Graze.com's search volume in countries and regions across the world:the United Kingdom enjoys the highest search volume,the next are United States.Other than this two countries,there is no more country.It's undeniable that graze.com is most popular in the UK.Because it's a website of UK.Graze.com was started by 7 friends,they all love food and wanted to get a lot more out of their snacking.
The United States has the second largest web search volume,but the search volume is low.Because American people like junk food very much,such as KFC,Mcdonald's,potato chips and so on.They like these Junk food because they tastes well.but there are still some people in the United Kingdom like food very much.They want invent snacks that showed off health's more pleasurable side.They'd like to make healthy food that tastes really good.
Seeing from the rankings in cities,they are Newcastle upon Tyne ,Leeds,Leicester,Liverpool,Brighton,Glasgow,Bristol,
Cardiff,Nottingham,Sheffield respectively,most of them are cities of Britain,so it's no doubt that graze.com is popular in these countries.And it's undeniable that these top ten cities all have a large population and a developed economy.
Newcastle is the second largest city of new south wales,because people in this city pay much attention on their food.Scientists at Newcastle university pointed out that the entire boiled or baked carrots will make healthy chemicals in human body get increased by 25%, including some known anti-cancer substances.Nutrition and food science at the university of Newcastle is a four-year bachelor's academic program, the professional setting, aimed at developing students' problem solving skills in the field of food, nutrition and diet,and ability to communicate.
analyze the development trend of graze and provides information about the food.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Conversocial, the leader in social customer service, today announced that it has completed its Series A2 funding round. Octopus Investments leads the round, which includes a $3.2 million investment, in addition to $1.2 million from a previous convertible note, bringing the total round to $4.4 million. The investment will go primarily towards product development, hiring key talent, and building Conversocial’s North American presence. This brings Conversocial’s total funding raised to over $7 million.
“Leading companies are quickly realizing that the importance of social customer service demands dedicated software like Conversocial. For a company to deliver the best possible social customer experience, social marketing or listening software simply doesn’t cut it,” said Joshua March, CEO of Conversocial. “The new investment allows us to innovate even faster to take social into the contact center, and meet the fast growing market demand.”
The round will help Conversocial continue its focus on product development, a commitment that is also demonstrated by today’s announcement of two key platform upgrades: Real Time Management Dashboard and Conversations Workflow. Both improvements address the inherent need for brands to have up-to-the-minute tools and efficient workflow processes to address and manage the high-volume of customer interactions via social media channels. These new platform enhancements will directly bolster the efficacy of social customer service teams using Conversocial.
“Working with Conversocial has provided us with the essential infrastructure to manage real-time inquiries from our customers and prevent any social media crises, and has given us the bandwidth to more aggressively pursue opportunities to engage with customers proactively,” said David Tull, Customer Engagement Manager at JackThreads. “With more of our customers using social media on smartphones, tablets, and laptops to communicate with us, it’s critical that we work with the latest technology to meet our customers where they live, and right now they live online. Conversocial allows our social customer service teams to operate with an efficiency and accuracy that we haven’t had before.”
Conversocial’s revenue has tripled over the past 12 months, and internal projections show that this rate of growth will continue over the coming year. This revenue growth has been fueled by a doubling of Conversocial’s customer base, with the addition of leading brands across industries including: American Greetings, Barclaycard, GoDaddy, Hertz, JackThreads, and Sephora.
Earlier this year, Conversocial was chosen by Gartner as one of five “Cool Vendors” in the CRM Customer Service and Social Report, 2013.
Commenting on the investment Alliott Cole, Principal on the Ventures team at Octopus , said: “We’re thrilled to be working with the team at Conversocial as they continue to grow their brand, technology development and US presence. Joshua March is building a really talented team, which is developing a service that meets head on the challenges that retailers and other organizations now face in responding to and interacting with customers through social media. We look forward to helping the team build on the success it has achieved to date.”
Real Time Management Dashboard
Your customers reaching out over social channels expect responses in real time — or close to it. Managers need a tool that can allow them to instantly spot new issues as they emerge on public social channels, and track them to coordinate a response before a social media crisis erupts. The Real Time Management Dashboard enables team leaders to turn insight to action by showing them the status of their social channels, as well as health reports on how effectively their social customer service team is operating.
Conversations Workflow
Unlike traditional customer service software designed to handle private one-to-one conversations between an agent and a consumer, the new Conversations workflow is designed to allow social customer service agents to handle multiple conversations going across private, public and different social channels - in real time. Conversocial customer JackThreads reports that using Conversocial allows them to handle 10x more social interactions than they could before switching to the platform.
About Conversocial
Headquartered in New York and London, Conversocial continues to expand into the American market, having processed more than 300 million customer service interactions on social media and being deployed in more than 20 countries worldwide. Companies and organizations such as American Greetings, Barclaycard, Charity USA, Groupon, Hertz, Net-A-Porter, Ogilvy, Sephora, Tesco, The University of Phoenix, Tupperware, Waitrose, and Vitalicious are using Conversocial's Software-as-a-Service to manage the flow of customer service enquiries and discussions on Facebook and Twitter.
For more information contact: Anna Drennan, Anna(at)Conversocial(dot)com or Michael Cecil, 212-362-1307, Michael (at)Thunder11(dot) com.
About Octopus Investments
Founded in 2000, Octopus is one of the UK’s fastest growing investment management companies. We currently manage £3 billion assets on behalf of 50,000 customers.
The Ventures team at Octopus are straight talking human investors that back talented people rather than specific sectors. We focus on identifying fast growth businesses, which can scale explosively to create, transform or dominate an industry. We can invest from £250,000 to £5 million and prefer to partner teams based in the UK.
The work of our Ventures team is supported by access to the Octopus Venture Partners, a network of approximately 100 outstanding business leaders, entrepreneurs and private investors providing an invaluable wealth of expertise and resource for our portfolio companies, as well as investing on a deal-by-deal basis alongside Octopus venture funds. This blend of knowledge and skill has allowed us to help many great companies across several sectors thrive in recent years including Zoopla; Graze.com; SwiftKey; and, Secret Escapes.
“Leading companies are quickly realizing that the importance of social customer service demands dedicated software like Conversocial. For a company to deliver the best possible social customer experience, social marketing or listening software simply doesn’t cut it,” said Joshua March, CEO of Conversocial. “The new investment allows us to innovate even faster to take social into the contact center, and meet the fast growing market demand.”
The round will help Conversocial continue its focus on product development, a commitment that is also demonstrated by today’s announcement of two key platform upgrades: Real Time Management Dashboard and Conversations Workflow. Both improvements address the inherent need for brands to have up-to-the-minute tools and efficient workflow processes to address and manage the high-volume of customer interactions via social media channels. These new platform enhancements will directly bolster the efficacy of social customer service teams using Conversocial.
“Working with Conversocial has provided us with the essential infrastructure to manage real-time inquiries from our customers and prevent any social media crises, and has given us the bandwidth to more aggressively pursue opportunities to engage with customers proactively,” said David Tull, Customer Engagement Manager at JackThreads. “With more of our customers using social media on smartphones, tablets, and laptops to communicate with us, it’s critical that we work with the latest technology to meet our customers where they live, and right now they live online. Conversocial allows our social customer service teams to operate with an efficiency and accuracy that we haven’t had before.”
Conversocial’s revenue has tripled over the past 12 months, and internal projections show that this rate of growth will continue over the coming year. This revenue growth has been fueled by a doubling of Conversocial’s customer base, with the addition of leading brands across industries including: American Greetings, Barclaycard, GoDaddy, Hertz, JackThreads, and Sephora.
Earlier this year, Conversocial was chosen by Gartner as one of five “Cool Vendors” in the CRM Customer Service and Social Report, 2013.
Commenting on the investment Alliott Cole, Principal on the Ventures team at Octopus , said: “We’re thrilled to be working with the team at Conversocial as they continue to grow their brand, technology development and US presence. Joshua March is building a really talented team, which is developing a service that meets head on the challenges that retailers and other organizations now face in responding to and interacting with customers through social media. We look forward to helping the team build on the success it has achieved to date.”
Real Time Management Dashboard
Your customers reaching out over social channels expect responses in real time — or close to it. Managers need a tool that can allow them to instantly spot new issues as they emerge on public social channels, and track them to coordinate a response before a social media crisis erupts. The Real Time Management Dashboard enables team leaders to turn insight to action by showing them the status of their social channels, as well as health reports on how effectively their social customer service team is operating.
Conversations Workflow
Unlike traditional customer service software designed to handle private one-to-one conversations between an agent and a consumer, the new Conversations workflow is designed to allow social customer service agents to handle multiple conversations going across private, public and different social channels - in real time. Conversocial customer JackThreads reports that using Conversocial allows them to handle 10x more social interactions than they could before switching to the platform.
About Conversocial
Headquartered in New York and London, Conversocial continues to expand into the American market, having processed more than 300 million customer service interactions on social media and being deployed in more than 20 countries worldwide. Companies and organizations such as American Greetings, Barclaycard, Charity USA, Groupon, Hertz, Net-A-Porter, Ogilvy, Sephora, Tesco, The University of Phoenix, Tupperware, Waitrose, and Vitalicious are using Conversocial's Software-as-a-Service to manage the flow of customer service enquiries and discussions on Facebook and Twitter.
For more information contact: Anna Drennan, Anna(at)Conversocial(dot)com or Michael Cecil, 212-362-1307, Michael (at)Thunder11(dot) com.
About Octopus Investments
Founded in 2000, Octopus is one of the UK’s fastest growing investment management companies. We currently manage £3 billion assets on behalf of 50,000 customers.
The Ventures team at Octopus are straight talking human investors that back talented people rather than specific sectors. We focus on identifying fast growth businesses, which can scale explosively to create, transform or dominate an industry. We can invest from £250,000 to £5 million and prefer to partner teams based in the UK.
The work of our Ventures team is supported by access to the Octopus Venture Partners, a network of approximately 100 outstanding business leaders, entrepreneurs and private investors providing an invaluable wealth of expertise and resource for our portfolio companies, as well as investing on a deal-by-deal basis alongside Octopus venture funds. This blend of knowledge and skill has allowed us to help many great companies across several sectors thrive in recent years including Zoopla; Graze.com; SwiftKey; and, Secret Escapes.
London-based mobile tech company YPlan said on Wednesday that it has received a $12 million (£7.9m) in Series A financing. Leading the round were General Catalyst Partners and existing investors Wellington Partners and Octopus Investments. Other investors that participated were A-Grade, SLOW Ventures Fund, and Shakil Khan, investor and advisor to Spotify and Summly.
PRESS RELEASE
British mobile start-up YPlan today announces a $12m (£7.9m) Series A financing, one of the largest in Europe this year. Following its successful London launch in November 2012, the world’s first mobile-only spontaneous going out app will be using the funding to fuel its expansion in the United States, with New York launching during the second half of 2013.
Following a steep period of growth, YPlan has made its way onto over 10% of London’s iPhones, hitting the 200,000 downloads milestone just last month.
Leading this latest funding round is US venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners (investors in Kayak and Airbnb), and YPlan’s existing institutional backers Wellington Partners (investors in Hailo and Spotify) and Octopus Investments (investors in SwiftKey and Graze.com). The round has also attracted a star group of co-investors including A-Grade, Kevin Colleran and David Morin’s SLOW Ventures Fund, and Shakil Khan, investor and advisor to Spotify and Summly.
YPlan’s co-founder and CEO, Rytis Vitkauskas said: “Just six months after launching we’ve taken London by storm and transformed YPlan from concept into an exciting mobile-only business that is going global.”
“This investment will help us take YPlan international; including cities within the US and Europe, but it also brings with it an amazing breadth of expertise to help us perfect our secret sauce of a beautiful, simple and inspiring way to have a great night out, tonight.”
General Catalyst partner Adam Valkin, previously an early-stage investor in several UK companies such as LOVEFiLM and Hailo said: “YPlan has the opportunity to become a seminal mobile commerce company. It has grown incredibly fast in London by delighting customers with simplicity, quality and access. Next step is to make this phenomenon a global one.”
Following this latest injection of capital and expertise to the business, YPlan will continue to provide a carefully curated list of up to 15 events to go to every night. In just two taps people can discover and go to anything from a BeyoncĂ© show to an invitation-only event like Sofar Sounds, or one of their city’s best-kept secrets like chessboxing. YPlan is currently live in London, with new city launches planned for later this year.
The YPlan app is available free on iPad, iPhone or iPod touch at: www.yplanapp.com/download
YPlan facts and figures:
• Exclusive tickets to sold out events
• Over 2,500 events since launch
• $1.7 million seed funding in July 2012, led by Wellington Partners and Octopus Investments
• 200,000 downloads
• Over 10% of iPhones in London carry the app.
About YPlan
YPlan is a mobile technology company based in London and founded in 2012. YPlan was created to give people the chance to be truly spontaneous, providing them only the best, handpicked nights in London on the YPlan app.
Short lines: YPlan is tonight’s going out app. Get inspired, pay in two taps and go. Download the free
app now: www.yplanapp.com/download
New York
The YPlan team has already opened its New York office and is currently hiring. The app will formally launch to New York in the second half of 2013. YPlan chose New York as its second city due to its vibrant social scene, variety of events and high smartphone penetration.
General Catalyst Partners
General Catalyst Partners is a venture capital and growth equity firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs who are building the technology-based companies that will lead innovation and transform industries. Founded in 2000, General Catalyst Partners leverages its principals’ extensive operational, business development and technological expertise to provide portfolio companies with a catalyst for success through business-building and partnership development assistance.
General Catalyst has offices in Cambridge, MA and Palo Alto, CA. For more information, please visit:
www.generalcatalyst.com
About Octopus Investments
Founded in 2000, Octopus is one of the UK’s fastest growing investment management companies.
We currently manage £3 billion assets on behalf of 50,000 customers.
The Ventures team at Octopus are straight talking human investors that back talented people rather than specific sectors. We focus on identifying fast growth businesses which can scale explosively to create, transform or dominate an industry. We can invest from £250,000 to £5 million and prefer to partner teams based in the UK.
The work of our Ventures team is supported by access to the Octopus Venture Partners, a network of approximately 100 outstanding business leaders, entrepreneurs and private investors providing an invaluable wealth of expertise and resource for our portfolio companies, as well as investing on a deal-by-deal basis alongside Octopus venture funds. This blend of knowledge and skill has allowed us to help many great companies across several sectors thrive in recent years including Zoopla; Graze.com; SwiftKey; and, Secret Escapes.
About Wellington Partners
Wellington Partners is one of the most successful pan-European venture capital firms. With some €800 million under management and offices in London, Munich, Palo Alto and Zurich, the firm invests into companies throughout Europe that have the potential to become global leaders, in the areas of Digital Media, Software, Resource Efficiency and Life Sciences.
Since 1998, Wellington Partners has invested in more than 100 European companies, including now publicly traded Actelion and XING and privately held companies like Adconion, Alando (acquired by eBay), Ciao (acquired by Microsoft), Spotify, Hailo, Livebookings and Qype (acquired by Yelp).
PRESS RELEASE
British mobile start-up YPlan today announces a $12m (£7.9m) Series A financing, one of the largest in Europe this year. Following its successful London launch in November 2012, the world’s first mobile-only spontaneous going out app will be using the funding to fuel its expansion in the United States, with New York launching during the second half of 2013.
Following a steep period of growth, YPlan has made its way onto over 10% of London’s iPhones, hitting the 200,000 downloads milestone just last month.
Leading this latest funding round is US venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners (investors in Kayak and Airbnb), and YPlan’s existing institutional backers Wellington Partners (investors in Hailo and Spotify) and Octopus Investments (investors in SwiftKey and Graze.com). The round has also attracted a star group of co-investors including A-Grade, Kevin Colleran and David Morin’s SLOW Ventures Fund, and Shakil Khan, investor and advisor to Spotify and Summly.
YPlan’s co-founder and CEO, Rytis Vitkauskas said: “Just six months after launching we’ve taken London by storm and transformed YPlan from concept into an exciting mobile-only business that is going global.”
“This investment will help us take YPlan international; including cities within the US and Europe, but it also brings with it an amazing breadth of expertise to help us perfect our secret sauce of a beautiful, simple and inspiring way to have a great night out, tonight.”
General Catalyst partner Adam Valkin, previously an early-stage investor in several UK companies such as LOVEFiLM and Hailo said: “YPlan has the opportunity to become a seminal mobile commerce company. It has grown incredibly fast in London by delighting customers with simplicity, quality and access. Next step is to make this phenomenon a global one.”
Following this latest injection of capital and expertise to the business, YPlan will continue to provide a carefully curated list of up to 15 events to go to every night. In just two taps people can discover and go to anything from a BeyoncĂ© show to an invitation-only event like Sofar Sounds, or one of their city’s best-kept secrets like chessboxing. YPlan is currently live in London, with new city launches planned for later this year.
The YPlan app is available free on iPad, iPhone or iPod touch at: www.yplanapp.com/download
YPlan facts and figures:
• Exclusive tickets to sold out events
• Over 2,500 events since launch
• $1.7 million seed funding in July 2012, led by Wellington Partners and Octopus Investments
• 200,000 downloads
• Over 10% of iPhones in London carry the app.
About YPlan
YPlan is a mobile technology company based in London and founded in 2012. YPlan was created to give people the chance to be truly spontaneous, providing them only the best, handpicked nights in London on the YPlan app.
Short lines: YPlan is tonight’s going out app. Get inspired, pay in two taps and go. Download the free
app now: www.yplanapp.com/download
New York
The YPlan team has already opened its New York office and is currently hiring. The app will formally launch to New York in the second half of 2013. YPlan chose New York as its second city due to its vibrant social scene, variety of events and high smartphone penetration.
General Catalyst Partners
General Catalyst Partners is a venture capital and growth equity firm that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs who are building the technology-based companies that will lead innovation and transform industries. Founded in 2000, General Catalyst Partners leverages its principals’ extensive operational, business development and technological expertise to provide portfolio companies with a catalyst for success through business-building and partnership development assistance.
General Catalyst has offices in Cambridge, MA and Palo Alto, CA. For more information, please visit:
www.generalcatalyst.com
About Octopus Investments
Founded in 2000, Octopus is one of the UK’s fastest growing investment management companies.
We currently manage £3 billion assets on behalf of 50,000 customers.
The Ventures team at Octopus are straight talking human investors that back talented people rather than specific sectors. We focus on identifying fast growth businesses which can scale explosively to create, transform or dominate an industry. We can invest from £250,000 to £5 million and prefer to partner teams based in the UK.
The work of our Ventures team is supported by access to the Octopus Venture Partners, a network of approximately 100 outstanding business leaders, entrepreneurs and private investors providing an invaluable wealth of expertise and resource for our portfolio companies, as well as investing on a deal-by-deal basis alongside Octopus venture funds. This blend of knowledge and skill has allowed us to help many great companies across several sectors thrive in recent years including Zoopla; Graze.com; SwiftKey; and, Secret Escapes.
About Wellington Partners
Wellington Partners is one of the most successful pan-European venture capital firms. With some €800 million under management and offices in London, Munich, Palo Alto and Zurich, the firm invests into companies throughout Europe that have the potential to become global leaders, in the areas of Digital Media, Software, Resource Efficiency and Life Sciences.
Since 1998, Wellington Partners has invested in more than 100 European companies, including now publicly traded Actelion and XING and privately held companies like Adconion, Alando (acquired by eBay), Ciao (acquired by Microsoft), Spotify, Hailo, Livebookings and Qype (acquired by Yelp).
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