categories
HOT TOPICS
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
Deal Radar
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: FertilityAuthority, New York City
FertilityAuthority is a fertility-focused digital media company whose platforms include FertilityAuthority.com; FertileThoughts.com, the world’s largest fertility social media site; and TopFertilityDocs.com, connecting qualified patients directly to fertility specialists. It also has a premium business services unit that offers Web development and online marketing for fertility service providers. >>>
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: MangoSpring, Bellevue, WA
MangoSpring, with its philosophy of “social collaboration with a purpose,” makes business collaboration and productivity applications that are offered à la carte or as a suite. It is one of several smaller players in collaboration software to challenge the larger Salesforce.com and Cisco. >>>
The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Aprigo ,Waltham, Massachusetts
Aprigo provides data governance and management, storage capacity management, and e-discovery technology solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. The company’s flagship technology, Aprigo NINJA, is available as a freemium solution and as a subscription-based pro version. It’s designed to help organizations gain instant visibility into unstructured data and through its actionable data dashboards so that IT managers can reduce storage costs and control access to sensitive data. >>>
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Lingotek, Draper, Utah
Even as companies large and small become more global in ambition and scope, language barriers remain a fact of doing business across borders. Language translation is one of those costs that most people don’t automatically think of when they’re looking at a balance sheet. But for big organizations, translating hundreds of thousands of words into another language can be a significant expense. The average translator charges 21 cents a word. This paragraph alone would cost $17.85 to translate. Lingotek makes software that aims to disrupt the traditional translation model. The company has developed an Internet-based translation platform to give clients more control over the translation process while cutting the average cost of translation by more than half. >>>
The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Plimus ,Fremont, California
Deal Radar continues its comprehensive coverage of e-commerce solutions with Plimus, a hosted e-business platform that clients use to market, sell, and distribute digital goods online. It comprises a hosted e-commerce application, which the company believes is particularly suited to enabling independent companies to quickly get their products and services available for purchase online across the globe; and a newly launched e-commerce application programming interface API (Buy Anyware) that enables clients to embed e-commerce into any Internet-connected application, eliminating the need for a virtual storefront. >>>
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Kapow Technologies, Palo Alto, California
Kapow Technologies provides Web data services to more than 400 enterprises, including AT&T, Walt Disney, Morgan Stanley, Intel, Vodafone, and Audi. These companies use Kapow’s Web data server to automate their access to and integration with any data that can be viewed in a browser or virtually any Web application. This includes social media data on the public Web, private data inside the firewall, or partner data within a collaboration portal. The goal is to eliminate the barriers to accessing and integrating these data sources with their critical information applications, enabling companies to benefit from access to real-time, actionable business intelligence. >>>
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Music Wizard, Boulder, Colorado
Music Wizard Group is a software company that creates, develops, and produces music video games that use real music on real instruments. Its flagship product, Piano Wizard, has been developed into a full-blown music-education-in-a-box product known as Piano Wizard Academy. >>>
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: appssavvy, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles
appsavvy is a data-driven platform and direct sales and marketing services team that helps companies to monetize social activity across the Web through organic social marketing campaigns. Its sales team represents social media applications on Facebook, MySpace, Google, the iPhone, and emerging platforms and connects the developers of these applications with major brand advertisers. >>>