Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Maroondoor.com is a social utility for Homeowners and Real Estate Professionals

What Company Is Offering:
Maroondoor.com is a social utility for Homeowners and Real Estate Professionals. Homeowners use Hoanator to bring their Homeowner Associations online to promote awareness and communication between neighbors. Maroondoor.com was designed specifically to help homeowners protect their largest asset and enhance quality of life. Their mission is to help homeowners communicate more efficiently.

How It Works:

To join a Homeowner Association you first need to Register. Once you locate you Homeowner Association, you will need apply to apply for membership. You must be an owner to become a member. You application will be sent to the Association Leader (this is the person who created the Homeowner Association on Maroondoor.com.)

To create a Homeowner Association you first need to create a profile account by Registering. Once you have registered you will go to HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS > CREATE HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION tab and fill out the information. You should do a thorough search to make sure your Homeowner Association does not already have a site set up on Hoanator.com.

More at;http://maroondoor.com/

As Button Generator is Button Generator

What Company Is Offering:

As Button Generator is Button Generator. You can edit the icon you see. It's very nice button generator service.
You can allocate the image you chosen and the text you typed, they are movable by mouse drag. You can this service for your site.

More at:http://jirox.net/

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases and portals

What Company Is Offering:

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources. The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience.org.

How It Works:

The approach is to capitalize on existing technology to search collections of science information distributed across the globe. This enables much-needed access to both prominent as well as smaller, less well-known sources of highly valuable science. Users simply submit a single query into the WorldWideScience.org search engine to launch simultaneous searching of the databases of participating nations. Results are returned in relevance-ranked order.

More at:http://worldwidescience.org/

UpTake is a travel information search engine

What Company Is Offering:

UpTake is a travel information search engine - they help you decide where to go, where to stay or what to do. They're here to help you make informed decisions about what best fits your travel preferences. They have scoured the web to collect 400,000 U.S. hotels and attractions. Then they analyzed and organized millions of travelers' opinions to enable you to search based on your exact travel requirements and preferences.


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

Answers Corp. has raised $13 million in a private placement

What Company Is Offering:
Answers Corporation owns and operates Web properties dedicated to providing useful answers in thousands of categories. The award-winning reference site Answers.com includes content on five million topics from over 180 licensed sources from leading publishers, including Houghton Mifflin Company, Barron's, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica. WikiAnswers.com is a community-generated Social Knowledge Q&A platform, leveraging wiki-based technologies. Through the contributions of WikiAnswers' growing community and dedicated supervisors, answers are constantly improved and updated over time. WikiAnswers was ranked by comScore as the fastest growing domain of the top 1,500 in the U.S. in terms of unique monthly visitors in 2007. Answers.com is also available for mobile devices at mobile.answers.com.

How Much They Got From Vcs:

Answers Corp. has raised $13 million in a private placement of convertible preferred stock and warrants to Redpoint Ventures.

About Vcs:
Redpoint Ventures focuses on partnering with and funding innovative companies that have the potential to define, lead, and change industries. Redpoint partners have many decades of experience and success in technology investing; combined with this foundation, the firm is able to leverage a thriving network of entrepreneurs, partners, and industry experts to accelerate building market-leading companies. Redpoint (www.redpoint.com) was founded in 1999 by partners from two of the top firms in the venture capital industry and currently has over $2 billion under management. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with offices in Los Angeles and Shanghai, China.


More at:www.answers.com

Verticals onDemand, has secured $4 million

What Company Is Offering:
Verticals onDemand is the leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM applications to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Founded by software industry veterans, the company combines deep industry domain expertise, CRM deployment experience, and Software as a Service (SaaS) operations savvy with Force.com from salesforce.com, the world’s first multitenant, on-demand platform. Verticals onDemand customers are achieving the fastest time to value through the deployment of fully functional CRM applications that are simple to deploy, inexpensive to operate, and provide a superior user experience.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Verticals onDemand, the leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, has secured $4 million of funding from Emergence Capital Partners. Emergence Capital Partners is a leading venture capital firm that specializes in investing in technology-enabled services companies. Some of Emergence’s other investments include Salesforce.com (CRM), SuccessFactors (SFSF), and HireRight (HIRE).

"Verticals onDemand is capitalizing on two of the next big trends in SaaS – vertical markets and platform-as-a-service," said Gordon Ritter, general partner of Emergence Capital. "The company’s focus and deep domain expertise in the pharmaceutical and biotech CRM market, unique Force.com platform and development experience, and track record of serving global enterprise customers have quickly made them the market leader."

This latest funding for Verticals onDemand will be used to accelerate the growth of the company’s flagship VBioPharma™ SaaS CRM application in the life sciences market and to expand the product footprint into other vertical markets.

More at:www.verticalsondemand.com

SageQuest provides GPS fleet tracking and management solutions got $3.72 million funding

What Company Is Offering:
SageQuest provides GPS fleet tracking and management solutions that improve the overall efficiency and productivity of any mobile workforce. With a focus on helping customers reduce fleet costs, increase productivity and improve customer satisfaction, SageQuest's best-in-class solution, Mobile Control, delivers a comprehensive suite of tools through an easy-to-use online interface.

How Much They Got From VCs:

SageQuest LLC, a leading provider of GPS fleet tracking and management solutions, announced today that it closed a $3.72 million Series D funding round. "Our new investment capital will be targeted to further strengthen our market position with increased investment in product development and distribution," said Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer David Lowman.

The funding round, which closed April 30th, was lead by venture capital and private equity firm Hopewell Ventures along with local founders Gary and Mark Mintz. "We're happy to have continued confidence from our long term investors and growing interest from new investors," Lowman said. "The fact that we had more interest than the funding round could accommodate speaks to our track record and the opportunity we have in this market."

More at:www.sage-quest.com

Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites

What Company Is Offering:
Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites. By utilizing a distributed network, Yoggin.com is able to target the entire workforce compared to only 16% targeted by traditional job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, and HotJobs.com.


How It Works:

By combining a traditional job board with their distributed network, they are able to serve appropriate job listings to qualified prospects. By indexing content, Yoggin.com can determine if the content is related to specific industries so they can serve relevant job openings. In addition, we’re able to present job openings to candidates that previously weren’t looking for a job. These candidates Yoggin.com targets tend to be more qualified and loyal than employees who are looking for a new job. This equates to a significant competitive advantage for organizations.

At any given time, only 16% of the workforce is actively looking for a job. By using traditional job boards, you âre limited to sifting through this 16% of the workforce to fill your positions. Yoggin.com expands this reach to 100% by placing job listings where people go on a daily basis. Their job ads run on news, blogs, email, and article related sites as text ads. Partner sites are entered into channels on the Yoggin.com system. Job listings are also entered into channels when submitted on the Yoggin.com job board. By matching channels and content, they deliver exceptional results for hiring employers. Expand your reach and gain a competitive advantage with Yoggin.com.

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

Comotivate is supposed to be more of a ‘useful’ networking site than a social networking site

What Company Is Offering:
Comotivate is supposed to be more of a ‘useful’ networking site than a social networking site. It exists to positively change your physical and mental state by leveraging all that’s amazing about the human condition. Register your goal today, find someone with whom to comotivate and enjoy the power of collective endeavour.

Comotivate uses a powerful database to match user profiles so that buddies resemble each other as closely as possible. This gives you the confidence to know that if your buddy can reach their goal, you can reach yours too.

Unique Features:
Use a range of tools on the site to track your progress, share video, images and encouragement to help each team member along the way.


Be selective over who you buddy with, how you’re matched and how long your goal runs.

Complete your goal and celebrate your success with a certificate of achievement.
Build a private home page of personal information relating to the goals you’ve met.

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

OnRez is a growing suite of software services designed for users of virtual worlds, with an initial focus on Second Life

What Company Is Offering:
OnRez is a growing suite of software services designed for users of virtual worlds, with an initial focus on Second Life. Their goal is to make virtual worlds
easier to use and help information flow more efficiently within and across virtual worlds and the Web. they are working on many paths like shopping, search, social networking and even the open source Second Life client itself.

Unique Features:

Shop OnRez — the most advanced ecommerce solution for Second Life users,
Shop provides buying and selling tools on the Web and in-world.

Search OnRez (coming soon) – shedding light on public information in Second
Life, Search shares products, places, and avatar profiles from within Second Life

OnRez is created by the software team within The Electric Sheep Company.

More at:http://shop.onrez.com/

iMedExchange is a private online community for physicians, designed to foster professional and personal connections, increase productivity

What Company Is Offering:
iMedExchange is a private online community for physicians, designed to foster professional and personal connections, increase productivity within the practice, and deliver career and lifestyle opportunities. The community is designed and supported by a team of Seattle and Silicon Valley-based technology, business and healthcare experts, and backed by a national team of physicians who provide guidance and insight via the iMedExchange Advisor Network.

Propelled by a unique mix of community, technology and direct physician input, our beta- stage product is experiencing rapid growth. Online and side-by-side with the community, we are making exciting progress towards building the most useful online place for physicians.


Who Is Backing Them:

CEO, Mr. Arthur is responsible for the strategic direction of iMedExchange. He has built and managed start-up ventures, operational and technical teams for the past 18 years. Prior to founding iMedExchange, he founded three companies: SODO Group, 3DGrid Healthcare Solutions and Cambuca Golf. He also worked from 1993 to 1999 in operational and technical management positions at Starbucks Coffee Company. He remains a partner at SODO Group and a board member of Cambuca Golf. Mr. Arthur holds a BA in English from the University of Southern California and is a graduate of the Southern California Entrepreneurship Academy.

Clifford Chirls - President, Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Chirls has 28 years of experience in Marketing, Sales Management, and General Management with a focus on Product/Service Marketing, Company/Product/Service Positioning, and Channel/Distribution Strategy. Most recently Mr. Chirls served as Chief Operating Officer of SolutionsIQ, a $50 Million IT Services firm based in Redmond, WA. He began there as VP, Sales and Marketing, grew revenues 50% in a period of two years and assisted in the sale of the company. His startup experience includes several companies, two of which were sold at significant gains to investors. His Marketing experience includes four years at Aldus Corporation (merged with Adobe) where he served in several positions of increasing responsibility culminating in his role as Director of Marketing where he managed their $60 Million graphics products business. He earned a BA with Honors from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard.

More at:https://www.imedexchange.com/

MyQuire is the one-stop solution for people to do projects in teams or on their own

What Company Is Offering:
MyQuire is an online tool that lets members work on projects with a team or on their own. MyQuire keeps everyone on the project up-to-date with the latest documents, status, and events – no more hunting for the latest document in your email or requesting a new status report. It feels more like being in the room together with your friends and colleagues, helping you stay in touch and productive, no matter where you are.

How It Works:

MyQuire is people-centered. It’s about easily connecting people to projects and the work that need to get done.

MyQuire is the one-stop solution for people to do projects in teams or on their own. It integrates project management tools, file storage and sharing, and community features letting teams "do" projects instead of "manage" them. At MyQuire they’re committed to making their software as easy to use as it is powerful. It takes just minutes to create an account, find your way around, and start getting stuff done!

More at:http://myquire.com/