Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Peermeta

Company Name: Peermeta

Company URL: http://www.peermeta.com/

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Formation Date: 2007

Funding Status: First Round

Investors: Sigma Partners, Kepha Partners

Founders or Execs past companies: Arrowpoint, Airvana, Tatara, Sycamore

Industry: Mobile Applications

Offering Description: Peermeta is leading the charge into a new era of mobile innovation and user experiences. We are changing the way disparate forms of media are personalized, distributed and consumed.

Autovirt

Company Name: Autovirt

Company URL: http://www.autovirt.com/

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Formation Date: 2007

Funding Status: First Round
Investors: Sigma Partners, Kepha Partners

Founders or Execs past companies:

Industry: Storage and Data Center Infrastructure

Offering Descripton: AutoVirt is developing state of the art solutions to the problems of Data Migration and File Server Consolidation.

LocaModa Inc.

Company Name: LocaModa Inc.

Company URL: http://www.locamoda.com/

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Formation Date:

Funding Status: First Round

Investors: Dace Ventures, Sumitomo

Founders or Execs past companies: Symbian, Prodigy International

Industry: Mobile Interactivity

Offering Descripton: LocaModa enables interactivity between mobile phones and out-of-home networks via the web.

Buzzwire

Company Name: Buzzwire

Company URL: http://www.buzzwire.com/fm/home.action

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Formation Date:

Funding Status: First Round

Investors: Spark Capital, Matrix Partners

Founders or Execs past companies: Software.com, Monster

Industry: Mobile Application

Offering Descripton: Your world of streaming internet content.
Audio. Video. Live Radio.
All on your mobile phone, on demand.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Technizzel

Company Name: Technizzel.com

Company URL: www.technizzel.com

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Formation Date: August, 1 2007

Funding Status: Angel

Investors:

Founders or Execs past companies: GreatPoint Energy, Lux Capital, Nantero

Industry: Consumer Web Publisher targetingHigh School Science/Engineering Education

Offering Descripton: Technizzel is an online publication designed to inspire young people
to pursue careers in engineering and advanced technologies. Focusing
on fields such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, and engineering,
Technizzel incorporates age-appropriate explanations and images in
order to attract even the most non-science oriented readers. The word
"Technizzel" represents a combination of two cultures: Technology and
Pop Culture (Thanks, Snoop).

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Assembla

Company Name: Assembla

Company URL: http://www.assembla.com/home

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Formation Date: 2006

Funding Status: Seed Round

Investors: Angel

Founders or Execs past companies: PowerSteering Software, Centerline Software

Industry: Web Infrastructure and SAS dev tools.

Offering Descripton: Assembla provides tools and services for building software with high-velocity global teams.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

TrustPlus

Company Name: TrustPlus

Company URL: http://www.trustplus.com/

Citation URL: http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/06/04/story3.html

Formation Date: Mid 2007
Funding Status: Seed Round

Investors: Brad Feld, Will Herman

Founders or Execs past companies: Genetic Anomalies

Industry: Consumer Web

Offering Descripton: With TrustPlus you can view the reputation of others and build your own reputation anywhere on the Web.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Grazr

Company Name: Grazr

Company URL: http://www.grazr.com/

Citation URL: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/18/grazr-10-blasts-off-into-the-future-of-rss/

Formation Date: mid 2006

Funding Status: $ 1.5 Million Seed Round

Investors: Angels

Founders or Execs past companies: EMC, Andover.net

Industry: Consumer Web , Blogging feed tools

Offering Descripton: Grazr is a free publishing tool for feeds. It lets you quickly and easily display RSS, RDF, Atom, and OPML files on any Web page so they can be viewed by any visitor to the site.

Friday, September 7, 2007

DailyHomeowner.com

Company Name: DailyHomeowner.com

Company URL: http://www.dailyhomeowner.com/

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Formation Date: H2 2006

Funding Status: Bootstrapped

Investors:

Founders or Execs past companies:

Industry: Online Real Estate

Offering Descripton: Search Homes for Sale, Move-in / Move-out Tools, Change Utilities, Helpful Links Local Business Directory & Reviews, Find a Local Real Estate Agent, Local Events, LocalTalk

MyPerfectGig

Company Name: MyPerfectGig

Company URL: parked www.myperfectgig.com

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Formation Date: 2007

Funding Status: First Round

Investors: NorthBridge, CommonWealth Capital

Founders or Execs past companies: BrassRing, DirectoryM, BeFree

Industry: Web Service, Online Jobs

Offering Description: My Perfect Gig’s (MPG) mission is to be the “sourcing intelligence ” company by offering the right mix of market intelligence and quality candidate sourcing. MPG will improve the efficiency and quality of the online recruitment experience for both employers and candidates.

Boston TechCocktail lives up to its name.

500 or so attendees descended on Tequilla Rain for the first Boston TechCocktail. Along with the original founders of TechCocktail Frank Gruber and Eric Olson, which originated in Chicago, many thanks should go to the Boston organizers;

Peter Glyman - Geezeo

Shawn Ward - Geezeo

Jay Meattle - Compete.com

Brian Balfour - ZoomInfo

Top Tier VC's tolerated buzzed out java engineers, mobile technology moguls mingled with facebook widget developers, bloggers scooped some stealth company details and did I mention, the cocktails were plentiful. There might even have been some business done as bootstrapping start up founders took the opportunity to do their elevator pitch to willing listeners.

Anytime the Boston web start up community can get exposure to each other and some of the investor community, good things may happen.

Again congratulations to the organizers for filling a much needed void in bringing the web community together.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Incelligence

Company Name: Incelligence

Company URL: www.incelligence.com

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Formation Date: 2005

Funding Status: Seed

Investors:

Founders or Execs past companies: AMCC, Transwitch, Microsoft, digiCHOICE, Rational

Industry: Mobile/Wireless

Offering Descripton:
Incelligence provides an end-to-end solution for the development and delivery of mobile phone applications that enhance or expand existing revenue/business processes for companies in the Enterprise, mPublishing and mCommerce markets. Our Mobile Application Factory is a highly automated combination of processes and patented technology which enables the conversion, mobilization and distribution of customer content to virtually any Java-enabled mobile phone, in an easy-to-navigate format.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

SNIF Labs

Company Name: SNIF Labs     Social Networking in Fur

Company URL: http://www.sniflabs.com/

Citation URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/business/yourmoney/05novel.html?ex=1343966400&en=a627abfa22e8c410&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Formation Date: 2005

Funding Status: Seed?

Investors:

Founders or Execs past companies: MIT Media Labs

Industry: Consumer Electronics, Consumer Web

Offering Descripton: Snifftag Adding recently-invented motion sensing circuitry and developing proprietary analysis software, the team created a powerful tool that could at once monitor the activities of a pet and provide a social connection among people.