TechCrunch40, Where are they now?

App2you – At TC50, big announcement in 20 days.
befunky – series A $550k 6/08
Broadclip – Now called Flytunes, no blog updates since Feb 2008.
Cake Financial – Just launched Cake Take, Scout, and Cakedex.
CastTV – No news since Nov 2008; but, just had spike in Aug traffic (Source: Compete).
Ceedo – Recently launched Ceedo Enterprise
CrowdSpirit – No blog updates since May 2008.
Clickable – Completed $14.5 Million Series B funding.
Cognitive Code - No news since end of Oct 2007.
Cubic Telecom – Now called MAXroam, has 100k customers and launched V2 at TC50.
.docstoc – “200,000 registered users and sees around 2 million visitors monthly” – TechCrunch
Extreme Reality -
FAROO – Has keep up traffic, and is attending TC50 as alumni.
Flock -
flowplay – See comment on this post.
GotStatus – Dead, site offline.
Kaltura – Partnered with Wikipedia.
Kerpoof – TechCrunch has an update.
loudtalks – Just launched enterprise version.
musicshake -
mEgo -
metaplace -
Mint – See TechCrunch’s post on this.
orgoo -
PubMatic -
Ponoko -
Powerset – Acquired by Microsoft
StoryBlender -
Spottt -
teach the people -
Tripit – TripIt has been honored by Under The Radar, the Web 2.0 Summit and was a 2008 Webby Nominee. Also, at the recent Office 2.0 conference, Google Enterprise Products head, Matthew Glotzbach named TripIt as a top 10 Web service. TripIt has over 100,000 users.
Trutap – Plugging along.
Viewdle – Just got more funding in March 2008.
woo me -
wixi – Over 200,000 members and hosts more than 1,000,000 files.
Xobni – Turned down acquisition offer from Microsoft, Bill Gates demoed Xobni.
Yap – Got $6.5 million in funding in June 2008.
zivity -
ZocDoc – Series A $3mm 8/08
8o2o publishing -

If you have details on these companies or work with these companies, post it in the comments or email them to me simon@lingermedia.com

By Simon Koldyk

Comments

Laura September 8th

FlowPlay, the creators of http://www.ourworld.com, has returned this year as alumni after debuting their demo of the virtual world/online entertainment platform last year as one of the TechCrunch 40.

Six months after appearing at TechCrunch, the site launched live in April 2008. Up and running for five short months, that demo has morphed into a online hub for the tween set’s social lives, acting both as a virtual world – with 300,000 regular users and 1.8 million unique visitors – and also a gaming destination that represents a new platform for developers, and an immersive experience for players.

The site currently influences over 50% of users to come back and play again – and when they’re there – they play, for an average of 30 minutes. They offer a range of casual games, from big-name developers partnered with the site. “The casual games industry needs innovation and new business models to keep up with evolving online consumer demands for free content and multidimensional online entertainment,” said John Welch, CEO of PlayFirst (creators of Diner Dash).

ourWorld has become a new facet of the development in online gaming – in just a year since debuting at TechCrunch.

Hope this helps! Are you submitting updates in other forums or publications?

Best,

Laura
Pat Phelan September 8th

Simon
Cubic Telecoms product MAXroam which we launched at last years TC40 is alive and well with over 100k customers.
We are back at TC50 in the alumni hall and today launched V2 in honor of this.http://patphelan.net/maxroam-launches-v2-data-roaming-and-usa-roaming/
Alexey Gavrilov September 9th

Simon, you should probably unmerge Ceedo and Loudtalks in your list. I won’t say for Ceedo but Loudtalks is doing good and we’ve recently launched the enterprise version of the product http://loudtalks.com/corporate/
Lisa Bennett September 10th

Hi Simon,

Kaltura has been busy the past year building the first and only open source online video platform – see some of our achievements in a press release we issued yesterday – http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/kaltura-peoples-choice-techcrunch40-announces/story.aspx?guid={9599F561-55B8-4D69-95F4-F0306B497863}&dist=hppr

We also just released Version 1.1 of our Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress blogs – you can check it out and download it here: http://corp.kaltura.com/wordpress_video_plugin?campaign=wp-comments