Ambient Industries Raises Additional Round of Funding from Amadeus and Eden Ventures for Flook, the Location Browser

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and LONDON, U.K. (PRWEB) February 1, 2010

Ambient Industries (http://www.ambientindustries.com), announced today that it has closed an additional round of funding led by the Amadeus Capital Partners and Eden Ventures. The capital infusion will be used for expansion and to increase development capability.

We have attracted loyal users who find that discovering and sharing the world around them with flook is a refreshing and creative change from other me-too location-based mobile applications said Ambient Industries co-founder Roger Nolan. Users are excited to discover quirky recommendations that they wouldnt find in the guide books and just as excited to express their creative side by creating flook cards sharing their own local secrets. Flooks competitive aspect allows users to take part in a real competition of skill, and to feel a genuine sense of accomplishment when their score increases.

We have seen so much potential realized from Ambient Industries and flook, said Will Dawson, partner Amadeus. We can’t wait to see how flook will continue to grow and to discover new ways in which people will use it. We see Ambient Industries in a unique niche where the discovery is more important than search, and creativity more important than simplistic game-playing.

“We see many investment opportunities in mobile applications, but flook hits a sweet spot of creativity, discovery and location that no other companies have, said Peter Jones, partner at Eden Ventures.

A video demo of flook is available here: http://flookblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/flook-sneak-peek-video/

ABOUT AMBIENT INDUSTRIES

Ambient Industries is a mobile software company founded by Roger Nolan, Jane Sales, Tristan Brotherton and Dave Jennings.

Nolan and Sales both worked at Psion, where they were responsible for the communications layer and the kernel, respectively. Their code was the foundation of the codebase that became Symbian OS and that still runs in millions of phones today. Jennings worked at the Parkes Radio-Telescope in Australia, was the first technical hire at Play.com and chief architect for Tigerex before joining Nolan at Sonopia. Brotherton founded FluidHR, which produced the U.K.s first online staff screen software platform and building software, before joining ROO Media/KIT Digital.

Ambient Industries is based in London and San Francisco. The company is funded by Amadeus and Eden Ventures. For more information, visit http://www.ambientindustries.com.

ABOUT AMADEUS

Amadeus Capital Partners is one of Europe’s leading technology venture capital firms. Since its inception in 1997, the firm has backed over 60 companies in industries that include communications and networking hardware and software, cleantech, medtech, computer hardware and software, media, and e-commerce. Amadeus has

Ambient Industries Raises Additional Round of Funding from Amadeus and Eden Ventures for Flook, the Location Browser

IndexTank Launches New Hosted Search API; Secures $1.6M in Seed Round of Funding

San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) February 15, 2011

IndexTank today announced the launch of its real-time, easy to customize, hosted search API for developers. Created to wrangle the massive data available on todays web, IndexTank enables developers to easily import datasets from APIs and databases and quickly leverage them to build or test application ideas. For example, using IndexTank, a developer could create a Yelp experience in just a few hours by indexing a local business dataset freely accessible on the Internet; prior to IndexTank, similar projects would require extensive search expertise and days of search stack engineering work.

The IndexTank search API is free to try and pay-as-you-go. Unlike self-hosted search tools such as Sphinx, Solr or Xapian, IndexTank scales elastically and frees up developers from the heavy lifting of administering and scaling a service. As a result, they can focus more development hours on building the logic of their applications instead.

Before IndexTank, we seemed to continuously outgrow whatever we had in place at the time, said Jeremy Edberg, operations manager at reddit, an early IndexTank adopter. As engineers, we thought about building our own search implementation but the fact that IndexTank worked so well, the decision was easy to make. To have a huge to-do like search off our list is a massive relief.

IndexTank technology is new and different from search tools of the last decade that were designed for simple document retrieval. Able to reflect the dynamic social data on todays web such as tweets, comments and likes, IndexTank features include: real-time feed indexing, instantaneous availability of search data, geo search, automatic faceting, range search for e-commerce and instant insights about the applications indexed data.

Todays web is live with high velocity social content and users expect their contributions to be reflected immediately for a more engaging and fun experience, said Diego Basch, chief executive officer, IndexTank. IndexTank was designed to index and search this new, real-time, social world of content creation filled with votes, tweets and posts. IndexTank gives developers a powerful tool for building exciting new applications based on the creative ideas they envision from any of source of data they discover on the web.

The company also announced today that it has secured $ 1.6 million in seed financing led by Michael Dearing of Harrison Metal and Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures. Freestyle Capital, K9 Ventures, Patagonia Ventures, Wenceslao Casares, Paul Gauthier, Mike Hennessey, Dave Hersh, Othman Laraki, Ben Smith and Tim Stevens also participated in the round.

We are thrilled to have received this level of support from our investment partners and proud that with their strong track records, they see true potential in our hosted search technology, added Basch. We look forward to working closely with Baseline and Harrison Metal as we focus on expanding our development efforts and and empowering developers to create the next wave of great web applications.

Currently powering some of the worlds largest search implementations such as reddit and WordPress, IndexTank will use this funding to continue building out its development team and expanding the core functionality of its search platform technology. Mr. Dearing will join Diego Basch, chief executive officer of IndexTank and Manolo Espinosa, co-founder of IndexTank on the companys Board of Directors.

About IndexTank

IndexTank is a real-time, easy to customize, hosted search API for developers. Created to wrangle the massive data available on todays web, IndexTank enables developers to easily import datasets from APIs and databases and quickly leverage them to build or test application ideas. Free to try and pay-as-you-go, IndexTank is unlike self-hosted search tools and scales elastically and frees up developers from the heavy lifting administering and scaling a service. IndexTank technology is new and is different from search tools of the last decade that were designed to be simple document retrieval systems. IndexTank features include: real-time feed indexing, instantaneous availability of search data, geo search, automatic faceting, range search for e-commerce and instant insights about the applications indexed data.

Located in San Francisco, Calif., IndexTank is backed by notable investors including Harrison Metal and Baseline Ventures. For more information visit http://www.indextank.com

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WP Engine Secures $1.2 Million in Series A Round of Financing Led By Silverton Partners

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) November 15, 2011

WP Engine, the WordPress hosting and security service for bloggers and small businesses, today announced the closing of their Series A round of venture financing.

The $ 1.2 M investment was led by Silverton Partners from Austin, TX, and includes angels Eric Ries, Loic Le Meur, Dharmesh Shah, Jeremy Benken, Bill Boebel, Rob Walling and others. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, also participated with a strategic investment.

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Kip McClanahan, a partner at Silverton, joins WP Engines board of directors.

This round of funding allows WP Engine to further recruit for and scale its product and customer happiness teams, which are comprised of the very best WordPress developers and consultants. The company also plans to ramp partner relations with other elite WordPress service providers.

WP Engine has grown rapidly since its launch in 2010 and now has an install base of over 30,000 personal and professional WordPress blogs.

WP Engine leads the managed WordPress hosting segment with fastest page-load times, scalability, security and a staff of WordPress experts. Additionally, WP Engine provides all customers with a managed CDN for static content delivery, full daily backups, a complimentary staging area, and consultation on themes and plugins.

Were devoted to providing the absolute best customer service and the investment from Silverton allows us to expand the WP Engine platform with the right people to support our growing customer base, said Jason Cohen, founder and CEO of WP Engine. Our roadmap balances building out the features, add-on services and high-touch support teams that customers ask for the most, while avoiding services creep, which is critical. We want to remain the fastest and simplest WordPress hosting company, period. Trust in this business is everything.

Because of the one-stop approach, WP Engine works closely with a network of top WordPress consultants to provide them with the tools they need to get client sites up and running faster than they could alone.

“We’re excited to add WP Engine to our portfolio of leading Texas technology companies,” said Kip McClanahan, a Partner at Silverton. “WP Engine is helping to build out a high-touch platform and services ecosystem for bloggers and consultants, so everyone can focus on what they do best. There is a big opportunity between the plethora of lightweight, downstream hosting companies that casually talk about WordPress on their marketing pages, and Automattics VIP program, which is for only the largest sites and services. WP Engine is for anyone who is serious about WordPress, but not yet ready for VIP.

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Web HSP Announces Free Control Panel Software & "Round the Clock" Technical Support with Every Dedicated Server Package

Norfolk, VA (PRWEB) November 25, 2012

Web HSP has been offering free control panel software along with the latest dedicated software for its customers. A leading service provider for web hosting and domain registration in the United States and Canada, Web HSP has the most competitive in the market while maintaining superior quality in comparison to other leading service providers. Web HSPs efficient and technically savvy support staff is always prepared to assist clients delivering 24/7 support via help desk, live chat or phone.

Spokesperson from Web HSP, Doug Davis explained, We are proud to announce free control panel software along with our dedicated software for our clients across North America. We can confidently guarantee 99.999% up-time, and our support team is just a phone call away to assist when our customers have questions. We can meet any dedicated server requirement that include dedicated email servers, web servers or database servers with our highly talented and professional team

Web HSP is well reviewed as one of the most reliable and efficient web hosting and domain registration providers in the United States. They house dedicated servers, offer shared web hosting, as well as domain registration for small businesses including Server Hosting, WordPress hosting, reseller hosting and much more. The expert staff at Web HSP also reviews and monitors system health on a regular basis. By monitoring the servers health, they are able to identify increases in load or problematic areas and have virtually eliminated downtime.

Web HSP has firmly established themselves as a premier hosting provider, and delivers to clients the very best in hosting solutions. Their company goal remains focused heavily on web eCommerce development. This has gradually evolved into application hosting and SAAS (software as a service). The folks at Web HSP are specialists in expandable hosting that is capable of meeting the hosting requirements of small websites or even large scale corporate networks with server clusters.

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