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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Maintains a “Trusted Directory” of TRUSTe certified companies.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Company still in beta. MetaMarkets.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

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We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. But, with Intercasting and our ANTHEM version of MySpace, it's a client integrated into the device.