Accept Software takes $15.4M for product planning tools

Accept Software, maker of product planning and marketing software, has raised $17 million of a targeted $18 million second round of equity, according to a filing with the SEC. The Fremont, Calif. is backed by Jefferson Partners, Entrepreneurs Fund and StarVest Partners.

Accept offers a portfolio of tools for product design and release, including ways to capture ideas from brainstorm sessions, set action items and track progress toward stated goals. When a company has finished product,… Continue Reading

NeoEdge Networks launches casual game channel widgets

NeoEdge Networks launches casual game channel widgets

Major portal web sites get a lot of traffic, but sometimes the visitors don’t stay for long. Video games, on the other hand, are extremely sticky. NeoEdge Networks, a start-up whose chairman is Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, is making it easy to put the two together so that visitors can play games on the big web sites and thereby stay longer.

The Mountain View, Calif., company has a casual game ad network that has been feeding… Continue Reading

NeoEdge Networks, online game advertising company, raises $3M

NeoEdge Networks Inc., a Mountain View, Calif. company that lets online game publishers find sources of advertising targeted to the game’s theme and content, has raised $3 million of a planned $8 million Series B round, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Wire. Return backers include Jefferson Partners and Vimac Ventures.