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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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

Foundry group is a venture company focused on investing in early stage information technology, Internet and software startups. Their passion is working with entrepreneurs to give birth.

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Armed with the M $ 7 new funding, Movieclips are Earth YouTube to be Vevo cinema clips

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We are big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with more than 20 000 different clips from thousands of entries from libraries of 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures. Today the company announced that it raised $ 7 million in financing led by MK capital (founding investor in Machinima, the large game publisher at YouTube). Shasta ventures, first round capital, Richmond Park partners, Jeff Clavier, naval Ravikant, Jeff Kearl, Tom Mcinerney, Allen Debevoise ranked and Gordon Rubenstein also participated in the round. But it's not all. Movieclips Announces profitable new Vevo YouTube deal, bring all run licensed Hollywood HD video online video platform.

As you probably know, along with the Studio partnership (which is half the battle for licensing the content of the movie), Movieclips has also developed a patented technology that sets up to 1000 data points for each scene, which makes it super easy to find scenes of the movie title, actor, movie dialogue, mood, Director, genre, etc. these data allow people to search and discover movies through curated lists, and games. In the past year, launching a new product called Movieclips Mashups at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, which allows anyone to make a composition of two minutes clips.

Co-founder of Zach James tells me (checkout, our TCTV interview with James News) that aim to conclude the transaction distribution can add clips on YouTube, with the blessing of the studios, which is known to be protective of their content of the film. Especially at public sites with tons of traffic, such as YouTube.  In the same way, Vevo was able to establish partnerships with record labels to music videos on YouTube Movieclips strives to put film and movie clips on the video platform.

But James said, surprisingly, most of the Studio were receptive to the idea of posting videos on YouTube. Co-founder Rich Raddon explains: "there are definitely open to studios that wasn't there before. Now that YouTube is looking for content partners premium, studios, which would have been laughed us out of the room a few years ago actually listen to. It's all about the right time. " Raddon said that Disney was the only major Studio that did not participate in the transaction Movieclips.

So now Movieclips will have a number of channels allocated (found here) on YouTube, with the breakdown of the types of film clips of actors, Director, genre, and much more. The clips will be able to examine everywhere where is YouTube. The company will also add interactive games, simple tasks, video mashups, trailers, and interactive video formats. The clips will be featured in other films on YouTube video on demand platform.

All videos will include some form of advertising, whether pre-roll or another format. While the Movieclips refused to give us the exact profit from the deal, we know, takes a portion of the proceeds, YouTube will take part and studios will take most of the income.

Camille Hearst, YouTube product marketing manager for music, movies and shows, said the case Movieclips, "there is a sea of content that you can add to your movie experience YouTube user with Movieclips.com ...We are glad to work with Movieclips.com to give the user exactly what they are looking for when they want to get into movies on YouTube ".

As a side note, James tells us that he initially floated the idea on stage till Google VP Marissa Mayer while the company is at the TechCrunch Disrupt in May 2010. Apparently listened to Mayer (and YouTube).

Given the success of Vevo YouTube deals this rather then a big deal for Movieclips. I hope run will generate large cash from the deal, but only the distribution platform is extremely profitable, in terms of views and to influence the brand. Vevo seeing nearly a billion page views per month and bring in tens of millions in revenue.

With regard to financing, James said that the new funds will be used to double down on YouTube. The company also is seeking to expand to include the Movieclips in mobile and social platforms including Facebook, Twitter and the iPad (site created a specialized video player and API developers can use to integrate the Movieclips on other sites; AOL Moviefone actually uses technology to its platform).

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6Scan raises funding, provides protection to "automatic" Web site

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6Scan, a building comes with automatic detection and remediation of security protection suite Web-site of the company today announced that it raised an undisclosed amount of capital from YL Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests primarly in Israel and Europe.
I said that the round was your typical series a size, and that the company graduated from the Venturegeeks, an Israeli Y Combinator clone, where it received its initial funding in April 2011.
Product companies are still unreleased, but from what I gathered 6Scan will offer a tool that basically functions as a white-hat hacker sites for known and unknown threats, that is also capable of automatically plug security holes while it's on it.
The product was designed specifically for owners of the Web site without the knowledge of the technical or safety and will be priced at $ 10 per month.
YL Ventures, managing partner Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf joined 6Scan Board of Directors.

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FinanceAcar raises funding for online car market

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FinanceAcar is the first car in the world of finance comparison engine. 80% of all car buyers use finance for the average 2 million new cars purchased each year in the UK.
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