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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123ContactForm.com Secures Investment and Takes Online Form Building to an Upper Level

(PRWEB) July 06, 2011

123ContactForm.com, a European startup, which offers the easiest online form builder, is announcing latest company news. During the last 6 months, the team raised an angel investment round from a local investor, completely redesigned the website and added many new features and integrations with third party services.

Adrian Gheara, angel investor and entrepreneur, partnered with the 123ContactForm team in 2010 and offered financial aid and expertise. With additional funding, new talent was added to the team, which boosted the business development in the last 6 months, and will further support the growth of the user-base. 123ContactForm will expand its operations from the European & US markets to other international markets. The additional funding allowed the company to quickly enhance the application and add many new features and service integrations, which makes forms very powerful tools for any website owner or administrator.

123ContactForm has made major improvements to its platform:

The website was completely redesigned and rebuilt from ground-up for a better user experience.
A new drag & drop real-time form editor that allows users to view modifications instantly.
Integration of third party applications (Google Docs, MailChimp, SalesForce, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Google Sites, WebHook, and more) that facilitate data manipulation and post-processing. With these integrations in place, forms are much more than just forms. All website owners should take advantage of these powerful tools and link their forms with other business processes.
A form management application for Facebook which makes it very simple to post forms on Facebook pages;
Form management plugins for different blogging platforms, like WordPress, Blogger.
Integration of three payment processors: PayPal, Google Checkout and Authorize.net, that can be used within forms to accept payments from submitters;
New form field types that ease and improve form-submitter interaction, and a new theme manager to increase the appeal of the forms.

The 123ContactForm service is still free, as it has always been, with the option to scale up and upgrade to premium accounts if needed.

About 123ContactForm

Launched in 2008, in Timisoara, Romania, by Florin Cornianu and Tudor Bastea, 123ContactForm provides complex web form creation services. During the past few years, the 123ContactForm engine has become one of the worldwide most popular and professional platforms in its field. More details about the new platform features can be found on the 123ContactForm Blog.

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123ContactForm.com Secures Investment and Takes Online Form Building to an Upper Level

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.

Automattic today also announced VIP Support for Web Hosts, a new partner program for web hosts that excel at hosting WordPress sites and blogs. WP Engine is the launch partner for the program.

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.

WP Engine was founded to be the fastest and easiest way to keep your content or commerce-based blog up and running at optimal speed. Key features include:

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