What Company Is Offering:
Kickfire provides the first high-performance, easy-to-use open source database appliance for the burgeoning MySQL market. Based on a patented SQL chip that packs the power of tens of CPUs into an exceptionally small, low-power form factor Kickfire delivers a quantum leap in performance efficiency -- avoiding the hardware build out, power, and space costs of today's data warehouse and database offerings. By delivering astoundingly fast query performance out of the box, Kickfire enables organizations to use MySQL for demanding business intelligence, reporting, and analysis rather than migrating to costly, non-open source alternatives. Kickfire appliances scale from gigabytes to terabytes and are based on commodity hardware and Linux.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Kickfire(TM), Inc. today announced that it has closed Series B financing. Pinnacle Ventures led the round and Series A investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, and The Mayfield Fund reinvested. The capital will be used to build out the sales, marketing and customer operations infrastructure to bring the Kickfire appliance to market.
Kickfire developed the first MySQL appliance to capitalize on the analysis and reporting needs of the more than 11 million active MySQL installations that are struggling to support explosive data volumes. In a July 2008 report titled Market Update: Open Source Databases, Forrester Research estimates the size of the open source database market including software licensing, technical support, and services will reach $1.2 billion by 2010. Noel Yuhanna, principal analyst states "More enterprises are deploying open source databases than ever before, with many planning mission-critical deployments in the coming years.
More at;http://www.kickfire.com
Thursday, July 31, 2008
myYearbook.com has secured a $13 million Series B
About Company:
myYearbook.com is the third largest social network in the United States, according to Hitwise, a competitive intelligence service. myYearbook has grown from a single high school to more than 10 million unique visitors and 2 billion page views per month. The average myYearbook member visits the site eight times per month and spends 30 minutes per visit, making myYearbook one of the most engaging social media destinations on the Internet.
How Much They Got From VCs:
myYearbook.com, one of the most popular social media destinations on the Internet, announced today that it has secured a $13 million Series B investment by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) with participation from existing investors, US Venture Partners and First Round Capital. myYearbook will use the funds to develop new services for its members and continue to drive revenue. Sergio Monsalve from Norwest Venture Partners will join the Board of Directors.
According to Comscore’s June report, myYearbook is now the leading online community for teens as measured by time spent and visits. myYearbook is also the fastest growing US social networking site and is the third largest in the US, according to Hitwise. The company has raised $18.6 million to date.
More at:www.myYearbook.com
myYearbook.com is the third largest social network in the United States, according to Hitwise, a competitive intelligence service. myYearbook has grown from a single high school to more than 10 million unique visitors and 2 billion page views per month. The average myYearbook member visits the site eight times per month and spends 30 minutes per visit, making myYearbook one of the most engaging social media destinations on the Internet.
How Much They Got From VCs:
myYearbook.com, one of the most popular social media destinations on the Internet, announced today that it has secured a $13 million Series B investment by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) with participation from existing investors, US Venture Partners and First Round Capital. myYearbook will use the funds to develop new services for its members and continue to drive revenue. Sergio Monsalve from Norwest Venture Partners will join the Board of Directors.
According to Comscore’s June report, myYearbook is now the leading online community for teens as measured by time spent and visits. myYearbook is also the fastest growing US social networking site and is the third largest in the US, according to Hitwise. The company has raised $18.6 million to date.
More at:www.myYearbook.com
Crescendo Networks, Ltd., the recognized performance leader in accelerating and optimizing Web applications has secured $9.5 million
What Company Is Offering:
Crescendo Networks is the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing the delivery of business-critical, web-enabled applications. The company’s unique multi-tier application architecture dramatically improves the operation of today's demanding application infrastructure. The world’s largest corporations and fastest growing web properties rely on Crescendo for the application performance and efficiency needed to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Crescendo Networks, Ltd., the recognized performance leader in accelerating and optimizing Web applications, today announced the company has secured $9.5 million in its third round of major funding, bringing its total amount raised to $36.2 million. The Challenge Fund – Etgar II L.P. participated in the current financing and joined current investors, Evergreen Venture Partners, Apax Partners, Magma Venture Partners, StageOne Ventures and Convergent Capital. In these tough economic times, Crescendo Networks is one of a very few companies to receive additional venture capital financing from new investors, illustrating its strength in the market place.
More at:www.crescendonetworks.com
Crescendo Networks is the recognized performance leader for accelerating and optimizing the delivery of business-critical, web-enabled applications. The company’s unique multi-tier application architecture dramatically improves the operation of today's demanding application infrastructure. The world’s largest corporations and fastest growing web properties rely on Crescendo for the application performance and efficiency needed to ensure usability, facilitate rapid business growth, lower IT costs and capture additional revenue.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Crescendo Networks, Ltd., the recognized performance leader in accelerating and optimizing Web applications, today announced the company has secured $9.5 million in its third round of major funding, bringing its total amount raised to $36.2 million. The Challenge Fund – Etgar II L.P. participated in the current financing and joined current investors, Evergreen Venture Partners, Apax Partners, Magma Venture Partners, StageOne Ventures and Convergent Capital. In these tough economic times, Crescendo Networks is one of a very few companies to receive additional venture capital financing from new investors, illustrating its strength in the market place.
More at:www.crescendonetworks.com
Derivix is a financial services software company that provides institutional-strength, broker-neutral options pricing and analytics solutions
What Company Is Offering:
Derivix is a financial services software company that provides institutional-strength, broker-neutral options pricing and analytics solutions to the industry’s leading options traders and hedge funds. Derivix sets the new standard in analytics systems offering customers the quality and powerful tools they need to keep ahead of the electronic trading revolution.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Derivix, a broker-neutral provider of institutional-strength options pricing and analytics solutions to the industry’s leading options traders, announced today that it has received Series A funding from leading Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLLP (SGE).
Derivix provides its customers with a competitive edge in the markets with best-of-breed, next-generation tools that offer advanced real-time options analytics and pricing, risk management and broker-neutral access to their customers’ choice of execution provider. Derivix’s intimate knowledge of the options world ensures that its clients remain competitive in today’s constantly changing electronic marketplace. This round of funding, representing a minority stake in the company, will allow Derivix to power continued product innovation, drive new customer acquisition, expand its sales team and presence in the New York and Chicago markets and rise to the overwhelming market demand for its high-end options trading solutions.
More at:www.derivix.com
Derivix is a financial services software company that provides institutional-strength, broker-neutral options pricing and analytics solutions to the industry’s leading options traders and hedge funds. Derivix sets the new standard in analytics systems offering customers the quality and powerful tools they need to keep ahead of the electronic trading revolution.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Derivix, a broker-neutral provider of institutional-strength options pricing and analytics solutions to the industry’s leading options traders, announced today that it has received Series A funding from leading Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLLP (SGE).
Derivix provides its customers with a competitive edge in the markets with best-of-breed, next-generation tools that offer advanced real-time options analytics and pricing, risk management and broker-neutral access to their customers’ choice of execution provider. Derivix’s intimate knowledge of the options world ensures that its clients remain competitive in today’s constantly changing electronic marketplace. This round of funding, representing a minority stake in the company, will allow Derivix to power continued product innovation, drive new customer acquisition, expand its sales team and presence in the New York and Chicago markets and rise to the overwhelming market demand for its high-end options trading solutions.
More at:www.derivix.com
Beacon Street Girls -- is dedicated to quality parent-approved literature, media, and gifts for preteen girls who are between toys and boys
What Company Is Offering:
Beacon Street Girls -- is dedicated to quality parent-approved literature, media, and gifts for preteen girls who are between toys and boysTM. Shaped by experts in adolescent development and current research on how to positively impact girls' self-esteem, the award-winning Beacon Street Girls book series is committed to the health and well-being of tween girls.
They want girls to believe in themselves, no matter what their challenges. They provide girls, especially those ages 9 to 13, with positive role models and empowering messages. They give them a look at a wide range of life experiences, supplying them with problem-solving tools that they can apply to their own lives. And they do it in a fun and entertaining way that makes girls want to come back again and again.
More at:http://www.beaconstreetgirls.com/
Beacon Street Girls -- is dedicated to quality parent-approved literature, media, and gifts for preteen girls who are between toys and boysTM. Shaped by experts in adolescent development and current research on how to positively impact girls' self-esteem, the award-winning Beacon Street Girls book series is committed to the health and well-being of tween girls.
They want girls to believe in themselves, no matter what their challenges. They provide girls, especially those ages 9 to 13, with positive role models and empowering messages. They give them a look at a wide range of life experiences, supplying them with problem-solving tools that they can apply to their own lives. And they do it in a fun and entertaining way that makes girls want to come back again and again.
More at:http://www.beaconstreetgirls.com/
Sometrics is pioneering social intelligence
What Company Is Offering:
Sometrics is pioneering social intelligence - combining deep, relevant social analytics with precision-targeted ad serving/social branding capabilities to help developers and brands monetize the social web.
Sometrics is the first to tailor its analytics and ad serving solutions to focus on social networking platforms and applications. It provides the most relevant and effective audience analysis available, helping developers and brands better understand who's doing what within the major social networking communities and ultra-targeted niche sites.
The result is precision-targeted advertising within the massive playground that is the social web - a world that's been frustratingly hard to quantify and monetize until now.
More at:http://www.sometrics.com/
Sometrics is pioneering social intelligence - combining deep, relevant social analytics with precision-targeted ad serving/social branding capabilities to help developers and brands monetize the social web.
Sometrics is the first to tailor its analytics and ad serving solutions to focus on social networking platforms and applications. It provides the most relevant and effective audience analysis available, helping developers and brands better understand who's doing what within the major social networking communities and ultra-targeted niche sites.
The result is precision-targeted advertising within the massive playground that is the social web - a world that's been frustratingly hard to quantify and monetize until now.
More at:http://www.sometrics.com/
Kiobo helps users enrich their browsing experience by making browsing a more social activity
What Company Is Offering:
Kiobo helps users enrich their browsing experience by making browsing a more social activity. They enable users to explore and leverage their social graph's browsing behavior. Users can effortlessly find not only new sites relevant to their interest but also people with similar browsing behavior.
How It Works:
Once you download the toolbar, Kiobo's algorithms will analyze your browsing behavior and make recommendations based on where other people (particularly your friends) of similar interest like to browse. They will also show you people who have similar browsing behavior and allow you follow their browsing by enabling you to become their fan.
At any given time, you can see a real time view of what tags and sites are popular on Kiobo. You can see how many people and who is browsing those sites. You may also explore and learn more about those people and about the topics which they are browsing. Think of it as Alexa.com on steroids. You can also see what some of the upcoming sites are a sort of advance peek into sites becoming newly popular.
More at:http://kiobo.com/
Kiobo helps users enrich their browsing experience by making browsing a more social activity. They enable users to explore and leverage their social graph's browsing behavior. Users can effortlessly find not only new sites relevant to their interest but also people with similar browsing behavior.
How It Works:
Once you download the toolbar, Kiobo's algorithms will analyze your browsing behavior and make recommendations based on where other people (particularly your friends) of similar interest like to browse. They will also show you people who have similar browsing behavior and allow you follow their browsing by enabling you to become their fan.
At any given time, you can see a real time view of what tags and sites are popular on Kiobo. You can see how many people and who is browsing those sites. You may also explore and learn more about those people and about the topics which they are browsing. Think of it as Alexa.com on steroids. You can also see what some of the upcoming sites are a sort of advance peek into sites becoming newly popular.
More at:http://kiobo.com/
Tatango allows any group to collect, manage and message all of their group members both from a computer and mobile phone
What Company Is Offering:
Tatango allows any group to collect, manage and message all of their group members both from a computer and mobile phone. Tatango was born from the promise of giving groups the ability to stay connected anytime, anywhere. The Tatango service doesn’t require a special phone or its users to download software to use the service. The service is ad-supported and completely free, Tatango places 30-character text ads at the bottom of group messages, costing you no more than a standard text message to receive a group alert.
Unique Features:
Send up to 100 email invites through Tatango to build your group, or share your group's join page using your own email client.
Assure your members that the only messages they will receive are going to be coming from you when they join your Tatango group.
Group members can remove themselves from a group by simply texting the word STOP to 68398 – they are automatically removed from that group.
Go to the “my account” section, and select the group you would like to delete. Keep in mind that this action is permanent and the group and all it’s contacts will be deleted forever.
More at:http://tatango.com/
Tatango allows any group to collect, manage and message all of their group members both from a computer and mobile phone. Tatango was born from the promise of giving groups the ability to stay connected anytime, anywhere. The Tatango service doesn’t require a special phone or its users to download software to use the service. The service is ad-supported and completely free, Tatango places 30-character text ads at the bottom of group messages, costing you no more than a standard text message to receive a group alert.
Unique Features:
Send up to 100 email invites through Tatango to build your group, or share your group's join page using your own email client.
Assure your members that the only messages they will receive are going to be coming from you when they join your Tatango group.
Group members can remove themselves from a group by simply texting the word STOP to 68398 – they are automatically removed from that group.
Go to the “my account” section, and select the group you would like to delete. Keep in mind that this action is permanent and the group and all it’s contacts will be deleted forever.
More at:http://tatango.com/
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