone -- from bands to fans to brands -- can make their campaigns, promotions or events more powerful and interactive using the mobile phone and the web. Initially focused on the music industry, Mozes is used by nearly 4,000 major label and independent artists, including Chris Brown, Colbie Caillat, Daughtry, Nelly and Rascal Flatts. Mozes is permission-based, spam-free and cost-free to consumers.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Mozes, Inc.,the interactive mobile marketing service that connects people to what they love, has announced that it has raised $11.5 million in Series B funding. The financing was led by Maveron LLC, the Seattle-based venture capital firm with participation from existing backers North Bridge Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.

Mozes' Series B funding follows a $5 million Series A round, which was announced in February of 2007 and supported the company's initial launch. Since then, more than 1.4 million people have participated in a Mozes-powered campaign, including over 600,000 participants having opted-in to a Mozes "mob" (mobile list), in order to receive ongoing exclusive text and voice messages directly from artists such as Avril Lavigne, Nelly, Rascal Flatts and Chris Brown.

More at:www.mozes.com

SilkRoad technology, inc., the creator of the popular Life SuiteTM of web-based talent management solutions has closed on a $54 million equity round

What Company Is Offering:
SilkRoad technology, inc. provides software as a service (SaaS) solutions that significantly improve the talent within its more than 700 customers across the globe. Through SilkRoad's Life Suite, an integrated talent management solution, companies are able to hire better employees, identify high and low performers, drive a pay-for-performance culture and improve employee tenure. The SilkRoad Life SuiteTM solution set includes OpenHire, for recruiting management, RedCarpet for employee onboarding and life events, WingSpan? for flexible employee performance management, GreenLight for compensation management, and Eprise? for employee intranets and content management.

How Much They Got From VCs:

SilkRoad technology, inc., the creator of the popular Life SuiteTM of web-based talent management solutions, announced that it has closed on a $54 million equity round of capital led by new investor Foundation Capital, and including existing investors Azure Capital Partners, SilkRoad Equity and several individuals. Plans for the current round of capital include a significant expansion of SilkRoad technology's worldwide direct sales and marketing efforts, strategic acquisitions and new product development. In a related announcement, Mike Cullinane has been named Chief Financial Officer of the company.

More at:www.silkroad.com

eTix, the pioneer in on-demand ticketing got $1 million funding

What Company Is Offering:
eTix Online TicketingT - This allows customers to quickly and easily start selling event tickets online using the eTix system with full integration into the eTix Box Office or as a free standing online sales tool. It is an extremely scalable and robust platform. eTix provides a branded link, which matches the look and feel of the customer's Web site. Customers place the link on their Web site allowing them to start selling tickets immediately.

After a ticket has been purchased online, the ticket appears on the
purchaser's browser (no additional software downloads are required). The purchaser is given instructions and is prompted to print the ticket(s).


eTix is offering full service for the venues and brings all ticketing into one easy to use interface. The customer controls ticket prices, seating configurations (for reserved seating), price codes and user administration. Performances can be easily created, onsale times pre-programmed, seats added and inventory moved.

The reporting suite gives customers analysis into every ticket sold. The solution includes leading edge tools for SMS ticket sales and distrubution, e-mail campaign and list management, and a full-featured ticket auction platform. The eTix Box Office has been used to sell tickets to events ranging from a small walking tour to a 200,000 reserved seat Formula One racetrack, so it can be customized and scaled to meet any customer's needs.

How Much They Got From VCs:

eTix, the pioneer in on-demand ticketing software, today announced it has received an investment of $1 million from Southern Capitol Ventures.

eTix managed the sale of more than 30 million tickets for 2,000 venues worldwide during 2007. The flexibility and scalability of the eTix platform allows the company to efficiently serve a variety of venue types including theaters, arenas, sporting venues, movie theaters, fairs and festivals, travel and tours, ski resorts, and other specialized venues.
More at:www.etix.com

Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years

What Company Is Offering:
Totlol is a brand new community-moderated video website designed to be enjoyed by those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.

How It Works:

When scouting parents search the YouTube database via a Totlol interface.
The scouting interface lets parents search and watch videos just as they used to do on YouTube.
When they find a video that they think is appropriate and relevant they can choose to submit it.
When submitting parents are asked to review the title and tags associated with the video and to provide a review of the content.

They are also asked to specify the main language of the video and categorize it.

This information, together with the original YouTube information is presented at screening.
The screening part of the process is where the community plays the most significant role.

Each Totlol user is invited to screen videos submitted by others and to answer screening questions. The answers are collected and analyzed by computer.

Only videos that pass the grade are then available for the viewing tots.

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