AtTask, an industry leader in Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) project management solutions and Collaborative Work Management raises new funding, TechCrunch reports.

Utah-based AtTask has raised $13 million for its collaborative work management software as a service (SaaS) according to documents filed with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). Names of the investors were not disclosed.

AtTask has previously raised $7 million from OpenView Partners. It’s unclear at this point if this new $13 million investment is a Series B or Series C round. Company executives did not respond to requests for information about the funding before the posting of this story.

AtTask provides services that combines social technologies with traditional project management solutions. A big part of its marketing is its message about empowering people with social technologies while at the same time giving managers a way to better manage their resources.

As this video illustrates,  the company’s offering helps manage the work chaos that can cone with projects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0FlN-SO_mw

 

The company has been named to the Inc. 500 fastest growing private companies’ for three consecutive years. It has a rosters of customers that include brands such as Nike, Cisco and Kellogg’s.

About AtTask

AtTask is the SaaS leader in project management solutions and Collaborative Work Management. AtTask helps organizations empower knowledge workers by leveraging the combined power of social collaboration, increased engagement, accountability, visibility, and recognition—making it possible for people to take ownership of their work and perform at a higher level—ultimately creating an environment that fosters productivity, motivation, and results. AtTask’s collaborative work management approach solves critical business issues for a broad range of customers including Forbes Global 2000 brands such as Nike, Cisco, ABC, ESPN, 3M, REI, Trek, Kellogg’s.

Contact:

Shelbi Gomez
shelbigomez@attask.com
801-477-9813

Inc. magazine today ranked uSamp No. 213 on its 31st annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.

The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Microsoft, Zappos, Intuit, Jamba Juice, Zipcar, Clif Bar, Vizio, Oracle, and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 500|5000.

“uSamp is honored to be included in the 2012 Inc. 500,” said Gregg Lavin, Co-Founder and President, uSamp. “This ranking is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our staff. We aim to provide our clients with the most innovative consumer and business insight technology on the market.”

“We never stop trying to improve processes, performance and satisfaction of our clients,” said Matt Dusig, Co-founder and CEO, uSamp. “We are expanding internationally throughout Europe and soon Asia Pacific and that expansion is helping to fuel our growth. We’re generating new revenue through our technology solutions and thus differentiating ourselves from our competition.”

The 2012 Inc. 500, unveiled in the September issue of Inc. (available on newsstands August 21 to November 15 and on Inc.com), is the most competitive crop in the list’s history. To make the cut, companies had to have achieved a staggering minimum of 770% in sales growth. The Inc. 500’s aggregate revenue is $15.7 billion, with a median three-year growth of 1,431 percent. The companies on this year’s Inc. 500 employ more than 48,000 people and generated over 40,000 jobs in the past three years. Complete results of the Inc. 500|5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/500.

“Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500|5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward. Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is,” says Inc. magazine Editor Eric Schurenberg.

Methodology

The 2012 Inc. 500|5000 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2008 to 2011. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2008. They had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2011. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2008 is $100,000; the minimum for 2011 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at www.inc.com/500.

About Inc.

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. Total monthly audience reach for the brand has grown significantly from 2,000,000 in 2010 to over 6,000,000 today. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

About the Inc. 500|5000 Conference

Each year, Inc. and Inc.com celebrate the remarkable achievements of today’s entrepreneurial superstars—the privately held small businesses that drive our economy. The Inc. 500|5000 Conference & Awards Ceremony brings together members of the Inc. community, both a new class of Inc. 500|5000 honorees and the list’s alumni, for three days of powerful networking, inspired learning, and momentous celebration. Please join us October 3–5, 2012, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information about the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 Conference & Awards Ceremony and to register, visit www.inc500conference.com or call 866-901-3205.

About uSamp

uSamp (www.uSamp.com), is a premier provider of technology and survey respondents used to obtain consumer and business insights. uSamp’s solutions and SaaS platform transform the way companies gain intelligence to make better, faster decisions about their products and services by tapping into uSamp’s 9 million member global panel of survey respondents. Through uSamp’s proprietary technologies for self-serve sampling and survey authoring, companies have on-demand access to millions of profiled survey respondents. uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with five offices throughout the United States, Europe and India. The company has more than 185 team members worldwide. uSamp ranked No. 11 in the 2011 Forbes America’s Most Promising Company List, was named one of the fastest growing private companies in Los Angeles by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal and one of the best places to work by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

 

For uSamp:
The Hoffman Agency
Juliet Niczewicz, 408-975-3091
jniczewicz@hoffman.com

Inc. magazine ranked Balihoo (www.balihoo.com), the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation (LMA) technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs, no. 853 on its sixth annual Inc. 500|5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.

This is the third consecutive year that Balihoo has been named to the prestigious list of America’s fastest growing private companies.

“Balihoo’s trajectory continues up and to the right in both customer and employee growth,” said Pete Gombert, Balihoo’s CEO. “We’re thrilled to be included among so many other great companies that are creating jobs in their local communities and driving innovation.”

Balihoo welcomed many new clients in the first half of 2012, including Aflac, Zumba and Thermo King. New client growth provides more than 150,000 dealers, brokers, agents, distributors, retailers and franchisees access to the Balihoo platform to conduct multichannel marketing campaigns customized for their local market with the power and influence of the national brand behind them. More details about Balihoo’s record growth can be found at http://bit.ly/MJu3rd.

In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2012 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 97 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created over 400,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $299 billion. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs.

“Now, more than ever, we depend on Inc. 500|5000 companies to spur innovation, provide jobs, and drive the economy forward. Growth companies, not large corporations, are where the action is,” says Inc. Editor Eric Schurenberg.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000/welcome. Balihoo’s Inc. 500|5000 ranking can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000/profile/balihoo.

About Inc.

Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today’s innovative company builders. Total monthly audience reach for the brand has grown significantly from 2,000,000 in 2010 to over 6,000,000 today. For more information, visit http://www.inc.com.

About Balihoo

Balihoo is the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation (LMA) technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs. By automating local marketing, Balihoo gives national brands unprecedented control over local marketing execution and the ability to control the customer experience closer to the point of purchase. Additional information about Balihoo is available at www.balihoo.com.

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Acronis, a leading provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced at VMworld 2012 that an upcoming feature in the next release of its flagship Acronis Backup & Recovery® platform will give IT organizations a new edge in data protection by allowing them to better leverage the cloud for backup and recovery.

The ability to remotely recover files from a cloud backup through a web-based interface offers the “anywhere-access” benefits of a cloud-based backup strategy to enterprises of all sizes. In addition, Acronis has reduced the time and effort required for using the cloud as a backup target by introducing disk to disk to cloud staging into the Unified Platform.

Acronis is demonstrating the cloud capabilities of the latest Acronis Backup & Recovery beta build at booth #1701, opposite the Solutions Theatre in the VMworld 2012 exhibition hall. The new version release is expected to be available by the end of Q3 2012.

Using the cloud as a backup target has previously been a manual process requiring a longer backup window. The enhanced staging features, being introduced by Acronis, are providing automation of disk to disk to cloud backup, shortening the backup window for the live physical or virtual machines, and simplifying management of both destinations. IT administrators can now get the benefits of both local and cloud backup in a comprehensive, unified experience.

“As enterprise environments become more diverse and management options more complex, IT leaders are looking for cost-effective and easy-to-use solutions that enable them to manage greater portions of their infrastructures through a single pane of glass,” commented Dmitri Joukovski, vice president of product management for Acronis. “The volume and velocity of corporate content creation and mobile computing adoption are introducing new data challenges for IT organizations, and, as a result, they need uncomplicated strategies for data protection and storage optimization. Acronis is addressing these needs with solutions optimized for increasing enterprise cloud adoption.”

To further reduce backup and disaster recovery management complexity, Acronis is adding support for Microsoft® Exchange, Active Directory®, SQL Server® and SharePoint® within the Acronis Backup & Recovery® unified platform.

Acronis Backup & Recovery® is a unified platform, from which an organization can centrally manage data protection and disaster recovery tasks for physical, virtual and cloud environments from a single management console. This can offer a dramatic reduction in management overhead and total cost of ownership, as the platform can manage Windows® and Linux, and all major hypervisors including Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization, VMware® vSphere™, Windows® Hyper-V™, Citrix® and Parallels®, and integrates with Acronis Cloud storage in one installation.

About Acronis

Acronis is a leading provider of next generation data protection and disaster recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. With Acronis’ backup, disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users can better protect and maintain availability of critical servers and data to achieve recovery point (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) while reducing total cost of ownership. With over a decade of investment in research and development, Acronis software is sold in more than 90 countries and available in up to 14 languages. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com. Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis

Acronis® and Acronis Backup & Recovery^® are registered trademarks of Acronis International GmbH in the United States and/or other countries.

Monetate, a leading provider of cloud-based technology for online marketers, announced today that it has achieved Safe Harbor Certification, a designation that ensures compliance with the European Union’s Directive on Data Protection for EU-based companies.

The rapidly expanding online testing and personalization firm strengthened its presence in EMEA earlier this year with the opening of an office in London, under the leadership of Mike Harris, Vice President, EMEA.

“Monetate is dedicated to our expansion in Europe, and the Safe Harbor Certification allows us to serve our overseas customers while keeping them compliant with the Directive on Data Protection,” said Harris.

In addition to its Safe Harbor Certification, Monetate’s platform allows its customers to comply with the “Do Not Track” provisions of the Obama Administration’s “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights,” a framework for protecting consumer privacy in the online world. With this capability, Monetate ensures that its customers are prepared to implement recommended privacy guidelines.

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“Monetate has always maintained a fierce dedication to consumer privacy,” said Bruce Ernst, Vice President of Product Management at Monetate. “We are committed to being proactive and remaining ahead of the consumer privacy curve.”

About Monetate

Monetate drives billions of dollars of revenue every year for some of the best-known brands in the world, including Best Buy, Comcast, Urban Outfitters, Aeropostale, The Sports Authority, and PETCO. The company’s comprehensive product suite and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant customer experience with unprecedented agility.

Leading marketers rely on Monetate’s cloud-based browser technology to achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times more optimization campaigns compared to industry averages. The Monetate Agility Suite includes advanced products for testing, merchandising, targeting, and cross-channel consistency, providing an opportunity to bypass IT restraints and react in real time to customer demands. Monetate also helps marketers implement best practices and drive online revenue through its expert strategic services and content publishing teams. For more information visit http://monetate.com/ or follow us on Twitter @Monetate.

Exinda, a global provider of next-generation WAN Optimization and application performance assurance solutions, and COMPUTERLINKS, the leading next-generation distributor of IT security and Internet technology solutions, today announced they have entered into an agreement.

The partnership will enable Exinda to extend its reach into the Danish reseller market.

Exinda enables organizations to assure the performance of their strategic business applications through policy-based WAN optimization that intelligently applies acceleration and containment based on the priorities of the business. Exinda is the first vendor to bring to market an integrated suite that delivers application assurance as part of its core WAN optimization offering.

“We look forward to working with Exinda,” said John Thejls, Managing Director of COMPUTERLINKS Denmark A/S. “The Exinda Solution offers a unique combination of WAN Optimization, and Application and Performance Assurance. Our resellers will appreciate being able to offer their customers a solution that effectively addresses the performance issues that arise in a distributed environment.”

COMPUTERLINKS will be offering evaluations, pre-sales technical resources, and a fully certified sales team to assist Danish resellers in their development

“The agreement with COMPUTERLINKS is a big step forward for Exinda”, said Tim Hoefsloot, Sales Director Benelux and Nordics at Exinda. “COMPUTERLINKS offers a professional team with strong relationships in the Danish reseller community. Being part of a large organization, the company offers the power of high quality logistics and service, with a local focus on sales, marketing and technical support.”

About COMPUTERLINKS

The COMPUTERLINKS Group is a global market leader with over 25 years experience in IT Security and Internet Technology solutions and services. We offer a single source of supply for world-leading international hardware and software manufacturers, including 24/7 support, training, marketing and logistics. COMPUTERLINKS is the distributor of choice for hundreds of resellers world-wide. With offices in 19 countries and over 550 employees, we are leading the way as The Next Generation Distributor. COMPUTERLINKS is a 100% channel company and operates through a network of reseller partners, offering them a single point of expertise and assistance as they deliver solutions to improve the efficiency of modern business. Utilizing over 25 years experience in IP-based business solutions, COMPUTERLINKS delivers true value-add by providing technical, sales and marketing support, efficient logistics, all with truly outstanding customer service. For more information about COMPUTERLINKS Denmark A/S, please visit http://www.computerlinks.dk.

About Exinda

Exinda is a proven global supplier of next-generation WAN optimization and application
performance assurance solutions. The company has helped more than 2,500 organizations in over 80 countries worldwide assure application performance, improve the end-user experience, contain recreational applications and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.