Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Tatango offers an easy-to-use platform that allows any group to stay connected through text messaging

What Company Is Offering:
Tatango offers an easy-to-use platform that allows any group to stay connected through text messaging. As an all in one solution, Tatango allows any group to collect, manage and mobile 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. Tatango is permission-based, spam-free and cost-free to consumers.

How It Works:

Set your group free. You can now ditch your slow, inefficient email lists and phone trees, for the convenience and ease of mobile group communication.
Send one message directly from your computer or mobile phone to all of your group members, keeping them connected anytime, anywhere.Getting started is simple. It’s free, easy and quick to get on Tatango.

You can stop text messages to your mobile phone by replying to any group text message with the word STOP. You can also login to your account, and click on the “my account” tab at the top of the page and you will be able to remove yourself from any groups that you have joined.

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

Trendrr.com---Track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs

What Company Is Offering:
Track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs, ranging from social networks, to blog buzz and video views downloads, all in real time.
Compare trends to one another, monitoring and evaluating their status across a variety of sources.Share favorite trends with friends and other users and discover new trends that other users are already aware of and tracking.Trendrr is not only a place to track your trends but also a place to discover new trends.

How It Works:

Draw causal relationships between movement across a variety of data and then share that with friends.Combine other user’s data with your own to further enhance your Trendrr experience.Explore what other users are tracking and see how the data they’re interested in compares to what you’re interested in.Import your own data using Trendrr’s API and through this compare virtually anything.

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

Vitals.com, online doctor evaluation service has closed on a $4 million

What Company Is Offering:
Vitals , an innovative, online doctor evaluation and comparison service from MDX Medical Inc., is a comprehensive source for empirical information, peer evaluations and patient feedback on more than 720,000 doctors nationwide.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Vitals.com, the leading online doctor evaluation service from MDX Medical Inc., announced that it has closed on a $4 million round of financing, further propelling the company's accelerated growth. The financing was led by New York-based venture capital firms Milestone Venture Partners, Greycroft Partners LLC and Cross Atlantic Partners with participating follow-on financing by Health Venture Group, LLC. Since its market launch in January of 2008, Vitals has emerged as one of the fastest-growing sites on the web and has become a Quantcast Top 2,000 web site, generating more than one million visitors per month.

More at:www.vitals.com

Booyah is stew-like food prepared en masse for large gatherings

What Company Is Offering:
Booyahs want to blow people away with a product that actually improves their life while simultaneously delighting them with an unmatched user experience.

Like little Type A elves, Booyahs bake their products until they are always perfectly done and tasty, because quality matters to them.

Booyah is stew-like food prepared en masse for large gatherings, and has become an exclamatory catchphrase for broadcasters like Jim Cramer and Stuart Scott. More quietly, it’s also become the name of an online content startup funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Funding:

Kleiner Perkins is its only institutional backer to date, and has invested approximately $4.5 million with partner Matt Murphy taking a board seat.

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