The witty, entertaining and informative new media web-based talk show, hosted and produced by Jesse Draper, features the world’s most influential CEOs and entrepreneurs in a fun and digestible twist to standard “business talk.” ” Since launching the show in 2008 out of her family’s garage, Ms. MORE >>

AnyBeat is backed by Freestyle Capital, Social Leverage, Arthur Bilger, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Howard Lindzon, Tom Anderson, Alex Bard, Alex Karelin, Kenny Van Zant, and Francis Costello. The new feature automatically connects users to other people on the site, who share interests with your profile. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

The firm said it has brought its Series A up to $2.1M, and added new investors Conversion Capital, Inflection Ventures, The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA). The firm earlier had announced investments from. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

Recently, he has appeared on everything from Chelsea Lately to The Colbert Report promoting his projects, and in an interview on Jesse Draper’s “The Valley Girl Show,” he admits that he steals mugs from all of the TV talk show hosts.  In an on-camera tour of his office, Lewis shows Draper his stolen mug collection.  MORE >>

Anthem Ventures , represented by Samit Varma , and DFJ Frontier, represented by David Cremin , are two of the investors in Portland-based JanRain , whose software is used to allow websites to use existing online accounts such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo to sign up for other web services or even corporate applications. READ MORE>>. MORE >>