Syncapse scores $ 25 million for a full-service social media management

Syncapse Corp., platform, social media, enterprise-class, announced Thursday that it had received $ 25 million in financing from solo investor ABS Capital Partners, a solid late-stage growth equity. To date, Syncapse raises more than $ 30 million since its founding in 2007.

The range of firms social media Syncapse sits on top of the food chain. The company seeks to work with global enterprises with between $ 25 000 to $ 50000 to spare each month for full-service technical and business assistance using Syncapse platform for building, manage and measure social media campaigns and profiles across multiple sites.

Syncapse, which competes with the likes of Vitrue and buddy media currently works with BlackBerry, Electronic Arts and several unnamed large packaged CONSUMER GOODS and drinks company, according to founder and CEO Michael Scissons.

Scissons thinks of Syncapse in approach to space as little different from and Grander than social CRM — potentially market $ 1 billion, according to Gartner. "This is a hybrid content management, asset management, social CRM, measurement and analytics," he says.

Post finance, Syncapse next order of business will add to its team of 150 people. To this end, the launch will soon announce that Stephen England-Hall, CEO of Kjell is on the United Kingdom, will be joining Syncapse, to help build out his team Great Britain.

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Box.NET raises $ 48 million to take on the giants of enterprise software

Cloud collaboration and managing company Box.net announced Thursday that it has closed a $ 48 million investment series d round.

Meritech Capital Partners led the round, which included prior investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, scale venture partners and partners venture United States. New investors included Andreessen Horowitz and emergence Capital Partners.

We talked with co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie box .net's new round and what the company plans to do with the money. In short the aim is to use the additional funding to make the real competitor in the enterprise software space.

Investing in infrastructure

Box.NET makes no secret of their plans to take on IBM, Microsoft and Oracle space management and document collaboration. Two years ago the company sent me a t-shirt that featured the logo of Microsoft SharePoint and drawing Dodo bird.

To send to SharePoint and other Box.net competitors in extinction, companies must create its infrastructure so that the product can be easily serviced companies that store hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of documents online.

Box.NET still rents it data center space, but owns and operates its own equipment and will continue to expand and look into deploying data expenditures in areas closer to specific customers.

While focusing on expanding its engineering team is the key, Levie told us that the company also plans to grow its sales staff, so she can better compete with the big enterprise companies to bid for new and existing companies.

Box.NET corporate clients include Cisco, Dell and DreamWorks. Taking on these types of clients and keeping those customers happy is what will help transform the following Salesforce.com Box.net.

From consumers to enterprise powerhouse tool

Box.NET began its life as a storage cloud, consumer-oriented. In an era before Dropbox free cloud storage facilities were general commodities in early era Web 2.0.

Box.NET recognised that there is a real need for suitable cloud software, especially in the areas of document management and collaboration in the sphere of small business and entrepreneurship — and we think this is one of the main reasons why the company has continued to succeed, mobilize financial resources and to enter into a wide-ranging partnership.

Radio now flows 8 million songs on Roku

Owners of Roku just got another music source, this time from subscription streaming music service radio.

Radio subscribers can enter their credentials into set-top box Roku, and they are good to go. For those uninitiated in Radio service offers its usual 7 day free trial, you can stream all charge $ 9.99 per month thereafter.

This is yet another victory in radio, who just got an influx of cash over a few weeks ago, strengthened by the addition of more indie bands and more choice in its service, which now boasts over 8 million songs. It is no slouch, streaming music from four major record companies and aggregators INgrooves, IODA, the orchard, Iris, Finetunes and thousands of indie labels.

Add the radio presence on multiple platforms, including its website, as well as iPhone and Android and BlackBerry Sonos customers result is hot in a competitor's subscription music. The service can even be put on a heat seeking newcomers to the United States market, such as Spotify. Making additional competitive is its ultra-social nature, offering music discovery, where users can follow each other and learn about new music recommendations from friends.

This is yet another victory in Roku, who has always add services to its growing stable of entertainment options. Most recently he added Amazon Prime instant video service rebranded its dossier.

We've tried most boxes Roku and find them to be of outstanding value, and costs less than $ 100 for a multitude of channels. Now with the addition of radio, it's almost enough to convince you to cut the cord cable TV.

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GOGII Nabs $ 15 million to win social messages

GOGII textPlus, manufacturer of social app messages, is launching a $ 15 million Series c round led by GRP partners this morning. GRP will join existing investors matrix partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

textPlus is an arena super crowded, with costumização, quick apps GroupMe society, FreeText and Facebook now even getting into group messaging space. textPlus has the advantage of being implemented, at least in SMS free space, having launched in June 2009.

Founder and former Executive of Activision Scott Lahman tells us that what differentiates the free app is its focus on social profiles, as well as his painting a huge blow in every industry competitive. Says Lahman, "we have been it for awhile and we do is take on a wider screen. So we can compete with the guys of Group text messages, we can compete with the guys of free text messages. "

With textPlus you can join the topic-driven chat community groups (discuss anything from Lady Gaga Soccer) and group conversations and good old SMS from person to person. The application also has photo sharing, profile customization features and research.

Now textPlus sends approximately 32 million messages per day, total more than 7 billion messages since launch. And the app definitely has the scale: with over 14 million downloads of iPhone and Android platforms and 7.7 million monthly active users. And Lahman is just observing and right here, "there are so many places, Group text messages could go and we started badly.

You can find that textPlus app on the iPhone, iPad and Android and the service also works on any device that carries SMS messages.

Social Fundraising Website Fundly raises $ 2 million of his own

Today, fundraising platform that social fundly announced that it had closed a seed funding of $ 2 million round led by a group of Silicon Valley investors. Using the AngelList, a market that makes it easy for beginners to connect with angels, Fundly mounted a laundry list of reputable investors including Mitch Kapor and Stephen DeBerry, Kapor Capital, Trevor Kienzle correlation ventures, George Zachary Charles River Ventures and Jeff Fluhr of AngelHub.

Fundly, formerly known as BlueSwarm, adds $ 800000, created in July a group of individual investors, including Harvard Business professor Clayton Christensen. You can read our coverage of the beginning of the first turn (and Watch interview TC with CEO Dave Boyce) here.

Founded in Boston in 2009, the Fundly is a SaaS platform that aims to give its political campaign, Office of alumni of the University or non-profit organization that extra boost, making your social fundraising. It does this using your social networks, like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn — as well as the interaction of peer-to-peer — to encourage your donors to become social advocates. As part of this effort, Fundly offers a Facebook application that can be shared among his supporters, for example, allowing donors to compete with your friends to raise money for your cause, working to win rewards, invite your friends, tell friends about support for the cause and give and receive virtual goods — all without leaving the comfortable boundaries of Facebook.

According to CEO Dave Boyce, when a friend asks for another friend to help raise money for a particular cause, added confidence inherent in such social dimension results in a 10 times greater response rate and 52% higher donation of a cold call or email. Traditionally, fundraising has been the professional domain, target and reach high net worth individuals to meet their goals.

The 2008 presidential election, in contrast, evidence is ample opportunities for huge fundraising that exists beyond the social elite, even if these donations come in fewer. During his run for Governor last year, for example, Meg Whitman has raised more than $ 20 million of thousands of Californians using platform from Fundly. Furthermore, the service was used in more than 50 per cent of Senatorial races during the season and has already been used to raise more than $ 200 million of hundreds of thousands of individual donors, according to Boyce.

Causes.com, founded by Sean Parker and Joe Green, is a well-established competitor with the recognition of large name behind it, but Boyce, said that the two sites differ in their target audience. Causes seems to be aimed more at individuals looking to make a difference (your site says it has already attracted 140 million people) and creating awareness around specific issues, whereas the Fundly client is the nonprofit organization itself. You can think of Causes.com as Web 2. 0 applied to advocacy, while Fundly is a SaaS platform — a product that offers its customers the tools they need to collect data and view detailed reports about their donors.

Since its launch, Fundly moved beyond political campaigns and is now offering its services to all non-profits. Educational institutions were among the more recent converts, including Boston College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, communities in schools and the Educational Foundation of Silicon Valley.

Perhaps the biggest selling point for the platform of social fundraising is that it doesn't require the installation of any software — nor does it require any upfront costs, you simply pay as you earn money. So, if you are looking for an easy way to process payments and pledges of records on-line in real time, or send automated e-mail payment reminder and confirmation in a socially optimized environment, Fundly may be just what you need to start your campaign for Town Crier.

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