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Volume 6, Number 32 - August 9, 2001 - This Week's Contents:
I> NEWS ABOUT THE PROGRAM
--1. On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone
II> REGIONAL NETPRENEURS
--1. ezTel Reduces Costs For ISPs
--2. All About Content Management
--3. Matrix’s Association Management Solution
--4. Roundup: Voices & Noises
.....Audiopoint Allows Data Capture By Voice
.....SoftMed’s Dictation And Voice Management System
.....Music On The Brain
--5. Quick Hits
.....news from CapTech, B2eMarkets, Apptus, DiamondBack and DMI
III> FUNDING & FINANCE NEWS
--1. Dough Raise Me
.....$33.6M for 6 local netpreneur
--2. Life In The Food Chain
.....Orion Acquires erbia
--3. Region’s Venture Fund Raising Picks Up In Q2
IV> WHO’SWARE
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I> News About The Program
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1. ON THE COVER OF THE ROLLING STONE
It’s the dog days of summer, which means things are slow all over and
reporters have nuthin’ to write about except bad earnings and another
Microsoft law suit. A good time to make a pitch, but to who (I mean
whom)? Check out our free public relations resources in the PR
Machine, including an extensive list of Reporters & Media Contacts, PR
Sites & Services, and more. If that’s not enough, check out some of
the summaries from Ad/Marketing group discussions on PR topics,
including threads such as Clipping Services, Online PR Resources, What
Goes In A Press Kit?, and Fees For Story Placement.
PR Machine: http://netpreneur.org/news/prmachine
Summaries:
http://netpreneur.org/connect/am/summaries/AM_summaries.html
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II> Regional Netpreneurs
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1. EZTEL REDUCES COSTS FOR ISPs
(Brookneal, VA) ezTel Networks introduced Dynamo, a solution that
gives ISPs the ability to assign any customer to either an hourly or
monthly rate and then change "on the fly" transparently to the user.
According to the company it will cut an ISP's underlying network costs
by 25-50% by allowing them to balance and maximize revenues from
low-end, occasional users and more robust customers. Dynamo makes it
easy for inexperienced users to change dial-up numbers and saves ISPs
money by cutting their wholesale network costs.
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2. ALL ABOUT CONTENT MANAGEMENT
(Silver Spring, MD) IDEV launched CMSWatch, a website designed to
provide analysis of Web content management software, practices, and
related industry developments. It offers content management news,
interviews with industry figures, opinion pieces, trends, product
information, and comparative analyses. It also offers The CMS Report,
a primer on the process of planning, selecting, and implementing a Web
content management solution that includes a review of 16 software
packages. The Managing Editor of CMSWatch is Tony Byrne. IDEV is a
professional services firm that is reorganizing itself to provide
in-depth content management solutions, including building a content
management laboratory and partnering with technology providers.
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3. MATRIX’S ASSOCIATION MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
(Alexandria, VA) Matrix Group International launched MatrixMaxx, a
suite of Web-based products and services designed to help associations
build websites and integrate them with their association management
software. The hosted solution allows website and membership databases
to act as an integrated system that is managed and accessible via a
Web browser. The suite of products include applications for membership
management, meetings, tradeshows, commerce, content, mailings, and
intranets. http://www.matrixmaxx.com
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--Audiopoint Allows Data Capture By Voice
(Fairfax, VA) Audiopoint, a voice applications network provider,
released VoiceForm, an application suite that enables data capture via
voice by transforming any online form into a "VoiceForm" and allowing
for verbal completion over the telephone. The first product in the
suite is v-Reg, a product registration application that allows users
to register purchases over the phone. Information can be captured in
various formats that are compatible with popular relational databases
such as Oracle, SQL Server, and Sybase. http://www.myaudiopoint.com
--SoftMed’s Dictation And Voice Management System
(Bethesda, MD) SoftMed Systems, a provider of healthcare information
software and services, released VoiceScript, a document creation
solution that allows healthcare organizations to manage clinician
dictations from any source, including telephone, dictation stations,
mobile tablets, and more, and to integrate them with document
creation, electronic sign-off and distribution. It supports both
analog and network dictation modes and enables retrieval of voice
files from network-connected dictation stations. Clinicians can access
voice files over the telephone via a voice server.
--Music On The Brain
Presented without comment: “Some people use paint brushes. Some people
use instruments. Some people use wood, or stone, or water. Artist
Paras Kaul will have a live show of her brainwave interactive
performance at Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage on Monday, August 13,
6pm. Paras is an artist that uses her mind directly to express her art
to others. [She] uses a brainwave interface from IBVA Technologies to
directly use her live emotional activity to provide and control the
music within her performance. Paras has her live brainwave frequencies
and voltages traced and wirelessly sent to nearby computers which
interpret the data into the music used within her performance.”
Besides her appearance at the Kennedy Center, Kaul will also perform
at SIGGRAPH's Annual 2001 Conference where a brain wave concert titled
"Brain Wave Chick V" will be performed on August 16 in the N-Space Art
Gallery. Kaul is currently adjunct professor and Coordinator of
Electronic Publications at George Mason University.
http://www.paraswest.com ; http://www.ibva.com
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(Richmond, VA) eBusiness consulting firm CapTech Ventures announced
the creation of CapTech Creative, which will provide online, print and
multimedia creative services. http://www.captechventures.com
(Rockville, MD) B2eMarkets released version 4.0 of its B2eSourcing
solution, a unified enterprise application platform that enables
companies to manage the entire sourcing process. New features include
additional functionality for negotiations and analytics.
(Reston, VA) DiamondBack Vision has changed its name to ObjectVideo,
the name of its MPEG-4 video encoding technology. The company also
says that it is shifting its focus from the video compression area to
applications in the security, marketing and online games sectors.
(Virginia Beach, VA) Direct Marketing International (DMI) has become
the first in-house tenant at the Southside Hampton Roads Technology
Incubator. DMI is a marketing and contract sales company that offers
targeted websites and catalog purchasing systems for procuring
certified products and services. http://www.gsasolutions.com ;
(Herndon, VA) Apptus, an ASP, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and will
liquidate its assets. The company was unable to raise a planned round
of $10 million.
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III> Funding & Finance News
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$1 million for Baltimore-based Blue Fire Security Technologies, a
developer of mobile communications security solutions. The money comes
from Walker Ventures and the Maryland Angels Council. Alan Burk of
Walker Ventures joins the company’s board.
$2.5 million in a first round for Salisbury, MD-based NavTrak, a
developer of wireless software for tracking commercial vehicles.
BaseCamp Ventures led the round, with participation by SeaCap Ventures
and Formation, Inc. http://www.navtrak.net
$2.7 million in a Series B round for Easton, MD-based 3Di
Technologies, a provider of satellite imaging and spatial data
services. Current investor Koch Ventures, which now owns 60% of 3Di,
led the round, with participation by Allfirst Bank and unnamed
individual investors.
$4 million in a Series B round for Silver Spring-based Bid4Assets, an
asset disposition company. The money comes from Hartford Financial
Services Group and individuals. http://www.bid4assets.com
$5 million for McLean-based Agari Mediaware, a developer of media
middleware infrastructure software. The money comes from Safeguard
Scientifics. Agari's Media Star product integrates rich media
applications, aggregates distributed digital media and metadata across
multi-vendor applications, and creates personalized, role-based
interfaces to them for geographically distributed users.
$18.4 million for Sterling-based Intersect Software, a provider of
enterprise engineering management solutions for large product
development organizations. The money comes from Bessemer Venture
Partners, BlueStream Ventures, Columbia Capital and others. Bessemer
and Columbia led Intersect's $1.25 million seed round in March of last
year. http://www.intersectsoft.com
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--Orion Acquires erbia
(Washington, DC) Orion Technologies and its Globalinx subsidiary
announced the acquisition of erbia Network's telecommunications
business. McLean-based erbia provides long distance services to more
than 25,000 business and residential customers nationwide. Globalinx,
a facilities-based telecom company, has consolidated its Alpharetta,
GA facilities into erbia's McLean offices and has expanded erbia's
Florida operations center. Orion says that by merging the management
teams and resources of Globalinx and erbia, Globalinx expands its
customer service capabilities and breadth of services offerings.
http://www.ortg.net ; http://www.erbia.com
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3. REGION’S FUND RAISING PICKS UP
(Timonium, MD) Venture capital funds in the Mid-Atlantic region raised
$793 million in Q2 of 2001, according to the latest statistics from
Venture Economics and the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association. These
statistics show that venture fundraising in the region (comprised of
Virginia, Maryland, DC and Delaware) has picked up after Q1, when no
venture funds reported raising any capital, and a slow Q4/2000, when
seven funds raised a total of $185 million. Highlights from the data
include:
- Interest in expansion and balanced stage venture funds was
particularly strong in the region this quarter with those funds
accounting for 64% of the total funds raised.
- Slightly more than one-third of fundraising activity was among early
stage funds, which accounted for 36% of venture funds raised in Q2.
-Carlyle Venture Partners II and Carlyle Asia Venture Partners II
raised the largest amounts of funds with $242 million and $173 million
respectively, followed by AOL Time Warner Opportunity Investment Fund
and Milestone Capital partners, each of which raised $100 million.
- While venture fundraising increased, buyout and mezzanine
fundraising dipped slightly in Q2 with only one fund, ABS Capital
Partners IV, raising $77.9 million compared to two funds which raised
$85.3 million in Q1.
http://www.mava.org ; http://www.nvca.org ;
http://www.ventureeconomics.com
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IV> Who'sware
(Reston, VA) South Africa-based Dimension Data Holdings, which
recently acquired eBusiness consultant Proxicom and six other US-based
technology services companies, named Proxicom’s former CEO and
Chairman, Raul Fernandez, as CEO of North America operations.
http://www.proxicom.com ; http://www.didata.com
(Dulles, VA) Orbcomm, a satellite-based data communication company,
named Hans Hoffmann as President and CEO. He was formerly President of
STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH. http://www.orbcomm.com
(Washington, DC) The Greater Washington Board of Trade named Robert
Peck as President, replacing John Tydings who led the organization for
over 30 years. http://www.bot.org
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