Another Seattle startup intending to launch this spring is Limber Media, founded by dancer, choreographer and producer Allegra Searle-LeBel. Frustrated with the difficulties of producing small batches of original media content, she's figured out a way to help fellow artistic creators avoid the headaches of the various hardware and software on the market via a web-enabled service. It sounds pretty cool, especially since more and more entertainers are moving toward digital clips to sell their services. Website's not available yet, so stay tuned...

-posted by Rachel

Attention, Valentine's Day lovers (and haters!): Jamglue is offering one of the most amusing self-promotions we've seen so far this year. If you love Valentine's Day, go here and if you hate it, go here. I don't want to spoil the surprise any further – but I will say that if this is a sample of the marketing creativity at this company, it will go far.

-posted by Rachel

Congrats to Buck Somes, the new CEO of Spokane-based GenPrime. We've known Buck for a number of years and, as one of the co-founders of the company, he'll have steady hands at the helm. Former CEO, Johnny Humphreys, will remain with the company as chairman of the board. The company has some interesting products in development, the latest of which is BacSTAT for detecting bacteria contamination in blood. It's not approved yet by the FDA, but it has some potentially life-saving applications in the healthcare setting, such as providing better safeguards for transfusions.

-posted by Rachel

Good news, one of our clients – Centennial Software – was named a Hot Company for 2007 by Info Security Products Guide. The company was selected from a list of more than 500 prominent info security vendors from around the world. The judging process evaluated entrepreneurial spirit, executive leadership, security market expertise, emerging market opportunities, revenue-growth models and planned expansion strategies.

This comes on the heels of another award for best endpoint security product (silver medal) by SearchWindowsSecurity.
Centennial Software received the Hot Company 2007 award in recognition of DeviceWall, the company’s acclaimed endpoint security product, and Security.Advisor, a newly released vulnerability assessment product. DeviceWall allows IT managers to secure data access points and centrally manage all mobile device connections to a corporate network, striking a balance between information access essential to an employee’s job function and network security. Security.Advisor leverages Centennial Discovery, the industry’s most comprehensive network discovery solution, to detect and prioritize network software and firmware vulnerabilities.
Click here to view the complete list of winners of the Info Security Hot Company 2007 awards.

-posted by Justin