Company: OpenDNS
Funding: $2 million from Cnet (CNET) Founder Halsey Minor
Ulevich wants to change the way you call up Web sites. So his company, OpenDNS, has come up with what it considers a faster, smarter, and more secure method for translating requested URLs into corresponding sites. It helps companies guard against phishing schemes and bar employees […]

 
Company: FriendFeed
Funding: $5 million in February 2008 from the two co-founders and Benchmark Capital
Taylor and Norris left Google (GOOG) last July to start FriendFeed, a startup that’s tackling the thorny issue of helping people organize the growing array of social networks and services they use. FriendFeed lets subscribers pull together on a single Web site […]

Company: RockYou
Funding: About $15 million from Sequoia Capital, Partech International, and Lightspeed Venture Partners
RockYou co-founder Shen likes to boast about his company’s speed. RockYou makes software that helps Internet users add pizzazz to social network profile pages. Last year the company introduced Superwall, a feature that lets users post video and other content to friends’ […]

 
Company: VideoEgg
Funding: About $27 million from August Capital, First Round Capital, Maveron, WPP, and Focus Ventures
Co-founder and CEO Sanchez originally launched VideoEgg in 2005 as a Web-based video player capable of playing clips in a variety of formats and embedding them in Web sites. But it has evolved into an ad network that displays ads […]

 
Companies: Mint.com
Funding: $17.5 million from Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and angels Ram Shriram, Ron Conway and former Intuit (INTU) executive Mark Goines
For six months, Patzer holed up alone in a room for 100 hours a week to write the code he hoped would result in a smarter alternative to Intuit’s Quicken. Two […]

 
Company: Etsy
Funding: $31.6 million from Jim Breyer at Accel Partners, Union Square Ventures, Hubert Burda Media, and angel investors including Caterina Fake of Flickr and Delicious’ Joshua Schachter.
Inspired by a desire to sell his own handmade furniture and by the resurgence in the crafts market, Kalin launched Etsy in July, 2005. The service is now […]

 
Company: Phreesia
Funding: $13.25 million from HLM Venture Partners, Long River, Polaris Venture Partners, and Village Ventures
A serial entrepreneur with three startups under his belt, Indig and co-founder Evan Roberts are trying to help advertisers such as pharmaceutical companies find a better way to reach patients. Phreesia’s touch-pad device, used in more than 1,000 doctors’ offices, […]

 
Company: Dropbox
Funding: $15,000 in seed capital from YCombinator; details of a subsequent VC investment are undisclosed
How do you share your computer files with co-workers or gain access to them away from the office? You probably e-mail attachments to them and to yourself, or carry a tiny USB drive that’s easy enough to lose. Houston, a […]

 
Company: Causes
Funding: More than $7.3 million from The Founders Fund
While his former Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, was off running Facebook, Joe Green was busy studying and drumming up online support for the causes he found most compelling. As an organizer, Green’s main hurdle was getting do-gooders to raise consciousness about a cause among friends and […]

 
Company: StumbleUpon/eBay
Funding: Acquired by eBay in May, 2007, for $75 million
Co-founder and chief architect Camp created StumbleUpon as a social search tool bar that plugs into an Internet browser and recommends Web sites based on the shared interests of other users. It now helps more than 5 million people find all manner of interesting sites […]