VentureLoop Blog: Jobs, Venture Capital, Emerging Growth Companiestag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-14163852009-05-20T01:13:25-07:00Jobs, Venture Capital, Emerging Growth CompaniesTypePadVentureLooptag:typepad.com,2003:post-670393252009-05-20T01:13:25-07:002009-05-20T01:13:25-07:00Jeremy McCarthyhttp://ventureloop.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/ventureloop.htmlCompany Profile: Ozmo Devicestag:typepad.com,2003:post-508797522008-06-05T13:03:53-07:002008-06-05T13:03:53-07:00Ozmo Devices www.ozmodevices.com Founded: December 2004 Employees: 25 Office Locations: headquarters in Palo Alto, CA with a software development center in the UK Funding: $12.55M Series A Investors: Granite Ventures, Intel Capital, Tallwood Venture Capital Overview Ozmo Devices is the leader in Wi-Fi PAN (Personal Area Networks) for peripherals. Wi-Fi is ubiquitous in today's notebook computers, and recent advances in 802.11 technology are accelerating broad adoption of Wi-Fi in a myriad of mobile and consumer electronics devices. Ozmo Devices extends the functionality of Wi-Fi-enabled platforms to seamlessly communicate with low-power wireless peripherals such as mice and headsets. Ozmo Devices' Wi-Fi PAN solution enables peripheral manufacturers to deliver wireless products with the superior performance, flexibility, and convenience consumers want and need. Users / Target Market Applications for Ozmo Devices' low-power Wi-Fi PAN solution include wireless peripheral connectivity for personal computers and communication devices, portable audio and video players, gaming consoles, and...Jeremy McCarthyhttp://ventureloop.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/company-profile.htmlVentureLoop Emerging Growth News: 5/29/08tag:typepad.com,2003:post-507483082008-05-29T21:30:00-07:002008-05-29T21:30:00-07:00Company News Balderton Capital Appoints New Partner (Balderton Capital Jobs) Paglo Launches Its Search Engine for IT Ask the VC: Should I be a shareholder representative? VMware Buys B-hive for Performance Scans European investors help Mayfield's push into India (Mayfield Fund Jobs) PR Secrets for Startups CrunchBase Now Integrated With LinkedIn API (Sequoia Capital Jobs) UrTurn Pays You To Use Facebook (Facebook Jobs) In London, a Glimpse of a Broadband Future What Do Slide, 23andMe & Chemdex Share? (Slide Jobs) Reveal Imaging wins Olympics counter-terrorism contracts Pacific Biosciences acquires single molecule sequencing technology (MDV Jobs) What Makes Gaming Social? (Founders Fund Jobs) Funding News Chicago's Crowdspring Launches With $3M From Angels For Graphic Design Marketplace Russian In-game Advertising Firm Enter Media Raises $1M Altierre adds $8M new funding Online auto auction company Openlane gets $25M new funding Providence Invests USD 640 million in Aditya Birla Telecom Flock Closes $15 Million...Jeremy McCarthyhttp://ventureloop.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/ventureloop-eme.htmlCompany Profile: OneBigPlanettag:typepad.com,2003:post-507484262008-05-22T21:36:00-07:002008-05-22T21:36:00-07:00OneBigPlanet Corp. Founded: 2007 Location: New York, NY Current Employees: 30 Funding: Not available VCs: Propulsion Ventures and private investment group Overview OneBigPlanet® Corp. offers a Commerce and Loyalty Application Platform that links communities, their members, and merchants. The company helps social networking sites, e-commerce retailers and large membership organizations retain and grow their membership/customer base and generate revenue. OneBigPlanet leverages the power of the Internet, Business Intelligence and Web 2.0 technologies in its comprehensive patent-pending Software as a Service (SaaS) system. It is designed to increase the frequency and quality of interaction between an organization and its members by providing valuable advantages and tools all in one place. OneBigPlanet's One-Stop Consumer Portal allows users to enjoy a simpler and more rewarding consumer life through exclusive instant savings, rewards, benefits that help them Save, Simplify and Share. Users OneBigPlanet's platform provides value to any type of social network and organization...Jeremy McCarthyhttp://ventureloop.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/company-profile.htmlVentureLoop Insider Startup News: 5/22/08tag:typepad.com,2003:post-507482302008-05-22T21:28:00-07:002008-05-22T21:28:00-07:00Company News Facebook getting bigger in Spanish-speaking Latin America (Facebook Jobs) BuzzCity is a growing new competitor in the US mobile advertising market WeeWorld launches a cutesy virtual world (WeeWorld Jobs) TheFunded publishes list of top-rated venture capitalists Alerion Capital Group and Merit Capital Partners Invest in VXI Technology Incorporated (VTI) Zuora Aims To Be Salesforce for Online Billing; Benioff Agrees (Benchmark capital Jobs) Me.dium makes friends with Big Brother (Me.dium Jobs) Rearden Commerce Goes Mobile (Foundation Capital Jobs) Teneros names new CEO (Teneros Jobs) Grid Networks Gets Nod From Comcast Roku Lives to Make Netflix Set-top Boxes (Foundation Capital Jobs) Bebo is AOLed, Randy Falco Memo (Bebo Jobs) Why WetPaint & Other UGC Sites Get Big Money (WetPaint Jobs) ZoomInfo spins off its ad platform into Bizo, a new company (Zoominfo Jobs) Funding News Behavioral Ad Network JellyCloud Raises $11.5M Airline WiFi Vendor Row44 Raises $21M MBC looks to...Jeremy McCarthyhttp://ventureloop.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/ventureloop-i-2.html