Launchpad: G.ho.st, Realius, Cleverset and more
[Update: The crowd has voted: Cleverset wins best in show. G.ho.st wins most creative idea. Spiceworks mostly likely to exit first.]
Here are the companies presenting at today’s Launchpad event at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco: G.ho.st, Realius, Cleverset, Click Forensics, TripIt and Spiceworks.
The first three are new to VentureBeat, although two of those have been around for a while. We’ll update this post as we learn more about them. For now, here’s a… Continue Reading
Click Forensics raises $5M for prevention of online click-fraud
Updated
Click Forensics, of San Antonio, Texas, a company that reports on online click-fraud, has raised $5 million in a first round of financing.
The round was led by Austin Ventures with participation from Silicon Valley’s Shasta Ventures.
Click-fraud is when someone clicks on an online page or advertisement purposefully to inflate revenue for the publisher of the site hosting the advertisement, or to make the advertiser pay more than they otherwise would have.
The area has drawn… Continue Reading