Desktop Virtualization Company raises $ 10 m from Wanova Lake Greylock and other

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Wanova, a provider of turnkey cloud desktop management raises $ 10 million in series b financing from Carmel Ventures, Greylock Partners and Opus capital. This brings the company's total funding to $ 23 million.

Wanova distributed provides solutions for desktop virtualization to centralize the management of the desktop infrastructure while optimizing the user experience and provides full support for offline use. Wanova Mirage flagship product combines centralized image management PC ability to run images on YOUR PC that allows a company to reduce desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve operations.

With Mirage, PC images, including personalization options, run on the PC, allowing users to take advantage of the native PC performance, including the ability to run multimedia applications and work when you are disconnected from the network.

Wanova actually just scored a big win in the world of IP, declaring it the first United States patent on its interlocking technology, which provides a layered, single image Office PC on your network, local execution images on your PC and optimize synchronization between local and Central images.

The new funds will be utilized towards the establishment of a global sales, support groups and product development.

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Mobile App Opinionaided Q&A raises $ 4.3 million from SoftBank and other

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Q&A mobile services Opinionaided was raised to $ 4.3 million in financing led by SoftBank capital and BlueRun Ventures, General catalyst, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mark Wachen, Jonah Goodhart, Karl Jacob, ENIAC and Vince Monical participation. This brings the company's total funding to $ 5.3 million.

Opinionaided free app allows users to get the iOS tips and opinions on the fly. Within the app, users can type a question, determine the category (i.e., relationships, politics) and submit it to other users of the Opinionaided answer. You can also post your questions on Facebook and Twitter. Once ignored, fellow Opinionaided users can comment on the issue and the application will calculate the percentage of users who responded positively or negatively. From there, users can respond to comments or create a new issue for colleagues to vote for.

Today, Opinionaided in users 125 million answers to consumers since the start of last year. As we reported in June, the application has an average of 73 replies to the question. And users spend almost 3 hour app per month.

Startup also announces new version of its app, includes the new iOS user interface that allows users to send questions via SMS, Twitter and Facebook.

Localmind also offers mobile Q&A.

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Rentcycle raises $ 1.4 million from the joint fund, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and other

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Rentcycle, San Francisco, which became known as "Otkryt'Tablicu rental product, announced today that it raised $ 1.4 million in initial funding. Round headed the joint fund, young seed fund founded by Craig Shapiro, invests in startups on peer-to-peer, sharing resources and creative innovation in business.

A number of other notable VCs and Angels participated in the round, including Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, founder collective and Amicus capital and Angel investors, including Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and Chairman Yelp and founder of Shopzilla Farhad Mohit.

Within the framework of this infusion of capital, Rentcycle also adds two well-known advisers to its roster: Netflix Founder Marc Randolph and Chuck Templeton, founder of the popular restaurant reservation service, Otkryt'Tablicu. (Templeton Rentcycle will also join the Board of Directors.) According to Rentcycle co-founder and CEO Tim Heyer launch will use round to increase employment, especially in the area of rockstar engineers.

So what is it about this young startup with an impressive list of investors and advisers, jazzed to be part of its collective registry? To start the industry Rolled product is the $ 85 billion, the CEO said to me, and this happens as one which is in dire need of a common resource for all things car rental.

It is for this reason that provides composite industry (on the tools and equipment, parties and events for the sports and recreation), with full catalog of many family Rental shops, currently operates in the United States

Thus, when considering Rentcycle from the perspective of a consumer, the platform is a service that allows you to easily find, compare and rent anything and everything online — from skiing jackhammers and bouncy House designer dresses. It's all under one roof. And for the seller, Rentcycle offers cloud-based management solutions that enable businesses to Hire not only bring their brick and mortar operations via the Internet, but also allows you to keep track of their inventory online and manage reservations and payments via the Internet.

Rentcycle graduated from Silicon Valley incubator founder Institute in 2009 and has since gone through several beta launches, with the last iteration will go live in March of this year. Since March launch already has grown to 30 K monthly active users and has been focusing exclusively on building Rental supply and demand for travel, Heyer said.

In the end, from the perspective of the consumer at first glance Rentcycle value proposition is obvious: for those who may still be feeling the effects of the recession, or for those who can not go skiing is enough to make it worth buying a new pair of skis, for example, the lease is the best way to go. Of course, traditionally Rental businesses to sites like Netflix and Airbnb blew up on the main stage were few and far between.

But consumers have become much more comfortable with pay for access to products and services as an alternative to outright purchase, and very well may find themselves at Rentcycle top this new wave as it strives to be an all-in-one car rental resource for all stripes digital commerce. Definitely one to watch.

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