VentureLoop News

When people working in the Empire State Building twittered that they were craving ice cream delivery, New York local chain Tasti D Lite was there to listen and meet their need. When electronics buyers look for good deals, the Dell Outlet Twitter account helps them save money with exclusive coupons. When Houston’s coffee drinkers decide where to get their daily dose, many choose Coffee Groundz, which lets them order via Twitter. Read on to learn what Twitter is and to get detailed examples of how companies are using it. On these pages, we’ll also reveal how Twitter can help your business right now.

Jobs at Twitter

SlideRocket, maker of an application that allows multiple individuals to collaborate on media-rich presentations, has brought in $5 million in a second round of funding to continue developing the platform and to expand its headcount.

Sliderocket Jobs

Aloqa, a mobile search company that sends you information about events, friends and other data based on your location, launched its first product today at MobileBeat: an app for Android-based devices.

The company also announced $1.5 million in first-round funding from Wellington Partners and angel investors, and the appointment of a new CEO, Sanjeev Agrawal, an ex-head of product marketing from Google and more recently vice president of products at TellMe Networks (now part of Microsoft).

Aloqa Jobs

While the desktop may not be inherently social, a slew of desktop apps have helped bridge that gap: Xobni , TweetDeck , and Seesmic Desktop being some of the best known. Xobni in particular helps reorganize your Outlook inbox with search functionality and a nifty social networking sidebar.

Jobs at Xobni

San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2008 – Granite Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the technology sector, today announced that it has added a web-based career resource, VentureCareers, to assist portfolio companies in promoting unique career opportunities. VentureCareers is hosted by VentureLoop, the worldwide leader in jobs exclusively for the venture-backed community.

“We consistently focus on partnering with our portfolio companies to find and develop the kind of talent that builds winning teams,” said Standish O’Grady, managing director at Granite Ventures. “We are employing the VentureCareers system as another resource for helping our portfolio companies identify the best and brightest candidates for their open positions.”

“Granite Ventures has built a solid reputation for identifying companies well positioned to succeed, and we are pleased to add them to our client roster,” said Jeremy McCarthy, CEO of VentureLoop. “The Granite portfolio of companies represents a nice cross section of early-stage technology companies in the software, services and communications sectors – interesting areas that create unique job opportunities.”

About Granite Ventures, LLC

Granite Ventures has been helping early-stage technology companies build solid foundations for success since 1992. Granite has managed over $1 billion in venture capital and has invested in more than 100 private companies. They partner with promising and successful entrepreneurs to create businesses that have a competitive edge, and help those businesses achieve category leadership. More information can be found at www.granitevc.com.

About VentureLoop

VentureLoop is the leading website dedicated to job postings for emerging venture-backed companies and startup companies. VentureLoop creates direct relationships with the world’s top venture capital firms to connect their portfolio companies with quality candidates. Candidates can search the VentureLoop website for thousands of jobs at startups and growth companies backed by top-tier venture capital firms. VentureLoop’s VentureCareers product is a hosted career page for venture capital firms, allowing portfolio companies to advertise job openings directly onto their venture capital firm’s public website. VentureLoop also publishes the weekly VentureLoop Emerging Growth Newsletter, which communicates valuable information about emerging growth company news, funding, and career advice. Find out more at www.ventureloop.com.

CONTACT:

For VentureLoop:

David Libby

dlibby@twopinspr.com

For Granite Ventures:

Theresa Maloney

theresa@cogentacom.com

Promotes Job Opportunities at Portfolio Companies

Boston, MA, August 19, 2008 – HLM Venture Partners, a Boston and San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in funding health care companies, announced today that it has launched VentureCareers on its website to promote professional job opportunities at its portfolio companies.

VentureCareers is a career site used by over twenty of the country’s leading venture firms to promote openings at their portfolio companies. The jobs posted through VentureCareers are aggregated at www.ventureloop.com, which currently has over 5,600 job postings at 726 venture-backed companies.

Through the VentureCareers site, portfolio company jobs are posted directly to a career page on HLM’s website to solicit candidates. The site was developed by VentureLoop, which has a number of products and services designed to connect growth companies, talent, entrepreneurs and resources.

According to VentureLoop co-founder Jeremy McCarthy, “Through our extensive network of relationships with venture capital firms, entrepreneurs and service providers, we develop a valuable pool of talent for clients and save them the time and expense of handling recruitment themselves. Many of the job postings found on VentureLoop cannot be found on any other job board.”

Vin Fabiani, a partner at HLM noted “One of the key ways we can help our portfolio companies grow successfully is to help recruit talent. By partnering with VentureLoop, we provide our portfolio companies with access to an additional pool of candidates at no additional cost.”

About VentureLoop

VentureLoop is the leading website dedicated to job postings for emerging venture-backed companies and startup companies. VentureLoop creates direct relationships with the world’s top venture capital firms to connect their portfolio companies with quality candidates. Candidates can search the VentureLoop website for thousands of jobs at startups and growth companies backed by top-tier venture capital firms. VentureLoop’s VentureCareers product is a hosted career page for venture capital firms, allowing portfolio companies to advertise job openings directly onto their venture capital firm’s public website. VentureLoop also publishes the weekly VentureLoop Emerging Growth Newsletter, which communicates valuable information about emerging growth company news, funding, and career advice. Find out more at www.ventureloop.com.

About HLM Venture Partners

HLM Venture Partners provides venture capital to emerging companies focused on health care information technology, health care services and medical technology. During the past 15 years, HLM has helped more than 60 privately-held health care companies turn innovative ideas into market-leading businesses. The company’s investment professionals have over 125 years of collective expertise in the health care industry, an accumulation of knowledge and experience that is invaluable to the leadership of its portfolio companies. For more information, visit: www.hlmventurepartners.com

TheFunded, a website that rates VC firms and their partners, has published a new list of top rated venture capital partners. Four of the top ten VC partners work for VentureLoop clients.

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MuleSource
Founded: 2006
Location: San Francisco, CA
Current Employees: 50 (30 in SF)
Funding: $16.5M
VCs: Hummer Winblad, Morgenthaler, Lightspeed

Overview
MuleSource is the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture
(SOA)
infrastructure software. Founded by the creators of the Mule project, the
world’s most
reliable and widely used open source enterprise service bus (ESB) and
integration
platform, MuleSource delivers enterprise-class software, support, and services
to the
thousands of organizations that have downloaded the open source project
worldwide.

Competition
They are the leading opensource player.  Main competition is from
proprietary incumbent players and large software companies.

Users
Developers and architects in the IT group of a company.  Variety of
industries.  Don’t just focus on Fortune 500′s of the world.
Effectively serve the smaller and mid-market companies. 

Sales
Business model comes from subscriptions that include enterprise class version
of the software and additional tooling and support.  Consulting services
on top of that.  Sales team with inside/outside model.  Got a start
in financial services, but very diverse.  Over 80% of deployments are
considered mission critical.

Working environment
Startup culture.  Passionate group of employees.  Believe in the
opensource model. Not internally competitive.  International feel with
people contributing from all over the world.  Offices in 9 countries.

Hot Job
All sales positions.  Get
over 1,000 leads each month.  Infrastructure software experience
helpful.  Believe they will be the winner in the SOA space.