Knowledge Networks buys Dimestore Media
Knowledge Networks, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based consulting firm that aids product development, announced that it acquired Dimestore Media, maker of an online survey platform that can question people about ad campaigns across the web. Dimestore supplies surveys before and after people are exposed to display ads to collect data and optimize their performance.
Knowledge Networks, backed by Alloy Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Oak Investment Partners, Maveron and Oak Hill Venture Partners, has raised almost $100 in… Continue Reading
Altius lands $8M to launch accredited online colleges
Altius Education, a company that partners with real junior colleges and universities to run a cost-effective, accredited online degree program, has brought in $8 million in a first round of funding.
Recognizing the need to provide access to areas of study being trimmed from budgets, especially at the community college level, Altius launched Ivy Bridge College in 2007 — with help from Tiffin University in Ohio. The web site gives enrolled students a more affordable route… Continue Reading
Seattle VC firms Maveron and Voyager Capital venture southward
Two Seattle-based VC firms, Maveron and Voyager Capital, have recently brought on new partners to extend their reach to the south.
Maveron, which hit a homerun with an early investment in eBay, but has yet to match that success, has expanded its San Francisco office by making Amy Errett (pictured above) a partner. Errett is the former CEO of lesbian lifestlye and travel company, Olivia, and Maveron recruited her six months into her stint as an… Continue Reading
Can you build a company around text messaging? Mozes says yes, with a big funding
Twitter isn’t the only company trying to build a big business off short messages. For text messages, or SMS, delivered via mobile phone, there’s Mozes, which says it’s ready to take the leading position in a growing marketing and communication business, and now has an $11.5 million funding (unearthed by peHUB ) to back up its claim.
Mozes is based off a simple idea, one that has barely changed since the company took seed funding two… Continue Reading
Online kids’ application Kidzui launches safe search service
Following the acquisitions of Club Penguin for $700 million, there’s been a surge of interest in children’s gaming and social networking sites. Kidzui wants to cash in on the same craze, but rather than pulling kids into a portal of its own, it filters the internet for acceptable content.
Kidzui sells a subscription-based browser that actively filters content for kids ages 3-12 (or older, if you want to keep them in the dark). With the subscription… Continue Reading
Livemocha raises $6M for language learning
Livemocha is a Seattle, Wash. company that offers online instructional content for language education, helping learners of English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Hindi, and German.
The site, which launched in September 2007, operates as an online community, where native speakers of different languages can converse to become better. Standard learning tools are also provided.
Maveron LLC led the $6 million funding, the company’s first.
TerraPass, the company that helps you be carbon neutral, raises $5.8M
We wrote about this funding a couple of weeks ago, but didn’t have the exact funding amount. It was released today, by an SEC filing.
Terrapass lets you be “carbon neutral,” raises cash
(Update: The cash raised was $5.8 million, according to a regulatory filing at the SEC)
Terrapass, a Menlo Park, Calif. company that lets people calculate the greenhouse gas emissions caused by daily activities such as driving, and then pay to offset them, has raised another round of funding.
Despite no prior backing, the company is growing very quickly, now boasting 50,000 adherents. It has become a leader of the movement to go “carbon neutral,” a trend is… Continue Reading
Taleo buys job applicant management company, JobFlash
Taleo, a Dublin, Calif. company that provides software that helps businesses align their workforce to improve peformance, has agreed to acquire the assets of privately-held JobFlash, for $3 million in cash.
JobFlash is based in Fremont, Calif.
Here is the statement:
Founded in 2002, JobFlash enables employers to interact with the broadest pool of job seekers by providing multilingual telephone interactive voice response (IVR) and interview scheduling. With more than 60 customers and over 1,000 hiring locations,… Continue Reading