Deal Radar 2008: Regent , Frederick,Marryland

Deal Radar continues to focus on education with a discussion of Regent, an on-demand, SaaS provider of financial aid management solutions that make it easier for institutions to be current and compliant with the latest federal and state regulations and updates. Regent’s goal is to offer tools to automate and manage every aspect of the financial aid life cycle, and a system that enables institutions to standardize and centralize management of financial aid, increase productivity, ensure compliance and control costs. >>>

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Deal Radar 2008: WiZiQ

I spoke at length this morning at my INSEAD Global Entrepreneurship Forum talk about entrepreneurial opportunities in the educational technology space. Today’s Deal Radar post focuses on WiZiQ, an online tutoring technology startup that offers a learning center and an online collaboration tool for teachers and students for a wide range of subjects and grades. The company was founded in 2002 by Harman Singh and Harbir Khurana, who have been involved in e-learning through authorGEN Technologies. They have been creating software tools that help educators teach over the Internet and decided to offer their technologies as a SaaS platform in a bid to grow. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Carbonetworks

Carbonetworks helps companies develop effective carbon strategies by providing a software platform to find solutions to reduce costs and monitor energy usage. The software monetizes a client’s carbon inventory and provides a clear view of whether carbon represents a financial asset or liability to the company in the future, given its planned investments and business decisions. Once a company knows what it has, how much it’s worth and what its carbon inventory means to its future financial situation, Carbonetworks links the company to all of the reductions available in the market, including offsets, credits and energy reductions consulting.  >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Creative Water Solutions

Palm, corn and sugarcane may be getting a lot of headlines in the mainstream media as the world seeks alternates to fossil fuels, but as my interview with Glen Kertz shows, a huge variety of plant species can be used in Cleantech solutions. Today’s Deal Radar post discusses another use of plants in cleantech. Creative Water Solutions (CWS) uses sphagnum moss as a natural agent to condition, clean and clarify the water of swimming pools, spas and hot tubs. The company has two products available on the market – SpaNaturally and PoolNaturally, both of which are completely ‘green’ products, the first of their kind in this industry. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: PermissionTV

Today’s Deal Radar focuses on PermissionTV (PTV), a provider of white-label video platforms. The company announced a strategic reseller and integration partnership with Move Networks, a leading provider of Internet television services, last week. Under the deal, the two companies will be reselling an integrated online video platform to create and deploy interactive, HD-quality video applications. The deal is aimed at broadening the distribution channel for both Move Networks and PTV and helping the companies become market leaders. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: NewsGator

NewsGator provides individuals and businesses with a way to communicate internally and externally via RSS aggregators for users on the web, desktops, mobile devices and email clients. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company was created to give consumers a way to use content being produced through the proliferation of weblogs, which often use RSS feeds to distribute new posts. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: SunRun

Today’s Deal Radar spotlight shines on California-based SunRun, a company whose aim is to make solar power an affordable reality for homeowners. Founded in January 2007, the company is the brainchild of Nat Kreamer, a longtime solar enthusiast. He had the idea for SunRun while working for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office and the California Department of Water Resources. Kreamer and his two co-founders, Edward Fenster and Lynn Jurich, founded SunRun to help families buy solar power more easily and make it more affordable for them long term. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Archer Technologies

Archer Technologies provides enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions through the Archer SmartSuite Framework. Made up of eight core products that customers use to build applications to automate their business processes, the SmartSuite is a platform for building on-demand applications and packaging them into solutions to solve business problems. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Zyrion

Continuing the trend of technology democratization, Zyrion provides mid-market enterprises with business service management (BSM) and IT infrastructure monitoring software. Their flagship BSM product, Traverse, is based on technology that is being used by large enterprises worldwide. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: ExpertCEO

ExpertCEO provides its members with an online platform to connect with peers, discuss ideas, give and receive advice and tap into professional resources. Members include CEOs, COOs, chairmen/women, general managers, presidents and other senior executives in small and mid-sized as well as Fortune 500, public or privately held companies. The company can be considered a combination of CEO membership organizations and social networks. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Wigix

eBay’s vulnerability, it seems, is drawing attention. In this installment of the Deal Radar, we look at a company that is trying to hit eBay where it hurts! >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Mobixell

The user experience on mobile devices is fast becoming a “rich media” phenomenon, with video, graphics, advertising, and interactivity. In this edition of the Deal Radar, we look at a company that aims to optimize the mobile rich media user experience. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Passenger

Passenger provides an on-demand platform for companies to collaborate with their customers. The company was founded in 2005 when social networking, web forums and chat rooms had started becoming a common way for consumers, especially younger consumers, to provide feedback (solicited or otherwise) on products. Passenger’s co-founders, Andrew Leary and Justin Cooper, realized that companies were struggling to capitalize on their knowledge about consumers. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: BlogHer

Founded in 2005, BlogHer is the leading women’s blogging community and ad network. Elisa Camahort Page, Jory des Jardins, and Lisa Stone joined hands to launch a company which aimed at popularizing blogs written by women. The site offers women an opportunity to get their voices heard and for those who opt for the ad network, a chance to earn income. The company’s website says that it doesn’t seek to “serve women” but rather creates opportunities for women to help themselves. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Baynote

I have written a few pieces on recommendation systems that help sites personalize their offerings. As you know, my thesis on Web 3.0 heavily centers around personalization. In this installment of the Deal Radar, we will be looking at yet another recommendation technology company. >>>