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05.13.08 Report: One Albany firm received venture funding in 1Q Apprenda, a software company in Clifton Park, was the lone Albany area company to receive venture capital in the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest MoneyTree Report. That came from High Peaks Venture Partners, a Troy venture firm. 05.12.08 McCormick Appointed New Chairman Of Waterfront Media Waterfront Media, parent of Everyday Health, appoints cable and online vet Doug McCormick as chairman of the board. He succeeds Bo Peabody, Tripod co-founder and co-founder/managing general partner of Village Ventures, and chairman of Waterfront since 2003. 05.02.08 Nonbank lenders pick up financing slack for small businesses Fewer government-backed loans, tighter banking for small businesses fuel alternative lenders like Village Ventures portfolio company, On Deck Capital. 05.01.08 Businesses try to Net financial assistance Thanks to the Internet and the power of automation, a new wave of online financiers, including On Deck Capital, have emerged help small-businesses get financing to grow. Village Ventures Matt Harris is comments on the growth in this sector. 04.24.08 Starting Up: Setting value of young company is more art than science Mark Solon, managing partner at Highway 12 Ventures, a Village Ventures partner fund, contributes a piece to the series "Starting Up" in the Idaho Statesman. 04.22.08 Boom for travel sites — Can they make money? With hundreds of travel sites now existing...how are they all going to make money? Enter Travel Ad Network, TAN, which wants to help place ads at all these sites. It just raised $15 million from Rho Ventures, Village Ventures and individuals. The money will be used to increase advertising across travel websites. The company says it is serving 50 sites already. 04.20.08 Angel investors can give wings to young companies Bela Musits is the managing director of Troy-based High Peaks Venture Partners, a Village Ventures partner fund, comments on young companies and their need for angel investors. 04.07.08 SocialSpark: Candy Colored Shilling Village Ventures funded IZEA (formerly PayPerPost) has soft launched their new social network for “posties” Social Spark 04.02.08 Idaho Makes Gains Attracting Venture Capital Village Ventures' Partner Fund Manager Mark Solon discusses the spike in investment in Idaho's high-tech industry. 04.02.08 CareAnyware Gets $2M Credit from SaaS Capital Saas Capital Inc., a Village Ventures' portfolio company, has extended $2 million in credit to CareAnyware, Inc. to further fund its Web-based applications for home health and hospice providers. 03.26.08 Where the next big thing can get a lift off the ground Investors, entrepreneurs connect on the slopes for Peak Pitch, hosted by Village Ventures' partner fund, High Peaks Venture Partners. 03.25.08 Beauty and the Blog Village Ventures portfolio company, Makeover Solutions, is mentioned in an article about Web 2.0 entering the "lipstick jungle." 03.25.08 IZEAFest coming to Orlando in the fall IZEA, a Village Ventures portfolio company, is bringing its annual convention to Orlando in September. 03.14.08 Media is the message for Village VC Bo Peabody Bo Peabody speaks to Mass High Tech special sections editor Rodney Brown about the state of interactive media in New England. 03.12.08 Lift up the slopes lifts prospects Windham event, organized by High Peaks Venture Partners, pairs entrepreneurs with investors to boost new companies. 03.03.08 Putting Innovation in the Hands of a Crowd IF executives are going to rely on the wisdom of the masses for business help, it’s probably time the masses get a little compensation for it. That’s the theory behind Village Ventures' portfolio company Kluster, the newest in a lineup of companies using the Web to channel the collective wisdom of strangers into meaningful business strategies. 02.28.08 Cash to get you off the ground Mitch Jacobs, CEO of On Deck Capital, recommends Village Ventures as a resource for companies looking for early-stage funding. 02.26.08 Small-business lender gets cash infusion A financial services startup formed by ex-MBNA executives scored a second round of venture capital funding this month...from investors including Sutter Hill Ventures, Village Ventures, Permit Capital LLC and Marchall & Ilsley Corp. 02.21.08 Gore, Geldof, Venter...And This Guy? Investors, including Village Ventures, have poured $3 millon into Web startup, Kluster. 02.21.08 Swift Financial Corporation Raises $20 Million Swift Financial, the direct financial services company dedicated to small business banking, today announced the close of its Series B Preferred Stock financing round of $20 million, bringing the total investment in the company to $26.5 million. Investors included Sutter Hill Ventures, Village Ventures, Permit Capital and a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation. 01.28.08 So Many, Many Words LOGIN REQUIRED A couple of years ago, Travelocity decided it had to get to know its customers better....so they turned to software maker Attensity Corp., to quickly analyze documents and pull out vital customer information. 01.24.08 Venture Firms Peek Out Of Silicon Valley Venture capital is slowly going national. The most well-known names on the Midas List still come from the two poles around which the venture capital world revolves--Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, Calif., and Route 128, near Boston..."The dominance of Silicon Valley in the total venture industry is not going to last forever," says Village Ventures co-founder Matt Harris.

05.06.08 SaaS Capital funds NC's CareAnywhere's mobile healthcare applications CareAnywhere, a company selling mobile and Web-based applications to home health and hospice providers, has raised $2 million from SaaS Capital Inc. of Cincinnati, OH. 05.06.08 Highway 12 Hires New Partners Highway 12 Ventures, Inc., an early-stage regional venture capital firm, today announced the addition of two new General Partners to its management team. Miles Mahoney and Glenn Michael have joined the firm to support the growing number of entrepreneurs and start-ups in the Mountain West, the fastest growing region in the country. 04.28.08 Vico Software Offers Construction Software for Students and Teachers Vico Software, Inc., providers of Virtual ConstructionTM software and services, today unveiled a new education initiative. The company will offer its signature Virtual Construction 2008 software suite and training materials free of charge to students, teachers, and accredited institutions. 04.21.08 Travel Ad Network Closes Series A Institutional Round of Financing Travel Ad Network (TAN), the leading and largest vertical ad network in travel, announced today that it has closed a Series A round of financing. The $15 million round was led by Rho Ventures, Village Ventures and individual investors. 04.15.08 IZEA Launches SocialSpark(TM) IZEA, the world's largest social marketing network, today unveiled SocialSpark(TM), a first-of-its-kind advertiser focused social network that re-invents the way online marketers identify and empower brand advocates, and the way bloggers monetize their content. 04.08.08 CallMiner and Aspect Software Awarded Contract by Daimler Financial Services Americas CallMiner, the leader in advanced speech analytics, and the PerformanceEdge Group of Aspect Software, the world's largest company focused solely on unified communications for the contact center, have been chosen by Daimler Financial Services Americas to monitor the quality, content, context, intention and outcome of contact center conversations. 03.14.08 High Peaks Closes Investment in SaaS Platform Company Apprenda High Peaks, a Village Ventures affiliate fund, has invested $500,000 in Clifton Park based Apprenda. The capital will enable Apprenda to complete their beta testing phase and move to full commercial launch of its Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, SaaSGrid. 03.04.08 Waterfront Media Renews Agreement with South Beach Diet and Rodale Inc. Waterfront Media announced today a multi-year extension of its agreement with South Beach Diet and Rodale Inc. to publish South Beach Diet Online. This agreement marks the five-year anniversary of the launch of the site and the publication of the original South Beach Diet, the bestselling diet book in history. 02.26.08 HTG Appoints Jonathan Sheridan VP of Commercial Operations HTG, Inc., a provider of novel array-based gene expression assay technology and services for the life sciences industry, today announced it has named Jonathan M. Sheridan to the position of Vice President of Commercial Operations. In addition to Sheridan’s appointment, the company also announced the opening of a second office location in Madison, Wisconsin which Sheridan will manage. 02.26.08 LTSave & University Of Miami Partner To Provide Portfolio Management For Retirement Planning To Empl LTSave and the University of Miami, one of the nation’s premier research universities, today announced the launch of a new retirement account portfolio management program designed to aid its more than 10,800 employees with retirement planning. 02.21.08 Swift Financial Corporation Raises $20 Million Swift Financial, the direct financial services company dedicated to small business banking, today announced the close of its Series B Preferred Stock financing round of $20 million, bringing the total investment in the company to $26.5 million. Investors included Sutter Hill Ventures, Village Ventures, Permit Capital and a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation. 02.06.08 MaxCyte to Present at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference MaxCyte, Inc., a clinical-stage therapeutics company and pioneer in clinical, non-viral cell loading systems, announces Douglas Doerfler, President & CEO, will be presenting at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference in New York, Waldorf=Astoria, on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 11:45AM. 01.30.08 GetWellNetwork hires new CFO GetWellNetwork Inc. has named Irwin Studen as new chief financial officer. Studen previously consulted a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR Golder Rauner LLC. 01.29.08 Talkster Partners with VoodooVox for Free Ad-Supported Calls Award-winning Voice 2.0 company Talkster announced today a strategic partnership with advertising services firm, VoodooVox™, to ad-enable Talkster calls around the globe. 01.22.08 HTG Appoints TJ Johnson President and CEO HTG, Inc., a provider of novel array-based gene expression assay technology and services for the life sciences industry, today announced that it has appointed Tim (TJ) Johnson to the position of president and chief executive officer. 01.22.08 Makeover Solutions Taps McClennan Leading the charge in innovative and engaging beauty technology, Makeover Solutions “makes over” its executive team with the appointment of Jeannette McClennan as CEO and President.

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