SlideRocket beefs up slide shows for sales and marketing teams
SlideRocket, maker of a web application that allows groups to collaborate on multimedia presentations and slide shows, launched a new sales and marketing version of its platform today.
The San Francisco-based company says this new offering is tailored for companies with extensive sales and marketing organizations… Continue Reading
SlideRocket surges ahead with $5M for presentation collaboration
SlideRocket, maker of an application that allows multiple individuals to collaborate on media-rich presentations, has brought in $5 million in a second round of funding to continue developing the platform and to expand its headcount.
Based in San Francisco, the company says its product breaks through… Continue Reading
Aria Systems raises $10M more for online billing
Aria Systems, perhaps the first company to offer billing and subscription management through a software-as-a-service business model (i.e., online subscriptions), has raised a $10 million second round.
The Media, Pa.-based company has been around since 2003, but interest in online billing software seems to have taken… Continue Reading
Evostor packs away $5M for storage software
Evostor, a Los Gatos, Calif. provider of storage software, nabbed $5 million in a first-round of funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Starfish Ventures and the Southern Cross Group, reports PEHub. Very little information is available on the startup. So far, it offers only spotty… Continue Reading
InMage gets $15M for enterprise data backup
InMage Systems, a data backup and recovery company that serves small and large enterprises, has raised $15 million in a round led by Intel Capital.
DR-Scout is the company’s main product. It allows continuing access to data during “critical” events and provides both regular backup and… Continue Reading
Cloud company Elastra gets $12M from Amazon
Elastra, a company that helps manage applications in the Internet cloud, has raised $12 million in new funding.
This is Elastra’s second venture round, and it was led by Bay Partners, with Amazon.com and existing investor Hummer Winblad Venture Partners also participating. Amazon’s backing is particularly… Continue Reading
Price-setting company SignalDemand gets $20M
SignalDemand, a startup that delivers software-as-a-service to help manufacturers set their prices, has raised a hefty $20 million second round of funding.
Chief executive Michael Neal says the money will go toward international expansion and to continue SignalDemand’s “march across verticals.” The company focuses on “disassembly”… Continue Reading
WaveMaker Software raises $4.5M for web development tools
Wavemaker Software, which offers open source visual tools for web development, has raised $4.5 million in a new round of venture funding. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Worldview Technology Partners and Sippl Investments all participated.
The San Francisco startup has created an Ajax development platform based on… Continue Reading
Roundup: Giving up on the “mobile web,” cleantech gets crunched, and more
Here’s the latest action:
Mobile enthusiast gives up on “mobile web” – Russell Beattie, a Silicon Valley developer and mobile enthusiast who spent two years working at Yahoo Mobile before launching a start-up called Mowser, has given up on the mobile sector. He writes: “The general… Continue Reading
BSG Alliance raises $50 million to expand next-generation business building operations
BSG Alliance, a company that helps other businesses ready themselves for the future has secured a new round of private funding to accelerate growth.
By way of both people and software, BSG Alliance provides its clients with the tools needed to compete in so-called “next-generation” enterprises…. Continue Reading
Five9 takes $12M for on-demand call centers
Instead of maintaining permanent call centers, some companies prefer to outsource their work to outside companies like Five9, which offers a “virtual call center” that allows companies to tap into its services whenever necessary.
There’s plenty of competition in this area, including Transera, which upped its… Continue Reading
Will Price named Widgetbox’s new CEO
Create-your-own widget company Widgetbox has named Will Price as its chief executive. Price was previously a managing director at Widgetbox investor Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
Price has also served as the chief executive for several software startups. He’s replacing Michael Dearing, who was interim CEO during… Continue Reading
Ad optimizer YieldBuild raises $6 million — this area is getting competitive
YieldBuild offers software that lets a web publisher optimize text advertisement placement and formatting, so the ads will receive the maximum number of click-throughs. In other words, it helps publishers make more money.
Optimizing text ads without this type of software typically involves a lot of… Continue Reading
Star Analytics, data integration company, raises $3.5M
Star Analytics, a Palo Alto, Calif. company that provides software to large businesses to help them integrate date for business analysis and financial reporting, said it has raised $3.5 million in a first round of venture capital financing.
The round was co-led by Hummer Winblad Venture… Continue Reading
InMage, data protection software company, raises $10M
InMage Systems, a provider of data protection software for medium and large enterprises, has raised a $10 million second round of funding.
The round was led by existing investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and an unnamed “strategic corporate partner,” Kumar Malavalli, chairman of InMage told Byte… Continue Reading
Yahoo buys sports network, Rivals.com
Yahoo is expected to announce tomorrow that it has agreed to acquire Rivals.com, an Web site focused on college and high school basketball, football and baseball.
The property, priced by unconfirmed reports at about $100 million, will be wrapped into Yahoo Sports, where it competes with… Continue Reading
MuleSource, open-source integration company, raises $12.5M
Right on the heels of SnapLogic’s announcement of its first round of funding, San Francisco-based MuleSource, another open-source integration technology, says it has just closed $12.5 million in its second round of financing
The investments confirm growing momentum of open-source software in the vast multi-billion dollar… Continue Reading
Baynote raises $10.75M for corporate Web site search
BayNote, Cupertino, Calif. company that tracks the surfing patterns of users of corporate Web sites, in order to make a site easier to navigate, has raised more cash.
It has gotten $10.75 million in a second round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by… Continue Reading
Move Networks, yet another video delivery company, raises $11.3M
Move Networks, another video content delivery company, based in American Fork, Utah, has raised $11.3 million in venture capital from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Steamboat Ventures.
Founder is Drew Major, who previously founded Novell, and Arroyo, which sold to Cisco last year for $92 million.
Move… Continue Reading
Replay, a co. that fixes software bugs, raises around $4.2M
Replay Solutions, a Redwood City provider of technology that tests software for bugs, said it has raised around $4.2 million in a first round of financing.
Here is the company’s statement.
The round was led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Partech International. Replay Solutions’ technology was… Continue Reading