The Florida Venture Forum (http://www.floridaventureforum.org) has selected
17 Florida based companies to present at its Early Stage Venture Capital
Conference, to be held at the Reunion Resort in Orlando on May 10, 2012.
Seventeen of Florida’s best early-stage prospects for equity financing will
make 10-minute presentations to an audience of venture capitalists, private
equity investors, angel investors, investment bankers, financial
intermediaries and entrepreneurs.
Presenting companies are listed by region below:
Central/East Central Florida
BungoBox, (www.BungoBox.com), Casselberry, rents recycled and recyclable
industrial strength plastic moving boxes to commercial and residential
customers as an alternative to traditional cardboard boxes. They have a
strong direct presence in Central Florida, and have established franchises in
Tampa, South Florida, Jacksonvill... (more)
LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/04/12 -- Catalina Film Festival (CFF)
today announced that POW!'s Stan Lee will be honored at the second annual
film festival. The Festival will be held May 4-6, 2012 on the famed Catalina
Island -- a storied Hollywood stomping ground that has been featured in over
500 films, television programs and commercials since 1912. Lee will receive
the "Great Communicator" Award -- an honor bestowed by the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Foundation -- during the Opening Night ceremonies Friday, May 4.
On Saturday, May 5, Lee will host the island premiere o... (more)
BRAINERD, MN -- (Marketwire) -- 05/01/12 -- National and world-class sailors
will compete with sailors from a five-state area as the Gull Lake Yacht Club,
located in north central Minnesota, again hosts the annual E-Scow
Invitational of the Inland Lakes Yachting Association (ILYA), July 12-15,
2012. More than 50 E-scow sailboats, including some of the nation's top
one-design sailors, are expected to participate in five races on Gull Lake
during the three-day event. This year's Gull Lake event marks the third
E-Scow Invitational (1998 & 2003) hosted by Gull Lake Yacht Club.
"We'r... (more)
There’s been a lot of noise lately about a company called Klout, which
recently rounded up another $30 million in venture capital funding from
several big firms. Klout, for those who don’t know it, attempts to put a
single numerical value on your online influence across social-media sites
such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
This effort seems to piss off a lot of people, who detail numerous
shortcomings in a service that aspires to be the metric of choice for
companies trying to reach social-media “influencers,” in much the manner
that Google’s PageRank system helps people un... (more)
Pompano Beach, FL, April 17, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT.L), the
leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services,
announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with GMPCS
to appoint the broadcast media solutions specialist as a Value Added Reseller
of Global Xpress™.
Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) will be the world’s first global Ka-band
network, providing broadcasters with true broadband speeds of up to 50Mbps to
mobile and portable devices. Utilising iDirect technology and user equipment
from the leading manufacturers, Global Xpres... (more)