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… 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… 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… 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,… 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… Continue Reading