NFC mobile advertising startup Tapit raises seed funding

Tapit is a new mobile advertising startup, founded in March 2011, that facilitates the sharing and delivery offer NFC-enabled phone by simply clicking anywhere Tapit, you can find the logo.

The company is currently raises seed round of financing from Sydney angels in record time – just 22 days from the field until the round was signed to. This is the quickest investment to date for Angels, Sydney, not-for-profit membership Organization for Angels, which usually invests in Sydney-based startups.

NFC (near field communication), short-range wireless technology, is often associated with mobile payments and mobile wallets these days, as a new way to enable the purchase to the cash. But this is just one of many cases of possible uses for technology that can also support things like file sharing and media between devices, advertising, ticketless deals and much more. It can even be used to perform an action in a NTT DOCOMO TAP "follow" offer, which allows two Twitter users to each other simply by clicking the phone.

The idea is to use the Tapit NFC for use in marketing campaigns, working with agencies, brands, handset manufacturers and carriers. Marketing services include mobile commerce, coupon distribution, ticket sales, surveys and reviews, content delivery, contests and social community (e.g. tap here to "like" us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter).

The company is already involved in several campaigns this year – one for a group of radio Nova Australian radio network billboard JCDecaux and another for Australia's channel 10 TV show "LATVIA" and the third with NFC-based sales in shopping malls.

Says director Jamie Kaninghèm Tapit, speed, which was closed in this round is the approval group Tapit, and business models that we have created around our unique NFC technology. All whom we meet likes the idea of Tapit, it is addictive.

NFC, indeed, will step up from the now ubiquitous barcode scanning technology, which involves the use of Smartphone applications to scan QR codes via camera phone. Unfortunately the NFC usually requires accompanying chip, built into the phone itself. Due to this requirement, it is now back, a limited number of supported phones.

Nevertheless, analysts bullish on NFC in the future, with ABI, predicting 35 million phones to 2012, and Frost & Sullivan, assessment of about 868 million by the year 2015.

Tapit conditions in seed investment were not disclosed, but the Fund normally invests sidecar Angels Sydney between $ 100 K-$ 500 K in its portfolio companies.

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Quixey raises US $ 3.8 million, for functional search engine for your applications

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Quixey, on the basis of the Palo Alto startup that builds functional search engine for your applications, today announced that it closed the US $ 3.8 million series a funding round. Investment venture partners led the WI Harper group and the United States, with the participation of Webb investment network, along with subsequent investments, Eric Schmidt innovation. Series round adds to Quixey $ 400 K, grew in April from innovation endeavours to attract investment to $ 4.2 million.

We've all heard (and maybe even prototyping) quip "there is an app for that." It's really excellent quality of the Mobile revolution: there really is an app for just about everything you can think of, from call taxis for managing schedule scan for cancer or heart murmors skin. But it's also overwhelming, and find the application you want is not easy. There are a lot of noise and a lot of flawed approaches to app engine.

Quixey entered the game with the intent to build a new type of search, molded specifically for the unique features of the search for these everywhere, but sometimes elusive apps. Their decision came up with "functional search", which not only scans the major App stores, but blogging crawls, review sites, forums and social media sites to create a truly comprehensive picture of what the application can be done through reviews, Word of mouth and demos.

Quixey for search engine enables the user to enter queries like "baseball report and get a list of applications that provide only that (which they can then filter by platform). And the best part search Zarins Windows and Mac apps, iGoogle, extensions, and much more. It's not just the iOS and Android.

Although the Quixey seemingly to compete with the likes of Chomp and other, startup also has added value offers in the nutritional status of the search for other App stores, search engines and Web sites — just like Google — to facilitate the diffusion of its search engine for third-party sites throughout the Internet.

So it comes as no surprise then that Eric Schmidt innovation Ventures invests in search a great application. Attraction of external information and data from blogs, review sites and beyond, really adds an additional level of depth search applications (especially in being independent of the platform), as well as nutrition search through Web sites gives Quixey the ability to scale and be mixed with the very place it scans. Startup will use its new investment to continue achieving partnership with App stores and other app a great third party resources, and teammate Quixey, there are more than 25 potential partnerships in the pipeline. More partners, the more effective it becomes search engine.

This is an interesting new approach this "functional search, and from my experience so far, works as advertised. Chimes to let us know what you think. More about Quixey here.

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Cisco acquires collaboration software Maker Versly

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Cisco today announced that it has acquired San Francisco launch Versly, a privately held company that develops collaboration tools that integrate with Microsoft Office applications.

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but all the Versly staff will be integrated into the Cisco collaboration software group (CSG) to the end of the purchase.

Versly builds plug-ins that allow groups of people to collaborate around content within Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and e-mail.

From the looks of it service remains private beta, so this is a quick way to Versly.

Here's how Murali Sitaram, Vice President and General Manager, Cisco's CSG buy resin:

"Cooperation is the main priority in Cisco. With this acquisition we are strengthening our offers of cooperation and improving the user experience by integrating social technologies in business individuals and group applications at work. "

Versly and software will be integrated into the victim as Cisco Quad, Jabber and WebEx.

According to the characteristics of their CrunchBase Versly was supported by seed funding from Accel Partners, increased, core enterprises, 500 startups and a pair of Angel investors, including Scott Dietzen, Kenny Van Zant, Jonathan Katzman and Rasool RAYANI.

The company was started by former BEA and Sun exec Benjamin Renault and former Yahoo-er Erik Eccles. The rest of the team here in detail.

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Russian giant Yandex search gets social news startup Tweeted times»

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Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, has acquired a startup enterprise "Times" Tweeted that lets people create custom online "newspaper" of their Twitter accounts. Financial terms of the purchase were not disclosed, but ESPN Sports said it aims to continue to offer social news service and that the whole team "Times" Tweeted to join search engine company.

Tweeted once co-founded Maxim Grinev and Maria Grineva, computer scientists at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and others.

Its users include celebrities like Snoop Dogg Alyssa Milano and Lance Weiler.

Yandex, which became public in May and is currently estimated at just shy of 10 billion dollars, plans to use the technology acquired from The Times, Tweeted to increase its search and content services with information from social networks.

This is the third Company Yandex acquired in the past nine months – his most recent purchases include single sign-on plugin maker Loginza and WebVisor in technology of analysis of behaviors and commands.

Tweeted once, formerly called the Twitter times competes with social news curation service Paper.li, which itself has raised more than $ 2 million in funding.

Another company operating in this space — Summify.

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Former PayPal CEO of Intuit raises $ 25 m for "new generation" financial consultant

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Personal capital came out of stealth mode today on the "create a new model for financial services" and announced that he raised only 25 million dollars of venture funding. The funding includes a series a round led by institutional venture partners and series b round led by Venrock with NVS, also investing again.

The company is not quite ready to launch yet, how can you say with sparse website, but said that he would soon be debuting Advisor that provides custom investment management, banking and personal finance services built around each customer a unique and complete financial situation.

Personal capital manages private investor and former PayPal and Intuit's chief exec Bill Harris (CEO), EverBank co-founder and former Fidelity Investments personal trust company President, Rob Foregger (Chief Strategy Officer) and former E-loan CIO Jay Shah (CIO).

The company is based in Redwood City, California.

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Salesforce.com backs cloud solutions company Appirio world domination plans

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Solution provider Appirio cloud this morning announced that it will expand at the international level to better serve its customers in the markets of Europe and Asia.

The expansion, which the company says, will be implemented through a combination of organic and inorganic growth, funded by the strategic investment from two existing investors: VC firm GGV capital and partners of Salesforce.com.

Appirio works with organizations, such as Facebook, NYU, Thomson Reuters and Home Depot to integrate and extend cloud applications and platforms like Google, Salesforce.com and workday. This month, Appirio celebrates its 5 year anniversary, and the company claims to have over 1 million people in the cloud since its inception.

The first International Office was opened in Tokyo, Japan, at the end of the 2008 year.

Earlier this year announced the acquisition of Appirio Infowelders, full-service Salesforce.com implementation consultancy firm (VMG).

One of the company's high-profile supporters, Sequoia Capital, apparently were not involved in the latest funding round of Appirio, which is not disclosed in the company.

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Accel has more than $ 30 m in digital marketing platform for auto industry Dealer.com

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Accel Partners has made a major investment in Dealer.com, a company that provides marketing solutions SaaS for auto dealers. Accel partner Todd Maclean will join the Board of Directors of the company as part of the deal, which is North of $ 30 million.

Based in Burlington, VT, Dealer.com sells SaaS application that manages the Web presence, auto dealers from beginning to end. Features include management of SEO tools for online advertising, online video, social media, lead management, inventory and marketing performance analytics. The company works with independent dealers, franchises, advertising agency and much more.

The recent shift towards purchases of cars and the success of sites like eBay mobile dealer Seeing success. Revenues reached $ 85 million in 2010, 60% increase over 2009, and more than three times the level of 2008, and the company expects to pass the $ 100 million in revenue in the year 2011.

McLean said that this investment is consistent with the Accel growth fund financing rapidly growing companies and theme true entrepreneurs who have built a reliable company and a great culture.

In the number of clients include Subaru of New England, American Suzuki Motor Corporation, Jaguar, Audi, BMW, Fletcher Jones Automotive Group, which has the largest Mercedes Benz dealership in the United States, as well as Gurley Leep car group and Napleton automobile group.

Dealer.com previously rasied 5 million dollars for funding year 2010.

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Vizibility raises $ 1. 3 M, makes you look good when people Google you

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Vizibility, a provider of personal branding platform for individuals and companies, today announced that it raised $ 1.3 million people in more than $ 1 million for seed funding.

Enterprise Group Launchpad Boston led round and was joined by additional investors from Angels Boston Harbor, New York Angels and Angels tie, as well as a number of independent investors from North-East and Europe. Previous backers also participated in the round.

Vizibility was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Manhattan, New York.

The company offers online identity management platform for individuals and companies, which allows them to the priest and share their online identities, including personalized Google search results, professional profiles, contact information, and much more.

SearchMe's buttons, links, and QR codes can be shared and posted on websites, blogs, business cards, marketing materials and whatnot. Its services are distributed primarily in the form of an integrated function of social networking sites, including job search, online reputation management and Executive profile hubs as well as dating sites.

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DoughMain raises $ 5 million for Gamified financial education platform for kids

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DoughMain, launch, which brings together family coordination and financial education in simple, real and gamified platform, has announced that it raised $ 5 million seed funding for a number of private Angel investors. Round of funding is used to support the production and release of DoughMain.com, as well as contribute to the development of DoughMain in mobile applications.

But what exactly is DoughMain all about? DoughMain President and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Damato said that run goal is simple: she wants to give families across the country, a simple solution that allows them to coordinate the activities of households and, in doing so, expose their children to important financial management skills.

DoughMain assaults the household, offering users an integrated family services as a chore calendar Tracker and benefits (or compensation) instrument, as well as three initial age relevant gaming sites to make American families operate like clockwork and give children a fun and useful tool to help them learn (in a sense, age-appropriate) retain, use and dispose of the money.

Launch of the so-called "family coordination platform allows parents to customize DoughMain platform so that it acts as a secure, personalized micro network for his family. Within this network, family members can view each of their own responsibility, that efforts should continue to be provided, for example, as well as the whole family. (Presumably so that they can error their younger brothers and sisters until they fulfil their responsibilities and learn how to balance their checkbooks.)

Parents can control the amount of information you can gain access to their children, whether it is possible to create calendar entries or to show that a particular chore was completed. Because the platform are updated in real time, parents can reward them obedient children to achieve them, with "DoughPoints", run the virtual currency, or by enhancing their benefits through a rigid, the American currency. specify that the chore is complete. Because the information is updated in real time, parents may

At the top of their family coordination platform for startup offers options for financial education, which is neatly integrated with worries and financial experience that their children to navigate within the interaction with the platform. Platform offers developed teacher content through secure gaming platforms like TheFunVault.com, a Flash game that teaches basic money management lessons for children aged 5-9, or SandDollarCity.com, a multiplayer virtual world where children aged 8-12 to manage the family candy stops, or, finally, the IRuleMoney.com, a site that as the financial content and contests for teens.

It is planned that the mobile version of DoughMain will be released in September that would allow families to stay in touch and coordinate on-the-go. For more check DoughMain homes here.

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ePals acquires Media personalization platform Newstogram, site news DailyMe

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ePals, a developer of social learning network, this morning announced that it has acquired Newstogram, the creator of media personalization and content recommendation platform. Also included in the deal was news DailyMe – both businesses owned by a company called Nexify.

Transactions with ePals stock and amounted to about $ 3 million.

ePals said the acquisition provides a sound platform for personalization of media and educational applications and strengthening its capacity to match students with each other on the basis of interests, through its network of roughly 700000 classrooms and millions of users in 200 countries around the world.

The platform will enable media publishers – including more than 20 media companies currently use the Newstogram platform for the creation of a "school" pages, which underline their content.

Newstogram/DailyMe founder and CEO Eduardo Hauser becomes President ePals in the Media Division, and Chief Product Officer, Neil Budde joins on paper.

Before Nexify, Executive Vice President of AOL Latin America, and VP of news and information on Venevision Hauser. Neil Budde was previously founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal online and Vice President and editor-in-Chief, Yahoo! News, finance and sports.

ePals Director miles Gilburne is also used for the Chief at AOL, by the way. Venture capitalist, he served five years Senior Vice President of corporate development for AOL before stepping down from those duties in December 1999. He was elected to the Board of Directors of AOL in 1999, and continued to work, the Board of Directors of Time Warner until stepping down in May 2006.

ePals, issued Nexify 4, 449, 686 limited ordinary voting shares at a price of United States $ 0.67 per share. In addition, ePals Nexify issued an order to purchase additional 307.000 limited voting common shares, at the same price. Warrants are exercisable up to 4 years from the date of closing.

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Twitter founders put their weight behind a new launch: rent

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Twitter co-founders biz stone, Evan Williams and longtime sidekick Jason Goldman, recently have shifted their attention from micro sharing service provider to reset the obvious, the company which originally incubated Twitter.

Yesterday the stone announced the first draft of the obvious: new application development company called lift created by Tony Stubblebine and John Crosby. Obvious said that it would help lift with "strategies, develop, finance and recruitment."

Hoist building remains unclear, but Stone says:

"Tony Stubblebine and Jon Crosby created an interesting new application for unlocking human potential through the positive reinforcements. We love this software for what he does, and since we have tried it and it works.

Crosby said more would be distributed "in the coming months." If you are interested in learning more now: Marshall Kirkpatrick was sleuthing and writes about what he found at ReadWriteWeb.

Stubblebine previously worked at Wesabe, Odeo (where he worked with obvious trio) and O'Reilly Media, and founded the CrowdVine. Crosby boasts concerts on the road, engine yard and Songbird his resume.

The lift will be billed as a company are evident, despite the obvious team clearly sees this more as a partnership in which the lift gets to go his own way, under the leadership of Stubblebine and Crosby.

Its service is currently in private alpha, but the Web site allows people to register to get more details when available. Oh and you can log in via Twitter and Facebook.

As an amusing side: entrepreneur and Hacker Connor Montgomery and/or Stubblebine, apparently added some humor in the code of the Web site of the lift:

(meta name = "description" content = "Cancel. Achieve anything (assuming that we are finishing building this app). ")

I assume that they will. Can't wait to finally be able to achieve anything!

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FAD or future? Booktrack adds music, sound effects for the E-book; Peter Thiel invests

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A new startup called Booktrack launched this morning (in fact, the NYT started it yesterday), in an attempt to create a whole new genre of e-books.

Booktrack creates synchronized soundtracks for e-books that aim to "dramatically increase the reader's imagination and participation".

Running technology pairs of notes and sound effects with the text automatically tempo one reading speed. Booktracks can be downloaded for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch and Android applications are on the way. Check Booktrack Bookshelf for books that are available.

The company has teamed up with Sony/ATV music publishing, Park Road Post and full fathom five, and its technology is already fully integrated into the new novel "the power of six", Pittacus Lore (James Frey), published by HarperCollins Children's books.

Booktrack and publishers will share revenue with the participating authors, composers and musicians, the company said in a press release.

Booktrack is based on former PayPal and early investors Facebook (and longtime Board member) Peter Thiel as authors who will cooperate with the company. Other initial investors and advisers Booktrack include Marc d ' Arcy, Director of the global creative solutions on Facebook and Derek Handley, CEO and co-founder of mobile marketing and media company Hyperfactory.

The latter will also serve as Chairman of Booktrack.

Paul Cameron, Booktrack founder and CEO, in a press release compares e books in their present form, with "cinema with not a soundtrack", but I'm not sure I agree with this statement – reading is quite otherwise use the content. I'm not sure the soundtrack makes e-book can be nothing but detract from the experience of reading, actually.

Of course I only briefly tested technology with one Booktrack e books, so I'm not fully made up my mind yet about its potential to disrupt the e book genre.

Wired's Charlie sorrel, for one, thinks the idea stinks. He does a good job, but it isn't (and shouldn't) stop companies from trying, obviously.

In the coming weeks and months Booktrack said he will publish specially curated collection of short stories from some of the best authors around the world, starting in September with "South" of Salman Rushdie. Booktrack release editions of the classics, such as the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the tale of Peter Rabbit, Peter Pan, the three Musketeers, pride and prejudice, Jane Eyre, Romeo and Juliet and more.

I look forward to reading Paul Carr's thoughts on this one.

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Tinypay .me raises $ 1 million, moving its headquarters to San Francisco

Tinypay.me trading platform, which emerged from 2010's Le Web Conference as a sort of Twitter for e-commerce, just raised $ 1 million from Aksoy Internet businesses. Money will be used, inter alia, to relocate the headquarters of the company from the Netherlands in the heart of Silicon Valley: San Francisco.

Tinypay .me bills itself as the easiest way to sell things online, because all you have to do to start selling to fill in one form. The whole process takes just 60 seconds, the company said.

To use Tinypay.me, fill out a form, notify your friends on Facebook and Twitter and receive payments via PayPal. The service supports both physical and digital goods and creates a page that can be embedded in websites. Account is not required to use the service, as everything is done by e-mail.

Says founder and Executive Director Melvin Tercan team moves in Silicon Valley, because "our mission is to conquer the world, and there's no better place to start than here." Chairman Taner Aksoy Aksoy Internet enterprises, Turkish-based investment firm, also said that he thinks "will hit Tinypay.me worldwide."

Adds Tercan, Tinypay.me chose Aksoy Internet businesses "because" have more than 10 years of experience with building Sahibinden.com, largest classified site in Turkey.

"They can help us with great experiences and tips for the company's growth," he said.

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Sequoia and Nexus to invest $ 12 million in laptop backup startup Druva

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Druva, creator of data protection solutions for SMEs, announced this morning that he raised $ 12 million in series b funding. Nexus venture partners led the round with participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital. Jishnu Bhattacharjee Nexus venture partners will be joining Druva Board of Directors of these investments, joining Sequoia Capital's Managing Director, Shailendra Singh, Ramani Kothandaraman, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Druva and Yoram Novick, CEO and founder of Topio.

Series b round adds up to $ 5 million Druva raised in April 2010, bringing total investment to the North of the $ 17 million. Start a new capital infusion will be used to expand sales across North America, Europe and Asia.

Founded in 2007, the company based on the Mountain view company now has more than 800 clients, protecting more than 300000 portable computers and devices worldwide and is beginning to thrive in the marketplace, in which she faced competition from the likes of EMC Avamar, Symantec and autonomy.

Druva inSync software (its flagship product) allows companies to use laptops, smartphones and tablets, automated backups, protection of corporate data in both the Office and remote users. The software also allows enterprises to retrieve data and do one click Restore any file or volume backup from your browser or iOS and Android devices, in accordance with the command Druva.

Start value that it provides backups over LAN, WAN and VPN network and makes backups more efficient way to de-duplicating data — in other words, storing only one copy of files and data uploaded by network users. This deduplikacii allows Druva in backups for ranking at speeds 10 times its competitors and allows companies to save 90% on bandwidth and storage, while maintaining a high level of accuracy for Outlook and Office. Druva software also gives businesses the opportunity to store their data locally in the cloud or through data centers connected to the web.

According to Sheila Childs, Vice President of research at Gartner, business organizations are beginning to become aware of inadequate protection of important data on corporate laptops and mobile devices. Mobile workers are an integral part of the success of many enterprises and will hold the data that would be almost impossible to recover, if their corporate device were stolen or damaged, she said, a solution like this offer Druva are essential for SMES looking to protect sensitive data.

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Online video platform company Brightcove files for IPO of $ 50 million

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Online video platform company Brightcove announced this morning that it has filed a registration statement S-1 form with the SEC in connection with the proposed IPO of its ordinary shares. The company expects to raise up to $ 50 million through the sacrifice.

Brightcove offers cloud-based solutions for publishing and distributing video and other digital media.

Brightcove in income grew from USD 24.5 million for the financial year ended December 31, 2008 to 43.7 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, shows the filing.

Revenue came to 28.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011 year.

The company was not profitable, they reported a net loss in the first half of this year to 9.7 million dollars and Brightcove said that he did not expect to be in the black until the end of 2012.

Company filing said that she had about 3300 customers in more than 50 countries, June 30, 2011, including The New York Times Company Oracle, AOL, Philips Electronics, Macy 's, Bank of America, United States Army and Honda. Currently accounted for approximately 300 employees.

The company has also shown that he signed a new lease for more than 80000 square feet of office space in Boston, Massachusetts. The company says that it expects the move to new Office April 1, 2012 year.

In May 2011, Brightcove announced the release of "the Cloud App, software applications and management platform designed to help users to publish and distribute video across software applications across multiple devices connected to the Internet. The company said it expected its first commercial sale in the second half of 2011.

Brightcove has a list on the NASDAQ Global market under the ticker "BCOV".

Whether this is the right time to file for an IPO, for discussion, of course. Global economic turmoil a bunch of recent IPO candidates simply decided to delay their proposals.

Brightcove offering is made through Morgan Stanley, Stifel Nicolaus, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest securities and Raymond James.

List of company investors include Accel Partners, General Catalyst partners, Allen & Company, Mack and Hearst enterprises, among others.

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MakerBot is 10 million dollars in funding from Foundry group, Angels

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MakerBot industries, maker of home 3D printers, today announced the $ 10 million in financing a number of investors, mostly from the Foundry group. Also during the tour included Bezos expeditions, true ventures and RRE, along with a dozen or so Angel investors.

The company started in 2009, with about 75,000 $ starting capital, and then put together and sold approximately 5200 their compact construction machines. We've seen them in action at the very first disrupt NYC TechCrunch, and since they were commonplace in this blog. MakerBot Brad Feld just added them to the Council and now hiring.

Hardware facilities is difficult to load, but the founder of the Bre, thinks that we will see many hardware startups in the next few years. Although services and software, typically offer faster scaling and therefore more immediate benefits, there is a place for devices and accessories in the world, especially if they are unique. MakerBot to impress, but competition from the manufacture of postal services like Shapeways barrier for entry into their self-powered 3D printing world is still quite high. Home business is changing and competitors (don't tell imitators) will see the possibility of a brute-force attack on the MakerBot in design and offer more speed, materials, etc.

Nevertheless, the possibility to get the size of a microwave rapid prototyping machine to thousands of dollars is one of these characters once, when we, as a rule, unfair play. It's absolutely amazing that this is possible, in the first place, but the realities of business may not allow it to grow rapidly, tech industry, as a rule, find interesting.

More information on financing, as well as links to various Angels involved can be found for the MakerBot's blog.

Financial organizations:
FOUNDRY GROUP

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Engine Yard takes Orchestra to add PHP support to its PAAS

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Engine Yard, provider solutions platform as a service (PAAS) this morning announced that it acquired developer platform for Orchestra, deployment, scaling and managing PHP applications.

Engine Yard, which is based on the investors as benchmark capital, new Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com, decided not to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition.

San Francisco company is best known for his PAAS for Ruby on Rails applications, but the acquisition will allow the company to add support for PHP applications.

Engine Yard statement said will continue to develop PHP platform and the Orchestra continue to invest in both Ruby on Rails and PHP open source communities and projects. There are no plans to discontinue support or development of any Orchestra's offerings.

The Orchestra is echolibre, an Irish company avid contribution to community PHP and the creators of the open API framework FRAPI, source (among other projects).

The whole team will be joining engine yard Orchestra due to the acquisition.

To date, engine yard was raised $37,5 million in financing. The company competes with other venture-backed startup Heroku, which was acquired by Salesforce for 212 million dollars in cash at the end of last year), among others.

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AliveCor transforms mobile devices in low cost heart raises $ 3 million.

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AliveCor, developer of the low-budget electrocardiograms (ECG) recorder that works in conjunction with a variety of mobile platforms (including iPhone, iPad and Android devices), delivered $ 3 million in series A financing, the company announced this morning.

Funding round was led by Barril & company along with Qualcomm, through its venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures, and the Oklahoma Foundation for life sciences.

AliveCor the size of a credit card wireless device can make iOS and Android smartphones and tablets in low cost heart monitors, which can be used by patients and doctors and other medical professionals in clinical conditions. Watch the video below for a demo version of the iPhone.

Notice that the device is not for sale, but-AliveCor products have not yet been cleared as a medical device in the United States. It is also unclear exactly how much it will cost but earlier coverage of Wall Street Journal mentioned a price of $ 100.

The company said that it now will use the capital to complete the clinical studies are currently in the center of Oklahoma University of medical sciences, to carry out the necessary regulatory approvals and equipment for the commercial launch of its recording an ECG.

AliveCor has developed a device that will transform any Smartphone in Recorder quality clinical electrocardiogram (ECG).

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Phone Radiation measuring App Maker raises $ 1.5 million Tawkon

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Tawkon, an Israeli startup that offers mobile apps to measure cellular radiation, provided initial funding of $ 1.5 million.

Capital injections from thetime, an investment company owned by Ilan Shiloah, Chairman, McCann Erickson of Israel and Nir Tarlovsky Tzvika and Barinboim. Other supporters include management consulting company TASC, Don Perrin (one of the first investors in Zipcar) and Yossi Sandler, an early investor in Yedda (which was acquired by AOL).

Tawkon's offers mobile apps for Android phones, BlackBerry handsets and iOS platforms, while the iPhone app only works on jailbroken devices.

You see, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has become quite clear that the application of radiation measurement that phone not Tawkon welcome to the official App Store, instead of clicking Start do it for free (again, for jailbroken iPhones) via Cydia.

In March this year, the Tawkon sent a letter to jobs in hopes of getting approval for distributing applications via the Apple App Store, only to get this answer from the man, the legend:

No interest.

Sent from my iPhone

Well, at least his disinterest not too spooked investors.

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OpenFeint and CrowdStar incubator YouWeb raises $ 2 million

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Social incubator YouWeb, behind the OpenFeint, Sibblingz and CrowdStar, iSwifter, raised a further 2 million dollars in financing a number of Angel investors including Dave Roux (co-founder and Chairman of the Silver Lake partners, Dave Whorton (founder of tugboat Ventures), Praful Shah, Brett roam, Winston Cho and YouWeb founder Peter Relan. previously, the company raised $ 700,000 in funding.

Relan explains that YouWeb differs from other programs in that it is a very early stage, almost pre-Y Combinator incubator. He said that YouWeb simply chooses individuals based on talents and entrepreneurs come up with no commands, business model or idea. The person is given $ 100,000 and develops business or app in the House. YouWeb usually incubates two entrepreneurs a year.

The company has brought former Walmart, Kosmix and Amazon Executive Michelle Yee Sangster, Senior Vice-President of business development. Specifically Sangster will work with iSwifter and Sibblingz YouWeb for new opportunities for business development.

YouWeb has seen success with a number of its companies in the year 2011. OpenFeint GREE was acquired earlier this year, more than $ 100 million and CrowdStar just raised $ 23 million in new funding sources. YouWeb and CrowdStar has also recently teamed up with a new $ 10 million to fund mobile games social development.

Sibblingz began carrier, HTML5 canvas-rendering engine available for iOS and Android and Flash games iSwifter streaming service for mobile devices is set to bring in more than 10 million dollars in revenue this year.

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Smart Money pours 1.5 million dollars in the ditch

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Smart money pouring into the ditch, running tech ad, founded by the former right media CEO Mike Walrath, and brothers John and Noah Goodhart. Ron Conway of SV Angel caused 1.5 million Australian dollars tour, along with founders Fund, vast enterprises, Lerer ventures, founder collective and first round capital. Walrath and brothers seed company Goedhart previously with 3 million dollars from their financing car WGI group.

The ditch is trying to create new ways to measure the effectiveness of online display ads. Their first product is to display the ads search engine just search display ads in such a way that people in this industry, you can easily see which campaigns are working online for different brands. Today the ditch also launches new brand analytics product that measures attention, based on mouse hovers and a chart.

Ditch wants to replace the press as a valid measurement of the effectiveness of online advertising. According to Jonah Goodhart only 8% of Internet users account for almost 85% of all display ad clicks. As I wrote in a previous post on the moat:

"Part of the problem with digital advertising," said Walrath, that we think we know what happens with the announcement and makes its success. Right now, you have all the clicks and conversions. Walrath thinks the industry measuring the wrong things: impressions and clicks at one end to another. Big brand advertisers care more about attention.

The ditch is a proxy for attention. It can generate heat map where people hover their mouse over the ad, and where they click and ... Ditch offers these Analytics heatmap brand advertisers to help them determine which display ads are the most interesting and give them the tools to fix the ones that don't work.

The next step is to test different versions of the same ads to see which ones to draw attention to the marketers can iterate faster and fine tune messaging as marketers search already. Ditch plans to create a market for ad designers to facilitate brand advertisers to create multiple versions of the ads and test them rigorously.

The ditch is a free search engine for display ads. The ditch also offers heatmap analysis and resources for creative. Online ads tend to be temporary: apparent from the second and went ...

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Cisco buy Comptel in Axioss software assets in cash for $ 31 million.

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Cisco today announced its intention to purchase the service to perform software assets and associated employees from the UK subsidiary of Comptel partner company for 21.3 million euros, or approximately $ 31 million in cash. Axioss is the solutions developed by axiom systems, a company that Comptel acquired in 2008.

With the acquisition, Cisco hopes to expand the network and service management technology platforms, IP network and enables service providers to quickly start a new video, data, mobility and cloud services to their clients through a single management architecture.

AXIOSS software bundle will also strengthen Prime Cisco that allows service providers to better manage their networks and network services, the company said.

After the closing of the acquisition, which is expected in the third quarter of calendar year 2011, the team will be integrated in Cisco AXIOSS NMTG and Cisco Advanced Services Group.

Gareth SR., Comptel Technical Director and member of its Executive Council, Cisco will also transmit.

Comptel and Cisco will continue its cooperation in other fields of OSS/BSS solutions, such as cloud mediation and charging. Comptel said he will continue in business development and sales of its Comptel fulfillment solutions to maintain their existing customer relationships Axioss and continue to support these clients.

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6fusion raises $ 7 million for a cloud infrastructure management software

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6fusion, a provider of infrastructure management software and cloud services, this morning announced that it raised $ 7 million in series b round of financing led by Grotech ventures.

Previous Baker Intersouth partners also participated in the round.

The company provides a platform for managing end-to-end cloud to global pressure, making clouds, both public and private companies paid utilities pay for use.

6fusion been developed an algorithm called a cube dimension, the distribution of workload, which he said standardizes the quantitative assessment of supply and demand for computing resources.

The company's management platform in UC6 cloud federates private data center and cloud operators of third party, providing a single console to enable organizations to manage and optimize the meter, hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Lawson DeVries Grotech ventures joins 6fusion's Board.

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Former members of Expedia raise $ 8 million for the trip search launch Hopper

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Hopper, Montreal, Canada at the start, had raised $ 8 million in new funding from Atlas venture and previous Backer Brightspark Ventures, to try to ' reinvent travel search '.

Hopper is still in stealth mode, but if you want to learn more about what they cook, check out this Boston.com profile or this article from Boston's Xconomy.

Really Hopper plans to open new Office in Boston, where he plans to double its engineering team within the next year.

The company builds on the merits of the "journey of discovery" engine for consumers, allowing people to know the directions and products using only keywords such as "the best beaches in Europe".

The launch was conceived by Sebastian Rejnvillâ, Chief Engineer Frederick Lalonde, the Director-General and Chief of product Joost Ouwerkerk. The last two were Expedia Lalonde, who purchased the previous company Newtrade technologies back in 2002.

Hopper was originally founded in 2007 and previously raised $ 2 million in 2008, the company's total funding to $ 10 million today.

Jeff Fagnan, partner at Atlas venture, will join the Hopper, the Board of Directors.

Hopper is developing a search engine for travel planning. Funded by Brightspark Ventures, the company was founded in 2007. Hopper's offices are located in the renovated Paul ...

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