Deal Radar 2009: Sonoa Systems

Last year, I wrote a piece called SaaS Impact on IT Infrastructure as part of the Trend Radar 2008 series. In the last 16 months, SaaS has really taken off, with over 500 companies in the space. Concurrently, the operational complexity of managing SaaS in the enterprise has also escalated. Today’s Deal Radar looks at

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Deal Radar 2009: Vindicia

Today’s Deal Radar showcases a very impressive SaaS company that solves an important problem in an already large and growing niche: intangible goods. Vindicia’s on-demand billing and fraud management solution, Vindicia CashBox, aims to transform billing into a strategic advantage for online merchants. The company provides a hosted solution that integrates with other core elements of a

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Deal Radar 2009: UserVoice

With today’s Deal Radar installment we bring our focus back to web startups. UserVoice offers customer support service for any website and allows users to give votes to their favorite suggestions. Founders Richard White, Marcus Nelson and Scott Rutherford—all serial entrepreneurs—modified Digg’s principles of crowdsourced news, or social news to come up with UserVoice. The idea was

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Deal Radar 2009: Infinia

Today’s Deal Radar brings cleantech and solar energy back into the limelight with Infinia. The Kennewick, Washington-based company is an energy technology company whose Stirling Solar products convert solar energy into electricity. As a company, Infinia has been around since 1985 and has successfully commercialized the Stirling engine for a number of applications, including combined

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Deal Radar 2009: concrete5

Long gone are the days of Web 1.0, when Internet content was generated by a relative few and website design was the exclusive domain of professionals. And as more people generate richer content, entrepreneurs are recognizing the need for better systems to manage it. Our latest Deal Radar company is concrete5, an open source content management

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Deal Radar 2009: Outspark

Deal Radar returns to social gaming with Outspark, a casual games publisher that has developed a virtual playground where online gaming and portals merge to create a new market called 3P, in which a company must be a games Publisher, operate a Portal and own and operate a Platform. Outspark.com is a “freemium” games portal combining

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Deal Radar 2009: Tangle.com

Today’s Deal Radar company, Tangle.com, creates social networking tools for the faith-based and ‘family-friendly’ marketplace. Founded as GodTube.com, a video-sharing site for Christians, the company changed its name to Tangle.com in February 2009. The rebranding process came about when CEO Jason Illian decided to move from a video-sharing site to a full-fledged social networking site.

Deal Radar 2009: xTuple

Cost-cutting is still at the top of many an executive’s mind as the recession continues. Today’s Deal Radar company, xTuple, uses open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) to help enterprises streamline their operations at a lower cost without a vendor lock-in. Its main products, xTuple ERP: PostBooks and Standard and Manufacturing Editions, include capabilities for accounting, customer relationship

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