Friday, July 4, 2008

E-junkie provides shopping cart and buy now buttons to let you sell downloads and tangible goods on your website

What Company Is Offering:
E-junkie provides shopping cart and buy now buttons to let you sell downloads and tangible goods on your website, eBay, MySpace, Google Base, CraigsList and other websites using PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net, TrialPay, 2CheckOut and ClickBank.

How It Works:

For merchants selling downloads, they automate and secure the digital delivery of files and codes. If you are selling tangible goods, we automate the shipping calculation and inventory management. Their shopping cart has a built in sales tax, VAT, packaging and shipping cost calculator.

You can sell ebooks, sell mp3 tracks and albums, sell software, icons, fonts, artwork, phone cards, event tickets, cds, posters, books, t-shirts and almost everything else you want to sell.

E-junkie has no transaction limit, no bandwidth limit, no setup fee and no transaction fee.

More at:http://www.e-junkie.com/

LabPixies is a leading provider of personalized web content and technology

What Company Is Offering:

LabPixies is a leading provider of personalized web content and technology. Their mission is to provide the ultimate personalize online experience, bringing together the most advanced web technologies and services in a customizable, easy to use interface.

LabPixies is a free online directory for web gadgets. Their gadgets are available for personalized homepages like Google, Live.com, Netvibes and Pageflakes, and can also be embedded on most blogs and web pages.

How It Works:

Simply click on the "add to" button of your favorite website and start personalizing your online experience!At LabPixies they create quality interactive components ("Gadgets") for the personalized environment. Their gadgets range from entertainment gadgets such as games and music to utilities such as search tools and calculators.

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

Cozi is designed for busy families who are juggling work and school activities, schedules, shopping, household chores and all the other things

What Company Is Offering:
Cozi is designed for busy families who are juggling work and school activities, schedules, shopping, household chores and all the other things that busy families do.Cozi makes life easier, less stressful and more fun for busy families by helping them stay organized, communicate more easily, and coordinate with each other throughout the day. Cozi includes a family calendar, shopping lists, reminders and a simple way to send quick messages to family members.

Unique Features:

With Cozi you can:

Easily manage all your family members' schedules.
Access your family calendar when away from home, using any Internet browser or mobile phone.
Collaborate with your partner to coordinate scheduling conflicts and handle chores.
Manage all the things your family needs and wants to purchase.
Send messages to all family members effortlessly.
Be reminded of upcoming appointments and activities.

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

Streamzy is a media search utility

What Company Is Offering:
Streamzy is a media search utility (powered by Seeqpod) that allows users to search for media, stream it, and create and save playlists. Streamzy merely provides search results for media being hosted elsewhere on the internet. These search results are provided to us by Seeqpod. They provide almost anyone with an Internet connection with instant playable search results. Clips, tracks, and presentations can be played, embedded, or shared immediately; related merchandise can be purchased in just a few keystrokes.

How It Works:

Their unique search and discover algorithm can be used in a number of categories and industries where precise, up-to-the-minute search results are important, such as financial hedge fund and trading opportunities.

They have built a powerful, proven algorithm that finds the hidden relationships between topics, not unlike the way the human mind makes relevant, useful associations. Uniquely, their technology mines the deepest crevices of the Web to return extremely relevant results.

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

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Web of Fate

What Company Is Offering:

Web of Fate is a social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future events.

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

Find health, beauty and wellness with Wahanda.com

What Company Is Offering:

Wahanda is a health, beauty and wellness ecosystem. In their ecosystem, you’ll find comprehensive listings of spas, salons and health centres all around the globe.

You’ll also find a big pond of knowledge - everything you need to know about treatments, classes and therapies. So, if you’re wondering where your nearest spa is, whether to wax or shave, what to eat before yoga or maybe you’re just curious about colonics, at Wahanda you can gather together a scrapbook of everything you need to know and all the exciting spas and clinics around the world you want to try out.

Wahanda is a Native American word for “great spirit and creator”.

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

Ologeez! is about providing academic researchers and professionals with the tools needed to connect, share, and learn about their fields

What Company Is Offering:

Ologeez! is about providing academic researchers and professionals with the tools needed to connect, share, and learn about their fields. A unique blend of citation recommendation ssearch tools collaborative groups and more has been developed to meet this goal.Connect, share, and learn from colleagues through papers, networked groups, collaborative tools and more.

More at:http://ologeez.stanford.edu/

HiveSight is a great way to conduct fundamental consumer market research quickly and easily

What Company Is Offering:
HiveSight is a great way to conduct fundamental consumer market research quickly and easily.
HiveSight helps marketers discover new facts about consumers. Their technology sifts through and analyzes millions of social media profiles and blogs to construct consumer profiles.

How It Works:

Just type in a brand, product category or consumer interest in the search box, and you're good to go.
Or simply click one of the sample queries to the left to see how it works.

Use the query box to define consumer panels, and get instant reports on demographics, consumer interests, trends and more.

It's the fastest, easiest and most affordable way to explore consumer markets and discover new insights.

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

ForeScout Technologies, the leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions and clientless network access control (NAC) for Fortune 500

What Company Is Offering:
ForeScout specializes in network policy management for enterprises looking to secure their networks without needlessly punishing end users. The company's network appliances are in service in over 500 enterprises in 37 countries, with customers from Banking, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Technology and Transportation. Its flagship product, CounterACT? is the world's most deployed NAC solution: it is fast and easy for administrators to deploy, manage and maintain and offers users zero-disruption.

How Much They Got From VCs:

ForeScout Technologies, the leading provider of regulatory compliance solutions and clientless network access control (NAC) for Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations, today announced it has completed an internal $8M fundraising round with all existing venture partners participating including Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. The company experienced a breakout year in 2007 with 80 percent growth, setting the stage for this further investment to fuel sustained compliance and NAC leadership.



According to T. Kent Elliott, ForeScout CEO: "ForeScout's success has kept our investor confidence high, believing in the proven potential of regulatory compliance and access control markets. While others have faltered, ForeScout has been able to consistently deliver industry leading technology to the most demanding enterprises and government organizations in the world. This combination of strong technology and focused go-to-market execution has allowed ForeScout to take market share from companies like Cisco and Microsoft gaining the trust of large enterprises that are under pressure to achieve regulatory compliance, like PCI DSS or HIPAA, and implement strong network access control."


More at:www.forescout.com

DAXKO's services help customers realize significant return on investment by achieving operational efficiencies while focusing on growth strategies

What Company Is Offering:

DAXKO's services help customers realize significant return on investment by achieving operational efficiencies while focusing on growth strategies. DAXKO's services include DAXKO Operations, DAXKO Accounting, and MobileFit.


How Much They Got From VCs:

DAXKO, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand software to nonprofits, today announced that the Company has received $7.75 million in expansion funding from Frontier Capital. Frontier is a private equity firm providing growth equity to business services companies.

DAXKO provides operations and financial management software for nonprofits, with a particular focus on YMCAs. Customers rely on DAXKO's solutions to service members, raise money, register for programs, manage finances, and process funds. With its proven on-demand solutions, DAXKO has become the leading software provider to the YMCA Movement, servicing a third of the nation's 2,600 YMCAs. Frontier's investment will support expansion of sales and marketing resources and enhancement of the company's proprietary suite of operations and financial management software solutions.

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

Oversight Systems Inc is provider of automated transaction monitoring software, has called down $10.2 million of a $13.2 million

What Company Is Offering:
Oversight Systems takes continuous controls monitoring to the next level, with real-time transaction integrity inspection for identifying fraud, misuse and errors. Oversight’s software provides a platform for continuous monitoring that excels at finding problems, then raises the bar with powerful analytics for cost-effectively fixing the problem, and workflow-enabled audit trail and journaling for proving problem resolution and compliance. By inspecting each step of individual transactions across all financial systems, Oversight identifies all errors and control violations, drives defect-free processes, and sustains Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.



How Much They Got From VCs:

Oversight Systems Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of automated transaction monitoring software, has called down $10.2 million of a $13.2 million Series B round, according to a regulatory filing. Adobe Ventures was joined by return backers Granite Ventures and Sigma Partners.

More at:www.oversightsystems.com

UpTake is a travel information search engine has raised $3.95 million

What Company Is Offering:
UpTake is a travel information search engine - they help you decide where to go, where to stay or what to do. They're here to help you make informed decisions about what best fits your travel preferences. They have scoured the web to collect 400,000 U.S. hotels and attractions. Then they analyzed and organized millions of travelers' opinions to enable you to search based on your exact travel requirements and preferences.


How Much They Got From VCs:

Three All Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based operator of travel review operator Kango.com, has raised $3.95 million in Series A funding, according to a regulatory filing. Shasta Ventures led the round, with Tod Francis taking a board seat.

More at:www.kango.com

Hoodeo plays neighborhood matchmaker, giving consumers up to 10 neighborhoods that best match their needs

What Company Is Offering:

Hoodeo plays neighborhood matchmaker, giving consumers up to 10 neighborhoods that best match their needs.

How It Works:

Create your hoodeo profile by answering a few questions about your lifestyle, desired property type and price range. Then, let hoodeo work its matchmaking magic then show you your best places to live. Hoodeo goes one step further and shows you homes that are for sale that match your criteria in your best places.

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

PLYmedia Inc. is a pioneer in the development, design, manufacturing and deployment of an interactive, multi-dimensional web video platform

What Company Is Offering:
PLYmedia Inc. is a pioneer in the development, design, manufacturing and deployment of an interactive, multi-dimensional web video platform - PLYplatform. PLYmedia delivers a range of applications focused on a new movement towards personalized, enhanced and interactive web video technology by bringing new context and meaning to video.

How It Works:

PLYmedia provides web video publishers and broadcasters with a radical and innovative way to create and deploy applications that transform standard web videos into interactive, multi-dimensional and personalized user experiences. By adding new layers or "PLYs" of contextual content such as advertisements, subtitles, pop-up bubbles and other layered content to existing web videos, our platform and technology creates exciting new revenue streams for content providers, increasing their ROI and their user base. While at the same time allows the publisher to retain control of the content.

PLYmedia enables the enhancement and interactivity of video and offers a direct link to viewers to merchandise and information. These enhancements are performed "post-production" thus eliminating the high-cost of video editing and production.

PLYmedia provides a ‘marketplace’ for developers and publishers to connect by offering a platform for developers to create, develop and deploy their applications to add interactive and multi-dimensional content directly on and in synchronization with a video. Until now, this ability and open platform has been unavailable – our PLYplatform enables and offers new technologies and their developers an opportunity and initiative to interact directly with video to promote, distribute and monetize their applications through our customers and their viewers.

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

Clarity Accounting is designed by adhering to a full compliance with generally accepted accounting principles

What Company Is Offering:
Clarity Accounting provides you with a simple online application that takes the pain away from learning about business accounting principles. It is designed with a user friendly interface that quickly and intuitively guides you through the processes of recording information that is vital to tracking the performance of your business.

How It Works:

Clarity Accounting is designed by adhering to a full compliance with generally accepted accounting principles. This means you can:

Help your clients enter their books and create profit and loss statements and balance sheets.
Access your clients' business records from a remote location -- saving money and travel time.
Have access to a full audit trail of all historical data of entries and corrections.

More at:https://www.clarityaccounting.com/

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Qponix widgets help people with everyday tasks: finding a quick recipe for dinner, shopping store specials and coupons, and building shopping lists

What Company Is Offering:
Qponix was built to save shoppers time and money. Their hard-working widgets help people with everyday tasks: finding a quick recipe for dinner, shopping store specials and coupons, and building shopping lists on a budget. Because Qponix widgets are truly useful, they're a great place for retailers and manufacturers to deliver content and promotions to their customers.

Qponix was formed by a group of industry veterans in retail and marketing, backed by a stellar technical team.

Who Is Backing Them:

Corbin de Rubertis, our president, comes from Fry, Inc., a leading e-commerce software and consulting company. Prior to Fry, Corbin worked for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Paris and Chicago. Before joining BCG, Corbin was vice president of e-business at Novell.

Kevin Thomas, our chief operating officer, also hails from Fry. Prior to Fry, Kevin was a co-founder and principal at the AltaStrada Group, a Java software development firm based in San Francisco. Before AltaStrada, Kevin was president of ISL Consulting, an Internet professional services firm based in San Francisco.


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

Peer39 aims to create the next generation online advertising and content monetization platform

What Company Is Offering:

Peer39's patented algorithms understand page meaning and sentiment, and deliver the most relevant and effective brand safe display and text advertising. Peer39 Labs conducts primary research in semantic web technologies resulting in a number of patents covering its technology and business practices.

Teaming with the founders of the market-leading contextual and behavioral targeting technologies, Peer39 aims to create the next generation online advertising and content monetization platform. The company was founded by engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs from leading internet companies and academic research centers. The company has raised $12 million in two rounds of financing led by top-tier investors including Canaan Partners and JPMorgan, Dawntreader Ventures, and leading industry insiders.

More at:http://www.peer39.com

DietsinReview.com is your one stop shop to review calorie based diets, meal based diets, lifestyle diets, diet supplements

What Company Is Offering:

DietsinReview.com is your one stop shop to review calorie based diets, meal based diets, lifestyle diets, diet supplements, and discuss with your peers and rate the programs you have tried. We are constantly working to update our site with new diets and programs that can help you stay fit and live long!


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

tedium is a place for you to store your to-do lists online

What Company Is Offering:

tedium is a place for you to store your to-do lists online.

So you can keep track of all those things you need to remember to do, and get access to them wherever you can get onto the Internet.

Plus it lets you organize how you view all those tasks by assigning tags to them, so that you can filter out everything else and just focus on the job at hand.

Or you can see what you need to do next, by looking at which tasks are due today... or this week... or this month... or next week... or tomorrow... or... you get the idea.

Tags are just a keywords or names that you can use to group your tasks together. You can many tags to each task, so they can be used for the project that a task is part of, or the priority of the task, or where the task needs to be done, or any combination.

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

Agiliance offers the most comprehensive and scalable solution for managing the interdependent disciplines of IT governance, risk, and compliance

What Company Is Offering:
Agiliance offers the most comprehensive and scalable solution for managing the interdependent disciplines of IT governance, risk, and compliance. Its flagship product, Agiliance IT GRC, enables businesses to develop a holistic view of their IT risk and compliance posture in order to make better business decisions. The Agiliance IT GRC platform is the first solution that combines a robust common control framework with sophisticated policy management, workflow, and automation, providing internal and external stakeholders with a highly effective, transparent methodology for reducing IT-related risk while increasing operational efficiencies and decreasing time-to-compliance.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Agiliance, the leading provider of IT governance, risk, and compliance (IT GRC) solutions, today announced it has closed a $10M Series B round of funding led by Castile Ventures. Existing investors also participated in the funding round, including Walden International, Intel Capital and Red Rock Ventures. Agiliance also announced that Nina Saberi, Managing General Partner of Castile Ventures, joined its Board of Directors.

"IT GRC is fast becoming a strategic imperative as enterprises seek to manage the risks inherent in their IT infrastructure and to fully leverage their existing security and compliance infrastructure," said Nina Saberi, managing general partner of Castile Ventures. "As investors in successive generations of information security businesses, we recognize in Agiliance the vision, management experience and differentiated technology to be a pivotal player, and to fully capitalize on the potential of this rapidly growing market."

More at:www.agiliance.com.

TopTenREVIEWS is a trusted review Web site, featuring expert reviews of technology and entertainment products and services received $6 million

What Company Is Offering:
TopTenREVIEWS is a trusted review Web site, featuring expert reviews of technology and entertainment products and services. TopTenREVIEWS.com provides free access to in-depth reviews, side-by-side feature comparisons, industry-related news, articles and qualified links related to software, hardware, movies, music, video games and Web services. The site has reviewed more than 225 categories of products and services with more than 4 million Web pages of content.

How Much They Got From VCs:

TopTenREVIEWS, a Utah-based technology company, announced today its plans to expand its online review site and increase its workforce. Through an introduction made by Utah’s Fund of Funds, a state economic development program, the company received $6 million from venture capital firms Highway 12 Ventures and Village Ventures. TopTenREVIEWS.com is a comprehensive review site providing consumers with side-by-side product and pricing comparisons to help them research, shop and purchase technology and entertainment products and services.

“We are impressed with TopTenREVIEWS’ continued growth and future market potential, and we’re committed to supporting companies with strong entrepreneurial management teams,” said Bo Peabody, managing general partner, Village Ventures.

More at:www.toptenreviews.com.

Boomi, the market and technology leader for on-demand integration has raised $4 million

What Company Is Offering:
Boomi is the market and technology leader in on-demand integration. Boomi's patent-pending technology enables any combination of SaaS and on-premise integration to be accomplished directly from the Web, eliminating the burden of installing and maintaining software packages or hardware appliances. Highly embeddable, scalable and distributable, Boomi's architecture is being used to power the SaaS ecosystem including application and data integration, platform-as-a-service and cloud computing, and hosted business intelligence, mashups and analytics. Boomi's unique "pay-per-connection" model allows organizations to pay for only the connections they deploy at a fraction of the cost of conventional integration solutions.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Boomi, the market and technology leader for on-demand integration, today announced it has raised $4 million in its first institutional round of financing. The investment will be used to accelerate Boomi's go-to-market strategy and further secure the company's position as the leading provider of cloud-based data and application integration services.

Boomi On Demand(SM) is the industry's only fully on-demand integration service that connects any combination of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premise applications without the burden of installing and maintaining software packages or hardware appliances. With its "connect once, integrate everywhere" approach, Boomi On Demand is quickly becoming the solution of choice among major SaaS vendors and other service providers.

More at:www.boomi.com.

Apprion, Inc., a market leader in open industrial wireless networks and applications has raised over $23.5M

What Company Is Offering;
Apprion is dedicated to providing industrial facilities with the most reliable and secure wireless networks, applications, and services available. Apprion's ION System is an open, standards-based wireless infrastructure that allows plants to drive performance and lower operational costs with industrial-grade security, reliability, and scalability. Apprion's mission is to make sure that your plant's wireless is on always on guaranteed.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Motorola, Inc. , through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, today announced an investment in Apprion, Inc., a market leader in open industrial wireless networks and applications. With the Motorola Ventures investment, Apprion has raised over $23.5M.

Apprion delivers advanced wireless products, applications and services for industrial plants. Apprion's ION System enables industrial facilities to cost-effectively deploy and manage multiple wireless applications as one unified, integrated system. The ION System consists of the Apprion IONosphere and IONizers. The IONosphere is an on-site controller that manages data services, workflow, security, monitoring and maintenance, and 3rd party application integration across wireless plant networks.

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

ONEDOOR will follow the evolution of your site, its traffic, visibility, and the Internet users'behaviour

What Company Is Offering:
ONEDOOR will follow the evolution of your site, its traffic, visibility, and the Internet users'behaviour.A solution entirely devoted to audits and monitoring statistics. One Door provides in a clear way all necessary indicators and keep you automatically informed, by e-mail, of the developments on your Website.


How It Works:

At a glance, browse through the main indicators of your site
The summary of your website let you to know, in real-time, the statistics of your site for today, this week or this month, but also lists all the indicators your need and to which your attention is required.

All the alerts let you know in a few seconds which areas require your attention or your intervention. Competely automated, this dashboard prevents you and avoid unnecessary.

More at:http://www.one-door.com/

Firstgiving is to make it possible for everyone to raise more money online faster and more easily for the causes that are important to them

What Company Is Offering:

Firstgiving is to make it possible for everyone to raise more money online faster and more easily for the causes that are important to them.

How It Works:

Fundraisers come to a nonprofit’s Firstgiving start page and make their own online fundraising page. They send their page to friends, family and colleagues through email, social networks, and word of mouth, and ask for support in a walk, run, birthday celebration, etc.
Donors make an easy, secure online transaction using a credit card and receive an email receipt. We subtract a small transaction fee before sending the donation to your nonprofit.
Before sending on your donation, Firstgiving confirms with the IRS that the organization is a certified nonprofit in good standing.
Firstgiving never rents or sells customer information to other companies. They are PCI compliant and conduct all credit card transactions over secure connections.

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

tripwolf is a social travel guide for the discerning traveler that combines professional editorial travel content with user generated content

What Company Is Offering:
tripwolf is a social travel guide for the discerning traveler that combines professional editorial travel content with user generated content – a collection of experiences from thousands of travelers worldwide. With tripwolf, travelers can generate their own customized 10-20 page travel guide based on their individual preferences and recommendations from friends and “trip gurus”.

How It Works:

You can easily assign your own pictures to an existing location. Simply go to that location, and then click on the ‘upload photos’ button. If you are uploading photos into ‘my gallery,’ when you click on the ‘upload photos’ button, tripwolf will immediately ask you ‘where did you take the photo(s)?’ This is where you can type in your location. You will see a list of locations pop up, click on ‘select’, and then hit the ‘ok’ button at the bottom of the window. Now when you select and upload your photo, it will end up in the correct location!

To view others’ journals, click on the large ‘journals’ tab above the map. If you are in a specific location, you will see journals for that place. Otherwise, on the main page, you can search for specific journals.

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

eXpireTrack is an easy-to-use online business application solution for managing your inventory and for tracking product expiration dates and shelf

What Company Is Offering:
eXpireTrack is an easy-to-use online business application solution for managing your inventory and for tracking product expiration dates and shelf life. eXpireTrack insures that your organization’s perishable inventory does not turn into a liability through a robust reminder system that keeps you notified of your inventory's state. Additionally, an updated system can be utilized to provide alerts when your stock is running low, helping you maintain easy and complete control of your assets and inventory.

How It Works:

eXpireTrack is an easy-to-use online application designed to help your organization better track supplies and inventory that are critical to being prepared for any emergency or catastrophic event. The eXpireTrack application is a fully customizable solution with all the features that you will need to organize and manage your perishable supplies.

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

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

OurExplorer is for adventurous travellers like you who enjoy insight into local cultures and dare to be different

What Company Is Offering:

OurExplorer is for adventurous travellers like you who enjoy insight into local cultures and dare to be different.
Once you make a tourist guide booking in OurExplorer you become registered as an Explorer as part of the booking process. An Explorer is a first level registered user of OurExplorer . A registered Explorer has the access rights to rate content e.g. Local Wisdom. Its aim to help travelers explore the world through the eyes of a local – Don’t just travel, explore.To help local private tour guides, especially poorer countries, gain access to income.

How It Works:

Step 1 - Simply select a country from the dropdown list on the homepage Tour Guide section.
Step 2 - Then book the professional tourist guide which suits your needs most and have an adventure overseas.

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

E-mail and Mobile Marketing---Pixelnews

What Company Is Offering:

Pixelnews is an affordable service that will satisfy big and small companies needs. They offer monthly fee plans based on your e-mail list size.Pixelnews offers the most competitive prices in the market for sms sending.
Once you select your e-mail monthly plan, you can buy sms´s at the best price.

More at:http://www.pixelnews.es/

SAManage is a secure, on-demand IT Asset Management service that helps companies control their PC and software assets

What Company Is Offering:
SAManage is a secure, on-demand IT Asset Management service that helps companies control their PC and software assets.

SAManage is an online service so no software or servers are required.


How It Works:

Getting started is easy, and you can try it for free.
SAManage delivers the next generation of IT Asset Management services on-demand.

Their state-of-the-art services help enterprises of all sizes manage their software and computer assets effectively, reduce the total cost of IT and meet governance goals. Their service provides seamless visibility into IT assets that are currently used across your company, so you could better control your assets, users, and IT investments.

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

AstleyClarke.com is to build a hugely stylish luxury brand online

What Company Is Offering;
AstleyClarke.com is to build a hugely stylish luxury brand online. Their aim is to be selling more designer jewellery online than traditional jewellery brands such as Tiffany.The luxury e-tailing sector is booming and according to Forrester's Consumer Technographics, data shows that eight out of ten high net worth consumers use the internet daily and actively research and buy luxury goods and services online on a regular basis. Of the luxury firms surveyed that sell online, all report strong growth in their business and expect their e-commerce sales to grow 17 per cent this year on average and 111 per cent over the next five years, representing 22 per cent of sales from all channels by then. By tapping into this market,




How Much They Got From VCs:

AstleyClarke.com, the online luxury jewellery boutique,

announced that it has secured Gbp2.75 million in Series A financing from Index Ventures, the venture capital firm behind e-commerce success stories Betfair and Lovefilm. The London based company plans to use the funds to further build systems and infrastructure and deliver on an ambitious customer acquisition strategy.



Index partner, Danny Rimer, will join Bec Clarke from AstleyClarke.com and Mark Esiri from Venrex on AstleyClarke.com's board of directors.


More at:www.AstleyClarke.com

Agito Networks, Inc is delivering new technology in enterprise mobility, has closed its Series B round of financing

What Company Is Offering:
Agito Networks is the award-winning technology leader in enterprise mobility. Its product, the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, is an innovative enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC) platform enabling enterprises to extend voice and Unified Communications to cell phones. RoamAnywhere is the first and only network appliance that fuses enterprise wireless LANs, carrier cellular networks, IP telephony and location technology to mobilize voice and data applications, while remaining agnostic to customers' choices of carrier and equipment vendors.



Agito Networks enables low-cost in-building voice coverage, reduced cellular costs, improved enterprise visibility and control over cellular usage, and better accessibility and responsiveness for mobile workers. VON Magazine named Agito Networks a Top Innovator Award winner, while RoamAnywhere has received numerous industry awards, including earning a CTIA Emerging Technology Award and receiving Product of the Year honors from Unified Communications and Internet Telephony magazines.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Agito Networks, Inc., the award-winning company delivering new technology in enterprise mobility, has closed its Series B round of financing, raising approximately $13 million. Castile Ventures led the investment round, with ITX International Holdings Inc. also participating, and original investor Battery Ventures increasing its investment as well. The Series B round will help fund Agito Networks' enterprise fixed mobile convergence (eFMC) market expansion and product development.

The company also announced today that it has named David Leonard, former vice president and general manager of the Cisco Wireless Networking Business Unit and Desktop Switching Business Unit as the Executive Chairman of Agito's Board of Directors. While at Cisco, Mr. Leonard helped grow its wireless and Ethernet product lines to the number one industry ranking in their respective markets.

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

Lithium Technologies, market-leading provider of on-demand solutions for enterprise communities has raised $12 million

What Company Is Offering:
Lithium Technologies powers some of the largest online communities in the world for some of the largest companies in the world, including AT&T, Dell, Sony Playstation, Univision, PayPal, and others. Its flagship solution, Lithium InterActive, is an integrated suite of on-demand enterprise social media products, including forums, blogs, and social networking. Lithium’s platform has been proven to scale to hundreds of millions of page views per month, while providing the security,analytics, APIs and manageability that enterprises demand.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Lithium Technologies, market-leading provider of on-demand solutions for enterprise communities, announced today that it has raised $12 million in a Series B equity funding round led by Benchmark Capital. The funds will be used to drive aggressive business expansion and accelerate development of Lithium’s social media offerings for the enterprise. Benchmark joins Emergence Capital and Shasta Ventures, which co-led a $9M Series A financing round in April 2007.

“Lithium has built a leadership position in the enterprise community market, based on its understanding not only of social technologies, but also of online social behavior,” said Peter Fenton, partner, Benchmark Capital. “We are seeing a radical transformation in the ways organizations interact with customers, resulting in benefits not only to bottom-line support costs but to gains in revenue generation, product innovation and brand equity, to name a few. While Benchmark evaluated several competitors, it was clear that Lithium, with its deep understanding of how to engage users in external communities, is uniquely positioned to reap the benefits of this explosive market opportunity.”

More at:www.lithium.com

Youku.com is the leading video sharing website and premier online video brand in China has raised US$30 million

What Company Is Offering:
Youku.com is the leading video sharing website and premier online video brand in China. It is one of the top destinations for Chinese people to watch and share videos all over the world. In addition to user-generated content, Youku.com also works with more than 150 professional media partners to distribute online videos in China. Youku.com was officially launched in December 2006 and has grown rapidly since. Youku.com delivers more than 150 million daily video views as of June 2008 and total user time spent exceeded 30 billion minutes per month.

How Much They Got From VCs:

Youku.com Inc., the leading online video website in China, today announced that it has raised an additional US$30 million in private equity funding, and secured a US$10 million equipment loan, to further expand its leadership position.

Maverick Capital led the financing round and joined the Board of Directors. All existing investors in the company, including Brookside Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Farallon Capital, and Chengwei Ventures, participated. The US$10 million equipment loan is provided by Western Technology Investment, which has provided venture debt to leading internet companies such as Google and Facebook.

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

BeeQuu.com is a global platform for innovation marketing, open innovation and crowd sourcing

What Company Is Offering:
BeeQuu.com is a global platform for innovation marketing, open innovation and crowd sourcing.. You can present your ideas and innovations and get in contact with investors and companies. You can also find ideas and innovations by being in contact with creative thinkers.


How it Works:

Click on "Publish ideas & inventions" in the menu.

Choose a category and fill in all fields, e.g. title, status, description, advantages etc. and attach images or files.

Click preview for "Preview" of your idea or invention or "Submit" to publish. You can edit your idea & invention listing by clicking on the "Edit" tab.

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

SmibsNet is a social business network ---Promote Your Company

What Company Is Offering:
SmibsNet is a social business network that focuses on getting the things done that really matter: Winning clients, finding new talent, collaborating across organizations and Growing Smart.

How It Works:

On SmibsNet, individuals and businesses can invite each other to collaborate right within the network. Smibs applications - like Doorbell - are fully integrated, turning SmibsNet into a powerful platform for self-promotion and business interaction. The Smibs Lounge is your personalized dashboard within SmibsNet. It provides quick and easy access to all personal and business contacts, as well as tasks, messages and applications. SmibsNet is fast, easy and free to use. You can sign-up for the SmibsNet public beta (started from June 08) at http://www.smibs.com.

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

Conference Bay aims to make organising, visiting and speaking at conferences a more pleasant experience

What Company Is Offering:
Conference Bay aims to make organising, visiting and speaking at conferences a more pleasant experience. They provide a free listing of conferences around the world, organised by topic and by location. Registered conference organisers can list their events with them free of charge.

How It Works:

Anyone can make a bid for a seat at any conference on Conference Bay. This means you can name the maximum price you’re willing to pay for a seat. Conference Bay will then contact the conference organiser to see if they can get you a seat at that price.
They offer organizations the opportunity to process all their conference registrations through Conference Bay. A dedicated account manager will make sure the company always gets the best possible price for a seat and send one invoice per month to the company. This makes it easier to keep an eye on conference related expenses and benefit from better rates.

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

Zebtab, the award-winning desktop content channel that keeps you connected to your passions and interests, effortlessly

What Company Is Offering:
Zebtab, the award-winning desktop content channel that keeps you connected to your passions and interests, effortlessly!Whether it's breaking news, video, music or sport, Zebtab delivers it all.

How It Works:

To get started, just download from any of the links under 'Live Channels'. You'll get that channel pre-loaded, then you can add/remove new channels as you desire!
Zebtab is free, requires no registration to use and
downloads in just a few seconds.


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

Monday, June 30, 2008

Make Money With ZenZuu, the upcoming social network, is giving out 80% of its Global Advertising Revenue

What Company Is Offering:
ZenZuu, the upcoming social network, is giving out 80% of its Global Advertising Revenue, be a ZenZuu social network member NOW!

IT IS FREE TO YOU, TO YOUR FRIENDS, AND YOU GET PAID FOR YOUR EFFORT, NO ONE CAN FIND A BETTER OPPORTUNITY! Build your ZenZuu team now to receive a bigger share of this coming billion dollar fortune for years to come! Tell your families and friends about the ZenZuu amazing opportunity in a proven billion dollar social network industry!

How It Works:

ZenZuu is a next generation social networking platform that lets you create a profile similar to other ancient social networks, except their leading edge technology allows you to make money by signing up your friends and receive revenue sharing. Seize your opportunity to cash in on the trillion dollar internet economy of social networking and global commerce with ZenZuu. Sign-Up Now It's FREE!

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

Ecovian is a community website for finding eco-friendly local businesses

What Company Is Offering:
Ecovian is a community website for finding eco-friendly local businesses and sharing other information to help you live a green lifestyle.

How It Works:

When you write a review or edit a listing, you will have the chance to select values for the objective criteria used in calculating green scores for a particular business. They aggregate these selections through a weighted voting mechanism to calculate the final criteria values and green scores. Thus, green scores are determined by data entered by our members. Additionally when they enter a new region, they research and enter data for many businesses themselves to get things started, however their vote counts exactly the same as yours.
Green scores are based on a number objective criteria and a scoring model, both of which vary based on the category of the business. Green scores are also dependent on the amount on information we have on a business -- the more information we have, the more accurate it will be. For more information on how a particular category is scored, see the listing page for that category.

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

Private Equity Search

What Company Is Offering:
Private Equity Search is a new service from the team at unquote”, the leading provider of information to the private equity industry. Private Equity Search is an industry-specific vertical search engine, powered by the bespoke and sophisticated Convera search engine.


How It Works:
The web crawler searches hundreds of business-relevant internet sites that have been specially selected by our team of experienced editors from the regional unquote journals, as well as from other teams within the Alternative Assets division.

The search engine itself is designed to make it easier and quicker to access the private equity-specific information that you are looking for. If requested, the web crawler will only return results that are found on the pre-specified sites, thereby helping to eliminate irrelevant information. Your search can also be narrowed down by using a system of tabbed results pages and related terms.

The search engine is also designed to evolve and grow, and as a user you can also suggest additional sites to be crawled. If they are password protected we can always approach the site owner and arrange for our robots to crawl behind closed doors.

More at:http://www.search-privateequity.co.uk/

Offiscion is to empower individuals in organizations to connect, communicate, and collaborate with one another

What Company Is Offering:
Offiscion is a secure, web-based service that helps organizations across organizational and geographic boundaries.Offiscion's simple philosophy is to bring kinship to the officeplace. Their mission is to empower individuals in organizations to connect, communicate, and collaborate with one another. Offiscion.com is an online network and intranet for you, your coworkers, and alumni. It enables you to work in the environment you naturally play in.

How It Works:

Anyone can join Offiscion.com using a valid office email address, which enables them to form or join their organization's corporate social network. However, individuals using personal email accounts provided by common email service providers may be restricted.
Offiscion is the first employee-powered, corporate social network with solutions you can actually use to work more efficiently, and collaborate more effectively.

More at:http://offiscion.com/

Zenbe lets you send, search, organize, and share your email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! Mail, or any email address

What Company Is Offering:
Zenbe lets you send, search, organize, and share your email from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! Mail, or any email address.

Who Is Backing Them:
Alan is a serial entreprenuer with twenty years experience creating software service companies.

In 1999, Alan founded and led iAmaze to develop cutting edge AJAX web applications, before the term "AJAX" even existed. iAmaze was acquired by AOL in 2000.

Before that, Alan co-founded Lighthouse Design, Ltd. in 1989, and spent seven years leading the company's engineering development of innovative personal productivity application software. In 1996, Lighthouse was acquired by Sun Microsystems, where he spent the next 3 years on senior staff as a lead engineer in the Java Software division.

Alan has dual degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering From Carnegie Mellon University.


Peter Stern, President

In 1996, Peter co-founded Datek Online, which quickly grew to become the fourth largest online brokerage firm, successfully competing against companies that had 10+ year and $10+ billion head-starts. Datek Online's success was due to savvy technological and business innovation, such as being able to provide millions of customer with free real-time streaming quotes.

Datek Online merged with Ameritrade in 2002 to form the second largest online brokerage firm.

Before that, Peter spent six years in military R+D, working on many interesting projects involving lasers, helicopters, sophisticated electro-optic sensors, and that kind of stuff.

Peter has a double degree in Electrical Enginering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon.

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

Defuddle is a place to answer questions

What Company Is Offering:
Defuddle is a place to answer questions. When faced with dilemmas they make it easy to make up your mind. Ask a question, provide your choices (you can let other people suggest other options if you like), and see what the world has to say. Don't waste time - you can get an answer in as little as an hour (but if you're not in a rush you can leave it much longer). They'll send you an email with the best answer (and of course, detailed results are available too) so you can be on your merry way.

How It Works:


Defuddle lets you tap popular opinion to answer the big questions. Too busy to make up your mind? Permanently confused? Out of coins to flip? Maybe you're just curious to know what others think about something that's bugged you. Defuddle it and let the people of the world give you an answer. Defuddle is simple and easy to use, and helps you conquer those questions that keep you up at night. Why should you worry about tough (or even not-so-tough) questions by yourself? There are lots of people out there - let them do it for you.

Creating an account is free and you can ask and answer as many questions as you like.

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

Zunafish lets you trade those items for new titles you'd rather have

What Company Is Offering:
Zunafish lets you trade those items for new titles you'd rather have. Zunafish makes it very simple, just sign up, list the stuff you want to get rid of, pick the stuff you want to get and watch trade offers arrive. No minimum number of trades and all you have to pay is $1 per trade. Instead of storing those items and letting it all get filled with dusts, trade it for something you want at Zunafish.

How It Works:

The first step is to pick a screen name and password. You'll then be taken to the "Post My Stuff" page. Here you'll post the DVDs, CDs, paperback books or other items you're through with and would like to trade for something new. All items you plan on trading must be playable or readable, and you'll be asked to honestly rate their condition.
Once you list your media items, they join the master list of the entire Zunafish community. At that point, you are free to search the listings and click on any title you'd like to own.

When you click on a title, you automatically inform all the people who own that item that there's someone out there who wants it and is willing to make a trade. These members are then invited to browse your media collection to see if you possess anything of interest to them. (They only see your screen name at this point; no other info about you is revealed.) If they choose something, you're informed of their trade offer.

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

Elfwood is the worlds largest home to SciFi/Fantasy art and fiction

What Company Is Offering:
Elfwood is the worlds largest home to SciFi/Fantasy art and fiction. Elfwood is a huge home to Fantasy/Sci-Fi art and literature. It is tightly controlled to stay within the SciFi/Fantasy theme, as art or stories depicting other motifs are not accepted.


How It Works:
The Moderators are a group of volunteers who help Elfwood by reviewing tickets , deciding what to let into Elfwood and what to reject based on the Elfwood rules. They check everything before it's let in, including new pictures and stories, and new versions of pictures or stories. The Moderators are not the ERB: the Moderators deal with pictures and stories coming into Elfwood, and the ERB take action on already published material. The Moderators are also ordinary people, and are Elfwood members themselves.

Who Is Backing Them:
Elfwood is run as a small company in Linköping, Sweden. Thomas has been a Lysator member since '92, and has studied computer science. He has a Master of Science degree in computer science and currently works for Zenterio AB in Sweden as a usability professional. Elfwood is a hobby of his and he does it for fun. He doesn't get paid for it, in any way. He also gets help from a lot of nice people.

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

Ping82.com is an online system to help you and your staff track and respond to any issue

What Company Is Offering:
Ping82.com is an online system to help you and your staff track and respond to any issue.

How It Works:

Every issue is prioritized, sorted, and assigned to exactly one person on your team. That team member must either resolve it themselves, or assign it to someone else to assist. Ping82.com alerts managers and employees alike to issues which require their attention.

Unique Features:

Ping82 can track pretty much anything including.:

Follow Ups - Make sure you or your staff respond to important issues.
Problems - Coordinate responses to support calls.
Ideas - Don't forget, just jot it down, then refine it.
Inquiries - Product or service inquiries from customers.

More at:http://www.ping82.com/

Muchobene connects you instantly to someone who can help you

What Company Is Offering:
Muchobene is the first technology that connects you instantly to your online peers.
Muchobene connects you instantly to someone who can help you.

You select a network related to the topic you are asking about. Then enter and submit your question either from the Muchobene site or from our partners' site. You do not need to provide a profile, create a username or remember a password.

Their power engine identifies and connects you in real-time to the people currently online who appear to be most competent to assist you - either in a given partner community or in other user groups. Converse freely and rate your conversation at the end.


How It Works:
Muchobene plug-in and join your favorite networks. If Muchobene routes a question to you, a pop-up will appear and show you a question. You can accept the question and respond to it, or decline to answer. As the community grows your help will be requested every now and then. If you have chosen the Ask Me! status, you may be invited to participate more frequently.

Theirr partners and Muchobene are committed to offering you the best possible responses to your question at any given time based on who is online.

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

Disney Family is a website dedicated to the world of parenting and providing answers, information, and ideas from experts and parents like you

What Company Is Offering:
Disney Family is a website dedicated to the world of parenting and providing answers, information, and ideas from experts and parents like you.Disney Family was created to help parents with the most important job of their lives: raising their family in the best environment possible. They are committed to creating a nurturing, safe, and well-informed environment for guests and members to expand their parenting knowledge in a fun, entertaining way -- just what you'd expect from one of the most trusted names in family entertainment.

How It Works:

When you register, a profile page will be created with the Member Name of your choice (provided it's available). Your page can include as much or as little information as you wish. Your registration will be valid for Disney Family, but you do need to choose a Member Name, if you do not already have one. Your Member Name will appear on your profile page and next to any comments you post.

More at:http://family.go.com/

ScanGrants is designed to facilitate the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health

What Company Is Offering:
ScanGrants is designed to facilitate the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health. The funding sources listed here may be of interest to virtually anyone associated with the health field – medical researchers, social workers, nurses, students, community-based health educators, academics and others.


How It Works:

Funding sources most frequently listed here include those of private foundations, corporations, businesses, and not-for profit organizations. Finding and listing less traditional funding opportunities is also a priority. Federal and state funding sources are typically not included on ScanGrants because they are readily available on other sites (e.g. www.grants.gov).

ScanGrants was developed as a tool for Samaritan Health Services and its collaborators, but it is also available for use by the general public. The listing is selective and is intended to supplement other search methods. In many instances, grant announcements have been abbreviated for the sake of brevity.

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