ExtremePlanner provides Agile Project Management and Planning, as well as issue tracking for distributed development teams and LeanStartups. ExtremePlanner is self-funded. Dave Churchville is Founder and CEO.
eSub provides specialized project management and document control software for construction sub-contractors. Self-funded eSub was Founded and is run by Wendy Swift-Rogers.
Anametrix provides real time business analytics for marketing intelligence. Founded by WebSideStory veterans, Blaise Barralet and Anders Olsson. Anametrix has raised money from several individual investors.
MindTouch was founded in 2005 as an opensource wiki project. It has grown into an enterprise suite of products that help businesses author, discover and curate content of value to customers, partners and colleagues. The company was founded and is led by Steven Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson.
BrightScope rates 401k plans. BrightScope aims to bring financial intelligence, transparency and retirement security to plan sponsors, advisors, and participants. BrightScope was founded and is run by Mike Alfred, Ryan Alfred, and Dan Weeks.
Plixi, formerly TweetPhoto, is both a service for sharing photos through social streams and a platform for developers to add media sharing capabilities to apps running on popular social networking sites. Plixi was founded and is run by Sean Callahan and Rodney Rumford. Investors include Canaan Partners, Anthem Venture Partners and Qualcomm Ventures.
CloudCanvas is a SaaS-based graphic design toolkit. Think PhotoShop in a browser, without Flash or plugins. Cool! CloudCanvas was founded in 2009 by experienced entrepreneur Chance Roth and is currently self-funded.
StockTwits is a social, stock micro-blogging service. Moreover, it is an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Howard Lindzon is Founder and CEO. StockTwits is backed by several angel investors, as well as True Ventures and the Foundry Group.
Xpenser provides an easy way to track your business expenses. Designed to work within your normal workflow, you can email, sms, Tweet, IM, etc., your expenses w/o logging on to their system. You can even photograph your receipt with your iphone and send it off to Xpenser the way you see fit. Cool. Xpenser is run by Parand Darugar and is currently bootstrapped.
MojoPages does meta recommendations. In other words, they analyze all the recommendations of local stores and recommend the best recommendations. Mix in some gaming mechanics and cash-back dynamics and you have a competitive take on the crowded and complicated local search market. Crunchbase’s founder and leader is Jon Carder and is backed financially by Austin Ventures.