Saturday, November 8, 2008

iSkoot, a leading provider of mobile Web services has secured $19 million

What Company Is Offering:
iSkoot, with offices in Cambridge and Israel, brings leading Web services like Skype to mobile handsets around the world. iSkoot worked with Skype and Hutchison 3 to launch the first carrier-deployed mobile Skype application in 2006, and to develop the award-winning 3 Skypephone, currently sold in eight countries on three continents. iSkoot for Skype takes advantage of the voice-optimized circuit-switched carrier network for delivery of voice communications, in keeping with iSkoot's mission to bring resource-intensive Web communications services to mobile phones with carrier-grade quality.

How Much They Got From VCs:

iSkoot, a leading provider of mobile Web services, announced today that it has secured $19 million in a Series C funding round. The round was led by Vision Opportunity Master Fund and included participation from existing investors Charles River Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Jesselson Capital Corporation and ZG Ventures. iSkoot will use this round of funding to support introduction of a groundbreaking suite of mobile communication solutions and maintain its position at the leading edge of mobile experience development.

"This funding represents a tremendous validation of the new mobile services we've been developing," said Mark Jacobstein, CEO of iSkoot. "iSkoot products let mobile consumers get dramatically greater value from the Web services they already count on, and in the current economy value is going to be a powerful differentiator.

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

YourGarageOnline

What Company Is Offering:

YourGarageOnline lets you enter in your vehicle information (make, year, and model) along with the option of including your plate, state of registration, and VIN number. Once you’ve done that, start taking out the yellow carbon copies from your car’s glovebox, backseat, console, etc, and start entering them into your new personalized online garage. For each receipt, you can enter in the mileage, date, cost, and name of facility where your car was serviced.


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

Myminutes.org is a portal where it is possible to associate the minutes of a solar year to the most significant moments of one’s life

What Company Is Offering:
Myminutes.org is a portal where it is possible to associate the minutes of a solar year to the most significant moments of one’s life. These minutes will form the collective sentimental calendar to be shared with all the world.

How It Works:

You can personalise your minutes by inserting in the associated pages text, video, images and links to your own site or blog. The acquired Minutes will be visible on the home page in every time zone at their corresponding time and will be replayed at the same time every year thereafter. The minutes can be indexed or searched for through a keyword (i.e birthday, first kiss, wedding, anniversary, event, party or special dates ). If the minute becomes popular it will appear directly on the homepage’s top list of most voted or commentated on minutes. It is possible to buy a minute you want for as long as they are available. (525,600 equal to one solar year) is a portal where it is possible to associate the minutes of a solar year to the most significant moments of one’s life. These minutes will form the collective sentimental calendar to be shared with all the world. You can personalise your minutes by inserting in the associated pages text, video, images and links to your own site or blog. The acquired Minutes will be visible on the home page in every time zone at their corresponding time and will be replayed at the same time every year thereafter. The minutes can be indexed or searched for through a keyword (i.e birthday, first kiss, wedding, anniversary, event, party or special dates ). If the minute becomes popular it will appear directly on the homepage’s top list of most voted or commentated on minutes. It is possible to buy a minute you want for as long as they are available. (525,600 equal to one solar year).

More at:http://www.myminutes.org/