What Company Is Offering:
Clipta.com is an ever-growing California based online community that provides it’s users with the ability to search and browse videos throughout the web as well as inside Clipta’s community itself. Clipta’s friendliest video search engine indexes online videos from the web for personal, entertainment and informational purposes.
There will be over a billion videos on the internet at the end of 2008 with millions more uploaded daily. With such an overwhelming amount of videos, it seems impossible to find the video you want. Our brand new state of the art designed V-Rate system allows our users to “make diamonds out of coal”. By rating video quality, our users make sure that there is no trash in our search results. The videos you will see 1st will be the best and you will never have to flip hundreds of pages in order to be satisfied.
Even though we are introducing our new search and V-Rate options, our primary goal of establishing top notch video community hasn’t changed. Clipta still carries all of it’s user oriented functions and still provides our users the ability to upload and share videos.
More at:http://www.clipta.com/
Friday, October 10, 2008
Medical Education Technologies, Inc has been a leader in interactive human patient simulation
What Company Is Offering:
Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI®) has been a leader in interactive human patient simulation since 1996. Each METI simulator is designed to simulate bleeding, breathing, talking, blinking and numerous other physiological characteristics and various medical emergency scenarios including heart attack, drug overdose, vehicular accidents, effects from weapons of mass destruction, bio-terrorism and other traumatic injuries. More than 2000 organizations worldwide utilize METI’s technology including leading medical schools such as the Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Cornell, Stanford and others.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Baird Capital Partners (BCP), the U.S.-based buyout fund of Baird Private Equity, and Lou Oberndorf, founder and current CEO of METI, announced that they have acquired Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI). Founded in 1996, METI is a Sarasota, Fla.-based manufacturer of human patient simulation products and provider of medical education content such as software learning modules and training. The Company was previously majority owned by L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL). BCP and Oberndorf partnered with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans on the acquisition. US Bank and M&I Bank provided the senior debt financing and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans provided the subordinated debt financing. With the closing of the transaction, Michael Bernstein, BCP Executive-in-Residence, will become METI’s Non-Executive Chairman. Oberndorf, the largest individual shareholder in the company, will continue as METI’s president and CEO.
More at:www.bairdprivateequity.com.
Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI®) has been a leader in interactive human patient simulation since 1996. Each METI simulator is designed to simulate bleeding, breathing, talking, blinking and numerous other physiological characteristics and various medical emergency scenarios including heart attack, drug overdose, vehicular accidents, effects from weapons of mass destruction, bio-terrorism and other traumatic injuries. More than 2000 organizations worldwide utilize METI’s technology including leading medical schools such as the Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Cornell, Stanford and others.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Baird Capital Partners (BCP), the U.S.-based buyout fund of Baird Private Equity, and Lou Oberndorf, founder and current CEO of METI, announced that they have acquired Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI). Founded in 1996, METI is a Sarasota, Fla.-based manufacturer of human patient simulation products and provider of medical education content such as software learning modules and training. The Company was previously majority owned by L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL). BCP and Oberndorf partnered with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans on the acquisition. US Bank and M&I Bank provided the senior debt financing and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans provided the subordinated debt financing. With the closing of the transaction, Michael Bernstein, BCP Executive-in-Residence, will become METI’s Non-Executive Chairman. Oberndorf, the largest individual shareholder in the company, will continue as METI’s president and CEO.
More at:www.bairdprivateequity.com.
Trilibis Mobile is a technology-enabled publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones
What Company Is Offering:
Trilibis Mobile is a technology-enabled publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones. Trilibis' portfolio includes both original content and third-party titles under license from popular online communities and influential digital media companies. With its SmartPath, a scalable publishing platform, Trilibis is able to quickly create, broadly deploy, frequently update and easily manage its customizable, cross-platform mobile applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Trilibis Mobile, the leading publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones, announced today that it has raised $5.7 million in Series B financing. Altos Ventures led the round with participation from ATA Ventures and several early individual investors. Ho Nam, General Partner and Co-Founder of Altos Ventures, has joined the board of Trilibis Mobile. Mike Hodges, Managing Director of ATA Ventures, has joined as a board observer.
"Trilibis has done a great job of establishing relationships with Tier 1 carriers and proving out the SmartPath platform with key content partners," said Ho Nam of Altos Ventures. "With this capital infusion, we look forward to working with the Trilibis team to continue to take market share and grow the business."
More at:www.trilibis.com
Trilibis Mobile is a technology-enabled publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones. Trilibis' portfolio includes both original content and third-party titles under license from popular online communities and influential digital media companies. With its SmartPath, a scalable publishing platform, Trilibis is able to quickly create, broadly deploy, frequently update and easily manage its customizable, cross-platform mobile applications.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Trilibis Mobile, the leading publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones, announced today that it has raised $5.7 million in Series B financing. Altos Ventures led the round with participation from ATA Ventures and several early individual investors. Ho Nam, General Partner and Co-Founder of Altos Ventures, has joined the board of Trilibis Mobile. Mike Hodges, Managing Director of ATA Ventures, has joined as a board observer.
"Trilibis has done a great job of establishing relationships with Tier 1 carriers and proving out the SmartPath platform with key content partners," said Ho Nam of Altos Ventures. "With this capital infusion, we look forward to working with the Trilibis team to continue to take market share and grow the business."
More at:www.trilibis.com
Concharto is an online encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit
What Company Is Offering:
Concharto is an online encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit. It is a geographic wiki. It looks like Google Maps and works like Wikipedia. It has the all of the illustrative power Google Maps and all of the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia.
Concharto gives you simple and elegant answers to hard questions like "What interesting things happened near where I am driving? What happened near our hotel in Paris? What is happening near my town and surrounding areas? What was New York City like from 1858 to 1869?"
How It Works:
Concharto is a Geographic Wiki. Unlike virtually all other mapping sites on the internet today, Concharto is not about places - it is about events. Unlike Wikipedia, it is about small discrete bits of information, rather than comprehensive articles. Like Wikipedia, there is a complete history of changes to events. Anyone can add or edit information.
More at:http://www.concharto.com/
Concharto is an online encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit. It is a geographic wiki. It looks like Google Maps and works like Wikipedia. It has the all of the illustrative power Google Maps and all of the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia.
Concharto gives you simple and elegant answers to hard questions like "What interesting things happened near where I am driving? What happened near our hotel in Paris? What is happening near my town and surrounding areas? What was New York City like from 1858 to 1869?"
How It Works:
Concharto is a Geographic Wiki. Unlike virtually all other mapping sites on the internet today, Concharto is not about places - it is about events. Unlike Wikipedia, it is about small discrete bits of information, rather than comprehensive articles. Like Wikipedia, there is a complete history of changes to events. Anyone can add or edit information.
More at:http://www.concharto.com/
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