Under the Radar

Wave Accounting Raises $12 Million in Funding! #UTRAlum

Clare Jacobson — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:21:54 PDT

Congratulations to Kirk Simpson and the entire team over at Wave Accounting for raising $12 Million in Series B funding from the Social+Capital Partnership (s23p), Charles River Ventures and OMERS Ventures. We couldn’t be happier for this team! See their 2011 Under the Radar Presentation HERE. Company Description | Wave helps small businesses achieve success. [...]

4 types of crowdfunding and what this means for the future of investments

Clare Jacobson — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:11:49 PDT

There are some amazing numbers coming out around crowdfunding. The first ever Crowdfunding Industry Report, from Massolution, revealed that $1.5 billion was raised in 2011 from sites like Kickstarter, Indigogo, etc. That’s a lot of investment! Perhaps the most talked about crowdfunded project lately has bee the Pebble Smartwatch. Just this week, the company had [...]

Does Klout Matter? Cathay Pacific Thinks So….

Heidi Isern, Director Dealmaker Media — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:06:10 PDT

Brands used to give preferential treatment to wealthy or re-occurring customers with loyalty cards and targeted ad campaigns. However, with the rise of the social web, companies have to rethink their marketing tactics. In the world of “viral” going after “influence” may give you more bang for your buck. Influence measurement company Klout just announced a [...]

LinkedIn to Acquire SlideShare for $118 Million

Clare Jacobson — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:02:04 PDT

Congratulations to Under the Radar Alumni SlideShare on being acquired by LinkedIn! The deal is reportedly valued at over $118 Million. The deal will include about 45% cash and about 55% stock, and is expected to be completed in the second quarter. SlideShare, founded in 2006, provides a way to share presentations on the Web. According [...]

DataSift Raises $7.2 Million in Funding #UTRConf

Clare Jacobson — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:19:17 PDT

Congratulations to Rob Bailey and the entire team at DataSift for raising $7.2 Million in funding from GRP Partners and IA Ventures. Only last week we were watching them present at Under the Radar! Woot woot! In case you missed it, here is their presentation from last week’s Under the Radar: DataSift April 26th, 2012 [...]

Gluecon: Where Big Data, the Cloud and Mobile Meet

Clare Jacobson — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:56:37 PDT

Already missing Under the Radar? Our partners over at GlueCon have another great event and it’s happening May 23rd-24th, 2012. Many of our Under the Radar alumni will be there as well… (i.e. Sumo Logic, MongoLab, Eucalyptus and more). Information and discount offering below: Gluecon started as a conference where we aimed to look at [...]

CitiGroup Keynote: The Art of Scaling by Yobie Benjamin #UTRConf

Clare Jacobson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:07:49 PDT

If you missed any part of yesterday’s Under the Radar Conference, than you missed out. However, if you missed Yobie Benjamin’s morning keynote session on the “Art of Scaling” than you REALLY missed out Luckily, we have it filmed and you can watch it below. Get ready for words like “Quadrillions” and notes on $150 [...]

Cloudscaling Presents at Under the Radar

Clare Jacobson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:56:54 PDT

Launched 2006, San Francisco, CA Twitter: @cloudscaling Website: www.cloudscaling.com In case you missed it, here is their company profile: Company Description: Cloudscaling designs and builds open cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprises, service providers and governments who want the cost, performance and scalability of the leading public cloud services, but inside their datacenter. It delivers this via [...]

NuoDB: Inside the company culture

Clare Jacobson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:55:05 PDT

NuoDB Founder and CEO Barry Morris was one of our Grad Circle presenters at this week’s Under the Radar conference. As we’ve done with other presenters, we took the opportunity and asked Barry to give us a few insights on his company culture. 1. If your company was a movie, which one would it be [...]

Announcing the Winners of Under the Radar: Consumerization of IT

Clare Jacobson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:59:59 PDT

Announcing the Winners of Under the Radar Today’s Under the Radar was a smashing success. Over 350 people attended and watched over thirty bleeding-edge startups tell their stories and showcase their technology. Over half of UTR’s past presenting companies have raised major funding and/or been acquired after hitting our stage, and something tells me this [...]