What Company Is Offering:
Qponix was built to save shoppers time and money. Their hard-working widgets help people with everyday tasks: finding a quick recipe for dinner, shopping store specials and coupons, and building shopping lists on a budget. Because Qponix widgets are truly useful, they're a great place for retailers and manufacturers to deliver content and promotions to their customers.
Qponix was formed by a group of industry veterans in retail and marketing, backed by a stellar technical team.
Who Is Backing Them:
Corbin de Rubertis, our president, comes from Fry, Inc., a leading e-commerce software and consulting company. Prior to Fry, Corbin worked for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Paris and Chicago. Before joining BCG, Corbin was vice president of e-business at Novell.
Kevin Thomas, our chief operating officer, also hails from Fry. Prior to Fry, Kevin was a co-founder and principal at the AltaStrada Group, a Java software development firm based in San Francisco. Before AltaStrada, Kevin was president of ISL Consulting, an Internet professional services firm based in San Francisco.
More at:http://www.qponix.com/
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Peer39 aims to create the next generation online advertising and content monetization platform
What Company Is Offering:
Peer39's patented algorithms understand page meaning and sentiment, and deliver the most relevant and effective brand safe display and text advertising. Peer39 Labs conducts primary research in semantic web technologies resulting in a number of patents covering its technology and business practices.
Teaming with the founders of the market-leading contextual and behavioral targeting technologies, Peer39 aims to create the next generation online advertising and content monetization platform. The company was founded by engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs from leading internet companies and academic research centers. The company has raised $12 million in two rounds of financing led by top-tier investors including Canaan Partners and JPMorgan, Dawntreader Ventures, and leading industry insiders.
More at:http://www.peer39.com
Peer39's patented algorithms understand page meaning and sentiment, and deliver the most relevant and effective brand safe display and text advertising. Peer39 Labs conducts primary research in semantic web technologies resulting in a number of patents covering its technology and business practices.
Teaming with the founders of the market-leading contextual and behavioral targeting technologies, Peer39 aims to create the next generation online advertising and content monetization platform. The company was founded by engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs from leading internet companies and academic research centers. The company has raised $12 million in two rounds of financing led by top-tier investors including Canaan Partners and JPMorgan, Dawntreader Ventures, and leading industry insiders.
More at:http://www.peer39.com
DietsinReview.com is your one stop shop to review calorie based diets, meal based diets, lifestyle diets, diet supplements
What Company Is Offering:
DietsinReview.com is your one stop shop to review calorie based diets, meal based diets, lifestyle diets, diet supplements, and discuss with your peers and rate the programs you have tried. We are constantly working to update our site with new diets and programs that can help you stay fit and live long!
More at:http://www.dietsinreview.com/
DietsinReview.com is your one stop shop to review calorie based diets, meal based diets, lifestyle diets, diet supplements, and discuss with your peers and rate the programs you have tried. We are constantly working to update our site with new diets and programs that can help you stay fit and live long!
More at:http://www.dietsinreview.com/
tedium is a place for you to store your to-do lists online
What Company Is Offering:
tedium is a place for you to store your to-do lists online.
So you can keep track of all those things you need to remember to do, and get access to them wherever you can get onto the Internet.
Plus it lets you organize how you view all those tasks by assigning tags to them, so that you can filter out everything else and just focus on the job at hand.
Or you can see what you need to do next, by looking at which tasks are due today... or this week... or this month... or next week... or tomorrow... or... you get the idea.
Tags are just a keywords or names that you can use to group your tasks together. You can many tags to each task, so they can be used for the project that a task is part of, or the priority of the task, or where the task needs to be done, or any combination.
More at:http://www.mcqn.com/
tedium is a place for you to store your to-do lists online.
So you can keep track of all those things you need to remember to do, and get access to them wherever you can get onto the Internet.
Plus it lets you organize how you view all those tasks by assigning tags to them, so that you can filter out everything else and just focus on the job at hand.
Or you can see what you need to do next, by looking at which tasks are due today... or this week... or this month... or next week... or tomorrow... or... you get the idea.
Tags are just a keywords or names that you can use to group your tasks together. You can many tags to each task, so they can be used for the project that a task is part of, or the priority of the task, or where the task needs to be done, or any combination.
More at:http://www.mcqn.com/
Agiliance offers the most comprehensive and scalable solution for managing the interdependent disciplines of IT governance, risk, and compliance
What Company Is Offering:
Agiliance offers the most comprehensive and scalable solution for managing the interdependent disciplines of IT governance, risk, and compliance. Its flagship product, Agiliance IT GRC, enables businesses to develop a holistic view of their IT risk and compliance posture in order to make better business decisions. The Agiliance IT GRC platform is the first solution that combines a robust common control framework with sophisticated policy management, workflow, and automation, providing internal and external stakeholders with a highly effective, transparent methodology for reducing IT-related risk while increasing operational efficiencies and decreasing time-to-compliance.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Agiliance, the leading provider of IT governance, risk, and compliance (IT GRC) solutions, today announced it has closed a $10M Series B round of funding led by Castile Ventures. Existing investors also participated in the funding round, including Walden International, Intel Capital and Red Rock Ventures. Agiliance also announced that Nina Saberi, Managing General Partner of Castile Ventures, joined its Board of Directors.
"IT GRC is fast becoming a strategic imperative as enterprises seek to manage the risks inherent in their IT infrastructure and to fully leverage their existing security and compliance infrastructure," said Nina Saberi, managing general partner of Castile Ventures. "As investors in successive generations of information security businesses, we recognize in Agiliance the vision, management experience and differentiated technology to be a pivotal player, and to fully capitalize on the potential of this rapidly growing market."
More at:www.agiliance.com.
Agiliance offers the most comprehensive and scalable solution for managing the interdependent disciplines of IT governance, risk, and compliance. Its flagship product, Agiliance IT GRC, enables businesses to develop a holistic view of their IT risk and compliance posture in order to make better business decisions. The Agiliance IT GRC platform is the first solution that combines a robust common control framework with sophisticated policy management, workflow, and automation, providing internal and external stakeholders with a highly effective, transparent methodology for reducing IT-related risk while increasing operational efficiencies and decreasing time-to-compliance.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Agiliance, the leading provider of IT governance, risk, and compliance (IT GRC) solutions, today announced it has closed a $10M Series B round of funding led by Castile Ventures. Existing investors also participated in the funding round, including Walden International, Intel Capital and Red Rock Ventures. Agiliance also announced that Nina Saberi, Managing General Partner of Castile Ventures, joined its Board of Directors.
"IT GRC is fast becoming a strategic imperative as enterprises seek to manage the risks inherent in their IT infrastructure and to fully leverage their existing security and compliance infrastructure," said Nina Saberi, managing general partner of Castile Ventures. "As investors in successive generations of information security businesses, we recognize in Agiliance the vision, management experience and differentiated technology to be a pivotal player, and to fully capitalize on the potential of this rapidly growing market."
More at:www.agiliance.com.
TopTenREVIEWS is a trusted review Web site, featuring expert reviews of technology and entertainment products and services received $6 million
What Company Is Offering:
TopTenREVIEWS is a trusted review Web site, featuring expert reviews of technology and entertainment products and services. TopTenREVIEWS.com provides free access to in-depth reviews, side-by-side feature comparisons, industry-related news, articles and qualified links related to software, hardware, movies, music, video games and Web services. The site has reviewed more than 225 categories of products and services with more than 4 million Web pages of content.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TopTenREVIEWS, a Utah-based technology company, announced today its plans to expand its online review site and increase its workforce. Through an introduction made by Utah’s Fund of Funds, a state economic development program, the company received $6 million from venture capital firms Highway 12 Ventures and Village Ventures. TopTenREVIEWS.com is a comprehensive review site providing consumers with side-by-side product and pricing comparisons to help them research, shop and purchase technology and entertainment products and services.
“We are impressed with TopTenREVIEWS’ continued growth and future market potential, and we’re committed to supporting companies with strong entrepreneurial management teams,” said Bo Peabody, managing general partner, Village Ventures.
More at:www.toptenreviews.com.
TopTenREVIEWS is a trusted review Web site, featuring expert reviews of technology and entertainment products and services. TopTenREVIEWS.com provides free access to in-depth reviews, side-by-side feature comparisons, industry-related news, articles and qualified links related to software, hardware, movies, music, video games and Web services. The site has reviewed more than 225 categories of products and services with more than 4 million Web pages of content.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TopTenREVIEWS, a Utah-based technology company, announced today its plans to expand its online review site and increase its workforce. Through an introduction made by Utah’s Fund of Funds, a state economic development program, the company received $6 million from venture capital firms Highway 12 Ventures and Village Ventures. TopTenREVIEWS.com is a comprehensive review site providing consumers with side-by-side product and pricing comparisons to help them research, shop and purchase technology and entertainment products and services.
“We are impressed with TopTenREVIEWS’ continued growth and future market potential, and we’re committed to supporting companies with strong entrepreneurial management teams,” said Bo Peabody, managing general partner, Village Ventures.
More at:www.toptenreviews.com.
Boomi, the market and technology leader for on-demand integration has raised $4 million
What Company Is Offering:
Boomi is the market and technology leader in on-demand integration. Boomi's patent-pending technology enables any combination of SaaS and on-premise integration to be accomplished directly from the Web, eliminating the burden of installing and maintaining software packages or hardware appliances. Highly embeddable, scalable and distributable, Boomi's architecture is being used to power the SaaS ecosystem including application and data integration, platform-as-a-service and cloud computing, and hosted business intelligence, mashups and analytics. Boomi's unique "pay-per-connection" model allows organizations to pay for only the connections they deploy at a fraction of the cost of conventional integration solutions.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Boomi, the market and technology leader for on-demand integration, today announced it has raised $4 million in its first institutional round of financing. The investment will be used to accelerate Boomi's go-to-market strategy and further secure the company's position as the leading provider of cloud-based data and application integration services.
Boomi On Demand(SM) is the industry's only fully on-demand integration service that connects any combination of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premise applications without the burden of installing and maintaining software packages or hardware appliances. With its "connect once, integrate everywhere" approach, Boomi On Demand is quickly becoming the solution of choice among major SaaS vendors and other service providers.
More at:www.boomi.com.
Boomi is the market and technology leader in on-demand integration. Boomi's patent-pending technology enables any combination of SaaS and on-premise integration to be accomplished directly from the Web, eliminating the burden of installing and maintaining software packages or hardware appliances. Highly embeddable, scalable and distributable, Boomi's architecture is being used to power the SaaS ecosystem including application and data integration, platform-as-a-service and cloud computing, and hosted business intelligence, mashups and analytics. Boomi's unique "pay-per-connection" model allows organizations to pay for only the connections they deploy at a fraction of the cost of conventional integration solutions.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Boomi, the market and technology leader for on-demand integration, today announced it has raised $4 million in its first institutional round of financing. The investment will be used to accelerate Boomi's go-to-market strategy and further secure the company's position as the leading provider of cloud-based data and application integration services.
Boomi On Demand(SM) is the industry's only fully on-demand integration service that connects any combination of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premise applications without the burden of installing and maintaining software packages or hardware appliances. With its "connect once, integrate everywhere" approach, Boomi On Demand is quickly becoming the solution of choice among major SaaS vendors and other service providers.
More at:www.boomi.com.
Apprion, Inc., a market leader in open industrial wireless networks and applications has raised over $23.5M
What Company Is Offering;
Apprion is dedicated to providing industrial facilities with the most reliable and secure wireless networks, applications, and services available. Apprion's ION System is an open, standards-based wireless infrastructure that allows plants to drive performance and lower operational costs with industrial-grade security, reliability, and scalability. Apprion's mission is to make sure that your plant's wireless is on always on guaranteed.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Motorola, Inc. , through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, today announced an investment in Apprion, Inc., a market leader in open industrial wireless networks and applications. With the Motorola Ventures investment, Apprion has raised over $23.5M.
Apprion delivers advanced wireless products, applications and services for industrial plants. Apprion's ION System enables industrial facilities to cost-effectively deploy and manage multiple wireless applications as one unified, integrated system. The ION System consists of the Apprion IONosphere and IONizers. The IONosphere is an on-site controller that manages data services, workflow, security, monitoring and maintenance, and 3rd party application integration across wireless plant networks.
More at:http://www.apprion.com
Apprion is dedicated to providing industrial facilities with the most reliable and secure wireless networks, applications, and services available. Apprion's ION System is an open, standards-based wireless infrastructure that allows plants to drive performance and lower operational costs with industrial-grade security, reliability, and scalability. Apprion's mission is to make sure that your plant's wireless is on always on guaranteed.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Motorola, Inc. , through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, today announced an investment in Apprion, Inc., a market leader in open industrial wireless networks and applications. With the Motorola Ventures investment, Apprion has raised over $23.5M.
Apprion delivers advanced wireless products, applications and services for industrial plants. Apprion's ION System enables industrial facilities to cost-effectively deploy and manage multiple wireless applications as one unified, integrated system. The ION System consists of the Apprion IONosphere and IONizers. The IONosphere is an on-site controller that manages data services, workflow, security, monitoring and maintenance, and 3rd party application integration across wireless plant networks.
More at:http://www.apprion.com
ONEDOOR will follow the evolution of your site, its traffic, visibility, and the Internet users'behaviour
What Company Is Offering:
ONEDOOR will follow the evolution of your site, its traffic, visibility, and the Internet users'behaviour.A solution entirely devoted to audits and monitoring statistics. One Door provides in a clear way all necessary indicators and keep you automatically informed, by e-mail, of the developments on your Website.
How It Works:
At a glance, browse through the main indicators of your site
The summary of your website let you to know, in real-time, the statistics of your site for today, this week or this month, but also lists all the indicators your need and to which your attention is required.
All the alerts let you know in a few seconds which areas require your attention or your intervention. Competely automated, this dashboard prevents you and avoid unnecessary.
More at:http://www.one-door.com/
ONEDOOR will follow the evolution of your site, its traffic, visibility, and the Internet users'behaviour.A solution entirely devoted to audits and monitoring statistics. One Door provides in a clear way all necessary indicators and keep you automatically informed, by e-mail, of the developments on your Website.
How It Works:
At a glance, browse through the main indicators of your site
The summary of your website let you to know, in real-time, the statistics of your site for today, this week or this month, but also lists all the indicators your need and to which your attention is required.
All the alerts let you know in a few seconds which areas require your attention or your intervention. Competely automated, this dashboard prevents you and avoid unnecessary.
More at:http://www.one-door.com/
Firstgiving is to make it possible for everyone to raise more money online faster and more easily for the causes that are important to them
What Company Is Offering:
Firstgiving is to make it possible for everyone to raise more money online faster and more easily for the causes that are important to them.
How It Works:
Fundraisers come to a nonprofit’s Firstgiving start page and make their own online fundraising page. They send their page to friends, family and colleagues through email, social networks, and word of mouth, and ask for support in a walk, run, birthday celebration, etc.
Donors make an easy, secure online transaction using a credit card and receive an email receipt. We subtract a small transaction fee before sending the donation to your nonprofit.
Before sending on your donation, Firstgiving confirms with the IRS that the organization is a certified nonprofit in good standing.
Firstgiving never rents or sells customer information to other companies. They are PCI compliant and conduct all credit card transactions over secure connections.
More at:http://www.firstgiving.com/
Firstgiving is to make it possible for everyone to raise more money online faster and more easily for the causes that are important to them.
How It Works:
Fundraisers come to a nonprofit’s Firstgiving start page and make their own online fundraising page. They send their page to friends, family and colleagues through email, social networks, and word of mouth, and ask for support in a walk, run, birthday celebration, etc.
Donors make an easy, secure online transaction using a credit card and receive an email receipt. We subtract a small transaction fee before sending the donation to your nonprofit.
Before sending on your donation, Firstgiving confirms with the IRS that the organization is a certified nonprofit in good standing.
Firstgiving never rents or sells customer information to other companies. They are PCI compliant and conduct all credit card transactions over secure connections.
More at:http://www.firstgiving.com/
tripwolf is a social travel guide for the discerning traveler that combines professional editorial travel content with user generated content
What Company Is Offering:
tripwolf is a social travel guide for the discerning traveler that combines professional editorial travel content with user generated content – a collection of experiences from thousands of travelers worldwide. With tripwolf, travelers can generate their own customized 10-20 page travel guide based on their individual preferences and recommendations from friends and “trip gurus”.
How It Works:
You can easily assign your own pictures to an existing location. Simply go to that location, and then click on the ‘upload photos’ button. If you are uploading photos into ‘my gallery,’ when you click on the ‘upload photos’ button, tripwolf will immediately ask you ‘where did you take the photo(s)?’ This is where you can type in your location. You will see a list of locations pop up, click on ‘select’, and then hit the ‘ok’ button at the bottom of the window. Now when you select and upload your photo, it will end up in the correct location!
To view others’ journals, click on the large ‘journals’ tab above the map. If you are in a specific location, you will see journals for that place. Otherwise, on the main page, you can search for specific journals.
More at:http://www.tripwolf.com/
tripwolf is a social travel guide for the discerning traveler that combines professional editorial travel content with user generated content – a collection of experiences from thousands of travelers worldwide. With tripwolf, travelers can generate their own customized 10-20 page travel guide based on their individual preferences and recommendations from friends and “trip gurus”.
How It Works:
You can easily assign your own pictures to an existing location. Simply go to that location, and then click on the ‘upload photos’ button. If you are uploading photos into ‘my gallery,’ when you click on the ‘upload photos’ button, tripwolf will immediately ask you ‘where did you take the photo(s)?’ This is where you can type in your location. You will see a list of locations pop up, click on ‘select’, and then hit the ‘ok’ button at the bottom of the window. Now when you select and upload your photo, it will end up in the correct location!
To view others’ journals, click on the large ‘journals’ tab above the map. If you are in a specific location, you will see journals for that place. Otherwise, on the main page, you can search for specific journals.
More at:http://www.tripwolf.com/
eXpireTrack is an easy-to-use online business application solution for managing your inventory and for tracking product expiration dates and shelf
What Company Is Offering:
eXpireTrack is an easy-to-use online business application solution for managing your inventory and for tracking product expiration dates and shelf life. eXpireTrack insures that your organization’s perishable inventory does not turn into a liability through a robust reminder system that keeps you notified of your inventory's state. Additionally, an updated system can be utilized to provide alerts when your stock is running low, helping you maintain easy and complete control of your assets and inventory.
How It Works:
eXpireTrack is an easy-to-use online application designed to help your organization better track supplies and inventory that are critical to being prepared for any emergency or catastrophic event. The eXpireTrack application is a fully customizable solution with all the features that you will need to organize and manage your perishable supplies.
More at:http://www.expiretrack.com/
eXpireTrack is an easy-to-use online business application solution for managing your inventory and for tracking product expiration dates and shelf life. eXpireTrack insures that your organization’s perishable inventory does not turn into a liability through a robust reminder system that keeps you notified of your inventory's state. Additionally, an updated system can be utilized to provide alerts when your stock is running low, helping you maintain easy and complete control of your assets and inventory.
How It Works:
eXpireTrack is an easy-to-use online application designed to help your organization better track supplies and inventory that are critical to being prepared for any emergency or catastrophic event. The eXpireTrack application is a fully customizable solution with all the features that you will need to organize and manage your perishable supplies.
More at:http://www.expiretrack.com/
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