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Agilyx Alchemists Turn Plastic Into Black Gold April 04, 2011 
Plastics make our lives convenient, but they're the gift that keeps on taking -- they pollute the environment, and they're often difficult to get rid of in an ecologically sound way. Plastics don't break down readily, which is why they're such a nuisance. Worse yet, some of them contain chemicals that give off noxious fumes in a fire.
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Tech Titans Ally With White House on Innovation Effort February 01, 2011 
AOL cofounder Steve Case is teaming up with the Obama White House and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to launch Startup America, a partnership to "foster innovative high-growth firms in the United States," said Kauffman representative Benjamin Branham. It "is designed to marshal more resources from private sector partners that in turn will be steered directly to startups and entrepreneurs."
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Whamcloud to Put New Sheen on Lustre August 24, 2010 
The founders of Lustre software technology company Whamcloud opened for business in June with a lot of potential and years of experience working with high-performance computing. What they lacked from their first day was any signed contracts. Whamcloud Cofounder and CEO Brent Gorda still is waiting to sign the dotted line with his company's first customer.
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The Subscription Prescription: Q&A With Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo July 14, 2010 
Zuora, a provider of on-demand subscription billing and payment services, was cofounded in March 2008 jointly by Tien Tzuo, who serves as its CEO; Cheng Zou and K.V. Rao. It received $6.5 million in Series A funding later that month and $15 million in Series B funding in October of 2008. It has been profitable since.
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Analytics 'R' Us June 11, 2010 
A growing recognition of the business benefits predictive analysis provides is positioning newcomer Revolution Analytics into a key role to help adopters of the R programing language migrate from legacy offerings. Until a recent funding infusion and a refocus of marketing goals, the startup did business under the name "Revolution Computing."
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Vidyo Digs a New Channel in Crowded Teleconferencing Market May 20, 2010 
Fast and cost-friendly video conferencing could son become as commonplace as cellphones at home and at work, and the firm Vidyo hopes to cash in on the trend with a new, specially designed architecture. The New Jersey-based startup recently took the wraps off an HD-quality personal telepresence it designed to take high-def video conferencing into the range of pennies per minute.
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Go800: You Text Us, We'll Call You May 07, 2010 
As business offerings go, Go800's plan is simple: It gives mobile consumers a quick keyword connection to a call-back from vendors. The vendor's ad lists an easy-to-remember keyword, a ready-to-buy viewer texts that keyword to Go800, and a moment later the viewer's phone rings with a call from the vendor.
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Urban Airship's Flight Plan: Push Out Info, Pull In Revenue March 09, 2010 
Given the growing popularity of mobile devices and the great many applications to go with them, you would think that this new niche had plenty of room for newcomers. Many of those newcomers, though, will find it difficult to capture a great deal of consumer attention. Places like the Android Market and the Apple App Store are popular and growing fast, but they're awash in apps that struggle to stand out from the crowd.
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MashLogic: Links Done Your Way January 27, 2010 
In the world of venture capital fund-raising, the would-be entrepreneur is usually the party who goes looking for acceptance. However, that's not the way MashLogic got funded. Instead, several partners at Bessemer Venture Partners sought out Ranjit Padmanabhan with seed money and the cofounder title to start up MashLogic in late 2007.
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VigLink Aims to Turn Hyperlinks Into Gold January 12, 2010 
A startup developer of technology that helps publishers better connect sales with affiliate marketers has closed on seed funding from First Round Capital, Google Ventures, and such individual investors as LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. The financing for the company, VigLink, will be used to take the product out of beta and into the general market within the next few months.
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nPower Makes Battery Charging a Walk in the Park January 05, 2010 
Tremont Electric may very well be traveling along the same path once crossed by the Little Engine That Could. The two-year-old startup is headed where several other power generation companies want to go but have yet to get off the research and
development tracks. If the inventor and developer of the nPower PEG, Aaron LeMieux, stays on schedule, consumers may find his product on store shelves by next Spring.
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ParAccel's Bid to Build a Better Data Cruncher December 30, 2009 
Data mining is becoming a crowded field filled with software providers using similar strategies. Their basic goal is always the same. The analytics platforms are designed to slice and dice data to make sales trends and buying opportunities more evident. The firms that can deliver this product more accurately and more rapidly grow their reputations and entice new customers from lesser-producing competitors.
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For Digital Marketing Startup Edo, Success Is in the Facecards September 23, 2009 
If you ask Edo Interactive CEO Ed Braswell the classic Facebook status update question -- "What are you doing?" -- he's liable to answer that he's providing a new spending avenue for consumers, along with a mother lode of digital marketing information for retailers.
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SesameVault Opens Online Video Channel for SMBs September 09, 2009 
It is rather challenging to hit a moving target when it keeps changing directions. That's a bit like how Cameron Brain, CEO of Open Box Technologies, felt when he set his sights on a particular business market while still in college. In 2006, Brain and a group of classmates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., started to dabble in online sales and all things video on computers.
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Whipping MuleSource Into Shape September 01, 2009 
Having secured funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures, MuleSource cofounder Ross Mason turned what was the Mule Project into an open source player on the fast track. Re-invigorated with new CEO Greg Schott, MuleSource has been ramping up its business in the wake of a recession that has gutted some proprietary legacy players.
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Scrivener Takes Wordsmiths Beyond Mere Processing July 13, 2009 
When writers initially discovered word processing, they beamed with delight. Once the blush wore off the technology, though, that delight morphed into distress. While office workers were perfectly content "processing" words, scribblers writing words needed more from their software. Moreover, they found their needs increasingly ignored by big software houses who catered to the cubicle crowd.
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CashStar Throws Its Gift Cards on the E-tail Table July 08, 2009 
It seemed like a logical leap: If you already provide shoppers with coupons online, what's to stop you from offering them an online source for e-gift cards? So the founders of online gift card company CashStar pooled resources with online shopping coupon mogul Coupons Inc. to create an outlet for merchants to offer more services than are available from plastic gift cards hanging on pegs in stores.
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Reductive Labs Snaps Up Cash, Pumps Up Puppet July 07, 2009 
Before he helped start Reductive Labs, CEO Luke Kanies was determined to improve IT systems management options to eliminate the repetitive tasks required to manage policies across networks, cloud computing systems, and virtual machine banks. In 2002, that direction led to the Puppet project, a system for automating admin tasks. The launch of his company followed in 2003.
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