Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Accellos is a global provider of logistics, warehouse, 3PL, transportation and mobile fleet management solutions

What Company Is Offering:
Accellos is a global provider of logistics, warehouse, 3PL, transportation and mobile fleet management solutions. Accellos addresses the supply chain management and execution market with warehouse management systems for multiple environments; Microsoft Windows-based transportation management solutions; and in-field mobile resource management solutions. Accellos' powerful supply-chain execution solutions are easy to customize and implement, providing our customers with more innovation for less investment while producing significant savings and greater profitability.

How Much They Got VCs:
Accellos Inc., a leading provider of logistics, warehouse, 3PL, transportation, and mobile resource management solutions announced today that it has closed $28.5 million in Series B private equity funding. The new investment comes from funds affiliated with Monitor Clipper Partners, LLC, as well as Accellos' current group of investors, including the group who co-founded Accellos, Colorado based Centennial Ventures.

Accellos will use the funds to finance future acquisitions that expand Accellos' product functionality and geographic footprint. A portion of the funds will be used to acquire Prophesy Transportation Software, a leading provider of solutions in the trucking industry. The acquisition will add over 1,200 fleets to the Accellos family of customers.

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

Tungle is the ultimate scheduling service

What Company Is Offering:

Tungle is the ultimate scheduling service. Tungle is a free web-based scheduling service that extends its customers' time management and groupware solutions, making it easy to coordinate meetings with other professionals no matter where they are or what time management software or groupware application they use.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Tungle, the ultimate scheduling service, announced that it has secured $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Waltham, MA-based Commonwealth Capital Ventures. Existing investors, including JLA Ventures and Desjardins Venture Capital, also participated in the round. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s marketing and engineering activities. Tungle’s service is based on proprietary algorithms that assure that Tungle customers will never be double booked as their availability changes. As blocks of times are proposed for a meeting, they are dynamically updated with the latest availability of the organizer, and with the other Tungle customers that have responded to the meeting invitation.

More at:www.tungle.com

Swoopo is an exciting and unique eCommerce start-up

What Company Is Offering:

Swoopo is an exciting and unique eCommerce start-up that has been running in Europe for up to three years and is now live in the US. They sell a range of technology products, appliances and lifestyle goods, including laptops, vacuum cleaners and handbags. By charging a small amount for each bid placed they're able to offer the winners incredible deals, and give everyone who bids a thrill along the way.

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

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharing research papers

What Company Is Offering:

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharing research papers. It is also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trends and connecting to like-minded academics.


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