Tag Management System, TagMan closes $2.2 Million Series A Investment Led by Greycroft Partners

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 11, 2011

TagMan, the Tag Management System with real-time Attribution for enterprise e-commerce, today announced it has closed $ 2.25 million in Series A funding led by Greycroft Partners. Other investors in this round include iNovia Capital and Angels.

TagMan, the smart container, that sits on more than 100 e-commerce sites, including Subaru, Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand, previously raised $ 2.1 million in Angel funding, the most recent in February 2010 led by Cambridge Angels and the London Business School E100.

TagMan is used to manage online marketing tags/pixels (the pieces of code used by the digital advertising industry to track the performance of online campaigns) - and the data they provide - much more effectively, independently and with more control over privacy. It is used by e-commerce businesses to connect or switch between online marketing technology providers such as data systems, retargeting networks and web analytics providers more freely, and track the entire multi-touch attribution path to conversion of online customers in one system, in real time.

"TagMan was the first Tag Management System and has established itself as the market leader and trend-setter in both the US and Europe," says TagMan founder and CEO Paul Cook. "We will put the new funding to immediate use in releasing version 3 of our technology, building out our infrastructure to support the continuing flow of new, enterprise e-commerce clients and to develop the technology so that we can continue to break new ground on behalf of those businesses."

"Tagman has been very successful in helping e-commerce companies and marketers improve the performance of their online marketing, and this has ancillary benefits for consumers and innovative vendors in the ad tech market," says Ian Sigalow, partner at Greycroft Partners, who has previously invested in Buddy Media and Collective. "We are very excited about the potential for TagMan's agnostic and universal solution to the problems presented by tags, pixels, and attribution.

Following the new investment, TagMan has expanded its Board of Directors with three new non-executive appointments: Seth Brody, representing Greycroft, an experienced digital media executive was previously a Group Vice President/GM of online travel agent Orbitz Worldwide; Shaun Gregory, new media director at O2 who also becomes Chairman; and John Taysom, representing Cambridge Angels, a director, founder or investor in several online companies, including Advertising.com. The remaining Board will continue to be comprised of CEO Paul Cook and TagMan General Manager Jon Baron.

Greycroft Partners LCC (http://www.greycroftpartners.com) founded in 2006, is a venture capital partnership, formed to invest in promising digital media companies. Greycroft has raised over $ 200 million and invests between $ 500,000 and $ 5 million at inception, and will increase on a staged basis to double that amount over time. Their portfolio companies benefit from active, hands-on assistance in all phases of expansion, including marketing, finance, and management development.

With offices in New York and Los Angeles, the company leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help investees gain visibility, build strategic relationships, and successfully bring their products to market. A list of its portfolio companies can be found here: Portfolio | Greycroft Partners LLC

iNovia Capital (http://inoviacapital.com/) provides venture capital to entrepreneurs who transform innovations into successful companies. The team comprises sector experts focused on mobile, consumer internet, internet communications, software and digital media. iNovia has $ 165 million under management across two seed and early stage IT and Life Sciences funds.

TagMan is the smart container tag for enterprise e-commerce. By acting as a single, universal tag and interface through which tracking tags and pixels can be deployed, online marketers can save time and money in the way they implement, manage and track campaigns. TagMan goes beyond last-click by capturing the complete path to conversion of online customers and providing real-time attribution reports that alleviate discrepancies between display, CPA and PPC online advertising channels.

TagMan was founded in November 2007 and has offices in New York and London. Clients include Virgin Atlantic, Subaru, Boden, Laura Ashley, Thomas Cook and Air New Zealand. TagMan recently won the DPAC Award as the Best Advertising Analytics company as determined by peers in digital media and marketing.

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PHP Fog Announces $1.8 Million Investment, Led by Madrona Venture Group

Portland, OR (PRWEB) January 11, 2011

PHP Fog, a PHP-based Platform-as-a-Service (PHP PaaS) cloud computing platform today announced that is has secured $ 1.8 million in financing from Madrona Venture Group, First Round Capital, Founders Co-Op, and other prominent angel investors.

PHP is the most popular web development language in the world, with millions of active developers and tens of millions of PHP-based sites already in deployment. PHP Fog is the only company offering effortless deployment and infinite scaling of PHP applications in the cloud. The company offers one-click deployments for many popular PHP apps and frameworks including WordPress, Drupal, Kohana, Zend, and SugarCRM. Also, with PHP Fogs N-tier scaling, customers no longer have to worry about reliability, since every part of their web stack has built-in redundancy and failover. The company is currently in private beta but expects to launch publicly in the first half of 2011.

PaaS is a red-hot sector and recent industry developments have validated the market need for cloud application platforms that help customers build, deploy and scale web apps, said Tim Porter a Partner at Madrona Venture Group who will join the companys board. PHP Fog identified an important customer need and developed an innovative, differentiated service with an all-star team that uniquely addresses it. Great companies start with great people and we are excited to help them grow PHP Fog to a large company.

"PHP Fog is precisely the kind of company - and Lucas is exactly the kind of entrepreneur - that Founders Co-op exists to support, said Chris DeVore from Founders Co-op, a seed-stage investment fund based in Seattle. He's a developer's developer, tackling an acute pain that he and his peers experience in scaling their own software businesses."

The company was founded in 2010 by Lucas Carlson, a PHP developer for over 8 years and one of the leading Ruby developers in the world. Prior to starting PHP Fog, Lucas was engineer #1 at Mog and helped to build and scale the site to tens of millions of monthly pageviews. Lucas also wrote the Ruby Cookbook for OReilly and is active in the open source community.

I couldnt be more excited about all the strong investors the company has been able to attract, said Lucas Carlson. We are in a space that is changing every day, but the opportunity is massive. Now we have the resources to scale quickly and provide a world-class service to PHP developers.

About PHP Fog

PHP Fog provides simple one-click installations of some of the most popular PHP applications out there.

It just works.

You get full access to the source code of your PHP application through git. Push your code changes to us and we will publish these changes to the cloud.

We handle deployment, failover, database maintenance, scaling, and all the other plumbing that can take an army of programmers and systems administrators to handle. Automatically. You pay only for what you use.

About Madrona Venture Group

Madrona Venture Group (http://www.madrona.com) has been investing in early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest since 1995 and has been privileged to play a role in some of the region's most successful technology ventures. The firm invests across the information technology spectrum, including consumer Internet, commercial software and services, digital media and advertising, networking and infrastructure, and wireless. Madrona currently manages nearly $ 700 million and was an early investor in companies such as Amazon.com, Isilon Systems, World Wide Packets, iConclude, Farecast.com and ShareBuilder.

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Lijit Networks, Inc. Secures $3.3 Million Series B Investment Round Led by Boulder Ventures

Louisville, CO (PRWEB) June 25, 2007

Lijit Networks, Inc., a company that provides revolutionary search tools and statistics for blog publishers, announced today that it has secured $ 3.3 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Boulder Ventures, who joins existing investors, Colorado Fund I, managed by High Country Venture, and Brad Feld. The investment is designed to fuel Lijit's continued exponential growth, as more and more publishers adopt Lijit's services and technology.

"Lijit provides tangible value to both readers and publishers by delivering highly relevant search results and turning search interactions into compelling statistics", remarks Peter Roshko, General Partner at Boulder Ventures, who will join Lijit's Board of Directors. "Publishers have very few feedback channels that help them better understand and serve their reader community. With this investment Boulder Ventures can help Lijit capitalize on their success to date in fulfilling this need and take their services to the next level."

Lijit's search service allows readers to search blog publishers' posts, bookmarks, blogroll, and more from a widget placed on the publisher's property. "Lijit's Search Wijit turns my technology industry interests and expertise into a powerful resource for my readers," says Dr. Paul Kedrosky, venture capitalist, media personality, entrepreneur, and author of one of the best known business blogs on the Internet, Infectious Greed (paul.kedrosky.com). "I'm able to use Lijit's search statistics to understand what brings readers to my blog, what they search for while they're there, and which results they find most useful. It's given me valuable insight into my reader community."

Creating and maintaining a personalized Lijit Search Wijit is very quick and simple, thanks to Lijit's automated identity and network discovery technology. "Each month Lijit's search capability is seen over 8 million times on publishing properties across the Internet, which is a testament to the service's value and ease of use," comments Todd Vernon, CEO of Lijit. "This investment will allow us to keep pace with our growth curve, continue development of new and exciting features, and explore new partnering opportunities."

About Boulder Ventures, Ltd.

Boulder Ventures manages over $ 300 million in venture capital partnerships, making equity investments in start-up, early stage, and emerging growth companies. Boulder Ventures primarily seeks opportunities in enterprise software, Internet-based business applications and services, communications infrastructure and services and life sciences tools and services. Boulder Ventures works in partnership with entrepreneurs, providing easily accessible, active support to develop novel business concepts into important companies. Boulder Ventures has offices in Owings Mills, Maryland and Boulder, Colorado. For more information, visit http://www.boulderventures.com.

About High Country Venture

High Country Venture manages Colorado Fund I (http://www.coloradofund1.com), a venture capital fund seeking to invest in seed and early stage businesses in Colorado. To date, the fund has made several investments in various industries including life sciences, information technology, and retail. It is located in Boulder, Colorado.

About Lijit Networks, Inc.

Lijit Networks, Inc. was incorporated in June 2006. The Lijit service was developed to search people, their content, and connections in order to deliver search results with unprecedented relevance. The company is led by Todd Vernon, CEO. Vernon, a founder and former CTO of Raindance Communications, brings to the team his management experience in the high-tech sector and enthusiasm for leading-edge web technologies. Stan James, founder and CTO of Lijit, brings years of research in social trust and a portfolio of intellectual property in the space. http://www.lijit.com

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EB-5 Investment and Regional Center Development Seminar Announced for Las Vegas

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 18, 2011

Experts from a range of disciplines will address EB-5 Investment and Regional Center Development at a Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, seminar in Las Vegas, McAdam & McCarthy Attorneys at Law announced today. Also known as the Immigrant Investor Program, EB-5 was created by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment. Immigrant investors create a new commercial enterprise or invest in a troubled business, and high net worth overseas investors get an available and expedient green card option. More than $ 2.5 billion has been invested in American enterprises through EB-5 in the last five years, creating tens of thousands of new jobs for U.S. workers.

The seminar will provide timely and accessible information to professionals who are experienced with EB-5 and to those who are new to the program, including:

Canaan Partners Expands its Digital Media Portfolio and Leads $10M Investment in Associated Content

Menlo Park, CA (PRWEB) August 1, 2007

Canaan Partners, a $ 2.4 billion global venture capital firm, today announced it has led a $ 10 million, Series B investment in Associated Content, a leading online publisher known as "The People's Media Company". The new funding will enable Associated Content to further its commitment to creating an unparalleled network of content producers, and to enhance its publishing and distribution platforms. Warren Lee from Canaan Partners has joined Associated Content's board of directors.

Today's news highlights Canaan's focus on digital media investments, particularly the management and leverage of digital content, new advertising and video revenue models, and new Web-based services for consumers. Canaan has a strong record of success in the digital media market as an early and lead investor in both Match.com and DoubleClick. The firm's current portfolio includes The Active Network, the leading online community for amateur sports enthusiasts; Tremor Media, a company monetizing online video and cracking the code on video advertising; and Blurb, a leader changing the face of publishing by letting anyone easily create and sell bookstore-quality books online.

"Associated Content has created a unique model for content distribution that enables Content Producers from around the world to build their audience," said Warren Lee, Canaan Partners. "We are very enthusiastic about the large market opportunity, the business momentum, and the great team they have assembled. We are excited about helping the Associated Content team continue to refine its offerings and extend its reach."

Founded in 2005, Associated Content is comprised of more than 70,000 Content Producers who contribute to its growing, ad-supported digital media library. Associated Content also operates as a syndication engine, providing brands and publishers with a wide range of quality content generated through its scalable and efficient platform. Existing investors, including Softbank Capital and Tim Armstrong also participated in the round.

"We're thrilled to add Canaan to our existing group of investors and think they can play a substantial role in helping us reach our potential. Associated Content is poised for significant growth, and positioned to fill the rapidly expanding need for more diverse content," said Geoff Reiss, CEO, Associated Content. "With the support of our investors, we will further strengthen our platform, library and distribution efforts, and in turn, support the vast community of talented Content Producers who bring new and original content submissions to AC every day."

About Canaan Partners

Canaan Partners invests in visionary entrepreneurs and provides them the networks, insights and operational guidance required to build high-performance technology and healthcare companies. For 20 years, they have taken an active and committed role in the companies in which they invest, and have completed more than 65 mergers and acquisitions and 51 IPOs. With $ 2.4 billion under management and a worldwide footprint, the firm's technology team is committed to catalyzing the growth of innovative companies in the digital media, communications & mobility, enterprise and clean tech industries. Among its successes are DoubleClick, the leading online advertising solution, Match.com, the most popular online dating site in the world, and Acme Packet, one of the top ten performing IPOs of 2006. Other Canaan technology investments include SuccessFactors, The Active Network, Blurb, Dexterra, ID Analytics and GroundWorks. Canaan has offices in California, Connecticut, India and Israel. For more information visit: http://www.canaan.com

About Associated Content

Associated Content (http://www.associatedcontent.com), "The People's Media Company is a leading online publishing showcase where anyone--from experts and enthusiasts to amateurs and professionals - can become a Content Producer and submit original material on virtually any topic for distribution. Associated Content's Content Producers gain exposure and earn cash by contributing to its ever-expanding collection of ad-supported original articles, videos, images and audio content. Founded by Luke Beatty in 2005, the company has offices in Denver and New York City.

Contact

Erin McMahon-Lyman

Marketing Alchemist

Phone (415) 649-1390

Gina Vakili

Canaan Partners

Phone (650) 854-8092

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(PRWEB) August 03, 2011

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