Track News & React

At a time when many companies are struggling to grow sales and raise new money, Adapx (www.adapx.com) announced today record customer growth and the closing of $9 million in Series B financing.

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There are few reasons for businesses today to smile about financials, except for me.  I’m practically grinning, because part of my job includes receiving emails and tracking news about DEMO alumni companies and their success stories. 

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Over the past 10 days, I’ve been traveling across Europe with my Guidewire Group colleagues Mike Sigal and Carla Thompson conducting our “Going Global” workshops in advance of the Innovate!Europe Master Class (www.innovate-events.com) in May.   The workshops help entrepreneurs focus their company pitches, while offering valuable (we think) feedback on m

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Learn what the Obama administration and Congress have in store for tech at the 3rd annual Tech Policy Summit, taking place May 11-13, 2009 at the San Mateo Marriott hotel.

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Distributed media network Glam Media (DEMOfall 07 Alumni) raised an additional $10 million in funding, their total to date exceeds $124 million.  The latest funding round comes from Japanese VC Mizuho Venture Capital and several local advertising / media companies, but also includes a separate investment round for its German joint-venture from partner Hubert Burda Media.

More about Glam Media: http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007fall/112999.html 

Keith Shaw catches up with DD Ganguly, CEO of Dimdim, to get an update on how the company has fared since DEMOfall 07, why startups should always be raising money, and what's new in Version 5 of their, free and open Web collaboration platform.  Listen to the podcast:  http://www.demo.com/watchlisten/DEMOcast.html

DEMO marketing partner Golden Capital Network is very happy to announce the public launch of the California Business Ascent video webcast series, showcasing the most exciting startups you’ve never heard of.  For ten years GCN has introduced more than a thousand early stage ventures to its network of active investors at dozens of Golden Capital Venture Capital conferences throughout California and Nevada, and more than $1.6 Billion has been invested in our alumni.  <

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I was having one of those conversations that Baby Boomers have about "Kids Today." Kids Today, it seems, have little discretion about what they post in their Facebook profiles, MySpace pages, or Tweets. We are sure they leave an embarrassing path of future destruction, a post or photo or update the confirms the youthful indiscretion that most of us, in our latter years, would chose to deny.

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Livescribe Inc. announced the closing of its Series B funding of $7.5 million by Aeris Capital, a private Switzerland-based investment company. Livescribe also secured $11.1 million in its Series A round last month led by Vantage Point Ventures Partners and Lionhart Investments Ltd., raising a total of $18.6 million in funding within the first quarter of 2009.

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On March 4, at 8 a.m., I logged off and closed my laptop.  I didn't open it again until March 22 at about 5 in the afternoon.  In the intervening 18 days, I was online fewer hours than I am in a typical morning. I checked email only three times.  I updated my Facebook profile once. I twittered once, when I was delayed 8 hours in the Santiago airport on the way home.

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