ViVu raises $3M for interactive video suite
ViVu, provider of a platform for producing and managing webcasts and other interactive videos for enterprises, announced today that it brought in $3 million in a first round of funding led by Inventus Capital Partners, and including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Quest Ventures and well-known entrepreneur Bill Carrico. The Sunnyvale, Calif. company says it plans to use the money to commercialize its video service — which allows users to schedule video events, invite participants, host them… Continue Reading
Video startup Eatlime raises the bar on upload speeds
Eatlime, a video uploading and sharing service, says its application delivers video uploading speeds one hundred times faster than its competitors, including Yousendit, which just raised another round of funding.Eatlime has raised more than $400,000 in its first round of funding, with $300,000 from Tim Draper at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and the rest from Amidzad, Rajeev Motwani, and a trio of ex-googlers: Aydin Senkut, XG ventures, and Georges Harik.
Don’t confuse video uploading technology with… Continue Reading
OpTrip, online travel company, raises $500,000
OpTrip, a Sunnyvale, Calif. online travel information company that is yet to launch, has raised $500,000 in a first round of financing.
We first mentioned the company here.
Investors include Amidzad Partners and Peter Thiel.
Nextbio is latest search engine — for healthcare research community
Nextbio is a new search engine for the biotech-health industry, something you could have seen coming a mile away.
The nation’s multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry is the equal sister to the information technology sector. In IT, you have plenty of niche search engines, such as Koders and Google Code Search. On the healthcare side, you’ve got a bunch of search engines focused on consumers, but few serious sites oriented to the biotech business-research community.
There’s the… Continue Reading
Hum along, and Midomi recognizes your song
Midomi, a new company in Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale), has just launched an impressive musical search service.
If you hum, or sing a song, Midomi will likely recognize what you’re singing. So if you get a song in your head, and you don’t know what it is, go to Midomi. It will show you the most likely results, based on the signatures of songs it has in its database, and lets you go to a store to… Continue Reading
Yahoo acquires online contest site, Bix
Yahoo has acquired Bix, the Palo Alto start-up that lets people compete in online karaoke, hot or not and other contests.
The amount was undisclosed, but this acquisition was fast; Bix launched barely three months ago.
It is the latest sign of focus by Yahoo in its acquisition strategy. Its purchases have slowed to a trickle, but the deals it has completed concern community, user-generated sites (Flickr, del.icio.us, Upcoming.org and Jumpcut), which stands in contrast with… Continue Reading