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Monday, October 24, 2011

Taboola raises $ 9 million power recommendations of online video

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Taboola, a service that supports many video recommendation widgets, you will find on the Internet, has raised, 9 million series b round of financing. Round led by Crescent point, which is based in New York and Asia, as well as Evergreen VC, who participated in previous rounds.

This round brings total financing of Taboola to 15 million dollars (she had previously raised $ 4.5 million round in November 2008, and 1.5 million round in November 2007).

Taboola gives publishers a turnkey product for consideration and for recommendation of any video platform, they use (integrated with Brightcove, Ooyala & other services). It is actually easier said than done — surfacing related videos is hard enough and then there's the question of assessing whether they people really want to watch the video. Taboola is in and he landed a lot of notable clients, including the New York Times, USA Today, CNN and Bloomberg.

Service makes extensive analytics on the performance of each video, creating the scores for each called ' EngageRank ' (he is also trying to adapt the recommendations for each user).  And this often leads to more clicks, the company said the disks as in 2.5 times more video, watch at Bloomberg.

In addition to financing, the company announced a new milestone: now generates recommendations 250 million per day throughout its publisher partner sites.


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Saturday, October 22, 2011

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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Sunday, October 16, 2011

CouchSurfing raises reaches USD7.6 m; Will users cry, "Sell"?

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CouchSurfing International is one of those rare Web companies – like Mozilla or Craigslist – that avoid the normal value of Silicon Valley growth, greed and venture capital. Started in 2004, and less than some commercial iterations, which it inspired, the company turned investment offers, happy to focus on making the right to community surfers three million or so. The user profile contains questions like "what is your personal mission in life?"

This is one of those startups, which uses the word "community" means people who have a strong, real-world connections to each other, not only new industry jargon for "eye."

And its Director Daniel Hoffer a little further talks like a man running a combination of Ashram or online dating service: "We specialize in creating meaningful connections".

But today, CouchSurfing is all corporate on us. Corporate (b) to be specific. Company Announces reaches USD7.6 million round of financing and the transition from a not-for-profit corporation, b. B corporations are a relatively new classification to socially responsible companies operate as commercial companies, but they you regularly audited certifying body, which decides whether they live up to their do-gooding promised at the same time.

Single-bottom approach is in keeping with their investors: Omidyar socially responsible company and more classic VC benchmark capital.

The big question I had for Hoffer: don't you just take the worst of both worlds? Now you have investors to answer, and no matter how warm and fuzzy they are, they are the investors who want big profits. Investors are going to want to see in hell a lot more users growth than three million users in more than six years and may encourage firms to business models that can do this community to balk. Time CouchSurfing still holds itself as a company is trying to do something good, not just provide a service or utility. He can never brushed aside users problems with "we must do what is best for business".

He brushed aside such concerns, saying "I think that the best possible structure is what we have. One problem with nonprofits hard to adapt quickly and easily from the standpoint of business model, because you need permission from the IRS. Now we get that flexibility and we still have to make a statement.

The message, he hoped that comes through loud and clear in his community: "we are the same organization, we have always been; We just change our legal structure. "for example, he insists, CouchSurfing will continue on free space, and that the company will find other ways to make money. To date, are charged only to perform validation checks on the guests and hosts.

Of course will change some things. The company which was duly virtual and nomadic still moves to the appropriate headquarters in San Francisco and actively hiring engineers. Indeed one of the big reasons why they decided to adopt the financing and transfer of the company in the classification easier to recruit engineers looking for stock options.

And you can only hope that some of that money will go towards emergency plans for any similar episodes Meth head Airbnb. Airbnb as a few months ago, CouchSurfing has a stellar reputation million visits without nefarious incidents. However, scales, as the company grows is – as anything in social media – outdoor nature. Matt Cohler Benchmark Capital, which joins the CouchSurfing board said that the people of the same fears about meeting people on online dating and social networking in the day. I replied that these people are not necessarily immediately to sleep on the couch.

Cohler and Hoffer indicate existing systems reputation already in place on the site. In addition part of the outrage surrounding episodes Airbnb was, unlike Craigslist or CouchSurfing people pay for the service, so expected more control. In any case, I believe that this is an issue to which users will ask how CouchSurfing seeks to expand its audience.


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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Snapsort raises $ 500 K to expand its product recommendation engine

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Snapsort, until today, the famous site of the popular camera recommendations was raised $ 500 K from undisclosed investors to extend its technology recommendations algorithmic product in other verticals, ranging from cars to Carsort.com and phones at Geekaphone.com.

Snapsort co-founder Christopher Reid compares technology for the actual Snapsort and Metaweb, but tells me that it is much cleaner than the former and richer than later. Snapsort.com, formerly in stealth mode, has more than 5 million monthly pageviews, with a time of 4 minutes average site and average 10% for us visitors according to Reid. His team in the year to build the show Reed and three persons.

Snapsort, Carsort and Geekaphone scrape data daily from sources, including retailers, manufacturers and final reviews. On the site Snapsort you can find products based on drill down criteria like price, model, and through a user-friendly interface.

"We are more like friendly knowledgable geek differentiation of trust for all your gadget tips, less like a list of products on the Web site of Best Buy, you can not freaking", Reed explained, referring to Snapsort in human friendly ambitions.

The company plans on being in 20 verticals by the end of the year and has its sights on dominating the recommendation products for electronics, entertainment, travel and education of children. "We want to provide advice on all issues," Reid said.


Snapsort recommendation of instant and personalized camera is not available anywhere else. Compare, review, round up and learn about cameras in one place, all the cameras in any way you want to look at. ..

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Friday, September 9, 2011

Salesforce posts record quarterly revenue of $ 546 m; Raises guidance

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Salesforce just posted its Q2 2012 profit today, posting a record quarterly revenue of $ 546 million, or 38% for the year. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share increased by 3% for the year to $ 0.30. Analysts expected EPS of $ 0.30 and 529 million for income.

Subscription and support revenues were $ 509 million, 38% based on year-over-year. Professional services and other revenues were $ 37 million, 44% based on year-over-year.

Q2 GAAP net loss per share was ($ 0.03), which includes a one-time charge of $ 0.04 per share, related to the legal settlement of California State wage and hour claims. Non-GAAP results exclude the effects of the company about 55 million dollars in stock-based compensation expense, about $ 19 million in amortization of acquired intangible assets and approximately $ 3 million in non-cash interest expense related to convertible senior notes.

Salesforce said that it added 6300 clients during the quarter, which brings his total to 104 000 clients using its SaaS products (quarterly record for the company). Since 31 July 2010, the company added 21600 NET client, an increase of 26% from year-over-year.

Income from operations for fiscal second quarter was $ 83 million, 9% from year-over-year. Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities finished the quarter at about $ 1.3 billion.

The company is raising its guidance for Q3 revenue forecasting 568 million to about $ 570 million. Generating company full fiscal year 2012, it is planned to be in the range of approximately $ 2.22 billion to approximately $ 2.23 billion.


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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Buddy MEDIA raises $ 54 M for brand-oriented management platform of social media

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Buddy MEDIA, a company that provides Facebook page and social media brand management raises $ 54 million in series d funding led by GGV capital with institutional venture partners, Bay partners and Business Insight. This brings total financing MEDIA buddy just under $ 90 million. GGV partner Jeff Richards joined Buddy MEDIA Board of Directors. One of Facebook's first ad sales execs, Kevin Colleran, also joined the company's Advisory Board.

Buddy MEDIA is best known for its management all-in-one social media to help create, manage and track your social campaign on Facebook. In connection with the Facebook platform enables brand managers agencies create, manage and keep track of Facebook pages in different languages to drive and increase user and brand. Users should not have any prior knowledge of form to create pages on Facebook and can create sleek and interactive pages pretty easily.

But Facebook is not only social media platform that brands should participate; Twitter has also has a powerful communications tool. A buddy MEDIA also offers Twitter management system, as well as CEO and founder Michael lasers tells us it's not just about Facebook and how brands participate through various channels, buddy MEDIA will provide them with the SaaS to manage this. He added that Google + scaling and ultimately adds feature brand and company, the company will look to provide integration with social platforms.

Earlier this year, buddy MEDIA acquired social analytics tool Spinback, which develops social commerce widget allows users to share products and purchase through Facebook, Twitter and email. This product is currently integrated with Buddy MEDIA SaaS

Of course when more brands look to social media to interact with consumers, buddy MEDIA results. Company's profit more than doubled since the end of 2010. In the past year, lasers told us that buddy MEDIA is on the way to make 20 million dollars in sales, profits can be at least $ 40 million.

Buddy MEDIA added about 200 new customers in 2011, including brands, retailers and media companies such as Ford Motor Company, Haines, ESPN, Hearst Corporation (more about this partnership) and Virgin Mobile, United States.

Buddy MEDIA staff had increased from 40 employees in 2009 to nearly 200, and the company opened a London Office this year. The last hired include CFO, Dennis Morgan, who headed the corporate finance and acquisition efforts for Yahoo.

Lasers said, the company continuously evaluates a couple of things: how brands more focused content on Facebook or on twitter; as they get the right content to man, and how to use the social graph for all fixed assets, it will happen. He explains that for major brands and companies to monitor social media complicated delivery audit and scaling in different countries. MEDIA Buddy simplifies this process, said lasers.

Laser and said that the company continues to grow, this capital will help scale development, global expansion, recruitment, sales, purchasing and much more. One of the problems, said he will hire the right people, but he plans to double the number of employees in the following year.


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Sunday, August 21, 2011

SEC Watch: cloud storage startup raises $ 18.6 mln Box.net more

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Box.NET raises $ 18.6 million of the 35 million Australian dollars round according to the SEC filing. We have confirmed this with the company. This brings its total funding to $ 96 million.

A field that has 6 million users and stores 300 million documents — Enterprise cloud storage platform that comes with the collaboration, the functionality of social and mobile. The field has become more than just storage platform Fils and became a full-fledged joint applications, where companies can actually talk about updates to the document, synchronize files remotely and even add features of Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite, hurt, and others.

Box has just raised $ 48 million from Andreessen Horowitz and other earlier this year, but the company's CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie tells us that the mighty venture market, high rates of growth of the company and in the cloud, the new zoom round made sense. He said this is a follow-up round with (d) raise earlier this year, and it will attract investors and new as well.

Round was not closed completely and can change, said Levie. In making lists of the current investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson, United States venture partners and venture scale.


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Friday, August 19, 2011

Tablet education launch ShowMe raises $ 800.000 Lerer ventures, SV Angel and Betaworks

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Over the last year or so I've noticed a surge in new, scrappy education startups. One of the most promising, I saw it ShowMe, formerly easel training. New York City startup just raised $ 800.000 seed round from Lerer ventures, SV Angel capital, betaworks, BOLDstart and angel investor naval Ravikant. Company employment.

ShowMe turns your Tablet PC into an interactive whiteboard video. Teachers can record lessons during speaking and drawing on the touchscreen. Then the resulting video can be viewed on the iPad app or ShowMe website where they can be found common and voted up. IPad app has been downloaded 150 000 times since its launch a month ago, it's not bad for education.

Videos are crowdsourced from teachers and tutors in the same way that the Khan Academy offers up training video, but with the added message board, which is particularly useful for subjects such as mathematics or natural sciences. But really it works for any entity when the Whiteboard can be used as a learning tool. ShowMe takes a Board from the audience and puts it in the student community.

ShowMe in technology also powers the Princeton Review SAt Prep app.config in the video below, which I shot in April, the Director General Kim San shows off technology.


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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Go try it out on raises $ 3 M, brings the gap and Sephora personal stylists to the masses

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Let's try it out, start, which allows users to share photos and get opinions on their views, has raised $ 3 million in funding from the SPA investments, Index Ventures and others.

To go try it out you can upload a photo of yourself, add a description of the mark that you wear and include context around the choice of equipment (i.e., concert, holiday party). Community site can then comment on the site and provide feedback to fellow members of the outfits. Users may want to ask a large community to go try it on, just share with their friends on Facebook or ask for advice brand. On the site iPhone app lets you access your looks and reviews the application and download and share looks directly from the application. You can also select your location and share your watch with your contact book.

Startup also produces professional personal stylist network that allows members to download wardrobe and makeup looks and get tips from the experts at the gap and Sephora, which work as "personal stylists."

In the future, go Try it plans to provide the personalized analysis what to wear, sort of like Google Analytics for the style and fashion, based on equipment metric. The company plans to generate revenue, allowing brands to offer customized proposals based on these results.

Go try it on the verge of competition from Weardrobe, Polyvore and Ratcatcher.


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Monday, August 15, 2011

MediaCore softswitch raises seed funding, launches Platform for small and medium-sized businesses create their own YouTube

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Launch officially public today a new venture called MediaCore softswitch, brought to you by Damien Tanner and Stuart Bowness, the first of which was in charge of the pusher, a solution that adds realtime tech applications, which was funded by Heroku guys, among other things, back in June.

Tanner and Bowness run MediaCore softswitch to provide any old small businesses with the ability to implement their own YouTube that allows an organization to control the experience from end-to-end. In other words MediaCore softswitch is a video publishing platform for SaaS (complete with mobile applications), provides the ability to create and control their own video site to any user or organization. And it's all about appearance.

How it works clients download content in infrastructure cloud-based platform and let the video play through MediaCore player, which, among other things, automatically detects the browser that the user connects to so that they don't have to worry about the differences between Flash and HTML5. Player sorts it for you, using HTML5, when possible.

Visitors can view video collection through a cool interactive guide and platform allows owners to easily organize their videos by categories and tags and automatically sorts content by relevance and popularity. Users can add logos, backgrounds, and play with the CSS to customize the look of the site. In addition, you can add your own domain, take advantage of podcasting and quite a few excellent service. In view of the fact that the establishment of a fully equipped video platform is no easy feat MediaCore offers a solution pretty cool white label that looks good and doesn't require much technical know-how.

MediaCore softswitch currently offers 15 days free trial, and after, plans start at $ 99 per month. These plans include custom domains, white label, custom branding, automated coding, introduces social video, etc., But the best part is that Android and iOS apps come with each account you manage to look pretty damn good too. Coming next? According to Tanner and Bowness is a private video profiles and paywalls.

To get the platform is off and running, the start is in the process of closing a seed round of angel funding from the Andrew Wilkinson, founder and CEO of MetaLab and Jessie Ma Gawker Media. While the founders refused to give specifics, round, probably hundreds of thousands. (United States Dollars, that is.)

When I asked them that inspiration for MediaCore softswitch, they told me that there are other video platforms are stacked with engineers and often pay little attention to the design, which leads to crappy interfaces and a number of failed user interfaces. Thus after the launch of the open source version of MediaCore softswitch for one year, they are bringing their SaaS platform for the market, in an attempt to lead you to design and make it easy to use.

Beta platform already attracted over 1100 companies, including the University of London, Mentor Graphics, TechVibes, Indiana University and a number of Fortune 500 companies. As a guess from its first customers and scalable cloud storage product aimed at the SMB, but the founders told me that during the year, they will be launching a number of personal plans, which will be offered below the current price of $ 99 per month.

MediaCore softswitch is also planning to start a Tumblr theme store in the near future that will allow users to buy themes and settings of their sites, all works through the API (a la Tumblr).

In General when paywalls roll and proper iPad interface falls MediaCore softswitch is probably going to be essentially video version OnSwipe. It is a good thing? You tell us.

For more check out MediaCore homes here or front-end demo, click here.


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Saturday, August 13, 2011

ZeroCater raises $ 1.5 million for Office no-hassle dinners

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Apparently TechCrunch HQ is not the only entity that hates to deal with coordination of lunch.

Today ZeroCater, launch, which looks to help make your Office lunch time as painless as possible by handling all the logistics for you (see our previous coverage), announces that it raised $ 1.5 million.

This new round — in addition to the earlier investment from Y Combinator and StartFund (in fact, SV Angel and Yuri Milner, that make up the StartFund, have made additional investments). Here's the complete list of investors that includes some big names:

Keith Rabois
Paul Buchheit
Vaizra International
Yuri Milner & Felix Shpilman
SV Angel
Start Foundation
Stewart Alsop
Justin Kan
Emmett shear
Othman Laraki
Gabor Cselle
Mark Friedgan
Alexander Goldstein
Starling enterprises

ZeroCater for the promise is to eliminate the hassle of ordering lunch for employees on a regular basis. Company sign up, tell ZeroCater how many mouth, feeding and if anyone has special dietary requests, then lets you organize the rest ZeroCater. Start works deals with local restaurants to ensure quick delivery — and because ZeroCater can guarantee the size of a large order, high-end restaurants that do not offer delivery often usually participate. ZeroCater also makes every effort to rotate between different restaurants, so you don't get sick is the same thing over and over again.

The service is currently available in the San Francisco Bay area, and co-founder of Arram Sabeti said that plans to use this money to distribute to other areas. Next up: New York City.


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Monday, August 8, 2011

With record growth of P2P lending lending Club raises $ 25 million, led by Union Square

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Peer-to-Peer lending sites are hot again among investors of all stripes. Lending Club today announced a new $ 25 million series d financing led by Union Square Ventures (with existing investors to participate). Funding comes on the heels of the $ 17 million round of Eric Schmidt and DFJ introduced competitor Prosper in June.

P2P lending industry has recovered from a few years ago, when the SEC forced all the major players quit a few months, because they were not properly registered. Lending Club was the first to go through this transition and the first to withdraw from it.

Fast forward today, and lending Club is originating more credit than its nearest competitor, prosper. In July, lending Club is $ 20.6 million in new loans, compared with $ 6 million for success. Both are growing rapidly, however. Lending Club has new loan record number 7 for the last 8 months, according to Peter Renton social lending network (see figure). P2P lending sites allow individuals to each other. However, the institutional cash flow in these markets, attracted by higher interest rates.

The latest funding brings the total capital, lending Club raised $ 78 million, with the last round of similar 24.5 million Australian dollars in May 2010.


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