Thursday, July 3, 2008

Web of Fate

What Company Is Offering:

Web of Fate is a social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future events.

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

Find health, beauty and wellness with Wahanda.com

What Company Is Offering:

Wahanda is a health, beauty and wellness ecosystem. In their ecosystem, you’ll find comprehensive listings of spas, salons and health centres all around the globe.

You’ll also find a big pond of knowledge - everything you need to know about treatments, classes and therapies. So, if you’re wondering where your nearest spa is, whether to wax or shave, what to eat before yoga or maybe you’re just curious about colonics, at Wahanda you can gather together a scrapbook of everything you need to know and all the exciting spas and clinics around the world you want to try out.

Wahanda is a Native American word for “great spirit and creator”.

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

Ologeez! is about providing academic researchers and professionals with the tools needed to connect, share, and learn about their fields

What Company Is Offering:

Ologeez! is about providing academic researchers and professionals with the tools needed to connect, share, and learn about their fields. A unique blend of citation recommendation ssearch tools collaborative groups and more has been developed to meet this goal.Connect, share, and learn from colleagues through papers, networked groups, collaborative tools and more.

More at:http://ologeez.stanford.edu/

HiveSight is a great way to conduct fundamental consumer market research quickly and easily

What Company Is Offering:
HiveSight is a great way to conduct fundamental consumer market research quickly and easily.
HiveSight helps marketers discover new facts about consumers. Their technology sifts through and analyzes millions of social media profiles and blogs to construct consumer profiles.

How It Works:

Just type in a brand, product category or consumer interest in the search box, and you're good to go.
Or simply click one of the sample queries to the left to see how it works.

Use the query box to define consumer panels, and get instant reports on demographics, consumer interests, trends and more.

It's the fastest, easiest and most affordable way to explore consumer markets and discover new insights.

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

ForeScout Technologies, the leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions and clientless network access control (NAC) for Fortune 500

What Company Is Offering:
ForeScout specializes in network policy management for enterprises looking to secure their networks without needlessly punishing end users. The company's network appliances are in service in over 500 enterprises in 37 countries, with customers from Banking, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Technology and Transportation. Its flagship product, CounterACT? is the world's most deployed NAC solution: it is fast and easy for administrators to deploy, manage and maintain and offers users zero-disruption.

How Much They Got From VCs:

ForeScout Technologies, the leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions and clientless network access control (NAC) for Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations, today announced it has completed an internal $8M fundraising round with all existing venture partners participating including Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. The company experienced a breakout year in 2007 with 80 percent growth, setting the stage for this further investment to fuel sustained compliance and NAC leadership.



According to T. Kent Elliott, ForeScout CEO: "ForeScout's success has kept our investor confidence high, believing in the proven potential of regulatory compliance and access control markets. While others have faltered, ForeScout has been able to consistently deliver industry leading technology to the most demanding enterprises and government organizations in the world. This combination of strong technology and focused go-to-market execution has allowed ForeScout to take market share from companies like Cisco and Microsoft gaining the trust of large enterprises that are under pressure to achieve regulatory compliance, like PCI DSS or HIPAA, and implement strong network access control."


More at:www.forescout.com

DAXKO's services help customers realize significant return on investment by achieving operational efficiencies while focusing on growth strategies

What Company Is Offering:

DAXKO's services help customers realize significant return on investment by achieving operational efficiencies while focusing on growth strategies. DAXKO's services include DAXKO Operations, DAXKO Accounting, and MobileFit.


How Much They Got From VCs:

DAXKO, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand software to nonprofits, today announced that the Company has received $7.75 million in expansion funding from Frontier Capital. Frontier is a private equity firm providing growth equity to business services companies.

DAXKO provides operations and financial management software for nonprofits, with a particular focus on YMCAs. Customers rely on DAXKO's solutions to service members, raise money, register for programs, manage finances, and process funds. With its proven on-demand solutions, DAXKO has become the leading software provider to the YMCA Movement, servicing a third of the nation's 2,600 YMCAs. Frontier's investment will support expansion of sales and marketing resources and enhancement of the company's proprietary suite of operations and financial management software solutions.

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

Oversight Systems Inc is provider of automated transaction monitoring software, has called down $10.2 million of a $13.2 million

What Company Is Offering:
Oversight Systems takes continuous controls monitoring to the next level, with real-time transaction integrity inspection for identifying fraud, misuse and errors. Oversight’s software provides a platform for continuous monitoring that excels at finding problems, then raises the bar with powerful analytics for cost-effectively fixing the problem, and workflow-enabled audit trail and journaling for proving problem resolution and compliance. By inspecting each step of individual transactions across all financial systems, Oversight identifies all errors and control violations, drives defect-free processes, and sustains Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.



How Much They Got From VCs:

Oversight Systems Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of automated transaction monitoring software, has called down $10.2 million of a $13.2 million Series B round, according to a regulatory filing. Adobe Ventures was joined by return backers Granite Ventures and Sigma Partners.

More at:www.oversightsystems.com

UpTake is a travel information search engine has raised $3.95 million

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.


How Much They Got From VCs:

Three All Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based operator of travel review operator Kango.com, has raised $3.95 million in Series A funding, according to a regulatory filing. Shasta Ventures led the round, with Tod Francis taking a board seat.

More at:www.kango.com

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:

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.estateofthings.com/

PLYmedia Inc. is a pioneer in the development, design, manufacturing and deployment of an interactive, multi-dimensional web video platform

What Company Is Offering:
PLYmedia Inc. is a pioneer in the development, design, manufacturing and deployment of an interactive, multi-dimensional web video platform - PLYplatform. PLYmedia delivers a range of applications focused on a new movement towards personalized, enhanced and interactive web video technology by bringing new context and meaning to video.

How It Works:

PLYmedia provides web video publishers and broadcasters with a radical and innovative way to create and deploy applications that transform standard web videos into interactive, multi-dimensional and personalized user experiences. By adding new layers or "PLYs" of contextual content such as advertisements, subtitles, pop-up bubbles and other layered content to existing web videos, our platform and technology creates exciting new revenue streams for content providers, increasing their ROI and their user base. While at the same time allows the publisher to retain control of the content.

PLYmedia enables the enhancement and interactivity of video and offers a direct link to viewers to merchandise and information. These enhancements are performed "post-production" thus eliminating the high-cost of video editing and production.

PLYmedia provides a ‘marketplace’ for developers and publishers to connect by offering a platform for developers to create, develop and deploy their applications to add interactive and multi-dimensional content directly on and in synchronization with a video. Until now, this ability and open platform has been unavailable – our PLYplatform enables and offers new technologies and their developers an opportunity and initiative to interact directly with video to promote, distribute and monetize their applications through our customers and their viewers.

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

Clarity Accounting is designed by adhering to a full compliance with generally accepted accounting principles

What Company Is Offering:
Clarity Accounting provides you with a simple online application that takes the pain away from learning about business accounting principles. It is designed with a user friendly interface that quickly and intuitively guides you through the processes of recording information that is vital to tracking the performance of your business.

How It Works:

Clarity Accounting is designed by adhering to a full compliance with generally accepted accounting principles. This means you can:

Help your clients enter their books and create profit and loss statements and balance sheets.
Access your clients' business records from a remote location -- saving money and travel time.
Have access to a full audit trail of all historical data of entries and corrections.

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