February 2010
TOA: 2009 Product of the Year
TOA Technologies, has received a 2009 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. "TOA has demonstrated excellence in contact center technologies as well as providing ROI for the companies that use them," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. TOA is the only on-demand mobile workforce management solution for large enterprise customers. The award winners will be featured in the January 2010 issue of the magazine, www.cismag.com. Learn more about TOA at www.toatech.com.
Feb 23 | Permalink
Carnegie Learning Wins $2.4 M Contract
Carnegie Learning has been awarded a $2.4 million contract from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to provide supplemental math instruction to more than 3,000 middle school students in the state. The 2-year program launches in fall 2010 and includes an extensive professional development component to provide 170 hours of training per teacher per year in math content and instructional methods. The goal of the program is to prepare students in grades 5-8 to pass and move successfully to high school. Learn more at www.carnegielearning.com.
Feb 9 | Permalink
CardioInsight Closes $6 Million Funding Round
CardioInsight Technologies has closed a $6 million Series B round of funding with Draper Triangle, Dr. Michel Haissaguerre and company management participating. With the infustion of capital, CardioInsight will accelerate and expand its clinical studies program to include new centers such as the Cleveland Clinic and Penn Medicine Hospital University of PA, as well as to complete the product development program for the first commercial system, targeted for regulatory approval and commercial release in 2011. Learn more about this breakthrough technology at www.cardioinsight.com.
Feb 9 | Permalink
ThinkVine Helps Determine "What If" Strategies
Since 2007, ThinkVine has been helping marketers answer the "What would happen if ..." question as it relates to proposed marketing efforts on a target audience. Using its The Emerging Marketplace software, the company creates simulated consumers based on scientific expertise on how real people behave in the marketplace; enabling companies to gage how consumers will react to marketing investments. Although this type of agent-based modeling isn't new, ThinkVine is one of the first to apply the concept to market optimization. Learn more about the technology and ThinkVine the company at www.thinkvine.com.
Feb 9 | Permalink
Patients, Physicians Rely on ChemoFx to Support Treatment Decisions
ChemoFx(R), a test produced by Precision Therapeutics, is a drug response marker that shows promising results in helping to determine individual cancer treatment plans. ChemoFx has pioneered a method of identifying cancer cell response and sensitivity to various chemotherapeutic and biologic agents at the biopsy stage, providing a custom blueprint of a patient's probable tumor response before treatment begins. The national trend has patients acting as partners in making cancer treatment decisions, and ChemoFx can help provide another layer of information to those decisions. Learn more at www.ChemoFx.com.
Feb 4 | Permalink
Co-eXprise Closes First $2M VC Deal
Co-eXprise, Inc., a developer of supply chain software, has closed its first round of venture funding with a $2 million raise from Draper Triangle. Up to this point, the 6 year old company has relied on Angel investors. Jay has joined the Board of Directors. Learn all about the company that received our largest initial investment ever at www.co-exprise.com.
Feb 2 | Permalink
ClearCount Receives 510(k) Clearance for SmartWand-DTX
ClearCount Medical Solutions has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin commercialization of its SmartWand-DTX system. This complementary offering to ClearCount's SmartSponge System provides an economical and flexible approach to implementing the latest RFID technology. ClearCount is the only provider of RFID-based systems for the prevention of retained surgical sponges. Both of ClearCount's innovative patient safety solutions are now available through Medline Industries, Inc. Learn more about the SmartSponge and SmartWand-DTX systems at www.clearcount.com.
Feb 2 | Permalink
