Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Symplified has developed breakthrough technology that addresses Web identity management

What Company Is Offering:
Symplified has developed breakthrough technology that addresses the complexity and cost associated with monolithic software approaches to Web identity management. Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colo., with offices in Palo Alto, Calif.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Symplified today announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A round of venture capital financing. The company is led by the same management team that founded Securant, a leading identity management software vendor acquired by RSA Security in 2001. Symplified will introduce a revolutionary approach to Web Access Management (WAM) at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference June 23-27 in San Diego.

Symplified will use the funds for sales, marketing, and operations. The round was led by premier Silicon Valley venture capital firms Granite Ventures and Allegis Capital. Chris McKay, principal at Granite Ventures, Spencer Tall, Managing Director for Allegis Capital, and Todd Rowe, Group Vice President & General Manager for Business Objects, an SAP company, have joined Symplified's Board of Directors.

"The Internet has become the backbone of business-to-business collaboration and transactions for companies of all sizes," said Eric Olden, founder and CEO of Symplified. "However, managing electronic identities and credentials remains costly and complex for even the most technically savvy organizations. Symplified was created to erase the barriers hindering the adoption of cloud computing."

More at:www.symplified.com.

GlassBOX Television Inc. operates cross-platform broadcast and VOD channels with a strong focus on making use of new technologies to engage audiences

What Company Is Offering:

GlassBOX Television Inc. operates cross-platform broadcast and VOD channels with a strong focus on making use of new technologies to engage audiences and deliver content across the globe in innovative ways. GlassBOX Television's mandate is to support new talent, develop great content and make the best use of new digital delivery methods to help drive audiences for GlassBOX content creators, carriers and advertising partners.

How Much They Got From VCs:

GlassBOX Television Inc. announces $5 million of new venture and strategic investment, including backing from some of Canada's leading media executives. Additionally, GlassBOX founder, President and CEO Jeffrey Elliott announces the appointment of leading digital media entrepreneur Raja Khanna as Co-CEO and investor in the Company. GlassBOX creates and operates innovative broadcast and VOD channels across television and digital media platforms that speak to today's consumer.

The new investment, led by Toronto venture capital firm JLA Ventures, includes investments from several respected media industry veterans including former Executive Managing Director of International Television Distribution of Alliance Atlantis Communications Ted Riley, former President and CEO of Standard Broadcasting Gary Slaight, former President and CEO of CHUM Limited Jay Switzer and former President and COO of XM Radio Canada Stephen Tapp. Tapp, who also headed CHUM Television, will serve as an advisor on the Company's overall strategy including international sales and licensing. Innovative television and feature film financing company Aver Media and leading live action production company Frantic Films Corporation are also key strategic investors and advisors.

More at: www.glassbox.tv

Wikiaudio is an easily accessible user created database of information pertaining to the art and science of anything audio or sound related

What Company Is Offering:
Wikiaudio is an easily accessible user created database of information pertaining to the art and science of anything audio or sound related. To contribute you must first register.


How It Works:

After you register you will be able to edit the Wiki. You will also have access to your own personal customizable profile page, be given your own blog, and be able to post in the the forums . You will also be able to upload audio, video and other media.We encourage Artists to sign up and participate. Please display and promote your
art in the WikiAudo art showcase Wikiaudio has 1613 article pages.

More at:http://wikiaudio.com/

POIfriend is the point of interest community that connects people and the places important to them

What Company Is Offering:

POIfriend is the point of interest community that connects people and the places important to them. POIfriend is a powerful, fun and easy-to-use website that lets you find, create, comment, rate, share, and use POI (Point of Interest) information with GPS or maps. It is 100% FREE for users and detailed personal information is not mandatory.



How It Works:

It is powerful, fun and easy to use – and once your POIs are loaded, you'll easily navigate to relevant places. POIfriend is a catalyst for sharing of information for people with common interests, and its members ultimately control and determine the content housed on the site.

POIfriend uses the latest web technologies available to make working with POI data powerful, simple, easy and fun. It incorporates cutting edge 'Web 2.0' / social networking initiatives to allow you to create and share places that interest you and the ability to share with others on the web. POIfriend allows your POI data to be easily migrated to your GPS-enabled device so that you and your family/friends can get to where you want, when you want.

POIfriend makes it easy for you to find, create, share and enable simple transfer of POI data for usage on your GPS-enabled navigation device or maps. As implied in the name, it is like a 'friend' who will help you keep track of the places that are important to you and your friends, family and customers.

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

Innotas provides the only on-demand Project Portfolio Management Solution Got VCs Funding

What Company Is Offering:
Innotas provides the only on-demand Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution specifically designed to meet the needs of IT and IT Services organizations. With Innotas, managers and team members improve collaboration and can more effectively and efficiently manage IT initiatives, projects, and resources. For CIOs and executives, Innotas delivers deep visibility, automation, and analysis of the project portfolio, and resource planning and utilization.

How Much They Got From VCs:

On-Demand PPM vendor Innotas today announced completion of its series C venture financing totaling $6 million. The round was driven by ArrowPath Venture Partners, Velocity Interactive Group, and several strategic investors.

Innotas, which reported 400% growth in 2007, will use the funds to fuel expansion of its sales and marketing efforts, infrastructure to support customer growth projections, and product development including significant expansion of its engineering organization.

"We continue to be impressed with the remarkable and rapid growth performance demonstrated by Innotas, its management team, and the customer traction it has gained with both the mid-sized as well as enterprise markets," said Tom Bevilacqua, managing partner, ArrowPath Venture Partners.

More at:www.innotas.com

ClickFox, Inc is the provider of Customer Experience Analytics solutions has raised an additional $12.5 million

What Company Is Offering:
ClickFox, an Atlanta-based software company, is the leader in Customer Experience Analytics. Its patented Behavior Pattern Analytic technology enables companies to transform existing customer data into true, objective insight by showing customers' step-by-step behavior in and across self-service systems, such as voice and speech-enabled IVRs, CTI, Web, kiosks, wireless devices, and CRM applications. ClickFox translates interactions from multiple service touch points into an intuitive, visual map, revealing quickly and easily what customers actually do and why, so that companies can align customer needs to their business objectives.

How Much They Got From VCs:

ClickFox, Inc., the leading provider of Customer Experience Analytics solutions, today announced that it has raised an additional $12.5 million in its latest round of funding. Leading this latest capital funding is Ascent Venture Partners of Boston, MA, with ClickFox's current investors Cedar Fund, Veritas Venture Partners and Delta Ventures contributing.

ClickFox's Customer Experience Analytics solution provides a cradle-to-grave view of customer experiences across multiple business service touch points. With use of behavior pattern analytics and advanced segmentation, users are able to understand the effect customer experience has on key business drivers.

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

Compulsion is a simple, easy to use tool that makes video clickable

What Company Is Offering:
Compulsion is a simple, easy to use tool that makes video clickable. The clicks become links that turn the video into an entire interactive universe of your design. You can offer or sell those links for click and shop, gossip, trivia, news, music, more video, or anything you can imagine. Compulsion does not alter the original movie file, and can be used before or after your video is published. If you want to add or change links later, no problem.


How It Works:

After the final edit of your video, movie, or TV show is complete, operators use Compulsion to designate specific objects (clothing, furniture, people, etc...) as hyperspots. These hyperspots accept actions, such as goto: www.gap.com/greenshirt, or jump to scene 3, of chapter 1. End-users (a.k.a. media consumers/viewers), using the CLICKplayer, can click inside your video and get that information, or activate that action.

Compulsion keeps track of all viewer clicks and makes them available to customers in real time, 24/7. Most importantly, the data is sorted video by video with an eye to make money for the customer. With the data to back you up, you can, for example, charge Gucci for each viewer who buys the bag featured in Season 4, Episode 2 of Sex and The City.

The Pulse Reports can be accessed via the web for general overview data (see The Pulse Reports live), or through the Compulsion software Interest Analyzer Tools - revealing detailed information about end-user click patterns, statistics and interests.

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

Skyfire is an exciting venture-backed innovator in mobile web browsing with a mission to dramatically improve your browsing experience on mobile phone

What Company Is Offering:

Skyfire is an exciting venture-backed innovator in mobile web browsing with a mission to dramatically improve your browsing experience on mobile phones. They created the only mobile browser that delivers both the speed and media-rich experience similar to the PC browser.


How It Works:

For the first time, you can watch any video, listen to any music, socialize on any network and browse whatever you want. Anything you can do from your PC, you can now do from your mobile phone using Skyfire. They believe it’s going to change the way you use your mobile phone.

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

Competitious is an innovative web-based service that provides your company with the ability to collaboratively share and manage competitive knowledge

What Company Is Offering:
Competitious is an innovative web-based service that provides your company with the ability to collaboratively share and manage competitive knowledge.

Competition is a driving force behind any market. To ensure your organization maintains a competitive edge, you need to proactively seek out knowledge about your competition and use that information effectively. Your company has access to this knowledge both from internal sources within the organization and the large amounts of market information constantly generated on the web and in print, and needs an efficient and secure way to discover, share, and analyze this knowledge.

How It Works:

With Competitious, you can now identify and organize intelligence about your company, competition, and industry, and use that information efficiently to identify threats, find opportunities, and plan future strategy.

Competitious is the first collaborative solution of its kind, providing a web-based service for companies to manage their competitive knowledge. Competitious combines enterprise-level abilities, such as specialized collaborative news-sharing, with unique online tools to allow all members of an organization to collectively build an ongoing knowledge-base about competitive companies or products. By using Competitious to manage your competitive information, you can harness the knowledge of your employees and empower all aspects of your organization, from sales to development.

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

DecisionStreet helps you make smarter decisions through a set of simple yet powerful

What Company Is Offering:

DecisionStreet helps you make smarter decisions through a set of simple yet powerful
tools and access to the experiences of others.


With deep roots in the math, science, and psychology of decision-making , their understanding of what it takes to make tough decisions has been honed over the years in both academic and corporate applications. Now they want to put these dynamic methods in your hands.Decision Street is headquartered in Mt. View, California (Silicon Valley for those who can't quite place the town) with outposts in Seattle and Kentucky.

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

LiveVideo--the web's ultimate social networking and video hosting site

What Company Is Offering:
LiveVideo--the web's ultimate social networking and video hosting site! Forget multiple usernames and passwords for your blog, photos, videos and networking sites.

With one account on LiveVideo, you can create your own LiveTV show, and broadcast yourself to the world!.

Unique Features:

Watch LIVE shows streaming from all over the world.
Upload videos up to 200MB with Stereo sound.
Upload photos and arrange them into professional-quality slideshows for family and friends.
Create and manage a blog.
Make new friends from around the world.
Video chat with up to 10 other people at once.
Give your friends fun virtual gifts.
Check out the hottest videos on the internet in our Superchannels.
Embed widgets directly into your profile.
Create groups or join one and meet people with similar interests.
Get discovered.
Meet your future significant other.

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

Kdollar.com is designed to help you find the best deals on the web

What Company Is Offering:

Kdollar.com is designed to help you find the best deals on the web. They have user submitted deals allowing for a community deals site that doesn't depend on one person. This allows visitors to submit and view just about every different deal imaginable. They have comments and a rating system that will keep the best deals for the day, week, month and year at the top so it will be easy for someone to pick from the best deal in any category.



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