Demand response co. EnerNoc lands $100M contract
EnerNoc (ENOC.O), one of the growing number of companies focused on demand response — the management and redistribution of power based on real-time changes in demand — has landed a contract with PJM Interconnection, an electricity transmission company in the mid-Atlantic region, to manage 1,000 megawatts worth upwards of $100 million.
The year-long contact, 2012 to 2013, will give EnerNoc an unprecedented boost, providing roughly the same sum that came from all of its contracts combined… Continue Reading
Fantasy sports developer RotoHog bags $2M
Online fantasy sports game developer RotoHog announced that it’s brought in $2 million in a second round of capital. It plans to use the funds to expand its partnerships with brand sponsors and look at opportunities overseas.
Instead of offering basic fantasy sports competition, RotoHog builds custom sports games — including many for particular brands. In the past, it has developed branded products for NBA.com, Turner, LG Electronics, the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour and GoDaddy.com,… Continue Reading
Eye-Fi raises round for wireless photo uploading cards
Uploading photos to web sharing sites — as fast as you can take pictures — is kind of a new obssession for the digerati. Eye-Fi is riding that wave with memory cards that have built-in Wi-Fi antennae that can upload photos to photo-sharing sites.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. The lead investors include Translink Capital and LMS Capital. Existing investors Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures also… Continue Reading
PublicEarth raises $3M for GPS data directory
PublicEarth seems to be a little different from the various other GPS and location-based startups currently swarming the scene, although the company is currently in stealth.
According to an article from CommerceNet, written over a year ago, the company is building a directory of data for locations around the world. More from the article:
PublicEarth will create a database of relevant and concise, constantly updated content, created and managed by users, for users — content attached through… Continue Reading
Songbird, a browser-integrated media player, received $8M last year
Although we reported in October 2006 that Songbird had taken $1 million from Atlas Ventures and Sequoia Capital, it apparently only took another two months for the company to land another $8 million.
The funding in December 2006 came from the same two funds, according to TechCrunch. It remained unreported, until now.
Songbird works within Mozilla Firefox as an open platform that developers can use to integrate a customized media player into their own website. By working… Continue Reading
Trilogy Studios, a video and virtual game co., raises $3.2M
Trilogy Studios, a Santa Monica, Calif. videogame and virtual world development company, said it has raised $3.2 million in a second round of funding.
The company did not name the investors, but said the funds will be allocated to expand the company’s virtual world and casual massively multiplayer online (MMO) businesses.
The company joins a crowd of other venture-backed game and virtual world companies, and its not clear what makes this company distinct.
Here’s a snippet from… Continue Reading