What Company Is Offering:
FetchDog is a Portland, Maine based catalog, e-commerce, media and information company dedicated to serving the comprehensive needs of passionate dog owners.The company is widely known for its exceptionally broad and high quality dog supplies, its state-of-the-art e-commerce platform and catalog, its extensive on-line resources and blogs, and its charitable activities with shelters and other non-profit organizations.
How Much They Got From VCs:
FetchDog.com, a leading online destination for dog owners to shop, learn and socialize, announced that it has closed a $4 million round of funding led by Borealis Capital Partners and Harbor Light Capital Partners. In addition to its internet site, FetchDog publishes a popular catalog for dog supplies, a $35+ billion market in the United States. “With this funding, FetchDog.com will continue to dramatically expand the scope of its product and service offerings,” said David E. Shaw founder and chairman of the company, and founding CEO of IDEXX Laboratories and Ikaria Holdings.
Business Model:
“FetchDog.com’s unique combination of high quality merchandise, internet and catalog shopping, social networking, extensive online information and media resources has made it a favorite place for passionate dog owners. And there are more than 40 million dog owning households in the U.S. The enthusiastic response of our customers and partners has been very gratifying to the team, and demonstrates the power of our technologies and other capabilities.” Glenn Close, another founder and blogger on the site, adds “People’s love of dogs is highly motivational to everyone at FetchDog, and we take great pleasure in knowing that FetchDog impacts people’s lives in a very meaningful way. It’s also important to us that our work, including charitable shops, benefits dog rescue and adoption shelters and other non-profit organizations including those dealing with the training of service dogs.”
More at:www.fetchdog.com
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
OneSpot for the best Web content for targeted online audiences
What Company Is Offering:
OneSpot allows anyone to discover, curate and publish the best Web content for targeted online audiences. The company's patent-pending Publishing-as-a-Service™ platform provides a fundamentally new and better model for media sites, traditional publishers, business brands and bloggers to leverage third party content that drives site traffic, audience engagement, SEO performance and email response rates.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OneSpot, the Web Content Curation Company, announced that it has closed a $4.2 million round of funding led by Dallas-based Silver Creek Ventures. The company plans to use the round to dramatically expand the reach of its subscription-based Web service, which intelligently aggregates, filters, and prioritizes millions of pieces of content every day for vertical media audiences. Web publishers and editorial staff use OneSpot to discover, curate and share the Web's best targeted, vertical content to drive traffic, audience engagement and ad monetization.
Business Model:
The OneSpot service, available on a subscription basis, monitors hundreds of thousands of Web sources, finding and linking to the Web's best content for a publisher-specified audience. Publishers maintain control over what is ultimately shared with their audiences, and can choose from delivery formats including a widget, webpage, RSS/Atom feed, or email newsletter. This new model for Web publishing allows for the delivery of significantly higher volumes of high quality content output.
More at: www.onespot.com
OneSpot allows anyone to discover, curate and publish the best Web content for targeted online audiences. The company's patent-pending Publishing-as-a-Service™ platform provides a fundamentally new and better model for media sites, traditional publishers, business brands and bloggers to leverage third party content that drives site traffic, audience engagement, SEO performance and email response rates.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OneSpot, the Web Content Curation Company, announced that it has closed a $4.2 million round of funding led by Dallas-based Silver Creek Ventures. The company plans to use the round to dramatically expand the reach of its subscription-based Web service, which intelligently aggregates, filters, and prioritizes millions of pieces of content every day for vertical media audiences. Web publishers and editorial staff use OneSpot to discover, curate and share the Web's best targeted, vertical content to drive traffic, audience engagement and ad monetization.
Business Model:
The OneSpot service, available on a subscription basis, monitors hundreds of thousands of Web sources, finding and linking to the Web's best content for a publisher-specified audience. Publishers maintain control over what is ultimately shared with their audiences, and can choose from delivery formats including a widget, webpage, RSS/Atom feed, or email newsletter. This new model for Web publishing allows for the delivery of significantly higher volumes of high quality content output.
More at: www.onespot.com
MyStartSite --Personalized Search
What Company Is Offering:
MyStartSite is a personalized homepage allowing you to search multiple sites, provides easy access to your favorite sites, and allows you to receive news headlines.
MyStartSite allows you to search these websites- and more- by serving as a single starting point. You can view the results from a selected search engine without having to actually go to the homepage for that specific search engine. As a customizable homepage, you can also store your favorite bookmarks and receive news headlines (from RSS feeds).
How It Works:
Step #1:
Open your web browser
Step #2:
Type the web address of the search engine you want to use
Step #3:
Enter your search criteria
With MyStartSite as your homepage, you can skip Step #2. Once you open your browser, you have access to search multiple websites without having to go to them.
More at:http://www.mystartsite.com/
MyStartSite is a personalized homepage allowing you to search multiple sites, provides easy access to your favorite sites, and allows you to receive news headlines.
MyStartSite allows you to search these websites- and more- by serving as a single starting point. You can view the results from a selected search engine without having to actually go to the homepage for that specific search engine. As a customizable homepage, you can also store your favorite bookmarks and receive news headlines (from RSS feeds).
How It Works:
Step #1:
Open your web browser
Step #2:
Type the web address of the search engine you want to use
Step #3:
Enter your search criteria
With MyStartSite as your homepage, you can skip Step #2. Once you open your browser, you have access to search multiple websites without having to go to them.
More at:http://www.mystartsite.com/
Shopit Media is a new advertising network
What Company Is Offering:
Shopit Media is a new advertising network launched from a partnership with Triana Global. The platform creates a perfect solution for app developers and advertisers alike.Shopit Media is an Internet Marketing services for Social Network Advertising. It give you the choice to advertise on Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, MySpace, and many other Social Networks.
More at:http://www.shopitmedia.com/
Shopit Media is a new advertising network launched from a partnership with Triana Global. The platform creates a perfect solution for app developers and advertisers alike.Shopit Media is an Internet Marketing services for Social Network Advertising. It give you the choice to advertise on Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, MySpace, and many other Social Networks.
More at:http://www.shopitmedia.com/
Klatcher.com --Social Networking For Book Lovers
What Company Is Offering:
Klatcher.com is a free platform that allows you to publish stories, upload music, videos and files, connect to friends and build your own web presence.
You can start selling any story, product or service you want, and your visitors can buy them more easily and convenient than at any other platform.
When someone buys something, you can instantly access your money and transfer it to your Paypal account in one click.
More at:http://www.klatcher.com/
Klatcher.com is a free platform that allows you to publish stories, upload music, videos and files, connect to friends and build your own web presence.
You can start selling any story, product or service you want, and your visitors can buy them more easily and convenient than at any other platform.
When someone buys something, you can instantly access your money and transfer it to your Paypal account in one click.
More at:http://www.klatcher.com/
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