What Company is Offering:
Standout Jobs provides RECEPTION, a suite of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts. Using social media tools and principles, Standout Jobs brings the latest Web consumer experience – easy, personal and dynamic – to the recruiting process.
How It Works:
Standout Jobs, Inc. is a startup based in Montreal, QC Canada that makes Reception, a suite of web-based tools to power companies online recruiting. Reception allows companies to create interactive, content-rich Career Sites that build employer brand and active talent networks. Companies can promote themselves more effectively, market jobs, gain metrics on job board spending, track candidates through the hiring process and build on-going relationships with prospects. The goal is to help companies develop and promote their employment brand, in order to find and hire the best talent. RECEPTION also includes candidate relationship management tools enabling HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates effectively.
Unique Features:
Companies can seamlessly integrate video into their job postings and create behind-the-scenes tours, to showcase their culture and present a more in-depth view of themselves to candidates.
Job posts are automatically distributed to a multitude of free and paying job boards, saving companies time. RECEPTION includes metrics on the efficacy of the job boards, helping companies evaluate and adjust their job board spending.
Web-based applications from candidates can be shared with all the people involved in the hiring process, allowing for a central tracking of resumes, interview notes and candidate status. By moving applications out of email and costly applicant tracking systems, RECEPTION allows companies to manage their candidate application process more easily and efficiently. RECEPTION has no seat limits, so entire teams can now be involved in the hiring process.
More at:http://standoutjobs.com/
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Fashionfreax stands the idea to share own creations with the community and to get inspired by other styles
What companny is Offering:
Fashionfreax is anything but a shopping guide for luxus brands. They want to watch your styles, you create or wear. How do you combine your clothes and accessories? To get new ideas you can browse through other fashionfreax - new ideas from Helsinki to Barcelona. They are the freax who inspire others. Here you find fresh ideas and a platform where people cavort who fancy style, fashion and expeditions.
Designers and labels can use fashionfreax to get discovered by a premium audience or just investigate new trends.
How It Works;
Behind fashionfreax stands the idea to share own creations with the community and to get inspired by other styles. Here you are not covarting through expensive luxuary fashion which gets sold by fashion magazines - but you see outfits and creations which are worn by fashionfreax. Upload your outfit or single pieces or add new shops which you find on your last expedition through down town.
In the news section you can read the latest fashion news. For this you get an overview of selected blogs in your language. If you are faster than other you will get the possibility to add own fashion news!
In the group area you can exclude every possibility of doubt concering style. Participate in groups or create your own groups. Register now for free to discover other fashionfreax!
More at:http://www.fashionfreax.net/
Fashionfreax is anything but a shopping guide for luxus brands. They want to watch your styles, you create or wear. How do you combine your clothes and accessories? To get new ideas you can browse through other fashionfreax - new ideas from Helsinki to Barcelona. They are the freax who inspire others. Here you find fresh ideas and a platform where people cavort who fancy style, fashion and expeditions.
Designers and labels can use fashionfreax to get discovered by a premium audience or just investigate new trends.
How It Works;
Behind fashionfreax stands the idea to share own creations with the community and to get inspired by other styles. Here you are not covarting through expensive luxuary fashion which gets sold by fashion magazines - but you see outfits and creations which are worn by fashionfreax. Upload your outfit or single pieces or add new shops which you find on your last expedition through down town.
In the news section you can read the latest fashion news. For this you get an overview of selected blogs in your language. If you are faster than other you will get the possibility to add own fashion news!
In the group area you can exclude every possibility of doubt concering style. Participate in groups or create your own groups. Register now for free to discover other fashionfreax!
More at:http://www.fashionfreax.net/
Zicasso is a free personalized online travel service that provides customized itinerary bids
What Company Is Offering:
Zicasso is a free personalized online travel service that provides customized itinerary bids from a carefully-selected global network of quality travel companies. To ensure quality, they've spent thousands of hours to pre-qualify and select each tour operator and travel agent member. Zicasso is ideal for busy, discerning travelers who want a hassle-free experience in planning & booking a trip.
How It Works:
Their company is built on a unique idea: getting the vacation you want, no matter what your requirements, can be hassle free. Finding quality at the best prices can be easy. Knowing where to go for authentic experiences can be simple.
A personalized online travel service. They match travelers with relevant, quality travel companies which compete by bidding Trip Plans to meet all your trip’s needs. Depending on your needs, these Trip Plans can include itineraries with expert advice on where to visit, lodging, flights, airport transfers, cruises, other forms of transportation, tour guides, etc. Travel companies (tour operators and travel agencies) are pre-screened by us to ensure quality, and over time, rated by our community of travelers. Just a few simple steps:
Traveler fills out a simple form to describe the trip he or she wants. Zicasso then matches and notifies relevant pre-screened quality travel companies
Up to four travel companies use Zicasso’s online system to submit personalized Trip Plans and prices to traveler, typically within two business days
Traveler compares and refines Trip Plans with travel companies
Traveler books the Trip Plan(s) that best meets his or her needs.
More at:http://www.zicasso.com/
Zicasso is a free personalized online travel service that provides customized itinerary bids from a carefully-selected global network of quality travel companies. To ensure quality, they've spent thousands of hours to pre-qualify and select each tour operator and travel agent member. Zicasso is ideal for busy, discerning travelers who want a hassle-free experience in planning & booking a trip.
How It Works:
Their company is built on a unique idea: getting the vacation you want, no matter what your requirements, can be hassle free. Finding quality at the best prices can be easy. Knowing where to go for authentic experiences can be simple.
A personalized online travel service. They match travelers with relevant, quality travel companies which compete by bidding Trip Plans to meet all your trip’s needs. Depending on your needs, these Trip Plans can include itineraries with expert advice on where to visit, lodging, flights, airport transfers, cruises, other forms of transportation, tour guides, etc. Travel companies (tour operators and travel agencies) are pre-screened by us to ensure quality, and over time, rated by our community of travelers. Just a few simple steps:
Traveler fills out a simple form to describe the trip he or she wants. Zicasso then matches and notifies relevant pre-screened quality travel companies
Up to four travel companies use Zicasso’s online system to submit personalized Trip Plans and prices to traveler, typically within two business days
Traveler compares and refines Trip Plans with travel companies
Traveler books the Trip Plan(s) that best meets his or her needs.
More at:http://www.zicasso.com/
A workspace is an online place where you can save, access, and share documents and files
What Company Is Offering:
A workspace is an online place where you can save, access, and share documents and files. Use it to group related information for work, school, or personal projects. Sharing is easy – all you need is a person’s e-mail address and you can invite them to your workspace. You decide if they can edit or simply review. You can access your workspace from any computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser.
How It Works:
You only need an Internet connection, a Web browser, and a Windows Live ID with a valid e-mail inbox. You can upload many file types, from Microsoft Office documents to pictures and PDFs. In fact, you can save over 1,000 Office documents in your workspace, based on the average file size and use of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by students, work, and home users. For your protection, they don’t allow the uploading of files that could cause security issues such as .exe files.Your workspace comes with 500 MB of storage, which means you can save more than 1000 average sized Microsoft Office documents. Individual documents can be as large as 25 MB.
A workspace is an online place where you can save, access, and share documents and files. Use it to group related information for work, school, or personal projects. Sharing is easy – all you need is a person’s e-mail address and you can invite them to your workspace. You decide if they can edit or simply review. You can access your workspace from any computer with an Internet connection and a Web browser.
How It Works:
You only need an Internet connection, a Web browser, and a Windows Live ID with a valid e-mail inbox. You can upload many file types, from Microsoft Office documents to pictures and PDFs. In fact, you can save over 1,000 Office documents in your workspace, based on the average file size and use of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by students, work, and home users. For your protection, they don’t allow the uploading of files that could cause security issues such as .exe files.Your workspace comes with 500 MB of storage, which means you can save more than 1000 average sized Microsoft Office documents. Individual documents can be as large as 25 MB.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Songpull.com is the website that's used to introduce unique songpulls and individual pullers to music lovers around the world
What Company Is Offering:
Songpulls offer songwriters a place to gather and try new songs in an encouraging environment. Inspired by the classic "guitar pull" of the past, the Songpull community gives genuine feedback and recognition on every performance. Finish your songs by joining a Songpull today
How It Works:
Songpull.com is the website that's used to introduce unique songpulls and individual pullers to music lovers around the world. Because Songpull.com has a worldwide audience and will be structured in such a way that songs are rated by the members on many levels, it will ensure that certain songs will begin to rise in rank and therefore be seen by more and more people. This could include people in the music industry looking for brand new artists or brand new songs!
Based on member popularity, visitors will quickly see who is ranked highest directly from the Songpull.com homepage. Members of Songpull.com can easily rank and comment on their favorite singer-songwriter. In addition to the performance, members will be able to view outtakes and extras from the entire Songpull gathering. As Songpull.com evolves so will the interactive tools, which will enrich members listening and viewing experiences. Each singer-songwriter will have a profile page that will allow the member to learn more about that performer. Whether you have a band, practice, business, or even offer hot air balloon rides, people can find you, be inspired by you, and even contact you if that is what you want.
More at:http://www.songpull.com/
Songpulls offer songwriters a place to gather and try new songs in an encouraging environment. Inspired by the classic "guitar pull" of the past, the Songpull community gives genuine feedback and recognition on every performance. Finish your songs by joining a Songpull today
How It Works:
Songpull.com is the website that's used to introduce unique songpulls and individual pullers to music lovers around the world. Because Songpull.com has a worldwide audience and will be structured in such a way that songs are rated by the members on many levels, it will ensure that certain songs will begin to rise in rank and therefore be seen by more and more people. This could include people in the music industry looking for brand new artists or brand new songs!
Based on member popularity, visitors will quickly see who is ranked highest directly from the Songpull.com homepage. Members of Songpull.com can easily rank and comment on their favorite singer-songwriter. In addition to the performance, members will be able to view outtakes and extras from the entire Songpull gathering. As Songpull.com evolves so will the interactive tools, which will enrich members listening and viewing experiences. Each singer-songwriter will have a profile page that will allow the member to learn more about that performer. Whether you have a band, practice, business, or even offer hot air balloon rides, people can find you, be inspired by you, and even contact you if that is what you want.
More at:http://www.songpull.com/
Chatterous is a service that lets you talk to your friends across the web, im, email and your phone
What Company Is Offering:
Chatterous is a service that lets you talk to your friends across the web, im, email and your phone.
How It Works:
Once you create a group, you can chat with your friends through im, email or your phone. No need to use the website! Your friends don't need to sign up to chat with you! They can reply right on their im, email or phone. Once you've created a group for your friends, everyone in the group can reach each other whether they're on im, email or out and about on their phone. You don't have to install any software! Just use your existing im client, email or phone!
More at:http://www.chatterous.com/
Chatterous is a service that lets you talk to your friends across the web, im, email and your phone.
How It Works:
Once you create a group, you can chat with your friends through im, email or your phone. No need to use the website! Your friends don't need to sign up to chat with you! They can reply right on their im, email or phone. Once you've created a group for your friends, everyone in the group can reach each other whether they're on im, email or out and about on their phone. You don't have to install any software! Just use your existing im client, email or phone!
More at:http://www.chatterous.com/
NavXS lets you exchange location based information
What Company Is Offering:
NavXS (short for Navigation Exchange Service) is a system that lets people build a network of contacts, kind of like Skype, ICQ etc. But instead of exchanging just text messages, NavXS lets you exchange location based information:The current position of every online contact is continuously exchanged. Thus you can track the movements of your contacts in real time relative to your own movements.
How It Works:
You can define your own "Locations" and share them with your contacts. A Location is in essence a "Map Bookmark". For instance you can use it to mark a nice bar that you just found, so that you can quickly relocate it in the future. If you share it with your contacts, they'll find it just as easily. The location based information is shown on a map on your phone, as well as on the phone of your contacts.
All this is obviously not much fun if the people in your contact network don't know exactly where they are, but thanks to the new generation of mobile phones and PDAs that comes with embedded GPS based positioning module, chances are that they do.
Thus, with NavXS you can keep track of what your friends, colleagues acts whom you have granted the explicit right to do so will be able to see where you are.Only contacts whom you have granted the explicit right to do so will be able to see where you are. Secondly, as soon as you log out or turn off the positioning module, nobody will be able to follow your moves (except your network operator: The only way to hide from them is to turn off your mobile phone).
The NavXS software can be downloaded here free of charge. Currently they support Java-enabled mobile phones and Windows Mobile based PDAs and smartphones.
More at:http://www.navxs.com/
NavXS (short for Navigation Exchange Service) is a system that lets people build a network of contacts, kind of like Skype, ICQ etc. But instead of exchanging just text messages, NavXS lets you exchange location based information:The current position of every online contact is continuously exchanged. Thus you can track the movements of your contacts in real time relative to your own movements.
How It Works:
You can define your own "Locations" and share them with your contacts. A Location is in essence a "Map Bookmark". For instance you can use it to mark a nice bar that you just found, so that you can quickly relocate it in the future. If you share it with your contacts, they'll find it just as easily. The location based information is shown on a map on your phone, as well as on the phone of your contacts.
All this is obviously not much fun if the people in your contact network don't know exactly where they are, but thanks to the new generation of mobile phones and PDAs that comes with embedded GPS based positioning module, chances are that they do.
Thus, with NavXS you can keep track of what your friends, colleagues acts whom you have granted the explicit right to do so will be able to see where you are.Only contacts whom you have granted the explicit right to do so will be able to see where you are. Secondly, as soon as you log out or turn off the positioning module, nobody will be able to follow your moves (except your network operator: The only way to hide from them is to turn off your mobile phone).
The NavXS software can be downloaded here free of charge. Currently they support Java-enabled mobile phones and Windows Mobile based PDAs and smartphones.
More at:http://www.navxs.com/
BudgetPulse.Com is the new financial management service designed to help tracking your budget and managing your money
What Company Is Offering:
BudgetPulse.Com is the new financial management service designed to help tracking your budget and managing your money. Apart from tracking expenses, assets and bills against income, it helps to build an ideal budget by laying down millstones in expenses above regular intervals of time. So BudgetPulse is a key to have smart spending and savings over your earnings.
How It Works:
BudgetPulse.com provides the pictorial representation of all your expenses, income, assets and accounts in various different forms of charts classifying over different time periods. This is self-explanatory and very effective way of assessing your financial scenario and the age-old known fact that figures and more lasting over digits. BudgetPulse also gives the user effective tools like calculator, expenses search, and calendar and import/export data from excel. BudgetPulse also provides aggregation of news and trends in Financial Market with the curtsey of top search engines.
After logged in to BudgetPulse, You can see the Dashboard, nice feature of the application, shows financial status in a comprehensive scenario. Dashboard shows the upcoming expenses for the next 30 days and over-budget expenses which are over 80% of the budgeted amount. This quick summary gains your attention so that you can make appropriate decisions.
Under the Tracking page, you can create, edit or remove the line of expenses, income, assets and accounts under various heads like bank, debit, credit and food. Under the Budget page, you can set a goal or target for your accounts (e.g. balance with $10,000 each month), set a limit for your expenses categories (e.g. $300 limit on food each month) and set a target for income (e.g. $10,000 income for part time job each month).Under the Summary page, you can view in-depth summary of all Income and expenses. The data can be based as per your preference to track your financial activities over specified period of intervals apart from calendar months.
More at:http://budgetpulse.com/
BudgetPulse.Com is the new financial management service designed to help tracking your budget and managing your money. Apart from tracking expenses, assets and bills against income, it helps to build an ideal budget by laying down millstones in expenses above regular intervals of time. So BudgetPulse is a key to have smart spending and savings over your earnings.
How It Works:
BudgetPulse.com provides the pictorial representation of all your expenses, income, assets and accounts in various different forms of charts classifying over different time periods. This is self-explanatory and very effective way of assessing your financial scenario and the age-old known fact that figures and more lasting over digits. BudgetPulse also gives the user effective tools like calculator, expenses search, and calendar and import/export data from excel. BudgetPulse also provides aggregation of news and trends in Financial Market with the curtsey of top search engines.
After logged in to BudgetPulse, You can see the Dashboard, nice feature of the application, shows financial status in a comprehensive scenario. Dashboard shows the upcoming expenses for the next 30 days and over-budget expenses which are over 80% of the budgeted amount. This quick summary gains your attention so that you can make appropriate decisions.
Under the Tracking page, you can create, edit or remove the line of expenses, income, assets and accounts under various heads like bank, debit, credit and food. Under the Budget page, you can set a goal or target for your accounts (e.g. balance with $10,000 each month), set a limit for your expenses categories (e.g. $300 limit on food each month) and set a target for income (e.g. $10,000 income for part time job each month).Under the Summary page, you can view in-depth summary of all Income and expenses. The data can be based as per your preference to track your financial activities over specified period of intervals apart from calendar months.
More at:http://budgetpulse.com/
Jowba-- For Startup Companies And Startup Jobs
What Company Is Offering:
Jowba is here to do two things:
Help the right job seekers find you.Make the whole team–building process as easy as possible.
They have a whole strategy to drive high quality, startup–type folks to you, and our product itself is definitely a part of that plan. Your company profile is one of the main angles of attack: sure, tell people about your mission and your products, but also about your team and what it's like to actually work at your startup. Job seekers want to know how big you are, how much funding you have, who your investors are, what your revenue picture looks like, what the office itself looks like (pictures!) and whether or not it's cool to wear sandals to work. You can share as much or as little as you like – every descriptor has a stealth option for all you super secretive operators – but we encourage you to open up as much as post.They've tried to build a great opportunity for you to sell yourselves, so take advantage of it!
How It Works:
Build your profile, and they integrate it with every job posting. Post a job once, and it automatically reposts after thirty days (that's right). When someone applies for one of your jobs, we'll send you the whole resume and cover letter, just a notification, or nothing at all – it's up to you. We store all of the applications in a user–friendly, sortable menu, and make it simple to update your profile, add team comments to job postings, and add new office locations (yep, you can post jobs for multiple company branches, all under the same profile). We think you'll like it, but check it out for yourself.
To help you learn as much as possible about growing startups so you can find where you fit best.To make the job search process as fun and easy as possible.
One of the key additions they bring to the table is the company profile. Where a generic job description tells you diddly about the company itself, Jowba profiles provide an in–depth, behind the scenes look at startups who are hiring. Beyond mission statements and product overviews, don't you want to know how many people are on the team, how much funding they have (and from whom), what their revenue picture looks like, and what it's actually like to work there? We sure do. Check out photos, get to know where the office is, learn more about the team and the environment, and much more. more...
In terms of design and usability, we've tried to include the features and functionality that they have all come to expect from our digital tools. Startup profiles are integrated with the job postings themselves – pretty smoothly, if we do say so ourselves – and we've including capabilities such as social bookmarking, email, RSS feeds (both general and for specific searches), and maps. Everything is searchable, and almost everything is sortable, too. Our detailed search is pretty cool, too – try adjusting your search options to find startups and jobs that are right in your sweet spot.
The point is that it takes a certain type of person to work in a startup, to lead this type of life, and to build something important and lasting. This is why we're here. Jowba is about startup companies, startup jobs, and the startup people who grow them.
The most basic building blocks are company profiles, so that job seekers can find the startup that fits them best. Startups build their profile once, and it's attached to every job they post.
More at:http://jowba.com/
Jowba is here to do two things:
Help the right job seekers find you.Make the whole team–building process as easy as possible.
They have a whole strategy to drive high quality, startup–type folks to you, and our product itself is definitely a part of that plan. Your company profile is one of the main angles of attack: sure, tell people about your mission and your products, but also about your team and what it's like to actually work at your startup. Job seekers want to know how big you are, how much funding you have, who your investors are, what your revenue picture looks like, what the office itself looks like (pictures!) and whether or not it's cool to wear sandals to work. You can share as much or as little as you like – every descriptor has a stealth option for all you super secretive operators – but we encourage you to open up as much as post.They've tried to build a great opportunity for you to sell yourselves, so take advantage of it!
How It Works:
Build your profile, and they integrate it with every job posting. Post a job once, and it automatically reposts after thirty days (that's right). When someone applies for one of your jobs, we'll send you the whole resume and cover letter, just a notification, or nothing at all – it's up to you. We store all of the applications in a user–friendly, sortable menu, and make it simple to update your profile, add team comments to job postings, and add new office locations (yep, you can post jobs for multiple company branches, all under the same profile). We think you'll like it, but check it out for yourself.
To help you learn as much as possible about growing startups so you can find where you fit best.To make the job search process as fun and easy as possible.
One of the key additions they bring to the table is the company profile. Where a generic job description tells you diddly about the company itself, Jowba profiles provide an in–depth, behind the scenes look at startups who are hiring. Beyond mission statements and product overviews, don't you want to know how many people are on the team, how much funding they have (and from whom), what their revenue picture looks like, and what it's actually like to work there? We sure do. Check out photos, get to know where the office is, learn more about the team and the environment, and much more. more...
In terms of design and usability, we've tried to include the features and functionality that they have all come to expect from our digital tools. Startup profiles are integrated with the job postings themselves – pretty smoothly, if we do say so ourselves – and we've including capabilities such as social bookmarking, email, RSS feeds (both general and for specific searches), and maps. Everything is searchable, and almost everything is sortable, too. Our detailed search is pretty cool, too – try adjusting your search options to find startups and jobs that are right in your sweet spot.
The point is that it takes a certain type of person to work in a startup, to lead this type of life, and to build something important and lasting. This is why we're here. Jowba is about startup companies, startup jobs, and the startup people who grow them.
The most basic building blocks are company profiles, so that job seekers can find the startup that fits them best. Startups build their profile once, and it's attached to every job they post.
More at:http://jowba.com/
VisibleLogistics is an on-demand order and shipment management service
What Company Is Offering:
VisibleLogistics is an on-demand order and shipment management service. It automatically sends order status notifications to you and your partners via e-mail or SMS.
How It Works:
With VisibleLogistics, smaller businesses can cut down this time spent on communicating. VisibleLogistics combines the processes linked to orders, inventory and communication with the other partners of the supply chain into one on-line on-demand application. VisibleLogistics monitors order and shipment status, and automatically sends e-mails to the relevant parties when important changes are made.
Unlike the track-and-trace systems provided by the express carriers and large shipping companies, you can use VisibleLogistics to monitor shipments across different carriers and transport modes. This can be useful if agents are moving shipments with a variety of different carriers. VisibleLogistics is indeed used by small forwarders to provide shipment monitoring and status updates to their customers. It enables them to provide service levels that match those of their larger competitors.
The benefits of VisibleLogistics are improved accuracy, round the clock availability of information for customers and a single view of all order and shipment activity.
More at:https://www.visiblelogistics.com/
VisibleLogistics is an on-demand order and shipment management service. It automatically sends order status notifications to you and your partners via e-mail or SMS.
How It Works:
With VisibleLogistics, smaller businesses can cut down this time spent on communicating. VisibleLogistics combines the processes linked to orders, inventory and communication with the other partners of the supply chain into one on-line on-demand application. VisibleLogistics monitors order and shipment status, and automatically sends e-mails to the relevant parties when important changes are made.
Unlike the track-and-trace systems provided by the express carriers and large shipping companies, you can use VisibleLogistics to monitor shipments across different carriers and transport modes. This can be useful if agents are moving shipments with a variety of different carriers. VisibleLogistics is indeed used by small forwarders to provide shipment monitoring and status updates to their customers. It enables them to provide service levels that match those of their larger competitors.
The benefits of VisibleLogistics are improved accuracy, round the clock availability of information for customers and a single view of all order and shipment activity.
More at:https://www.visiblelogistics.com/
Friday, March 7, 2008
Matching people with meaningful opportunities…
What Company Is Offering:
Matching people with meaningful opportunities…
They help match their clients with college students and recent graduates for internships and entry-level jobs.
How Is It Different:
Placement firms are experts in placement, period. They are experts in the up and coming generation first, placement second. This is an important difference. This means they have the expertise to help young professionals uncover what they really want to do and where they will truly excel, prior to making a match – hence the “meaningful” part.
More at:http://www.fahrenheight360.com/
Matching people with meaningful opportunities…
They help match their clients with college students and recent graduates for internships and entry-level jobs.
How Is It Different:
Placement firms are experts in placement, period. They are experts in the up and coming generation first, placement second. This is an important difference. This means they have the expertise to help young professionals uncover what they really want to do and where they will truly excel, prior to making a match – hence the “meaningful” part.
More at:http://www.fahrenheight360.com/
Aggregate Knowledge --Connects consumers to the hottest products, hidden content gems and coolest items from industry leading retailers and media co.
What Company Is Offering:
Aggregate Knowledge provides the Pique Discovery Network. The Pique Discovery Network connects consumers to the hottest products, hidden content gems and coolest items from industry leading retailers and media companies. Pique Discovery Network companies improve engagement and sales conversions, create new revenue opportunities and deliver differentiated experiences on their web sites.
How It Works:
The Aggregate Knowledge Pique Discovery Network is the Internet's first Discovery Network that emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built on top of a sophisticated super computing architecture, Pique technology harnesses the collective behavior of Internet users to drive the most relevant content and product placements on customers' web sites, across multiple network sites and through email and affiliate promotions. Pique offerings help companies improve engagement and conversions, create new revenue opportunities and deliver differentiated experiences on their web sites.
Who Is Backing Them:
Funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures, the company's management team includes veterans from Blockbuster, IBM, Kodak, Mercury, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun Microsystems and Tribe.net.
More at:http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/
Aggregate Knowledge provides the Pique Discovery Network. The Pique Discovery Network connects consumers to the hottest products, hidden content gems and coolest items from industry leading retailers and media companies. Pique Discovery Network companies improve engagement and sales conversions, create new revenue opportunities and deliver differentiated experiences on their web sites.
How It Works:
The Aggregate Knowledge Pique Discovery Network is the Internet's first Discovery Network that emulates the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built on top of a sophisticated super computing architecture, Pique technology harnesses the collective behavior of Internet users to drive the most relevant content and product placements on customers' web sites, across multiple network sites and through email and affiliate promotions. Pique offerings help companies improve engagement and conversions, create new revenue opportunities and deliver differentiated experiences on their web sites.
Who Is Backing Them:
Funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures, the company's management team includes veterans from Blockbuster, IBM, Kodak, Mercury, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun Microsystems and Tribe.net.
More at:http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/
Enablr is about creating a suite of extremely simple tools that help you to communicate better on the web
What Company Is Offering:
Enablr is about creating a suite of extremely simple tools that help you to communicate better on the web.
How It Works:
A subscription-based service that will monitor your podcast feed and automatically start the transcription process.Not sure if it's worth paying for transcription? Let your audience tell you! The Transcribr Now module will let you add a tip jar specifically for the purpose of transcribing your podcast.
Maintain a profile including your past recipients, preferences for letter format, and create an email address for grandma@stenographr.com so you can write to her via e-mail.
Tag your blog posts for specific recipients or groups of recipients, and they will receive a weekly or monthly digest of your writing.
More at:http://www.enablr.com/
Enablr is about creating a suite of extremely simple tools that help you to communicate better on the web.
How It Works:
A subscription-based service that will monitor your podcast feed and automatically start the transcription process.Not sure if it's worth paying for transcription? Let your audience tell you! The Transcribr Now module will let you add a tip jar specifically for the purpose of transcribing your podcast.
Maintain a profile including your past recipients, preferences for letter format, and create an email address for grandma@stenographr.com so you can write to her via e-mail.
Tag your blog posts for specific recipients or groups of recipients, and they will receive a weekly or monthly digest of your writing.
More at:http://www.enablr.com/
One Brick is a non-profit volunteer organization that brings volunteers together to support other local non-profit organizations
What Company Is Offering:
One Brick is a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer organization that brings volunteers together to support other local non-profit organizations by adopting an innovative twist to the volunteer experience: they create a friendly and social atmosphere around volunteering, and after each volunteer event -- which typically lasts only 3 to 4 hours --they invite volunteers to gather at a local restaurant or café where they can get to know one another in a relaxed social setting. Through their volunteer projects, they provide non-profits with the much-needed labor to carry out their visions. At the same time they also foster an environment in which to meet new people, both socially and professionally.
More at:http://www.onebrick.org/
One Brick is a 501(c)3 non-profit volunteer organization that brings volunteers together to support other local non-profit organizations by adopting an innovative twist to the volunteer experience: they create a friendly and social atmosphere around volunteering, and after each volunteer event -- which typically lasts only 3 to 4 hours --they invite volunteers to gather at a local restaurant or café where they can get to know one another in a relaxed social setting. Through their volunteer projects, they provide non-profits with the much-needed labor to carry out their visions. At the same time they also foster an environment in which to meet new people, both socially and professionally.
More at:http://www.onebrick.org/
Anchor Intelligence provides the most comprehensive analysis of web traffic quality available on the market today
What Company Is Offering:
Anchor Intelligence provides the most comprehensive analysis of web traffic quality available on the market today. Their methodology uses a wide range of innovative modeling techniques, proprietary analytics, and extensive network security intelligence to determine the quality of traffic on your site.The company was founded on the principles of transparency and accountability in online advertising and is committed to upholding high standards of trust and integrity.
How It Works:
Anchor Intelligence provides search networks, advertisers, agencies, and ad networks with cutting edge solutions to confidently assess the quality of traffic on their network.
Their goal is to provide rigorous analysis of web traffic to enable advertisers to make informed choices about the dollars they spend online, and to help ad and search networks capitalize on monetization opportunities that benefit both advertisers and themselves.
No two visitors to your site are the same...and neither are the clicks they generate. Anchor Intelligence takes the mystery out of calculating true ROI on advertising spend by evaluating each click, and assessing a quality score based on all known characteristics of that click. Anchor's traffic quality solutions enable you to reduce the volume of illegitimate visitors to your site while aligning your business with its most valuable customers.
They have a world-class team of practitioners, scientists, and engineers who have proven track records in fraud, risk management, online advertising, and security. They are committed to building solutions that scale with their customers and providing insights that drive critical business decisions.
More at:http://www.anchorintelligence.com/
Anchor Intelligence provides the most comprehensive analysis of web traffic quality available on the market today. Their methodology uses a wide range of innovative modeling techniques, proprietary analytics, and extensive network security intelligence to determine the quality of traffic on your site.The company was founded on the principles of transparency and accountability in online advertising and is committed to upholding high standards of trust and integrity.
How It Works:
Anchor Intelligence provides search networks, advertisers, agencies, and ad networks with cutting edge solutions to confidently assess the quality of traffic on their network.
Their goal is to provide rigorous analysis of web traffic to enable advertisers to make informed choices about the dollars they spend online, and to help ad and search networks capitalize on monetization opportunities that benefit both advertisers and themselves.
No two visitors to your site are the same...and neither are the clicks they generate. Anchor Intelligence takes the mystery out of calculating true ROI on advertising spend by evaluating each click, and assessing a quality score based on all known characteristics of that click. Anchor's traffic quality solutions enable you to reduce the volume of illegitimate visitors to your site while aligning your business with its most valuable customers.
They have a world-class team of practitioners, scientists, and engineers who have proven track records in fraud, risk management, online advertising, and security. They are committed to building solutions that scale with their customers and providing insights that drive critical business decisions.
More at:http://www.anchorintelligence.com/
Betpuls.com scout for news that is relevant for people that work in the online gambling industry
What Company Is Offering:
Betpuls.com scout for news that is relevant for people that work in the online gambling industry. Betpuls.com will help feed the business with knowledge. Each article has its own comments section where discussion help the visitor to get more information. Information given by other members or visitors are often more valuable than the article itself.
All companies in the gambling industry are interested about legal news, new jurisdictions, news regarding monopoly changes and how that can affect their business, by using Betpuls.com data like this is accessible. Everyone can now start building their knowledge-bank that leads to higher value on the work market for the individual visitor. With many talented people already using Betpuls.com, the section for job opportunities http://www.betpuls.com/List/23/job-opportunities.html is a highly visited section. Betpuls.com charge no fee for providing this service, neither for the visitor or publisher. Both software suppliers http://www.betpuls.com/List/21/software-suppliers.html and other gambling companies can contact jobs@betpuls.com and have their vacancies published.
During the one month that Betpuls.com has been live, over 400 high value, carefully selected articles have been shared and more are being published every day.
Betpuls.com listens to each visitor and welcomes feedback of new sections and type of news to scout for. Visitors are also given the option to upload their own articles that are relevant to the online gambling industry.
Company Info;
betpuls.com
Anders Svensson
+44 77 895 845 06
news@betpuls.com
www.betpuls.com
Betpuls.com scout for news that is relevant for people that work in the online gambling industry. Betpuls.com will help feed the business with knowledge. Each article has its own comments section where discussion help the visitor to get more information. Information given by other members or visitors are often more valuable than the article itself.
All companies in the gambling industry are interested about legal news, new jurisdictions, news regarding monopoly changes and how that can affect their business, by using Betpuls.com data like this is accessible. Everyone can now start building their knowledge-bank that leads to higher value on the work market for the individual visitor. With many talented people already using Betpuls.com, the section for job opportunities http://www.betpuls.com/List/23/job-opportunities.html is a highly visited section. Betpuls.com charge no fee for providing this service, neither for the visitor or publisher. Both software suppliers http://www.betpuls.com/List/21/software-suppliers.html and other gambling companies can contact jobs@betpuls.com and have their vacancies published.
During the one month that Betpuls.com has been live, over 400 high value, carefully selected articles have been shared and more are being published every day.
Betpuls.com listens to each visitor and welcomes feedback of new sections and type of news to scout for. Visitors are also given the option to upload their own articles that are relevant to the online gambling industry.
Company Info;
betpuls.com
Anders Svensson
+44 77 895 845 06
news@betpuls.com
www.betpuls.com
NutraNutra.com
What Company Says:
NutraNutra.com was created by an industry professional with over 10 years experience that include marketing, formulation, resale, distribution and product design in various aspects of the Nutraceutical Industry.
Essentially the website was created to be an online one-stop shopping site specific to the Nutraceutical Industry. You now have the ability to do hours of research in minutes, reach large numbers of buyers and industry executives quickly and effortlessly and access supplier availability and company contact and profile information instantly. We encourage you to embrace NutraNutra.com and use it as the business and marketing tool it has been designed to be.
How It Works:
To list your item simply click on the Sell link found on the header navigational bar. The listing process is split up into several main sections, notably:-
Category selection
Item Details
Auction Settings
Shipping and Payment
Listing preview
Listing confirmation
The listing process is developed in such a way that you are guided through every step seamlessly.
The first part of the process is to choose the category you wish to list your item in, this can be revised at any time by using the Previous Step navigation button.
Step two enables you to enter your item title and description, an editor is in place to enable you to use HTML descriptions.
More at:http://www.nutranutra.com/
NutraNutra.com was created by an industry professional with over 10 years experience that include marketing, formulation, resale, distribution and product design in various aspects of the Nutraceutical Industry.
Essentially the website was created to be an online one-stop shopping site specific to the Nutraceutical Industry. You now have the ability to do hours of research in minutes, reach large numbers of buyers and industry executives quickly and effortlessly and access supplier availability and company contact and profile information instantly. We encourage you to embrace NutraNutra.com and use it as the business and marketing tool it has been designed to be.
How It Works:
To list your item simply click on the Sell link found on the header navigational bar. The listing process is split up into several main sections, notably:-
Category selection
Item Details
Auction Settings
Shipping and Payment
Listing preview
Listing confirmation
The listing process is developed in such a way that you are guided through every step seamlessly.
The first part of the process is to choose the category you wish to list your item in, this can be revised at any time by using the Previous Step navigation button.
Step two enables you to enter your item title and description, an editor is in place to enable you to use HTML descriptions.
More at:http://www.nutranutra.com/
MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace
What Company Is Offering:
MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace, offers a patented online process that enables the buying and selling of print advertising space in U.S. newspapers and magazines. Advertisers and publications can interact through an advertiser auction, in which advertisers place print advertising dollars up for bid and publications compete, or through advertising offers in which publications place ad space up for sale and advertisers can purchase instantly. MediaBids also provides traditional print media planning and buying to all registered advertisers. To date, over 12,000 businesses have registered on MediaBids.com to purchase advertising and over 4,600 newspapers and magazines have registered their print publications to sell ad space.
Recent Updates:
MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace, announced today that it has added over 325 newspapers and magazines to its print advertising marketplace so far in 2008.
To date, over 4,600 U.S. print publications have registered on MediaBids to use their online processes to sell ad space in their print editions. Publications can sell ad space via two primary online methods – a straight-sales option and a reverse advertising auction. In the straight-sale format, publications can simply post available advertising inventory for sale in the MediaBids marketplace which is then immediately available for advertisers to purchase. The patented reverse-auction method allows advertisers to place their advertising dollars up for bid using a simple online RFP auction form, and publications can then bid using their ad space as currency.
More at:
Mediabids, Inc.
Jessica Lampron
1-866-236-2259
jlampron@mediabids.com
http://www.mediabids.com
MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace, offers a patented online process that enables the buying and selling of print advertising space in U.S. newspapers and magazines. Advertisers and publications can interact through an advertiser auction, in which advertisers place print advertising dollars up for bid and publications compete, or through advertising offers in which publications place ad space up for sale and advertisers can purchase instantly. MediaBids also provides traditional print media planning and buying to all registered advertisers. To date, over 12,000 businesses have registered on MediaBids.com to purchase advertising and over 4,600 newspapers and magazines have registered their print publications to sell ad space.
Recent Updates:
MediaBids.com, the Newspaper and Magazine Advertising Marketplace, announced today that it has added over 325 newspapers and magazines to its print advertising marketplace so far in 2008.
To date, over 4,600 U.S. print publications have registered on MediaBids to use their online processes to sell ad space in their print editions. Publications can sell ad space via two primary online methods – a straight-sales option and a reverse advertising auction. In the straight-sale format, publications can simply post available advertising inventory for sale in the MediaBids marketplace which is then immediately available for advertisers to purchase. The patented reverse-auction method allows advertisers to place their advertising dollars up for bid using a simple online RFP auction form, and publications can then bid using their ad space as currency.
More at:
Mediabids, Inc.
Jessica Lampron
1-866-236-2259
jlampron@mediabids.com
http://www.mediabids.com
Kapow Technologies, the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence got $11.6 million in VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Kapow Technologies is the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence with software that turns the Web into the world's largest database. Based on the company's patented, visual scripting method, the Kapow Mashup Server powers solutions in reputation management, competitive intelligence, asymmetric intelligence, content aggregation, content syndication, content migration, SOA enablement and business automation at a fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional software methods.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Kapow Technologies, the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence with software that turns the web into the world's largest database, today announced that it has signed definitive documents to complete a Series-C financing round of $11.6 million. Closing is expected to occur by March 31. New investors include Steamboat Ventures, a venture capital firm affiliated with The Walt Disney Company, and Morgan Stanley's Strategic Investments Group. Previous investors Kennet Partners and NorthCap Partners also participated in the round.
The new funds will enable the company to significantly enhance its software as a service (SaaS) platform and expand its global sales operations in the media, financial services, manufacturing, transportation and government sectors where the company has established a leadership position.
More at:
Kapow Technologies:
Kurt Foeller
+1 415-578-3251
kurt.foeller@kapowtech.com
Kapow Technologies is the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence with software that turns the Web into the world's largest database. Based on the company's patented, visual scripting method, the Kapow Mashup Server powers solutions in reputation management, competitive intelligence, asymmetric intelligence, content aggregation, content syndication, content migration, SOA enablement and business automation at a fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional software methods.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Kapow Technologies, the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence with software that turns the web into the world's largest database, today announced that it has signed definitive documents to complete a Series-C financing round of $11.6 million. Closing is expected to occur by March 31. New investors include Steamboat Ventures, a venture capital firm affiliated with The Walt Disney Company, and Morgan Stanley's Strategic Investments Group. Previous investors Kennet Partners and NorthCap Partners also participated in the round.
The new funds will enable the company to significantly enhance its software as a service (SaaS) platform and expand its global sales operations in the media, financial services, manufacturing, transportation and government sectors where the company has established a leadership position.
More at:
Kapow Technologies:
Kurt Foeller
+1 415-578-3251
kurt.foeller@kapowtech.com
Coveo Solutions Inc., a global provider of enterprise search technology got$2.5M in Funding
What Company Is Offering:
Coveo offers search solutions that empower people to instantly and securely access and navigate the critical knowledge they need from disparate systems otherwise not integrated. Whether it's to meet regulatory compliance, improve customer response, protect intellectual property or improve organizational efficiencies, Coveo's enterprise search technology enables organizations to find, understand and act on critical information located anywhere in the enterprise. Coveo's enterprise clients include: HP, Procter & Gamble, CA, Rabobank, PwC, Deloitte, Nomura, National Grid, AMN Healthcare, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NASA, AC Nielsen, US Navy, Yellow Pages Group (Canada), Haley & Aldrich, simyo GmbH etc.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Coveo Solutions Inc., a global provider of enterprise search technology, is pleased to announce the completion of an investment round of $2.5M led by Louis Tetu, the former founder, CEO and Chairman of Taleo Corporation [NASDAQ:TLEO], the global leader of on demand, unified talent management solutions. In addition to the investment, Mr. Tetu will join Coveo as executive chairman, where he will serve on the management team helping direct the explosive growth of the company.
Other investors include Mr. Patrick O'Leary, former VP of Business Strategy of Cognos, and Mr. Jean Lavigueur and Mr. Benoit Leclerc, respectively the former CFO and EVP Sales of Taleo Corporation and currently CFO and EVP Sales of Coveo, Inc.
More at: www.coveo.com
Coveo Solutions, Inc.
Peter J. Gorman, +1 781-371-0511, ext. 2 (USA)
pgorman@coveo.com
or
L’Impresario Communications
Marie-Josée Gagné, 418-682-2402 (Canada)
mjgagne@limpresario.com
Coveo offers search solutions that empower people to instantly and securely access and navigate the critical knowledge they need from disparate systems otherwise not integrated. Whether it's to meet regulatory compliance, improve customer response, protect intellectual property or improve organizational efficiencies, Coveo's enterprise search technology enables organizations to find, understand and act on critical information located anywhere in the enterprise. Coveo's enterprise clients include: HP, Procter & Gamble, CA, Rabobank, PwC, Deloitte, Nomura, National Grid, AMN Healthcare, Lockheed Martin, NATO, NASA, AC Nielsen, US Navy, Yellow Pages Group (Canada), Haley & Aldrich, simyo GmbH etc.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Coveo Solutions Inc., a global provider of enterprise search technology, is pleased to announce the completion of an investment round of $2.5M led by Louis Tetu, the former founder, CEO and Chairman of Taleo Corporation [NASDAQ:TLEO], the global leader of on demand, unified talent management solutions. In addition to the investment, Mr. Tetu will join Coveo as executive chairman, where he will serve on the management team helping direct the explosive growth of the company.
Other investors include Mr. Patrick O'Leary, former VP of Business Strategy of Cognos, and Mr. Jean Lavigueur and Mr. Benoit Leclerc, respectively the former CFO and EVP Sales of Taleo Corporation and currently CFO and EVP Sales of Coveo, Inc.
More at: www.coveo.com
Coveo Solutions, Inc.
Peter J. Gorman, +1 781-371-0511, ext. 2 (USA)
pgorman@coveo.com
or
L’Impresario Communications
Marie-Josée Gagné, 418-682-2402 (Canada)
mjgagne@limpresario.com
Rapid Mobile Media Ltd, providers of innovative mobile advertising and mobile application provisioning software platforms got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
Rapid Mobile Media are an Edinburgh-based software company licensing platforms that enable automatic optimisation, delivery and installation of applications and content on any mobile phone, without the need for user intervention or device-side agents. Their Active Provisioning platform and ThinkPhone design environment allow the rapid deployment of any type of service to the mobile environment, and have to date automatically provisioned more than 3,000 phone types. The Ad360 platform provides complete management of mobile advertising campaigns, allowing graphical and textual adverts to automatically be delivered to the selected WAP, SMS, MMS or application channels at the highest possible quality.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Rapid Mobile Media Ltd, providers of innovative mobile advertising and mobile application provisioning software platforms, announced the completion of a second investment round of Gbp2m led by US venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) who were joined by Alliance Trust Equity Partners (ATEP) as new investors in the company. Existing investors Pentech Ventures and Scottish Enterprise's Scottish Venture Fund also participated in the round.
About VCs:
1.
Alliance Trust Equity Partners Limited is the private equity arm of Alliance Trust PLC, a FTSE-100 company heading an international investment and financial services group that has offices in Dundee, Edinburgh, London and Hong Kong. Through its financial services subsidiaries Alliance Trust offers asset management for other companies and clients and investment accounts, share-dealing and self-invested personal pensions. ATEP manages third party funds and invests on behalf of Alliance Trust PLC. http://www.atep.co.uk
2.
Pentech Ventures is modelled on "Silicon Valley" venture capital organisations, and takes an active role in working with entrepreneurs to build highly successful technology companies. The executives have a mix of technology, business, and corporate finance experience and are supported by Venture Partners, each of whom have all founded, developed, and sold technology businesses. All at Pentech have a thorough understanding of what it takes to build successful organisations. Pentech invest in best-of-breed teams and ideas and aims to work with entrepreneurial teams that want their venture partner to take an active, critical and wealth-building role in developing their business. Their investment focus is on software infrastructure and applications, for internet content creation and management, communications, and for the new range of internet access devices. Pentech is a division of Penta Capital Partners, an independent private equity house formed in September 1999. For more information on Penta, please visit www.pentacapital.com. Pentech is a division of Penta Capital Partners Limited, Regulated by the FSA.
3.
The Scottish Venture Fund provides investments of up to £2m per transaction in partnership with the private sector on at least a matched funding basis in syndicated transactions, typically, between £2m and £10m. Further information on Scottish Enterprise investments is available at www.scottish-enterprise.com/equity.
More at:http://www.rapid-mobile.com/
Rapid Mobile Media are an Edinburgh-based software company licensing platforms that enable automatic optimisation, delivery and installation of applications and content on any mobile phone, without the need for user intervention or device-side agents. Their Active Provisioning platform and ThinkPhone design environment allow the rapid deployment of any type of service to the mobile environment, and have to date automatically provisioned more than 3,000 phone types. The Ad360 platform provides complete management of mobile advertising campaigns, allowing graphical and textual adverts to automatically be delivered to the selected WAP, SMS, MMS or application channels at the highest possible quality.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Rapid Mobile Media Ltd, providers of innovative mobile advertising and mobile application provisioning software platforms, announced the completion of a second investment round of Gbp2m led by US venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) who were joined by Alliance Trust Equity Partners (ATEP) as new investors in the company. Existing investors Pentech Ventures and Scottish Enterprise's Scottish Venture Fund also participated in the round.
About VCs:
1.
Alliance Trust Equity Partners Limited is the private equity arm of Alliance Trust PLC, a FTSE-100 company heading an international investment and financial services group that has offices in Dundee, Edinburgh, London and Hong Kong. Through its financial services subsidiaries Alliance Trust offers asset management for other companies and clients and investment accounts, share-dealing and self-invested personal pensions. ATEP manages third party funds and invests on behalf of Alliance Trust PLC. http://www.atep.co.uk
2.
Pentech Ventures is modelled on "Silicon Valley" venture capital organisations, and takes an active role in working with entrepreneurs to build highly successful technology companies. The executives have a mix of technology, business, and corporate finance experience and are supported by Venture Partners, each of whom have all founded, developed, and sold technology businesses. All at Pentech have a thorough understanding of what it takes to build successful organisations. Pentech invest in best-of-breed teams and ideas and aims to work with entrepreneurial teams that want their venture partner to take an active, critical and wealth-building role in developing their business. Their investment focus is on software infrastructure and applications, for internet content creation and management, communications, and for the new range of internet access devices. Pentech is a division of Penta Capital Partners, an independent private equity house formed in September 1999. For more information on Penta, please visit www.pentacapital.com. Pentech is a division of Penta Capital Partners Limited, Regulated by the FSA.
3.
The Scottish Venture Fund provides investments of up to £2m per transaction in partnership with the private sector on at least a matched funding basis in syndicated transactions, typically, between £2m and £10m. Further information on Scottish Enterprise investments is available at www.scottish-enterprise.com/equity.
More at:http://www.rapid-mobile.com/
The Livebookings Network is a global marketing and real-time restaurant booking service got VCs funding
What Company Is Offering:
The Livebookings Network is a global marketing and real-time restaurant booking service. The Livebookings Network is continually expanding. By creating strong partnerships with high profile websites, it can give restaurants access to free marketing channels and more potential diners every month. The Network manages the entire integration process for its booking partners, working closely with a company's technical team to deliver entirely customisable customer and booking communications, in tune with their website's needs.
How It Works:
By selecting one of the six integrated reservations management solutions available, Livebookings' restaurant members are able to receive real-time internet bookings from more than 500 independent booking partners – including Time Out, lastminute.com, Laterooms.com, MSN, Eniro, Ticketmaster and American Express – with a collective potential market in excess of 30 million diners.
Operating on a 24/7 real-time system, the Livebookings Network provides a reliable confirmation service and accurate table occupancy information to prospective diners around the clock.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Livebookings the European leading online restaurant reservations and marketing network, announces it has secured Gbp6.5m of funding led by Balderton Capital, the leading venture capital firm behind Bebo, Codemasters and Setanta. The investment will be used to fund growth plans in Europe and develop the company's infrastructure and technology.
About VCs:
Balderton Capital is one of Europe's largest venture capital firms, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, it manages approximately USD 1.5 billion in committed venture capital.
Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 70 companies across a wide variety of technology sectors and geographies, including throughout Europe, and in the US and China. Notable investments include Bebo (the leading social networking site), Betfair (online betting exchange) Codemasters (video games developer and publisher), Habbo Hotel (teen social networking site), MySQL (open-source database business) and Setanta Sports (the European sports broadcaster).
The Livebookings Network is a global marketing and real-time restaurant booking service. The Livebookings Network is continually expanding. By creating strong partnerships with high profile websites, it can give restaurants access to free marketing channels and more potential diners every month. The Network manages the entire integration process for its booking partners, working closely with a company's technical team to deliver entirely customisable customer and booking communications, in tune with their website's needs.
How It Works:
By selecting one of the six integrated reservations management solutions available, Livebookings' restaurant members are able to receive real-time internet bookings from more than 500 independent booking partners – including Time Out, lastminute.com, Laterooms.com, MSN, Eniro, Ticketmaster and American Express – with a collective potential market in excess of 30 million diners.
Operating on a 24/7 real-time system, the Livebookings Network provides a reliable confirmation service and accurate table occupancy information to prospective diners around the clock.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Livebookings the European leading online restaurant reservations and marketing network, announces it has secured Gbp6.5m of funding led by Balderton Capital, the leading venture capital firm behind Bebo, Codemasters and Setanta. The investment will be used to fund growth plans in Europe and develop the company's infrastructure and technology.
About VCs:
Balderton Capital is one of Europe's largest venture capital firms, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, it manages approximately USD 1.5 billion in committed venture capital.
Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 70 companies across a wide variety of technology sectors and geographies, including throughout Europe, and in the US and China. Notable investments include Bebo (the leading social networking site), Betfair (online betting exchange) Codemasters (video games developer and publisher), Habbo Hotel (teen social networking site), MySQL (open-source database business) and Setanta Sports (the European sports broadcaster).
TriHealix, a developer of innovative technology to streamline healthcare payments and consumer account settlements got $7 Million in Series C
What Company Is Offering:
TriHealix provides an integrated healthcare and financial transaction platform designed to administer complex health insurance products and streamline the settlement process between payors and providers, including dental, medical, pharmacy, and vision practitioners. The TriHealix Multi-Authorization Processing platform enables simultaneous, electronic communication and data sharing by all parties to a healthcare transaction – from point of care, to insurance companies, to consumer financial institutions, and back. To connect providers to its platform, TriHealix offers a Web-based portal that integrates payment card acceptance with eligibility verification, as well as other services designed to help providers with revenue cycle management.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TriHealix, a developer of innovative technology to streamline healthcare payments and consumer account settlements, has secured $7 Million in Series C financing. The funds will support the continued development and deployment of its patent-pending Multi-Authorization Processing (MAP) technology and proprietary integrated transaction processing platform.
About VCs:
Lemhi Ventures (www.lemhiventures.com), a Minneapolis-based venture capital firm, led the financing. "Lemhi Ventures invests in companies that bring disruptive change to the healthcare services industry," said Randy Schmidt, Lemhi Ventures Venture Partner and a member of the TriHealix board of directors. "We believe TriHealix is poised to re-invent the healthcare payments business and become one of those companies."
More at: www.trihealix.com
TriHealix provides an integrated healthcare and financial transaction platform designed to administer complex health insurance products and streamline the settlement process between payors and providers, including dental, medical, pharmacy, and vision practitioners. The TriHealix Multi-Authorization Processing platform enables simultaneous, electronic communication and data sharing by all parties to a healthcare transaction – from point of care, to insurance companies, to consumer financial institutions, and back. To connect providers to its platform, TriHealix offers a Web-based portal that integrates payment card acceptance with eligibility verification, as well as other services designed to help providers with revenue cycle management.
How Much They Got From VCs:
TriHealix, a developer of innovative technology to streamline healthcare payments and consumer account settlements, has secured $7 Million in Series C financing. The funds will support the continued development and deployment of its patent-pending Multi-Authorization Processing (MAP) technology and proprietary integrated transaction processing platform.
About VCs:
Lemhi Ventures (www.lemhiventures.com), a Minneapolis-based venture capital firm, led the financing. "Lemhi Ventures invests in companies that bring disruptive change to the healthcare services industry," said Randy Schmidt, Lemhi Ventures Venture Partner and a member of the TriHealix board of directors. "We believe TriHealix is poised to re-invent the healthcare payments business and become one of those companies."
More at: www.trihealix.com
Add to Any is a single-button solution that saves you precious page space and from cluttering your pages
What Company Is Offering:
Add to Any is a single-button solution that saves you precious page space and from cluttering your pages with a bunch of Add to [Service] buttons.
How It Works:
Users of Add to Any typically save their services so that any Add to Any button, including the one on your page, is a one-click link to the service(s) they use.
Your feed becomes exposed to the widest possible audience since Add to Any includes every user's feed reader.
The Add to Any button/link reminds your visitors to bookmark your pages, and links to every online bookmark manager.
FeedBurner provides you with traffic analytics. Add to Any enables your visitors to visually choose among any feed reading service and is completely about making feed subscriptions (and bookmarking) extremely convenient for visitors. You can use FeedBurner in conjunction with Add to Any by entering your FeedBurner feed url.
Without specifying a URL, Add to Any will automatically detect the current page using JavaScript. The problem is, some people don't have JavaScript enabled in their browsers. By typing in the page URL, those people will still be able to bookmark your page.
More at:http://www.addtoany.com/
Add to Any is a single-button solution that saves you precious page space and from cluttering your pages with a bunch of Add to [Service] buttons.
How It Works:
Users of Add to Any typically save their services so that any Add to Any button, including the one on your page, is a one-click link to the service(s) they use.
Your feed becomes exposed to the widest possible audience since Add to Any includes every user's feed reader.
The Add to Any button/link reminds your visitors to bookmark your pages, and links to every online bookmark manager.
FeedBurner provides you with traffic analytics. Add to Any enables your visitors to visually choose among any feed reading service and is completely about making feed subscriptions (and bookmarking) extremely convenient for visitors. You can use FeedBurner in conjunction with Add to Any by entering your FeedBurner feed url.
Without specifying a URL, Add to Any will automatically detect the current page using JavaScript. The problem is, some people don't have JavaScript enabled in their browsers. By typing in the page URL, those people will still be able to bookmark your page.
More at:http://www.addtoany.com/
Asterpix--Convert videos from across the web into interactive videos
What Company Is Offering:
Asterpix is the place to view and create interactive video:
Convert videos from across the web into interactive videos,
Share your interactive videos on Asterpix, blogs, social network profile pages or other websites.
How It Works:
Asterpix enables users to easily create hypervideos and share them through websites, blogs and email. Analogous to hypertext, hypervideo provides an interactive experience by allowing viewers to select objects of interest to get more information or navigate the video.
Hypervideo is comparable to hypertext in some respects. Hypertext makes text an interactive experience, allowing you to create and click on “hot” links to navigate a document. Hypertext has changed the way we navigate documents. For example, when we open a simple text document such as a printed book, we often look at the table of contents first and then turn to the page of interest. When we open a hypertext document, the table of contents typically comprises links to the appropriate portions of the document. Simply clicking on these links takes us to the relevant sections and subsections. Hypertext documents contain links to other hypertext documents allowing the reader to navigate large quantities of information quickly to gather what is of interest at that moment.
More at:http://asterpix.com/
Asterpix is the place to view and create interactive video:
Convert videos from across the web into interactive videos,
Share your interactive videos on Asterpix, blogs, social network profile pages or other websites.
How It Works:
Asterpix enables users to easily create hypervideos and share them through websites, blogs and email. Analogous to hypertext, hypervideo provides an interactive experience by allowing viewers to select objects of interest to get more information or navigate the video.
Hypervideo is comparable to hypertext in some respects. Hypertext makes text an interactive experience, allowing you to create and click on “hot” links to navigate a document. Hypertext has changed the way we navigate documents. For example, when we open a simple text document such as a printed book, we often look at the table of contents first and then turn to the page of interest. When we open a hypertext document, the table of contents typically comprises links to the appropriate portions of the document. Simply clicking on these links takes us to the relevant sections and subsections. Hypertext documents contain links to other hypertext documents allowing the reader to navigate large quantities of information quickly to gather what is of interest at that moment.
More at:http://asterpix.com/
Joint Contact is a great solution for busy project managers, business owners and individuals that need a quick and easy way to manage multiple project
What Company Is Offering:
Joint Contact is an online project collaboration solution that supports group management and creation of documents, discussions, schedules, cases, tasks and team information. Available online or hosted at your company, Joint Contact supports companies in their efforts to maintain "high trust" person-to-person (P2P) and business-to-business (B2B) relationships.
How It Works:
Joint Contact facilitates a simple and intuitive way to collaborate, so your team can start using it within minutes. For example, a user can share documents, participate in online discussions, coordinate a project, or post status reports with team members, partners or even customers. Companies can also choose to extend and/or integrate Joint Contact with existing line-of-business applications, company websites or other web applications.
Joint Contact is a great solution for busy project managers, business owners and individuals that need a quick and easy way to manage multiple projects involving different team members. Joint Contact allows you to easily organize both business and personal projects in a single unified view, keeping your team organized and making information quicker to access. Read our examples to see how Joint Contact can benefit your business.
More at:http://www.jointcontact.com/
Joint Contact is an online project collaboration solution that supports group management and creation of documents, discussions, schedules, cases, tasks and team information. Available online or hosted at your company, Joint Contact supports companies in their efforts to maintain "high trust" person-to-person (P2P) and business-to-business (B2B) relationships.
How It Works:
Joint Contact facilitates a simple and intuitive way to collaborate, so your team can start using it within minutes. For example, a user can share documents, participate in online discussions, coordinate a project, or post status reports with team members, partners or even customers. Companies can also choose to extend and/or integrate Joint Contact with existing line-of-business applications, company websites or other web applications.
Joint Contact is a great solution for busy project managers, business owners and individuals that need a quick and easy way to manage multiple projects involving different team members. Joint Contact allows you to easily organize both business and personal projects in a single unified view, keeping your team organized and making information quicker to access. Read our examples to see how Joint Contact can benefit your business.
More at:http://www.jointcontact.com/
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Within3 allows you to find health professional
What Company Is Offering:
Within3 is a health technology company, founded by social scientists, whose mission is to help organizations and health-science professionals forge stronger relationships to fight and prevent disease.
Connecting professionals to the trusted colleagues and organizations around them, Within3 works with health-science organizations to create powerful interdisciplinary, stand-alone, or multi-center communities with the goal of accelerating research and improving patient outcomes.
How It Works:
Within3 allows you to find professional contacts with common interests, gain referrals, increase your visibility within your field, recruit patients for clinical trials, stay informed of the latest medical advancements, keep in touch with former colleagues and graduate/medical school classmates, and communicate with advanced health professionals around the world.
Within3 believes that by providing health professionals a safe and secure venue for finding, evaluating, and sharing information, there is great potential for ground–breaking advances in collaborative research, discovery, and treatment.
More at:https://www.within3.com/
Within3 is a health technology company, founded by social scientists, whose mission is to help organizations and health-science professionals forge stronger relationships to fight and prevent disease.
Connecting professionals to the trusted colleagues and organizations around them, Within3 works with health-science organizations to create powerful interdisciplinary, stand-alone, or multi-center communities with the goal of accelerating research and improving patient outcomes.
How It Works:
Within3 allows you to find professional contacts with common interests, gain referrals, increase your visibility within your field, recruit patients for clinical trials, stay informed of the latest medical advancements, keep in touch with former colleagues and graduate/medical school classmates, and communicate with advanced health professionals around the world.
Within3 believes that by providing health professionals a safe and secure venue for finding, evaluating, and sharing information, there is great potential for ground–breaking advances in collaborative research, discovery, and treatment.
More at:https://www.within3.com/
Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human
What Company Is Offering:
Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human
participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web.
How It Works:
Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. Submit links to your social bookmarks, social profiles, blogs, news stories, authoritative articles, images, videos, and web pages that will help improve relevant searches. Share your knowledge and interests with the world and help people search and surf the web.
More at:http://www.stumpedia.com/
Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human
participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web.
How It Works:
Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. Submit links to your social bookmarks, social profiles, blogs, news stories, authoritative articles, images, videos, and web pages that will help improve relevant searches. Share your knowledge and interests with the world and help people search and surf the web.
More at:http://www.stumpedia.com/
Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites
What Company Is Offering:
Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites. By utilizing a distributed network, Yoggin.com is able to target the entire workforce compared to only 16% targeted by traditional job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, and HotJobs.com.
How It Works:
By combining a traditional job board with our distributed network, they are able to serve appropriate job listings to qualified prospects. By indexing content, Yoggin.com can determine if the content is related to specific industries so we can serve relevant job openings. In addition, they are able to present job openings to candidates that previously weren’t looking for a job. These candidates Yoggin.com targets tend to be more qualified and loyal than employees who are looking for a new job. This equates to a significant competitive advantage for organizations.
At any given time, only 16% of the workforce is actively looking for a job. By using traditional job boards, you’re limited to sifting through this 16% of the workforce to fill your positions. Yoggin.com expands this reach to 100% by placing job listings where people go on a daily basis. Our job ads run on news, blogs, email, and article related sites as text ads. Partner sites are entered into channels on the Yoggin.com system. Job listings are also entered into channels when submitted on the Yoggin.com job board. By matching channels and content, we deliver exceptional results for hiring employers. Expand your reach and gain a competitive advantage with Yoggin.com.
More at:http://www.yoggin.com/
Yoggin.com is a job advertising network that delivers job listings across a vast network of partner sites. By utilizing a distributed network, Yoggin.com is able to target the entire workforce compared to only 16% targeted by traditional job boards like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, and HotJobs.com.
How It Works:
By combining a traditional job board with our distributed network, they are able to serve appropriate job listings to qualified prospects. By indexing content, Yoggin.com can determine if the content is related to specific industries so we can serve relevant job openings. In addition, they are able to present job openings to candidates that previously weren’t looking for a job. These candidates Yoggin.com targets tend to be more qualified and loyal than employees who are looking for a new job. This equates to a significant competitive advantage for organizations.
At any given time, only 16% of the workforce is actively looking for a job. By using traditional job boards, you’re limited to sifting through this 16% of the workforce to fill your positions. Yoggin.com expands this reach to 100% by placing job listings where people go on a daily basis. Our job ads run on news, blogs, email, and article related sites as text ads. Partner sites are entered into channels on the Yoggin.com system. Job listings are also entered into channels when submitted on the Yoggin.com job board. By matching channels and content, we deliver exceptional results for hiring employers. Expand your reach and gain a competitive advantage with Yoggin.com.
More at:http://www.yoggin.com/
Taltopia.com, a free online platform which connects aspiring talent with fans and industry professionals got $800,000 in VCs funding
What Company is Offering:
Taltopia, is an online media distribution and social networking destination whose aim is to provide aspiring and professional talent with a worldwide stage to share their abilities across the web. The site also rewards its members with Famebucks™ for simply using the site’s features, giving users an incentive to find and recommend good artists, while giving artists a platform to promote themselves online. Categories include Music, Art, Acting, Dance, Comedy, and Modeling. Taltopia.com™ is based in Los Angeles, California.
How It Works;
For users who are not getting the exposure they crave, the site boasts a “Wall of Fame” which grants users the opportunity to “buy” their fame with Famebucks™, the virtual currency used on the site. Users bid for the limited number of spots available on the page, with outbid users being bumped down to subordinate positions. To kick things off, Taltopia.com™ is giving away $5 worth of Famebucks™ to the next 2,500 members that join the free site.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Taltopia.com, a free online platform which connects aspiring talent with fans and industry professionals, announced that it has completed a Series “A” round of funding in the sum of $800,000. The financing was led by an angel investor from Go4Funding (www.go4funding.com), a site whose goal is to unite entrepreneurs, business owners, and investors.
“Taltopia is about empowering fans to decide who gets exposure,” said Allen Vartazarian, referring to the “fame” and “shame” voting system. By focusing on this unique niche, Taltopia™ has distinguished itself from other general social networking sites where aspiring artists typically get lost in the clutter.
More at:www.taltopia.com
Taltopia, is an online media distribution and social networking destination whose aim is to provide aspiring and professional talent with a worldwide stage to share their abilities across the web. The site also rewards its members with Famebucks™ for simply using the site’s features, giving users an incentive to find and recommend good artists, while giving artists a platform to promote themselves online. Categories include Music, Art, Acting, Dance, Comedy, and Modeling. Taltopia.com™ is based in Los Angeles, California.
How It Works;
For users who are not getting the exposure they crave, the site boasts a “Wall of Fame” which grants users the opportunity to “buy” their fame with Famebucks™, the virtual currency used on the site. Users bid for the limited number of spots available on the page, with outbid users being bumped down to subordinate positions. To kick things off, Taltopia.com™ is giving away $5 worth of Famebucks™ to the next 2,500 members that join the free site.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Taltopia.com, a free online platform which connects aspiring talent with fans and industry professionals, announced that it has completed a Series “A” round of funding in the sum of $800,000. The financing was led by an angel investor from Go4Funding (www.go4funding.com), a site whose goal is to unite entrepreneurs, business owners, and investors.
“Taltopia is about empowering fans to decide who gets exposure,” said Allen Vartazarian, referring to the “fame” and “shame” voting system. By focusing on this unique niche, Taltopia™ has distinguished itself from other general social networking sites where aspiring artists typically get lost in the clutter.
More at:www.taltopia.com
Generate is an independent production and management studio creating professional entertainment properties targeted at all media platforms got $6m
What Company Is Offering:
Generate is an independent production and management studio creating professional entertainment properties targeted at Millennials across all media platforms with an emphasis on exploiting opportunities in the digital landscape. Generate is the first production and management studio established by media leaders with a proven track record with young audiences and blue-chip advertisers to create content across multiple platforms embraced by young adults. Management clients include Patton Oswalt, Janeane Garofalo, Fred Savage, Brian Posehn, Al Madrigal, Adam Rifkin, Dave Reynolds, Chatman & Lee, Christian Finnegan, Arj Barker and Jon Reep.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Generate, a next-generation production and management studio, announced that it has secured $6 million in its first round of financing. The influx of capital will help the firm expand its focus of creating professional entertainment properties targeted at Millennials across all media platforms with an emphasis on exploiting opportunities in the digital landscape. The round was co-led by Velocity Interactive Group, the digital-media investment firm headed by former News Corp. and AOL executives, Ross Levinsohn and Jonathan Miller respectively, and MK Capital, led by Mark Terbeek.
About VCs:
Velocity Interactive Group is a leading investment firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Velocity Interactive Group has a global presence in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, India and China. www.velocityig.com
More at:www.generatela.com
Generate is an independent production and management studio creating professional entertainment properties targeted at Millennials across all media platforms with an emphasis on exploiting opportunities in the digital landscape. Generate is the first production and management studio established by media leaders with a proven track record with young audiences and blue-chip advertisers to create content across multiple platforms embraced by young adults. Management clients include Patton Oswalt, Janeane Garofalo, Fred Savage, Brian Posehn, Al Madrigal, Adam Rifkin, Dave Reynolds, Chatman & Lee, Christian Finnegan, Arj Barker and Jon Reep.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Generate, a next-generation production and management studio, announced that it has secured $6 million in its first round of financing. The influx of capital will help the firm expand its focus of creating professional entertainment properties targeted at Millennials across all media platforms with an emphasis on exploiting opportunities in the digital landscape. The round was co-led by Velocity Interactive Group, the digital-media investment firm headed by former News Corp. and AOL executives, Ross Levinsohn and Jonathan Miller respectively, and MK Capital, led by Mark Terbeek.
About VCs:
Velocity Interactive Group is a leading investment firm that focuses on digital media and communications. The firm brings a unique approach to investing by bringing not just financial capital, but also human capital to its investment companies. Velocity Interactive Group has a global presence in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, India and China. www.velocityig.com
More at:www.generatela.com
Trevena, Inc., a drug discovery company announced the closing of a $24 million Series A financing
What Company Is Offering:
Trevena, Inc., a drug discovery company focused on developing pharmaceutical products targeting G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the closing of a $24 million Series A financing. Alta Partners and Healthcare Ventures led the round as part of an investor syndicate that included New Enterprise Associates and Polaris Venture Partners. The company will use the funds to progress its drug discovery portfolio.
"We are very pleased to have attracted an outstanding group of investors, who share our vision and strategy on building a premier drug discovery organization," said Maxine Gowen, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer. "Pharmaceutical products that target GPCRs represent over 40% of marketed drugs today and these targets provide an attractive starting point for new pharmaceutical agents. Trevena's mission will be to utilize a state of the art approach to discover and develop novel GPCR-targeted medicines for patients."
About VCs:
Alta Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on life sciences investing. Founded in 1996, the firm currently manages $2 billion in committed capital through seven venture fund programs. Alta invests in life sciences companies across the development continuum, from company formation to later-stage opportunities, and has funded more than 120 companies in the sector to date. http://www.altapartners.com
About Healthcare Ventures
For information on Healthcare Ventures, visit http://www.hcven.com
About New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a leading venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build major new enterprises that use technology to improve the way we live, work and play. With approximately $8.5 billion in committed capital, NEA's experienced management team has invested in over 550 companies, of which more than 160 have gone public and more than 230 have been acquired.
For more at:http://www.nea.com
Trevena, Inc., a drug discovery company focused on developing pharmaceutical products targeting G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).
How Much They Got From VCs:
They announced the closing of a $24 million Series A financing. Alta Partners and Healthcare Ventures led the round as part of an investor syndicate that included New Enterprise Associates and Polaris Venture Partners. The company will use the funds to progress its drug discovery portfolio.
"We are very pleased to have attracted an outstanding group of investors, who share our vision and strategy on building a premier drug discovery organization," said Maxine Gowen, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer. "Pharmaceutical products that target GPCRs represent over 40% of marketed drugs today and these targets provide an attractive starting point for new pharmaceutical agents. Trevena's mission will be to utilize a state of the art approach to discover and develop novel GPCR-targeted medicines for patients."
About VCs:
Alta Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on life sciences investing. Founded in 1996, the firm currently manages $2 billion in committed capital through seven venture fund programs. Alta invests in life sciences companies across the development continuum, from company formation to later-stage opportunities, and has funded more than 120 companies in the sector to date. http://www.altapartners.com
About Healthcare Ventures
For information on Healthcare Ventures, visit http://www.hcven.com
About New Enterprise Associates
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a leading venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build major new enterprises that use technology to improve the way we live, work and play. With approximately $8.5 billion in committed capital, NEA's experienced management team has invested in over 550 companies, of which more than 160 have gone public and more than 230 have been acquired.
For more at:http://www.nea.com
GirlsAskGuys is an interactive website dedicated to popular topics on the minds of men and women
What Company Is Offering:
GirlsAskGuys is an interactive website dedicated to popular topics on the minds of men and women looking for advice about the opposite sex. Ask and answer questions, get ranked, be recognized, share stories, send and receive personal messages, create dynamic profiles and so much more.
Have you ever wondered what pick-up lines have actually worked on a girl or why a guy never called when he promised he would? Have you ever liked someone from a distance but didn't know how to talk to them? Have you ever wanted honest advice about dating, romance and love or candid answers about intimate issues or embarrassing situations? GirlsAskGuys is your source for getting answers to all of these questions and more!
How It Works:
Questions and answers are, for the most part, uncensored and posts can be anonymous so you can be completely honest and open. We have thousands of members with unique personalities and lifestyles all eager to offer insight and share their experiences. You can count on getting real answers and advice from people who understand.
Ask anything, share everything it's an interactive, anonymous and virtually uncensored way to learn everything you always wanted to know about the opposite sex!
More at:http://www.girlsaskguys.com/
GirlsAskGuys is an interactive website dedicated to popular topics on the minds of men and women looking for advice about the opposite sex. Ask and answer questions, get ranked, be recognized, share stories, send and receive personal messages, create dynamic profiles and so much more.
Have you ever wondered what pick-up lines have actually worked on a girl or why a guy never called when he promised he would? Have you ever liked someone from a distance but didn't know how to talk to them? Have you ever wanted honest advice about dating, romance and love or candid answers about intimate issues or embarrassing situations? GirlsAskGuys is your source for getting answers to all of these questions and more!
How It Works:
Questions and answers are, for the most part, uncensored and posts can be anonymous so you can be completely honest and open. We have thousands of members with unique personalities and lifestyles all eager to offer insight and share their experiences. You can count on getting real answers and advice from people who understand.
Ask anything, share everything it's an interactive, anonymous and virtually uncensored way to learn everything you always wanted to know about the opposite sex!
More at:http://www.girlsaskguys.com/
FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM
What Company Says:
We've created a simple, easy way for you to write your government officials - all of them! On our website, you can compose a single letter, and, with a few clicks, send it to every official that represents you. We'll send that letter free of charge to your officials' email boxes and fax machines. How do we accomplish this? In a word, technology. Technology allows us to automate these processes so they cost a minimal amount. We get charged around $0.07 per fax that is sent, but we plan on making that up with advertising (so click on some ads if you'd like to support us!). We also plan on charging the politicians a monthly fee to maintain a custom profile as well.
One of our Mission Statement goals is to promote government transparency.
Issues like global warming and green initiatives, the conflict in Iraq, the tension our country faces with Iran, China and North Korea, our immigration policies, and even the slowdown of our once strong economy all play a role in who we decide will represent us to the world at large. Websites that bring these issues to light are great, and they do bring much needed attention. We feel, though, the only way to truly change how our country works is to communicate with those that represent us. How can we do that, you might ask? Simple - FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM.
More at:http://www.freedomspeaks.com/
We've created a simple, easy way for you to write your government officials - all of them! On our website, you can compose a single letter, and, with a few clicks, send it to every official that represents you. We'll send that letter free of charge to your officials' email boxes and fax machines. How do we accomplish this? In a word, technology. Technology allows us to automate these processes so they cost a minimal amount. We get charged around $0.07 per fax that is sent, but we plan on making that up with advertising (so click on some ads if you'd like to support us!). We also plan on charging the politicians a monthly fee to maintain a custom profile as well.
One of our Mission Statement goals is to promote government transparency.
Issues like global warming and green initiatives, the conflict in Iraq, the tension our country faces with Iran, China and North Korea, our immigration policies, and even the slowdown of our once strong economy all play a role in who we decide will represent us to the world at large. Websites that bring these issues to light are great, and they do bring much needed attention. We feel, though, the only way to truly change how our country works is to communicate with those that represent us. How can we do that, you might ask? Simple - FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM.
More at:http://www.freedomspeaks.com/
Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online
What Company Is Offering:
Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over your data and privacy. They're here to make the whole web respond to your location and help you to discover more about the world around you.
Fire Eagle is currently invitation-only. If you'd like to request an invitation code, send them your e-mail.
More athttp://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over your data and privacy. They're here to make the whole web respond to your location and help you to discover more about the world around you.
Fire Eagle is currently invitation-only. If you'd like to request an invitation code, send them your e-mail.
More athttp://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers
What Company Is Offering:
Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability.
How It Works:
Network search allows you to discover content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords or a combination of both, as well as the ability to apply these same filters to search all postings, groups, friends, or friends' friends based on your own criteria. By analyzing the associations and patterns between trusted people, sources, tags and content, Searchles is able to deliver more precise, relevant results while suggesting content and people related to your interests.
The proprietary technology behind Searchles is an evolution of the search engine Dumbfind, developed by veteran search technologist and Searchles' founder and CTO Chris Seline. Both brands are wholly-owned by Searchles, Inc., a privately-held company based in Washington, D.C. backed by angel investors.
More at:http://searchles.com/
Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability.
How It Works:
Network search allows you to discover content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords or a combination of both, as well as the ability to apply these same filters to search all postings, groups, friends, or friends' friends based on your own criteria. By analyzing the associations and patterns between trusted people, sources, tags and content, Searchles is able to deliver more precise, relevant results while suggesting content and people related to your interests.
The proprietary technology behind Searchles is an evolution of the search engine Dumbfind, developed by veteran search technologist and Searchles' founder and CTO Chris Seline. Both brands are wholly-owned by Searchles, Inc., a privately-held company based in Washington, D.C. backed by angel investors.
More at:http://searchles.com/
Move Networks’ open, Web-based protocol solves the problem of delivering high-quality live and on-demand video
What Company Is Offering:
Move Networks’ open, Web-based protocol solves the problem of delivering high-quality live and on-demand video that easily and cost-effectively scales to millions of viewers while fully protecting your video assets.
Move Networks’ delivery protocol creates less cost for you. With most traditional streaming technologies, video content is delivered as one complete file, and sometimes the entire file must be downloaded before the viewer can begin watching it. But Move Networks’ technology divides the video content into smaller files called “streamlets” which are delivered continuously as the viewer watches content. Because streamlet delivery stays just ahead of the video display, you don’t have to pay for content delivered that might not be watched, such as when a viewer exits a video stream early.
How It Works:
Move Networks’ intelligent client enables high-quality video with precise measurement of video consumers’ experiences, geography, and demographics for targeted advertising at higher CPMs. Move Networks’ media platform acts as an operating system for video, allowing easy integration with ad systems, analytics packages, commerce solutions, and other third-party services.
How Is It Different:
Video consumers watch content longer on Move Media Player than on other media players, including the Flash and Microsoft players. For the media company, this means more ad availabilities for much higher revenue.
Media companies are able to place targeted ads at much higher CPMs than are possible with other streaming providers because of the precise measurement and reporting tools.
Operating costs are less than what media companies pay for other streaming solutions.
Full Digital Rights Management protects valuable content from piracy and lets media companies roll out their products around the world on schedules that meet their business requirements.
The smooth, full-screen video image does not buffer or restart.
Episode-length and live videos are as good as cable or satellite television.
Video is available when and where consumers want it—on a computer, a television, or a cell phone—with TiVo-style navigation controls.
More at:http://www.movenetworks.com/
Move Networks’ open, Web-based protocol solves the problem of delivering high-quality live and on-demand video that easily and cost-effectively scales to millions of viewers while fully protecting your video assets.
Move Networks’ delivery protocol creates less cost for you. With most traditional streaming technologies, video content is delivered as one complete file, and sometimes the entire file must be downloaded before the viewer can begin watching it. But Move Networks’ technology divides the video content into smaller files called “streamlets” which are delivered continuously as the viewer watches content. Because streamlet delivery stays just ahead of the video display, you don’t have to pay for content delivered that might not be watched, such as when a viewer exits a video stream early.
How It Works:
Move Networks’ intelligent client enables high-quality video with precise measurement of video consumers’ experiences, geography, and demographics for targeted advertising at higher CPMs. Move Networks’ media platform acts as an operating system for video, allowing easy integration with ad systems, analytics packages, commerce solutions, and other third-party services.
How Is It Different:
Video consumers watch content longer on Move Media Player than on other media players, including the Flash and Microsoft players. For the media company, this means more ad availabilities for much higher revenue.
Media companies are able to place targeted ads at much higher CPMs than are possible with other streaming providers because of the precise measurement and reporting tools.
Operating costs are less than what media companies pay for other streaming solutions.
Full Digital Rights Management protects valuable content from piracy and lets media companies roll out their products around the world on schedules that meet their business requirements.
The smooth, full-screen video image does not buffer or restart.
Episode-length and live videos are as good as cable or satellite television.
Video is available when and where consumers want it—on a computer, a television, or a cell phone—with TiVo-style navigation controls.
More at:http://www.movenetworks.com/
GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web
What Company Is Offering:
GyPSii is the consumer application for mobile, web & Internet connected devices.
GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web.
How It Works:
It is a social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications - for users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI (points of interest) with a Geo-location - place and track each other in their select communities. Find people and places, points of interest, map and navigate to them all.
A record of a Life History of Events in Full Context (Video & audio clips, location(s), photos, text, shared experiences & people, etc.)
A seamless mobile & web experience built on the convergence of locations based services, social networking, mobile & web 2.0 technologies, agnostic access across devices and networks.
Recent Updates:
They launched an iPhone-friendly version of their application. The addition of the iPhone compatibility is on top of their existing offers already for Nokia’s N-Series devices and some of the RIM-produced BlackBerries.
The service is only available to the Apple-produced smartphone through a visiting to the company’s site (for now). They do plan to release a native application once the iPhone Software Developers Kit (SDK) is released. (They will still also allow access via the website for those who prefer that interface.)
More at:http://www.gypsii.com/
GyPSii is the consumer application for mobile, web & Internet connected devices.
GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web.
How It Works:
It is a social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications - for users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI (points of interest) with a Geo-location - place and track each other in their select communities. Find people and places, points of interest, map and navigate to them all.
A record of a Life History of Events in Full Context (Video & audio clips, location(s), photos, text, shared experiences & people, etc.)
A seamless mobile & web experience built on the convergence of locations based services, social networking, mobile & web 2.0 technologies, agnostic access across devices and networks.
Recent Updates:
They launched an iPhone-friendly version of their application. The addition of the iPhone compatibility is on top of their existing offers already for Nokia’s N-Series devices and some of the RIM-produced BlackBerries.
The service is only available to the Apple-produced smartphone through a visiting to the company’s site (for now). They do plan to release a native application once the iPhone Software Developers Kit (SDK) is released. (They will still also allow access via the website for those who prefer that interface.)
More at:http://www.gypsii.com/
Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player
What Company Is Offering:
Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player. You can download it here for Windows, Mac, or Linux.
How It Works:
Clicking on the download link saves a .exe file to your desktop. Double click on that to run the installer.
Mac: clicking on the download link saves a .dmg (disk image) to your desktop. Double click on that to open it (if it doesn't open automatically). Drag the Miro icon into your applications folder and wait for it to copy over, then open the applications folder and double-click the Miro icon.
Linux: See LinuxNotes for operating-system specific instructions. Build instructions in the tarball are at tv/platform/gtk-x11/README.
If you're upgrading Miro, just 'replace' your existing version and your Channel subscriptions and video collections will remain. Miro won't launch.
Windows: make sure you meet the system requirements of Windows XP, 128MB of RAM.
Mac: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher and also QuickTime version 7, which is a software auto-update on Macs (run the second option under your Apple icon). This is most likely the cause. QuickTime 7 is also available .
More at:http://www.getmiro.com/
Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player. You can download it here for Windows, Mac, or Linux.
How It Works:
Clicking on the download link saves a .exe file to your desktop. Double click on that to run the installer.
Mac: clicking on the download link saves a .dmg (disk image) to your desktop. Double click on that to open it (if it doesn't open automatically). Drag the Miro icon into your applications folder and wait for it to copy over, then open the applications folder and double-click the Miro icon.
Linux: See LinuxNotes for operating-system specific instructions. Build instructions in the tarball are at tv/platform/gtk-x11/README.
If you're upgrading Miro, just 'replace' your existing version and your Channel subscriptions and video collections will remain. Miro won't launch.
Windows: make sure you meet the system requirements of Windows XP, 128MB of RAM.
Mac: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher and also QuickTime version 7, which is a software auto-update on Macs (run the second option under your Apple icon). This is most likely the cause. QuickTime 7 is also available .
More at:http://www.getmiro.com/
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Tvinci.com---Media Management allows you to syndicate your content and to create your own syndication network
What Company Is Offering:
Tvinci Media Management is a smart, friendly way for video content owners, broadcasting channels and publishers to manage media. With a few easy steps, you can upload media and manage content with tools and methods that make the content even smarter and richer. You can control a number of types of players and match the players to your audiences.
How It Works:
Tvinci Media Management allows you to syndicate your content and to create your own syndication network. It also helps you learn about your user behavior, receive segmented statistics and analysis online, monetize your content using ecommerce and billing tools, and integrate with existing advertising systems. Tvinci Media Management is available in a number of languages.
Tvinci provides services to video content owners, broadcasting channels and publishers while always keeping their users in mind. They offer the Tvinci platform to manage media while making the content smarter and richer, and have tasked themselves with the mission to improve the Internet TV viewing experience.
At Tvinci, they have developed a number of methods to extend the period of time and frequency the user is engaged with video content and therefore helps maximize possible monetization.
Using the Tvinci video dashboard, editors can tag content and users can create layers of textual information. The combination of editor and user added content with analysis of how its used, shows what and how much users viewed, as well as what they liked, what they added to their playlists, and how popular their playlists are amongst their friends. This and more enriches the content even further.
More at:http://www.tvinci.com/
Tvinci Media Management is a smart, friendly way for video content owners, broadcasting channels and publishers to manage media. With a few easy steps, you can upload media and manage content with tools and methods that make the content even smarter and richer. You can control a number of types of players and match the players to your audiences.
How It Works:
Tvinci Media Management allows you to syndicate your content and to create your own syndication network. It also helps you learn about your user behavior, receive segmented statistics and analysis online, monetize your content using ecommerce and billing tools, and integrate with existing advertising systems. Tvinci Media Management is available in a number of languages.
Tvinci provides services to video content owners, broadcasting channels and publishers while always keeping their users in mind. They offer the Tvinci platform to manage media while making the content smarter and richer, and have tasked themselves with the mission to improve the Internet TV viewing experience.
At Tvinci, they have developed a number of methods to extend the period of time and frequency the user is engaged with video content and therefore helps maximize possible monetization.
Using the Tvinci video dashboard, editors can tag content and users can create layers of textual information. The combination of editor and user added content with analysis of how its used, shows what and how much users viewed, as well as what they liked, what they added to their playlists, and how popular their playlists are amongst their friends. This and more enriches the content even further.
More at:http://www.tvinci.com/
Fivelimes is a brand new way to find, review and buy the coolest green, health-conscious and ethical products and service
What Company Is Offering:
Fivelimes is a brand new way to find, review and buy the coolest green, health-conscious and ethical products and service. Fivelimes is a collaborative shopping community where every member has a similar goal: live a full life without compromising future generations. In other words, the members of this service share a common view of sustainability and 'flag' products of interest for each other. You can signup for free and start participating instantly.
How It Works:
Go to their Submit Page and simply input the URL of a product or service you have discovered on the Web. Their service will then go grab images, text and content from that site and allow you to easily review and add the product or service. You can also install a neat little tool in your browser called a 'bookmarklet'. This little tool allows you to instantly add a product or service you discover on the Web back into the community with little effort. For example, say you discover a new eco friendly detergent at greenstuff.com. Simply click the button in your browser and that product (images included) will be added to the Fivelimes community. It's that easy!
You can easily click the 'Save' button anywhere you see a product on Fivelimes. This will allow you to add the product or service to your own list of bookmarks. Alternatively you may submit a bookmark for a product or service you have discovered on the Web that is not already in the Fivelimes database.
More at:http://www.fivelimes.com/
Fivelimes is a brand new way to find, review and buy the coolest green, health-conscious and ethical products and service. Fivelimes is a collaborative shopping community where every member has a similar goal: live a full life without compromising future generations. In other words, the members of this service share a common view of sustainability and 'flag' products of interest for each other. You can signup for free and start participating instantly.
How It Works:
Go to their Submit Page and simply input the URL of a product or service you have discovered on the Web. Their service will then go grab images, text and content from that site and allow you to easily review and add the product or service. You can also install a neat little tool in your browser called a 'bookmarklet'. This little tool allows you to instantly add a product or service you discover on the Web back into the community with little effort. For example, say you discover a new eco friendly detergent at greenstuff.com. Simply click the button in your browser and that product (images included) will be added to the Fivelimes community. It's that easy!
You can easily click the 'Save' button anywhere you see a product on Fivelimes. This will allow you to add the product or service to your own list of bookmarks. Alternatively you may submit a bookmark for a product or service you have discovered on the Web that is not already in the Fivelimes database.
More at:http://www.fivelimes.com/
GreenDimes, the trusted leader in stopping junk mail, offers you the complete solution to a clean mailbox
What Company Is Offering:
GreenDimes, the trusted leader in stopping junk mail, offers you the complete solution to a clean mailbox.
How It Works:
They take you off dozens of junk mail lists and plant 5 trees for you!Choose which catalogs you don't want... they stop them and plant 1 tree per catalog!Sign in to your account and enter only those catalogs and non-profit mailings you want stopped with our new and improved Catalog Screener. They plant 5 trees for the first 5 opt-out requests.
They monitor your account every month to Make Sure You Stay Off!
Each month, GreenDimes reviews direct marketers' lists to ensure that your name gets off and stays off.
GreenDimes reduces the credit card offers, insurance offers, sweepstakes offers, coupon mailers, charitable solicitations and retail catalogs that your household receives. We can't reduce mailings that are the result of a personal relationship you have with the company or organization. These include magazine subscriptions, bank statements, brokerage statements and school alumni mailings.
More at:http://www.greendimes.com/
GreenDimes, the trusted leader in stopping junk mail, offers you the complete solution to a clean mailbox.
How It Works:
They take you off dozens of junk mail lists and plant 5 trees for you!Choose which catalogs you don't want... they stop them and plant 1 tree per catalog!Sign in to your account and enter only those catalogs and non-profit mailings you want stopped with our new and improved Catalog Screener. They plant 5 trees for the first 5 opt-out requests.
They monitor your account every month to Make Sure You Stay Off!
Each month, GreenDimes reviews direct marketers' lists to ensure that your name gets off and stays off.
GreenDimes reduces the credit card offers, insurance offers, sweepstakes offers, coupon mailers, charitable solicitations and retail catalogs that your household receives. We can't reduce mailings that are the result of a personal relationship you have with the company or organization. These include magazine subscriptions, bank statements, brokerage statements and school alumni mailings.
More at:http://www.greendimes.com/
NewsTrust.net helps people find good journalism online
What Company Is Offering:
NewsTrust.net helps people find good journalism online.
Their non-profit, non-partisan project provides quality news feeds, news literacy tools and a trust network to help citizens make informed decisions about democracy.
How It Works:
The free NewsTrust.net website features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by our members, using our unique review tools. They rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core journalistic principles such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context.
Their community is growing steadily.
Their research studies suggest that citizen reviewers using their review tools can evaluate news quality reliably - and as effectively as experienced journalists. Based on their collective evaluations, they're building a reputation database for mainstream and independent news providers, to help the public identify trustworthy publications.
Who Is Backing Them:
NewsTrust's Executive Director is Fabrice Florin, a former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia. Their experienced management team includes award-winning journalist and media executive Rory O’Connor and former Lucasfilm project manager David Fox, who bring extensive track records in content and technology development. Their advisors include Dan Gillmor, Craig Newmark, Howard Rheingold and other digital media innovators from organizations like Craigslist, Google, the Poynter Institute and Stanford University.
More at:http://newstrust.net/
NewsTrust.net helps people find good journalism online.
Their non-profit, non-partisan project provides quality news feeds, news literacy tools and a trust network to help citizens make informed decisions about democracy.
How It Works:
The free NewsTrust.net website features daily feeds of quality news and opinions, which are carefully rated by our members, using our unique review tools. They rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. NewsTrust reviewers evaluate each article against core journalistic principles such as fairness, evidence, sourcing and context.
Their community is growing steadily.
Their research studies suggest that citizen reviewers using their review tools can evaluate news quality reliably - and as effectively as experienced journalists. Based on their collective evaluations, they're building a reputation database for mainstream and independent news providers, to help the public identify trustworthy publications.
Who Is Backing Them:
NewsTrust's Executive Director is Fabrice Florin, a former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia. Their experienced management team includes award-winning journalist and media executive Rory O’Connor and former Lucasfilm project manager David Fox, who bring extensive track records in content and technology development. Their advisors include Dan Gillmor, Craig Newmark, Howard Rheingold and other digital media innovators from organizations like Craigslist, Google, the Poynter Institute and Stanford University.
More at:http://newstrust.net/
Woomail.com---Electronic communication
What Company Is Offering:
Woomail.com, a progressive internet company at the pioneering forefront of cutting-edge of electronic communication, was founded by John Halloran.
The diverse and experienced management team at Woomail.com understands the critical issues that have plagued traditional email and has created a new process that will revolutionize online communications for individuals, small business and large enterprises. Woomail offers an unparalleled level of online communication that is safe, hassle-free and innovative.
They are the invisible security blanket behind their clients' online communications.
Why To Use It:
* Personal and business email accounts that become bogged down and debilitated with spam; overwhelming server space as well as possessing viruses, spy ware or other hostile and harmful attachments.
* Business owners frustrated with managing hundreds of spam messages a day.
* A growing online population desperately seeking a better, safer way to communicate online.
Email costs companies millions of dollars; including the real costs of employees' wasted time reading and deleting, system downtime due to email viruses, network space and bandwidth usage. Woomail eliminates these issues and provides time and money savings that are immediate and immeasurable.
More at:https://www.woomail.com/
Woomail.com, a progressive internet company at the pioneering forefront of cutting-edge of electronic communication, was founded by John Halloran.
The diverse and experienced management team at Woomail.com understands the critical issues that have plagued traditional email and has created a new process that will revolutionize online communications for individuals, small business and large enterprises. Woomail offers an unparalleled level of online communication that is safe, hassle-free and innovative.
They are the invisible security blanket behind their clients' online communications.
Why To Use It:
* Personal and business email accounts that become bogged down and debilitated with spam; overwhelming server space as well as possessing viruses, spy ware or other hostile and harmful attachments.
* Business owners frustrated with managing hundreds of spam messages a day.
* A growing online population desperately seeking a better, safer way to communicate online.
Email costs companies millions of dollars; including the real costs of employees' wasted time reading and deleting, system downtime due to email viruses, network space and bandwidth usage. Woomail eliminates these issues and provides time and money savings that are immediate and immeasurable.
More at:https://www.woomail.com/
First Light Net Is a advertising company that specializes in servicing the fishing, hunting, outdoor and sports industries Internet needs
What Company Is Offering:
First Light Net is a trademark of Predatorial Advertising Associates L.L.C. It is a marketing and advertising company that specializes in servicing the fishing, hunting, outdoor and sports industries Internet needs. FLN owns the largest self owned online network of outdoor related vertical niche websites. They offer clients a wide range of services including banner advertising, featured "Retailer Showcase" ads, Pay Per Click advertising, textual ads, targeted opt in email marketing, and newsletter sponsorship.
How It Works:
First Light Net offers free information, free promotional giveaways, forums, mobile and social network sites to outdoor enthusiasts and monetizes this web traffic by offering clients targeted online advertising.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
Considered by some a late adopter online industry, “fishing” has definitely carved out its niche on the internet. According to the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation conducted by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, and U.S. Census Bureau. It was concluded that in 2006, 30.0 million U.S. residents 16 years old and older enjoyed a variety of fishing opportunities throughout the United States. Anglers fished 517 million days and took 403 million fishing trips. They had $42.2 billion in fishing-related expenses during the year.
More at:
First Light Net
Mike Hodgdon
719-572-9065
mgh@firstlightnet.com
www.firstlightnet.com
First Light Net is a trademark of Predatorial Advertising Associates L.L.C. It is a marketing and advertising company that specializes in servicing the fishing, hunting, outdoor and sports industries Internet needs. FLN owns the largest self owned online network of outdoor related vertical niche websites. They offer clients a wide range of services including banner advertising, featured "Retailer Showcase" ads, Pay Per Click advertising, textual ads, targeted opt in email marketing, and newsletter sponsorship.
How It Works:
First Light Net offers free information, free promotional giveaways, forums, mobile and social network sites to outdoor enthusiasts and monetizes this web traffic by offering clients targeted online advertising.
How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:
Considered by some a late adopter online industry, “fishing” has definitely carved out its niche on the internet. According to the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation conducted by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, and U.S. Census Bureau. It was concluded that in 2006, 30.0 million U.S. residents 16 years old and older enjoyed a variety of fishing opportunities throughout the United States. Anglers fished 517 million days and took 403 million fishing trips. They had $42.2 billion in fishing-related expenses during the year.
More at:
First Light Net
Mike Hodgdon
719-572-9065
mgh@firstlightnet.com
www.firstlightnet.com
Tzero Technologies--Wireless video products has raised $18 million
What Company Is Offering:
Tzero Technologies is a fabless semiconductor provider of CMOS, high-performance Ultra Wideband chipsets. The company's wireless High Definition video distribution solutions are designed into display and A/V component products from top tier OEMs around the world. Founded in 2003, TZero is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Tzero Technologies, the leader in Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology and wireless video products, announced that it has raised $18 million in its third round of funding. The investment was led by the CID Group with full participation from Tzero's current investors: August Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, OVP, U.S. Venture Partners, and VentureTech Alliance.
"Tzero's technology for wireless distribution of high definition video is the only solution that meets the performance requirements of the leading consumer electronics manufacturers," said David Yang, partner with the CID Group. "UWB is quickly gaining traction in the market as the standard for wireless video and Tzero is leading this ramp. We are excited to be part of the team that brings this product to the wireless digital media centered home market."
"This round of funding will enable Tzero to expand its market presence, gain critical design wins across a broad spectrum of high-volume customers, and bring the next-generation of products to market," said Rajeev Krishnamoorthy, founder and CEO of Tzero. "The CID group's relationships and operational expertise are great assets for us, and we look forward to working closely together."
More at: www.tzerotech.com
Tzero Technologies is a fabless semiconductor provider of CMOS, high-performance Ultra Wideband chipsets. The company's wireless High Definition video distribution solutions are designed into display and A/V component products from top tier OEMs around the world. Founded in 2003, TZero is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Tzero Technologies, the leader in Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology and wireless video products, announced that it has raised $18 million in its third round of funding. The investment was led by the CID Group with full participation from Tzero's current investors: August Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, OVP, U.S. Venture Partners, and VentureTech Alliance.
"Tzero's technology for wireless distribution of high definition video is the only solution that meets the performance requirements of the leading consumer electronics manufacturers," said David Yang, partner with the CID Group. "UWB is quickly gaining traction in the market as the standard for wireless video and Tzero is leading this ramp. We are excited to be part of the team that brings this product to the wireless digital media centered home market."
"This round of funding will enable Tzero to expand its market presence, gain critical design wins across a broad spectrum of high-volume customers, and bring the next-generation of products to market," said Rajeev Krishnamoorthy, founder and CEO of Tzero. "The CID group's relationships and operational expertise are great assets for us, and we look forward to working closely together."
More at: www.tzerotech.com
NewBay Software is the global leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators got 6.5 million in Series B
What Company Is Offering:
NewBay Software is the global leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators, enabling subscribers to create, store, view and share user generated content. NewBay LifeCache product suite empowers operators to deliver an integrated set of converged rich-media services across any internet connected device such as mobile, PC and TV. NewBay's carrier grade product based solutions include photo and video albums/blogs, social networking, handset clients, network address book and messaging services.
NewBay enables operators to increase messaging, data and content revenue, strengthen customer loyalty and build communities and social networks based on user generated content.
How Much They Got From VCs:
NewBay Software, the global leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators, announced it has received EUR 6.5 million in Series B financing led by Boston, MA and London-based Fidelity Ventures with participation by existing investor Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe). Balderton Capital first backed the company in 2003. Simon Clark, a partner at Fidelity Ventures, will join the company's board of directors.
Proceeds from this round of financing will enable NewBay to accelerate its global expansion plans, explore acquisition opportunities and increase investment in R & D to ensure continued development of world class, innovative solutions that add value, revenue and loyalty for operators. NewBay has experienced exceptional success working with leading operators worldwide. NewBay LifeCache product suite is powering operator services that are currently available to over 250 million subscribers. Services include T-Mobile USA MyAlbum, Orange Photography, Vodafone MyCommunities, O2 Bebo and T-Mobile MyFaves.
About VCs:
1.Fidelity Ventures invests in technology companies ready to enter the market and those poised for the next phase of growth. Its 40-year track record includes hundreds of successful investments in the consumer, communications, systems and software markets. Fidelity Ventures is distinguished by the ability to accelerate market adoption for its portfolio companies' offerings and by a global network of senior technology and business executives. Fidelity Ventures actively manages over $800 million from offices in Boston and London. For more information, please visit: www.fidelityventures.com.
2.Balderton Capital is one of Europe's largest venture capital firms, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, its Funds total approximately $ 1.5 billion available for investment.
Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 70 companies across a wide variety of technology sectors and geographies, including throughout Europe, and in the US and China. Notable investments include Bebo (the leading social networking site), Betfair (online betting exchange) Codemasters (video games developer and publisher), Habbo Hotel (teen social networking site), MySQL (open-source database business) and Setanta Sports (the European sports broadcaster).
NewBay Software is the global leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators, enabling subscribers to create, store, view and share user generated content. NewBay LifeCache product suite empowers operators to deliver an integrated set of converged rich-media services across any internet connected device such as mobile, PC and TV. NewBay's carrier grade product based solutions include photo and video albums/blogs, social networking, handset clients, network address book and messaging services.
NewBay enables operators to increase messaging, data and content revenue, strengthen customer loyalty and build communities and social networks based on user generated content.
How Much They Got From VCs:
NewBay Software, the global leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators, announced it has received EUR 6.5 million in Series B financing led by Boston, MA and London-based Fidelity Ventures with participation by existing investor Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe). Balderton Capital first backed the company in 2003. Simon Clark, a partner at Fidelity Ventures, will join the company's board of directors.
Proceeds from this round of financing will enable NewBay to accelerate its global expansion plans, explore acquisition opportunities and increase investment in R & D to ensure continued development of world class, innovative solutions that add value, revenue and loyalty for operators. NewBay has experienced exceptional success working with leading operators worldwide. NewBay LifeCache product suite is powering operator services that are currently available to over 250 million subscribers. Services include T-Mobile USA MyAlbum, Orange Photography, Vodafone MyCommunities, O2 Bebo and T-Mobile MyFaves.
About VCs:
1.Fidelity Ventures invests in technology companies ready to enter the market and those poised for the next phase of growth. Its 40-year track record includes hundreds of successful investments in the consumer, communications, systems and software markets. Fidelity Ventures is distinguished by the ability to accelerate market adoption for its portfolio companies' offerings and by a global network of senior technology and business executives. Fidelity Ventures actively manages over $800 million from offices in Boston and London. For more information, please visit: www.fidelityventures.com.
2.Balderton Capital is one of Europe's largest venture capital firms, committed to finding and helping talented entrepreneurs build great companies. Based in London, its Funds total approximately $ 1.5 billion available for investment.
Since 2000, Balderton has invested in over 70 companies across a wide variety of technology sectors and geographies, including throughout Europe, and in the US and China. Notable investments include Bebo (the leading social networking site), Betfair (online betting exchange) Codemasters (video games developer and publisher), Habbo Hotel (teen social networking site), MySQL (open-source database business) and Setanta Sports (the European sports broadcaster).
Storm Exchange, Inc., a company that helps businesses improve their performance in the face of increasingly volatile weather got $7.2 million
What Company Is Offering:
Storm Exchange, Inc. operates an online financial market to help businesses (and in some cases their end consumers) better plan for and manage their weather-related risks.
The company's innovative online platform gives corporations, governments and other clients the specialized industry knowledge, data-driven indices, analytical tools and capital market access they need to execute a contract to hedge their weather-related risks. The result is more control over uncertain forecasts, improved operating results and stronger, more predictable financial performance.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Storm Exchange, Inc., a company that helps businesses improve their performance in the face of increasingly volatile weather, announced that a group of leading private equity firms, including its original backers - RRE Ventures and Venrock Associates - has invested an additional $7.2 million in expansion capital in the company.
Storm Exchange helps businesses across a diverse set of industries - each of whom has unique requirements for quantifying and managing the weather's impact on their operations and financials. By tapping the breadth and depth of the capital markets, Storm Exchange is able to deliver financial weather protection that is structured similarly to the strategies used today by institutional investors to reduce financial exposures to other forms of volatility, such as interest rate fluctuations or rapidly changing currency rates.
More at:www.stormexchange.com.
Storm Exchange, Inc. operates an online financial market to help businesses (and in some cases their end consumers) better plan for and manage their weather-related risks.
The company's innovative online platform gives corporations, governments and other clients the specialized industry knowledge, data-driven indices, analytical tools and capital market access they need to execute a contract to hedge their weather-related risks. The result is more control over uncertain forecasts, improved operating results and stronger, more predictable financial performance.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Storm Exchange, Inc., a company that helps businesses improve their performance in the face of increasingly volatile weather, announced that a group of leading private equity firms, including its original backers - RRE Ventures and Venrock Associates - has invested an additional $7.2 million in expansion capital in the company.
Storm Exchange helps businesses across a diverse set of industries - each of whom has unique requirements for quantifying and managing the weather's impact on their operations and financials. By tapping the breadth and depth of the capital markets, Storm Exchange is able to deliver financial weather protection that is structured similarly to the strategies used today by institutional investors to reduce financial exposures to other forms of volatility, such as interest rate fluctuations or rapidly changing currency rates.
More at:www.stormexchange.com.
RiseSmart is a human-powered job search service that prescreens online search results for time-starved managers and executiveshas secured a $1.5 m
What Company Is Offering:
RiseSmart is a human-powered job search service that prescreens online search results for time-starved managers and executives. The RiseSmart team matches opportunities with jobseekers based on each member’s unique profile, freeing senior-level professionals to focus on networking or the demands of their current jobs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RiseSmart, the human-powered job search service for $100K+ earners, announced today that it has secured a $1.5 million seed round of financing from angel investors, including leading authorities in the human resources and recruitment industry.
Bridging the gap between traditional job boards and the personal attention of a career coach, RiseSmart – a subscription-based service competing with executive job sites such as TheLadders.com – assigns each member a personal “Job Concierge” who is responsible for matching member profiles with the most relevant job listings returned through an intelligent automated search of its million-job database.
Who Is Backing Them:
RiseSmart’s investors include Craig Stamm, the former chief financial officer for CareerBuilder.com and Headhunter.net; Mark Hamdan, founder and chief executive officer of HRsmart, an Inc. 500 HR technology company; and Louis Ramery, senior vice president of relationship marketing at Sears Holdings Corporation.
More at:www.RiseSmart.com/
Contact:
The Idea Grove
Cathy Baradell, 972-235-3439
cbaradell@ideagrove.com
RiseSmart is a human-powered job search service that prescreens online search results for time-starved managers and executives. The RiseSmart team matches opportunities with jobseekers based on each member’s unique profile, freeing senior-level professionals to focus on networking or the demands of their current jobs.
How Much They Got From VCs:
RiseSmart, the human-powered job search service for $100K+ earners, announced today that it has secured a $1.5 million seed round of financing from angel investors, including leading authorities in the human resources and recruitment industry.
Bridging the gap between traditional job boards and the personal attention of a career coach, RiseSmart – a subscription-based service competing with executive job sites such as TheLadders.com – assigns each member a personal “Job Concierge” who is responsible for matching member profiles with the most relevant job listings returned through an intelligent automated search of its million-job database.
Who Is Backing Them:
RiseSmart’s investors include Craig Stamm, the former chief financial officer for CareerBuilder.com and Headhunter.net; Mark Hamdan, founder and chief executive officer of HRsmart, an Inc. 500 HR technology company; and Louis Ramery, senior vice president of relationship marketing at Sears Holdings Corporation.
More at:www.RiseSmart.com/
Contact:
The Idea Grove
Cathy Baradell, 972-235-3439
cbaradell@ideagrove.com
iRise, the world's leading software visualization software company, announced that it has closed $20 million
What Company Is Offering:
iRise is the world’s leading provider of visualization software for business applications. Visualization is quickly becoming a critical competitive advantage for businesses to more effectively communicate their needs to technology teams and give everyone involved the ability to fully experience applications before they are built. Companies of all sizes like UPS, Wachovia, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Manpower, CompuCredit, Capgemini and many others use iRise to “test drive” their applications before building, which accelerates time to revenue, improves customer experience and drives costs down.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iRise, the world's leading software visualization software company, announced that it has closed $20 million in incremental funding. Joining existing investor Morgan Stanley Venture Partners in this round are; Gold Hill Capital, a leading provider of growth capital financing for venture-backed technology and life science companies; SVB Silicon Valley Bank, a provider of commercial banking services to emerging growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine industries; and, Deutsche Bank, a leading global investment bank. iRise will leverage this new round of capital to drive new product development and broaden the distribution of its marketing leading application simulation solution to new markets in 2008.
More at:
iRise
Carla A. Schlemminger, 415-772-0827
carlas@irise.com
iRise is the world’s leading provider of visualization software for business applications. Visualization is quickly becoming a critical competitive advantage for businesses to more effectively communicate their needs to technology teams and give everyone involved the ability to fully experience applications before they are built. Companies of all sizes like UPS, Wachovia, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Manpower, CompuCredit, Capgemini and many others use iRise to “test drive” their applications before building, which accelerates time to revenue, improves customer experience and drives costs down.
How Much They Got From VCs:
iRise, the world's leading software visualization software company, announced that it has closed $20 million in incremental funding. Joining existing investor Morgan Stanley Venture Partners in this round are; Gold Hill Capital, a leading provider of growth capital financing for venture-backed technology and life science companies; SVB Silicon Valley Bank, a provider of commercial banking services to emerging growth and mature companies in the technology, life science, private equity and premium wine industries; and, Deutsche Bank, a leading global investment bank. iRise will leverage this new round of capital to drive new product development and broaden the distribution of its marketing leading application simulation solution to new markets in 2008.
More at:
iRise
Carla A. Schlemminger, 415-772-0827
carlas@irise.com
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