Bitvore raised Series A Funding Rounds

A business information gathering and analysis company, California based Bitvore has raised a Series A funding on March 2014.It supports cloud based service that provides real time information to business firms. It functions as support services that receives several sources of dynamic data and identify important information based on continuously changing business needs. Finally, the company share the results with other systems in real- time in cloud community.

 Precisely, Bitvore consumes massive volumes of changing content from structured and unstructured data sources (such as websites, blog postings, email and Twitter) organizes it by concept and context – presents it to the users based on their preference. According to the company its sources ranges from internal databases and emails to external websites and social media. The company counts a growing number of investment houses and Wall Street firms among its customer base.

 The investors in Series A funding rounds include Southern California tech investor Yuri Pikover and about quarter sum of money in total $4.5M raised from crowd-funding sources. Bitvore differs from other companies of similar kind those create big data analytics technology that requires months of development and specialized work by data scientists. Bitvore claims, information available with them are specific, but simple enough that even someone with no experience could make it productive within less time. Finally, unlike traditional big data mining tools, Bitvore software can quickly be reconfigured by the customer to add new topics and offers.

An e-Commerce site for Art Photography

YellowKorner, Paris e-Commerce company founded in 2005 deals with the sale of art photographs online. Established with an objective to give the general public access to limited edition art photography from around the world, presently it has equipped to cater to the requirement of all sectors of the population with wide-ranging selection. The photography genre includes dream and creation, fashion, landscape, music, nature, sport and technic, travel, urban, black and white, colorful, conceptual, graphic, life scenes, portrait, uncluttered, and vintage.

YellowKorner ecommerce company side viewThe photographs are available in several formats and canvas sizes and the corresponding number of copies could be 30, 200 or 500 copies, all with the consent of the artist.  At present, YellowKorner sells photos via the internet and in about 70 boutiques across Europe and the US. As a future objective, the company aims to expand presence in the US by growing to 20 galleries within 2 years together with launching new markets in South Korea, Japan, and Brazil. The firm has been funded with $3.22M in Seed funding rounds by Charles Beigbeder, Audacia. The raised money would be utilized to establish a network of boutiques via a franchise approach rather than owned boutiques. The company targets on consumer-based nations who are ready to spend money on art photography and the audience could be of any age and is not based on gender favoritism.

 YellowKorner also secured 7.5M Euros fund from Seed funding rounds by investors like A Plus Finance, UFG-Siparex, 360° Capital Partners, Louis-Christophe Laurent, PriceMinister co-founder Pierre Kosciusko Morizet. Also, the website explained in detail about the usual delay in delivery of product citing each country, international and domestic shipping delay cited separately.

Bitcoin Payment Gateway by GoCoin

The GoCoin is a payment gateway for Bitcoin, as if alias of paypal, authorize.net or many of such kinds which enables merchants to accept Bitcoin and Litecoin payments at checkout. The company is solely a platform that operates for bitcoin exchanges that is on the way to gain supremacy over economic world as alternative currency. Since introduced in 2009, Bitcoin has not gained appreciable acceptance from customer side as a fully functioning virtual currency. Bitcoin or cryptocurrency aimed to function as a kind of digital money, means it had to work as a unit of account, a medium of exchange, and a store of value. As bitcoin has not tied to any country or union of nations, or subject to any regulation the validity on its monetary value and potency could be a matter of disbelief. For instance,yet the lion’s share of US population is unaware of Bitcoin, sounds strange but true.

Now, to make the integration easy with customer URL, for checkout payment gateway the company provide a  ready API(Application Programming Interface). Since there exists many suspicions about Bitcoin, the company has taken a challenge to close all loop holes by timely monitoring of Bitcoin regulations and proceed appropriately to ensure all appropriate registrations.

The company has been funded around $2.05M in Seed and Series A funding rounds raised by Prolific Venture Capital, Owen Van Natta, Andrew Frame, Bit Angels, Mikael Pawlo, Jonathan Congdon, Ruvento,  Ronnie Wee, Gary Stiffelman, David Neuman, BitcoinShop, Owen Van Natta. The team plans to utilize the funds to increase geographical span and appoint more engineers. Being a startup, company focus on providing Bitcoin payment processing for e-Commerce, digital content and interactive or social gaming companies. It also focus to launch current beta product publicly with an target on the Asian and South American countries. Perseus Telecom, Robocoin, Agreed.com, Bitcoin Shop, Inc., QikFunder and KnCminer are some of the customers of GoCoin.

 

Business Analysis Made Easy

The UK based Ometria, works for online retailers and business firms to organize data, and perform an analytical study to equip the business with market updates and customer behavior. In the current scenario, the competition in e-commerce field is an all-time high, hence the need for right data-driven marketing to fathom the present selling goods and services, targeted clients and steps to be adopted to make the next order worthy enough stands high. Here comes the strategic intervention of Ometria as a user-friendly support tool focusing on retailers. The platform does not intricate the business analysis by incorporating a multitude of analytic tool, but employ e-commerce intelligence tools and make the market research in an optimized grade.

Ometria supplies an e-commerce analysis platform that facilitates the user’s various functionalities that includes browsing abandonment tools to collect the E-mail addresses of visitors by the retailers. The users can validate marketing mix by analyzing the lifetime value of customers that users get from each source, and get more of the best ones and view detailed information about customers and visitors, across all their devices. It again provides an option to see the specific recommendations for which products to promote to improve overall profitability. The platform also facilitates an on-floor walkthrough online store in real-time to see who is shopping and what they are browsing.

 The company has received a Seed funding of $1.5M  in March 2014 raised by Alastair Mitchell, Andy McLoughlin, Tim Jackson, Phil Wilkinson, Guy Westlake, Sean Cornwell, Ned Cranborne, Shan Drummond. The company said they would utilize the money to expand the span including a plan to establish an office in Moscow and further develop the platform. It’s a fast-growing venture serving a $1 trillion industry whose customers include well-known British Brands like John Smedley and Charlotte Tilbury, and recent press includes The Telegraph.