Factual, Inc., a collaborative data platform and web service, today announced it has secured $25 million in its first round of financing. The financing was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, with participation from Michael Ovitz and SV Angel, founded by Ron Conway. Ben Horowitz and Danny Rimer, from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, respectively, will join the Factual board of directors.

RealPractice, Inc., a leading provider of legal technology products and services, today announced My RealPractice, a new marketing and practice optimization platform for small firms all in one place and free to use for solo attorneys.

Factual is pleased to announce we’ve signed on two new partners, Home Junctionand Booyah, who will be accessing and contributing to our local datasets. In addition, we’re also delivering local data for Facebook Placesin the UK and Japan.

Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT), the company reinventing endorsement and celebrity marketing, has closed a $20 million Series C round led by Miramar Venture Partners. The funding comes as BAT is poised to double year-over-year revenues to $30 million in 2010, while expanding its celebrity endorsement roster by 177 percent.

RealPractice, Inc., a leading provider of legal technology products and services, today announced the addition of three key executives to its senior management team, each who brings significant experience spanning marketing, new product development and technology. The company also announced that it has closed a round of funding with broad participation from original angel investors, former employees and lead investors, Rustic Canyon Partners and Miramar Venture Partners.

AccelOps, the integrated data center and cloud service monitoring leader, today announced that it has received additional funding from strategic and existing investors. The current round brings the total investment in the company to more than $11 million. The recent financing is for sales and operations expansion to meet the rapidly growing demand for the company's integrated data center monitoring platform.

The market most interested in cloud and SaaS products, for now, are small to midsize firms, such as The Jewish Home of San Francisco, a 900-employee health care provider. Richard Navarro, director of IT at The Jewish Home of San Francisco, said the organization is using a SaaS tool from a start-up AccelOps Inc. for monitoring its IT systems.

FastSoft, Inc., the leading Web acceleration software company, announced its Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA) solution today for Internet retailers, Web companies, and CDNs. It speeds dynamic Web page downloads by 30% plus, increasing visitor engagement and revenue per user.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:AKAM - News), the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, and Coradiant Inc., the leader in web application performance management, today announced the release of Coradiant® TrueSight® Edge for Akamai, a custom-built, software-based product that provides performance visibility into Web applications delivered by Akamai.

Brickfish, the award-winning social media solution for Fortune 1000 companies and global advertising agencies, today announced that it was selected by ad:tech’s Advisory Board to showcase in ad:tech’s first “Innovation Alley.” ad:tech Innovation Alley is a new dedicated exhibition zone showcasing start-up companies with bleeding edge technology.