What Company Is Offering:
Engine Yard provides the platform and expert support for deploying Ruby and Rails applications to the cloud, giving customers the peace of mind and stability needed for building sites and applications on demand. Engine Yard has a track record of hiring expert talent and fostering open-source innovation, including stewardship of the Rubinius and Merb projects.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Engine Yard, provider of the leading Ruby and Rails deployment platform, today announced it has closed a Series B financing round of $15 million led by New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), with participation from Amazon.com and current investor Benchmark Capital. Peter Sonsini, Partner at NEA, joins Engine Yard's board of directors.
"Engine Yard's exceptional track record and substantial mindshare within the open-source community position the company to be at the forefront of two key emerging markets in the computing space: Ruby and Rails and cloud computing," said Mr. Sonsini. "I look forward to working with the Engine Yard team to build the business and take the company to the next growth stage."
The new funding will help Engine Yard accelerate its business, bolster R&D of their forthcoming cloud computing cluster platform, and continue to drive innovation with its Ruby open-source projects, Rubinius (http://www.rubini.us) and Merb (http://www.merbivore.com).
More at:http://www.engineyard.com
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Sand 9 is to the design of components that will dramatically increase the capabilities of electronic devices got $8 million Series A round
What Company Is Offering:
Sand 9 is a venture funded startup company, dedicated to the design of components that will dramatically increase the capabilities of electronic devices.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sand 9, Inc., a start-up company developing advanced nano-mechanical resonator technology for the wireless device market, today announced it has completed an $8 million Series A round of financing led by new investor Flybridge Capital Partners. The company will use the funding to accelerate product development efforts and expand its engineering team.
As part of the funding, David Aronoff, a General Partner with Flybridge Capital Partners, will join the company’s Board of Directors. David joins Hemant Taneja, a General Partner at General Catalyst Partners, who led the $2 million Seed funding in May 2007 along with Khosla Ventures.
Sand 9 is dedicated to the design of components that will dramatically improve the performance and increase the capabilities of electronic devices.
More at:www.sand9.com
Sand 9 is a venture funded startup company, dedicated to the design of components that will dramatically increase the capabilities of electronic devices.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Sand 9, Inc., a start-up company developing advanced nano-mechanical resonator technology for the wireless device market, today announced it has completed an $8 million Series A round of financing led by new investor Flybridge Capital Partners. The company will use the funding to accelerate product development efforts and expand its engineering team.
As part of the funding, David Aronoff, a General Partner with Flybridge Capital Partners, will join the company’s Board of Directors. David joins Hemant Taneja, a General Partner at General Catalyst Partners, who led the $2 million Seed funding in May 2007 along with Khosla Ventures.
Sand 9 is dedicated to the design of components that will dramatically improve the performance and increase the capabilities of electronic devices.
More at:www.sand9.com
BatchBlue is especially designed for businesses that have a limited budget or IT staff
What Company Is Offering:
BatchBlue was created with one goal in mind: to create useful, user-friendly software for small businesses. The software is especially designed for businesses that have a limited budget or IT staff. To track contact information about their customers and any points of contact that the business has with a customer (phone calls, e-mails, purchases, returns, reservations, etc.).
Unique Features:
BatchBook has an electronic address book for both company and individual information, the ability to log various, personally-defined communications, the ability to create custom fields (a.k.a. SuperTags), a To Do list/task reminder, and an import feature that allows you to import existing contact lists from a CSV file or vCard. Several additional features, such as integration with other applications, compatibility with additional software imports, and downloadable versions are in the works.
More at:http://www.batchblue.com/
BatchBlue was created with one goal in mind: to create useful, user-friendly software for small businesses. The software is especially designed for businesses that have a limited budget or IT staff. To track contact information about their customers and any points of contact that the business has with a customer (phone calls, e-mails, purchases, returns, reservations, etc.).
Unique Features:
BatchBook has an electronic address book for both company and individual information, the ability to log various, personally-defined communications, the ability to create custom fields (a.k.a. SuperTags), a To Do list/task reminder, and an import feature that allows you to import existing contact lists from a CSV file or vCard. Several additional features, such as integration with other applications, compatibility with additional software imports, and downloadable versions are in the works.
More at:http://www.batchblue.com/
Monday, July 14, 2008
Play a part in the Scour community and get rewarded for what you already do- Search
What Company Is Offering:
Scour's purpose is to bridge the gap between searchers and relevant results. By providing a platform for the user to vote and comment on relevancy, searchers connect with one another creating a true social search community, attained through innovative solutions to meet the needs of today's web searchers.
So, login and get active! Play a part in the Scour community and get rewarded for what you already do- Search!
How It Works:
Voting is a huge deal, it's the most important facet about Scour.com. They pull results from the top 3 search engines, but thrive on feedback to make the results relevant. After enough votes on results, the search result can rise or fall in ranking which will make listings across all the engines more relevant on Scour. Your feedback will help millions across the net the next time the same keyword is searched for.
Each registered user earns points for each search, vote and comment they do for each keyword searched. When you've earned enough points you can redeem them for Visa gift cards sent directly to you.You can earn points form your own actions as well and from inviting friends.
You earn the following number of points for each action:
* 1 = Search
* 2 = Vote
* 3 = Comment
For every friend that you invite, you will earn 25% of the points they make! Now that's a good friend!
More at:http://scour.com/
Scour's purpose is to bridge the gap between searchers and relevant results. By providing a platform for the user to vote and comment on relevancy, searchers connect with one another creating a true social search community, attained through innovative solutions to meet the needs of today's web searchers.
So, login and get active! Play a part in the Scour community and get rewarded for what you already do- Search!
How It Works:
Voting is a huge deal, it's the most important facet about Scour.com. They pull results from the top 3 search engines, but thrive on feedback to make the results relevant. After enough votes on results, the search result can rise or fall in ranking which will make listings across all the engines more relevant on Scour. Your feedback will help millions across the net the next time the same keyword is searched for.
Each registered user earns points for each search, vote and comment they do for each keyword searched. When you've earned enough points you can redeem them for Visa gift cards sent directly to you.You can earn points form your own actions as well and from inviting friends.
You earn the following number of points for each action:
* 1 = Search
* 2 = Vote
* 3 = Comment
For every friend that you invite, you will earn 25% of the points they make! Now that's a good friend!
More at:http://scour.com/
Medialets builds, promotes and monetizes the world's leading ad network and platform for engaging iPhone applications
What Company Is Offering:
Medialets builds, promotes and monetizes the world's leading ad network and platform for engaging iPhone applications. They connect brands, developers and consumers to make impressions that last.
How It Works:
Medialets works with advertisers and developers to embed creative, rich media ads directly into native apps built specifically for the iPhone. Similar to traditional display advertising, Medialets delivers a rich media experience to consumers using CPM, CPC and CPA ad models. The only difference is that instead of running in Web browsers, these ads run directly on iPhone devices as part of the applications. Applications with embedded ads are distributed through the iTunes App Store built into the phone. A performance-based revenue share is then paid to the app developer or owner.
Their model is simple. Developers write cool software, add the Medialets ad code to their app, add their app to the iTunes store, setting the price to zero. Apple distributes the app, consumers download it and tell their friends to do the same. Advertisers reach (lots of) consumers -- and developers get paid a handsome share of the ad revenue. It's a beautiful thing.
More at:http://www.medialets.com/
Medialets builds, promotes and monetizes the world's leading ad network and platform for engaging iPhone applications. They connect brands, developers and consumers to make impressions that last.
How It Works:
Medialets works with advertisers and developers to embed creative, rich media ads directly into native apps built specifically for the iPhone. Similar to traditional display advertising, Medialets delivers a rich media experience to consumers using CPM, CPC and CPA ad models. The only difference is that instead of running in Web browsers, these ads run directly on iPhone devices as part of the applications. Applications with embedded ads are distributed through the iTunes App Store built into the phone. A performance-based revenue share is then paid to the app developer or owner.
Their model is simple. Developers write cool software, add the Medialets ad code to their app, add their app to the iTunes store, setting the price to zero. Apple distributes the app, consumers download it and tell their friends to do the same. Advertisers reach (lots of) consumers -- and developers get paid a handsome share of the ad revenue. It's a beautiful thing.
More at:http://www.medialets.com/
Bizroof platform is a collaborative customer relationship management (CRM) and events scheduling system
What Company Is Offering:
Bizroof platform is a collaborative customer relationship management (CRM) and events scheduling system, which is the best way to store, organize and share the useful information collected from interactions with customers.
Unique Features:
* People are contacts in your address book. Make it easy to have an intimate knowledge of your customers' needs, wants, and buying patterns.
* Organizations are companies, associations, groups and other social arrangements. Everyone from an organization are in one place and providing the best picture of their collective goals.
* Events are meetings, tasks, projects and other social activities. Almost certainly the best event tracking and event chain monitoring system. Simply and functional.
* Users have usernames and passwords so they can log in. Share your address book, events and all other business activities with your colleagues and friends.
* Tags connects people, organizations and events. It is flexible and easy to keep related stuff together.
* Add-ons extend Bizroof, letting you personalize your business management experience.
More at:http://bizroof.com/
Bizroof platform is a collaborative customer relationship management (CRM) and events scheduling system, which is the best way to store, organize and share the useful information collected from interactions with customers.
Unique Features:
* People are contacts in your address book. Make it easy to have an intimate knowledge of your customers' needs, wants, and buying patterns.
* Organizations are companies, associations, groups and other social arrangements. Everyone from an organization are in one place and providing the best picture of their collective goals.
* Events are meetings, tasks, projects and other social activities. Almost certainly the best event tracking and event chain monitoring system. Simply and functional.
* Users have usernames and passwords so they can log in. Share your address book, events and all other business activities with your colleagues and friends.
* Tags connects people, organizations and events. It is flexible and easy to keep related stuff together.
* Add-ons extend Bizroof, letting you personalize your business management experience.
More at:http://bizroof.com/
RoadTripHelper is the worlds largest online hotel database that allows you to narrow your hotel search based on a specific map location
What Company Is Offering:
RoadTripHelper is the worlds largest online hotel database that allows you to narrow your hotel search based on a specific map location and finds you the best available price by comparing over 800,000 hotel deals from over 30 of the most visited travel websites.
How It Works:
RoadTripHelper.com allows you to search for hotels near an attraction, address, city, landmark or intersection and will plot the hotels on their innovative map. Clicking on the mini hotels on the map will disclose all the information about the specific hotel including pictures, reviews, price and other details. Rather than visiting all the other travel sites for the best price, RoadTripHelper saves you the time by doing this for you. They compare all the major travel sites to ensure their visitors receive the best hotel rate. These sites include Hotels.com, Expedia.com, Travelocity.com, Orbitz.com and many others.
By using this free hotel booking tool you will save money and time. RoadTripHelper was designed to make your hotel search as convenient and user friendly as possible. Their visitors have the option of searching for hotels using a traditional list as well. RoadTripHelper has loads of other features, including the Price Comparison system for renting cars as well.
More at:http://www.roadtriphelper.com/
RoadTripHelper is the worlds largest online hotel database that allows you to narrow your hotel search based on a specific map location and finds you the best available price by comparing over 800,000 hotel deals from over 30 of the most visited travel websites.
How It Works:
RoadTripHelper.com allows you to search for hotels near an attraction, address, city, landmark or intersection and will plot the hotels on their innovative map. Clicking on the mini hotels on the map will disclose all the information about the specific hotel including pictures, reviews, price and other details. Rather than visiting all the other travel sites for the best price, RoadTripHelper saves you the time by doing this for you. They compare all the major travel sites to ensure their visitors receive the best hotel rate. These sites include Hotels.com, Expedia.com, Travelocity.com, Orbitz.com and many others.
By using this free hotel booking tool you will save money and time. RoadTripHelper was designed to make your hotel search as convenient and user friendly as possible. Their visitors have the option of searching for hotels using a traditional list as well. RoadTripHelper has loads of other features, including the Price Comparison system for renting cars as well.
More at:http://www.roadtriphelper.com/
Joodo is a next-generation p2p application for organizing and sharing your data between your network of friends and family
What Company Is Offering:
Joodo is a next-generation p2p application for organizing and sharing your data between your network of friends and family.Joodo is a next-generation p2p app that helps you organize, search, and easily share your information with trusted friends. Some people think of it as hybrid web/desktop app for sharing files. Some people think of it as a decentralized social network. They are building a new effective and efficient way to organize, share, and search for data in a decentralized network that you control.Joodo allows you to organize your media into modules for your photos, videos, etc. You can then tag and describe this media for easy identification. In the photo module for instance, you can organize your photos by carousel, grid, mosaic, slideshow, and by folders so that you have multiple ways to navigate your photo collection.
How It Works:
When your friends joins your p2p network, you have an easy means of sharing information with them. Have some photos from your recent vacation that you want to share? Drag and drop the files to an individual or a group of your friends, and that's it? The files will begin to transfer without any additional effort. There is no need to zip and attach in several emails. There is no need to upload them online somewhere, organize them again and then send a download link.
If you want to send files to someone who doesn't have the joodo app, just send them a Joodo package. They can then download a small .joodo file when they download the joodo app and receive your package. Joodo makes sharing large files easy.
More at:http://www.joodo.com/
Joodo is a next-generation p2p application for organizing and sharing your data between your network of friends and family.Joodo is a next-generation p2p app that helps you organize, search, and easily share your information with trusted friends. Some people think of it as hybrid web/desktop app for sharing files. Some people think of it as a decentralized social network. They are building a new effective and efficient way to organize, share, and search for data in a decentralized network that you control.Joodo allows you to organize your media into modules for your photos, videos, etc. You can then tag and describe this media for easy identification. In the photo module for instance, you can organize your photos by carousel, grid, mosaic, slideshow, and by folders so that you have multiple ways to navigate your photo collection.
How It Works:
When your friends joins your p2p network, you have an easy means of sharing information with them. Have some photos from your recent vacation that you want to share? Drag and drop the files to an individual or a group of your friends, and that's it? The files will begin to transfer without any additional effort. There is no need to zip and attach in several emails. There is no need to upload them online somewhere, organize them again and then send a download link.
If you want to send files to someone who doesn't have the joodo app, just send them a Joodo package. They can then download a small .joodo file when they download the joodo app and receive your package. Joodo makes sharing large files easy.
More at:http://www.joodo.com/
Homethinking is an online service that helps home owners choose the most remarkable neighborhood real estate agents to sell their house
What Company Is Offering:
Homethinking is an online service that helps home owners choose the most remarkable neighborhood real estate agents to sell their house. They measure performance by monitoring real estate transactions to know which houses each real estate agent has sold, for how much and how long on average it took them to do so. There are also user reviews by home owners who have sold their house with the particular agent that helps determine the rank of them.
Homethinking is based in New York and founded by people genuinely interested in helping consumers make better decisions. If you'd like to contact the company, find the best way to do so by going to our contact information page.
More at:http://www.homethinking.com/
Homethinking is an online service that helps home owners choose the most remarkable neighborhood real estate agents to sell their house. They measure performance by monitoring real estate transactions to know which houses each real estate agent has sold, for how much and how long on average it took them to do so. There are also user reviews by home owners who have sold their house with the particular agent that helps determine the rank of them.
Homethinking is based in New York and founded by people genuinely interested in helping consumers make better decisions. If you'd like to contact the company, find the best way to do so by going to our contact information page.
More at:http://www.homethinking.com/
SiSense---Shared Business Intelligence
What Company Is Offering:
SiSense offers Prism, which enables immediate deployment and connects to any data source - dynamically. Create dashboards, reports, charts, widgets, presentations, or setup a practical business intelligence practice for a 5-50 person workgroup.
Their vision is simple: today’s enterprise business intelligence is a heavy and expensive project that requires a ton of IT support. Their product, Prism, enables immediate deployment and connects to any data source, dynamically. In doing that, it frees IT from the need to maintain and build data warehouses, OLAP cubes, and refresh reports. It also frees users to use any business intelligence methodology, reports and charts, to bring more common sense and provide them with uncommon insights.
Its product prism is a simple-yet-powerful information analysis tool that allows vast amounts of data to be sliced, diced and analyzed from every possible angle in a super friendly, super interactive way, all through a WYSIWYG interface that puts a big emphasis on instant results, visualization and ad-hoc analysis.
More at:http://www.sisense.com/
SiSense offers Prism, which enables immediate deployment and connects to any data source - dynamically. Create dashboards, reports, charts, widgets, presentations, or setup a practical business intelligence practice for a 5-50 person workgroup.
Their vision is simple: today’s enterprise business intelligence is a heavy and expensive project that requires a ton of IT support. Their product, Prism, enables immediate deployment and connects to any data source, dynamically. In doing that, it frees IT from the need to maintain and build data warehouses, OLAP cubes, and refresh reports. It also frees users to use any business intelligence methodology, reports and charts, to bring more common sense and provide them with uncommon insights.
Its product prism is a simple-yet-powerful information analysis tool that allows vast amounts of data to be sliced, diced and analyzed from every possible angle in a super friendly, super interactive way, all through a WYSIWYG interface that puts a big emphasis on instant results, visualization and ad-hoc analysis.
More at:http://www.sisense.com/
Unmatchlist is a categorized list of resources for builders, developers and designers of the web
What Company Is Offering:
Unmatchlist is a categorized list of resources for builders, developers and designers of the web. Unmatchlist provides an exclusive resource list of the most serious and profissional web services available.
More at:http://www.unmatchlist.com/
Unmatchlist is a categorized list of resources for builders, developers and designers of the web. Unmatchlist provides an exclusive resource list of the most serious and profissional web services available.
More at:http://www.unmatchlist.com/
Epocrates, Inc. develops clinical information and decision support tools that enable healthcare professionals to find answers more quickly
What Company Is Offering:
Epocrates, Inc. develops clinical information and decision support tools that enable healthcare professionals to find answers more quickly and confidently at the point of care.
More than 500,000 healthcare professionals, including one in four U.S. physicians, use Epocrates’ innovative mobile and web-based products to help them reduce medical errors, improve patient care and increase productivity.
The company’s trusted clinical content is developed by physicians and pharmacists and is continuously updated to keep users informed and up to date.
More at:http://www.epocrates.com/
Epocrates, Inc. develops clinical information and decision support tools that enable healthcare professionals to find answers more quickly and confidently at the point of care.
More than 500,000 healthcare professionals, including one in four U.S. physicians, use Epocrates’ innovative mobile and web-based products to help them reduce medical errors, improve patient care and increase productivity.
The company’s trusted clinical content is developed by physicians and pharmacists and is continuously updated to keep users informed and up to date.
More at:http://www.epocrates.com/
Saturday, July 12, 2008
emPivot.com is a video sharing website and a powerful aggregator of green-related media content for anyone and everyone to access on-line
What Company Is Offering:
emPivot.com is a video sharing website and a powerful aggregator of green-related media content for anyone and everyone to access on-line. Theirr diverse community of users (people, organizations, and companies) can upload video content, connect with each other to share media, and utilize our strong video search engine to find the most relevant green-related video content from emPivot.com and the rest of the web. As a result emPivot.com empowers the world to view green from every possible angle.
How It Works:
emPivot provides the leading search engine for environmental and green-related multimedia content. Search through the best content across the web.
Access thousands of green-related videos from individuals, entrepreneurs, companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations.
Upload video and contribute to a global conversation about the environment and sustainability. Share your videos or videos you find with your friends & the emPivot community. emPivot is an open forum for discussing environmental issues.
Meet people, organizations and companies: emPivot facilitates a global exchange of media related to green-related issues by bringing together a diverse community with a broad range of view points. The community is united by a single idea; the quest to learn more about issues, products, tips and news related to the environment, conservation, and green living. Join the community and participate in a variety of discussions.
More at:http://www.empivot.com/
emPivot.com is a video sharing website and a powerful aggregator of green-related media content for anyone and everyone to access on-line. Theirr diverse community of users (people, organizations, and companies) can upload video content, connect with each other to share media, and utilize our strong video search engine to find the most relevant green-related video content from emPivot.com and the rest of the web. As a result emPivot.com empowers the world to view green from every possible angle.
How It Works:
emPivot provides the leading search engine for environmental and green-related multimedia content. Search through the best content across the web.
Access thousands of green-related videos from individuals, entrepreneurs, companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations.
Upload video and contribute to a global conversation about the environment and sustainability. Share your videos or videos you find with your friends & the emPivot community. emPivot is an open forum for discussing environmental issues.
Meet people, organizations and companies: emPivot facilitates a global exchange of media related to green-related issues by bringing together a diverse community with a broad range of view points. The community is united by a single idea; the quest to learn more about issues, products, tips and news related to the environment, conservation, and green living. Join the community and participate in a variety of discussions.
More at:http://www.empivot.com/
Mediawombat.com is a search engine designed to find and display content embedded inside of Adobe flash
What Company Is Offering:
Mediawombat.com is a search engine designed to find and display content embedded inside of Adobe flash (.swf) files.
They crawl the internet looking for SWF files, then grab them, rip them apart, index them and then allow for the contents of them to be searched.
How Is It Different:
Google and other search engines don't index the insides of any files mainly because they have to spend resources (CPU/Disk) pulling the SWF file apart and actually host the contents of those files after unpacking the content. Google indexes the text of a web page and points back to the original URL (quick-n-dirty), but if google finds a ZIP file, they won't index the files inside of that zip file for the same reasons.
Flash content is everywhere on the internet nowadays, from youtube.com to nbcnews.com to disney.com. It allows for webpages to engage the user with a much more dynamic experience, but the problem is that to a crawler (aka, Google, Yahoo, Ask, ...) it's just another file that they throw away. Their technology actually takes as many parts of the Flash contents as posible and indexes those parts.
More at:http://mediawombat.com/
Mediawombat.com is a search engine designed to find and display content embedded inside of Adobe flash (.swf) files.
They crawl the internet looking for SWF files, then grab them, rip them apart, index them and then allow for the contents of them to be searched.
How Is It Different:
Google and other search engines don't index the insides of any files mainly because they have to spend resources (CPU/Disk) pulling the SWF file apart and actually host the contents of those files after unpacking the content. Google indexes the text of a web page and points back to the original URL (quick-n-dirty), but if google finds a ZIP file, they won't index the files inside of that zip file for the same reasons.
Flash content is everywhere on the internet nowadays, from youtube.com to nbcnews.com to disney.com. It allows for webpages to engage the user with a much more dynamic experience, but the problem is that to a crawler (aka, Google, Yahoo, Ask, ...) it's just another file that they throw away. Their technology actually takes as many parts of the Flash contents as posible and indexes those parts.
More at:http://mediawombat.com/
Flypaper gives users the power of Flash to tell high impact Stories for live presentations or Web-based delivery
What Company Is Offering:
Flypaper is great software, and it really is free. And it’s not just the software that’s free. Many of the page Templates and Stories you see in the Flypaper Community are free. Flypaper users also get 100MB of free hosting of their Flypaper Stories in the Flypaper Community so you can easily share your content on the Web.
How It Works:
Flypaper gives users the power of Flash to tell high impact Stories for live presentations or Web-based delivery.
A “Story” is the document file that Flypaper creates when building content using the Flypaper application. You’re telling an interactive, multimedia Story, regardless of how you use the output. Post it on the Flypaper Community and share it on the Web, or publish as a movie and post your Stories on YouTube, MySpace, Facebook or any website.
A Flypaper Component is a pre-programmed element that provides media, text, interaction, effects and other capability on a page. Flypaper Components provide the functional elements that make up Templates in Flypaper. Simply drag a Component to your page, modify options, and you have complete control over the page. No programming required.
More at:http://www.flypaper.com/
Flypaper is great software, and it really is free. And it’s not just the software that’s free. Many of the page Templates and Stories you see in the Flypaper Community are free. Flypaper users also get 100MB of free hosting of their Flypaper Stories in the Flypaper Community so you can easily share your content on the Web.
How It Works:
Flypaper gives users the power of Flash to tell high impact Stories for live presentations or Web-based delivery.
A “Story” is the document file that Flypaper creates when building content using the Flypaper application. You’re telling an interactive, multimedia Story, regardless of how you use the output. Post it on the Flypaper Community and share it on the Web, or publish as a movie and post your Stories on YouTube, MySpace, Facebook or any website.
A Flypaper Component is a pre-programmed element that provides media, text, interaction, effects and other capability on a page. Flypaper Components provide the functional elements that make up Templates in Flypaper. Simply drag a Component to your page, modify options, and you have complete control over the page. No programming required.
More at:http://www.flypaper.com/
busuu.com --an innovative online community for learning languages
What Company Is Offering:
busuu.com is a start-up, based in Madrid, which runs an innovative online community for learning languages.
Learn from your fellow students: Learn directly from native speakers of the busuu.com community and forget about the horrible grammar sessions you had in school
Learn what you really want: Be completely flexible in the content you want to learn, from preparing for a job interview to a discotheque pick-up line we can meet all your language needs
Learn for free: busuu.com offers a wide range of learning content completely for free! Additionally, you will have the possibility to pay a small amount per month in order to become a premium member - then you will get access to the full range of the busuu.com learning experience!
More at:http://www.busuu.com/
busuu.com is a start-up, based in Madrid, which runs an innovative online community for learning languages.
Learn from your fellow students: Learn directly from native speakers of the busuu.com community and forget about the horrible grammar sessions you had in school
Learn what you really want: Be completely flexible in the content you want to learn, from preparing for a job interview to a discotheque pick-up line we can meet all your language needs
Learn for free: busuu.com offers a wide range of learning content completely for free! Additionally, you will have the possibility to pay a small amount per month in order to become a premium member - then you will get access to the full range of the busuu.com learning experience!
More at:http://www.busuu.com/
Friday, July 11, 2008
LinkBee is the medium to archive and bookmark all your favourite links across the web and earn money doing so
What Company Is Offering:
LinkBee is the bumble bee that brings money to your pockets! In all seriousness, LinkBee is the medium to archive and bookmark all your favourite links across the web and earn money doing so. Everyday millions of links are being posted on social networks from facebook to myspace without any rewards to the user, but today the bumble bee has decided to share revenue with you!
How It Works:
The more links you create, the more traffic and users that click on those links, the more money you make. You can even make money on referring your friends, up to 5 levels! LinkBee provides the industry leading payouts with a whopping 50% revenue share on your created links!LinkBee currently offers three different linking mechanisms. Two options will allow you to earn revenues with your links; Interstitial Ads or Top Frame Banner Ads. An interstitial acts as a brief commercial between the transition of your link and will earn you top dollar. The top frame banner is less intrusive and will display a banner at the top of the destinations page, earning you less then the interstitial. We also provide a standard short URL linking service with no advertisements, but this will not allow you to earn any revenues.
More at:http://www.linkbee.com/
LinkBee is the bumble bee that brings money to your pockets! In all seriousness, LinkBee is the medium to archive and bookmark all your favourite links across the web and earn money doing so. Everyday millions of links are being posted on social networks from facebook to myspace without any rewards to the user, but today the bumble bee has decided to share revenue with you!
How It Works:
The more links you create, the more traffic and users that click on those links, the more money you make. You can even make money on referring your friends, up to 5 levels! LinkBee provides the industry leading payouts with a whopping 50% revenue share on your created links!LinkBee currently offers three different linking mechanisms. Two options will allow you to earn revenues with your links; Interstitial Ads or Top Frame Banner Ads. An interstitial acts as a brief commercial between the transition of your link and will earn you top dollar. The top frame banner is less intrusive and will display a banner at the top of the destinations page, earning you less then the interstitial. We also provide a standard short URL linking service with no advertisements, but this will not allow you to earn any revenues.
More at:http://www.linkbee.com/
Perfect Market specializes in "lighting up" archived content for publishers, creating additional revenue
What Company Is Offering:
Perfect Market specializes in "lighting up" archived content for publishers, creating additional revenue from these underutilized assets while enhancing the overall search experience for end-users. They continue to rapidly innovate and build, expanding their team as they evolve their technology platform to allow even greater levels of flexibility, scalability and efficiency.
More at:http://www.perfectmarket.com/
Perfect Market specializes in "lighting up" archived content for publishers, creating additional revenue from these underutilized assets while enhancing the overall search experience for end-users. They continue to rapidly innovate and build, expanding their team as they evolve their technology platform to allow even greater levels of flexibility, scalability and efficiency.
More at:http://www.perfectmarket.com/
Improving Your World
What Company Is Offering:
IYW are using the broad scope of Internet technology and mass collaboration to improve the world. They have set up a simple interface that allows visitors to learn about different organizations, share these organizations with others and then vote on which cause they would like to get the donation.
Each cause receives an equitable amount of donations in relation to votes. Meaning if XYZ gets all the votes, XYZ gets all the money. If XYW receives half the votes, XYW receives half the money and the rest is distributed equally among the other causes.
How It Works:
When you visit their homepage you will see our vote options. These options allow you to choose from four charitable organization on which to vote. The organization with the most votes will receive sponsorship monies at month’s end. Once the charitable organization of choice is made you will be redirected to the Thank You page. Here, you you will see small ads for our site sponsors. There is no charge to you. 100% of money from these sponsored advertisements will go to one of their charitable partners.
More at:http://improvingyourworld.org/
IYW are using the broad scope of Internet technology and mass collaboration to improve the world. They have set up a simple interface that allows visitors to learn about different organizations, share these organizations with others and then vote on which cause they would like to get the donation.
Each cause receives an equitable amount of donations in relation to votes. Meaning if XYZ gets all the votes, XYZ gets all the money. If XYW receives half the votes, XYW receives half the money and the rest is distributed equally among the other causes.
How It Works:
When you visit their homepage you will see our vote options. These options allow you to choose from four charitable organization on which to vote. The organization with the most votes will receive sponsorship monies at month’s end. Once the charitable organization of choice is made you will be redirected to the Thank You page. Here, you you will see small ads for our site sponsors. There is no charge to you. 100% of money from these sponsored advertisements will go to one of their charitable partners.
More at:http://improvingyourworld.org/
The best agency interiors in the world.
What Company Is Offering:
This Ain’t No Disco invites Agencies from across the world to show them their inner sanctum and like Pandora’s Box, once you look inside nothing will ever be the same again.
This Ain’t No Disco invites you to submit the inside of your 4 walls and let others marvel at your creation. It’s ok to show off, so show it all.
If you’d like your agency to be featured on This Ain’t No Disco, visit the Submit page where you can upload your images and submit your details. It couldn’t be any more simple. And it’s free!
More at:http://www.aintnodisco.com/
This Ain’t No Disco invites Agencies from across the world to show them their inner sanctum and like Pandora’s Box, once you look inside nothing will ever be the same again.
This Ain’t No Disco invites you to submit the inside of your 4 walls and let others marvel at your creation. It’s ok to show off, so show it all.
If you’d like your agency to be featured on This Ain’t No Disco, visit the Submit page where you can upload your images and submit your details. It couldn’t be any more simple. And it’s free!
More at:http://www.aintnodisco.com/
Veetle is seeking to give the power of high quality video broadcasting back to the people
What Company Is Offering:
Veetle is a Silicon Valley startup seeking to give the power of high quality video broadcasting back to the people. On Veetle, you can watch video broadcast in TV and HD quality. What's more, you can broadcast your own content in high quality too!
How It Works:
Install the Veetle TV Player first on your computer. Then you can click into channels listed on Veetle's web page within your web broswer. Video playback should start immediately within your browser. After you install the Veetle TV Player on your computer, you can click into channels listed on Veetle's web page within your web broswer. Your browser will use Veetle TV Player to play the video automatically.
More at:http://www.veetle.com/
Veetle is a Silicon Valley startup seeking to give the power of high quality video broadcasting back to the people. On Veetle, you can watch video broadcast in TV and HD quality. What's more, you can broadcast your own content in high quality too!
How It Works:
Install the Veetle TV Player first on your computer. Then you can click into channels listed on Veetle's web page within your web broswer. Video playback should start immediately within your browser. After you install the Veetle TV Player on your computer, you can click into channels listed on Veetle's web page within your web broswer. Your browser will use Veetle TV Player to play the video automatically.
More at:http://www.veetle.com/
Trulia.com, the best place to start your real estate search has secured an additional $15 million in funding
What Company Is Offering:
Trulia, Inc. ,a residential real estate search engine and the fastest-growing U.S. real estate Web site (comScore), has revolutionized online home search by offering a rich, intuitive user experience that points consumers directly to listings on agent and broker Web sites. By partnering with the real estate industry, Trulia helps approximately 5 million unique visitors per month find information on homes for sale using custom search criteria. The site also provides market trends and neighborhood data at the hyper-local level, as well as Trulia Voices, a real estate Q&A community, that enables consumers and professionals to exchange information about their local markets.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Trulia.com, the best place to start your real estate search, announced today that it has secured an additional $15 million in funding. Deep Fork Capital LLC led the financing with existing prior lead investors Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim & Co. also participating. Trulia will use this round of funding to further its development of new products and services for homebuyers, agents, brokers and advertisers and to expand their advertising services for the recently launched Trulia Advertising Network and self service offering, Trulia Pro. Trulia.com has raised a total of $33M in Venture Capital.
More at:http://www.trulia.com
Trulia, Inc. ,a residential real estate search engine and the fastest-growing U.S. real estate Web site (comScore), has revolutionized online home search by offering a rich, intuitive user experience that points consumers directly to listings on agent and broker Web sites. By partnering with the real estate industry, Trulia helps approximately 5 million unique visitors per month find information on homes for sale using custom search criteria. The site also provides market trends and neighborhood data at the hyper-local level, as well as Trulia Voices, a real estate Q&A community, that enables consumers and professionals to exchange information about their local markets.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Trulia.com, the best place to start your real estate search, announced today that it has secured an additional $15 million in funding. Deep Fork Capital LLC led the financing with existing prior lead investors Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim & Co. also participating. Trulia will use this round of funding to further its development of new products and services for homebuyers, agents, brokers and advertisers and to expand their advertising services for the recently launched Trulia Advertising Network and self service offering, Trulia Pro. Trulia.com has raised a total of $33M in Venture Capital.
More at:http://www.trulia.com
Challenge Online Games creates online games that are fun and easy to play whether you’re a serious or casual gamer
What Company Is Offering:
Challenge Online Games (Challenge Games) creates online games that are fun and easy to play whether you’re a serious or casual gamer. The company was founded by veteran entrepreneur and gamer, Andrew Busey, author of Secrets of the MUD Wizards and creator of one of the first instant messaging applications. Challenge Games currently offers Duels and Baseball Boss – multiplayer web-based games that combine the best of the collectible card games (CCGs) and traditional role-playing games with the convenience of the short-form gaming experience. The company also holds a multi-year licensing agreement with MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Challenge Online Games™, Inc. (Challenge Games), developer of the popular Duels™ online fantasy game, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, which has a long history of investing in market-leading gaming companies – including being the original investor in Atari, Electronic Arts and nVIDIA. Challenge Games also announced it signed a multi-year licensing deal with MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball. The funding and licensing deal will support expansion of the short-form, browser-based online game titles developed by Challenge Games, including a new kind of collectible card-based web sports game called Baseball Boss™, which the company launched today.
As part of the agreement with the MLBAM, Baseball Boss allows players to collect and trade virtual online baseball cards, which can be used to build teams and challenge other gamers or historical teams to fantasy baseball games. Like traditional baseball cards, the online cards available in Baseball Boss include player statistics and photos. Baseball Boss currently allows gamers to collect and trade virtual baseball cards of players from the 1907 and 2007 baseball seasons – with new seasons to be released over the coming months.
More at:www.challengegames.com.
Challenge Online Games (Challenge Games) creates online games that are fun and easy to play whether you’re a serious or casual gamer. The company was founded by veteran entrepreneur and gamer, Andrew Busey, author of Secrets of the MUD Wizards and creator of one of the first instant messaging applications. Challenge Games currently offers Duels and Baseball Boss – multiplayer web-based games that combine the best of the collectible card games (CCGs) and traditional role-playing games with the convenience of the short-form gaming experience. The company also holds a multi-year licensing agreement with MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Challenge Online Games™, Inc. (Challenge Games), developer of the popular Duels™ online fantasy game, today announced it has secured $4.5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, which has a long history of investing in market-leading gaming companies – including being the original investor in Atari, Electronic Arts and nVIDIA. Challenge Games also announced it signed a multi-year licensing deal with MLB Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball. The funding and licensing deal will support expansion of the short-form, browser-based online game titles developed by Challenge Games, including a new kind of collectible card-based web sports game called Baseball Boss™, which the company launched today.
As part of the agreement with the MLBAM, Baseball Boss allows players to collect and trade virtual online baseball cards, which can be used to build teams and challenge other gamers or historical teams to fantasy baseball games. Like traditional baseball cards, the online cards available in Baseball Boss include player statistics and photos. Baseball Boss currently allows gamers to collect and trade virtual baseball cards of players from the 1907 and 2007 baseball seasons – with new seasons to be released over the coming months.
More at:www.challengegames.com.
ArtistData allows you to enter information once, and have it distributed across many different sites
What Company Is Offering:
ArtistData allows you to enter information once, and have it distributed across many different sites. You can log into the ArtistData Dashboard and check the activity list for any update on your profile or tour date.
How It Works:
Sign up for an ArtistData account and confirm your account.
They lead you through a login process where you import your information and immediately resync it out to other profiles of your choosing.
You log into the ArtistData Dashboard and see what they're doing by looking at their Activity List. They list every time they update a profile or submit a tour date for you.
Start managing data through ArtistData. Now when you enter a tour date, it will go directly to all these destination sites.
More at:https://www.artistdata.com/
ArtistData allows you to enter information once, and have it distributed across many different sites. You can log into the ArtistData Dashboard and check the activity list for any update on your profile or tour date.
How It Works:
Sign up for an ArtistData account and confirm your account.
They lead you through a login process where you import your information and immediately resync it out to other profiles of your choosing.
You log into the ArtistData Dashboard and see what they're doing by looking at their Activity List. They list every time they update a profile or submit a tour date for you.
Start managing data through ArtistData. Now when you enter a tour date, it will go directly to all these destination sites.
More at:https://www.artistdata.com/
eppraisal.com provides home values, neighborhood information, and real estate market analysis to consumers
What Company Is Offering:
eppraisal.com provides home values, neighborhood information, and real estate market analysis to consumers. Homeowners, buyers, and sellers can take the next step by connecting with local real estate professionals – mortgage brokers, agents, home inspectors and appraisers.
How It Works:
An eppraisal is an estimated market value of a property, which is calculated based on recent sales of similar properties. In addition, an eppraisal includes detailed property information and an analysis of the differences and similarities between each comparable property.
They use up to 20 properties to calculate an eppraisal. They use a proprietary mathematical formula which takes into account each property’s characteristics and how the property affects the market value of properties in the area. Using these factors, they calculate a value range.
More at:http://www.eppraisal.com/
eppraisal.com provides home values, neighborhood information, and real estate market analysis to consumers. Homeowners, buyers, and sellers can take the next step by connecting with local real estate professionals – mortgage brokers, agents, home inspectors and appraisers.
How It Works:
An eppraisal is an estimated market value of a property, which is calculated based on recent sales of similar properties. In addition, an eppraisal includes detailed property information and an analysis of the differences and similarities between each comparable property.
They use up to 20 properties to calculate an eppraisal. They use a proprietary mathematical formula which takes into account each property’s characteristics and how the property affects the market value of properties in the area. Using these factors, they calculate a value range.
More at:http://www.eppraisal.com/
Musicovery
What Company Is Offering:
Imagine a web radio that helped you find music by mood and genre, and you've got Musicovery. One click buttons for quick purchase, controls on tempo, mood, and genre. Put in your preferences into the side panel and watch a network of music stretch out across the screen, customized for you. Registration allows you to save favorites. Click on the one that appeals, and begin the discovery.
More at:http://www.musicovery.com/
Imagine a web radio that helped you find music by mood and genre, and you've got Musicovery. One click buttons for quick purchase, controls on tempo, mood, and genre. Put in your preferences into the side panel and watch a network of music stretch out across the screen, customized for you. Registration allows you to save favorites. Click on the one that appeals, and begin the discovery.
More at:http://www.musicovery.com/
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Gogme.biz facilitates anyone to join a free business-oriented social network to discuss business ideas and network with other aspiring entrepreneurs
What Company Is Offering:
Gogme.biz facilitates anyone to join a free business-oriented social network to discuss business ideas and network with other aspiring entrepreneurs.
It enables the community to take business ideas to the next level. Aspiring entrepreneurs of the online community can become co-owners to implement interesting business ideas, own and manage a business entity together, profit from the business ventures created and be rewarded with franchise or business takeover opportunities!
How It Works:
Members are encouraged to contribute their business ideas. The best business ideas selected through internet voting will be implemented through the online community. The online community makes collective decisions on business planning, marketing and other business activities through internet polls and forums. Real life business staff will follow and carry out these decisions. Through business blogs and twitters, the operation manager will update daily business activities and challenges faced. Business mentors are invited to give advice so that entrepreneurs can make the best decisions. Progressively, entrepreneurs will know how their collective decisions shaped the businesses.
“We believe the best way for a person to learn entrepreneurship is by being an entrepreneur. Some things in life you can only learn by experience and entrepreneurship is a constant state of discovery. Through a fun and participatory approach in imparting business knowledge and skills, we hope to facilitate entrepreneurial learning in a whole new way,” says site co-founder Lance Lim.
In addition to the free networking service, anyone who wishes to take actions and turn ideas into reality can contribute a low startup capital of US$100 to become a co-owner of a business entity that is collectively owned and managed by an online community. Learn to be an entrepreneur with the community through a combination of business ownership, online participation, implementation of business ideas, social networking, decision-making, interacting with business mentors, managing businesses via a business excellence framework and getting explicit business knowledge of various industries.
With Gogme, 100% of the net profits derived from the businesses created by the online community will be shared by the co-owners. The Gogme Points System rewards entrepreneurs with points for submitting business ideas, referring friends, participating in online discussions, internet polls and other online activities. Points can be use to bid for business takeovers and franchises at reasonable rates. You have a higher chance to win in the bidding if the business takeovers or franchises were formed by the implementation of your idea. As such, an idea contributed by you, implemented by the online community, eventually comes back to you as a sustainable and profitable business for takeover or franchise!
More at:http://www.gogme.biz/q
Gogme.biz facilitates anyone to join a free business-oriented social network to discuss business ideas and network with other aspiring entrepreneurs.
It enables the community to take business ideas to the next level. Aspiring entrepreneurs of the online community can become co-owners to implement interesting business ideas, own and manage a business entity together, profit from the business ventures created and be rewarded with franchise or business takeover opportunities!
How It Works:
Members are encouraged to contribute their business ideas. The best business ideas selected through internet voting will be implemented through the online community. The online community makes collective decisions on business planning, marketing and other business activities through internet polls and forums. Real life business staff will follow and carry out these decisions. Through business blogs and twitters, the operation manager will update daily business activities and challenges faced. Business mentors are invited to give advice so that entrepreneurs can make the best decisions. Progressively, entrepreneurs will know how their collective decisions shaped the businesses.
“We believe the best way for a person to learn entrepreneurship is by being an entrepreneur. Some things in life you can only learn by experience and entrepreneurship is a constant state of discovery. Through a fun and participatory approach in imparting business knowledge and skills, we hope to facilitate entrepreneurial learning in a whole new way,” says site co-founder Lance Lim.
In addition to the free networking service, anyone who wishes to take actions and turn ideas into reality can contribute a low startup capital of US$100 to become a co-owner of a business entity that is collectively owned and managed by an online community. Learn to be an entrepreneur with the community through a combination of business ownership, online participation, implementation of business ideas, social networking, decision-making, interacting with business mentors, managing businesses via a business excellence framework and getting explicit business knowledge of various industries.
With Gogme, 100% of the net profits derived from the businesses created by the online community will be shared by the co-owners. The Gogme Points System rewards entrepreneurs with points for submitting business ideas, referring friends, participating in online discussions, internet polls and other online activities. Points can be use to bid for business takeovers and franchises at reasonable rates. You have a higher chance to win in the bidding if the business takeovers or franchises were formed by the implementation of your idea. As such, an idea contributed by you, implemented by the online community, eventually comes back to you as a sustainable and profitable business for takeover or franchise!
More at:http://www.gogme.biz/q
2milliondollarlist.com
What Company Is Offering:
2Milliondollarlist provides website owners a high quality service where they can list their website.The 2 Million Dollar List is an exclusive list of websites collected from the billions of websites in existence today. Paid website directory... affordable website listings for webmasters and website owners.
After you create a website, it is available on the internet, but nobody knows about it except your friends and partners whom you have informed about it. If you want other people to be able to find it, you should submit it to search engines and directories. Statistics shows that about 85% of internet users find sites using search engines. Besides, many search engines take into account the citation index and PageRank, the higher this index will be, the higher your website will be in search engines and the more users will visit your website. That is why submission to search engines and directories is necessary and important.
Search engines like to see that your website has links pointing to your site from other sites
Anyone cruising through the quality links on the $2 Million Dollar List can click on your site
thus creating direct traffic to your website.
More at:www.2milliondollarlist.com
2Milliondollarlist provides website owners a high quality service where they can list their website.The 2 Million Dollar List is an exclusive list of websites collected from the billions of websites in existence today. Paid website directory... affordable website listings for webmasters and website owners.
After you create a website, it is available on the internet, but nobody knows about it except your friends and partners whom you have informed about it. If you want other people to be able to find it, you should submit it to search engines and directories. Statistics shows that about 85% of internet users find sites using search engines. Besides, many search engines take into account the citation index and PageRank, the higher this index will be, the higher your website will be in search engines and the more users will visit your website. That is why submission to search engines and directories is necessary and important.
Search engines like to see that your website has links pointing to your site from other sites
Anyone cruising through the quality links on the $2 Million Dollar List can click on your site
thus creating direct traffic to your website.
More at:www.2milliondollarlist.com
Webslug is just a way of identifying potential problems with your website's performance
What Company Is Offering:
Webslug was conceived as an all encompassing way of testing site performance. It measures load time as the user sees it. The time it takes for a page to load fully from when the request was made.
The main benefit of Webslug is that it doesn't require any download or any program to be installed. Just enter your website's address and it's all done in your browser.
You can also compare your website's speed against your competitors. Something no other tool does for you. As far as we know anyway.
Webslug is just a way of identifying potential problems with your website's performance. How to improve it is an exercise we'll leave to you. With that being said a general rule is that about 80% of improvements can be made on the front end.
More at:http://www.webslug.info/
Webslug was conceived as an all encompassing way of testing site performance. It measures load time as the user sees it. The time it takes for a page to load fully from when the request was made.
The main benefit of Webslug is that it doesn't require any download or any program to be installed. Just enter your website's address and it's all done in your browser.
You can also compare your website's speed against your competitors. Something no other tool does for you. As far as we know anyway.
Webslug is just a way of identifying potential problems with your website's performance. How to improve it is an exercise we'll leave to you. With that being said a general rule is that about 80% of improvements can be made on the front end.
More at:http://www.webslug.info/
Tracking you business income and expenses has never been simpler
What Company Is Offering:
Bootstrap is a very simple-to-use web service that helps you track income and expenses, pay estimated taxes on time, and see how your business is doing. It's perfect for self employed people.
How It Works:
They calculate your businesses profit through the end of the IRS quarter (or through today's date if the quarter hasn't ended.) For example, if you were to look at the taxes page on June 10, you would see profit - or loss - through May 31, which is the end of the second quarter for IRS purposes.
They then calculate the self employment tax (which consists of social security and medicare contributions) using the latest IRS rates. To the self-employment tax, they add your business income tax. For this, they simply use the marginal tax rate based on the profit to date. For businesses earning higher income, this may result in a higher tax payment than using the average rate, but we figure it's better to be safe than sorry.
More at:http://gobootstrap.com/
Bootstrap is a very simple-to-use web service that helps you track income and expenses, pay estimated taxes on time, and see how your business is doing. It's perfect for self employed people.
How It Works:
They calculate your businesses profit through the end of the IRS quarter (or through today's date if the quarter hasn't ended.) For example, if you were to look at the taxes page on June 10, you would see profit - or loss - through May 31, which is the end of the second quarter for IRS purposes.
They then calculate the self employment tax (which consists of social security and medicare contributions) using the latest IRS rates. To the self-employment tax, they add your business income tax. For this, they simply use the marginal tax rate based on the profit to date. For businesses earning higher income, this may result in a higher tax payment than using the average rate, but we figure it's better to be safe than sorry.
More at:http://gobootstrap.com/
Get Used Parts is an online automobile and truck parts request service
What Company Is Offering:
Get Used Parts is an online automobile and truck parts request service. Log on and instantly connect to thousands of used car part sellers coast to coast, without ever leaving home!
How It Works:
Submit an online form outlining the requirements of the VW parts, Acura parts, or other used car parts you need. The form is sent to thousands of auto parts sellers nationwide who then contact you directly with their inventory. You decide who you do business with and how much to pay for the parts. Finding the used Acura parts or other car parts you need is not only easy, but you have access to vendors from all over the nation. With Get Used Parts used VW Parts, BMW Parts, Chevrolet Parts, and many others are just a mouse-click away.
More at:http://www.getusedparts.com/
Get Used Parts is an online automobile and truck parts request service. Log on and instantly connect to thousands of used car part sellers coast to coast, without ever leaving home!
How It Works:
Submit an online form outlining the requirements of the VW parts, Acura parts, or other used car parts you need. The form is sent to thousands of auto parts sellers nationwide who then contact you directly with their inventory. You decide who you do business with and how much to pay for the parts. Finding the used Acura parts or other car parts you need is not only easy, but you have access to vendors from all over the nation. With Get Used Parts used VW Parts, BMW Parts, Chevrolet Parts, and many others are just a mouse-click away.
More at:http://www.getusedparts.com/
Cameesa is crowdfunded fashion
What Company Is Offering:
Cameesa is crowdfunded fashion. They are a clothing company run by those who wear it.
Cameesa is to get more people involved in the clothing creation process. They use crowdfunding to let the community decide what they make. The people who find and fund designs (called Supporters) then share in the profits along with the artist. There is no voting or competitions; the community truly has control over what gets made.
More at:http://cameesa.com/
Cameesa is crowdfunded fashion. They are a clothing company run by those who wear it.
Cameesa is to get more people involved in the clothing creation process. They use crowdfunding to let the community decide what they make. The people who find and fund designs (called Supporters) then share in the profits along with the artist. There is no voting or competitions; the community truly has control over what gets made.
More at:http://cameesa.com/
Me.dium's Social Search will enables users to find relevant information based on the current surfing activity of other people
What Company Is Offering:
is the first crowd-powered search engine.
It enables users to find relevant information based on the current surfing activity of other people. In other words, your search results are all about what people are actually surfing right now.
Me.dium's technology lets the inherent Web Surfing activity of real people - not robotic crawlers - determine relevance. While other search engines base relevance on how content links across pages, Me.dium's Social Search shows you the most popular news, reviews, pictures and videos that other people are actually looking at in relation to your search term. And as the activity of the people online changes, so do the search results.
How It Works:
Me.dium gives you an entirely different level of information on top of traditional search results that you could never access before: Crowd-powered information.
Because Me.dium Search relies on the real time surfing activity of crowds:
Rapidly emerging, or "hot" stories bubble to the top of the Me.dium Search results very quickly.
The top search results are often fun and timely results such as new stories, videos and recently generated user content.
Regardless of when content was created, if many Me.dium users have looked at it recently it will rank high among the search results.
Find the hottest pages, videos and pictures based on what the crowds are surfing right now.
More at:http://me.dium.com/
is the first crowd-powered search engine.
It enables users to find relevant information based on the current surfing activity of other people. In other words, your search results are all about what people are actually surfing right now.
Me.dium's technology lets the inherent Web Surfing activity of real people - not robotic crawlers - determine relevance. While other search engines base relevance on how content links across pages, Me.dium's Social Search shows you the most popular news, reviews, pictures and videos that other people are actually looking at in relation to your search term. And as the activity of the people online changes, so do the search results.
How It Works:
Me.dium gives you an entirely different level of information on top of traditional search results that you could never access before: Crowd-powered information.
Because Me.dium Search relies on the real time surfing activity of crowds:
Rapidly emerging, or "hot" stories bubble to the top of the Me.dium Search results very quickly.
The top search results are often fun and timely results such as new stories, videos and recently generated user content.
Regardless of when content was created, if many Me.dium users have looked at it recently it will rank high among the search results.
Find the hottest pages, videos and pictures based on what the crowds are surfing right now.
More at:http://me.dium.com/
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service
What Company Is Offering:
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.
The Dimdim Web Meeting service is available in open source and commercial enterprise editions capable of supporting thousands of attendees. And unlike all other web meeting solutions, Dimdim is available in both onsite (you install it on your servers) and hosted (we install it on ours) configurations.
Dimdim’s built-in VoIP capability is a godsend to customers with limited access to quality phone service, providing free calling to and from any computer with a microphone and an Internet connection. Even their powerful video broadcasting and desktop sharing features scale elegantly with your bandwidth, all automatically.
How Much They Got From VCs:
DimDim Inc secured $6 million in Series B financing from existing investors Index Ventures, Nexus India Capital and Draper Richards. The business offers browser-based open-source Web software and raised $2.4 million in its last round.
More at:http://www.dimdim.com/
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees.
The Dimdim Web Meeting service is available in open source and commercial enterprise editions capable of supporting thousands of attendees. And unlike all other web meeting solutions, Dimdim is available in both onsite (you install it on your servers) and hosted (we install it on ours) configurations.
Dimdim’s built-in VoIP capability is a godsend to customers with limited access to quality phone service, providing free calling to and from any computer with a microphone and an Internet connection. Even their powerful video broadcasting and desktop sharing features scale elegantly with your bandwidth, all automatically.
How Much They Got From VCs:
DimDim Inc secured $6 million in Series B financing from existing investors Index Ventures, Nexus India Capital and Draper Richards. The business offers browser-based open-source Web software and raised $2.4 million in its last round.
More at:http://www.dimdim.com/
Topspin is to provide artists the tools they need to build successful businesses
What Company Is Offering:
Topspin is a media technology company dedicated to developing leading-edge marketing software and services that help artists and their partners build businesses and brands. They help artists manage their catalogs, connect with fans, and generate demand for music.To provide artists the tools they need to build successful businesses.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TopSpin Media Inc. raised a Series B round of financing led by Foundry Group. Existing investor Redpoint Ventures participated in the round. Santa-Monica-based TopSpin provides marketing tools for musicians.
More at:http://topspinmedia.com/
Topspin is a media technology company dedicated to developing leading-edge marketing software and services that help artists and their partners build businesses and brands. They help artists manage their catalogs, connect with fans, and generate demand for music.To provide artists the tools they need to build successful businesses.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TopSpin Media Inc. raised a Series B round of financing led by Foundry Group. Existing investor Redpoint Ventures participated in the round. Santa-Monica-based TopSpin provides marketing tools for musicians.
More at:http://topspinmedia.com/
Mobixell Networks develops and delivers innovative mobile multimedia and advertising solutions secured $6 million
What Company Is Offering:
Mobixell Networks develops and delivers innovative mobile multimedia and advertising solutions to the dynamic world of mobile telecommunications.Mobixell, a well established and dominant player in the mobile multimedia arena, provides field proven solutions that are based on its core multimedia processing and optimization platform.
Mobixell solutions enable operators and content providers to introduce multimedia based services to subscribers and maximize their revenue streams by delivering optimized, high-quality, rich media content while ensuring the best quality of experience.
Building on their core multimedia technology, Mobixell has developed a mobile advertising solution that specializes in delivering optimized, high quality, targeted, rich media ads over a variety of delivery channels, and guarantees an optimal user experience regardless of device or network type.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Mobixell Networks secured $6 million from Apax Partners, Intel Capital, and SMAC Partners. The mobile device content provider is based in Wellesley, Mass.
More at:http://www.mobixell.com/
Mobixell Networks develops and delivers innovative mobile multimedia and advertising solutions to the dynamic world of mobile telecommunications.Mobixell, a well established and dominant player in the mobile multimedia arena, provides field proven solutions that are based on its core multimedia processing and optimization platform.
Mobixell solutions enable operators and content providers to introduce multimedia based services to subscribers and maximize their revenue streams by delivering optimized, high-quality, rich media content while ensuring the best quality of experience.
Building on their core multimedia technology, Mobixell has developed a mobile advertising solution that specializes in delivering optimized, high quality, targeted, rich media ads over a variety of delivery channels, and guarantees an optimal user experience regardless of device or network type.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Mobixell Networks secured $6 million from Apax Partners, Intel Capital, and SMAC Partners. The mobile device content provider is based in Wellesley, Mass.
More at:http://www.mobixell.com/
VideoIQ, Inc. is the technology leader in intelligent video surveillance solutions
What Company Is Offering:
VideoIQ, Inc. is the technology leader in intelligent video surveillance solutions. VideoIQ uses superior analytics to transform video surveillance into a dynamic, real-time system that delivers early warning of security breaches, fast appearance-match video search, and new levels of video quality, network and storage efficiency. The VideoIQ iCVR is the industry's first intelligent Camera with Video Recording - with advanced video analytic detection and search, content-aware storage and intelligent networking embedded inside a state of the art security camera. Additionally, the VideoIQ HD family of video analyzers delivers the industry's best detection accuracy for conventional analog cameras of all types, requiring human response only when a real event takes place.
How Much They Got From VCs:
VideoIQ?, Inc. announced that it has closed $10 million in a Series B funding round, led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners and with participation from existing investors Matrix Partners and Atlas Venture. As part of the investment, Brian Paul, a partner at Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, will join VideoIQ's board of directors. The new round of funding will be used to fuel VideoIQ's market expansion and continue product development of its line of intelligent video surveillance offerings.
"Over the last decade, demand for physical security solutions has skyrocketed. IP video surveillance and video analytics are seen as the future of the industry, yet no vendor has been able to deliver solutions that overcome the large network and storage requirements, unreliable detection, and high costs that have stood in the way of widespread use," said Brian Paul, partner, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. "VideoIQ is changing all of that. It is revolutionizing the industry by enabling companies of all sizes to cost-effectively implement intelligent video surveillance, in which analytics is not just an 'add on' but rather the foundation that drives the benefits of the entire system. We are excited to work with VideoIQ to make intelligence part of every surveillance system out there."
More at: www.videoiq.net
VideoIQ, Inc. is the technology leader in intelligent video surveillance solutions. VideoIQ uses superior analytics to transform video surveillance into a dynamic, real-time system that delivers early warning of security breaches, fast appearance-match video search, and new levels of video quality, network and storage efficiency. The VideoIQ iCVR is the industry's first intelligent Camera with Video Recording - with advanced video analytic detection and search, content-aware storage and intelligent networking embedded inside a state of the art security camera. Additionally, the VideoIQ HD family of video analyzers delivers the industry's best detection accuracy for conventional analog cameras of all types, requiring human response only when a real event takes place.
How Much They Got From VCs:
VideoIQ?, Inc. announced that it has closed $10 million in a Series B funding round, led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners and with participation from existing investors Matrix Partners and Atlas Venture. As part of the investment, Brian Paul, a partner at Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, will join VideoIQ's board of directors. The new round of funding will be used to fuel VideoIQ's market expansion and continue product development of its line of intelligent video surveillance offerings.
"Over the last decade, demand for physical security solutions has skyrocketed. IP video surveillance and video analytics are seen as the future of the industry, yet no vendor has been able to deliver solutions that overcome the large network and storage requirements, unreliable detection, and high costs that have stood in the way of widespread use," said Brian Paul, partner, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. "VideoIQ is changing all of that. It is revolutionizing the industry by enabling companies of all sizes to cost-effectively implement intelligent video surveillance, in which analytics is not just an 'add on' but rather the foundation that drives the benefits of the entire system. We are excited to work with VideoIQ to make intelligence part of every surveillance system out there."
More at: www.videoiq.net
Perfect Market, Inc. is a marketing services company that helps online publishers monetize their large libraries of archived content
What Company Is Offering:
Perfect Market, Inc. is a marketing services company that helps online publishers monetize their large libraries of archived content with little or no risk to the publisher. The company applies proprietary processes to this problem, including cutting edge economics, natural language and machine learning algorithms. The Perfect Market solution fully complements existing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) programs by delivering underutilized web archives to end-users and advertisers. By bringing to light valuable content that might not otherwise be found, Perfect Market improves the search experience for end-users, provides targeted impressions to advertisers and brings new revenue to the publisher's bottom line. Lead investors include Idealab, Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon and Square 1 Bank.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Perfect Market, Inc., a marketing services firm for publishers that specializes in "lighting up" underutilized content and creating additional revenue from these assets, announced today that it has raised $15.6 million in new venture funding. The financing is from Trinity Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA and Rustic Canyon Partners of Santa Monica, CA, with additional participation from Square 1 Bank and founding investor Idealab of Pasadena, CA. The new funds will be used for company operations and to further the company?s product development initiatives. Larry Orr of Trinity Ventures and Nate Redmond of Rustic Canyon Partners have joined the company?s board of directors.
With their large libraries, content publishers, particularly publishers with an offline presence, have been sitting on a potential goldmine of ad revenue, but have lacked an efficient and meaningful way of driving traffic to and monetizing this underutilized content. Perfect Market has developed a potent blend of technical and economic intelligence to address this problem and provides publishers with a simple way to extract additional value from their existing libraries. By exposing publisher content to a wider audience, Perfect Market?s service brings the web searcher high value, branded content that was difficult or impossible to find previously.
More at:www.perfectmarket.com
Perfect Market, Inc. is a marketing services company that helps online publishers monetize their large libraries of archived content with little or no risk to the publisher. The company applies proprietary processes to this problem, including cutting edge economics, natural language and machine learning algorithms. The Perfect Market solution fully complements existing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) programs by delivering underutilized web archives to end-users and advertisers. By bringing to light valuable content that might not otherwise be found, Perfect Market improves the search experience for end-users, provides targeted impressions to advertisers and brings new revenue to the publisher's bottom line. Lead investors include Idealab, Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon and Square 1 Bank.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Perfect Market, Inc., a marketing services firm for publishers that specializes in "lighting up" underutilized content and creating additional revenue from these assets, announced today that it has raised $15.6 million in new venture funding. The financing is from Trinity Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA and Rustic Canyon Partners of Santa Monica, CA, with additional participation from Square 1 Bank and founding investor Idealab of Pasadena, CA. The new funds will be used for company operations and to further the company?s product development initiatives. Larry Orr of Trinity Ventures and Nate Redmond of Rustic Canyon Partners have joined the company?s board of directors.
With their large libraries, content publishers, particularly publishers with an offline presence, have been sitting on a potential goldmine of ad revenue, but have lacked an efficient and meaningful way of driving traffic to and monetizing this underutilized content. Perfect Market has developed a potent blend of technical and economic intelligence to address this problem and provides publishers with a simple way to extract additional value from their existing libraries. By exposing publisher content to a wider audience, Perfect Market?s service brings the web searcher high value, branded content that was difficult or impossible to find previously.
More at:www.perfectmarket.com
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StudyRailssm is a web based planning and time management solution that helps students get better grades with less stress
What Company Is Offering:
StudyRailssm is a web based planning and time management solution that helps students get better grades with less stress. StudyRails creates step-by-step, personalized study plan, sends email and text message reminders when it's time to study, and blocks distracting websites, software and games during study time.
You access most of StudyRails' functionality directly from your web browser, without downloading anything. However, to enable StudyRails' website, software, and game blocking features you need to download and install the StudyRails blocking application. You will be prompted to do this the first time you login to StudyRails.
More at:http://www.studyrails.com/
StudyRailssm is a web based planning and time management solution that helps students get better grades with less stress. StudyRails creates step-by-step, personalized study plan, sends email and text message reminders when it's time to study, and blocks distracting websites, software and games during study time.
You access most of StudyRails' functionality directly from your web browser, without downloading anything. However, to enable StudyRails' website, software, and game blocking features you need to download and install the StudyRails blocking application. You will be prompted to do this the first time you login to StudyRails.
More at:http://www.studyrails.com/
Konsulted gives you all the information available from trusted sources
What Company Is Offering:
Konsulted gives you all the information available from trusted sources and most importantly, your friends and compiles them to a single location for you to make your own judgment. Think of it as a C-SPAN for your electronics.
More at:http://konsulted.com/
Konsulted gives you all the information available from trusted sources and most importantly, your friends and compiles them to a single location for you to make your own judgment. Think of it as a C-SPAN for your electronics.
More at:http://konsulted.com/
VendorServe.com is rapidly becoming one of the fastest growing business to business marketplaces for Web and IT purchases
What Company Is Offering:
VendorServe.com is rapidly becoming one of the fastest growing business to business marketplaces for Web and IT purchases.
VendorServe.com connects business consumers with pre-qualified vendors based upon the criteria of the business buyer's project/needs and the specific nature of the services that the service provider sells.
With a growing network of registered approved member service providers and over 40 different Web & IT categories, VendorServe.com is a one stop source for all of your high-tech and online business buying needs.
How It Works:
You complete a Quote Form that describes your needs, get matched with multiple qualified web site design firms, programmers, online marketing professionals and more. There is no cost to request quotes and no obligation to accept quotes. For the service providers there is a fee to participate in the program.
More at:http://www.vendorserve.com/
VendorServe.com is rapidly becoming one of the fastest growing business to business marketplaces for Web and IT purchases.
VendorServe.com connects business consumers with pre-qualified vendors based upon the criteria of the business buyer's project/needs and the specific nature of the services that the service provider sells.
With a growing network of registered approved member service providers and over 40 different Web & IT categories, VendorServe.com is a one stop source for all of your high-tech and online business buying needs.
How It Works:
You complete a Quote Form that describes your needs, get matched with multiple qualified web site design firms, programmers, online marketing professionals and more. There is no cost to request quotes and no obligation to accept quotes. For the service providers there is a fee to participate in the program.
More at:http://www.vendorserve.com/
Urgent Career is a pioneer in the use of linguistic technology to match business professionals with compatible employment opportunities
What Company Is Offering:
Urgent Career is a pioneer in the use of linguistic technology to match business professionals with compatible employment opportunities. Their patent-pending technology digitally deconstructs conversations into thousands of data points that are then algorithmically measured on 32 key dimensions of sales compatibility. Their services are free to sales professionals; employers pay per hire.
How It Works:
Urgent Career utilizes linguistic technology to revolutionize the way sales, business development and account management professionals are matched with compatible roles in growing companies.
The matching process begins when a sales professional enters a phone number into Urgent Career’s click-to-call website. The candidate is immediately connected with a Career Matchmaker, who guides him or her through a brief phone conversation about career goals, aspirations, preferences, and style.
This phone call is then digitally deconstructed by algorithms that utilize machine learning and pattern recognition to recommend positions which are perfectly matched to the candidate’s unique skills and talents. For the candidate, Urgent Career offers a free, confidential, and hassle-free way to find a more compatible career. For the client, Urgent Career offers candidates that are algorithmically matched to the specific necessities of a job requirement.
More at:http://urgentcareer.com/
Urgent Career is a pioneer in the use of linguistic technology to match business professionals with compatible employment opportunities. Their patent-pending technology digitally deconstructs conversations into thousands of data points that are then algorithmically measured on 32 key dimensions of sales compatibility. Their services are free to sales professionals; employers pay per hire.
How It Works:
Urgent Career utilizes linguistic technology to revolutionize the way sales, business development and account management professionals are matched with compatible roles in growing companies.
The matching process begins when a sales professional enters a phone number into Urgent Career’s click-to-call website. The candidate is immediately connected with a Career Matchmaker, who guides him or her through a brief phone conversation about career goals, aspirations, preferences, and style.
This phone call is then digitally deconstructed by algorithms that utilize machine learning and pattern recognition to recommend positions which are perfectly matched to the candidate’s unique skills and talents. For the candidate, Urgent Career offers a free, confidential, and hassle-free way to find a more compatible career. For the client, Urgent Career offers candidates that are algorithmically matched to the specific necessities of a job requirement.
More at:http://urgentcareer.com/
RareShare is an online social hub for those affected by rare medical disorders
What Company Is Offering:
RareShare is unique social hub building communities for patients, families, and healthcare professionals affected by rare disorders.To bring together patients, families and healthcare professionals to share knowledge and personal experiences about rare medical disorders.
RareShare is an online social hub for those affected by rare medical disorders. Whether you are a patient, family member, friend of the family, or healthcare professional, you are invited to join RareShare. Their goal is to become the #1 aggregator of information about rare disorders on the Web.
How It Works:
Joining RareShare is absolutely free and takes less than a minute. Click to sign up today.In order to edit information in a community, you must first join that community. To join a community, browse to your community and select "Join Community". Once you're a member of that community, you can then edit information by selecting the "edit" link next to the section you wish to change.
More at:http://rareshare.org/
RareShare is unique social hub building communities for patients, families, and healthcare professionals affected by rare disorders.To bring together patients, families and healthcare professionals to share knowledge and personal experiences about rare medical disorders.
RareShare is an online social hub for those affected by rare medical disorders. Whether you are a patient, family member, friend of the family, or healthcare professional, you are invited to join RareShare. Their goal is to become the #1 aggregator of information about rare disorders on the Web.
How It Works:
Joining RareShare is absolutely free and takes less than a minute. Click to sign up today.In order to edit information in a community, you must first join that community. To join a community, browse to your community and select "Join Community". Once you're a member of that community, you can then edit information by selecting the "edit" link next to the section you wish to change.
More at:http://rareshare.org/
Ntractive, creator of Elements SBM™, the hybrid web application for small business management has closed its Series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
Ntractive is a software company that has created a new, unique method of application development, referred to by a senior executive at Apple Inc. as “the future of software development.” Ntractive’s development environment/platform, the Hybrid Web Application, combines the best features of a desktop application with those of a web application, for unprecedented ease of use, expanded functionality, and power in an Internet-based application. The company’s first product, Elements SBM™, is a software-as-a-service offering designed to automate, organize and improve business processes for small to mid-sized companies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Ntractive, creator of Elements SBM™, the hybrid web application for small business management, announced today it has closed its Series A financing. The company raised $570,000 through regional angel investors and St. Paul-based RAIN Source Capital, an organization of pooled angel funds (www.rainsourcecapital.com).
The Valley Angels Investment Fund of Grand Forks led the financing. The fund’s chairperson, Tom Kenville, commented, “As a start-up, Ntractive has been extremely well-organized. Not only have they made strides with their product, but they have created a solid business structure.”
More at:www.ntractive.com
Ntractive is a software company that has created a new, unique method of application development, referred to by a senior executive at Apple Inc. as “the future of software development.” Ntractive’s development environment/platform, the Hybrid Web Application, combines the best features of a desktop application with those of a web application, for unprecedented ease of use, expanded functionality, and power in an Internet-based application. The company’s first product, Elements SBM™, is a software-as-a-service offering designed to automate, organize and improve business processes for small to mid-sized companies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Ntractive, creator of Elements SBM™, the hybrid web application for small business management, announced today it has closed its Series A financing. The company raised $570,000 through regional angel investors and St. Paul-based RAIN Source Capital, an organization of pooled angel funds (www.rainsourcecapital.com).
The Valley Angels Investment Fund of Grand Forks led the financing. The fund’s chairperson, Tom Kenville, commented, “As a start-up, Ntractive has been extremely well-organized. Not only have they made strides with their product, but they have created a solid business structure.”
More at:www.ntractive.com
Paragon Lake is a web based supplier of customized fine jewelry has secured $5.8 million in Series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
Paragon Lake is a web based supplier of customized fine jewelry. The company has developed innovative ways to make purchasing pieces of made-to-order fine jewelry easier and more accessible for consumers. Paragon Lake was founded by two entrepreneurs out of Babson College and the team has rapidly grown to include alumnus of some of Boston's most successful high tech companies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Paragon Lake, a revolutionary web based supplier of customized fine jewelry, today announced that it has secured $5.8 million in Series A financing co-led by venture capital firms Canaan Partners and Highland Capital Partners. The funding will allow Paragon Lake to expand its operations and ramp its service offering to meet rapidly growing customer demands. In conjunction with the investment, Dan Ciporin of Canaan Partners will join Highland's Bob Davis on the company's board of directors.
We are thrilled to partner with two world-class venture capital firms that possess incredible track records when it comes to building successful Internet companies," said Matt Lauzon, CEO of Paragon Lake. "Bob, as the founder and former CEO of Lycos, and Dan, the former CEO of Shopping.com, have been instrumental in defining the Internet business landscape. We're excited about leveraging their expertise to help drive the next stage of our growth."
Paragon Lake makes purchasing made-to-order pieces of fine jewelry easy and accessible to consumers. The company currently has retail partnerships in 14 states with jewelry stores looking to provide a distinctive and positive experience for their customers. By simplifying the design process and allowing users to purchase customized jewelry through a web-based platform, jewelers are able to offer a unique service that delivers made-to-order jewelry that fits each customer's individual style.
More at:www.ParagonLake.com
Paragon Lake is a web based supplier of customized fine jewelry. The company has developed innovative ways to make purchasing pieces of made-to-order fine jewelry easier and more accessible for consumers. Paragon Lake was founded by two entrepreneurs out of Babson College and the team has rapidly grown to include alumnus of some of Boston's most successful high tech companies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Paragon Lake, a revolutionary web based supplier of customized fine jewelry, today announced that it has secured $5.8 million in Series A financing co-led by venture capital firms Canaan Partners and Highland Capital Partners. The funding will allow Paragon Lake to expand its operations and ramp its service offering to meet rapidly growing customer demands. In conjunction with the investment, Dan Ciporin of Canaan Partners will join Highland's Bob Davis on the company's board of directors.
We are thrilled to partner with two world-class venture capital firms that possess incredible track records when it comes to building successful Internet companies," said Matt Lauzon, CEO of Paragon Lake. "Bob, as the founder and former CEO of Lycos, and Dan, the former CEO of Shopping.com, have been instrumental in defining the Internet business landscape. We're excited about leveraging their expertise to help drive the next stage of our growth."
Paragon Lake makes purchasing made-to-order pieces of fine jewelry easy and accessible to consumers. The company currently has retail partnerships in 14 states with jewelry stores looking to provide a distinctive and positive experience for their customers. By simplifying the design process and allowing users to purchase customized jewelry through a web-based platform, jewelers are able to offer a unique service that delivers made-to-order jewelry that fits each customer's individual style.
More at:www.ParagonLake.com
Welton Street Holdings LLC and its affiliates specialize in the development, distribution and asset management of tax-efficient real estate investment
What Company Is Offering:
Welton Street Holdings LLC and its affiliates specialize in the development, distribution and asset management of tax-efficient real estate investment products. Welton Street provides Broker/Dealers, Financial Advisors, Real Estate Professionals and Nonprofit Organizations with access to products and services that provide tax-efficient solutions for their clients’ largest asset class, real estate.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Welton Street Holdings LLC (“Welton Street”), parent company of Welton Street Investments LLC and Welton Street Advisors LLC, announced today that it has received a $14.4 million investment from FTVentures.
The growth equity investment will be used to expand the distribution of the Life Income Funds of America and Tenant-in-Common (TIC) securities, products which help investors deal with appreciated real estate.
Welton Street is the Managing Broker/Dealer and distributor of the Life Income Funds of America. Through the distribution of the Life Income Funds, Welton Street provides owners of appreciated real estate with a viable exit strategy, a charitable tax deduction, potential elimination of capital gains tax, income for life through investments in mutual funds selected for their disciplined investment process, and the ability to support multiple nonprofit organizations.
More at:www.weltonstreet.com
Welton Street Holdings LLC and its affiliates specialize in the development, distribution and asset management of tax-efficient real estate investment products. Welton Street provides Broker/Dealers, Financial Advisors, Real Estate Professionals and Nonprofit Organizations with access to products and services that provide tax-efficient solutions for their clients’ largest asset class, real estate.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Welton Street Holdings LLC (“Welton Street”), parent company of Welton Street Investments LLC and Welton Street Advisors LLC, announced today that it has received a $14.4 million investment from FTVentures.
The growth equity investment will be used to expand the distribution of the Life Income Funds of America and Tenant-in-Common (TIC) securities, products which help investors deal with appreciated real estate.
Welton Street is the Managing Broker/Dealer and distributor of the Life Income Funds of America. Through the distribution of the Life Income Funds, Welton Street provides owners of appreciated real estate with a viable exit strategy, a charitable tax deduction, potential elimination of capital gains tax, income for life through investments in mutual funds selected for their disciplined investment process, and the ability to support multiple nonprofit organizations.
More at:www.weltonstreet.com
iPipeline provides the leading suite of sales distribution software to the insurance and financial services markets delivered as an on-demand service
What Company Is Offering:
iPipeline provides the leading suite of sales distribution software to the insurance and financial services markets delivered as an on-demand service. This platform includes the most comprehensive forms and content enabling the industry to market, sell and process insurance faster. iPipeline provides agents everything they need to make a sale by aggregating over 100 insurance companies in a single, web-based network. This simple, intuitive system integrates directly into over 700 web sites of the industry's largest banks, broker-dealers and insurance distributors on a subscription based model. iPipeline's integrated approach enables insurance companies to access sales distribution, eliminates point of sale mistakes and streamlines the issuing of insurance policies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iPipeline today announced the completion of its $18 million Series A financing led by NewSpring Capital of Radnor, Pa., and Fidelity Ventures of Boston. iPipeline's management team also participated in this financial venture.
iPipeline's Larry Berran, said, "The firm will use this funding to expand its sales and marketing effort with both carriers and distributors, to develop additional point-of-sale capabilities for agents, and to make select tuck-in acquisitions to extend the depth of the offering."
More at: www.ipipeline.com
iPipeline provides the leading suite of sales distribution software to the insurance and financial services markets delivered as an on-demand service. This platform includes the most comprehensive forms and content enabling the industry to market, sell and process insurance faster. iPipeline provides agents everything they need to make a sale by aggregating over 100 insurance companies in a single, web-based network. This simple, intuitive system integrates directly into over 700 web sites of the industry's largest banks, broker-dealers and insurance distributors on a subscription based model. iPipeline's integrated approach enables insurance companies to access sales distribution, eliminates point of sale mistakes and streamlines the issuing of insurance policies.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iPipeline today announced the completion of its $18 million Series A financing led by NewSpring Capital of Radnor, Pa., and Fidelity Ventures of Boston. iPipeline's management team also participated in this financial venture.
iPipeline's Larry Berran, said, "The firm will use this funding to expand its sales and marketing effort with both carriers and distributors, to develop additional point-of-sale capabilities for agents, and to make select tuck-in acquisitions to extend the depth of the offering."
More at: www.ipipeline.com
DriverSide is the first Web site specifically designed for automobile owners got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
DriverSide is the first Web site specifically designed for automobile owners. Funded by Catamount Ventures, DriverSide allows consumers to save money on servicing and maintenance costs as well as buy and sell automobiles. With an in-house editorial staff, DriverSide offers useful advice on how to own and operate a vehicle as well as reviews on new and used automobiles. DriverSide's social networking capabilities allow consumers to participate in forums, meet other owners of a particular vehicle, share knowledge, and post reviews on mechanics and dealers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
DriverSide, the first full service Web site dedicated to saving consumers time and money by making the ownership or lease of an automobile hassle-free, announced today its newest board members Jeff Bell and Mark Silverman. In addition, the company announces its first round of funding led by Catamount Ventures. Catamount's innovative portfolio includes; Café Press, Second Life (Linden Labs,) Flock, Grid Net, Seventh Generation and Verdiem. Launched in early June 2008, DriverSide brings together in a single Web site every available car and truck-related resource, and makes it convenient, easy and free.
Bell spent 17 years in the automotive industry before joining Microsoft in 2006. He is largely credited for helping to turn around the Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler brands during his tenure at DaimlerChrysler. Bell led the launch of the Dodge "Grab Life by the Horns" and Hemi campaigns, the Chrysler 300, and the Jeep 4-door Wrangler. During his tenure, jeep.com was named the #1 website by J.D. Powers, and Bell's team was named 2005 Interactive Marketer of the Year by Advertising Age for work in video games and webisodes. Before Chrysler he spent a decade at Ford Motor Company.
More at:www.driverside.com
DriverSide is the first Web site specifically designed for automobile owners. Funded by Catamount Ventures, DriverSide allows consumers to save money on servicing and maintenance costs as well as buy and sell automobiles. With an in-house editorial staff, DriverSide offers useful advice on how to own and operate a vehicle as well as reviews on new and used automobiles. DriverSide's social networking capabilities allow consumers to participate in forums, meet other owners of a particular vehicle, share knowledge, and post reviews on mechanics and dealers.
How Much They Got From VCs:
DriverSide, the first full service Web site dedicated to saving consumers time and money by making the ownership or lease of an automobile hassle-free, announced today its newest board members Jeff Bell and Mark Silverman. In addition, the company announces its first round of funding led by Catamount Ventures. Catamount's innovative portfolio includes; Café Press, Second Life (Linden Labs,) Flock, Grid Net, Seventh Generation and Verdiem. Launched in early June 2008, DriverSide brings together in a single Web site every available car and truck-related resource, and makes it convenient, easy and free.
Bell spent 17 years in the automotive industry before joining Microsoft in 2006. He is largely credited for helping to turn around the Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler brands during his tenure at DaimlerChrysler. Bell led the launch of the Dodge "Grab Life by the Horns" and Hemi campaigns, the Chrysler 300, and the Jeep 4-door Wrangler. During his tenure, jeep.com was named the #1 website by J.D. Powers, and Bell's team was named 2005 Interactive Marketer of the Year by Advertising Age for work in video games and webisodes. Before Chrysler he spent a decade at Ford Motor Company.
More at:www.driverside.com
1time is a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows you to easily keep track of real time project costs
What Company Is Offering:
1time is a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows you to easily keep track of real time project costs.1time will reduce non billable time in your company. Each employee gets their own login and reminders so you don't have to micro manage recording timesheets.
Unique Features:
Automated e-mail reminders to employees who have not entered their timesheets.
Let you client view how much time is going agaist their project in real time.
Keep track of time and cost of multiple Projects and multiple Clients
See on what Activities and with which Clients your employees are spending their time.
Find out which employees are maximizing their billings and track the profitability of each.
Identify at-risk projects early, know which projects are profitable.
Import your clients and projects from Basecamp and send time report messages back to basecamp.
More at:http://1timetracking.com/
1time is a web-based time and expense tracking application that allows you to easily keep track of real time project costs.1time will reduce non billable time in your company. Each employee gets their own login and reminders so you don't have to micro manage recording timesheets.
Unique Features:
Automated e-mail reminders to employees who have not entered their timesheets.
Let you client view how much time is going agaist their project in real time.
Keep track of time and cost of multiple Projects and multiple Clients
See on what Activities and with which Clients your employees are spending their time.
Find out which employees are maximizing their billings and track the profitability of each.
Identify at-risk projects early, know which projects are profitable.
Import your clients and projects from Basecamp and send time report messages back to basecamp.
More at:http://1timetracking.com/
OnSIP is the next generation of hosted SIP based communications from Junction Networks, the business VoIP veterans
What Company Is Offering:
OnSIP is the next generation of hosted SIP based communications from Junction Networks, the business VoIP veterans. Based on feedback from many of our customers, the team at Junction Networks built OnSIP from the ground up with no reliance on proprietary third party software or licensed components. As a result, OnSIP is the leading open SIP platform for business.
How It Works:
The platform is a collection of communications services, all based on SIP, the defacto standard for VoIP. The service leverages the concept of SIP domain hosting. All accounts are created with a virtual SIP domain and call routing is entirely based on SIP addresses.
You can route calls via SIP to any destination in or out of our network.
They believe strongly that services like ours work best when they can be shared, integrated, “mashed”, with other services and applications. As a result, they allow every user access to their developer API for whatever purpose someone may desire. They invite any and all 3rd party application developers, ASPs, mashup wizards, etc. to make their magic work with their platform.
More at:http://www.junctionnetworks.com/
OnSIP is the next generation of hosted SIP based communications from Junction Networks, the business VoIP veterans. Based on feedback from many of our customers, the team at Junction Networks built OnSIP from the ground up with no reliance on proprietary third party software or licensed components. As a result, OnSIP is the leading open SIP platform for business.
How It Works:
The platform is a collection of communications services, all based on SIP, the defacto standard for VoIP. The service leverages the concept of SIP domain hosting. All accounts are created with a virtual SIP domain and call routing is entirely based on SIP addresses.
You can route calls via SIP to any destination in or out of our network.
They believe strongly that services like ours work best when they can be shared, integrated, “mashed”, with other services and applications. As a result, they allow every user access to their developer API for whatever purpose someone may desire. They invite any and all 3rd party application developers, ASPs, mashup wizards, etc. to make their magic work with their platform.
More at:http://www.junctionnetworks.com/
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