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Read the latest articles about Voyager Capital's portfolio companies covered in leading regional and national business outlets. Coverage highlights include significant portfolio announcements, recent Voyager investments, and the firm's perspective on market developments and industry trends.

2013 News

May 22, 2013 | OregonLive
Act-On Software, Continuing to Grow, will Move to Larger Offices in Beaverton

May 22, 2013 | Electric Light and Power
National Grid, ChargePoint Launch Electric Vehicle Charging Station Project

May 22, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
ChargePoint, National Grid, and NYSERDA Launch Electric Vehicle Charging Station Project in Upstate New York

May 22, 2013 | Rapid TV News
Telco Makes Elemental Move to Power Roku IPTV Services

May 21, 2013 | MarketWatch
Elemental to Power Streamlined Video Services for IPTV Operators

May 21, 2013 | CED Magazine
Canby Telcom Preps Authenticated Broadcast TV

May 21, 2013 | IP & TV News
Elemental Technologies Creates Roku Channel

May 21, 2013 | peHUB
Lighter Capital Appoints Jeff Seely to Board of Directors

May 20, 2013 | Business Travel News
Gates Foundation Tries Emerging Corporate Tech As Path To Air Savings

May 20, 2013 | Bike Portland
At Employers Summit, tech CEO shares savings from low-car-commuting

May 15, 2013 | GeekWire
Why our Startup CEO of the Year thinks Portland is the next great startup city

May 14, 2013 | VentureBeat
MindSumo Works to Improve the Job Hunt Process

May 14, 2013 | Huffington Post
Image Hosting Pioneer Photobucket Expands Video Storytelling

May 13, 2013 | Austin Business Journal
Zebra Imaging Raises $2M Financing

May 10, 2013 | MRWeb
Mobile Analytics Firm Zettics Expands

May 10, 2013 | MarketWatch
Media Alert: Covario and Rio SEO Founder, CEO Russ Mann, to Address Investors and Executives at JMP Securities Research Conference in San Francisco

May 10, 2013 | Colorado College
Charge it! CC Gets an EV Car Charging Station

May 08, 2013 | PYMNTS.com
Zettics Expands Global Footprint with New Offices in Europe and APAC

May 08, 2013 | Tek-Tips Forum
Ayla Networks Promotes Device Connectivity for Internet of Things

May 08, 2013 | PRWeb
Sales and Marketing as a Service Provider, NuGrowth Solutions Joins the Act-On Partner Exchange

May 06, 2013 | Wired Magazine
The Existentialist Entrepreneur

May 03, 2013 | Technology Tell
Synergies Between Electric Vehicles And Mobile Apps To Spark All-Round Growth According To Analyst

May 03, 2013 | Green Energy News
ChargePoint and SYLVANIA Lighting Services Announce Reseller Agreement for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in United States

May 02, 2013 | MarketWatch
Covario Grows Fastest Among Top Search Agencies Ranked by Ad Age

May 02, 2013 | Dzone
Interview with Atri Chatterjee CMO of Act-On Software

May 02, 2013 | Health 2.0 News
WellnessFX Introduces the Almost Entirely Online Annual Checkup

May 01, 2013 | San Francisco Chronicle
WellnessFX: Game-changing Platform Offers No Cost Alternative to Annual Physical

April 30, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
ChargePoint and SYLVANIA Lighting Services Announce Reseller Agreement for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in the United States

April 30, 2013 | The Wall Street Journal
Lighter Capital to Present at All About the Cloud

April 29, 2013 | Daily Deal Media
The Newest Way To Shop Online, Chirpify, Gains More Investors

April 29, 2013 | Lexch.com
Seward hopes charging stations draw travelers

April 29, 2013 | On Screen Asia
Warner Bros. Taps Elemental for Digital end-to-end Workflow

April 29, 2013 | On Screen Asia
Warner Bros. Taps Elemental for Digital end-to-end Workflow

April 26, 2013 | TV Technology
Elemental Named Technology Growth Company of the Year

April 26, 2013 | Green Car Congress
BMW, ChargePoint and DriveNow Team for Bay Area Sustainability Hackathon for Electric Vehicles, EV Charging and Mobility Services

April 26, 2013 | TV Technology
Elemental Named Technology Growth Company of the Year

April 25, 2013 | Payments Source
Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne Sample Chirpify's Twitter Payments System

April 25, 2013 | Digital Journal
BMW, ChargePoint and DriveNow Team for Bay Area Sustainability Hackathon for Electric Vehicles, EV Charging and Mobility Services

April 25, 2013 | Paddock Talk
BMW, ChargePoint and DriveNow Team for Bay Area Sustainability

April 24, 2013 | The Next Web
Chirpify Gets $2M to Further Growth in Social Commerce, adds Lil Wayne and Snoop Dogg as Customers

April 23, 2013 | Oregon Live
Chirpify Close to $2 Million in Venture Capital for Social Commerce

April 23, 2013 | BizReport
nFluence Platform Offers Alternative to Social Login

April 23, 2013 | Silicon Florist
Fo Shizzle: Chirpify Adds Snoop Dogg… err Lion and $2 Million in Series A

April 23, 2013 | Portland Business Journal
Chirpify Raises $2 Million

April 23, 2013 | Hypebot
Chirpify Adds $2 Million in Funding, Signs Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg & Puma for In-Stream Social Commerce

April 23, 2013 | GeekWire
Chirpify Raises $2M in Fresh Cash, Partners with Lil Wayne and Snoop Dog

April 23, 2013 | The Wall Street Journal
Act-On Software to Host Monthly TweetChat Moderated by Dr. Natalie Petouhoff

April 22, 2013 | The Wall Street Journal
ChargePoint Teams with BMW's DriveNow Electric Car Sharing Program to Showcase the Benefits of Electric Vehicles for Earth Day 2013

April 18, 2013 | Gamasutra
nFluence Media Launches Autograph

April 18, 2013 | Streaming Media
Sam Blackman, Elemental CEO, Names One of the 2013 Streaming All-Stars

April 18, 2013 | The Wall Street Journal
Act-On Has Record Setting First Quarter, Driven by Customer Momentum and Partner Ecosystem Expansion

April 17, 2013 | YFS Entreprenuer
Interview: Lighter Capital Founders Liberate Small Businesses

April 16, 2013 | The Wall Street Journal
CarCharging™ Completes Acquisition of EVPass® and its Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Throughout Central New York

April 16, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
ChargePoint and City of Sacramento Celebrate 100th Electric Vehicle Charging Station Milestone

April 16, 2013 | Portland Timbers News
Chirpify: A New Way to Win Timbers and Thorns Contests and Giveaways

April 16, 2013 | Sacramento Business Journal
Electric Charging Stations Hit Milemarker in Region

April 16, 2013 | Bank Innovation
Social Payments Platform Chirpify is Adding 200 to 300 New Users A Day

April 12, 2013 | MarketWatch
Act-On Software to Expo and Present at DemandCon San Francisco 2013

April 12, 2013 | Small Bath America
Rory Felton of Chirpify Talks Social Commerce

April 12, 2013 | The Wall Street Journal
Driving Directions: What to Charge for a Charge?

April 12, 2013 | Richmond Review
Electric Vehicals get Free Power

April 11, 2013 | Tnooz
Case study: How Yapta’s pivot from B2C to B2B is faring

April 11, 2013 | eSeller
Chirpify: The Start-Up Giving Social Commerce the Boost it Needs

April 10, 2013 | Sports Video Group
NAB Perspectives: Elemental Technologies' Wymbs on Video Processing in the Cloud

April 09, 2013 | Rapid TV News
NAB 2013: Warner Bros Deploys Elemental Video Processing Systems

April 08, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
Act-On Software to Exhibit and Speak at SugarCon 2013

April 08, 2013 | Portland Business Journal
Elemental's Sam Blackman Named in E&Y's List of PacNW Semifinalists for Entrepreneur of the Year

April 08, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
Warner Bros. Taps Elemental for Emmy Award-Winning DETE Content Workflow and Distribution System

April 04, 2013 | South Coast Register
Smart Meters Limit Need for Coal, Gas

April 03, 2013 | MarketWatch
Elemental to Showcase Latest Multiscreen Solutions at NAB 2013

March 29, 2013 | Sports Business Now
Utilize Your Social Media Following and Sell in-Stream with Chirpify

March 28, 2013 | Time Magazine
Smart Power

March 28, 2013 | Search Engine Land
CPC Decline ends: Rising 7% in Q1 due to Mobile & PLAs

March 28, 2013 | MarketWatch
Covario Finds Q1 Global Paid Search Spending Grew 33 Percent Over Last Year

March 28, 2013 | Online Media Daily
Covario: Global Search Budgets Rise for Desktop, Mobile

March 27, 2013 | 23ABC News
App to compare costs of medical care

March 27, 2013 | Digital TV Europe
Elemental launches cloud-based video processing platform

March 26, 2013 | IP&TV News
Cloud Video PaaS Gathers Pace

March 26, 2013 | Tech Cocktail
Tim Ferriss on Self-Quantification, Agile startups, and Deconstructing Complex Skills

March 26, 2013 | Time Magazine
Why More Bytes Will Mean Fewer—and Cleaner—Electrons

March 26, 2013 | MarketWatch
Elemental Cloud Transforms Next-Generation Media Processing

March 26, 2013 | infoTECH
Rio SEO Integrates Search and Social in First Local SEO Software Offering With Facebook Open Graph

March 26, 2013 | MarketWatch
Act-On to Host First Annual 'Gamify Green for Good' Hackathon

March 26, 2013 | Sports Video Group
Elemental Technologies Launched Cloud Platform Service

March 22, 2013 | Green Tech Grid
Utilities to the Cloud: First, Make It Rain

March 22, 2013 | Social Media Influence
Social commerce spotlight: Does Chirpify for Facebook herald a second coming for f-commerce?

March 20, 2013 | NBCNews.com
Chirpify Turns Facebook into Impulse Shoppers' Dream

March 19, 2013 | Fast Company
With Chirpify, You Can Now Buy Products Through Facebook Comments

March 19, 2013 | MarketWatch
Chirpify for Facebook Launches; Platform Now Powering In-Stream Commerce on Top Three Social Media Sites

March 19, 2013 | Oregon Live
Portland startup Chirpify enables instant purchases on Facebook

March 19, 2013 | KGW.com
Portland's Chirpify gives users purchase power

March 19, 2013 | Computerworld
Chirpify opens up Facebook's News Feed for business

March 19, 2013 | GeekWire
Chirpify for Facebook: The first way to make purchases from your news feed

March 19, 2013 | CNET
Chirpify rolls out reply-to-buy system on Facebook

March 19, 2013 | Hypebot.com
Chirpify Adds Facebook To In-Stream Music Sales Platform

March 19, 2013 | Hypebot.com
Chirpify Adds Facebook To In-Stream Music Sales Platform

March 19, 2013 | BtoB Magazine
Search budgets rise to accommodate new channels, devices

March 19, 2013 | The High Low
Danger: Chirpify Makes it too Easy to One-Step Social Media Shop

March 18, 2013 | MarketWatch
Act-On Software to Participate a Microsoft Convergence 2013

March 15, 2013 | Environmental Leader
ChargePoint Unveils 1st of 80-Plus NY Charging Stations

March 14, 2013 | Virtual Strategy Magazine
WellnessFX Teams with Tim Ferriss on Formula for 'Building the Perfect Human'

March 13, 2013 | Green Fleet
ChargePoint to Install More Than 80 New EV Charging Stations in Nw York

March 13, 2013 | Green Fleet
ChargePoint to Install More Than 80 New EV Charging Stations in Nw York

March 12, 2013 | MHN Online
ChargePoint Partners with NYSERDA to Install More than 80 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in New York

March 11, 2013 | MarketWire
BMO Private Bank Adds Local Advisory Board Members in Seattle

March 11, 2013 | MarketWatch
Act-On Software Customers Are the New Model of Success

March 11, 2013 | Environmental Leader
ChargePoint, Ecotality Form EV Interoperability

March 11, 2013 | Torque News
ChargePoint expanding electric car charging stantion presence in New York City

March 11, 2013 | Electric Light and Power
ChargePoint Launches First of More Than 80 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations, with Funding from NYSERDA

March 11, 2013 | Austin Business Journal
Zebra Imaging Collects $1M financing

March 08, 2013 | Automotive Business Review
Chargepoint parners with ECOtality to share charging network in US

March 07, 2013 | Hypebot.com
Eminem, Bon Jovi & Tim McGraw Going D2F With Gumroad & Chirpify

March 07, 2013 | The Wall Street Journal
Hybrid Car Charging Stations Team Up

March 07, 2013 | USA Today
Two big electric car charging firms join forces

March 07, 2013 | Bloomberg
Ecotality, ChargePoint to Link Electric Car to Charging Networks

March 07, 2013 | Torque News
Blink and ChargePoint join for electric car charging station sharing

March 07, 2013 | The Dish Daily
MindSumo: Solve a Company Challenge and Win a Job or Internship

March 06, 2013 | Satnews Daily
Weather Channel's Choice Is Elemental Delivers The Weather

March 06, 2013 | Huffington Post
When VCs Say No

March 06, 2013 | Northeast Ohio News
Visiting Angels of Greater Akron Partners with ClearCare to Bring

March 05, 2013 | MarketWatch
Act-On Software CEO Raghu Raghavan to Present at the 2013 Montgomery Technology Conference

March 05, 2013 | News Blaze
Blue Box Adds Code School to Growing List of Marquee Customers

March 05, 2013 | Multichannel News
Weather Channel Moves Elemental to Internet Storm Front

March 05, 2013 | CED Magazine
The Weather Channel Picks Elemental Technologies for TVE

March 05, 2013 | FierceCable
Elemental scored video processing contracts with the Weather Channel

March 04, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
Alliance Health Networks Introduces API to Streamline Development of "Safe Social" Pages for Pharma Marketers

March 01, 2013 | Portland Business Journal
Portland ranks fifth in nation for women entrepreneurs

February 28, 2013 | Cupertino Patch
Debunking a Myth: Electric Vehicles are Off to a Great Start

February 27, 2013 | All Facebook
Through Chirpify, Time McGraw's Facebook Fans Bought An Album By Commenting

February 27, 2013 | Digital Trends
Buying Things on Faebook is Now - Literally - Three Little Letters Away

February 27, 2013 | CNET
Type 'buy' as a Facebook comment, buy some music

February 27, 2013 | MarketWire
Lenovo Wins eTail Search Marketing Award for Global SEO Campaign

February 26, 2013 | The New York Times
Fashion Buys Into Social Tools

February 26, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
Austin Energy and AutoGrid Systems Collaborate on Standards-Based Automated Demand Response to Usher in a New Era of Retail Choice for the Demand Response Market

February 26, 2013 | Renew Grid
Austin Energy, AutoGrid Collaborate On Demand Response

February 26, 2013 | peHUB
Seattle-based Lighter Capital Adds Molly Gregg

February 26, 2013 | Power Industry News
Austin Energy and AutoGrid Systems Collaborate on Standards-Based Automated Demand Response to Usher in a New Era of Retail Choice for the Demand Response Market

February 26, 2013 | Silicon Florist
You got your in-stream purchases in my…Facebook? Chirpify strikes again

February 26, 2013 | Upstart Labs
Portfolio News: Chirpify brings e-commerce to Facebook, y'all

February 26, 2013 | AltAssets
Venture capital-backed investor Lighter Cpital names Molly Otter VP

February 25, 2013 | Silicon Valley Business Journal
How to use a competition to spot and recruit top talent

February 20, 2013 | Brand-e.biz
Music: Cheap Chirpify

February 20, 2013 | MarketWatch
Zettics Expands Executive Team with Addition of Bid Data and Telecom Veterans

February 20, 2013 | Seattle PI
Zettics Expands Executive Team with Addition of Big Data and Telecom Veterans

February 19, 2013 | NertWallet
Small Business CEO Series: Lighter Capital

February 15, 2013 | Portland Business Journal
40 under 40: Chirpify's Chris Teso

February 15, 2013 | Fast Company
Chirpify Launches Campaign To Draw Indie Artists To Its Social Commerce Platform

February 15, 2013 | The Auto Channel
ChargePoint Applauds New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Call for EV Readiness

February 14, 2013 | CED Magazine
Comcast using upgraded Elemental tech for VOD

February 14, 2013 | MarketWatch
Covario Presents "Sigma" Awards to Six Digital Marketing Leaders at Seventh Annual INFLECTIONPoint Client Conference

February 14, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
ChargePoint Applauds New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Call for EV Readiness

February 14, 2013 | Hypebot.com
Chirpify: 0% Transaction Fees For D2F Music & Merch Sales Forever

February 14, 2013 | MusicWeek
Chirpify offers independent artists 0% transaction fees for life

February 12, 2013 | Digital Trends
Hold That Hashtag: Twitter Did Not Just Launch Its Own Payment Feature

February 12, 2013 | Hybrid Cars
Atlanta Unveil Of Six XhargePOint Networked Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

February 12, 2013 | Social Times
Does AmEx’s Deal to Sell on Twitter Eat Chirpify’s Worm?

February 11, 2013 | Examiner.com
Atlanta gets its first ChargePoint electric car charging stations

February 07, 2013 | Reuters
Act-On Software Named to Forbes' Annual Ranking of America's Most Promising Companies

February 07, 2013 | AllThingsD.com
Why Credit Card Companies Need Some Madison Avenue Style (article by Placecast CEO)

February 07, 2013 | MarketWire
Act-On Software CEO Raghu Raghavan to Present at the Pacific Crest Emerging Tech Summit

February 07, 2013 | Digital Trends
Aviary nabs another major partner, Photobucket, to use its image-editing tools

February 06, 2013 | Forbes
Elemental Technologies #24 and Act-On Software #82 on Forbes' 100 most promising companies list

February 06, 2013 | My Print Resource
Zebra Imaging to Team with Autodesk

February 06, 2013 | TechCrunch
Aviary Continues To Solidify Its Position As The Go-To Photo Editing Solution With Photobucket Partnership

February 06, 2013 | Search Engine Watch
4 SEM Trends & Takeaways From Covario INFLECTIONPoint 2013

February 06, 2013 | Devoncroft
Elemental Technologies Says Revenue Doubled in 2012 to $21 Million as Transcoding Technology Continues to Grow

February 05, 2013 | BusinessWeek
Revenue-Based Financing: The Better You Do, the Quicker You Pay

February 05, 2013 | Yahoo! Finance
Covario Wins Creative Media Award for Paid Search Campaign in Support of Epicor Global ERP Software

February 04, 2013 | Yahoo! News
Industry Veteran James Latham Joins Covario as Advisory CMO

February 03, 2013 | The Miami Herald
Three strategies to succeed in social commerce

February 01, 2013 | The Next Web
nFluence Media gets an extra $1.6m from existing investors for its ‘opt-in interest graph’ tech

February 01, 2013 | IP&TV News
Elemental Technologies adds support for H.265 codec

February 01, 2013 | GeekWire
On a roll: Keith Richards using Chirpify to sell t-shirts

February 01, 2013 | Mobile Marketing
nFluence Media Raises $1.6m

January 31, 2013 | MarketWatch
A Whole New Way to Go 3D - Zebra Imaging to Partner with Autodesk

January 31, 2013 | Silicon Florist
Rock & Roll: Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards using Chirpify to sell merch

January 29, 2013 | Yahoo!Finance
UPDATE: AutoGrid Systems and Silver Spring Networks Announce Strategic Partnership to Bring Real-Time Demand Response Optimization and Management System to Market

January 24, 2013 | Open Forum
Chris Teso of Chirpify: Making Money on Twitter

January 24, 2013 | GigaOM
Corporate America's next creative consultants? College kids on MindSumo

January 23, 2013 | lohud.com
Bedford OKs electric car chargers

January 22, 2013 | Pugut Sound Business Journal
Blue Box completes $4.3M in first-round financing

January 22, 2013 | Seattle Times
Funding twofer: $8 mil to Simply Measured, $4.3 mil to Blue Box

January 18, 2013 | OregonLive
Act-On Software reports another jump in revenue

January 17, 2013 | Yahoo! News
Act-On Software Announces Record-Setting Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2012 Company Results

January 17, 2013 | MarketWatch
San Mateo County's Largest Condominium/MDU Shelter Creek to Unveil ChargePoint Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at Grand Opening

January 16, 2013 | Mother Earth News
Triton College Encourages Sustainable Living by Installing Electric Car Charging Stations on Campus

January 16, 2013 | BizReport
Report: Global paid search up 18% YoY

January 15, 2013 | Search Engine Land
Report: Global Paid Search Spending Up 18% In 2012

January 15, 2013 | Media Post
Covario: Search Budgets Rising Along With Better Leads, Higher Returns

January 10, 2013 | Resource Nation
20 Business Software Companies to Follow on Twitter

January 10, 2013 | Journal Democrat
Nebraska's first public charge station opens in Nebraska City

January 10, 2013 | Torque News
Electric Car Owners Win With Shared Charging Systems

January 10, 2013 | CNN Money
Chirpify Listed in 7 Social Networks to Watch in 2013

January 10, 2013 | Hybrid Cars
ChargePoint and DBT USA Partnership to Expand the US EV Charging Landscape

January 10, 2013 | Streaming Media
Hot Company To Watch: Elemental Technologies Grows Revenue To $21M In 2012

January 09, 2013 | Environmental Leader
ChargePoint, DBT Offer Joint EV Stations

January 09, 2013 | AutoBlogGreen
Chargepoint photo contest offers free charging for a year; now partnering with DBT USA

January 08, 2013 | Green Car Congress
ChargePoint and DBT USA partner on networked EV charging in North America

January 07, 2013 | Renew Grid
$1.2M Grant Project To Study Demand Response In California

January 07, 2013 | MarketWatch
Premier Alliance Selected Partners With AutoGrid and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for $1.2 Million California Energy Commission Project Grant

January 07, 2013 | Motley Fool
ChargePoint, DBT Score Highest in New Pike Research Assessment of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Companies

January 07, 2013 | Fort Mill Times
ChargePoint Named Leading Electric Vehicle Charging Station Equipment Manufacturer by Pike Research

January 05, 2013 | GeekWire
Yapta takes flight with cash as it ponders next venture round

January 03, 2013 | Forbes
Six Things Every CMO Needs To Know In 2013

January 03, 2013 | Environmental Leader
ChargePoint, DBT ‘Leaders’ in EV Equipment

January 02, 2013 | Examiner
Coulomb Technologies Now ChargePoint To Become Hardware Leader