What Company Is Offering;
CyberSiteSearch is a new and innovative on-demand Software as a Service (Saas) E-Commerce site search solution that integrates with your online marketing efforts.
How It Works:
It helps increase the site conversion rate by presenting the online merchant’s products with pictures, descriptions, stock status, etc. instead of boring text links.
It permits merchants to promote and merchandize certain products in response to visitors search queries.
It allows for up sell and cross sell product suggestions right from the search results page.
It facilitates customer ordering directly from the search results page.
It integrates with and is compatible with online marketing efforts.
More at:http://www.cybersitesearch.com/
Thursday, June 26, 2008
ClickBook is a real-time, web-based booking and scheduling system for small business
What Company Is Offering:
ClickBook is a real-time, web-based booking and scheduling system for small business with the critical features that characterise large scale booking systems, without the prohibitive costs of custom-built solutions.
ClickBook Free Online Scheduling is the easy alternative to distracting telephones, expensive receptionists, endless call-backs and missed opportunities from unanswered calls. It is a web-based replacement of your appointment sheet, scheduling system or diary that lets your clients book online.
How It Works:
The system provides a broad spectrum of small businesses with a highly user-friendly and accessible on-ramp into the online scheduling world, and provides their clients with the ultimate in appointment scheduling convenience.
It is a solution to the increasing demands from consumers for online services, and a transformative business automation tool for small business involved in the provision of appointment-based services.
More at:http://clickbook.net/
ClickBook is a real-time, web-based booking and scheduling system for small business with the critical features that characterise large scale booking systems, without the prohibitive costs of custom-built solutions.
ClickBook Free Online Scheduling is the easy alternative to distracting telephones, expensive receptionists, endless call-backs and missed opportunities from unanswered calls. It is a web-based replacement of your appointment sheet, scheduling system or diary that lets your clients book online.
How It Works:
The system provides a broad spectrum of small businesses with a highly user-friendly and accessible on-ramp into the online scheduling world, and provides their clients with the ultimate in appointment scheduling convenience.
It is a solution to the increasing demands from consumers for online services, and a transformative business automation tool for small business involved in the provision of appointment-based services.
More at:http://clickbook.net/
Hoodeo plays neighborhood matchmaker, giving consumers up to 10 neighborhoods that best match their needs
What Company Is Offering:
Hoodeo plays neighborhood matchmaker, giving consumers up to 10 neighborhoods that best match their needs.
How It Works:
First, create your hoodeo profile by answering a few questions about your lifestyle, desired property type and price range. Then, let hoodeo work its matchmaking magic then show you your best places to live. Hoodeo goes one step further and shows you homes that are for sale that match your criteria in your best places.
More at:http://www.hoodeo.com/
Hoodeo plays neighborhood matchmaker, giving consumers up to 10 neighborhoods that best match their needs.
How It Works:
First, create your hoodeo profile by answering a few questions about your lifestyle, desired property type and price range. Then, let hoodeo work its matchmaking magic then show you your best places to live. Hoodeo goes one step further and shows you homes that are for sale that match your criteria in your best places.
More at:http://www.hoodeo.com/
Fuse Jobs is the only website in the UK specialising in helping you find a new career
What Company Is Offering:
Fuse Jobs is the only website in the UK specialising in helping you find a new career, whether it's your first step on the career ladder, you're returning after a break, or you 're looking to take on a new challenge.
Unique Features:
Match your skills to live vacancies - A unique, fully integrated assessment system allowing you to generate your own skills profile and use it to help you target roles, and match your skills against current live vacancies - no need to apply for jobs you can't do ever again.
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Help for Employment advisers - specialist brokerage section for anyone working with job seekers to help you help people back to work quicker and more effectively.
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Further steps on the Fuse Journey to help you land that job and do well in it.
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Many more articles from careers experts, employers and successful job seekers.
More at:http://www.fusejobs.co.uk/
Fuse Jobs is the only website in the UK specialising in helping you find a new career, whether it's your first step on the career ladder, you're returning after a break, or you 're looking to take on a new challenge.
Unique Features:
Match your skills to live vacancies - A unique, fully integrated assessment system allowing you to generate your own skills profile and use it to help you target roles, and match your skills against current live vacancies - no need to apply for jobs you can't do ever again.
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Help for Employment advisers - specialist brokerage section for anyone working with job seekers to help you help people back to work quicker and more effectively.
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Further steps on the Fuse Journey to help you land that job and do well in it.
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Many more articles from careers experts, employers and successful job seekers.
More at:http://www.fusejobs.co.uk/
GDCM, a London-based provider of data center management solutions, has raised a "multi-million dollar" investment
What Company Is Offering:
GDCM is a global software company which has developed solutions aimed at helping organizations provide a complete view of their data centers, allowing them to intelligently manage power consumption and forecast greenhouse emissions. The company counts HBOS, DHL and Clifford Chance among its growing list of clients. With offices now in London, New York, Dallas and California, and with expectations to achieve triple figure growth this year, GDCM is strengthening the board as it rolls-out its services internationally.
How Much They Got From VCs:
GDCM, a London-based provider of data center management solutions, has raised a "multi-million dollar" investment from Balderton Capital. The financing will be used to help financing international growth. The investment will be used to accelerate the company's international growth. Bernard Liautaud, previously chairman and chief strategy officer at Business Objects, and Tim Bunting, Partners at Balderton Capital will join the firm as non-executive directors.
John Moreton, GDCM's Chairman, said: "We are pleased to have the support of Balderton which has an outstanding track record in developing software companies and welcome Bernard and Tim to our board. Their industry knowledge and expertise will be invaluable as we continue our expansion in Europe and the US."
Balderton Capital is Europe's premier venture capital firm behind investments such as MySQL, recently sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion, and Bebo, sold to AOL for $850m.
More at:http://www.gdcm.com
GDCM is a global software company which has developed solutions aimed at helping organizations provide a complete view of their data centers, allowing them to intelligently manage power consumption and forecast greenhouse emissions. The company counts HBOS, DHL and Clifford Chance among its growing list of clients. With offices now in London, New York, Dallas and California, and with expectations to achieve triple figure growth this year, GDCM is strengthening the board as it rolls-out its services internationally.
How Much They Got From VCs:
GDCM, a London-based provider of data center management solutions, has raised a "multi-million dollar" investment from Balderton Capital. The financing will be used to help financing international growth. The investment will be used to accelerate the company's international growth. Bernard Liautaud, previously chairman and chief strategy officer at Business Objects, and Tim Bunting, Partners at Balderton Capital will join the firm as non-executive directors.
John Moreton, GDCM's Chairman, said: "We are pleased to have the support of Balderton which has an outstanding track record in developing software companies and welcome Bernard and Tim to our board. Their industry knowledge and expertise will be invaluable as we continue our expansion in Europe and the US."
Balderton Capital is Europe's premier venture capital firm behind investments such as MySQL, recently sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion, and Bebo, sold to AOL for $850m.
More at:http://www.gdcm.com
XShares Group is innovative exchange traded funds has received additional financing in excess of $15 million
What Company Is Offering:
XShares Group LLC is a holding company of XShares Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor, designer and sponsor of U.S.-listed ETFs, and XShares Securities LLC, a registered broker-dealer. The company also partners with leading financial services firms and index providers to develop and launch innovative ETFs. This flexible approach to product development allows XShares Advisors to introduce novel ETFs based on in-house intellectual property, while also creating private-label opportunities for firms seeking to enter the fast-growing ETF marketplace. All XShares ETFs trade on NYSE Arca.
How Much They Got From VCs:
XShares Group LLC, an industry leader in developing precisely focused, innovative exchange traded funds (ETFs), announced that it has received additional financing in excess of $15 million from a group of European institutional investors. The new funds will be used for developing and introducing new exchange traded products, as well as for working capital.
With the receipt of the financing, the Company also announced that Joseph L. Schocken, currently a member of XShares Board of Managers, has been named Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer of XShares Group and William P. Henson, the current CEO of XShares Group, will return full-time to Grail Partners, a founding investor of the Company, where he is a partner. Jeffrey L. Feldman, a member of the Board of Managers, will continue in his management role and has also been granted the title of Founder and Chief Strategist.
XShares Group LLC is a holding company of XShares Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor, designer and sponsor of U.S.-listed ETFs, and XShares Securities LLC, a registered broker-dealer. The company also partners with leading financial services firms and index providers to develop and launch innovative ETFs. This flexible approach to product development allows XShares Advisors to introduce novel ETFs based on in-house intellectual property, while also creating private-label opportunities for firms seeking to enter the fast-growing ETF marketplace. All XShares ETFs trade on NYSE Arca.
How Much They Got From VCs:
XShares Group LLC, an industry leader in developing precisely focused, innovative exchange traded funds (ETFs), announced that it has received additional financing in excess of $15 million from a group of European institutional investors. The new funds will be used for developing and introducing new exchange traded products, as well as for working capital.
With the receipt of the financing, the Company also announced that Joseph L. Schocken, currently a member of XShares Board of Managers, has been named Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer of XShares Group and William P. Henson, the current CEO of XShares Group, will return full-time to Grail Partners, a founding investor of the Company, where he is a partner. Jeffrey L. Feldman, a member of the Board of Managers, will continue in his management role and has also been granted the title of Founder and Chief Strategist.
SodaHead, a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics got $8.4 million Series B round
What Company Is Offering:
SodaHead is a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics. If you have something that gets your noggin spinning, hit up SodaHead -- ask a question or add your two cents and see who else thinks like you. Share your views with your opinionated friends, your gossipy co-worker, your know-it-all ex or meet new friends. Pick your passion, whether its politics, pop culture, music, sports or relationships, you'll find SodaHeads who are all worked up about the same stuff you are! Take the discussion to your site like many celebrities, bloggers and media companies have using SodaHead’s customized poll widget to better engage their audience. Everyone with something to say belongs on SodaHead.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SodaHead, a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics, announced an $8.4 million Series B round of funding. Mission Ventures led the round with prior investor Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) co-investing. Funds will be allocated to new marketing initiatives and strategic hires designed to make SodaHead the #1 discussion community.
“SodaHead offers an incredible opportunity for individuals to express their opinions and meet similar people,” said Robert Kibble, managing partner, Mission Ventures. ”SodaHead’s community and upcoming initiatives are very exciting and I believe SodaHead will be one of the biggest sites on the Internet. Mission Ventures has made several investments in Internet/digital media companies and we are very excited to add SodaHead to our portfolio. SodaHead has an experienced management team for this opportunity and we believe in their vision and strategy.”
More at:www.SodaHead.com
SodaHead is a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics. If you have something that gets your noggin spinning, hit up SodaHead -- ask a question or add your two cents and see who else thinks like you. Share your views with your opinionated friends, your gossipy co-worker, your know-it-all ex or meet new friends. Pick your passion, whether its politics, pop culture, music, sports or relationships, you'll find SodaHeads who are all worked up about the same stuff you are! Take the discussion to your site like many celebrities, bloggers and media companies have using SodaHead’s customized poll widget to better engage their audience. Everyone with something to say belongs on SodaHead.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SodaHead, a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics, announced an $8.4 million Series B round of funding. Mission Ventures led the round with prior investor Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) co-investing. Funds will be allocated to new marketing initiatives and strategic hires designed to make SodaHead the #1 discussion community.
“SodaHead offers an incredible opportunity for individuals to express their opinions and meet similar people,” said Robert Kibble, managing partner, Mission Ventures. ”SodaHead’s community and upcoming initiatives are very exciting and I believe SodaHead will be one of the biggest sites on the Internet. Mission Ventures has made several investments in Internet/digital media companies and we are very excited to add SodaHead to our portfolio. SodaHead has an experienced management team for this opportunity and we believe in their vision and strategy.”
More at:www.SodaHead.com
BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of gigabit wireless solutions has received $10 million
What Company Is Offering:
BridgeWave Communications is the leading supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. The company’s exclusive AdaptRate™ and AdaptPath™ technologies combined with its advanced Forward Error Correction capability deliver the highest availability at the longest distances for full-rate gigabit links. BridgeWave’s point-to-point, wireless solutions are widely deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul. With the largest installed base of GigE radios worldwide, BridgeWave delivers the highest levels of product quality and reliability.
How Much They Got From VCs:
BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of gigabit wireless solutions, today announced it has received $10 million in Series 4 funding. This round was co-led by Intel Capital and a new investor, Core Capital, with participation from prior round venture capital firms Cipio Partners, SDL Ventures, and Merifin Capital.
BridgeWave will use the funding to extend the company's position in gigabit wireless enterprise and fixed operator networks into the next generation gigabit mobile backhaul space. This move will help address the data transport challenges facing 4G WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployments.
More at:www.bridgewave.com
BridgeWave Communications is the leading supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. The company’s exclusive AdaptRate™ and AdaptPath™ technologies combined with its advanced Forward Error Correction capability deliver the highest availability at the longest distances for full-rate gigabit links. BridgeWave’s point-to-point, wireless solutions are widely deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul. With the largest installed base of GigE radios worldwide, BridgeWave delivers the highest levels of product quality and reliability.
How Much They Got From VCs:
BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of gigabit wireless solutions, today announced it has received $10 million in Series 4 funding. This round was co-led by Intel Capital and a new investor, Core Capital, with participation from prior round venture capital firms Cipio Partners, SDL Ventures, and Merifin Capital.
BridgeWave will use the funding to extend the company's position in gigabit wireless enterprise and fixed operator networks into the next generation gigabit mobile backhaul space. This move will help address the data transport challenges facing 4G WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployments.
More at:www.bridgewave.com
Kindling is a web-based application that cultivates and manages the ideas of everyone in your organization
What Company Is Offering:
Kindling is a web-based application that cultivates and manages the ideas of everyone in your organization.
Kindling is a Place for Idea ,a place where companies, organizations, and small groups can share and collaborate. Kindling cultivates ideas from the ground up and believes that everyone in a group has something valuable to say, from the interns to the CEO.
One of Kindling's finest features is the opportunity for group discussion and peer-voting system. The system works better if you have more than a few people in your group because of the nature of how discussions happen. They think a good minimum number is somewhere around 6 members.
More at:http://www.kindlingapp.com/
Kindling is a web-based application that cultivates and manages the ideas of everyone in your organization.
Kindling is a Place for Idea ,a place where companies, organizations, and small groups can share and collaborate. Kindling cultivates ideas from the ground up and believes that everyone in a group has something valuable to say, from the interns to the CEO.
One of Kindling's finest features is the opportunity for group discussion and peer-voting system. The system works better if you have more than a few people in your group because of the nature of how discussions happen. They think a good minimum number is somewhere around 6 members.
More at:http://www.kindlingapp.com/
GoogleAdPlanner-----Free media planning tool
What Company Is Offering:
Refine your online advertising with Google Ad Planner, a free media planning tool that can help you: Identify websites your target customers are likely to visit.
Unique Features:
Define audiences by demographics and interests.
Search for websites relevant to your target audience.
Access unique users, page views, and other data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.
Easily build media plans for yourself or your clients.
Create lists of websites where you'd like to advertise.
Generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan.
More at:Google Ad Planner
Refine your online advertising with Google Ad Planner, a free media planning tool that can help you: Identify websites your target customers are likely to visit.
Unique Features:
Define audiences by demographics and interests.
Search for websites relevant to your target audience.
Access unique users, page views, and other data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.
Easily build media plans for yourself or your clients.
Create lists of websites where you'd like to advertise.
Generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan.
More at:Google Ad Planner
Yo Macha----Your Picture Rating And Social Networking Site
What Company Is Offering:
Yo Macha, On this portal, you can put up your picture, let people rate your looks on scale of 10… while that happens, you can rate other people…
It’s macha’s (slang for friend) portal where we take care of your security; no downloads, no save as… they have kept it simple, for easy use. So get rolling, flaunt your score, or get tips and tricks, or work on your looks, all here at www.yomacha.com.
How It Works:
You can upload pictures, rate people, add comments, suggest an accessory, suggest a look, flaunt your score, meet and make new friends and have a fun time on the web.
You can upload a picture directly from your computer. Do not send them photos via email asking them to post it for you.
They keep the safety of pictures and information of their users as priority. No one can save the picture or copy your picture from their portal. They ensure that your personality is not tarnished by ensuring that there is no explicit content on the portal.
More at:http://yomacha.com/
Yo Macha, On this portal, you can put up your picture, let people rate your looks on scale of 10… while that happens, you can rate other people…
It’s macha’s (slang for friend) portal where we take care of your security; no downloads, no save as… they have kept it simple, for easy use. So get rolling, flaunt your score, or get tips and tricks, or work on your looks, all here at www.yomacha.com.
How It Works:
You can upload pictures, rate people, add comments, suggest an accessory, suggest a look, flaunt your score, meet and make new friends and have a fun time on the web.
You can upload a picture directly from your computer. Do not send them photos via email asking them to post it for you.
They keep the safety of pictures and information of their users as priority. No one can save the picture or copy your picture from their portal. They ensure that your personality is not tarnished by ensuring that there is no explicit content on the portal.
More at:http://yomacha.com/
Evri----Search Less Understand More
What Company Is Offering:
Evri is a team of superstar engineers and product developers with deep expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, and most importantly, building great products. Located in the historic Pioneer Square area of downtown Seattle, they are building a team passionate about innovation, great user experiences and having fun.
Who Is Backing Them:
The company is led by CEO Neil Roseman. Prior to joining Evri, Neil spent 9 1/2 years at Amazon.com (1998 - 2007), most as a Vice President of Technology. Most recently Neil was responsible for Amazon.com's Digital Media Technologies and Amazon’s Global Subscriptions Platform. In this role Neil was responsible for product and software development for efforts such Search Inside the Book ™, Amazon Unbox Digital Video, and the recently launched Amazon MP3 service. The Subscriptions Platform, which Neil designed and built with a small team, is used globally by Amazon Prime, Amazon DVD Rental (in the UK and Germany) and other Amazon.com services. Prior to that Neil was responsible for many of Amazon's most successful product launches, including Music and DVD stores, Marketplace (Amazon's 3rd-party business), Amazon China, and the initial Amazon Web Services product.
Formerly known as Hypertext Solutions, Evri was incubated by Vulcan Capital. Vulcan Capital is a leading private investment firm that creates long-term value by applying extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and flexible financial resources to attractive investment opportunities. The firm invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital, as well as public equity value investing. The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, business and financial services, technology, life sciences and healthcare. Vulcan Capital was formed in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm serves as the investment arm of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.
More at:http://www.evri.com/
Evri is a team of superstar engineers and product developers with deep expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, and most importantly, building great products. Located in the historic Pioneer Square area of downtown Seattle, they are building a team passionate about innovation, great user experiences and having fun.
Who Is Backing Them:
The company is led by CEO Neil Roseman. Prior to joining Evri, Neil spent 9 1/2 years at Amazon.com (1998 - 2007), most as a Vice President of Technology. Most recently Neil was responsible for Amazon.com's Digital Media Technologies and Amazon’s Global Subscriptions Platform. In this role Neil was responsible for product and software development for efforts such Search Inside the Book ™, Amazon Unbox Digital Video, and the recently launched Amazon MP3 service. The Subscriptions Platform, which Neil designed and built with a small team, is used globally by Amazon Prime, Amazon DVD Rental (in the UK and Germany) and other Amazon.com services. Prior to that Neil was responsible for many of Amazon's most successful product launches, including Music and DVD stores, Marketplace (Amazon's 3rd-party business), Amazon China, and the initial Amazon Web Services product.
Formerly known as Hypertext Solutions, Evri was incubated by Vulcan Capital. Vulcan Capital is a leading private investment firm that creates long-term value by applying extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and flexible financial resources to attractive investment opportunities. The firm invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital, as well as public equity value investing. The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, business and financial services, technology, life sciences and healthcare. Vulcan Capital was formed in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm serves as the investment arm of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.
More at:http://www.evri.com/
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