What Company Is Offering:
BridalFever lets anyone create an online event & wedding website instantly! Upload images, edit content, embed popular online tags, and change your design anytime. Over 30 unique designs to choose from.
More at:http://www.bridalfever.com/
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Soungle---Easily find and search sound effects and musical instruments samples.
What Company Is Offering:
Soungle is NOT a Web search engine. It only searches in their growing monster database. Their goals are to keep it simple to use (search, preview and download) and to keep it free.
Keyword searches are performed by entering any word or phrase in a search box. The retrieved results of a keyword search are displayed ten to a page. Clicking on play icon allows you to preview a file. Download button instantly downloads the sound effect or musical instrument sample file. A short description of the sound appears on top of every sound , followed by the frame rate, duration and bit rate. Remember, all of their sound effects and samples are royalty free for downloading.
More at:http://soungle.com/
Soungle is NOT a Web search engine. It only searches in their growing monster database. Their goals are to keep it simple to use (search, preview and download) and to keep it free.
Keyword searches are performed by entering any word or phrase in a search box. The retrieved results of a keyword search are displayed ten to a page. Clicking on play icon allows you to preview a file. Download button instantly downloads the sound effect or musical instrument sample file. A short description of the sound appears on top of every sound , followed by the frame rate, duration and bit rate. Remember, all of their sound effects and samples are royalty free for downloading.
More at:http://soungle.com/
Affinity Circles Is Trusted Social Network
About Company:
Affinity Circles, is one of the first online social networks as a way to stay in contact with friends and colleagues from Stanford. Unlike other public social networks developing at the time, the Stanford network was a trusted and secure community accessible only to Stanford students and alumni.
In 2003, the original Affinity Circles founders took the private social networking application and marketed it to other alumni associations and organizations that could benefit from member-based online communities. While the application and customer needs continue to evolve, the company remains committed to creating trusted social networks.
Affinity Circles continues to grow it's customer base exponentially year over year and add employees that will help the company grow to serve more membership-based organizations with interactive and engaging features and services.
More at:http://affinitycircles.com/
Affinity Circles, is one of the first online social networks as a way to stay in contact with friends and colleagues from Stanford. Unlike other public social networks developing at the time, the Stanford network was a trusted and secure community accessible only to Stanford students and alumni.
In 2003, the original Affinity Circles founders took the private social networking application and marketed it to other alumni associations and organizations that could benefit from member-based online communities. While the application and customer needs continue to evolve, the company remains committed to creating trusted social networks.
Affinity Circles continues to grow it's customer base exponentially year over year and add employees that will help the company grow to serve more membership-based organizations with interactive and engaging features and services.
More at:http://affinitycircles.com/
Dizzed----Talent Search Site
What Company Is Offering:
Dizzed is an online community that banks on user-generated content of the latest news that hit the web. Dizzed's content are categorized according to news, technology, sport, travel, media, science, lifestyle, television, internet marketing, music, entertainment, gaming and the revolutionary talent spool where you can showcase your talent. The members of Dizzed are given full control over the type of content that is uploaded on their account as long as it complies with Dizzed's terms of service. Users of Dizzed can also vote in terms of the popularity or unpopularity of the content being uploaded.
How It Works:
Registration is required if you want to be able to upload content or leave comments. It is very easy to register at Dizzed and wont take much of your time, so it is recommended for you to register. However, if you just want to see the latest news, no registration is required.
Compared to other sites, Dizzed is largely a social community that provides information by allowing their users to submit original links to the stories or talent that they want published. Dizzed has a simple interface that is very user-friendly to its members that even first time users will have no problem navigating and submitting their stories. Searching for friends is even made easier with Dizzed's user search function.
More at:http://www.dizzed.com/
Dizzed is an online community that banks on user-generated content of the latest news that hit the web. Dizzed's content are categorized according to news, technology, sport, travel, media, science, lifestyle, television, internet marketing, music, entertainment, gaming and the revolutionary talent spool where you can showcase your talent. The members of Dizzed are given full control over the type of content that is uploaded on their account as long as it complies with Dizzed's terms of service. Users of Dizzed can also vote in terms of the popularity or unpopularity of the content being uploaded.
How It Works:
Registration is required if you want to be able to upload content or leave comments. It is very easy to register at Dizzed and wont take much of your time, so it is recommended for you to register. However, if you just want to see the latest news, no registration is required.
Compared to other sites, Dizzed is largely a social community that provides information by allowing their users to submit original links to the stories or talent that they want published. Dizzed has a simple interface that is very user-friendly to its members that even first time users will have no problem navigating and submitting their stories. Searching for friends is even made easier with Dizzed's user search function.
More at:http://www.dizzed.com/
What Company Is Offering:
InverSearch is a search engine that bills its business users by the number of responses they make to consumer inquiries rather than by the number of hits they receive. InverSearch utilizes a Pay-Per-Response business model that does not affect the relevancy of search results or devour the budgets of advertisers.
How It Works:
InverSearch provides businesses with the most credible, cost-effective means to obtain customers, and provides consumers with the easiest, most reliable way to receive relevant search results. Individuals and businesses post confidential categorized inquiries, and the system immediately distributes the queries to businesses that have registered and want to respond to such inquiries. InverSearch allows businesses to control their marketing costs and achieve the highest possible advertising conversion rates while connecting with potential customers. Users can post an inquiry in a fraction of the time it takes to conduct a traditional Web search, and receive relevant results from genuinely interested self-identified sources.
How Is It Different:
This method is different from the Pay-Per-Click system used by many search engines. A consumer Internet user who wishes to use InverSearch establishes, at no charge, a password-protected consumer account. Once the consumer account is established, the user has access to a personalized My Account page. This graphical interface is used for submitting natural language search queries, managing queries, and reading incoming responses. Business accounts are established by businesses that wish to be queried by consumers with established accounts.
More at:http://www.inversearch.com/
InverSearch is a search engine that bills its business users by the number of responses they make to consumer inquiries rather than by the number of hits they receive. InverSearch utilizes a Pay-Per-Response business model that does not affect the relevancy of search results or devour the budgets of advertisers.
How It Works:
InverSearch provides businesses with the most credible, cost-effective means to obtain customers, and provides consumers with the easiest, most reliable way to receive relevant search results. Individuals and businesses post confidential categorized inquiries, and the system immediately distributes the queries to businesses that have registered and want to respond to such inquiries. InverSearch allows businesses to control their marketing costs and achieve the highest possible advertising conversion rates while connecting with potential customers. Users can post an inquiry in a fraction of the time it takes to conduct a traditional Web search, and receive relevant results from genuinely interested self-identified sources.
How Is It Different:
This method is different from the Pay-Per-Click system used by many search engines. A consumer Internet user who wishes to use InverSearch establishes, at no charge, a password-protected consumer account. Once the consumer account is established, the user has access to a personalized My Account page. This graphical interface is used for submitting natural language search queries, managing queries, and reading incoming responses. Business accounts are established by businesses that wish to be queried by consumers with established accounts.
More at:http://www.inversearch.com/
InGameNow allows users to connect with other sports fans and get real-time scores, banter, news and gossip
What Company Is Offering:
InGameNow allows users to connect with other sports fans and get real-time scores, banter, news and gossip. Staying atop of the sports world is now simple... and more importantly - interactive and fun.
More at:http://www.ingamenow.com/
InGameNow allows users to connect with other sports fans and get real-time scores, banter, news and gossip. Staying atop of the sports world is now simple... and more importantly - interactive and fun.
More at:http://www.ingamenow.com/
What Company Is Offering:
Commily is a free site for parents in their local communities. It is a place where families go online to better communicate and give to their community.
How It Works:
In your family profile, you can easily upload pictures to represent your family and each family member. To do this choose “Edit” for a family photo and “Edit Family Settings” to give each family member of your family a photo.
Profiles on Commily are all about your family. You can decide to have one profile for your entire family or you can create a page for each family member. In these pages, you can share information with your Commily friends about what they like to do. This info should help your in planning playdates and theme events.
More at:http://www.commily.com/
Commily is a free site for parents in their local communities. It is a place where families go online to better communicate and give to their community.
How It Works:
In your family profile, you can easily upload pictures to represent your family and each family member. To do this choose “Edit” for a family photo and “Edit Family Settings” to give each family member of your family a photo.
Profiles on Commily are all about your family. You can decide to have one profile for your entire family or you can create a page for each family member. In these pages, you can share information with your Commily friends about what they like to do. This info should help your in planning playdates and theme events.
More at:http://www.commily.com/
Initiate Systems, Inc is master data management solutions got $26 million financing
What Company Is Offering:
Initiate Systems, Inc. enables organizations to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Its master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide organizations with complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems or databases, even outside the firewall. This allows companies to unlock the value of their data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements. Initiate Systems operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and Toronto, London and Sydney.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) solutions, announced today completion of a $26 million financing. Paladin Capital Group led the round, which also included participation from new investors Dunrath Capital, EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC - News) and Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA - News) as well as existing investors, Sigma Partners, Apex Venture Partners and First Analysis Group.
“Investors have been very enthusiastic about participating in this round of funding,” said Bill Conroy, Initiate’s president and CEO. “The influence of these investors is a strategic advantage, as we capitalize on new opportunities and extend our leadership in MDM. This funding empowers us in our mission: Helping customers unlock the value of their data assets.”
More at:www.InitiateSystems.com
Initiate Systems, Inc. enables organizations to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Its master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide organizations with complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems or databases, even outside the firewall. This allows companies to unlock the value of their data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements. Initiate Systems operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., and Toronto, London and Sydney.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Initiate Systems, Inc., a leader in master data management (MDM) solutions, announced today completion of a $26 million financing. Paladin Capital Group led the round, which also included participation from new investors Dunrath Capital, EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC - News) and Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA - News) as well as existing investors, Sigma Partners, Apex Venture Partners and First Analysis Group.
“Investors have been very enthusiastic about participating in this round of funding,” said Bill Conroy, Initiate’s president and CEO. “The influence of these investors is a strategic advantage, as we capitalize on new opportunities and extend our leadership in MDM. This funding empowers us in our mission: Helping customers unlock the value of their data assets.”
More at:www.InitiateSystems.com
Instinctiv Shuffle is the first product by Instinctiv, a company dedicated to changing the way that consumers experience their entertainment
What Company Is Offering:
Instinctiv Shuffle is the first product by Instinctiv, a company dedicated to changing the way that consumers experience their entertainment. Instinctiv Shuffle gives consumers a smart alternative to the iTunes Shuffle feature on iPhones.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Instinctiv, a company dedicated to changing the way that consumers experience their entertainment, emerged from stealth mode today to announce its financing and the launch of its first product, Instinctiv Shuffle. The round was funded by Cayuga Venture Fund, Rosetech Ventures and a group of strategic angels.
Instinctiv Shuffle, which can be downloaded to the iPhone, helps consumers to rediscover their music libraries by learning what individuals want to hear in the moment. Consumers simply download the application, start iTunes, select Instinctiv Shuffle, skip the songs they don't want to hear at that time, and Instinctiv Shuffle does the rest, learning what consumers want to hear next.
More at:www.instinctiv.com
Instinctiv Shuffle is the first product by Instinctiv, a company dedicated to changing the way that consumers experience their entertainment. Instinctiv Shuffle gives consumers a smart alternative to the iTunes Shuffle feature on iPhones.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Instinctiv, a company dedicated to changing the way that consumers experience their entertainment, emerged from stealth mode today to announce its financing and the launch of its first product, Instinctiv Shuffle. The round was funded by Cayuga Venture Fund, Rosetech Ventures and a group of strategic angels.
Instinctiv Shuffle, which can be downloaded to the iPhone, helps consumers to rediscover their music libraries by learning what individuals want to hear in the moment. Consumers simply download the application, start iTunes, select Instinctiv Shuffle, skip the songs they don't want to hear at that time, and Instinctiv Shuffle does the rest, learning what consumers want to hear next.
More at:www.instinctiv.com
Miyowa is next generation solutions enable service providers to liberate their networks, deliver aggregated rich content and services to end users
What Company Is Offering:
Miyowa is a dynamic global company whose next generation solutions enable service providers to liberate their networks, deliver aggregated rich content and services to end users. A Red Herring Top 100 company, Miyowa's award winning technology is innovative and proven, and relied on by leading mobile operators around the world, processing over 3 million interactions per day. Cited as the global industry leader for Mobile IM, it is also number 1 in Mobile Messaging Clients.
Miyowa created the first handset independent universal end-to-end client messaging technology (MoveMessenger(TM)), compliant with all major existing standards and systems and provides mobile operators and communities with a white-labeled, scalable range of Mobile Web 2.0 Instant messaging related content and services.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Miyowa, a dynamic global company providing compelling instant messaging and presence enriched Mobile Web 2.0 technologies, today announced completion of a second round of financing of $8 million bringing the company's total financing to date to $12.7 million. The funding round was participated in by Techfund, who funded Miyowa's first round of financing in September 2006, and Credit Agricole Private Equity, a new investor. Combined with revenue derived from increased mobile operator contract wins, the additional financing will be used to accelerate commercialization of Miyowa's existing products, bring to market a revolutionary enriched mobile instant messaging solution, and expand operations into the U.S. and Asia.
"Global mobile usage patterns are changing. Mobile users now want to have access to all of their social desktop PC applications anywhere and at anytime," said Michel de Lempdes, investment director at Credit Agricole Private Equity. "The unique technology of Miyowa answers the mobile operators' needs as they look for new mobile web usages, made possible by the launch and quick adoption of unlimited data subscriptions. We think Miyowa's ability to offer innovative, new services in an unrestrictive fashion with almost no infrastructure investment, places it in prime position to take advantage of this market change, and provide the mobile applications that operators are seeking."
More at:http://www.miyowa.com
Miyowa is a dynamic global company whose next generation solutions enable service providers to liberate their networks, deliver aggregated rich content and services to end users. A Red Herring Top 100 company, Miyowa's award winning technology is innovative and proven, and relied on by leading mobile operators around the world, processing over 3 million interactions per day. Cited as the global industry leader for Mobile IM, it is also number 1 in Mobile Messaging Clients.
Miyowa created the first handset independent universal end-to-end client messaging technology (MoveMessenger(TM)), compliant with all major existing standards and systems and provides mobile operators and communities with a white-labeled, scalable range of Mobile Web 2.0 Instant messaging related content and services.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Miyowa, a dynamic global company providing compelling instant messaging and presence enriched Mobile Web 2.0 technologies, today announced completion of a second round of financing of $8 million bringing the company's total financing to date to $12.7 million. The funding round was participated in by Techfund, who funded Miyowa's first round of financing in September 2006, and Credit Agricole Private Equity, a new investor. Combined with revenue derived from increased mobile operator contract wins, the additional financing will be used to accelerate commercialization of Miyowa's existing products, bring to market a revolutionary enriched mobile instant messaging solution, and expand operations into the U.S. and Asia.
"Global mobile usage patterns are changing. Mobile users now want to have access to all of their social desktop PC applications anywhere and at anytime," said Michel de Lempdes, investment director at Credit Agricole Private Equity. "The unique technology of Miyowa answers the mobile operators' needs as they look for new mobile web usages, made possible by the launch and quick adoption of unlimited data subscriptions. We think Miyowa's ability to offer innovative, new services in an unrestrictive fashion with almost no infrastructure investment, places it in prime position to take advantage of this market change, and provide the mobile applications that operators are seeking."
More at:http://www.miyowa.com
VistaZoo is a customizable portal from where you can create stunning, professional Virtual Tours combining panoramas, pictures, video, audio in 3D
What Company Is Offering:
VistaZoo is a customizable portal from where you can create stunning, professional Virtual Tours combining panoramas, pictures, video, audio, floorplans and objects in 3D. Your tours will be uploaded and placed on a map instantly.
How It Works:
Once the tour has been created, you can easily embed it into any website in seconds. It works just like YouTube. Create and share instantly.
You can also have your own version of the VistaZoo portal and customize it to your liking. Forget about coding and hassles with servers and databases. VistaZoo takes care of it all for you. Feel free to use for either personal or commercial use.
Your portal and the content uploaded on it can be viewed from any computer and several mobile devices, making it a very powerful marketing tool.
More at:http://www.vistazoo.com/
VistaZoo is a customizable portal from where you can create stunning, professional Virtual Tours combining panoramas, pictures, video, audio, floorplans and objects in 3D. Your tours will be uploaded and placed on a map instantly.
How It Works:
Once the tour has been created, you can easily embed it into any website in seconds. It works just like YouTube. Create and share instantly.
You can also have your own version of the VistaZoo portal and customize it to your liking. Forget about coding and hassles with servers and databases. VistaZoo takes care of it all for you. Feel free to use for either personal or commercial use.
Your portal and the content uploaded on it can be viewed from any computer and several mobile devices, making it a very powerful marketing tool.
More at:http://www.vistazoo.com/
Science News
What Company Is Offering:
There is no human editor behind e! Science News; it is powered by the Eureka! news engine, a fully automated artificial intelligence.
Its sole purpose is to ensure that you have access to the very latest and popular science breakthroughs. To achieve this, it constantly surfs the web to gather, regroup, categorize, tag and rank science news from all major science news sources.
It computes relationships between science articles and news found on the web using a vector space model and hierarchical clustering. It then automatically determines in which category each news item belongs using a Naive Bayes classifier. Finally, it examines multiple parameters (such as timeliness, rate of appearance on the web, number of sources reporting the news, etc) for each news group. The result is an e! score which represents the relative importance of a news item.
More at:http://esciencenews.com/
There is no human editor behind e! Science News; it is powered by the Eureka! news engine, a fully automated artificial intelligence.
Its sole purpose is to ensure that you have access to the very latest and popular science breakthroughs. To achieve this, it constantly surfs the web to gather, regroup, categorize, tag and rank science news from all major science news sources.
It computes relationships between science articles and news found on the web using a vector space model and hierarchical clustering. It then automatically determines in which category each news item belongs using a Naive Bayes classifier. Finally, it examines multiple parameters (such as timeliness, rate of appearance on the web, number of sources reporting the news, etc) for each news group. The result is an e! score which represents the relative importance of a news item.
More at:http://esciencenews.com/
Thursday, June 26, 2008
CyberSiteSearch ----E-Commerce site search solution
What Company Is Offering;
CyberSiteSearch is a new and innovative on-demand Software as a Service (Saas) E-Commerce site search solution that integrates with your online marketing efforts.
How It Works:
It helps increase the site conversion rate by presenting the online merchant’s products with pictures, descriptions, stock status, etc. instead of boring text links.
It permits merchants to promote and merchandize certain products in response to visitors search queries.
It allows for up sell and cross sell product suggestions right from the search results page.
It facilitates customer ordering directly from the search results page.
It integrates with and is compatible with online marketing efforts.
More at:http://www.cybersitesearch.com/
CyberSiteSearch is a new and innovative on-demand Software as a Service (Saas) E-Commerce site search solution that integrates with your online marketing efforts.
How It Works:
It helps increase the site conversion rate by presenting the online merchant’s products with pictures, descriptions, stock status, etc. instead of boring text links.
It permits merchants to promote and merchandize certain products in response to visitors search queries.
It allows for up sell and cross sell product suggestions right from the search results page.
It facilitates customer ordering directly from the search results page.
It integrates with and is compatible with online marketing efforts.
More at:http://www.cybersitesearch.com/
ClickBook is a real-time, web-based booking and scheduling system for small business
What Company Is Offering:
ClickBook is a real-time, web-based booking and scheduling system for small business with the critical features that characterise large scale booking systems, without the prohibitive costs of custom-built solutions.
ClickBook Free Online Scheduling is the easy alternative to distracting telephones, expensive receptionists, endless call-backs and missed opportunities from unanswered calls. It is a web-based replacement of your appointment sheet, scheduling system or diary that lets your clients book online.
How It Works:
The system provides a broad spectrum of small businesses with a highly user-friendly and accessible on-ramp into the online scheduling world, and provides their clients with the ultimate in appointment scheduling convenience.
It is a solution to the increasing demands from consumers for online services, and a transformative business automation tool for small business involved in the provision of appointment-based services.
More at:http://clickbook.net/
ClickBook is a real-time, web-based booking and scheduling system for small business with the critical features that characterise large scale booking systems, without the prohibitive costs of custom-built solutions.
ClickBook Free Online Scheduling is the easy alternative to distracting telephones, expensive receptionists, endless call-backs and missed opportunities from unanswered calls. It is a web-based replacement of your appointment sheet, scheduling system or diary that lets your clients book online.
How It Works:
The system provides a broad spectrum of small businesses with a highly user-friendly and accessible on-ramp into the online scheduling world, and provides their clients with the ultimate in appointment scheduling convenience.
It is a solution to the increasing demands from consumers for online services, and a transformative business automation tool for small business involved in the provision of appointment-based services.
More at:http://clickbook.net/
Hoodeo plays neighborhood matchmaker, giving consumers up to 10 neighborhoods that best match their needs
What Company Is Offering:
Hoodeo plays neighborhood matchmaker, giving consumers up to 10 neighborhoods that best match their needs.
How It Works:
First, create your hoodeo profile by answering a few questions about your lifestyle, desired property type and price range. Then, let hoodeo work its matchmaking magic then show you your best places to live. Hoodeo goes one step further and shows you homes that are for sale that match your criteria in your best places.
More at:http://www.hoodeo.com/
Hoodeo plays neighborhood matchmaker, giving consumers up to 10 neighborhoods that best match their needs.
How It Works:
First, create your hoodeo profile by answering a few questions about your lifestyle, desired property type and price range. Then, let hoodeo work its matchmaking magic then show you your best places to live. Hoodeo goes one step further and shows you homes that are for sale that match your criteria in your best places.
More at:http://www.hoodeo.com/
Fuse Jobs is the only website in the UK specialising in helping you find a new career
What Company Is Offering:
Fuse Jobs is the only website in the UK specialising in helping you find a new career, whether it's your first step on the career ladder, you're returning after a break, or you 're looking to take on a new challenge.
Unique Features:
Match your skills to live vacancies - A unique, fully integrated assessment system allowing you to generate your own skills profile and use it to help you target roles, and match your skills against current live vacancies - no need to apply for jobs you can't do ever again.
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Help for Employment advisers - specialist brokerage section for anyone working with job seekers to help you help people back to work quicker and more effectively.
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Further steps on the Fuse Journey to help you land that job and do well in it.
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Many more articles from careers experts, employers and successful job seekers.
More at:http://www.fusejobs.co.uk/
Fuse Jobs is the only website in the UK specialising in helping you find a new career, whether it's your first step on the career ladder, you're returning after a break, or you 're looking to take on a new challenge.
Unique Features:
Match your skills to live vacancies - A unique, fully integrated assessment system allowing you to generate your own skills profile and use it to help you target roles, and match your skills against current live vacancies - no need to apply for jobs you can't do ever again.
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Help for Employment advisers - specialist brokerage section for anyone working with job seekers to help you help people back to work quicker and more effectively.
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Further steps on the Fuse Journey to help you land that job and do well in it.
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Many more articles from careers experts, employers and successful job seekers.
More at:http://www.fusejobs.co.uk/
GDCM, a London-based provider of data center management solutions, has raised a "multi-million dollar" investment
What Company Is Offering:
GDCM is a global software company which has developed solutions aimed at helping organizations provide a complete view of their data centers, allowing them to intelligently manage power consumption and forecast greenhouse emissions. The company counts HBOS, DHL and Clifford Chance among its growing list of clients. With offices now in London, New York, Dallas and California, and with expectations to achieve triple figure growth this year, GDCM is strengthening the board as it rolls-out its services internationally.
How Much They Got From VCs:
GDCM, a London-based provider of data center management solutions, has raised a "multi-million dollar" investment from Balderton Capital. The financing will be used to help financing international growth. The investment will be used to accelerate the company's international growth. Bernard Liautaud, previously chairman and chief strategy officer at Business Objects, and Tim Bunting, Partners at Balderton Capital will join the firm as non-executive directors.
John Moreton, GDCM's Chairman, said: "We are pleased to have the support of Balderton which has an outstanding track record in developing software companies and welcome Bernard and Tim to our board. Their industry knowledge and expertise will be invaluable as we continue our expansion in Europe and the US."
Balderton Capital is Europe's premier venture capital firm behind investments such as MySQL, recently sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion, and Bebo, sold to AOL for $850m.
More at:http://www.gdcm.com
GDCM is a global software company which has developed solutions aimed at helping organizations provide a complete view of their data centers, allowing them to intelligently manage power consumption and forecast greenhouse emissions. The company counts HBOS, DHL and Clifford Chance among its growing list of clients. With offices now in London, New York, Dallas and California, and with expectations to achieve triple figure growth this year, GDCM is strengthening the board as it rolls-out its services internationally.
How Much They Got From VCs:
GDCM, a London-based provider of data center management solutions, has raised a "multi-million dollar" investment from Balderton Capital. The financing will be used to help financing international growth. The investment will be used to accelerate the company's international growth. Bernard Liautaud, previously chairman and chief strategy officer at Business Objects, and Tim Bunting, Partners at Balderton Capital will join the firm as non-executive directors.
John Moreton, GDCM's Chairman, said: "We are pleased to have the support of Balderton which has an outstanding track record in developing software companies and welcome Bernard and Tim to our board. Their industry knowledge and expertise will be invaluable as we continue our expansion in Europe and the US."
Balderton Capital is Europe's premier venture capital firm behind investments such as MySQL, recently sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion, and Bebo, sold to AOL for $850m.
More at:http://www.gdcm.com
XShares Group is innovative exchange traded funds has received additional financing in excess of $15 million
What Company Is Offering:
XShares Group LLC is a holding company of XShares Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor, designer and sponsor of U.S.-listed ETFs, and XShares Securities LLC, a registered broker-dealer. The company also partners with leading financial services firms and index providers to develop and launch innovative ETFs. This flexible approach to product development allows XShares Advisors to introduce novel ETFs based on in-house intellectual property, while also creating private-label opportunities for firms seeking to enter the fast-growing ETF marketplace. All XShares ETFs trade on NYSE Arca.
How Much They Got From VCs:
XShares Group LLC, an industry leader in developing precisely focused, innovative exchange traded funds (ETFs), announced that it has received additional financing in excess of $15 million from a group of European institutional investors. The new funds will be used for developing and introducing new exchange traded products, as well as for working capital.
With the receipt of the financing, the Company also announced that Joseph L. Schocken, currently a member of XShares Board of Managers, has been named Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer of XShares Group and William P. Henson, the current CEO of XShares Group, will return full-time to Grail Partners, a founding investor of the Company, where he is a partner. Jeffrey L. Feldman, a member of the Board of Managers, will continue in his management role and has also been granted the title of Founder and Chief Strategist.
XShares Group LLC is a holding company of XShares Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor, designer and sponsor of U.S.-listed ETFs, and XShares Securities LLC, a registered broker-dealer. The company also partners with leading financial services firms and index providers to develop and launch innovative ETFs. This flexible approach to product development allows XShares Advisors to introduce novel ETFs based on in-house intellectual property, while also creating private-label opportunities for firms seeking to enter the fast-growing ETF marketplace. All XShares ETFs trade on NYSE Arca.
How Much They Got From VCs:
XShares Group LLC, an industry leader in developing precisely focused, innovative exchange traded funds (ETFs), announced that it has received additional financing in excess of $15 million from a group of European institutional investors. The new funds will be used for developing and introducing new exchange traded products, as well as for working capital.
With the receipt of the financing, the Company also announced that Joseph L. Schocken, currently a member of XShares Board of Managers, has been named Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer of XShares Group and William P. Henson, the current CEO of XShares Group, will return full-time to Grail Partners, a founding investor of the Company, where he is a partner. Jeffrey L. Feldman, a member of the Board of Managers, will continue in his management role and has also been granted the title of Founder and Chief Strategist.
SodaHead, a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics got $8.4 million Series B round
What Company Is Offering:
SodaHead is a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics. If you have something that gets your noggin spinning, hit up SodaHead -- ask a question or add your two cents and see who else thinks like you. Share your views with your opinionated friends, your gossipy co-worker, your know-it-all ex or meet new friends. Pick your passion, whether its politics, pop culture, music, sports or relationships, you'll find SodaHeads who are all worked up about the same stuff you are! Take the discussion to your site like many celebrities, bloggers and media companies have using SodaHead’s customized poll widget to better engage their audience. Everyone with something to say belongs on SodaHead.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SodaHead, a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics, announced an $8.4 million Series B round of funding. Mission Ventures led the round with prior investor Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) co-investing. Funds will be allocated to new marketing initiatives and strategic hires designed to make SodaHead the #1 discussion community.
“SodaHead offers an incredible opportunity for individuals to express their opinions and meet similar people,” said Robert Kibble, managing partner, Mission Ventures. ”SodaHead’s community and upcoming initiatives are very exciting and I believe SodaHead will be one of the biggest sites on the Internet. Mission Ventures has made several investments in Internet/digital media companies and we are very excited to add SodaHead to our portfolio. SodaHead has an experienced management team for this opportunity and we believe in their vision and strategy.”
More at:www.SodaHead.com
SodaHead is a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics. If you have something that gets your noggin spinning, hit up SodaHead -- ask a question or add your two cents and see who else thinks like you. Share your views with your opinionated friends, your gossipy co-worker, your know-it-all ex or meet new friends. Pick your passion, whether its politics, pop culture, music, sports or relationships, you'll find SodaHeads who are all worked up about the same stuff you are! Take the discussion to your site like many celebrities, bloggers and media companies have using SodaHead’s customized poll widget to better engage their audience. Everyone with something to say belongs on SodaHead.
How Much They Got From VCs:
SodaHead, a leading opinion community focused on discussing today’s hottest topics, announced an $8.4 million Series B round of funding. Mission Ventures led the round with prior investor Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) co-investing. Funds will be allocated to new marketing initiatives and strategic hires designed to make SodaHead the #1 discussion community.
“SodaHead offers an incredible opportunity for individuals to express their opinions and meet similar people,” said Robert Kibble, managing partner, Mission Ventures. ”SodaHead’s community and upcoming initiatives are very exciting and I believe SodaHead will be one of the biggest sites on the Internet. Mission Ventures has made several investments in Internet/digital media companies and we are very excited to add SodaHead to our portfolio. SodaHead has an experienced management team for this opportunity and we believe in their vision and strategy.”
More at:www.SodaHead.com
BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of gigabit wireless solutions has received $10 million
What Company Is Offering:
BridgeWave Communications is the leading supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. The company’s exclusive AdaptRate™ and AdaptPath™ technologies combined with its advanced Forward Error Correction capability deliver the highest availability at the longest distances for full-rate gigabit links. BridgeWave’s point-to-point, wireless solutions are widely deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul. With the largest installed base of GigE radios worldwide, BridgeWave delivers the highest levels of product quality and reliability.
How Much They Got From VCs:
BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of gigabit wireless solutions, today announced it has received $10 million in Series 4 funding. This round was co-led by Intel Capital and a new investor, Core Capital, with participation from prior round venture capital firms Cipio Partners, SDL Ventures, and Merifin Capital.
BridgeWave will use the funding to extend the company's position in gigabit wireless enterprise and fixed operator networks into the next generation gigabit mobile backhaul space. This move will help address the data transport challenges facing 4G WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployments.
More at:www.bridgewave.com
BridgeWave Communications is the leading supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. The company’s exclusive AdaptRate™ and AdaptPath™ technologies combined with its advanced Forward Error Correction capability deliver the highest availability at the longest distances for full-rate gigabit links. BridgeWave’s point-to-point, wireless solutions are widely deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul. With the largest installed base of GigE radios worldwide, BridgeWave delivers the highest levels of product quality and reliability.
How Much They Got From VCs:
BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of gigabit wireless solutions, today announced it has received $10 million in Series 4 funding. This round was co-led by Intel Capital and a new investor, Core Capital, with participation from prior round venture capital firms Cipio Partners, SDL Ventures, and Merifin Capital.
BridgeWave will use the funding to extend the company's position in gigabit wireless enterprise and fixed operator networks into the next generation gigabit mobile backhaul space. This move will help address the data transport challenges facing 4G WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE) deployments.
More at:www.bridgewave.com
Kindling is a web-based application that cultivates and manages the ideas of everyone in your organization
What Company Is Offering:
Kindling is a web-based application that cultivates and manages the ideas of everyone in your organization.
Kindling is a Place for Idea ,a place where companies, organizations, and small groups can share and collaborate. Kindling cultivates ideas from the ground up and believes that everyone in a group has something valuable to say, from the interns to the CEO.
One of Kindling's finest features is the opportunity for group discussion and peer-voting system. The system works better if you have more than a few people in your group because of the nature of how discussions happen. They think a good minimum number is somewhere around 6 members.
More at:http://www.kindlingapp.com/
Kindling is a web-based application that cultivates and manages the ideas of everyone in your organization.
Kindling is a Place for Idea ,a place where companies, organizations, and small groups can share and collaborate. Kindling cultivates ideas from the ground up and believes that everyone in a group has something valuable to say, from the interns to the CEO.
One of Kindling's finest features is the opportunity for group discussion and peer-voting system. The system works better if you have more than a few people in your group because of the nature of how discussions happen. They think a good minimum number is somewhere around 6 members.
More at:http://www.kindlingapp.com/
GoogleAdPlanner-----Free media planning tool
What Company Is Offering:
Refine your online advertising with Google Ad Planner, a free media planning tool that can help you: Identify websites your target customers are likely to visit.
Unique Features:
Define audiences by demographics and interests.
Search for websites relevant to your target audience.
Access unique users, page views, and other data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.
Easily build media plans for yourself or your clients.
Create lists of websites where you'd like to advertise.
Generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan.
More at:Google Ad Planner
Refine your online advertising with Google Ad Planner, a free media planning tool that can help you: Identify websites your target customers are likely to visit.
Unique Features:
Define audiences by demographics and interests.
Search for websites relevant to your target audience.
Access unique users, page views, and other data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.
Easily build media plans for yourself or your clients.
Create lists of websites where you'd like to advertise.
Generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan.
More at:Google Ad Planner
Yo Macha----Your Picture Rating And Social Networking Site
What Company Is Offering:
Yo Macha, On this portal, you can put up your picture, let people rate your looks on scale of 10… while that happens, you can rate other people…
It’s macha’s (slang for friend) portal where we take care of your security; no downloads, no save as… they have kept it simple, for easy use. So get rolling, flaunt your score, or get tips and tricks, or work on your looks, all here at www.yomacha.com.
How It Works:
You can upload pictures, rate people, add comments, suggest an accessory, suggest a look, flaunt your score, meet and make new friends and have a fun time on the web.
You can upload a picture directly from your computer. Do not send them photos via email asking them to post it for you.
They keep the safety of pictures and information of their users as priority. No one can save the picture or copy your picture from their portal. They ensure that your personality is not tarnished by ensuring that there is no explicit content on the portal.
More at:http://yomacha.com/
Yo Macha, On this portal, you can put up your picture, let people rate your looks on scale of 10… while that happens, you can rate other people…
It’s macha’s (slang for friend) portal where we take care of your security; no downloads, no save as… they have kept it simple, for easy use. So get rolling, flaunt your score, or get tips and tricks, or work on your looks, all here at www.yomacha.com.
How It Works:
You can upload pictures, rate people, add comments, suggest an accessory, suggest a look, flaunt your score, meet and make new friends and have a fun time on the web.
You can upload a picture directly from your computer. Do not send them photos via email asking them to post it for you.
They keep the safety of pictures and information of their users as priority. No one can save the picture or copy your picture from their portal. They ensure that your personality is not tarnished by ensuring that there is no explicit content on the portal.
More at:http://yomacha.com/
Evri----Search Less Understand More
What Company Is Offering:
Evri is a team of superstar engineers and product developers with deep expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, and most importantly, building great products. Located in the historic Pioneer Square area of downtown Seattle, they are building a team passionate about innovation, great user experiences and having fun.
Who Is Backing Them:
The company is led by CEO Neil Roseman. Prior to joining Evri, Neil spent 9 1/2 years at Amazon.com (1998 - 2007), most as a Vice President of Technology. Most recently Neil was responsible for Amazon.com's Digital Media Technologies and Amazon’s Global Subscriptions Platform. In this role Neil was responsible for product and software development for efforts such Search Inside the Book ™, Amazon Unbox Digital Video, and the recently launched Amazon MP3 service. The Subscriptions Platform, which Neil designed and built with a small team, is used globally by Amazon Prime, Amazon DVD Rental (in the UK and Germany) and other Amazon.com services. Prior to that Neil was responsible for many of Amazon's most successful product launches, including Music and DVD stores, Marketplace (Amazon's 3rd-party business), Amazon China, and the initial Amazon Web Services product.
Formerly known as Hypertext Solutions, Evri was incubated by Vulcan Capital. Vulcan Capital is a leading private investment firm that creates long-term value by applying extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and flexible financial resources to attractive investment opportunities. The firm invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital, as well as public equity value investing. The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, business and financial services, technology, life sciences and healthcare. Vulcan Capital was formed in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm serves as the investment arm of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.
More at:http://www.evri.com/
Evri is a team of superstar engineers and product developers with deep expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, and most importantly, building great products. Located in the historic Pioneer Square area of downtown Seattle, they are building a team passionate about innovation, great user experiences and having fun.
Who Is Backing Them:
The company is led by CEO Neil Roseman. Prior to joining Evri, Neil spent 9 1/2 years at Amazon.com (1998 - 2007), most as a Vice President of Technology. Most recently Neil was responsible for Amazon.com's Digital Media Technologies and Amazon’s Global Subscriptions Platform. In this role Neil was responsible for product and software development for efforts such Search Inside the Book ™, Amazon Unbox Digital Video, and the recently launched Amazon MP3 service. The Subscriptions Platform, which Neil designed and built with a small team, is used globally by Amazon Prime, Amazon DVD Rental (in the UK and Germany) and other Amazon.com services. Prior to that Neil was responsible for many of Amazon's most successful product launches, including Music and DVD stores, Marketplace (Amazon's 3rd-party business), Amazon China, and the initial Amazon Web Services product.
Formerly known as Hypertext Solutions, Evri was incubated by Vulcan Capital. Vulcan Capital is a leading private investment firm that creates long-term value by applying extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and flexible financial resources to attractive investment opportunities. The firm invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital, as well as public equity value investing. The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, business and financial services, technology, life sciences and healthcare. Vulcan Capital was formed in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The firm serves as the investment arm of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.
More at:http://www.evri.com/
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Twellow.com ---People Search
What Company Is Offering:
Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They then analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com. By adding these people to specific categories they help you narrow your searching into specific niches where you can find who you are looking for. In addition to Twitter, they're actively working on adding more social media services to broaden your capacity to find people who matter.
Twellow has indexed more than 300,000 users and sorted them into categories like programming, marketing, graphic design, and dozens of others to help you find users who list those characteristics in their Twitter biographies. There are also sub-categories, so within “Programming” you can browse users who list PHP, Ruby on Rails, or another programming skill in their bio. RSS feeds are also offered for each category and sub-category.
More at:http://www.twellow.com/
Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They then analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com. By adding these people to specific categories they help you narrow your searching into specific niches where you can find who you are looking for. In addition to Twitter, they're actively working on adding more social media services to broaden your capacity to find people who matter.
Twellow has indexed more than 300,000 users and sorted them into categories like programming, marketing, graphic design, and dozens of others to help you find users who list those characteristics in their Twitter biographies. There are also sub-categories, so within “Programming” you can browse users who list PHP, Ruby on Rails, or another programming skill in their bio. RSS feeds are also offered for each category and sub-category.
More at:http://www.twellow.com/
StartupAgents is a matching service dedicated to helping startup companies worldwide find the talent they need to build next generation products
What Company Is Offering:
StartupAgents is a matching service dedicated to helping startup companies worldwide find the talent they need to build next generation products and services. Their service provides both companies and individuals the ability to create detailed profiles that allow for a faster more successful matchmaking process.
How It Works:
Startups need help from a variety of talented people. So whether you are an advisor, intern, consultant, full-time, or part-time candidate, StartupAgents will work to match you with the right position and company.
StartupAgents is free for agents. You can sign-up and reply to messages from startups immediately. You can also establish connections with other agents and ask questions of startups. Currently, we only allow for startups to contact agents.
More at:http://startupagents.com/
StartupAgents is a matching service dedicated to helping startup companies worldwide find the talent they need to build next generation products and services. Their service provides both companies and individuals the ability to create detailed profiles that allow for a faster more successful matchmaking process.
How It Works:
Startups need help from a variety of talented people. So whether you are an advisor, intern, consultant, full-time, or part-time candidate, StartupAgents will work to match you with the right position and company.
StartupAgents is free for agents. You can sign-up and reply to messages from startups immediately. You can also establish connections with other agents and ask questions of startups. Currently, we only allow for startups to contact agents.
More at:http://startupagents.com/
OctopusCity is a network for professionals that provides the first contact management software
What Company Is Offering:
OctopusCity is a network for professionals that provides the first contact management software that is a free and easy way to stay in touch with your friends and contacts.
How It Works:
With Octopus City’s free email software and connected address books, your smart address book automatically updates when linked members change their contact data; your contact information also stays updated in their address books. Octopus City’s contact management system can be with you wherever you go, thanks to its wireless PDA sync capability. Octopus City can synchronize with Outlook, Outlook Express, Gmail, Yahoo and many other email applications. You can also perform an Outlook sync of your address book, calendar and tasks across multiple computers. With value-added partner services like web meetings and teleconferencing, Octopus City’s free CRM software enables you to stay connected like never before.
More at:http://www.octopuscity.com/
OctopusCity is a network for professionals that provides the first contact management software that is a free and easy way to stay in touch with your friends and contacts.
How It Works:
With Octopus City’s free email software and connected address books, your smart address book automatically updates when linked members change their contact data; your contact information also stays updated in their address books. Octopus City’s contact management system can be with you wherever you go, thanks to its wireless PDA sync capability. Octopus City can synchronize with Outlook, Outlook Express, Gmail, Yahoo and many other email applications. You can also perform an Outlook sync of your address book, calendar and tasks across multiple computers. With value-added partner services like web meetings and teleconferencing, Octopus City’s free CRM software enables you to stay connected like never before.
More at:http://www.octopuscity.com/
Yoono, a social network browser plugin, has raised $4 million in additional Series A funding
what Company Is Offering:
Yoono and Yoono Buzz It! are simple plugins that run in either Firefox or Internet Explorer, on Mac and Windows. It resides in the browser toolbar or sidebar and displays similar web sites ranked by popularity, yoo’sers who have bookmarked related sites and recent related blog posts and articles.
Unlike other highlighter, social bookmarking tools, Web clippers, or online “Sticky Notes,” Buzz It! combines all of the above in an easy-to-use, integrated rich media applet. It becomes an all-in-one resource for not only capturing and saving information for later reference, but is also portable, providing automatic and seamless posting to blogs, social networks, email, as well as their own Yoono Buzzlog homepages.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Yoono, a social network browser plugin, has raised $4 million in additional Series A funding led by AGF Private Equity.
More at:www.yoono.com
Yoono and Yoono Buzz It! are simple plugins that run in either Firefox or Internet Explorer, on Mac and Windows. It resides in the browser toolbar or sidebar and displays similar web sites ranked by popularity, yoo’sers who have bookmarked related sites and recent related blog posts and articles.
Unlike other highlighter, social bookmarking tools, Web clippers, or online “Sticky Notes,” Buzz It! combines all of the above in an easy-to-use, integrated rich media applet. It becomes an all-in-one resource for not only capturing and saving information for later reference, but is also portable, providing automatic and seamless posting to blogs, social networks, email, as well as their own Yoono Buzzlog homepages.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Yoono, a social network browser plugin, has raised $4 million in additional Series A funding led by AGF Private Equity.
More at:www.yoono.com
rPath’s platform transforms applications into virtual appliances has closed a $10M round of venture financing
What Company Is Offering:
rPath’s platform transforms applications into virtual appliances. A virtual appliance is an application combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally in any virtualized environment. Virtual appliances eliminate the hassles of installing, configuring and maintaining complex application environments. Only rPath’s technology simplifies application distribution, lowers the customer service costs of maintenance and management, and produces multiple virtual machine formats.
How Much They Got From VCs:
rPath® today announced that the company has closed a $10M round of venture financing. The Series C round was led by rPath’s existing backers, General Catalyst, North Bridge Venture Partners and Wakefield Group. The company plans to use this new capital to increase its leadership in enabling cloud computing.
Merrill Lynch’s recent research note titled, “The Cloud Wars: $100+ billion at Stake,” cites cloud computing has the potential to shower billions in revenues on companies that embrace it. According to Merrill Lynch, the burgeoning technology concept is seen as a $160-billion addressable market opportunity, including $95-billion in business and productivity applications, and another $65-billion in online advertising.
“As the demand for cloud computing continues to explode, rPath is in a unique position to drive adoption as the fastest and most scalable approach for delivering applications to cloud computing environments such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Citrix’s XenServer, and VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure,” said Billy Marshall, rPath founder and CEO.
More at:http://www.rpath.com
rPath’s platform transforms applications into virtual appliances. A virtual appliance is an application combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally in any virtualized environment. Virtual appliances eliminate the hassles of installing, configuring and maintaining complex application environments. Only rPath’s technology simplifies application distribution, lowers the customer service costs of maintenance and management, and produces multiple virtual machine formats.
How Much They Got From VCs:
rPath® today announced that the company has closed a $10M round of venture financing. The Series C round was led by rPath’s existing backers, General Catalyst, North Bridge Venture Partners and Wakefield Group. The company plans to use this new capital to increase its leadership in enabling cloud computing.
Merrill Lynch’s recent research note titled, “The Cloud Wars: $100+ billion at Stake,” cites cloud computing has the potential to shower billions in revenues on companies that embrace it. According to Merrill Lynch, the burgeoning technology concept is seen as a $160-billion addressable market opportunity, including $95-billion in business and productivity applications, and another $65-billion in online advertising.
“As the demand for cloud computing continues to explode, rPath is in a unique position to drive adoption as the fastest and most scalable approach for delivering applications to cloud computing environments such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Citrix’s XenServer, and VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure,” said Billy Marshall, rPath founder and CEO.
More at:http://www.rpath.com
GreatCall’s vision is to deliver easy to use, helpful an d affordable cellular phones and service has closed $38 million in Series C funding
What Company Is Offering:
GreatCall’s vision is to deliver easy to use, helpful and affordable cellular phones and service, creating a new industry standard for simplicity. Jitterbug, created with worldwide leader Samsung, is sold nationwide through direct-to-consumer channels. Jitterbug is also available at Best Buy, Sears, select CVS, Beltone Hearing Centers, and wireless retailers across the country. Service coverage includes the U.S. and Canada. GreatCall is located in Del Mar, CA.
How Much They Got From VCs:
GreatCall, Inc., creator of Jitterbug, announced that the company has closed $38 million in Series C funding led by Court Square Ventures. Existing investors Steelpoint Capital, Charles River Ventures, Nauta Capital, and company founders Marty Cooper and Arlene Harris also participated in the round. In addition, Sumitomo Corporation participated with full conversion of previously issued notes. In conjunction with the financing, Jim Murray, a general partner with Court Square, will join the company’s Board of Directors.
GreatCall will use the financing to continue to build out additional sales channels and develop innovative services, applications and devices to answer the needs of its rapidly expanding customer base.
More at:www.jitterbug.com
GreatCall’s vision is to deliver easy to use, helpful and affordable cellular phones and service, creating a new industry standard for simplicity. Jitterbug, created with worldwide leader Samsung, is sold nationwide through direct-to-consumer channels. Jitterbug is also available at Best Buy, Sears, select CVS, Beltone Hearing Centers, and wireless retailers across the country. Service coverage includes the U.S. and Canada. GreatCall is located in Del Mar, CA.
How Much They Got From VCs:
GreatCall, Inc., creator of Jitterbug, announced that the company has closed $38 million in Series C funding led by Court Square Ventures. Existing investors Steelpoint Capital, Charles River Ventures, Nauta Capital, and company founders Marty Cooper and Arlene Harris also participated in the round. In addition, Sumitomo Corporation participated with full conversion of previously issued notes. In conjunction with the financing, Jim Murray, a general partner with Court Square, will join the company’s Board of Directors.
GreatCall will use the financing to continue to build out additional sales channels and develop innovative services, applications and devices to answer the needs of its rapidly expanding customer base.
More at:www.jitterbug.com
Buzznet.com is a vibrant social media destination representing the next evolution of social networking
What Company Is Offering:
Buzznet.com is a vibrant social media destination representing the next evolution of social networking.
Buzznet distinguishes itself from traditional media sites and social networks that are focused on profile pages and communication tools by enabling Web users to program dynamic multimedia communities around the music and pop culture topics they are most passionate about.
More authentic, content rich and frequently updated than a website, and more interactive than a blog, Buzznet's integrated media and community platform allows its users to network like never before with leading bands, trendsetters and their peers through self-created content, videos, photos and journals. This unique user-centric approach has attracted more than 10 million users who program, by contributing, combining, providing context and connectivity, making Buzznet a top destination for people seeking the most current and authentic content and news.
How It Works:
Click the LOG-IN button to sign-in. Once signed in, you will see your dashboard (personal gallery tools) in the upper right corner.
You can edit information in your Settings by selecting UPDATE YOUR PROFILE. Items marked with a * will show up on your homepage when you have entered some data.
Create your banner in the image editor of your choice. Make sure the image is 801 pixels by whatever your desired height is. The vast majority of custom banners you'll find on Buzznet measure 801x144 pixels. Save the image out as a jpeg. Next, go to your Settings. Click, "Change Your Color Scheme." Upload the header image in the section called, "Page Header Image."
You're almost done! Enter the following code into the box titled "Custom Stylesheet": .userpage #header{height:144px;} The height should correspond with whatever height you chose to make your banner.
To make your profile private, so that only your Buzznet friends can view it, go to your Settings. Then click, "Edit Your Account Info." You can change your privacy settings there.
More at:http://www.buzznet.com/
Buzznet.com is a vibrant social media destination representing the next evolution of social networking.
Buzznet distinguishes itself from traditional media sites and social networks that are focused on profile pages and communication tools by enabling Web users to program dynamic multimedia communities around the music and pop culture topics they are most passionate about.
More authentic, content rich and frequently updated than a website, and more interactive than a blog, Buzznet's integrated media and community platform allows its users to network like never before with leading bands, trendsetters and their peers through self-created content, videos, photos and journals. This unique user-centric approach has attracted more than 10 million users who program, by contributing, combining, providing context and connectivity, making Buzznet a top destination for people seeking the most current and authentic content and news.
How It Works:
Click the LOG-IN button to sign-in. Once signed in, you will see your dashboard (personal gallery tools) in the upper right corner.
You can edit information in your Settings by selecting UPDATE YOUR PROFILE. Items marked with a * will show up on your homepage when you have entered some data.
Create your banner in the image editor of your choice. Make sure the image is 801 pixels by whatever your desired height is. The vast majority of custom banners you'll find on Buzznet measure 801x144 pixels. Save the image out as a jpeg. Next, go to your Settings. Click, "Change Your Color Scheme." Upload the header image in the section called, "Page Header Image."
You're almost done! Enter the following code into the box titled "Custom Stylesheet": .userpage #header{height:144px;} The height should correspond with whatever height you chose to make your banner.
To make your profile private, so that only your Buzznet friends can view it, go to your Settings. Then click, "Edit Your Account Info." You can change your privacy settings there.
More at:http://www.buzznet.com/
HP’s new BookPrep technology is enabling publishers to digitize any existing book and turn it into a virtual asset that can be sold over the Internet
What Company Is Offering:
HP’s new BookPrep technology is enabling publishers to digitize any existing book and turn it into a virtual asset that can be sold over the Internet and printed on demand – either as is, or personalized by the consumer.
BookPrep is a print-on-demand service – with a twist. It unlocks the literary treasures of both the present and the past.
How It Works:
Integrating various HP Labs printing technologies, BookPrep automatically aligns and flattens scanned texts of current and out-of-print-books, cleans and brightens the fold and corners of the pages for consistent coloration, and outputs a professional and print-ready PDF eMaster.
BookPrep also capitalizes on HP Labs research that could some day enable cost-effective printing and binding of books and magazines at point of sale, and on demand.
BookPrep makes it possible to give consumers access to every book ever published as a high quality replica of the original that they can even personalize.
The best way to see BookPrep in action is at Foodsville, a community-based site for food and cooking enthusiasts – especially those with an interest in the history of cooking.
Created by HP and its partner, Applewood Books, the site offers members the opportunity to read and purchase cookbooks brought back into print via BookPrep, chat, swap recipes and tips on food preparation, read articles and reviews, visit an online bookstore and browse a free library.
More at:http://www.hp.com/
HP’s new BookPrep technology is enabling publishers to digitize any existing book and turn it into a virtual asset that can be sold over the Internet and printed on demand – either as is, or personalized by the consumer.
BookPrep is a print-on-demand service – with a twist. It unlocks the literary treasures of both the present and the past.
How It Works:
Integrating various HP Labs printing technologies, BookPrep automatically aligns and flattens scanned texts of current and out-of-print-books, cleans and brightens the fold and corners of the pages for consistent coloration, and outputs a professional and print-ready PDF eMaster.
BookPrep also capitalizes on HP Labs research that could some day enable cost-effective printing and binding of books and magazines at point of sale, and on demand.
BookPrep makes it possible to give consumers access to every book ever published as a high quality replica of the original that they can even personalize.
The best way to see BookPrep in action is at Foodsville, a community-based site for food and cooking enthusiasts – especially those with an interest in the history of cooking.
Created by HP and its partner, Applewood Books, the site offers members the opportunity to read and purchase cookbooks brought back into print via BookPrep, chat, swap recipes and tips on food preparation, read articles and reviews, visit an online bookstore and browse a free library.
More at:http://www.hp.com/
CleanLoop brings together individuals interested in the cleantech market with unique jobs at cleantech companies
What Company Is Offering:
CleanLoop brings together individuals interested in the cleantech market with unique jobs at cleantech companies. This is not to be confused with "green" jobs that are focused on advocacy and non-profit. Many websites already exist showcasing these kinds of jobs, and they encourage you to utilize those websites if you are interested in non-profit and activism. Conversely, the jobs on CleanLoop are at for-profit companies exploring new technologies to create alternative fuels, solar/wind/ocean power, software technology and services to revolutionize the energy industry. These ventures are well-funded and focused on creating alternative energy solutions that will drive a multi-billion dollar industry and create sustainable growth companies.
More at:http://www.cleanloop.com/
CleanLoop brings together individuals interested in the cleantech market with unique jobs at cleantech companies. This is not to be confused with "green" jobs that are focused on advocacy and non-profit. Many websites already exist showcasing these kinds of jobs, and they encourage you to utilize those websites if you are interested in non-profit and activism. Conversely, the jobs on CleanLoop are at for-profit companies exploring new technologies to create alternative fuels, solar/wind/ocean power, software technology and services to revolutionize the energy industry. These ventures are well-funded and focused on creating alternative energy solutions that will drive a multi-billion dollar industry and create sustainable growth companies.
More at:http://www.cleanloop.com/
celum IMAGINE is a powerful and modern corporate software for managing, processing, distributing and integrating digital objects
What Company Is Offering:
celum IMAGINE is a powerful and modern corporate software for managing, processing, distributing and integrating digital objects - such as pictures, photographs, presentations or graphics files. The possibility of storing data centrally and securely and still being able to distribute it easily inside and outside the company is one of the unique benefits.
How It Works:
celum IMAGINE delivers desktop convenience via a common web-browser - without any plugin installation. So you'll have full access to your data from everywhere at any time.
Focused on photographic images from the beginning, celum IMAGINE delivers automated conversion and editing for nearly 100 different file formats, including EPS, TIFF and many RAW formats as well as PowerPoint and Word.
A considerable amount of business critical data is stored only on Powerpoint slides. celum IMAGINE effectively helps you to manage, search and distribute these, often oversized, files.
celum IMAGINE automatically generates preview-movies that ease the archiving, administration and finding of video assets and allows users to view videos in their browser without any additional software.
You received a CD with images your PC can't even open? celum IMAGINE handles files of nearly all file formats. Transform large images to correctly cropped and resized Jpegs to place them on your website - with a few mouse clicks.
More at:http://celumimagine.com/
celum IMAGINE is a powerful and modern corporate software for managing, processing, distributing and integrating digital objects - such as pictures, photographs, presentations or graphics files. The possibility of storing data centrally and securely and still being able to distribute it easily inside and outside the company is one of the unique benefits.
How It Works:
celum IMAGINE delivers desktop convenience via a common web-browser - without any plugin installation. So you'll have full access to your data from everywhere at any time.
Focused on photographic images from the beginning, celum IMAGINE delivers automated conversion and editing for nearly 100 different file formats, including EPS, TIFF and many RAW formats as well as PowerPoint and Word.
A considerable amount of business critical data is stored only on Powerpoint slides. celum IMAGINE effectively helps you to manage, search and distribute these, often oversized, files.
celum IMAGINE automatically generates preview-movies that ease the archiving, administration and finding of video assets and allows users to view videos in their browser without any additional software.
You received a CD with images your PC can't even open? celum IMAGINE handles files of nearly all file formats. Transform large images to correctly cropped and resized Jpegs to place them on your website - with a few mouse clicks.
More at:http://celumimagine.com/
ConstantComedy is a website catering exclusively to comedians and comedy lovers
What Company Is Offering:
ConstantComedy is a website catering exclusively to comedians and comedy lovers. Whether you are an new performer, a seasoned pro, or just enjoy watching comedy, we hope to provide you with a stage.
How is ConstantComedy different from YouTube, Metacafe etc:
Apart from being exclusively about comedy (we view clips personally to make sure), we have a number of features that you won't find on other video sharing sites.
For example you can:
-Watch and rate videos synchronously (at the same time) with others on the ConstantComedyLive Service!
Live chat with others who are watching the same video as you.
Sign up as a fan of a performer and receive exclusive fan messages.
Find others who share your comedy taste.
More at:http://www.constantcomedy.com/
ConstantComedy is a website catering exclusively to comedians and comedy lovers. Whether you are an new performer, a seasoned pro, or just enjoy watching comedy, we hope to provide you with a stage.
How is ConstantComedy different from YouTube, Metacafe etc:
Apart from being exclusively about comedy (we view clips personally to make sure), we have a number of features that you won't find on other video sharing sites.
For example you can:
-Watch and rate videos synchronously (at the same time) with others on the ConstantComedyLive Service!
Live chat with others who are watching the same video as you.
Sign up as a fan of a performer and receive exclusive fan messages.
Find others who share your comedy taste.
More at:http://www.constantcomedy.com/
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
One Million Dollars in Rewards for Job Referrals at FaceContact.com
What Company Is Offering:
FaceContact is a complete one-stop solution for referral-based recruitment. FaceContact.com completely automates the recruitment process, letting users track everything from user-friendly dashboards It consolidates all referral tracking, lead and prospect information, and account information in one place. FaceContact keeps track of even the most complex referral chains, paying out referral bonuses to those individuals who help a company make a successful hire.
Recent Updates:
FaceContact.com, the innovative site that rewards individuals for successful job referrals, announced it has more than one million dollars in available rewards and referral bonuses.
Companies that are recruiting for open positions or contractor opportunities can choose among many websites when posting their job descriptions. However, only FaceContact.com allows them to establish a referral bonus that will be shared by the individuals in the referral chain that ultimately leads to a successful placement.
Companies can set their own reward levels, which range from $100 to $20000. Recently the total pool of available referral bonuses reached one million dollars.
“We’re thrilled with this new milestone,” said Chris Brown, VP of FaceContact.com. “Our site is the only one that helps companies find the job candidates they’re looking for by harnessing the power of referral bonuses.”
FaceContact.com is pioneering the phenomena of crowdsourcing and contingent recruitment. This is a 360° approach that is designed to help companies use existing networks to obtain valuable referrals when recruiting. The expansion of social networks like Linkedin and Facebook makes it easy to manage large numbers of contacts. FaceContact.com adds the lure of a referral bonus to these and other powerful networking tools, helping companies find their ideal job candidates more quickly.
FaceContact.com has received wide recognition on a global level for its innovative approach to recruitment and referral tracking. In March of 2008, it was recognized as one of the Top20 European start-ups by YEurope, Metalab Innovation Center, Big Bang Ventures, RISC Partners, i5invest, TechCrunch, GIMV ICT, Atlas Venture, and Alven Capital Partners. It was also chosen as a finalist in the 2007 Seedcamp competition by Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Atomico, DFJ Esprit, 3i, The Accelerator Group, Atlas Ventures, Partech International, Accel Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Wellington Partners, and Advent Ventures.
More at:www.FaceContact.com
FaceContact is a complete one-stop solution for referral-based recruitment. FaceContact.com completely automates the recruitment process, letting users track everything from user-friendly dashboards It consolidates all referral tracking, lead and prospect information, and account information in one place. FaceContact keeps track of even the most complex referral chains, paying out referral bonuses to those individuals who help a company make a successful hire.
Recent Updates:
FaceContact.com, the innovative site that rewards individuals for successful job referrals, announced it has more than one million dollars in available rewards and referral bonuses.
Companies that are recruiting for open positions or contractor opportunities can choose among many websites when posting their job descriptions. However, only FaceContact.com allows them to establish a referral bonus that will be shared by the individuals in the referral chain that ultimately leads to a successful placement.
Companies can set their own reward levels, which range from $100 to $20000. Recently the total pool of available referral bonuses reached one million dollars.
“We’re thrilled with this new milestone,” said Chris Brown, VP of FaceContact.com. “Our site is the only one that helps companies find the job candidates they’re looking for by harnessing the power of referral bonuses.”
FaceContact.com is pioneering the phenomena of crowdsourcing and contingent recruitment. This is a 360° approach that is designed to help companies use existing networks to obtain valuable referrals when recruiting. The expansion of social networks like Linkedin and Facebook makes it easy to manage large numbers of contacts. FaceContact.com adds the lure of a referral bonus to these and other powerful networking tools, helping companies find their ideal job candidates more quickly.
FaceContact.com has received wide recognition on a global level for its innovative approach to recruitment and referral tracking. In March of 2008, it was recognized as one of the Top20 European start-ups by YEurope, Metalab Innovation Center, Big Bang Ventures, RISC Partners, i5invest, TechCrunch, GIMV ICT, Atlas Venture, and Alven Capital Partners. It was also chosen as a finalist in the 2007 Seedcamp competition by Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Atomico, DFJ Esprit, 3i, The Accelerator Group, Atlas Ventures, Partech International, Accel Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Wellington Partners, and Advent Ventures.
More at:www.FaceContact.com
StylePointer.com can shop for apparel and accessories by trend, by celebrity looks, by your body shapes, etc
What Company Is Offering:
StylePointer.com is an online fashion shopping site which provides you with inspirations, suggestions and feedback so that you can find fashion items that make you feel good and confident.
How It Works:
At StylePointer.com you can shop for apparel and accessories by trend, by celebrity looks, by your body shapes, etc. they have affiliated with hundreds of great quality fashion providers to ensure that you can always find great flattering fashion items. They have also developed interactive feedback and community features to ensure that you can always review the product ratings or consult your online or offline friends before you make a purchase.
More at:http://www.stylepointer.com/
StylePointer.com is an online fashion shopping site which provides you with inspirations, suggestions and feedback so that you can find fashion items that make you feel good and confident.
How It Works:
At StylePointer.com you can shop for apparel and accessories by trend, by celebrity looks, by your body shapes, etc. they have affiliated with hundreds of great quality fashion providers to ensure that you can always find great flattering fashion items. They have also developed interactive feedback and community features to ensure that you can always review the product ratings or consult your online or offline friends before you make a purchase.
More at:http://www.stylepointer.com/
yourmediaplan.com ----Simplifying the media planning process
What Company Is Offering:
yourmediaplan.com is a FREE online resource designed to centralise links to all available media products and resources in a collected and organised format. It is designed to give marketing departments quick access to the information they need to plan a successful campaign. The data is presented in a visually clear and simple, searchable format, which media companies can access and update in real-time. If complicated and costly media directories are not for you then you'll like what they have to offer.
How It Works
If you know the name of the magazine use the search form on the homepage. You can also search by publisher, by industry or by magazine type by clicking on 'Magazines' at the top of the page.yourmediaplan.com is updated in real time by the companies listed. This ensures that the information displayed is accurate.They are only interested in displaying the key information you need, cutting out the superfluous information you don't. yourmediaplan.com is the first step towards their goal of simplifying the media planning process. There are media directories that have too many options and too many features. yourmediaplan.com focuses on the essentials.
Media Agencies and any business, large or small, looking to promote a product or service. They believe strongly in the benefits of advertising and know that giving companies easier access to media information can help them grow their business.
More at:http://www.yourmediaplan.com/
yourmediaplan.com is a FREE online resource designed to centralise links to all available media products and resources in a collected and organised format. It is designed to give marketing departments quick access to the information they need to plan a successful campaign. The data is presented in a visually clear and simple, searchable format, which media companies can access and update in real-time. If complicated and costly media directories are not for you then you'll like what they have to offer.
How It Works
If you know the name of the magazine use the search form on the homepage. You can also search by publisher, by industry or by magazine type by clicking on 'Magazines' at the top of the page.yourmediaplan.com is updated in real time by the companies listed. This ensures that the information displayed is accurate.They are only interested in displaying the key information you need, cutting out the superfluous information you don't. yourmediaplan.com is the first step towards their goal of simplifying the media planning process. There are media directories that have too many options and too many features. yourmediaplan.com focuses on the essentials.
Media Agencies and any business, large or small, looking to promote a product or service. They believe strongly in the benefits of advertising and know that giving companies easier access to media information can help them grow their business.
More at:http://www.yourmediaplan.com/
kirtsy is the place to find and/or link to anything and everything on the Web that you'd like to share
What Company Is Offering:
kirtsy is the place to find and/or link to anything and everything on the Web that you'd like to share. If kirtsy users like what you submit, they'll click on it. The more clicks, the more likely your link will make it to the Popular section on the left-hand side of the front page. The right-hand side of the page shows the Editors' Picks links. Links on the front page are seen by everybody and get lots of love. The front page content is ever-changing and always cool.
How It Works:
Check out the main page and browse through the Up-and-Coming links to see what's on people's minds. Because kirtsy users click on the links they like, the front page content is consistently great – and feature the most popular stories. If you're searching for the best stuff in any category, look no further than the front page. Click one of their category links at the top of every page (in the brown bar directly beneath the kirtsy logo) and browse the latest links for that topic. Use their search function conveniently located at the top right corner of every page.
More at:http://www.kirtsy.com/
kirtsy is the place to find and/or link to anything and everything on the Web that you'd like to share. If kirtsy users like what you submit, they'll click on it. The more clicks, the more likely your link will make it to the Popular section on the left-hand side of the front page. The right-hand side of the page shows the Editors' Picks links. Links on the front page are seen by everybody and get lots of love. The front page content is ever-changing and always cool.
How It Works:
Check out the main page and browse through the Up-and-Coming links to see what's on people's minds. Because kirtsy users click on the links they like, the front page content is consistently great – and feature the most popular stories. If you're searching for the best stuff in any category, look no further than the front page. Click one of their category links at the top of every page (in the brown bar directly beneath the kirtsy logo) and browse the latest links for that topic. Use their search function conveniently located at the top right corner of every page.
More at:http://www.kirtsy.com/
Menogo is the first place focused on the Travel Industry to allow users to complain about the service in order to improve travel experience
What Company Is Offering:
Menogo is the first place focused on the Travel Industry to allow users to complain about the service in order to improve travel experience.
How It Works:
To allow the user on one hand to express the wrong doing of the travel suppliers, to give the users the space, the platform, the stage to complain out loud; “Travelers Complain”. In order to balance and improve travel experience, Menogo allows users to give advice and alternatives to the bad experienced travel service they have gone through. Menogo allows the travel suppliers to Officially Response to each complain / nogo. The Official Responses will be displayed attached to the Nogo, and will allow users to see the actions the suppliers have taken to improve their services and products.
More at:http://www.menogo.com/
Menogo is the first place focused on the Travel Industry to allow users to complain about the service in order to improve travel experience.
How It Works:
To allow the user on one hand to express the wrong doing of the travel suppliers, to give the users the space, the platform, the stage to complain out loud; “Travelers Complain”. In order to balance and improve travel experience, Menogo allows users to give advice and alternatives to the bad experienced travel service they have gone through. Menogo allows the travel suppliers to Officially Response to each complain / nogo. The Official Responses will be displayed attached to the Nogo, and will allow users to see the actions the suppliers have taken to improve their services and products.
More at:http://www.menogo.com/
Simparel delivers a complete solution in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of traditional ERP systems
What Company Is Offering:
Simparel delivers a complete solution in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of traditional ERP systems. This is particularly attractive to the apparel industry with its unique characteristics, such as rapid product cycles. Simparel's recent launch of SaaS enables Simparel to capture other markets and smaller companies that could not afford traditional ERP systems, but have many of the same needs as larger companies.
Simparel's initial market is fashion-related businesses, including apparel, footwear, accessories, costume jewelry, as well as home furnishings and toys. Simparel gives its customers a competitive advantage because the technology allows them to focus on their product and sales, improve deliveries and better manage costs and inventories.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Simparel, a New York-based developer of ERP solutions, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from L Capital Partners.L Capital Partners, L.P. has invested $4 million in the Series A round of financing of Simparel, a N.Y. technology company that has developed a new generation of ERP solutions with numerous advantages over traditional software systems. Simparel offers a unique combination: the simplest, quickest, most flexible and most affordable global supply chain business solution available today. Simparel is also rolling out Software as a Service (SaaS) to selected customers.
More at:www.simparel.com
Simparel delivers a complete solution in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of traditional ERP systems. This is particularly attractive to the apparel industry with its unique characteristics, such as rapid product cycles. Simparel's recent launch of SaaS enables Simparel to capture other markets and smaller companies that could not afford traditional ERP systems, but have many of the same needs as larger companies.
Simparel's initial market is fashion-related businesses, including apparel, footwear, accessories, costume jewelry, as well as home furnishings and toys. Simparel gives its customers a competitive advantage because the technology allows them to focus on their product and sales, improve deliveries and better manage costs and inventories.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Simparel, a New York-based developer of ERP solutions, has raised $4 million in Series A funding from L Capital Partners.L Capital Partners, L.P. has invested $4 million in the Series A round of financing of Simparel, a N.Y. technology company that has developed a new generation of ERP solutions with numerous advantages over traditional software systems. Simparel offers a unique combination: the simplest, quickest, most flexible and most affordable global supply chain business solution available today. Simparel is also rolling out Software as a Service (SaaS) to selected customers.
More at:www.simparel.com
Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect with each other online through video conversation has received $6 million
what Company Is Offering:
Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect with each other online through video conversation. See and hear people share their experiences straight from their webcams and mobile phones, join in active conversations, and engage in real interactions with real people. The Seesmic platform also enables video conversations on more than a thousand sites, blogs and broadcasts them to other social software such as Twitter and Friendfeed thanks to its robust API. Seesmic also operates twhirl, a social desktop client, that now enables Seesmic video comments. twhirl represents 12% of Twitter messages being sent and has over 400,000 downloads.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Seesmic, the online video conversation platform, announced it has received $6 million in series B financing co-led by Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and leading pan-European venture capital firm Wellington Partners. The new round brings the total funding amount raised by Seesmic to $12 million.
Seesmic enables users to share experiences on blogs, social networks and with each other by uploading videos straight from their webcam or mobile device. The company will use the investment to further develop its video platform and to start its global rollout. Seesmic initiatives will focus on its platform strategy with a robust API already powering video conversations on 1500 sites and blogs as well as new partnerships with leading consumer brands and media and entertainment companies.
More at:http://www.seesmic.com
Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect with each other online through video conversation. See and hear people share their experiences straight from their webcams and mobile phones, join in active conversations, and engage in real interactions with real people. The Seesmic platform also enables video conversations on more than a thousand sites, blogs and broadcasts them to other social software such as Twitter and Friendfeed thanks to its robust API. Seesmic also operates twhirl, a social desktop client, that now enables Seesmic video comments. twhirl represents 12% of Twitter messages being sent and has over 400,000 downloads.
How Much They Got From VCs:
Seesmic, the online video conversation platform, announced it has received $6 million in series B financing co-led by Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and leading pan-European venture capital firm Wellington Partners. The new round brings the total funding amount raised by Seesmic to $12 million.
Seesmic enables users to share experiences on blogs, social networks and with each other by uploading videos straight from their webcam or mobile device. The company will use the investment to further develop its video platform and to start its global rollout. Seesmic initiatives will focus on its platform strategy with a robust API already powering video conversations on 1500 sites and blogs as well as new partnerships with leading consumer brands and media and entertainment companies.
More at:http://www.seesmic.com
WhiteHat Security is a leading provider of SaaS-based website security solutions has secured $7 million in VCs funding
What Company Is Offering;
WhiteHat Security is a leading provider of SaaS-based website security solutions. WhiteHat delivers turnkey solutions that enable companies to secure valuable customer data, comply with industry standards and maintain brand integrity. WhiteHat Sentinel, the company's flagship service, is the only solution that incorporates expert analysis and industry-leading technology to provide unparalleled coverage to protect critical data from attacks.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WhiteHat Security, a leading provider of website security services, announced that it has secured $7 million in Series D financing. The round was led by new investor Horizon Ventures, and existing backers Altos Ventures, Garage Technology Ventures and Startup Capital Ventures. WhiteHat Security will use the monies to fund new product development and sales and marketing efforts, as well as to expand its infrastructure to address the demands of a rapidly growing market for Web application security solutions.
Websites are constantly at risk from evolving attack methods. As the bad guys find new and innovative ways to infiltrate websites, companies need to implement effective methods of protecting the information housed on them. WhiteHat Sentinel is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering combining proprietary scanning technology with customization, configuration and verification by Web application security experts.
More at:http://www.whitehatsec.com
WhiteHat Security is a leading provider of SaaS-based website security solutions. WhiteHat delivers turnkey solutions that enable companies to secure valuable customer data, comply with industry standards and maintain brand integrity. WhiteHat Sentinel, the company's flagship service, is the only solution that incorporates expert analysis and industry-leading technology to provide unparalleled coverage to protect critical data from attacks.
How Much They Got From VCs:
WhiteHat Security, a leading provider of website security services, announced that it has secured $7 million in Series D financing. The round was led by new investor Horizon Ventures, and existing backers Altos Ventures, Garage Technology Ventures and Startup Capital Ventures. WhiteHat Security will use the monies to fund new product development and sales and marketing efforts, as well as to expand its infrastructure to address the demands of a rapidly growing market for Web application security solutions.
Websites are constantly at risk from evolving attack methods. As the bad guys find new and innovative ways to infiltrate websites, companies need to implement effective methods of protecting the information housed on them. WhiteHat Sentinel is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering combining proprietary scanning technology with customization, configuration and verification by Web application security experts.
More at:http://www.whitehatsec.com
OwnerIQ, Inc., the first company to deliver customized, Ownership Targeted online media programs has closed $6 million in Series B financing
What Company Is Offering:
OwnerIQ operates a network of channel-focused websites to help consumers easily find and store must have self-support product information. The Network's audience of actively engaged consumers is growing rapidly. The company pioneered the concept of Ownership Targeting, providing brand advertisers with highly customized programs to precisely target consumers based on products they already own. Ownership Targeting takes the guesswork out of identifying likely purchasers and enables advertisers to influence consumers throughout a product's ownership lifecycle.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OwnerIQ, Inc., the first company to deliver customized, Ownership Targeted online media programs, announced that it has closed $6 million in Series B financing led by Egan-Managed Capital, with all of the Company’s original investors also participating. The investment validates the marketplace success the Company has enjoyed in providing consumers with a comprehensive network of self-support websites and in delivering pinpoint, online media campaigns targeted to consumers based on what they own.
OwnerIQ solves a common and frustrating problem for consumers: supporting and learning about the products they own. Most consumers install, troubleshoot and learn about features on their own, a process called “self-support”.
More at:http://owneriq.net
OwnerIQ operates a network of channel-focused websites to help consumers easily find and store must have self-support product information. The Network's audience of actively engaged consumers is growing rapidly. The company pioneered the concept of Ownership Targeting, providing brand advertisers with highly customized programs to precisely target consumers based on products they already own. Ownership Targeting takes the guesswork out of identifying likely purchasers and enables advertisers to influence consumers throughout a product's ownership lifecycle.
How Much They Got From VCs:
OwnerIQ, Inc., the first company to deliver customized, Ownership Targeted online media programs, announced that it has closed $6 million in Series B financing led by Egan-Managed Capital, with all of the Company’s original investors also participating. The investment validates the marketplace success the Company has enjoyed in providing consumers with a comprehensive network of self-support websites and in delivering pinpoint, online media campaigns targeted to consumers based on what they own.
OwnerIQ solves a common and frustrating problem for consumers: supporting and learning about the products they own. Most consumers install, troubleshoot and learn about features on their own, a process called “self-support”.
More at:http://owneriq.net
Parascale, a provider of cloud storage solutions for rich media content in traffic-intensive applications has closed an $11.37 million Series A
What Company Is Offering:
Parascale is headquartered in Silicon Valley. The company's primary markets are media and entertainment. Additionally, Parascale provides a platform for easily handling content in the oil and gas, medical imaging, video surveillance and genomic industries. Members of Parascale's founding engineering team have successfully delivered distributed operating systems and distributed file systems for companies including Sun (Sun Cluster), HP (Open SSI), Symantec/Veritas (Storage Foundation Clustered VM and FS), Teradata (Teradata RDBMS), and IBM (AIX TCF).
How Much They Got From VCs:
Parascale, a provider of cloud storage solutions for rich media content in traffic-intensive applications, announced that it has closed an $11.37 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Charles River Ventures and Menlo Ventures. Parascale plans to use the funding for product development and marketing initiatives in preparation for the launch of Parascale Cloud Storage (PCS), an application that aggregates disk storage on multiple standard Linux servers providing one highly scalable storage cloud, accessible via standard file access protocols.
Parascale was founded on the premise that advances in computer hardware over the past 10 years make it possible for file storage, management, and distribution solutions to be more reliable, easier to manage, and less expensive to purchase and operate than ever before. Adopting the best technologies available, Parascale has developed a new class of storage solutions designed to support the wave of content-intensive applications, including video-on-demand, digital document archiving, scientific data analysis, video surveillance and medical image remote diagnosis among others. The company’s PCS software is patented technology which automatically and transparently migrates and replicates files among storage nodes to balance and optimize performance – without interruption in client access.
More at:www.parascale.com
Parascale is headquartered in Silicon Valley. The company's primary markets are media and entertainment. Additionally, Parascale provides a platform for easily handling content in the oil and gas, medical imaging, video surveillance and genomic industries. Members of Parascale's founding engineering team have successfully delivered distributed operating systems and distributed file systems for companies including Sun (Sun Cluster), HP (Open SSI), Symantec/Veritas (Storage Foundation Clustered VM and FS), Teradata (Teradata RDBMS), and IBM (AIX TCF).
How Much They Got From VCs:
Parascale, a provider of cloud storage solutions for rich media content in traffic-intensive applications, announced that it has closed an $11.37 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Charles River Ventures and Menlo Ventures. Parascale plans to use the funding for product development and marketing initiatives in preparation for the launch of Parascale Cloud Storage (PCS), an application that aggregates disk storage on multiple standard Linux servers providing one highly scalable storage cloud, accessible via standard file access protocols.
Parascale was founded on the premise that advances in computer hardware over the past 10 years make it possible for file storage, management, and distribution solutions to be more reliable, easier to manage, and less expensive to purchase and operate than ever before. Adopting the best technologies available, Parascale has developed a new class of storage solutions designed to support the wave of content-intensive applications, including video-on-demand, digital document archiving, scientific data analysis, video surveillance and medical image remote diagnosis among others. The company’s PCS software is patented technology which automatically and transparently migrates and replicates files among storage nodes to balance and optimize performance – without interruption in client access.
More at:www.parascale.com
The Effect Generator is whole new way of creating Flash content online for free
What Company Is Offering:
The Effect Generator is whole new way of creating Flash content online for free, within a simple but powerful what-you-see-is-what-you-get drag-and-drop graphical editing environment.
How Is It Different;
Unlike most online Flash generators, which normally configure a limited range of template effects, The Effect Generator lets you select from whole multitudes of transitions, layouts, animations and public media, so your imagination is the only limit. The site also contains a moderately-sized template library, which, aside from illustrating the power of the effect building system, also lets you rapidly configure stock effects. Once created, effects can be rapidly posted to blogs, social networks, or any custom HTML page.
More at:http://www.effectgenerator.com/
The Effect Generator is whole new way of creating Flash content online for free, within a simple but powerful what-you-see-is-what-you-get drag-and-drop graphical editing environment.
How Is It Different;
Unlike most online Flash generators, which normally configure a limited range of template effects, The Effect Generator lets you select from whole multitudes of transitions, layouts, animations and public media, so your imagination is the only limit. The site also contains a moderately-sized template library, which, aside from illustrating the power of the effect building system, also lets you rapidly configure stock effects. Once created, effects can be rapidly posted to blogs, social networks, or any custom HTML page.
More at:http://www.effectgenerator.com/
Profilactic is a social media aggregator/lifestreaming service that pulls together just about everything you and your friends create online
What Company Is Offering:
Profilactic is a social media aggregator/lifestreaming service that pulls together just about everything you and your friends create online.
How It Works:
This service will aggregate the content from your various social sites (MySpace, Flickr, Digg, etc.) into one place. It'll be creating, essentially, a meta-profile page--one that's made up of all your online personalities. If you want to keep your personalities different on different sites, that's not something you're going to want to share. It might be useful to see what people are saying in the comments fields on all your profiles, though many profile sites now have RSS feeds; simply subscribing to those would do the same thing. It easier for users to manage their participation in the increasing number of online communities.
More at:http://www.profilactic.com/
Profilactic is a social media aggregator/lifestreaming service that pulls together just about everything you and your friends create online.
How It Works:
This service will aggregate the content from your various social sites (MySpace, Flickr, Digg, etc.) into one place. It'll be creating, essentially, a meta-profile page--one that's made up of all your online personalities. If you want to keep your personalities different on different sites, that's not something you're going to want to share. It might be useful to see what people are saying in the comments fields on all your profiles, though many profile sites now have RSS feeds; simply subscribing to those would do the same thing. It easier for users to manage their participation in the increasing number of online communities.
More at:http://www.profilactic.com/
Monday, June 23, 2008
OpenCarPrice.com provides a unique online database of "actual selling price" for new cars
What Company Is Offering:
OpenCarPrice.com provides a unique online database of "actual selling price" for new cars. It leverages the power of community that can save consumers hundreds, even thousands of dollars in car shopping.
How It Works:
OpenCarPrice are submitted by car shoppers based on real transactions or actual quotes from dealers. They are close to the real market vaules and reflect all the factors in new-car pricing (invoice price, sticker price, dealer holdback, incentives/rebates, supply/demand etc). They courage you to compare the prices from multiple sources and draw your own conclusions.
Once you register, you can post pricing information, get comments or ask questions regarding other people's postings. You can also track your own postings, comments and save other people's postings in your user profile page. Registration is completely free.
More at:http://www.opencarprice.com/
OpenCarPrice.com provides a unique online database of "actual selling price" for new cars. It leverages the power of community that can save consumers hundreds, even thousands of dollars in car shopping.
How It Works:
OpenCarPrice are submitted by car shoppers based on real transactions or actual quotes from dealers. They are close to the real market vaules and reflect all the factors in new-car pricing (invoice price, sticker price, dealer holdback, incentives/rebates, supply/demand etc). They courage you to compare the prices from multiple sources and draw your own conclusions.
Once you register, you can post pricing information, get comments or ask questions regarding other people's postings. You can also track your own postings, comments and save other people's postings in your user profile page. Registration is completely free.
More at:http://www.opencarprice.com/
FreeShipping.org is the premiere free shipping resource on the internet
What Company Is Offering:
FreeShipping.org is the premiere free shipping resource on the internet. It is a site with one simple goal, to save online shoppers money by providing them with a list of trusted online retailers who are offering free shipping coupons.
Smart online shoppers have always known the cost of shipping can make the difference between a good deal and a great deal. But finding out which online retailers are offering free shipping deals has not always been easy, and it can be very time consuming.
FreeShipping.org offers free shipping coupons, promotional codes and free shipping discounts to some of the biggest online shopping stores. they offer the most up to date list of Kohls, Lands End, Sears and Target free shipping coupons for June 2008, as well as womens shoes free shipping codes to retailers like Footlocker, Sports Authority and Finish Line. You can also find savings from Blair free shipping codes to Nordstrom to Sierra Trading Post free shipping coupons. Shop at your favorite stores with free shipping coupons from us.
Make FreeShipping.org your place to find toys free shipping codes to stores like Toyrs R Us, KBToys, eToys and so much more. We have free shipping coupons to specialty stores like Dell, NewEgg and HP, as well as photography coupons for Shutterfly free shipping to and SnapFish free shipping. If direct mail is your thing, check out their coupon codes for Lands End free shipping, Coldwater Creek and Sierra Trading Post free shipping.
More at:http://www.freeshipping.org/
FreeShipping.org is the premiere free shipping resource on the internet. It is a site with one simple goal, to save online shoppers money by providing them with a list of trusted online retailers who are offering free shipping coupons.
Smart online shoppers have always known the cost of shipping can make the difference between a good deal and a great deal. But finding out which online retailers are offering free shipping deals has not always been easy, and it can be very time consuming.
FreeShipping.org offers free shipping coupons, promotional codes and free shipping discounts to some of the biggest online shopping stores. they offer the most up to date list of Kohls, Lands End, Sears and Target free shipping coupons for June 2008, as well as womens shoes free shipping codes to retailers like Footlocker, Sports Authority and Finish Line. You can also find savings from Blair free shipping codes to Nordstrom to Sierra Trading Post free shipping coupons. Shop at your favorite stores with free shipping coupons from us.
Make FreeShipping.org your place to find toys free shipping codes to stores like Toyrs R Us, KBToys, eToys and so much more. We have free shipping coupons to specialty stores like Dell, NewEgg and HP, as well as photography coupons for Shutterfly free shipping to and SnapFish free shipping. If direct mail is your thing, check out their coupon codes for Lands End free shipping, Coldwater Creek and Sierra Trading Post free shipping.
More at:http://www.freeshipping.org/
SwapAce allows you to SWAP, SELL, BUY & MEET
What Company Is Offering:
SwapAce is an organisation with the vision to be "the fun, unique, trusted marketplace, where millions worldwide interact".The vision of SwapAce is also to extend the online marketplace to people who might want to swap or barter goods and services. If you don’t use something anymore, you could certainly give it away and recycle. But you don’t have to; you can also swap it for something you might want to use. Bartering worked long before the introduction of currency, and it works today. Swapping or trading stuff is a great way to recycle.
How It Works:
SwapAce allows you to SWAP, SELL, BUY & MEET.You can exchange items and/or money.
You can also meet people at SwapAce. They think this is a simple extension of a marketplace; meeting people with similar interests and forming online communities. To this end they've created forums for people to discuss well, anything, and they encourage people to trade within their communities (either interest based or location based).
More at:http://www.swapace.com/
SwapAce is an organisation with the vision to be "the fun, unique, trusted marketplace, where millions worldwide interact".The vision of SwapAce is also to extend the online marketplace to people who might want to swap or barter goods and services. If you don’t use something anymore, you could certainly give it away and recycle. But you don’t have to; you can also swap it for something you might want to use. Bartering worked long before the introduction of currency, and it works today. Swapping or trading stuff is a great way to recycle.
How It Works:
SwapAce allows you to SWAP, SELL, BUY & MEET.You can exchange items and/or money.
You can also meet people at SwapAce. They think this is a simple extension of a marketplace; meeting people with similar interests and forming online communities. To this end they've created forums for people to discuss well, anything, and they encourage people to trade within their communities (either interest based or location based).
More at:http://www.swapace.com/
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