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April 13, 2007
Hot Betas: Clipperz, PassPack, Tag2Find
Two startups out of Italy recently launched free secured data and password online apps, and a young team in Austria proposes tagging desktop for file management. They've all spent some serious man hours developing their wares. In their present form, they are more angel than VC material but they could make tasty techie tidbits for an Internet or enterprise software big fish, as they offer functionality that should or could be inside a browser, a desktop operating system, or integrated into an ISP/Internet portal.
Founders Marco Barulli and Giulio Cesare Solaroli have spent the past 18 months developing Clipperz with their own money. They tell us that the application stores and manages passwords and online credentials and logins for web services without entering any username or password (it's a "zero knowledge" system), other things like burglar alarms, software serial numbers, PINs and credit card details can be stored, along with offline sensitive data. The founders have been working together for close to 8 years. Back in 1999 the two founded eXtrapola an internet monitoring and press clipping service serving businesses and public orgs. Contrary to the trend at the time, they did not raise VC. It’s now a 25 person company, strong in Italy with good potential to expand, they say. They left eXtrapola in 2005 to found Clipperz.
View- Clipperz
Out of Rome, PassPack offers similar functionality to Clipperz, but with additional data support. Launched in December, its team has done tremendous job generating buzz about its service.
Read PassPack compares itself to Clipperz
Tag2Find has been in development for several years by a young Austrian team that started the work on the software while at university. They recently launched a technical review version of their Tag2Find tool for consumers and are looking at some investment to launch a networked version.
Tagging for file management is a popular feature for web projects these days, but this one wants to compete against desktop search software. Tag2Find says desktop search offers similar functionality for finding documents, movies, images, music, but tags are better for networked and team-oriented orgs. Comparing its tech to other Web 2.0 tagger teams, this one says they have the better and more feature rich solution. Tag2Find says it is not about organizing data on computers and computer networks, rather Tag2Find makes organisation superfluous. For the chaotic amongst us, that sounds pretty tempting.
Picked this up on the Tag2Find blog.
View Tag2Find
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