funding for WAN optimizer TJ's Weblog

Often new companies bring solutions for problems which yet have to be found. Riverbed -- a company that develops software that improves the performance of distributed systems is very much different. Riverbed just received $10 million in Series B. Riverbed tackles one of the most disturbing problems that the 'distributed enterprise' is facing. Many employees/ partners are not in or close to a head office LAN. Instead they you use a [...] Read More


ContactNetworks with funding TJ's Weblog

Contact Networks has raised it's first round with $1.6 million in funding. The company has a very similiar sounding value proposition than venerable Spoke. Let's see how they do... [...] Read More


FundingUniverse with FUNDING TJ's Weblog

FundingUniverse a matchmaker for angels and entrepreneurs has raised funds for its own development: "Orem, Utah-based FundingUniverse.com has raised a Series A funding, the company said today. FundingUniverse said the round came from Grow Utah Ventures and Provo Labs" These stats seem interesting: - Investors: 860 - Capital available: $556,100,000 - Entrepreneurs: 7531 - Business plans posted: 2269 [...] Read More


Bootstrapping can be route to funding BootStrapMe

While some entrepreneurs may be happy to bootstrap their companies indefinitely as the best way to launch, grow and maintain control of their ventures, others may choose it as a route to outside funding in the future. Investors still have plenty of money to sink into startups, about $58.5 billion in the U.S. in 2008 according to this article from the Arizona Republic via azcentral.com compared with $44.3 billion in private [...] Read More


eBuddy gets funding Web 2.0

Back in June I wrote about eBuddy - eBuddy was formerly known as emessenger but ub June it was relaunched as ebuddy. As said before, eBuddy being dutch should mean I have to promote it or at least like it, but I don't feel that dutch, see. eBuddy today took 5 Million Euros (about $6.25 million USD) from Lowland Capital Partners. I am not a financial expet but that certainly sounds [...] Read More