Tuesday February 7, 2012

Vitrue Updates Social Media Management Platform For Brands With Deeper Analytics And More

Vitrue, a social media marketing company, is rolling out version 3.0 of its social media management platform for brands. New features include localization and enhanced analytics and metrics within one dashboard interface. As we’ve written in the past, Vitrue’s SaaS platform allows brands and marketing agencies to communicate with fans and consumers across Facebook, YouTube [...]

Online Video Platform Company Brightcove Files For $50 Million IPO

Online video platform company Brightcove this morning announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC in connection with a proposed IPO of its common stock. The company is looking to raise up to $50 million through the offering. Brightcove offers cloud-based solutions for publishing and distributing video and other [...]

Thought Equity Motion Scores $25 Million For Cloud-Based Video Platform

Online video technology and footage licensing services provider Thought Equity Motion has raised $25 million from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the company announced this morning. The company delivers video archive management and “smart content” metadata tools as a cloud service, as well as rights development expertise. Through its Web platform and global sales force, the company [...]

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $15M Round In Cloud Business Intelligence Platform GoodData

Startup GoodData, which provides companies with a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) platform, has raised $15 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors General Catalyst Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners and Windcrest Partners also contributing to the round. This investment brings GoodData’s total funding to $28.5 million. The company has also added two new [...]

Salesforce’s Radian6 Takes Social Media Monitoring Platform Mobile With New iOS App

Radian6, which was acquired by Salesforce for $326 million earlier this year, has offered some of the world’s largest brands a web-based social media monitoring platform. But the company has not offered a mobile component to clients to monitor brands on the go, until now. Today, Salesforce’s Radian6 is announcing its first mobile presence with [...]

NEA And Sequoia Put $18M In Brand-Focused Social Media Platform Hearsay Social

Hearsay Social, a SaaS dashboard for national businesses and their local branches to manage Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages, has raised $18 million in new funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with existing investor Sequoia Capital participating. In conjunction with the funding, NEA partner Jon Sakoda is joining the Hearsay Social Board of Directors. [...]

Fitview Gives Personal Trainers A Comprehensive Fitness And Coaching Platform

A new startup is launching today in the fitness tech space that aim to help personal trainers better connect with their clients and the general public. Fitview is launching as a comprehensive SaaS for fitness trainers to upload a fitness curriculum, keep track of client progress and more. With Fitview, which was built by former [...]

Rally Lands $20M For Agile Application Lifecycle Management Platform

Rally Software, a specialist in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, this morning announced that it has raised $20 million in funding led by Meritech Capital Partners (an investor in companies like Facebook, NetSuite and Salesforce.com). The funding will be used for growth and to accelerate adoption of Rally’s platform for Agile development. The company [...]

SQLstream Raises $6M For Standards-Based Stream Computing Platform

San Francisco-based SQLstream, which provides a standards-based stream computing platform that enables its clients to harness and monetize their real-time service and sensor data, has raised $6 million from Fontinalis Partners. The investment was announced earlier this week, but the financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed – a recent SEC filing reveals the [...]

Atlassian Upgrades Social Collaboration Platform Confluence And Project Management Tool Jira

Product development software company Atlassian is announcing a number of upgrades to its collaboration and software development tools. In case you aren’t familiar, Atlassian software development and collaboration tools to help teams conceive, plan, build and launch products. Products include JIRA (issue tracker) and Confluence (content collaboration). The company’s offerings are used by 20,000 customers [...]