Central Desktop

http://centraldesktop.com/

Last activity: 06.03.2014

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Acquired by Premiere Global Services. Provider of a cloud-based social collaboration platform that helps people to connect and share information to drive profitable business results. The company's software collaboration solution allows business teams to interact, share and manage their daily work activities from anywhere at any time.

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Overview

Location

United States, California, Pasadena

Employees

11-50

Total raised

$12M

Investors 1

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Funding Rounds 2

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Apr 16, 2008	Funding round	$7M

Mentions in press and media 20

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Sep 20, 2010	Announcing Our New Idea Site, OpenView Labs!	Redeem now I am really excited about today’s announcement of our new idea sharing site, OpenView Labs. You can find the site at www.openviewlabs.com. The website is aimed at expansion stage technology company management teams and its missio...
Aug 25, 2010	OffiSync's Office-to-Docs Plugin Goes (Mostly) Free As It Prepares For Competition From Google	OffiSync, a startup that lets you collaboratively edit documents using Microsoft Office and Google Docs in tandem, seems to be doing well — the company’s plugin is the third most downloaded on the entire Google Apps Marketplace. But it also...
Aug 6, 2010	10 great alternatives to Google Wave	Real-time collaboration app Google Wave was officially added to the dead pool this week. Despite plenty of hype and excitement, it failed to attract the adoption that Google hoped for. The site itself is expected to stay up through the end ...
May 4, 2010	SharePoint Competitor Central Desktop Launches Microsoft Office Collaboration Tool	Central Desktop, a SharePoint-like SaaS collaboration platform for the enterprise, is launching a new tool that allows for cloud-enabled document collaboration for Microsoft Office users. Central Desktop’s tool allows users to simultaneousl...
May 4, 2010	Central Desktop: No Need to Upgrade to Office 2010?	Central Desktop announced today a new collaborative framework that allows people to open, save, edit and co-author files stored in the cloud directly from Microsoft Office. Adding to the services are new features that allow multiple people ...
Feb 23, 2010	Central Desktop revamps its collaboration tools	Central Desktop today unveiled version 2.0 of its set of online tools, including project management, document collaboration, and web meeting scheduling capabilities. There are a lot of options out there for companies looking for online coll...
Jun 22, 2009	Community Platform Central Desktop Joins the Microblogging Fray	Central Desktop, a leading SaaS collaboration platform, has entered the ranks of those adding microblogging capabilities. The announcement comes as part of the first day of Enterprise 2.0 conference. Twitter-like short messaging is the hot ...
Sep 30, 2008	Groupswim Adds Wikis, APIs, and More	GroupSwim is a company whose SaaS collaboration solution uses semantic technology to automatically tag and rate content including discussions, emails, documents, wikis, and more. As an Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad finalist, the company was hon...
Apr 16, 2008	Central Desktop Takes $7 Million	Central Desktop has taken a first round of $7 million from OpenView Venture Partners. Central Desktop offers a web-based SaaS collaboration platform that allows business teams of all sizes to work virtually and seamlessly online. Central De...
Apr 16, 2008	Central Desktop Raises $7M	Pasadena-based Central Desktop, which operates a software-as-a-service offering for project management, said today that it has raised $7M in a first round of funding from OpenView Venture Partners. According to the firm, the investment will...
Apr 16, 2008	Central Desktop raises $7M to grow in crowded collaboration market	Web collaboration startup Central Desktop has raised $7 million in a first round of funding. The company has already found some success targeting small businesses, and chief executive Isaac Garcia says he plans to use the new funding to exp...
Mar 23, 2008	Thanks Sponsors; Packages Available April-May	Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb’s mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking & Social Media. We currently have a couple of sponsor slots available for April-May on R...
Feb 18, 2008	The Birth of the Political Long Tail	Are we witnessing the emergence of the Long Tail of politics over the course of this presidential election cycle in the United States? Central Desktop CEO Isaac Garcia thinks so, and applies Chris Anderson’s famous Long Tail theory to the c...
Jan 28, 2008	Huddle uses new apps and Facebook to take on Basecamp	UK-based Huddle, an Enterprise 2.0 startup which is now clearly positioning itself square-on against Basecamp, launches a well-featured Facebook application at the DEMO 08 conference this week. The Facebook integration will make your boss t...
Jun 10, 2007	EditGrid Announces Series A Funding – Goal is to Re-define the Spreadsheet	Hong Kong based EditGrid, a leading online spreadsheet that has also partnered with other Web Office startups, has just closed its Series A funding of $1.25M from WI Harper. We confirmed this with the founder and CEO, David Lee. EditGrid, w...
Apr 12, 2007	The World Of Wikis	WetPaint, a popular hosted Wiki solution, announced this week that they are to provide person-to-person and private messaging between users of their Wiki network. This means that Wetpaint Wiki users can now send single or multi-person priva...
Apr 9, 2007	The Age of Instant Intranets – Central Desktop Launches Turnkey Intranet	Today Central Desktop launched the Spring 2007 Release of its collaboration platform. Of most interest in this release is that Central Desktop is introducing “a turnkey Intranet” for its enterprise subscribers. Key features of the turnkey i...
Feb 28, 2007	Software For Virtual Teams	Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus It’s 2007 and no longer do startup employees, or even those of medium-size and large companies, need to be located in the same place. Instead, more and more companies are going virtual. ...
	51 Essential Tools For Work From Anywhere Entrepreneurs	Article Source Ever wanted to work on the go, or take a permanent working holiday? Perhaps you have just been thinking about how you can get away from it all, but still keep your income? Well here are 51 essential tools for work from anywhe...

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FAQ about Central Desktop

How much funding has Central Desktop raised?

Central Desktop has raised $12M in total across 2 funding rounds.

What funding rounds has Central Desktop raised?

Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Central Desktop, among them a funding round of $7M on Apr 16, 2008.

What has the press written about Central Desktop?

Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning Central Desktop, among them “Announcing Our New Idea Site, OpenView Labs!” (Sep 20, 2010) and “OffiSync's Office-to-Docs Plugin Goes (Mostly) Free As It Prepares For Competition From Google” (Aug 25, 2010).

Is Central Desktop still active?

Central Desktop is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Mar 6, 2014.