San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2008 – Granite Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the technology sector, today announced that it has added a web-based career resource, VentureCareers, to assist portfolio companies in promoting unique career opportunities. VentureCareers is hosted by VentureLoop, the worldwide leader in jobs exclusively for the venture-backed community.

“We consistently focus on partnering with our portfolio companies to find and develop the kind of talent that builds winning teams,” said Standish O’Grady, managing director at Granite Ventures. “We are employing the VentureCareers system as another resource for helping our portfolio companies identify the best and brightest candidates for their open positions.”

“Granite Ventures has built a solid reputation for identifying companies well positioned to succeed, and we are pleased to add them to our client roster,” said Jeremy McCarthy, CEO of VentureLoop. “The Granite portfolio of companies represents a nice cross section of early-stage technology companies in the software, services and communications sectors – interesting areas that create unique job opportunities.”

About Granite Ventures, LLC

Granite Ventures has been helping early-stage technology companies build solid foundations for success since 1992. Granite has managed over $1 billion in venture capital and has invested in more than 100 private companies. They partner with promising and successful entrepreneurs to create businesses that have a competitive edge, and help those businesses achieve category leadership. More information can be found at www.granitevc.com.

About VentureLoop

VentureLoop is the leading website dedicated to job postings for emerging venture-backed companies and startup companies. VentureLoop creates direct relationships with the world’s top venture capital firms to connect their portfolio companies with quality candidates. Candidates can search the VentureLoop website for thousands of jobs at startups and growth companies backed by top-tier venture capital firms. VentureLoop’s VentureCareers product is a hosted career page for venture capital firms, allowing portfolio companies to advertise job openings directly onto their venture capital firm’s public website. VentureLoop also publishes the weekly VentureLoop Emerging Growth Newsletter, which communicates valuable information about emerging growth company news, funding, and career advice. Find out more at www.ventureloop.com.

CONTACT:

For VentureLoop:

David Libby

dlibby@twopinspr.com

For Granite Ventures:

Theresa Maloney

theresa@cogentacom.com

Promotes Job Opportunities at Portfolio Companies

Boston, MA, August 19, 2008HLM Venture Partners, a Boston and San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in funding health care companies, announced today that it has launched VentureCareers on its website to promote professional job opportunities at its portfolio companies.

VentureCareers is a career site used by over twenty of the country’s leading venture firms to promote openings at their portfolio companies. The jobs posted through VentureCareers are aggregated at www.ventureloop.com, which currently has over 5,600 job postings at 726 venture-backed companies.

Through the VentureCareers site, portfolio company jobs are posted directly to a career page on HLM’s website to solicit candidates. The site was developed by VentureLoop, which has a number of products and services designed to connect growth companies, talent, entrepreneurs and resources.

According to VentureLoop co-founder Jeremy McCarthy, “Through our extensive network of relationships with venture capital firms, entrepreneurs and service providers, we develop a valuable pool of talent for clients and save them the time and expense of handling recruitment themselves. Many of the job postings found on VentureLoop cannot be found on any other job board.”

Vin Fabiani, a partner at HLM noted “One of the key ways we can help our portfolio companies grow successfully is to help recruit talent. By partnering with VentureLoop, we provide our portfolio companies with access to an additional pool of candidates at no additional cost.”

About VentureLoop

VentureLoop is the leading website dedicated to job postings for emerging venture-backed companies and startup companies. VentureLoop creates direct relationships with the world’s top venture capital firms to connect their portfolio companies with quality candidates. Candidates can search the VentureLoop website for thousands of jobs at startups and growth companies backed by top-tier venture capital firms. VentureLoop’s VentureCareers product is a hosted career page for venture capital firms, allowing portfolio companies to advertise job openings directly onto their venture capital firm’s public website. VentureLoop also publishes the weekly VentureLoop Emerging Growth Newsletter, which communicates valuable information about emerging growth company news, funding, and career advice. Find out more at www.ventureloop.com.

About HLM Venture Partners

HLM Venture Partners provides venture capital to emerging companies focused on health care information technology, health care services and medical technology. During the past 15 years, HLM has helped more than 60 privately-held health care companies turn innovative ideas into market-leading businesses. The company’s investment professionals have over 125 years of collective expertise in the health care industry, an accumulation of knowledge and experience that is invaluable to the leadership of its portfolio companies. For more information, visit: www.hlmventurepartners.com

Venture capital firms raised $9.1 billion from their investors in the second quarter of 2008, or 3 percent more than they did during the same period a year ago.

While the stock market has tanked, venture capital firms have been able to raise money in part because they invest for the long-term, and their investors may see venture capital as a way to diversify now that many other parts of the economy are hurting. Private equity firms, or those that buy or invest in later-stage companies, have been more impacted by the stock market.

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Ozmo Devices

www.ozmodevices.com

Founded: December 2004
Employees: 25
Office Locations: headquarters in Palo Alto, CA with a software development center in the UK
Funding: $12.55M Series A
Investors: Granite Ventures, Intel Capital, Tallwood Venture Capital

Overview
Ozmo Devices is the leader in Wi-Fi PAN (Personal Area Networks) for peripherals. Wi-Fi is ubiquitous in today’s notebook computers, and recent advances in 802.11 technology are accelerating broad adoption of Wi-Fi in a myriad of mobile and consumer electronics devices. Ozmo Devices extends the functionality of Wi-Fi-enabled platforms to seamlessly communicate with low-power wireless peripherals such as mice and headsets. Ozmo Devices’ Wi-Fi PAN solution enables peripheral manufacturers to deliver wireless products with the superior performance, flexibility, and convenience consumers want and need.

Users / Target Market
Applications for Ozmo Devices’ low-power Wi-Fi PAN solution include wireless peripheral connectivity for personal computers and communication devices, portable audio and video players, gaming consoles, and home entertainment systems.

Revenue Model
Fabless semiconductor company

Company Culture
Exciting start-up culture managed by wireless and semiconductor veterans.

Hot Positions
Applications Engineer. Details can be found at http://www.ozmodevices.com/jobs_01.php

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OneBigPlanet Corp.

Founded: 2007

Location:  New
York, NY

Current Employees: 30

Funding: Not available

VCs:  Propulsion
Ventures and private investment group

Overview

OneBigPlanet® Corp. offers a Commerce and Loyalty
Application Platform that links communities, their members, and merchants. The
company helps social networking sites, e-commerce retailers and large
membership organizations retain and grow their membership/customer base and generate
revenue.

OneBigPlanet leverages the power of the Internet,
Business Intelligence and Web 2.0 technologies in its comprehensive
patent-pending Software as a Service (SaaS) system.  It is designed to increase the frequency and
quality of interaction between an organization and its members by providing
valuable advantages and tools all in one place.

OneBigPlanet’s One-Stop Consumer Portal allows users to enjoy a simpler and more
rewarding consumer life through exclusive instant savings, rewards, benefits that
help them Save, Simplify and Share.

Users

OneBigPlanet’s platform provides value to any type of
social network and organization that wants to improve its attrition rate,
increase member acquisition and augment business profitability. 

Some clients include the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, GospelCity.com, Poker Players Alliance, The Humane Society of the United States, National Penn
Bank, Pennsylvania Association of REALTORS®, College Parents of America and
Professional Managers Association.

Sales

Business model includes charging the social network or
organization a yearly licensing fee.
OneBigPlanet also generates revenue by way of transactions undertaken by
the consumers; i.e. affiliate marketing fees.

Working Environment

OneBigPlanet has a team of dynamic, motivated,
dedicated professionals that are constantly striving to achieve and surpass
objectives.  A fun
group of people who believe in team work and want to succeed.

Hot Job

Sales/ Loyalty Consultant (Business Development)

At OneBigPlanet, we believe in offering great opportunities for personal
and professional growth.  We
currently have a unique and exciting career opportunity with emphasis on
relationship building and a "client-centric" focus. OneBigPlanet is expanding
rapidly and is seeking talented, enthusiastic and motivated individuals that
want to bring their career to the next level!

See Job Posting Here

For more info on
OneBigPlanet, visit our website www.onebigplanet.com.

 

 

 

 

               

             

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