What Company Is Offering:
A social search engine using only human touched data for search enhancements
Instead of searching the entire web, Tusavvy allows to find shared wisdom rather than deluge of generic knowledges
How Is It Different:
It is different in information foraging territory and interactions during search
They are aggregating some quality URLs and public bookmarks someone already takes the time. With those, they generate search results from tag index and community factors, not link structure.
More at:http://www.tusavvy.com/
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Skydeck, the online service that helps consumers keep track of their mobile phone calls, their text messages, and the people that they call and text
What Company Is Offering:
Skydeck is the first service in the world that allows consumers to keep track of all of their mobile phone calls, all of their text messages, and all the people that they call and text. Skydeck's secure software combines your call records with your address book to create a complete history of all your mobile phone conversations, revealing your true social network: the people that you talk to and text most often. Skydeck reminds you who called you last week, who you need to call next, and who never calls you back.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Skydeck, the online service that helps consumers keep track of their mobile phone calls, their text messages, and the people that they call and text, and Saban Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saban Capital Group, Inc. (SCG), a private investment firm specializing in the media, entertainment and communications industries, today announced that the firm has made an investment in Skydeck’s Series A financing.
Skydeck has raised $4 million to date, including $1 million in a previously undisclosed angel round. The new capital will be used to accelerate delivering Skydeck’s current online service to various mobile devices.
More at:www.skydeck.com
Skydeck is the first service in the world that allows consumers to keep track of all of their mobile phone calls, all of their text messages, and all the people that they call and text. Skydeck's secure software combines your call records with your address book to create a complete history of all your mobile phone conversations, revealing your true social network: the people that you talk to and text most often. Skydeck reminds you who called you last week, who you need to call next, and who never calls you back.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Skydeck, the online service that helps consumers keep track of their mobile phone calls, their text messages, and the people that they call and text, and Saban Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saban Capital Group, Inc. (SCG), a private investment firm specializing in the media, entertainment and communications industries, today announced that the firm has made an investment in Skydeck’s Series A financing.
Skydeck has raised $4 million to date, including $1 million in a previously undisclosed angel round. The new capital will be used to accelerate delivering Skydeck’s current online service to various mobile devices.
More at:www.skydeck.com
Send Word Now is the leading provider of on-demand alerting and response services got funding
What Company Is Offering:
Send Word Now is the leading provider of on-demand alerting and response services for both emergency and routine communication. Send Word Now's easy-to-use, web-based services are used by government agencies, universities, non-profit organizations and businesses, including many of the Fortune 500 to ensure fast, effective, two-way communication in real-time -- anywhere, anytime, regardless of location, device or connection. Send Word Now's messaging platform is capable of transmitting hundreds of thousands of voice and text messages in minutes, receiving responses and monitoring and reporting the results.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Send Word Now, the leading Software as a Service provider in emergency notification, On Demand Alerting and Response Services, announced the completion of a Series D financing that will provide the company with $14 million to support its plans for continued growth. The current round of funding was led by Palisade Concentrated Equity Partnership II, L.P., a $140 million private equity fund managed by Palisade Capital Management, L.L.C., with continued support from existing investors Southpaw Asset Management LP and Ascend Venture Group, LLC.
More at:www.sendwordnow.com
Send Word Now is the leading provider of on-demand alerting and response services for both emergency and routine communication. Send Word Now's easy-to-use, web-based services are used by government agencies, universities, non-profit organizations and businesses, including many of the Fortune 500 to ensure fast, effective, two-way communication in real-time -- anywhere, anytime, regardless of location, device or connection. Send Word Now's messaging platform is capable of transmitting hundreds of thousands of voice and text messages in minutes, receiving responses and monitoring and reporting the results.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Send Word Now, the leading Software as a Service provider in emergency notification, On Demand Alerting and Response Services, announced the completion of a Series D financing that will provide the company with $14 million to support its plans for continued growth. The current round of funding was led by Palisade Concentrated Equity Partnership II, L.P., a $140 million private equity fund managed by Palisade Capital Management, L.L.C., with continued support from existing investors Southpaw Asset Management LP and Ascend Venture Group, LLC.
More at:www.sendwordnow.com
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