Big congrats to our client, Evernote, on the launch of its public beta today. In private beta for the past four months, Evernote is a multi-platform note-taking application that allows users to easily capture memories and content in any environment. This information is then made accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere, with all [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Mochi Media closes $10 million in funding
June 20, 2008 – 12:05 pm
Congrats to our client – and downstairs neighbor – Mochi Media for raising a $10 million Series B round of funding led by Shasta Ventures, with help from original investor Accel Partners. The news was announced yesterday and got wide pickup in TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNet, Gamasutra among others. Mochi is doing some impressive things and [...]
LaunchSquad in the San Francisco Examiner
June 17, 2008 – 11:55 am
LaunchSquad was featured last Friday in San Francisco’s favorite daily newspaper, the Examiner. The article touches on the work we’ve done with Barely Political and Obama Girl, the company’s evolution from the first dot-com era until now, and the unique culture here at the Squad. If you didn’t already see the article during your commute [...]
SuccessFactors Taps Into the Future of Work
June 9, 2008 – 1:27 pm
Our client, SuccessFactors, held its annual user conference, SuccessConnect, in San Francisco last week, which brought together hundreds of business leaders from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses to talk about how they can better engage, motivate, retain and recruit great talent, and how technology can help do that. Highlights from the conference included more [...]
Blasting Out From Under The Radar
June 6, 2008 – 12:25 pm
Earlier this week, two LaunchSquad clients, Mochi Media and Vivaty, presented at Under the Radar: Social Media and Entertainment. It was a great show overall: 32 companies across 8 categories presented to different panels of judges. Host Dealmaker Media streamed video from the conference live via Ustream.tv, and tweeted the entire event. Presentations are now [...]
Daptiv TV Takes Hold
June 2, 2008 – 2:08 pm
We’ve been working with our client Daptiv on a series of videos centered around how their customers are benefiting from their collaboration/project management software. Filmed at their recent user conference YouCon ’08, the short pieces offer snapshots into how companies are taking advantage of some of the unique and exciting things Daptiv is delivering. Daptiv [...]