Accept Software designs applications made for product planning and marketing. Some of their customers include Intuit, Tibco, VMware, Fidelity, and Viasys. According to a filing with an SEC, Accept Software raised a whopping $17 million round of funding. $15.4 million out of an $18 million targeted round, Accept Software is based in Fremont, California.
The investors involved in this round was led by StarVest Partners LP. Jefferson Partners and The Entrepreneurs Fund (TEF) also participated. There are also board members from The Entrepreneurs Fund and StarVest Partners on their Board of Directors. The press release is available here.
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Passenger is a Software-as-a-Service company that allows customers to interact with their customers and announced today that they have raised $8.3 million. in Series B. According to Dan Beldy of Steamboat Ventures, Passenger allows “companies redefine their customer relationships by fundamentally changing the way consumers are able to communicate with their brands.”
Some of Passenger’s clients include ABC, Coca-Cola, and Sara Lee. These clients pay Passenger to set up networks for them and get the users to sign up via email invitations or banner ads. According to Red Herring, ABC Studios used Passenger software to “gather viewer opinions on the plotlines of Ugly Betty and Lost.
Passenger enables clients to set-up live sessions where users can engage in conversation with brand reps. Passenger also allows easy to setup Discussions, Polls, Activities, Message Centers (allows members to exchange files), client dashboards, and a social network.
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[1] Red Herring: Passenger on Board with $8.3M
