The San Mateo-based startup launched last year and recently closed a $4.1 million Series A round from Clearstone Venture Partners and a number of angel investors.

Mouseover the film icon in this Apture Video link, as well as the book icon in the link for CVP above, to check it out.  (Hopefully, you didn’t need that explanation how to use it!)

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• Apture Raises $4.1 Million Round For Contextual Rich Media Overlays (techcrunch.com)
• Reuters using Apture for multimedia linking (blogs.journalism.co.uk)
• Apture Packs a Lot of Media Into a Little Pop-up (readwriteweb.com)
• Robert Scoble: Apture: demo of cool service to build “super links” (via Scobleizer: Technology, innovation, and geek enthusiasm) (scobleizer.com)

BizSpark provides fast, easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and production licenses of server products; professional technical support from Microsoft; and connections to a global community of business experts who can help guide you through the hurdles of growing your business.

Participants must be privately held, in business less than three years and have less than $1 million in annual revenue.   Companies that want to participate in BizSpark are required to be sponsored by Network Partners, such as Two Degrees.

For additional details on the program, visit http://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark. Please feel free to contact me at bizspark@2-degrees.com if you would like an enrollment invitation.

Related articles

• Microsoft BizSpark: 12,000 Startups and Growing (blogs.msdn.com)
• How Microsoft BizSpark Is Doing With Startups – And How It Can Do Better (xconomy.com)

I’ll be attending the New York Tech Meetup at FIT this evening.

Companies presenting will include:

• Drop.io
• foursquare
• KindlingApp
• enjoysthin.gs
• SpeakLike
• Tigerbow
• ProCompare
• and Prof. Panos Ipeirotis from NYU talking about the EconoMining project.

Ping me if you’re going to be there.

DEMO 09 wrapped up this past week, and in case you missed it you can watch videos of all the presenting companies on the conference website.

If you’re not familiar with DEMO, the conference is a showcase of emerging technologies and new products that (according to the producers) “prides itself on a reputation for consistently identifying technologies that will disrupt current markets and change how people use digital technologies.”

Unfortunately, the first presentation I saw this year was from a company called Coveroo, Inc., which makes personalized back covers for mobile phones and MP3 players.  So that can quickly dispell DEMO’s claim to innovation.

Judge for yourself and please feel free to share your comments below.

This year’s presenters included: