The Web Innovators Group or Webinno23 technology event is upon us once again. This is arguably one of the premier networking events for anyone interested in new technology or early stage startups. If you have ever dreamed of breaking out from the cube and into the limelight, this is your event.

Special congratulations are in order for Jay Meattle and his social sharing micro-startup Shareaholic. The 2 year old service announced both a round of funding and passing the 1 million download mark! The amount of the funding was not disclosed.

I knew there were a few reasons why I wanted to make it to the Gravity Summit event held today at Harvard University but had I known you would have such close access to the Hammer himself, I would have rearranged my schedule.

Our next local 93Startup profile, TotSpot is a very well designed application (it’s a Ruby app!) that strives to make it easy to spread the news of juniors latest achievement through the web.

Congratulations to our own HubSpot for pulling down $12M in funding as reported on TechCrunch. The Series B round led by Matrix Partners is in addition to the $5M the company raised last September in a round led by General Catalyst.

StyleFeeder, the local social shopping startup, announced partnerships with both Shopping.com and The Glam Network today. The company will extend it’s reach and technology to Shopping.com users and the Glam Publisher Network of more than 400 popular lifestyle websites and blogs targeting women.
StyleFeeder recently announced a new open API initiative for social media developers [...]

Jon Radoff and the team over at GuildCafe (now in posh Central Square) announced another round of funding today and the launch of their new brand gamerDNA.  The new $3 million of funding was led by Flybridge Capital Partners.
The current GuildCafe.com site, a social network built to organizing groups within MMORPGs like World of [...]

IDG Ventures Atlantic changed their name today to Flybridge Capital Partners and announced new pile of cash for the taking.  Jon Karlen from IDG (excuse me Flybridge) emailed me the details just as I was reading the good news.  Congratulations to Jon and the rest of the team. 
Flybridge Capital Partners focuses their investments [...]