Portfolio News Archive

Zenprise: Zenprise Named 2008 Editor's Best Award Winner By Windows It Pro Magazine; PRWeb; date: 08.04.2008; Zenprise announced today that Zenprise for BlackBerry® was named a gold medal winner of the "2008 Editor's Best Awards" in the Mobile and Wireless category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro magazine.

Mochi Media: Casual Games, Hard Money; Forbes.com; date: 07.22.2008; Eric Smith went to summer camp a few years ago, learned to code and in October started creating Web games that have so far earned him $10,000. The key to the 15-year-old's success has been a sweet game he called "Flash Empires" and a hefty dose of advertisements served up in part by Mochi Media, the casual gaming industry's emerging broker of advertising.

Response Logix: ResponseLogix(TM) Closes $8 Million in New Funding; Forbes.com; date: 07.22.2008; ResponseLogix, Inc. announced today the close of an $8 million Series A round of financing, led by GRP Partners and Shasta Ventures with support from A. H. Belo Corporation and the Belo Corp.

Response Logix: Belo Corp. Invests in ResponseLogix(TM); PR Newswire; date: 07.22.2008; Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) announced today that it has made a minority equity investment in ResponseLogix, Inc. and entered into a multi-year agreement to resell the ResponseLogix Internet-based lead management system to its automotive advertisers.

Lithium Technologies: Lithium scores money to grow corporate social networks; VentureBeat; date: 06.30.2008; Lithium Technologies, which builds and operates social networks for enterprises, has raised $12 million in venture capital today.

Eye-Fi: When Your Camera Knows Where You Are; The New York Times; date: 06.26.2008; You know how your digital camera gives every photo an invisible time and date stamp? Well, the Eye-Fi Explore ($130) card invisibly stamps every photo with where you took it. That's right: photo geotagging has finally come to a camera near you.

Flock: Review: Strong, innovative Web browsers emerge; Associated Press; date: 06.25.2008; “Though Flock is the least known of the alternatives, it is the strongest of the browsers I tested, smartly adapting to how people increasingly use the Internet for generating and sharing content. “

Doostang: Social Networking on Wall Street; New York Times; date: 06.20.2008; For workers on Wall Street — or those that aspire to be — a site called Doostang has built up considerable cachet, which might make it appealing to investors.

Zenprise: Zenprise's Blackberry Monitoring Solution Named A Winner in the 8th Annual eWEEK Excellence Awards Program; Zenprise; date: 06.10.2008; Zenprise announced today that eWEEK, the industry leader for strategic technology information, has named Zenprise for BlackBerry the winner in eWEEK’s 8th annual Excellence Awards program in the Mobile and Wireless category.

Apptio: Apptio Emerges From Stealth to Give Enterprises Worldwide More Visibility Into the Costs of IT; Apptio; date: 06.09.2008; Apptio, the pioneer of on-demand IT Cost Transparency solutions, made its official debut today.

Clickability: Clickability Wins 2008 CODiE Award for Best Content Management Solution; PR Newswire; date: 05.22.2008; Clickability, Inc., the global leader in on demand Web Content Management (WCM), today announced that it was awarded Best Content Management Solution by the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) at the 23rd Annual CODiE Awards Gala in San Francisco, California.

Mint: Making a Mint; Forbes Magazine; date: 05.05.2008; Mint is a gold mine for those looking to take the tedium out of budgeting.

Mint: Tracking Your Money Without Paying a Mint; The Wall Street Journal; date: 04.30.2008; Free Web Service Follows Accounts And Spending

Right90: Right90 Named to JMP Securities' Hot 100; Reuters; date: 04.30.2008; Right90, the leading provider of sales forecasting and performance management software, has been included in the JMP Securities March 2008 report, "Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies."

Spiceworks: Gartner Names Spiceworks One of Six 2008 ''Cool Vendors in IT Operations''; Business Wire; date: 04.10.2008; Spiceworks(TM), Inc., the provider of the industry's first free ad-supported IT management software, today announced it was named a 2008 "Cool Vendor in IT Operations" by Gartner, Inc., a leading information technology research and advisory company.

Flock: In Browsers, Flock may lead the Flock; BusinessWeek; date: 04.08.2008; The new service still has hurdles to overcome, but after two weeks this reviewer is already a convert.

SayNow: Dialing it up with SayNow; Billboard; date: 04.04.2008; SayNow Helps Stars And Devotees Keep In Touch

Arch Rock: Arch Rock Builds Internet Protocol Links Into Wireless Sensors; Information Week; date: 03.31.2008; Wireless sensor vendor Arch Rock has Internet Protocol-enabled its end points to eliminate the need for a separate router with each sensor and to enable wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to interact more richly with enterprise systems and applications.

PopJax: Heading For The Web, Game Shows In His Blood; BusinessWeek; date: 03.30.2008; Quick—name two of the fastest-growing categories of Web sites. Answer: user-generated content and online gaming. Now a gameshow industry veteran, Doug Barry, has wedded the two.

Lithium Technologies: Lithium Technologies Wins 2008 WizKids Award; Business Wire; date: 03.27.2008; Lithium Technologies today announced its selection as a recipient of the 2008 WizKids Award, presented by Beagle Research Group, LLC. The award is presented annually to a select group of emerging companies that provide business solutions designed to advance new or improved business processes. Lithium was the only community provider selected.

UpTake: Kango Announces Name Change to UpTake; Marketwire; date: 03.26.2008; Kango, a travel search and discovery application, announced today that it has changed its name to UpTake. "'UpTake' refers to a quick understanding of key facts. We believe the new name, UpTake, describes our core offering -- the aggregation and analysis of collective wisdom such as reviews, blogs and articles from across the Web to help consumers plan their trips," said Yen Lee, UpTake president and founder.

Right90: Right90 Named 'Cool Vendor' by Leading Analyst Firm; PR Newswire; date: 03.25.2008; Right90, the leading provider of sales forecast performance management tools, has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in Consumer Goods, 2008" report published on March 17, 2008 and authored by Gartner analysts Peter Bambridge, Dan Miklovic and Dale Hagemeyer.

TeeBeeDee: The 10 Best Sites for Baby Boomers; PC Magazine; date: 03.24.2008; These online resources cater specifically to the 50-and-up crowd, with attractions like social networking, jobs after retirement, health tips, and more.

Click Forensics: Click Forensics Expands Management Team with Appointment of Paul Pellman as CEO; Yahoo Finance; date: 03.21.2008; AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Click Forensics™, Inc., the leading provider of traffic quality management solutions, today announced the appointment of Paul Pellman to the position of CEO. Following the company’s recently closed $10 million Series B funding round, the addition of Mr. Pellman is part of its strategy to support growing demand for the Click Forensics traffic quality and click fraud monitoring solutions.

PopJax: PopJax Gives Game Shows a Web Spin; San Francisco Chronicle; date: 03.14.2008; Barry's father was Jack Barry, the famous host and producer of "21," "The Joker's Wild" and other game shows from TV's golden age. Doug Barry is carrying on the family business with a 21st century twist, launching Popjax.com, a trivia-oriented Web site that features video clips as questions and cash prizes.

Click Forensics: Click Forensics tracks down $10 million in funding; CNET; date: 03.12.2008; Click fraud is the search industry's dirty little secret--one that Google and Yahoo like to keep mum about. But a company that tracks the rates at which people, or bots, fraudulently click on paid search links just got a financial boost to work a little harder on its beat.

Mint: Personal finance site nabs $12 million from Benchmark; CNET; date: 03.05.2008; Mint, a personal finance site akin to Quicken, said Wednesday that it raised $12 million in a series "B" round of financing led by Benchmark Capital, the venerable VC behind eBay and Amazon.com.

Turn: Start-up Turn offers automated online ad market; CNET; date: 03.03.2008; A Redwood City, Calif. start-up called Turn is launching on Monday a beta of what it says is the first fully automated market for online advertising.

Zenprise: Zenprise on BlackBerry Outage; TMCnet; date: 02.12.2008; With so many BlackBerry users wondering what caused yesterday's network outage, and whether it will happen again, TMCnet took some time to speak with Zenprise, a provider of automated troubleshooting software, for a closer look.

Eye-Fi: Eye-Fi keeps on rolling; Macworld; date: 01.31.2008; Eye-Fi, the company that makes the 2GB SD card with wireless access built-in, continues to build momentum in the market.

Tumri: Google Mafia Update: AdSense's Gokul Rajaram Joins Tumri Board; TechCrunch; date: 01.28.2008; Ever since Google options finished vesting, people have been wondering what will become of the Googlers after they take their money and jump into something new. Google’s former Product Management Director for AdSense, Gokul Rajaram has decided to take a position on the board of Tumri, a display advertising startup that delivers dynamically targeted ads.

Mint: Got cash?; FORTUNE; date: 01.25.2008; The one getting the most buzz is Mint.com; it was named startup of the year at a tech conference last fall. Mint has picked up 100,000 members in less than six months.

Spiceworks: The Man Behind Ad-Supported Software; Information Week; date: 12.15.2007; Spiceworks was founded on the idea that network administrators would embrace easy-to-use management tools. Giving those tools away was an afterthought, but one that has forced people to rethink long-held assumptions about software distribution and licensing.

Mint: A MapQuest for Our Money; New York Times; date: 11.22.2007; I signed up at the personal-finance site Mint.com, which promised to organize our accounts to show me on a single Web site exactly where my money goes.

Eye-Fi: No Excuses: a Wire-Free Way to Upload Photos; Wall Street Journal - The Mossberg Solution; date: 11.21.2007; I thought this thing was too good to be true and set out to find its flaws. But after using it with two digital cameras (one brand new and the other over three years old), three different computers (each with different operating systems) and five photo-sharing sites, I'm convinced that the Eye-Fi is a terrific little tool.

Mint: Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; TechCrunch; date: 09.18.2007; Jason Calacanis just announced that Mint was chosen as the best presenting company at TechCrunch40.

Tumri: The Next Small Thing; Business Week; date: 07.23.2007; There's a land grab under way in Silicon Valley. Not in real land, but on the Web. What's fueling the frenzy is something that couldn't sound more prosaic: widgets. Any little guy with a Web page can sign up for the Tumri widget stores and pick which product categories to advertise or sell on their site.

Click Forensics: Click Fraud Goes Viral; Forbes; date: 07.19.2007; As the Web giant gets fatter, so do its parasites. The percentage of clicks on online ads that were fraudulent climbed to 15.8% in the second quarter of 2007, an increase of a full percentage point in just three months.

Logoworks: HP buys into SaaS with LogoWorks acquisition; ZDNet; date: 04.25.2007; The HP-Logoworks marriage will undoubtedly be fruitful, it follows a two year courtship.

Logoworks: HP to buy LogoWorks; Reuters; date: 04.24.2007; HP said its acquisition of Logoworks' technology and services would give the computer and printer maker an opportunity to offer small businesses access to professional design solutions at a fraction of market cost.