Stage-it is innovation at its best - a simple, clever spin on live streaming, and an incredible way to engage your fans. WHAT IS STAGE-IT? It’s essentially a platform that allows you to perform concerts for your fans over the Internet. They watch from the comfort of their couch and you perform from

What if your smartphone was actually smart enough to know the exact product you’re standing in front of in a store, without any help from your part? Or what if it could automatically receive offers related to what you’re watching on TV?

It’s possible to do those things today, but it requires more work than most brands want to deal with. New York City-based Sonic Notify thinks it has the best solution for marketers and consumers alike.

Ready, Set, Baby! is a brand new e-book for iPad and Kindle that provides an interactive guide for everything you want to know about a baby’s first year. It features chapters on topics from feeding to bathing to car seat installation to sleeping (should such a thing be a part of your newborn’s schedule) and much more

Human Demand, a mobile ad startup whichlaunched last summer targeting the long tail of app developers, has since expanded its focus to brands, and is today announcing having raised an additional $900,000 in new funding. Some of that new investment is founder money, while the others leading the round include the DEV fund andARC Angel Fund.

Imagine a service that allows you to see your favorite acts in concert without ever leaving your home, let alone changing out of your pajamas. Stageit, a Los Angeles-based online company, does just that.

A startup called Human Demand is coming out of stealth today to enter the ever-growing mobile advertising industry with a new platform to help developers acquire more users. Its radical ideas: transparency and control. On Human Demand’s exchange, developers can see where their mobile ads are running down to the very app in which they appear. And they can then opt off of the apps where they don’t want to be, based on the results that particular app provides. (click link above for the whole story)

From TechCrunch on DEV’s newest portfolio company: “Musicians are looking for new ways to make their shows more interactive and to connect with fans. And Sonic Notify thinks it’s got just the technology to do so. With that in mind, the startup raised $4.25 million and has struck a partnership with Interscope Records, which will make its technology more widely available to musicians on that label….” (click link above for the whole story)

(Source: techcrunch.com )

TechCrunch has this story on our newest portfolio company, Open Air Publishing, and their funding announcement (including DEV).  Click on the link above to go to the whole story.

Alan McGlade spoke to Simon Applebaum at Blog Talk Radio about why innovations in television will come from outside the major media companies; the generational shift to watching TV on laptops, tablets and mobile phones; and why the television industry will be the next to be disrupted. Click the link above to go to the podcast.

Alan spoke to The Deal “Pipeline” recently about NYC’s flourishing digital media scene and DEV’s investment in Stageit.  Check out the video.

Here’s Hypebot’s write-up on the announcement of DEV Advisors and Dick’s appointment. 

Portfolio.com interviews Alan McGlade: “It’s crystal clear now if it wasn’t a few years ago that media and entertainment is undergoing a massive change… We’re looking for companies that have done something transformational.”  Click on the headline above to read the whole story. 

Alan McGlade will be speaking at this event which is open to entrepreneurs and investors.  The panel will focus on trends in early-stage investing, hot sectors, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get investor attention, and more.  Click on the link above for more info.

TechCrunch did a great write-up of our launch yesterday.  Click on the headline above to read the whole story. 

Here comes money for media startups: former MediaNet CEO Alan McGlade and VC Michael Yang are announcing the launch of a new NYC-based firm called DEV (Digital Entertainment Ventures) whose early stage capital fund which will invest in next-gen digital media companies. To kick off its launch, DEV is today revealing its first two investments, a live music platform called StageIt and mobile gaming company Mad Humans…

(Source: TechCrunch)