Exciting news for our client Ocarina Networks who has closed $20 million in Series B funding. As we wrote when we started working with them last spring, Ocarina provides an online storage optimization and compression solution that allows companies to use existing storage more efficiently, Â delaying or altogether eliminating the need to buy new storage [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Offerpal Media Secures $15 million
February 18, 2009 – 8:15 am
It’s a big day for LaunchSquad client Offerpal Media, which has a monetization platform for social applications, online communities, social games, virtual worlds and mobile applications. The company announced $15 million in Series B financing this morning in a round led by D. E. Shaw Ventures with InterWest Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. The [...]
3VR: The New Wave of Crimefighting
February 6, 2009 – 9:54 am
A typical scene in a 1990s crime flick: the camera zooms in on a security guard fast asleep on the job in front of a video surveillance monitor while the robber makes his getaway effortlessly. A subsequent scene shows security officials hopelessly sifting through mountains of VHS tapes trying to find the footage that will [...]