Teachscape buys Edgenuity for teacher accountability software
Teachscape, a consultancy that provides online training to school teachers, has announced its purchase of Edgenuity, maker of software that helps schools craft instruction plans. The San Francisco-based firm plans to use its acquisition’s technology to build a web-based platform for school districts to measure… Continue Reading
JS-Kit nabs SezWho as blog comment services converge
Blog commenting services have been consolidating over the past year, thinning out a once crowded market. Most recently, JS-Kit, maker of blog widgets for polls, ratings and comments, acquired competing commenting company SezWho — which itself absorbed blog semantic search firm Tejit last May. And… Continue Reading
Koofers raises $500K to pass along old exams, study guides
Every high school and college campus has unofficial channels for swapping old exams, opinions about teachers, study guides and grim grade distribution tales. Now online student community Koofers aims to centralize all of this on the web — and it just racked up a $500,000… Continue Reading
JackNyfe takes $3.8M for link social networking
JackNyfe, the developer of an application that lets users rate, search, copy and comment on links on any web site within a social-network framework, has raised $3.8 million in second-round funding from Altos Ventures and undisclosed others, reports peHub. Not much is known about the… Continue Reading
JS-Kit, the widget company for dummies, gets boost
JS-Kit, the Silicon Valley company that makes it easy for bloggers to add comments, polls, product reviews or ratings system to their websites, has gotten a boost when it most needs it.
It has raised $3.6 million in a second round of funding led by Altos… Continue Reading
Trilibis raises $5.7M to support more mobile apps
Phone application publisher Trilibis Mobile announced that it just brought in $5.7 million in second-round funding to enhance its current platform. Altos Ventures led the round, followed by ATA Ventures and several individual contributors.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based company provides a platform called SmartPath that allows… Continue Reading
Demandbase launches lead generation platform with Adobe funding
Here’s an interesting new use of Adobe’s AIR platform for creating hybrid web/desktop applications. With a free AIR app called Demandbase Stream, users can watch in real-time as other businesses visit their websites, then use that info to pursue a sale. The data scrolls across… Continue Reading
Business software company Provade raises $3.3 million
Provade offers web-based software to help businesses better manage goods and services procurements. Its software is based on Oracle’s software platform, and like many startups that make their money from serving Oracle’s clients, it is based in San Mateo, Calif., near Oracle headquarters.
It has raised… Continue Reading
WhiteHat Security secures $7M
WhiteHat Security, a provider of website security services has raised a fourth round of funding.
Claiming to be the only complete solution for website security, the company’s WhiteHat Sentinel service is a subscription-based service that offers control of site vulnerabilities that are customer-controlled and expert-managed.
This new… Continue Reading
CrownPeak raises $6M for web content management
CrownPeak, a startup that offers online software to help companies manage their web content, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding.
This round brings CrownPeak’s total funding to $10.25 million. It was led by SunAmerica Ventures, with backing from existing investors Sigma Partners… Continue Reading
Outspark out to change online game culture
Outspark, a rapidly growing community games publisher with one million users in just five months, is out to change the online game market.
Based in both San Fransisco and Seoul, Korea, Outspark wants to challenge the subscription-based model of Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) games that’s predominant… Continue Reading
Accelovation raises $4M for online software for IT market research
Accelovation, a Mountain View, Calif. maker of online software for researching emerging technology markets, has raised $4 million in a second round of funding.
This is the worst name for a company we’ve heard in a while. It is meant to be a joining of the… Continue Reading
Roundup: Warner CEO changes online music stance, engineers become scarcer, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) Warner CEO praises Apple, DRM-free music
2) VMWare is after your engineer blood
3) Berners-Lee warns of walled gardens
4) Microsoft completes $47M acquisition
5) Another VC speaks in favor of taxing himself
6) Joost rolls out new ads
7) Billeo raises $7M for easy payment
Warner Music… Continue Reading
Data protection company Guardian Edge raises $13.5M
GuardianEdge, a San Francisco company offering data protection software for large businesses, has raised $13.5 million in a second round of funding. The investment was led by Cargill Ventures, and first announced in May.
The company says its software is used to ensure compliance with consumer… Continue Reading
Outspark raises $4M to bring Korean games to U.S.
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Outspark, a company with offices in Seoul, Korea and San Francisco that hopes to help publish Asian multiplayer online games in English, said it has raised a $4 million first round of financing from Altos Ventures and Doll Capital Management (DCM).
Outspark hopes to distinguish… Continue Reading
Consumer product manufacturing software co., DemandTec, buys deal management co., Tradepoint
DemandTec, a San Carlos maker of software for retailers and consumer products manufacturers, said it has acquired TradePoint Solutions, of Pleasanton, which makes deal management software linking manufacturers, sales agencies and retailers.
The TradePoint software application will now be marketed as DemandTec TradePoint.
DemandTec raised around… Continue Reading