VoIP Logic Hits Financial and Corporate Milestones

VoIP Logic Hits Financial and Corporate Milestones

VoIP Logic, (www.voiplogic.com),
a leading provider of voice-over-IP (VoIP) Managed Services and
solutions, today announced several noteworthy corporate and financial
milestones from the ITEXPO East 2009 in Miami.
VoIP Logic provides a comprehensive set of VoIP Managed Services,
Engineering and Integration Professional Services. In addition, the
company's proprietary Cortex® OSS
helps carriers and service providers to easily deploy and manage
customized, scalable VoIP systems and solutions.

For 2008, VoIP Logic reported:

• An increase in headcount to 35;


• An 82% increase in annual revenue from 2007 – 2008;


• An expanded customer footprint into Central and Latin
  America;


• An increase of 40 carrier Managed Services customers; and


• An additional 8 new retail VoIP service providers using
  Cortex OSS CEO

Micah Singer noted that, "Now, more than ever, outsourcing telecom deployment,
integration and ongoing support for VoIP technology has proven to be a
cost-effective and a results-driven decision for carriers and service
providers who have become more sensitive to ROI."
In addition to a few dozen publicly referenced customers, VoIP Logic
now provides infrastructure, integration and technology assistance to
more than 160 carriers and service providers worldwide.

About VoIP Logic
VoIP Logic is a leading global provider
of VoIP managed services and solutions. The company enables
telecommunications service providers worldwide to build and manage
customized, flexible and scalable IP telephony rollouts. With the
addition of its award-winning Cortex® OSS,
VoIP Logic provides a comprehensive, and fully neutral, set of
on-demand solutions for service providers looking to use VoIP
technology. Founded in 2003, the company is headquartered in
Williamstown, MA, with hosting hubs in North America, Europe and
Asia-Pacific.

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Without further ado, give you my latest article:

Clean tech perseveres in tough economy

By Efrain Viscarolasaga

The pre-holiday Fourth Conference on Clean Energy at the Hynes Convention Center is long since over, but the event has traditionally proven to be a litmus test for the local clean energy industry.

Surprisingly, the event maintained at least a slight feeling of optimism for the long-term prospects of the local clean technology community, despite the plunging stock market, tightening financial environment and plummeting price of oil. If nothing else, its success bolstered the industry’s position among the region’s traditional industry heavyweights such as telecom, biotech and finance, and left attendees feeling that the industry has a future beyond next year’s event.

Some notes:

• Stealthy portable battery maker Lilliputian Systems Inc. of Wilmington made an appearance at the conference, with new vice president of business development and marketing Mouli Ramani walking the halls. Though the company had a small presence at the show, its big announcement came from its Wilmington facility, where Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick attended an event and helped the company announce the addition of 100 new “green collar” jobs through a planned expansion of its manufacturing plant.

The expansion comes as the company finally put a target date — 2009 — on the release of its portable fuel cell for wireless devices.

For the uninitiated, Lilliputian was founded out of MIT on research developed by Samuel Schaevitz and Aleks Franz, Lilliputian’s co-founders. In 2003 they added CEO Ken Lazarus, and despite raising more than $60 million in funding, the company has remained fairly quiet about its technology.

Over the past few months, a slow stream of information coming out of the company seems to indicate that it has solved the technology issues, and units could be forthcoming as soon as next year.

While such miniature, portable fuel cells have been researched both here and in Asia for years, they have always been “some time away.” If Lilliputian has indeed solved the technology issues, and has a device that can penetrate the $50 billion portable power market, it is no surprise the governor turned out for its expansion announcement.

When you consider the applicability of such power sources on everything from cell phones and music players to GPS units and laptops, 100 new jobs to get them out the door may be just the beginning.

• Two local companies used the conference to announce new funding. Cellulosic ethanol microbe developer SunEthanol Inc. announced its name change to Qteros Inc. and brought in $25 million, while alternative engine technology maker ReGen Power Systems LLC added $5 million to its coffers.

What’s interesting about the two deals is that despite the Chicken Little syndrome that has many in the industry saying no “new money” is coming out of the VC community, both deals included new investors. Qteros’ new investors include Cambridge-based Venrock, New York-based Soros Fund Management LLC and energy giant BP PLC, joining previous investors Battery Ventures,Long River Ventures and Camros Capital.

For ReGen Power Systems, the investment represents the firm’s first private funding, though it previously received $500,000 from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. It’s new investors are New York-based 21Ventures LLC and the Quercus Trust.

Despite being held during the heart of one of the worst financial weeks in recent history, the economic outlook of the clean energy sector was positive among attendees of the conference. The financial sections of the event, including the annual “investor pitch” sessions, where budding entrepreneurs pitch their company to potential investors, were among the most-attended sessions of the event.

• The atmosphere was likewise positive at the conference’s job fair, where a handful of companies still hiring people (rather than laying them off) fielded questions from a room packed with potential employees. According to Matthew Richards, the founder and managing director of renewable energy recruiting firm DanePartners, which sponsored the job fair, the abundance of job seekers wasn’t all that surprising, given the economy. The number of companies hiring, however, including Conservation Services Group of Westborough, Satcon Technologies Corp. of Boston, Konarka Technologies Inc. of Lowell, Evergreen Solar Inc. of Marlborough and Second Wind Inc. of Somerville, was encouraging.

Among the areas that were most active, said Richards, were green-collar jobs, those that require hands-on knowledge of technologies, both new and traditional. Sectors most active on the recruitment side included energy efficiency and demand-response companies, as opposed to core technology research companies in the wind, solar or biomass sectors.

Regen Power Systems secures $5 Million from 21Ventures

ReGen Power Systems secures funding for heat capture kit
Stirling engine technology promises to turn waste heat from industrial facilities into usable electricity

Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen, 21 Nov 2008

Cogeneration equipment company ReGen Power Systems has scooped $5m (£3m) in funding to help bring its stirling engine-based heat conversion technology to market.

The New Salem, MA-based firm closed the equity financing round with 21Ventures LLC and the Quercus Trust. The investment will be used to fund the production of two prototype units, designed to harvest heat from industrial plants and convert it to electricity.

The company's design uses heat exchangers to capture heat from industrial plants such as glass furnaces. The exchangers transfer the heat to piston-based stirling engines, which are used to generate electrical power instead of regular turbines.

Chief executive Dick Meloy said that the company's equipment will operate in the one to five megawatt range, which he claims is generally too small for turbines. He added that there is a $9bn revenue opportunity in selling stirling engines to smaller plants in the US alone.

The company will produce two types of stirling engine. The first will be designed to operate at higher temperatures, and will be suitable for heat intensive industrial facilities such as glass, steel, aluminium and cement works.

The second will operate at 100 degrees centigrade and will act as a steam condenser. "That suits industries that produce lots of steam, such as pulp and paper, chemicals, and petroleum refining," Meloy explained.

The stirling engines could also serve as the power conversion element in thermal solar power generation, where mirrors focus the sun's rays to create steam, he said.

The company hopes to start selling units commercially by the end of 2010, and Meloy said that when operational and manufacturing costs are taken into account, the technology could deliver electricity at about six tenths of a cent per kilowatt hour.

However, that price would not include upfront capital expenditure on the equipment, which could cost $1,200 to $1,600 per Kw, and installation costs of between $250 and $600 per Kw.

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Seed Funding - 21Ventures and Cognisafe

October 1,2008 -

21Ventures announces investment in CogniSafe Ltd. - Anti-cheat software provider for online-games


New York, NY and Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 1, 2008 --- 21Ventures, a U.S. based venture capital firm, announced today a seed investment in CogniSafe Ltd. – an Israeli company providing real-time anti-cheat software solution for online games . The funding is earmarked for sales and marketing and ongoing product development. “CogniSafe brings an exciting new approach to solve the cheating problem in online games, a problem which causes significant losses to gaming companies and harms the players ability to enjoy the challenge and adventure of a cheat-free game environment. Just like online banking and commerce services, the online gaming industry is vulnerable to fraud and cheating, but no real time solution has been presented so far to solve the cheating problem. We believe that CogniSafe solution will become the standard in detection and prevention of cheating in online games and we are happy to be among the first to identify CogniSafe potential” said David Anthony, Managing Partner of 21Ventures. The cheating problem in online games causes game providers to remove tens of thousands of paying players every month, due to suspected cheating. The removal is usually done following a complaint from other players, or after a post mortem analysis of player's actions. In addition, a significant number of legitimate players abandon some game titles, and cease paying, when they feel they have been cheated. CogniSafe's solution enables online game providers to detect, in real time, any deviation from proper gaming procedures by the online players, and remove cheaters from participation in the game, thus makes cheating attempts futile and enables other players to continue and enjoy a cheat-free gaming experience. "There is a clear need in the market for a real-time solution that will enable the gaming companies to really understand the magnitude of the cheating phenomena, gather evidence against cheaters, and remove them from the game before they affect the gaming experience for other players ”, said Izik Shimon, CEO of CogniSafe. Izik continues "We are already engaged with several leaders in the online gaming industry, which understand the potential of increasing the integrity of their games and avoiding significant losses, by working with CogniSafe".

Want to read more? Check out some of these links...

• 21Ventures-Cognisafe Press Release - PDF
  
• 21Ventures Cognisafe Press Release on 21Ventures Site
  
• Read the Cognisafe / 21Ventures article on emedia- CLICK HERE!
  
• Cognisafe contact details
  
• Read about Cognisafe in WiMax
  
• Read about Cognisafe on The Individual
• Gambling News about Cognisafe
• Read about Cognisafe in Dow Jones Industrial
• Cognisafe on Lexis Nexus
• Cognisafe Microsoft Partner Page

David Anthony of 21Ventures speaking in Memphis 2008

Hey Folks, just wanted to share one of my videos with you, of me speaking in Memphis earlier this year.

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Don't flutter yourself

Hey folks, just wanted to tell you about one of the companies i invest in that now offers a cool flutter application for the iphone

Juicecaster/flutter for the iphone. Send MMS from your iphone.

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Juicecaster for the Blackberry.

Have a great week!

David Anthony