Deal Radar 2010: Globant

I seldom cover outsourcing on Deal Radar, but here is one that showcases some interesting trends. And of course, I do have a special soft corner for Argentina! Inspired by the success the Indian IT outsourcing industry and the growth of that country’s outsourcing stocks, Martín Migoya, Martín Umaran, Guibert Englebienne, and Néstor Nocetti, founded

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Deal Radar 2010: I Love Rewards

I Love Rewards provides results-driven rewards and recognition solutions that clients can use to motivate employees and increase sales. The company focuses on recruiting, retaining, and inspiring employees so that they are in tune with their employers’ goals. Through the company’s points-based system, which includes packages targeted at younger workers and at keeping people motivated during a

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Deal Radar 2010: Slooh

Deal Radar heads into outer space with Slooh, which is both a Web-based platform that turns a computer into a telescope and an online astronomy community. Through Slooh’s SpaceCamera, members can access and even control telescopes that the company has positioned in both hemispheres to observe objects in space, including the moon, planets, and other

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Deal Radar 2010: Office Ally

Office Ally is an electronic clearinghouse that acts as a go-between in processing insurance claims for doctors’ offices, clinics, and hospitals. Founder Brian O’Neill saw that although the United States often has the latest technology for clinical testing and patient care, it often lags when it comes to business operations in the health-care industry. O’Neill

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Deal Radar 2010: Knewton

Founded in the spring of 2008 by Jose Ferreira, Knewton is an online educational platform provider and test preparation service. Ferreira, who previously worked as an executive with Kaplan, was frustrated by what he saw as traditional, outmoded approaches to test preparation. He saw what he believed to be an opportunity in the market for

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Deal Radar 2010: OmniGuide

OmniGuide, Inc. develops and commercializes high-precision, flexible, minimally invasive surgical instruments. OmniGuide’s family of indication-targeted fiber-optic scalpels enable flexible delivery of clinically beneficial CO2 laser energy, thereby broadening the field of minimally invasive surgery.

Deal Radar 2010: Chegg

This year’s Deal Radar series begins with a company that is direct competition for your campus bookstore, Chegg. Chegg is an online textbook rental company whose name is a play on the well-known conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg. Founded in 2003 by Aayush Phumbhra, Josh Carlson, and Osman Rashid, Chegg

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