Former Adobe CEO, Chizen, joins Voyager Capital
Voyager Capital has brought Bruce Chizen, former chief executive officer of Adobe Systems, on board as a venture partner. A long-time member of the Menlo Park, Calif. firm’s advisory board, he will be focusing his efforts on digital media and software opportunities.
Chizen is a prestigious figure in Silicon Valley, having turned Adobe from just another software company into the choice for default design and drafting software it is today. During his tenure, he tripled the… Continue Reading
Fora.tv tacks on $2M to stir public debate with web video
Fora.tv, an online video site that some have called the “C-Span of the Web,” added $2 million more to a $4 million first round of funding announced in May, reports VentureWire. Before this, it received $2 million in seed funding from Adobe Systems, individual investor Will Hearst and others. The contributor of the recent funds has not been disclosed.
Founded two years ago, the San Francisco-based company offers videos of conferences and symposiums produced by C-Span,… Continue Reading
IntroNetworks, lets you know more about employees, customers
Santa Barbara-based IntroNetworks has raised $2.7 million in a first round of capital to develop a social-networking service for companies and events.
There are a ton of these business-oriented social networks, from Visible Path, to Five Across and Facebook’s corporate offering — along with blogging and wiki software, all making headway in replacing or supplementing existing intranet directories that most big companies already have.
Chief exec Mark Sylvester says about 500,000 people have used the service,… Continue Reading
Bunchball raises $2M for interactive “flash” games
Bunchball, a Redwood City start-up that lets people create Flash-based interactive games for multiple players, and then insert them in blogs and other Web sites, has raised around $2 million in in a first round of funding.
Backers included Adobe Systems, which makes the Flash technology for these games and Granite Ventures, an SF venture firm that has been affiliated with Adobe in the past.
Bunchball was founded by Rajat Paharia and Sunil Singh. There’s more… Continue Reading
Adobe acquires Serious Magic to push Flash video
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San Jose’s Adobe Systems said it has acquired Serious Magic, maker of video software and communications tools.
Serious Magic is a privately held Folsom, Calif.-based company which sells products like DV Rack, which Adobe said allows “direct-to-disk” recording and monitoring into the field, and Visual Communicator and Vlog It, which extends video communication to general business users and casual bloggers.
Serious Magic’s chief executive, Mark Randall, a twenty-year video industry veteran, will join Adobe as chief… Continue Reading