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Social Networking - Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The Netherlands' Wakoopa Raises $1M For Application SocNet

Thumb Wakoopa is a social network site for software users. It allows you to track what you've been using on your desktop, share that with others, and discover new applications and games. The Amstedam-based startup has just closed a $1M led by Big Bang Ventures and HENQ Invest. The startup was incubated by Meganova. It was founded in May 2007 by Wouter Broekhof & Robert Gaal. Team Wakoopa Wakoopa works like Alexa in that it has users volunteer to download a small app to track what applications they are running and how much time they spend on those apps. Just as Alexa is interesting to publishers and advertisers, Wakoopa should be interesting to app developers. Given the proliferation of mini-apps in the Web 2.0 world there is a great deal to track. View - site... Continue...

Social Networking - Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Eventbrite Backed To Grow From Event Reg Tool Start

Thumb We have passed by San Francisco-based Eventbrite any number of times as it shares offices in a building with a great number of other VC-backed startups. Today the startup says that it has raised its first round of funding (amount undisclosed) from the European Founders Fund. Eventbrite is well known within the tech event space but that doesn't make it a huge business. It must either expand to other event sectors or expand into the tech realm by offering further functionality, or both. Eventbrite tells Mashable that it is profitable, earning a commission (2.5%) off of each ticket sale, and that it plans to expand its social networking functionality with tie-ins to larger platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). Eventbrite is led by CEO Kevin Hartz who has numerous affiliations: Board of Directors at BluBet; Principal at Youniversity Ventures; Principal at Outlook Ventures; and Co-Founder at Connect Group. His bride Julia Hartz is a co-founder and President. Eventbrite Tutorial View - site... Continue...

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Israel's Green Vision Raises €3.5M For Contaminants Detection

Monday June 2, 2008

Green Vision Systems has raised €3.5M from the state-run Gabriel Lippmann Institute in Luxembourg. The company's founder and CEO Danny Moshe has invested $10M out of his own pockets to date. Green Vision has developed sensors for the detection of contaminants in the air, water and in the ground that can be used in the prevention of chemical terrorist attacks as well as to test for common contamination of water sources and air quality. Green Vision is land-based, and the company also intends to offer it on airborne and satellite platforms. Moshe had previously founded Malcam, which develops and manufactures microwave volumetric moisture and density information systems. It would seem that Green Vision has not gone as planned. The company was founded 12 years ago, has required a great deal of personal investment and is just now getting outside investment. View - site...

Site Refresh Here At The a:c

Monday June 2, 2008

As you see, we have re-freshed alarm:clock with a new design and we could not be happier about it. Many thanks to Zack and Brian at Swift Internet. We have had our share of bad deals with Web design and support, but this was an occasion for fist pumps and air guitars. Give Zack a ring if you are in the market for a site. Zack Linford Swift Internet 858-625-4200 support@swiftinternet.com...

ThumbSapphire Energy Raises $50M In First Round For Eco-friendly Crude

Friday May 30, 2008

We keep telling those who are glum about global warming that help is on the way. San Diego's Sapphire Energy says it plans to turn algae into oil, creating a clean fuel that can be used in unmodified cars and trucks. Sapphire and its alter-brand Green Crude Production, explains that it is using algae, sunlight, non-potable water and carbon dioxide to make a green crude that it boasts is the chemical equivalent of sweet crude oil. Moreover, production costs per barrel will be similar to petroleum-based fuel. The company has raised $50M in funding from Wellcome Trust, a British charity, the world's second richest medical charity after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as Arch Venture Partners and Venrock. Sapphire's technology was developed collaborations with Scripps Research Institute, UC San Diego, the University of Tulsa and the Energy Department's Joint Genome Project. View - site...

ThumbVMWare Buys Israel's B-hive

Friday May 30, 2008

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is buying Israeli's B-hive Networks for what has been put at several tens of millions of dollars. B-hive monitors an application from the network, measuring the response time between a user action and an application response. Such monitoring watches the application from an end-user point of view instead of a systems management point of view, with emphasis on responsiveness. Index partner and Venrock co-led the $7 million series A investment in B-hive. Index gets in touch to say that the deal is significant for the following reasons: + Along with the recent acquisition of FilesX by IBM, the deal signals that the M&A market remains strong for advanced technologies with a capacity to alter the economics of the data center. + B-hive's technology builds a bridge between virtualization (which enables more compact, greener data centers) and automation (which leads to significant cost reduction and service level improvement). Index continues to travel to Israel for portfolio investments that include Zend, Evolven and Worklight. View - site...

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