Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Mechanical Zoo (Aardvark) (acquired by Google): Aardvark is a social search engine that allows users to ask questions and receive answers from their extended network.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones/David Marquardt
ADARA (acquired by RateGain): The ADARA Magellan platform transforms real-time loyalty, booking and search data from customers and prospects into powerful advertising solutions, delivering on performance and branding campaign objectives.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Foster City
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Adchemy (acquired by Walmart Labs): Adchemy is a product search company and a leader in e-commerce technology.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Airphrame: provides geospatial data and aerial imagery solutions on demand. The company offers AirPhrame, a turnkey data service that allows users to obtain aerial data without having to be concerned about vehicle specifications or operations. It controls a network of remote sensing devices that are able to operate over developed rural and urban land in the U.S. The company services engineering, insurance, geospatial, volumetric, agriculture, urban planning, infrastructure, catastrophe response, appraisal, inspection and modeling industries.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Urban Airship: The Leading Mobile Engagement Platform. Urban Airship helps leading brands engage their mobile users and build high-value relationships from the moment customers download an app. Thousands of companies and some of the most demanding brands in retail, media & entertainment, sports and travel & hospitality, trust Urban Airship to deliver the mobile moments that matter to their customers and to their business.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Aisle50: Aisle50 has built the best technology for connecting consumers outside the grocery store to great offers inside the store—a function that makes consumers happy and sends them to stores more often. We work with companies like Kellogg’s, Unilever, Pepsico and General Mills to deliver rich grocery offers to consumers through the web, mobile and social media.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Alta Devices (exited): Alta Devices is (em)Powering the Unplugged World™ by delivering the world’s most efficient, thin and flexible mobile power technology. Converting light into electricity, Alta’s technology extends the energy source of a system, and in many cases, completely cuts the traditional power cord. The solution can be completely integrated into the final system, and is ideal for use in unmanned systems, consumer electronics, automotive, remote exploration, or anywhere size, weight, and mobility matter.
Industry Sector: FinTech
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg/John Johnston
AvantCredit: Amount.com is an enterprise SaaS company selling to the world’s largest financial institutions. Amount products enable its customers to deliver a full suite of digital banking products to their customers. Products include verification, identity, fraud protection, point of sale lending, personal loan products, credit card product and deposit account services.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Appformix (acquired by Juniper Networks): Appformix bridges the gap between applications and infrastructure. Operators and developers can use our software to: Collect data across servers, storage, and networking in a single dashboard; Identify and eliminate resource contention bottlenecks; Set policy-based controls for how applications consume resources. AppFormix helps you manage the ever growing complexity of cloud infrastructure. The right data is collected and presented in real time for collaboration across administration groups.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Architizer (acquired by Material Bank): Software platform for connecting architects and building products manufacturers, enabling efficient product specification fulfillment for commercial development projects.
Industry Sector: FinTech
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg/John Johnston
AvantCredit: Avant is a fast-growing marketplace lending platform that is lowering the costs and barriers of borrowing for consumers. Utilizing big data and machine-learning algorithms, the company offers a unique and highly customized approach to streamlined credit options.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Bark & Co. (BarkBox) (NYSE:BARK): Barkbox is a subscription-based e-commerce and content company for dog lovers.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Mateo, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Beckon (Acquired by Aclate): Beckon is performance management for marketing in all its modern complexity. Only Beckon brings together data management, planning, reporting and analytics in a simple, powerful, SaaS platform built by marketers, for marketers. It aggregates, normalizes, categorizes and analyzes all the data that matters to marketers and gives the world’s best brands rich dashboards for insight into what’s working best across it all.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Bill.com (NYSE:BILL): Bill.com is the leading digital business payments company creating magically simple A/P and A/R solutions. We are uniquely positioned at the center of business payments, uniting banks, accountants, and businesses on the fastest growing payments network. Bill.com helps over 600,000 network members process over $19 billion in payments per year and saves companies up to 50 percent of the time typically spent on financial back-office operations by securely automating their end-to-end processes.
Industry Sector: IoT
Headquartered: San Mateo, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Brilliant Home Technology: Brilliant’s mission is to create technology that makes it easy and fun to interact directly with your home. We envision a world in which every environment, homes in particular, can communicate directly with its guests in a way that is simple and fun. Controlling an environment should be as easy as flipping a switch, so it’s really no surprise that’s where we started – replacing the light switch with the interaction model of the future. Brilliant was founded by Aaron Emigh, Steven Stanek, and Jeremy Hiatt, all of whom are experienced technology entrepreneurs from the mobile industry. All three worked together at shopkick, who developed the #1 retail mobile app before being acquired by SK Planet in 2014. Brilliant was started when Aaron began renovating his house and went looking for a product he was sure existed – an easy- to-use touch panel that replaces your light switch to control everything in the house. When one couldn’t be found, he teamed up with Steven and Jeremy to do what awesome nerds do, and they built one.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum/David Marquardt
Bubbli (Aria Glassworks) (Acquired by DropBox): Terrence invented the first seamless digital spherical photo in 1991, three years before the release of QTVR. In 2009, Ben created Yelp Monocle, the first Augmented Reality (AR) app to launch on the US App Store. After meeting at Stanford, Terrence proposed combining AR with spherical photographs to create an immersive ‘bubble’ viewer on the soon to be launched iPad.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Emeryville, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Callisto Media: Callisto Media represents a new publishing paradigm: one which combines rich data analysis with deep publishing expertise. Callisto has worldwide distribution under its subsidiary Arcas Publishing and a family of imprints that includes Rockridge Press, Garamond Press, Salinas Press, Healdsburg Press, Althea Press, and others.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Carlos, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Carlypso: Carlypso helps people get the best car, at the best price, in a really simple way.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Cambridge, MA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Celect (acquired by NIKE): With technology developed out of MIT, Celect builds on a fundamental advance in customer choice modeling. The Celect Choice Engine enables retail buyers, merchandisers, planners and inventory analysts to increase sales, margins, and reduce markdowns by placing the right product, in the right place, at the right time – across all channels.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
CommonBond: In 2011, David Klein, Mike Taormina, and Jessup Shean met as Wharton MBA students and set out to tackle one of the most frustrating areas of consumer finance: the student lending industry. Since then, the company has grown, but what has remained consistent is the mission to deliver competitive pricing, a simple, tech-enabled experience, and exceptional customer service.
Industry Sector: Enterprise Software
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Compology (acquired by RoadRunner Recycling): Compology has developed a software and hardware platform for solid waste management logistics.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Irvine, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Conexant: At Conexant, we make new ideas possible through technology advances and our application expertise. We combine our significant IP portfolio in DSP, analog and mixed signal technology to deliver silicon and software-based solutions that enhance, enrich and expand the user experience for both audio and imaging applications.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
CSR (SiRF/Enuvis) (acquired by BlackStone Group/CSR): Silicon GPS chip technologies.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Santa Clara, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
DataTorrent:
DataTorrent empowers today’s enterprises to experience the full potential – and business impact – of big data, by enabling them to process, analyze, make decisions and take action on data in real-time.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Bruno, CA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Devicescape (Acquired by Pareteum): Devicescape keeps end users Always Best Connected by integrating cellular connectivity with public, private and carrier Wi-Fi to create a seamless, quality-controlled mobile data experience.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Oakland, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Ditto: (acquired by 1800 Contacts) DITTO sits at the intersection of augmented reality, artificial intelligence, computer vision, retail, and fashion. DITTO licenses its omnichannel virtual try-on, facial analysis and frame recommendation technology platform to the world’s best eyewear retailers.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Mateo, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
DNN Software: DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) provides a suite of solutions for creating rich, rewarding online experiences for customers, partners and employees. DNN products and technology are the foundation for 750,000+ websites worldwide. In addition to our commercial CMS and social community solutions, DNN is the steward of the DotNetNuke Open Source Project.
Industry Sector: Enterprise
Headquartered: Boston, MA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Dock Health: Dock gives your team a simple, HIPAA-compliant way to manage all your daily administrative and clinical tasks.
Industry Sector: Enterprise Software
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
DocSend (acquired by DropBox): DocSend is a free service that makes documents a more effective communication tool by telling you what happens after you hit send. DocSend was founded in 2013 by Tony Cassanego, Russ Heddleston, and Dave Koslow after they realized documents could be so much more effective if they were combined with the power of the internet.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
MassDrop: Massdrop is an online community for enthusiasts that provides people across several communities — from audio and electronics to quilting and cooking — a place to connect, discuss their favorite products and activities, and buy those products together.
Industry Sector: Enterprise Services and Logistics
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
EatClub: EAT Club is the largest business-focused online lunch delivery company in the US. We currently serve the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. We collaborate with the best local restaurants to provide quality and affordable meals that are prepared fresh daily. We also prepare healthy and tasty food in EAT Club’s own kitchens.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
eBates (acquired by Rakuten): Ebates is the pioneer and leader of online Cash Back Shopping.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Embrace Networks (exited): Web appliance infrastructure.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Encentuate (acquired by IBM): Identity and access management software product focused on enterprise single sign-on and integration of strong authentication technology.
Industry Sector: Manufacturing Execution System
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
FactoryFour (acquired by Xometry): Manufacturing management reinvented around a modern technology stack. We are enabling manufacturers across several industries to manage production the way they want to, with full customizability.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Fastly (NYSE:FSLY): Fastly is redefining content delivery. Our mission is to help businesses operate in real time and increase their speed of innovation. With Fastly, you can manage traffic spikes and mitigate security threats all while improving the performance of your website and mobile application.
Industry Sector: SAAS
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Fletch: The world is changing at the speed of code. As more companies adopt more and more cloud and SaaS technologies to run their business, data is becoming the lifeblood. Protecting this data is now a core business need. The problem is understanding what is going on and getting the insights needed requires expensive DIY analytics tools and countless hours from your most technical people, that is if you have the people and they have the cycles (most don’t), to derive any value. This is where Fletch comes in. With Fletch you instantly get the cybersecurity data intelligence you need to run your business with peace of mind. No data plumbing required. Write ZERO code. Timely answers delivered right to your inbox. At a price anyone can afford.
Industry Sector: Enterprise Logistics, Big Data and Machine Learning
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
FourKites: FourKites connects the dots across global supply chains. We enable the world’s largest shippers and 3PLs to achieve real-time visibility and gain predictive analytics that produce actionable insights.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Gigwalk: Gigwalk was founded in 2010 with the goal of reinventing work in a mobile world. Today, we make work better by developing mobile applications that transform and improve the nature of work and the relationship between employers and employees. We help businesses more efficiently manage distributed workforces to achieve better business outcomes and we give workers greater control and flexibility, so everyone can get work done.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Distributed Worldwide Team
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB): GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is an application to code, test, and deploy code together. It provides Git repository management with fine grained access controls, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds, wikis, and continuous integration.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Santa Monica, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Gravity (acquired by AOL): When we founded Gravity the vision was simple – “Let’s Personalize the Internet.” The foundation of our personalization engine is a framework we call the Interest Graph, which is the set of things you care about and how much you care about them. We generate interest graphs and apply them for personalization throughout our growing network of sites and apps. Our goal is nothing less than creating magical personalized experiences for you across the entire web.
Industry Sector: SAAS
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Villi Iltchev
Griddable (Acquired by Salesforce): The griddable.io concept was conceived by Rajeev Bharadhwaj, a serial entrepreneur with a vision to create a globally synchronized enterprise. He made a key decision to build-on vs. replace traditional databases and develop a new approach for synchronous data integration.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
HiHello: Exchange contacts, seamlessly.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
HipCamp: Find yourself outside. Hipcamp is everywhere you want to camp. Search, discover and book ranches,
farms, vineyards, nature preserves & public sites for camping across the U.S.
Industry Sector: Consumer
Headquartered: Austin, TX
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartnbaum
Hitch Technologies: Connecting drivers and riders headed to the same city. Every year, there are billions of empty car seats going between cities, leading to congestion and pollution. We’re building the world’s strongest community of travelers to help solve this problem and make travel more human and pleasant.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Diego, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Housecall (Codefied): The HouseCall team came together after working for many years on contextual software for smartphones at world-leading wireless company Qualcomm. We are out to change the $500B+ home services industry by rethinking how things should work in a mobile-centric world.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Kirkland, WA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
INRIX: INRIX has the world’s largest driver network with more than 175 million real-time vehicles and devices from 100’s of distinct sources around the world to then analyze through our traffic intelligence platform. Our comprehensive approach allows you to provide your customers with unparalleled insight, setting your products and services apart from the competition.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS): We are a global media valuation platform that enables digital buyers and sellers to assess the value of every ad opportunity across channels and screens, and make informed decisions that maximize ROI. Through constant technological innovation, key partnerships, and strong client relationships, we’re driving the industry toward realizing the full potential of online advertising.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Iridigm Display Corp (acquired by Qualcomm): Mirasol display technology. Meeting the needs of the new mobile consumer demands new ways of thinking. Creating a color screen that uses reflected light and something called interferometric modulation.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Kentik: Kentik is a big data-based SaaS for network visibility, DDoS detection, and infrastructure optimization. We scale to any volume of traffic, catch issues in moments, and inform your response with data-driven insights. Ready for network intelligence at Terabit scale? Kentik is your visibility solution.
Industry Sector: Financial Services and eCommerce
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Kin: Making Insurance Easier. Insurance is complicated, but your insurance policy doesn’t have to be. Our team is using our expertise in insurance, finance and technology to make insurance accessible and affordable.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Perform Local (assets acquired by Lending Tree): Lead generation platform.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Arlington, VA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Livemocha (acquired by Rosetta Stone): Livemocha is committed to creating a world in which every human being is fluent in multiple languages. As the world’s largest online language learning community, Livemocha fuses traditional learning methods with online practice and interaction with native language speakers from around the world. Livemocha delivers an unparalleled learning experience that promises conversational fluency. Since launching in 2007, the Livemocha community has grown to over 16 million members from over 195 countries, highlighting the international demand for an engaging and collaborative approach to language learning.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
LiveOps: In a world of piece-meal solutions, LiveOps set out to “answer the call” of modern day customer engagement. We cracked the code for enabling fast, smart communication – regardless of the incoming channel. Gone are the siloed channels of phone, email, chat, and social media. Gone is the church and state line between marketing and customer service. With LiveOps, brands have a 24/7, 360-degree ability to connect with consumers faster, better and cost-effectively. Customers and brands finally have a two-way, real-time interaction on the consumer’s channel of choice whether it be traditional voice, email, chat, SMS, social or mobile.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Luminate (acquired by Yahoo!): Luminate, Inc. is the leading image advertising and related content network, serving more than 180 million users and over 6 billion image views each month. Founded in 2008 by technologists from Netscape and LiveOps, Luminate’s platform combines computer vision, machine learning, and crowdsourcing technology to deliver the optimal Visually Targeted ads and content to images.
Industry Sector: Semiconductors
Headquartered: Carlsbad, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Luxtera (acquired by Cisco): Luxtera, Inc., is the world leader in Silicon Photonics. It is the first company to overcome the complex technical obstacles involved with integrating high performance optics directly with silicon electronics on a mainstream CMOS chip, bringing direct “fiber to the chip” connectivity to market. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded in 2001 by a team of industry-renowned researchers and technology managers drawn from the communications and semiconductor industries. Luxtera has received funding from leading venture capitalists including August Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds and Lux Capital.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Milpitas, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Magnum Semiconductor: Magnum Semiconductor is a leading provider of silicon, modules, software and IP for the professional broadcast infrastructure market. Magnum provides top of the line products, tools and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming. Magnum Semiconductor is headquartered in Milpitas, California, with sales and engineering offices in Canada, Europe, China and Korea.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
MaintainX: MaintainX is a mobile-first Frontline Record Management (FRM) platform that empowers operational leaders to manage workflows with their frontline teams and improve communication – all with a digital audit trail.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: Richardson, TX
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Mavenir (MVNR, acquired by MITL): Mavenir is a leading provider of software-based networking solutions that enable mobile service providers to deliver high-quality internet protocol (IP)-based voice, video, rich communications and enhanced messaging services to their subscribers globally. Our solutions deliver next-generation services such as Rich Communication Services (RCS), Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) over existing 2G/3G networks and next-generation 4G LTE networks.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Memolane (acquired by HP): Memolane is your digital memory – your tool to rediscover your social life on the Internet. Memolane is a digital platform collecting and connecting your thoughts, pictures, messages and music yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Industry Sector: Networking and Communications
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
MetroFi (exited): Municipal wireless mesh networking platform.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
MicroDisplay Corp (exited): LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) display technology.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra and David Marquardt
Mimosa Systems (acquired by Iron Mountain): Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Mirantis: Mirantis is the pure play OpenStack company, providing all the software, services, training and support you need to run a production deployment of OpenStack at scale. We deliver all the technology, integration, training and support required for companies to succeed with production-grade open source cloud. More customers rely on Mirantis than any other company to scale out OpenStack without the compromises of vendor lock-in.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Neopath Networks (acquired by Cisco): NeoPath Networks, Inc. provides file storage management solutions. It provides File Director, a network appliance that resides in-band between file servers and clients, and provides file storage management capabilities, including namespace virtualization and globalization, safe and non-disruptive file migrations, real-time file characterization and analysis, and policy-based file management; and SMARTtouch, a file storage software solution that allows its clients to balance and utilize existing file storage capacity.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
NetCell (exited): Creating Revolutionary Storage Processing Solutions That Are Accessible To Everyone Netcell® develops highly intelligent, plug-and-play storage solutions for the professional content creator, small-to-medium sized businesses as well as the consumer market. Users who adopt Netcell technology can increase their overall PC performance through application accelerators and plug ins, seamlessly grow their storage capacity, and most important, practically eliminate the chance of losing data from a malfunctioning disk drive — all with simple push button auto-configuration technology.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
NetPulse: FITNESS IS GOING MOBILE. Members aren’t just going to the gym to get fit— they’re downloading apps, they’re tracking everything with internet-connected gear, and it’s all in the cloud. Thousands of health clubs have launched custom-branded mobile apps by Netpulse, and the results are in: engaged members and increased club revenue.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Seattle, WA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
New Engen: New Engen was started by Dave Atchison who was the 4th employee at Zulily and ran marketing at Zulily until earlier this year. New Engen is a technology enabled marketing company that is building a platform to massively expand advertising campaigns (millions of keywords at a time) for Google Adwords and manage those campaigns with real-time bidding and with very few dollars at risk. While the company is still at a very early stage, we know Dave well and believe that he is an extraordinary talent and are pleased to partner with him again. .
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Bruno, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Nomis Solutions: Nomis Solutions is a fast-growth software company that combines cutting-edge Silicon Valley approaches to big data, advanced modeling, and deep analytics to help large and medium-sized retail banks better understand their customers.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Notiva (acquired by Performance Retail): Notiva Corporation is a service provider of transaction and financial settlement solutions for purchasers and suppliers. Its e-finance product leverages transaction data in a manner in which sellers are paid within three to seven days of shipment.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Ohai (acquired by Electronic Arts): Social gaming platform.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Open Garden: We’re dedicated to connecting the next 5 billion mobile devices with peer-to-peer connections. Many call us the pioneers of peer-to peer mesh networking. We created FireChat, the first off-the-grid messaging app to enable people to communicate even without any Internet or cellular connection.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
OPENLANE (acquired by KAR): OPENLANE, Inc. is a leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles. The company offers end-to-end auto remarketing solutions to auto manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease and daily rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale auto auctions throughout the United States and Canada.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
OrderAhead (Kinetic Farm) (acquired by Square): At OrderAhead, we are rethinking the way the world shops. We believe in empowering customers and business owners through the power of high-quality software. We believe in crafting a meaningful product.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
PacketTrap Networks (acquired by Quest and then Dell): Powerful remote network monitoring and management for the entire IT infrastructure. See all your customers’ network traffic, application performance, and device events, in one central view. Accessible Fast and easy anytime, anywhere access to any device. No more truck roll outs to site to fix problems.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Santa Clara, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Palerra (acquired by Oracle): Founded in 2013, Palerra believes in automating the entire security lifecycle, from threat detection to remediation, in order to effectively combat cyber crime and keep enterprises secure.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Paperless Post: Our Vision — Communication is an extension of personal style. Paperless Post is innovating on tradition and redefining the way you connect with people both online and off. Beautiful design meets seamless technology. Our Product — Paperless Post helps you create online and paper stationery that reflects your individual aesthetic.
Industry Sector: Enterprise
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
PatientIQ: PatientIQ is a platform for healthcare providers, industry partners, researchers, and others to collaborate on the mission to improve patient outcomes.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Cupertino, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
PayCycle (acquired by Intuit): SMB Online Payroll Application Service Provider.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Handle Financial (dba PayNearMe): The Handle Financial family is led by a team of experts from the payments, mobile and retail IT worlds. We exist to build affordably-priced, innovative products that make it easier for consumers to conduct financial transactions and for businesses to serve those consumers. The PayNearMe transaction network allows businesses and government agencies to accept cash payments in 28,000 stores nationwide, including CVS Pharmacy, 7-Eleven, Family Dollar and more. Handle Platform provides real-time bill presentment and same-day payment capabilities for a variety of financial services products. The Prism Money app empowers consumers to manage their financial lives more efficiently, giving them visibility into the money they have and tracking and same-day payments for the bills they need to pay.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Pixelpipe (exited): Pixelpipe is a media distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video, audio & documents through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 75 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage services.
Industry Sector: Software and Systems
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Westbridge (Actional acquired by Progress Software): In January 2006 Progress Software acquired Mountain View based Actional Corporation, which itself was the merger between Actional Corporation and WestBridge Technologies (an XML Security company). Progress focuses on providing enterprise-class SOA Management, Security, and run-time Governance solutions that cross vendor and protocol boundaries, based upon open standards.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
PubMatic: (NASDAQ:PUBM) PubMatic is the leading marketing automation software platform for publishers. Through real-time analytics, yield management, and workflow automation, PubMatic enables publishers to make smarter inventory decisions and improve revenue performance. Focused on serving the needs of premium publishers, PubMatic inspires buyer confidence by providing flexibility in audience discovery and planning media campaigns through its Media Buyer Console and APIs.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
PulseCore (acquired by ON Semiconductor): ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) is a premier supplier of high performance, silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics. The company’s broad portfolio of power and signal management, logic, discrete and custom devices helps customers effectively solve their design challenges in automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power applications. ON Semiconductor operates a world-class, value-added supply chain and a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and design centers in key markets throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions.
ON Semiconductor Corporation has recently completed the acquisition of privately-held PulseCore Holdings (Cayman) Inc. The acquisition of PulseCore expands ON Semiconductor’s high gross margin clock and circuit protection offerings for the consumer, wireless and computing end-market customers. PulseCore’s capabilities in standard and custom high-speed and low power analog and mixed signal solutions for EMI (electromagnetic interference) reduction also enhance ON Semiconductor’s overall EMI filtering and circuit protection portfolios. In addition, PulseCore’s strong design capabilities and history in India represents ON Semiconductor’s first foray into design activity in that country.
Industry Sector: Enterprise
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Quadrata: Quadrata Passport adds a layer of identity and compliance to existing public blockchains. Build robust DeFi applications, expand your financial services and leverage the utilization of Quadrata’s proprietary technology to access KYC/AML Status, Country of Residence, Credit Reputation and Accredited Investor Status.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Toronto, Canada
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Quandl (acquired by NASDAQ): Quandl is a Data Platform. We host data from hundreds of publishers on a single easy-to-use website. We help data analysts save time, effort and money, by delivering financial and economic data in the format they want: via our website, our API, or directly into dozens of tools.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: Tel Aviv, Israel
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
RADLAN (acquired by Marvell): Design, development and manufacturing of advanced routing and switching systems and technologies. More than 70 percent of the Company’s employees are engineers with expertise in silicon-based Layer 2/3/4 switching, routing software and network management applications. RADLAN offers system vendors a technology that fills the gap between the applications and the hardware components-to create a complete carrier-class system in the fastest time.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Reconnex (acquired by McAfee): Reconnex provides purpose-built appliance solutions that protect all information assets of organizations.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai): Red Swoosh is a peer-to-peer content delivery company that develops client-side technology to support, manage and distribute media files.
Industry Sector: Media
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
MyFlickList (dba Reelgood): Reelgood is the complete guide to online streaming content, with the ability to track and play content across 250+ streaming source..
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Reputation.com: Reputation.com is the world’s leading provider of online reputation products and services.
We believe that controlling your online reputation and private data is key to success in our digital world. Let us help you take control.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
RetailNext: RetailNext is the market leader in Big Data solutions for brick-and-mortar challenges. Our patented technology delivers comprehensive, real-time analytics that empowers worldwide retailers, shopping centers, and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize in-store data. For years, we have partnered with global retail brands to help them measure store performance, identify opportunities for growth, implement strategies that drive results, increase capital savings, and boost bottom-line sales.
Industry Sector: Marketplace
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Workona: Revel is a community built exclusively for women over the age of 50. Once a member of the community, a Reveler has access to a wide range of events and gatherings happening continuously all around her, all of which are organized, hosted and attended by women her own age. Most Revel gatherings consist of 10 attendees or less, allowing members to connect on a meaningful level.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Philadelphia, PA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
RJ Metrics (acquired by Magento Commerce, RJ Metrics Pipeline spun out into Stitch Data): In 2009 Robert Moore and Jake Stein founded RJMetrics. They thought every company, regardless of size, should be able to use their data to make better decisions. Today RJMetrics powers online businesses obsessed with growth. Clients include Formstack, Hootsuite, Choxi, and many more. With RJMetrics, any company can be a data-driven company.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
RocketLawyer: Helping 20 million people. Just like you. Our laws were created to protect and empower us — as individuals, families and business owners — but many people don’t get the help they need because of costly legal fees and complexity.
At Rocket Lawyer, we want to change things by making legal services affordable, simple and available to more people than ever before. I’m proud to say that we’ve been able to build a service that millions of people rely upon. Every day we spend our time and resources making it easier for people to get the legal help they need, so they can focus on what’s really important — taking care of their families and building strong businesses.
We combine free legal documents and free legal information with access to affordable representation by licensed attorneys. With Rocket Lawyer On Call, you can create a Will for your family for free or incorporate a business free from legal fees. Then, because we know there’s no replacement for qualified counsel, local attorneys are here to help when you need more guidance. With Rocket Lawyer you never have to go it alone.
Our commitment to affordable and accessible legal services is at the heart of everything we do. Most attorneys and bar associations agree that much can and should be done to improve access to the law by reducing cost and complexity. We invite you to try our service and see why customers like Sean Reid say they’re glad to have Rocket Lawyer On Call®.
Together, we’ll make the law work for you.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Rocket Travel (RocketMiles) acquired by Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN): We’ve done extensive research on where and how people want to travel. Some of them save up miles and points with a specific personal goal in mind. They want to learn to play guitar in Andalusia, bring their daughter to Yellowstone, or take their boyfriend on a trip to Lahaina. Others are enablers: they fuel the adventures of their college-bound sons, or donate their miles to charity.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Launch Kids (dba Rockets of Awesome): We are reimagining how parents shop for kids. And it’s basically the future. No, we don’t use hoverboards, but we do use algorithms which are just as cool. Based on what your kids like and don’t like, we design and hand-pick high quality clothes and send them to you free of charge four times a year. If there’s something you don’t like, it’s okay! Tell us. There’s no such thing as TMI. The more feedback you give us, the more personalized your experience becomes. We’re here to make your life easier. And we mean it. That’s our idea of awesome.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: Mountain View
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
SabSe (jaxter): Sabse Technologies Inc. was founded by Yogesh Patel and Sabeer Bhatia in January 2008. Sabse’s first product is Sabsebolo – a cloud-based voice conferencing and fax-to-email service. Since its launch, Sabsebolo has attracted over 500,000 small businesses who use the service for hosting conference calls and receive faxes through their email. Sabse Technologies has acquired 3 companies with promising technologies. – Jaxtr Inc., Mobivox and Vysr. Jaxtr is an IP Messaging platform with APPs for Text, Voice and Video, Mobivoxis a Cloud based PBX. Vysr is a scalable presence engine in the cloud. Why Sabse? Sabse has built a scaleable Cloud Communications Platform which providers developers a robust infrastructure to develop Voice and Text applications on. Sabse has built 3 apps of its own on this platform – PBX, Voice Conferencing and IVR.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum/David Marquardt
Samba TV: Samba TV is a leading provider of television analytics and cross screen advertising. We make TV better.
We started Samba TV in 2008 with one goal: To improve the TV experience for the people who watch, broadcast and advertise on TV.
Our team has deep experience in digital media, algorithms, large-scale Web engineering, big data & design.
At Samba TV, we work together to make television the best it can be.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
SAY Media (exited):We work with advertisers to create authentic campaigns that are aligned with editorial and designed to captivate readers. We also do in-depth research and create beautiful media experiences for publishers. Tempest is our next-generation publishing platform that caters to the needs of storytellers, marketers, and readers.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Scintera (acquired by Maxim Integrated): Scintera’s programmable analog signal processing architecture effectively combines digital programmability with the simplicity, small size and low power consumption of analog circuit design.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Cupertino, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Seagate Technology (STX): Founded in 1979, Seagate is a world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Second Spectrum (acquired by Genius Sports): Second Spectrum was founded in 2013 by Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu-Han Chang, and Jeff Su. Rajiv and Yu-Han were faculty in USC’s Computer Science Department and Jeff was a software engineer at Factual, a leading big data company. In their spare time, Rajiv and Yu-Han began a project analyzing NBA player tracking data, working with a few talented USC undergrads (who later joined the Second Spectrum team). Their work was awarded with the Best Research Paper at the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, garnering the attention of professional sports leagues and teams. They won a second Best Research Paper at Sloan two years later. Today, we have over 40 full-time employees, including former professors, big data startup veterans, talented undergraduates, incredible designers and professional athletes. Together, we are transforming sports through technology.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
SendBird: SendBird has the leading SDK and API for in-app messaging for mobile apps and websites and is focused on digitizing human interactions for business.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
ShopRunner (acquired by FedEx): ShopRunner connects top retailers and brands to the best online shoppers. ShopRunner’s exclusive member benefits and highly targeted, data-driven marketing help retail partners acquire high value customers while increasing existing customers’ purchase frequency and spend.
Led by CEO Sam Yagan, ShopRunner’s team of e-commerce experts are backed by Kynetic, Alibaba Group and American Express. ShopRunner has offices in Chicago, San Mateo and Philadelphia.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Six Apart (merged with VideoEgg into SAY Media): Formed in 2001 as a blog solution provider in the US, Six Apart provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate around the world every day.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
SkyPilot Networks (acquired by Trilliant): SkyPilot’s leading-edge broadband wireless products offer a total solution for service providers and municipalities who are ready to deploy broadband services. From versatile, long-range wireless infrastructure to cost-effective CPE and management software, SkyPilot supports more applications over a common network to lower total cost of ownership and optimize revenue opportunities.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Richmond, VA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
snagajob.com (majority stake acquired by Rho Acceleration and NewSpring Capital): Since 2000, we’ve made it our mission to help hourly workers find jobs they love–and help hourly employers find the best people for their jobs. We continually develop innovative tools to help hourly workers and employers simplify their jobs and start living their dreams. America’s largest hourly employment network for job seekers and employers. The #1 Source of Hourly Employment ®
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Spacious (acquired by The We Company): We love cities. We love the diversity of people, ideas, and resources converging on a single point. What we don’t love are the stories we hear about how little space there is. We’re told that finding a comfortable place to live, work, or play costs a fortune in the city because there’s just not enough space to go around. But the scarcity of urban space is artificial. It’s a product of outdated ways of thinking. We’ve never been more technologically empowered, yet we continue to make buildings productive for less than 50% of the time, where demand for space exists 100% every day. On every block, on the floors of every building, there is plenty of usable space hiding in plain sight. Spacious selects the best of these, and we’re extending an invitation for you to enter our hidden network.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Splunk (SPLK): It enables the curious to look closely at what others ignore—machine data—and find what others never see: insights that can help make your company more productive, profitable, competitive and secure. What can you do with Splunk?
Just ask. We see data—everywhere. Splunk® offers the leading platform for Operational Intelligence.
Industry Sector: FinTech, Block Chain, Security and Identity
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
SpringLabs: Spring is building a decentralized network for identity and credit to serve as the foundation for a more transparent, secure, and efficient delivery of financial services.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Clemente, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
STANCE: Stance’s founders saw a category that had been ignored, taken for granted, and dismissed. By breathing life into something that had been overlooked, Stance has ignited a movement of art and self-expression that has drawn athletes, performers and iconic cultural influencers to the brand – a group called the Punks & Poets. And by underpinning its creative roots with a relentless focus on technical innovation, Stance is now found in over 40 countries on the feet of those who dare to be different.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Philadelphia, PA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Stitch Data (acquired by Talend): Stitch evolved out of RJMetrics, a widely used business intelligence platform. Data consolidation was always central to the RJMetrics product, and the team repeatedly heard requests from customers looking for ETL as a standalone service. We listened. When RJMetrics was acquired by Magento in 2016, Stitch was launched as its own company.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Calgary, Canada
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon is a giant collection of the best pages on the Internet. You tell us your interests. We recommend great websites, photos and videos. Simple.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Sun Basket (acquired by Pruvit): Healthy cooking made easy. Organic and sustainable ingredients & delicious recipes delivered weekly. From our 100% recyclable box to the pristine, organic and sustainably sourced ingredients inside it, we create each Sun Basket with exceptional care. Because good food makes life better.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Los Gatos, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
SuVolta (exited asset sale): A developer of CMOS-based transistor and enabling circuit technologies, SuVolta is making possible straightforward power optimization in integrated circuits (ICs). SuVolta’s Deeply Depleted Channel™ (DDC) technology was invented to create a low-variability, low-power optimized transistor in bulk, planar CMOS.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Swoopo (exited): Swoopo is an online auction site with an alternative bidding system. – See more at: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swoopo#sthash.COkrEYIH.dpuf
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Berkeley, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
TalkShow Industries (acquired by Medium): Talkshow is a simple messaging app that allows you to text these things in public. With Talkshow, individuals, groups of friends, entertainers, creators — anyone! — can have conversations in public, to be viewed by others in real time or after the fact. Every Talkshow can be shared outside the app and embedded into other websites. Talkshows can be about anything: sports, TV, politics, music or what happened last night. It’s as easy as sending messages, pics & GIFs with your friends.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Technorati: Technorati uses technology and real-time market insights to optimize digital advertising interactions across an expanding high-quality publisher network. Since launching, the Technorati has grown into one of the largest digital advertising platforms (thousands of independent sites, blogs, and publishers), boasting an audience of over 138 million US unique visitors per month.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Newark, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Tegile Systems (acquired by Western Digital): Our mission is to accelerate the transformation of enterprise IT by changing the performance and economics of enterprise storage. Our flash storage arrays, with patented IntelliFlash™ architecture, deliver high I/O and low latency for business applications such as databases, server virtualization and virtual desktops. Our Intelligent Flash Arrays enable you to dial up or down the amount of flash storage to meet the specific performance needs of your applications. Get the high performance of flash with the economics of disk storage.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
threadsy (acquired by Facebook): threadsy is an integrated communication client grouping all of a users’ email and social network messages into a single inbox.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
ThreatMetrix (acquired by LexisNexis): Digital Identities. The New Currency of Cybercrime. At ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company™ we help business fight back through the power of global shared intelligence. With nearly 95% certainty, ThreatMetrix can recognize a user’s digital identity – or digital persona – somewhere in the 1 billion+ transactions we analyze each and every month. The ThreatMetrix® Digital Identity Network inspects each digital transaction across applications, devices and locations in real time at lightning speed.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Tickle (acquired by Monster): A media company providing self-discovery and social networking services. Formerly known as Emode.com, Tickle was founded on the idea that personal insight and connections to others can be scientific, fun and profitable. The site also allowed users to create their own tests, which were available for other users to take.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Tophatter (Blippy): Tophatter is a virtual auction house. It also happens to be the world’s most entertaining live marketplace. Tophatter conducts live online auction every day where buyers and sellers can interact, chat and transact in a wide variety of categories.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Townsquared: Our mission is to empower local businesses. We believe that when businesses connect to share advice and resources and work together, they strengthen themselves as well as their local economy – creating a better community for everyone. Townsquared encourages the exchange of local knowledge for the benefit of all community members.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Seattle, WA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Trumba (exited): Trumba Corporation is a Seattle-based developer of innovative event calendar publishing technology that helps businesses and organizations more effectively publish, promote, and communicate their events online. Trumba enables customers—from small businesses to large organizations—to connect key audiences with their events, transforming those events into unique and highly valued marketing and communication opportunities. The company’s flagship product, Trumba® Connect, increases awareness of important events through web-hosted calendar solutions and a comprehensive suite of event promotion tools. Developed for organizations that need to communicate event information to customers, members, or employees, Trumba Connect is easy to implement and maintain and is fully customizable for seamless brand integration.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Turo (RelayRides): It’s taken six years, hundreds of thousands of trips, and millions of miles to arrive here at Turo. Our marketplace has blossomed into something truly extraordinary — a vibrant community of car owners and travelers who inspire and fuel us every day.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
TZero Technologies (acquired by NDS Surgical): TZero Technologies, Inc. designs and develops ultra wideband semiconductors for video distribution. The company offers wirelessly connects devices and ultra wideband chipsets, which connect audiovisual components, such as televisions, set-top boxes, and digital video recorders. It serves consumer electronics, service providers, and computer manufacturers.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Ubicom (acquired by Qualcomm Atheros): Ubicom developed communications and media processor (CMP) and software platforms for real-time interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provided optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media devices, print servers and other network devices.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Unity Semiconductor Corp (acquired by Rambus): Unity Semiconductor Corp., a memory technology company, is developing an innovative solution for non-volatile solid state memory to replace NAND in the $20 billion and growing market for flash memory in electronic devices. Unity provides its technology and production know-how to memory semiconductor companies as part of a broad licensing program. Unity has been granted more than 147 US patents to date, which span device, process, design and system application inventions.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
UpGuard (ScriptRock): UpGuard is the first digital resilience platform that evaluates the ongoing configuration state of every server, application, or network device in your complex corporate infrastructure to provide deep visibility and insight into your configuration state. UpGuard is now the only company that provides you with your Cyber Security Threat Assessment Report, or CSTAR, score. The CSTAR score is a single, easy-to-understand value representing an organization’s aptitude in monitoring compliance, tracking unwanted change and detecting vulnerabilities in their infrastructure.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Uplister (exited):Uplister was a playlist sharing community with several hundred thousand users that operated from 2000-2002. The service allowed music fans from all over the world to create and share annotated playlists of their favorite music and discover new music based on shared personal tastes.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Virsto (acquired by VMWare): Virsto develops a VM-centric storage hypervisor. The company is privately funded and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. On February 11, 2013, VMware announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Toronto, Canada
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Wattpad (acquired by Naver): Wattpad is a global multiplatform entertainment company for original stories. Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. The global multiplatform entertainment company uses the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over 20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios
co-produces stories for film, television, digital and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
WePay (acquired by JPMorgan Chase): WePay is built for companies facilitating transactions between merchants and payers on their platform. We understand that these three party transactions (merchants, payers, your platform) have their own unique needs and we’re designed with your needs in mind. The payments API calls are grouped into three categories, based on the key points in the payment user experience. Explore them below and see the flexibility you have in designing your platform’s unique user experience.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Workona: Workona helps you get your tabs under control to increase productivity, reduce stress, and bring focus to your work. Modern teams run on cloud software and our browser productivity suite helps them run faster. We’ve baked our productivity suite into the core of your browser because that’s where you actually do your work. Collaboration should mean more than just typing into the same doc as someone else. Now you can work as a team where you’re already working on your own. We’re building the operating system for work in the cloud and workspaces are just the start. Workspaces are smart browser windows that can be used to organize all your work on the web. Whether you work in product, marketing, sales, or any other team, your workspaces will ensure everything you need to do your job is always at your fingertips.
Industry Sector: SAAS
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Wove Technologies (acquired by Samba TV) : Our mission: To transform business from individual companies working in isolation into communities of companies working together for mutual success. Stop going it alone.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: Thousand Oaks, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Xirrus (acquired by Riverbed): Xirrus delivers the industry’s broadest portfolio of Access Points and Modular Arrays to meet all of your wireless needs for indoor or outdoor uses. Right size your wireless network with choices from 2-radio APs up to 16 radio Array platforms with integrated controllers supporting 802.11a/b/g/n/ac technology on every radio. Deploy 50-75% less equipment to reduce the total cost of ownership of the network.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik, Tripp Jones
Yumi: From the Founders — We started this company because Angela is a giant nerd. You see, when she became pregnant with her first child, Elodie, she spent months researching nutrition. She discovered that scientists consider nutrition in the first 1,000 days to be the most important environmental factor in development. Babies’ brains, their senses, their fat cell production, and their proclivity for sweets are all shaped during this time. And yet, despite this overwhelming research, there were no convenient options for parents who wanted fresh, nutritious, and yummy meals for their baby.We got angry. We got inspired. We quit respectable jobs. We founded Yumi. Whether you use us for all or some of your meals, cook, or buy other brands, we hope our content and products inspire and empower you – and somehow make your life a little bit easier.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Seattle, WA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
zulily (ZU, acquired by Liberty Interactive): zulily is a fabulous new online store offering something special every day. Members can enjoy savings of up to 70% off retail prices; not to mention discover some exciting new brands and products. Only members can shop our sales, but membership is free and to sign up is instant and easy. zulily is a retailer obsessed with bringing moms special finds every day–all at incredible prices. We feature an always-fresh curated collection for the whole family, including clothing, home décor, toys, gifts and more.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Mechanical Zoo (Aardvark) (acquired by Google): Aardvark is a social search engine that allows users to ask questions and receive answers from their extended network.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones/David Marquardt
ADARA (acquired by RateGain): The ADARA Magellan platform transforms real-time loyalty, booking and search data from customers and prospects into powerful advertising solutions, delivering on performance and branding campaign objectives.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Foster City
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Adchemy (acquired by Walmart Labs): Adchemy is a product search company and a leader in e-commerce technology.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Airphrame: provides geospatial data and aerial imagery solutions on demand. The company offers AirPhrame, a turnkey data service that allows users to obtain aerial data without having to be concerned about vehicle specifications or operations. It controls a network of remote sensing devices that are able to operate over developed rural and urban land in the U.S. The company services engineering, insurance, geospatial, volumetric, agriculture, urban planning, infrastructure, catastrophe response, appraisal, inspection and modeling industries.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Urban Airship: The Leading Mobile Engagement Platform. Urban Airship helps leading brands engage their mobile users and build high-value relationships from the moment customers download an app. Thousands of companies and some of the most demanding brands in retail, media & entertainment, sports and travel & hospitality, trust Urban Airship to deliver the mobile moments that matter to their customers and to their business.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Aisle50: Aisle50 has built the best technology for connecting consumers outside the grocery store to great offers inside the store—a function that makes consumers happy and sends them to stores more often. We work with companies like Kellogg’s, Unilever, Pepsico and General Mills to deliver rich grocery offers to consumers through the web, mobile and social media.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Alta Devices (exited): Alta Devices is (em)Powering the Unplugged World™ by delivering the world’s most efficient, thin and flexible mobile power technology. Converting light into electricity, Alta’s technology extends the energy source of a system, and in many cases, completely cuts the traditional power cord. The solution can be completely integrated into the final system, and is ideal for use in unmanned systems, consumer electronics, automotive, remote exploration, or anywhere size, weight, and mobility matter.
Industry Sector: FinTech
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg/John Johnston
AvantCredit: Amount.com is an enterprise SaaS company selling to the world’s largest financial institutions. Amount products enable its customers to deliver a full suite of digital banking products to their customers. Products include verification, identity, fraud protection, point of sale lending, personal loan products, credit card product and deposit account services.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Appformix (acquired by Juniper Networks): Appformix bridges the gap between applications and infrastructure. Operators and developers can use our software to: Collect data across servers, storage, and networking in a single dashboard; Identify and eliminate resource contention bottlenecks; Set policy-based controls for how applications consume resources. AppFormix helps you manage the ever growing complexity of cloud infrastructure. The right data is collected and presented in real time for collaboration across administration groups.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Architizer (acquired by Material Bank): Software platform for connecting architects and building products manufacturers, enabling efficient product specification fulfillment for commercial development projects.
Industry Sector: FinTech
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg/John Johnston
AvantCredit: Avant is a fast-growing marketplace lending platform that is lowering the costs and barriers of borrowing for consumers. Utilizing big data and machine-learning algorithms, the company offers a unique and highly customized approach to streamlined credit options.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Bark & Co. (BarkBox) (NYSE:BARK): Barkbox is a subscription-based e-commerce and content company for dog lovers.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Mateo, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Beckon (Acquired by Aclate): Beckon is performance management for marketing in all its modern complexity. Only Beckon brings together data management, planning, reporting and analytics in a simple, powerful, SaaS platform built by marketers, for marketers. It aggregates, normalizes, categorizes and analyzes all the data that matters to marketers and gives the world’s best brands rich dashboards for insight into what’s working best across it all.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Bill.com (NYSE:BILL): Bill.com is the leading digital business payments company creating magically simple A/P and A/R solutions. We are uniquely positioned at the center of business payments, uniting banks, accountants, and businesses on the fastest growing payments network. Bill.com helps over 600,000 network members process over $19 billion in payments per year and saves companies up to 50 percent of the time typically spent on financial back-office operations by securely automating their end-to-end processes.
Industry Sector: IoT
Headquartered: San Mateo, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Brilliant Home Technology: Brilliant’s mission is to create technology that makes it easy and fun to interact directly with your home. We envision a world in which every environment, homes in particular, can communicate directly with its guests in a way that is simple and fun. Controlling an environment should be as easy as flipping a switch, so it’s really no surprise that’s where we started – replacing the light switch with the interaction model of the future. Brilliant was founded by Aaron Emigh, Steven Stanek, and Jeremy Hiatt, all of whom are experienced technology entrepreneurs from the mobile industry. All three worked together at shopkick, who developed the #1 retail mobile app before being acquired by SK Planet in 2014. Brilliant was started when Aaron began renovating his house and went looking for a product he was sure existed – an easy- to-use touch panel that replaces your light switch to control everything in the house. When one couldn’t be found, he teamed up with Steven and Jeremy to do what awesome nerds do, and they built one.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum/David Marquardt
Bubbli (Aria Glassworks) (Acquired by DropBox): Terrence invented the first seamless digital spherical photo in 1991, three years before the release of QTVR. In 2009, Ben created Yelp Monocle, the first Augmented Reality (AR) app to launch on the US App Store. After meeting at Stanford, Terrence proposed combining AR with spherical photographs to create an immersive ‘bubble’ viewer on the soon to be launched iPad.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Emeryville, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Callisto Media: Callisto Media represents a new publishing paradigm: one which combines rich data analysis with deep publishing expertise. Callisto has worldwide distribution under its subsidiary Arcas Publishing and a family of imprints that includes Rockridge Press, Garamond Press, Salinas Press, Healdsburg Press, Althea Press, and others.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Carlos, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Carlypso: Carlypso helps people get the best car, at the best price, in a really simple way.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Cambridge, MA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Celect (acquired by NIKE): With technology developed out of MIT, Celect builds on a fundamental advance in customer choice modeling. The Celect Choice Engine enables retail buyers, merchandisers, planners and inventory analysts to increase sales, margins, and reduce markdowns by placing the right product, in the right place, at the right time – across all channels.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
CommonBond: In 2011, David Klein, Mike Taormina, and Jessup Shean met as Wharton MBA students and set out to tackle one of the most frustrating areas of consumer finance: the student lending industry. Since then, the company has grown, but what has remained consistent is the mission to deliver competitive pricing, a simple, tech-enabled experience, and exceptional customer service.
Industry Sector: Enterprise Software
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Compology (acquired by RoadRunner Recycling): Compology has developed a software and hardware platform for solid waste management logistics.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Irvine, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Conexant: At Conexant, we make new ideas possible through technology advances and our application expertise. We combine our significant IP portfolio in DSP, analog and mixed signal technology to deliver silicon and software-based solutions that enhance, enrich and expand the user experience for both audio and imaging applications.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
CSR (SiRF/Enuvis) (acquired by BlackStone Group/CSR): Silicon GPS chip technologies.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Santa Clara, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
DataTorrent:
DataTorrent empowers today’s enterprises to experience the full potential – and business impact – of big data, by enabling them to process, analyze, make decisions and take action on data in real-time.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Bruno, CA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Devicescape (Acquired by Pareteum): Devicescape keeps end users Always Best Connected by integrating cellular connectivity with public, private and carrier Wi-Fi to create a seamless, quality-controlled mobile data experience.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Oakland, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Ditto: (acquired by 1800 Contacts) DITTO sits at the intersection of augmented reality, artificial intelligence, computer vision, retail, and fashion. DITTO licenses its omnichannel virtual try-on, facial analysis and frame recommendation technology platform to the world’s best eyewear retailers.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Mateo, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
DNN Software: DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) provides a suite of solutions for creating rich, rewarding online experiences for customers, partners and employees. DNN products and technology are the foundation for 750,000+ websites worldwide. In addition to our commercial CMS and social community solutions, DNN is the steward of the DotNetNuke Open Source Project.
Industry Sector: Enterprise
Headquartered: Boston, MA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Dock Health: Dock gives your team a simple, HIPAA-compliant way to manage all your daily administrative and clinical tasks.
Industry Sector: Enterprise Software
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
DocSend (acquired by DropBox): DocSend is a free service that makes documents a more effective communication tool by telling you what happens after you hit send. DocSend was founded in 2013 by Tony Cassanego, Russ Heddleston, and Dave Koslow after they realized documents could be so much more effective if they were combined with the power of the internet.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
MassDrop: Massdrop is an online community for enthusiasts that provides people across several communities — from audio and electronics to quilting and cooking — a place to connect, discuss their favorite products and activities, and buy those products together.
Industry Sector: Enterprise Services and Logistics
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
EatClub: EAT Club is the largest business-focused online lunch delivery company in the US. We currently serve the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. We collaborate with the best local restaurants to provide quality and affordable meals that are prepared fresh daily. We also prepare healthy and tasty food in EAT Club’s own kitchens.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
eBates (acquired by Rakuten): Ebates is the pioneer and leader of online Cash Back Shopping.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Embrace Networks (exited): Web appliance infrastructure.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Encentuate (acquired by IBM): Identity and access management software product focused on enterprise single sign-on and integration of strong authentication technology.
Industry Sector: Manufacturing Execution System
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
FactoryFour (acquired by Xometry): Manufacturing management reinvented around a modern technology stack. We are enabling manufacturers across several industries to manage production the way they want to, with full customizability.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Fastly (NYSE:FSLY): Fastly is redefining content delivery. Our mission is to help businesses operate in real time and increase their speed of innovation. With Fastly, you can manage traffic spikes and mitigate security threats all while improving the performance of your website and mobile application.
Industry Sector: SAAS
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Fletch: The world is changing at the speed of code. As more companies adopt more and more cloud and SaaS technologies to run their business, data is becoming the lifeblood. Protecting this data is now a core business need. The problem is understanding what is going on and getting the insights needed requires expensive DIY analytics tools and countless hours from your most technical people, that is if you have the people and they have the cycles (most don’t), to derive any value. This is where Fletch comes in. With Fletch you instantly get the cybersecurity data intelligence you need to run your business with peace of mind. No data plumbing required. Write ZERO code. Timely answers delivered right to your inbox. At a price anyone can afford.
Industry Sector: Enterprise Logistics, Big Data and Machine Learning
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
FourKites: FourKites connects the dots across global supply chains. We enable the world’s largest shippers and 3PLs to achieve real-time visibility and gain predictive analytics that produce actionable insights.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Gigwalk: Gigwalk was founded in 2010 with the goal of reinventing work in a mobile world. Today, we make work better by developing mobile applications that transform and improve the nature of work and the relationship between employers and employees. We help businesses more efficiently manage distributed workforces to achieve better business outcomes and we give workers greater control and flexibility, so everyone can get work done.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Distributed Worldwide Team
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB): GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is an application to code, test, and deploy code together. It provides Git repository management with fine grained access controls, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds, wikis, and continuous integration.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Santa Monica, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Gravity (acquired by AOL): When we founded Gravity the vision was simple – “Let’s Personalize the Internet.” The foundation of our personalization engine is a framework we call the Interest Graph, which is the set of things you care about and how much you care about them. We generate interest graphs and apply them for personalization throughout our growing network of sites and apps. Our goal is nothing less than creating magical personalized experiences for you across the entire web.
Industry Sector: SAAS
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Villi Iltchev
Griddable (Acquired by Salesforce): The griddable.io concept was conceived by Rajeev Bharadhwaj, a serial entrepreneur with a vision to create a globally synchronized enterprise. He made a key decision to build-on vs. replace traditional databases and develop a new approach for synchronous data integration.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
HiHello: Exchange contacts, seamlessly.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
HipCamp: Find yourself outside. Hipcamp is everywhere you want to camp. Search, discover and book ranches,
farms, vineyards, nature preserves & public sites for camping across the U.S.
Industry Sector: Consumer
Headquartered: Austin, TX
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartnbaum
Hitch Technologies: Connecting drivers and riders headed to the same city. Every year, there are billions of empty car seats going between cities, leading to congestion and pollution. We’re building the world’s strongest community of travelers to help solve this problem and make travel more human and pleasant.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Diego, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Housecall (Codefied): The HouseCall team came together after working for many years on contextual software for smartphones at world-leading wireless company Qualcomm. We are out to change the $500B+ home services industry by rethinking how things should work in a mobile-centric world.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Kirkland, WA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
INRIX: INRIX has the world’s largest driver network with more than 175 million real-time vehicles and devices from 100’s of distinct sources around the world to then analyze through our traffic intelligence platform. Our comprehensive approach allows you to provide your customers with unparalleled insight, setting your products and services apart from the competition.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ:IAS): We are a global media valuation platform that enables digital buyers and sellers to assess the value of every ad opportunity across channels and screens, and make informed decisions that maximize ROI. Through constant technological innovation, key partnerships, and strong client relationships, we’re driving the industry toward realizing the full potential of online advertising.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Iridigm Display Corp (acquired by Qualcomm): Mirasol display technology. Meeting the needs of the new mobile consumer demands new ways of thinking. Creating a color screen that uses reflected light and something called interferometric modulation.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Kentik: Kentik is a big data-based SaaS for network visibility, DDoS detection, and infrastructure optimization. We scale to any volume of traffic, catch issues in moments, and inform your response with data-driven insights. Ready for network intelligence at Terabit scale? Kentik is your visibility solution.
Industry Sector: Financial Services and eCommerce
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Kin: Making Insurance Easier. Insurance is complicated, but your insurance policy doesn’t have to be. Our team is using our expertise in insurance, finance and technology to make insurance accessible and affordable.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Perform Local (assets acquired by Lending Tree): Lead generation platform.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Arlington, VA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Livemocha (acquired by Rosetta Stone): Livemocha is committed to creating a world in which every human being is fluent in multiple languages. As the world’s largest online language learning community, Livemocha fuses traditional learning methods with online practice and interaction with native language speakers from around the world. Livemocha delivers an unparalleled learning experience that promises conversational fluency. Since launching in 2007, the Livemocha community has grown to over 16 million members from over 195 countries, highlighting the international demand for an engaging and collaborative approach to language learning.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
LiveOps: In a world of piece-meal solutions, LiveOps set out to “answer the call” of modern day customer engagement. We cracked the code for enabling fast, smart communication – regardless of the incoming channel. Gone are the siloed channels of phone, email, chat, and social media. Gone is the church and state line between marketing and customer service. With LiveOps, brands have a 24/7, 360-degree ability to connect with consumers faster, better and cost-effectively. Customers and brands finally have a two-way, real-time interaction on the consumer’s channel of choice whether it be traditional voice, email, chat, SMS, social or mobile.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Luminate (acquired by Yahoo!): Luminate, Inc. is the leading image advertising and related content network, serving more than 180 million users and over 6 billion image views each month. Founded in 2008 by technologists from Netscape and LiveOps, Luminate’s platform combines computer vision, machine learning, and crowdsourcing technology to deliver the optimal Visually Targeted ads and content to images.
Industry Sector: Semiconductors
Headquartered: Carlsbad, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Luxtera (acquired by Cisco): Luxtera, Inc., is the world leader in Silicon Photonics. It is the first company to overcome the complex technical obstacles involved with integrating high performance optics directly with silicon electronics on a mainstream CMOS chip, bringing direct “fiber to the chip” connectivity to market. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that was founded in 2001 by a team of industry-renowned researchers and technology managers drawn from the communications and semiconductor industries. Luxtera has received funding from leading venture capitalists including August Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds and Lux Capital.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Milpitas, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Magnum Semiconductor: Magnum Semiconductor is a leading provider of silicon, modules, software and IP for the professional broadcast infrastructure market. Magnum provides top of the line products, tools and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming. Magnum Semiconductor is headquartered in Milpitas, California, with sales and engineering offices in Canada, Europe, China and Korea.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
MaintainX: MaintainX is a mobile-first Frontline Record Management (FRM) platform that empowers operational leaders to manage workflows with their frontline teams and improve communication – all with a digital audit trail.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: Richardson, TX
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Mavenir (MVNR, acquired by MITL): Mavenir is a leading provider of software-based networking solutions that enable mobile service providers to deliver high-quality internet protocol (IP)-based voice, video, rich communications and enhanced messaging services to their subscribers globally. Our solutions deliver next-generation services such as Rich Communication Services (RCS), Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) over existing 2G/3G networks and next-generation 4G LTE networks.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Memolane (acquired by HP): Memolane is your digital memory – your tool to rediscover your social life on the Internet. Memolane is a digital platform collecting and connecting your thoughts, pictures, messages and music yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Industry Sector: Networking and Communications
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
MetroFi (exited): Municipal wireless mesh networking platform.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
MicroDisplay Corp (exited): LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) display technology.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra and David Marquardt
Mimosa Systems (acquired by Iron Mountain): Mimosa Systems, Inc. provides content archiving solutions for information immediacy, discovery, and continuity. It offers Mimosa NearPoint, an integrated unstructured information management software for emails, files, and instant messages that enables email and file system archiving, e-discovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Mirantis: Mirantis is the pure play OpenStack company, providing all the software, services, training and support you need to run a production deployment of OpenStack at scale. We deliver all the technology, integration, training and support required for companies to succeed with production-grade open source cloud. More customers rely on Mirantis than any other company to scale out OpenStack without the compromises of vendor lock-in.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Neopath Networks (acquired by Cisco): NeoPath Networks, Inc. provides file storage management solutions. It provides File Director, a network appliance that resides in-band between file servers and clients, and provides file storage management capabilities, including namespace virtualization and globalization, safe and non-disruptive file migrations, real-time file characterization and analysis, and policy-based file management; and SMARTtouch, a file storage software solution that allows its clients to balance and utilize existing file storage capacity.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
NetCell (exited): Creating Revolutionary Storage Processing Solutions That Are Accessible To Everyone Netcell® develops highly intelligent, plug-and-play storage solutions for the professional content creator, small-to-medium sized businesses as well as the consumer market. Users who adopt Netcell technology can increase their overall PC performance through application accelerators and plug ins, seamlessly grow their storage capacity, and most important, practically eliminate the chance of losing data from a malfunctioning disk drive — all with simple push button auto-configuration technology.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
NetPulse: FITNESS IS GOING MOBILE. Members aren’t just going to the gym to get fit— they’re downloading apps, they’re tracking everything with internet-connected gear, and it’s all in the cloud. Thousands of health clubs have launched custom-branded mobile apps by Netpulse, and the results are in: engaged members and increased club revenue.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Seattle, WA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
New Engen: New Engen was started by Dave Atchison who was the 4th employee at Zulily and ran marketing at Zulily until earlier this year. New Engen is a technology enabled marketing company that is building a platform to massively expand advertising campaigns (millions of keywords at a time) for Google Adwords and manage those campaigns with real-time bidding and with very few dollars at risk. While the company is still at a very early stage, we know Dave well and believe that he is an extraordinary talent and are pleased to partner with him again. .
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Bruno, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Nomis Solutions: Nomis Solutions is a fast-growth software company that combines cutting-edge Silicon Valley approaches to big data, advanced modeling, and deep analytics to help large and medium-sized retail banks better understand their customers.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Notiva (acquired by Performance Retail): Notiva Corporation is a service provider of transaction and financial settlement solutions for purchasers and suppliers. Its e-finance product leverages transaction data in a manner in which sellers are paid within three to seven days of shipment.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Ohai (acquired by Electronic Arts): Social gaming platform.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Open Garden: We’re dedicated to connecting the next 5 billion mobile devices with peer-to-peer connections. Many call us the pioneers of peer-to peer mesh networking. We created FireChat, the first off-the-grid messaging app to enable people to communicate even without any Internet or cellular connection.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
OPENLANE (acquired by KAR): OPENLANE, Inc. is a leading online auction company in North America for automotive dealers to buy and sell wholesale vehicles. The company offers end-to-end auto remarketing solutions to auto manufacturers, captive finance companies, lease and daily rental companies, financial institutions and wholesale auto auctions throughout the United States and Canada.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
OrderAhead (Kinetic Farm) (acquired by Square): At OrderAhead, we are rethinking the way the world shops. We believe in empowering customers and business owners through the power of high-quality software. We believe in crafting a meaningful product.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
PacketTrap Networks (acquired by Quest and then Dell): Powerful remote network monitoring and management for the entire IT infrastructure. See all your customers’ network traffic, application performance, and device events, in one central view. Accessible Fast and easy anytime, anywhere access to any device. No more truck roll outs to site to fix problems.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Santa Clara, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Palerra (acquired by Oracle): Founded in 2013, Palerra believes in automating the entire security lifecycle, from threat detection to remediation, in order to effectively combat cyber crime and keep enterprises secure.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Paperless Post: Our Vision — Communication is an extension of personal style. Paperless Post is innovating on tradition and redefining the way you connect with people both online and off. Beautiful design meets seamless technology. Our Product — Paperless Post helps you create online and paper stationery that reflects your individual aesthetic.
Industry Sector: Enterprise
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
PatientIQ: PatientIQ is a platform for healthcare providers, industry partners, researchers, and others to collaborate on the mission to improve patient outcomes.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Cupertino, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
PayCycle (acquired by Intuit): SMB Online Payroll Application Service Provider.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Handle Financial (dba PayNearMe): The Handle Financial family is led by a team of experts from the payments, mobile and retail IT worlds. We exist to build affordably-priced, innovative products that make it easier for consumers to conduct financial transactions and for businesses to serve those consumers. The PayNearMe transaction network allows businesses and government agencies to accept cash payments in 28,000 stores nationwide, including CVS Pharmacy, 7-Eleven, Family Dollar and more. Handle Platform provides real-time bill presentment and same-day payment capabilities for a variety of financial services products. The Prism Money app empowers consumers to manage their financial lives more efficiently, giving them visibility into the money they have and tracking and same-day payments for the bills they need to pay.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Pixelpipe (exited): Pixelpipe is a media distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video, audio & documents through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 75 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage services.
Industry Sector: Software and Systems
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Westbridge (Actional acquired by Progress Software): In January 2006 Progress Software acquired Mountain View based Actional Corporation, which itself was the merger between Actional Corporation and WestBridge Technologies (an XML Security company). Progress focuses on providing enterprise-class SOA Management, Security, and run-time Governance solutions that cross vendor and protocol boundaries, based upon open standards.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
PubMatic: (NASDAQ:PUBM) PubMatic is the leading marketing automation software platform for publishers. Through real-time analytics, yield management, and workflow automation, PubMatic enables publishers to make smarter inventory decisions and improve revenue performance. Focused on serving the needs of premium publishers, PubMatic inspires buyer confidence by providing flexibility in audience discovery and planning media campaigns through its Media Buyer Console and APIs.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
PulseCore (acquired by ON Semiconductor): ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) is a premier supplier of high performance, silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics. The company’s broad portfolio of power and signal management, logic, discrete and custom devices helps customers effectively solve their design challenges in automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power applications. ON Semiconductor operates a world-class, value-added supply chain and a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and design centers in key markets throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions.
ON Semiconductor Corporation has recently completed the acquisition of privately-held PulseCore Holdings (Cayman) Inc. The acquisition of PulseCore expands ON Semiconductor’s high gross margin clock and circuit protection offerings for the consumer, wireless and computing end-market customers. PulseCore’s capabilities in standard and custom high-speed and low power analog and mixed signal solutions for EMI (electromagnetic interference) reduction also enhance ON Semiconductor’s overall EMI filtering and circuit protection portfolios. In addition, PulseCore’s strong design capabilities and history in India represents ON Semiconductor’s first foray into design activity in that country.
Industry Sector: Enterprise
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Quadrata: Quadrata Passport adds a layer of identity and compliance to existing public blockchains. Build robust DeFi applications, expand your financial services and leverage the utilization of Quadrata’s proprietary technology to access KYC/AML Status, Country of Residence, Credit Reputation and Accredited Investor Status.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Toronto, Canada
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Quandl (acquired by NASDAQ): Quandl is a Data Platform. We host data from hundreds of publishers on a single easy-to-use website. We help data analysts save time, effort and money, by delivering financial and economic data in the format they want: via our website, our API, or directly into dozens of tools.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: Tel Aviv, Israel
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
RADLAN (acquired by Marvell): Design, development and manufacturing of advanced routing and switching systems and technologies. More than 70 percent of the Company’s employees are engineers with expertise in silicon-based Layer 2/3/4 switching, routing software and network management applications. RADLAN offers system vendors a technology that fills the gap between the applications and the hardware components-to create a complete carrier-class system in the fastest time.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Reconnex (acquired by McAfee): Reconnex provides purpose-built appliance solutions that protect all information assets of organizations.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai): Red Swoosh is a peer-to-peer content delivery company that develops client-side technology to support, manage and distribute media files.
Industry Sector: Media
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
MyFlickList (dba Reelgood): Reelgood is the complete guide to online streaming content, with the ability to track and play content across 250+ streaming source..
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Reputation.com: Reputation.com is the world’s leading provider of online reputation products and services.
We believe that controlling your online reputation and private data is key to success in our digital world. Let us help you take control.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
RetailNext: RetailNext is the market leader in Big Data solutions for brick-and-mortar challenges. Our patented technology delivers comprehensive, real-time analytics that empowers worldwide retailers, shopping centers, and manufacturers to collect, analyze, and visualize in-store data. For years, we have partnered with global retail brands to help them measure store performance, identify opportunities for growth, implement strategies that drive results, increase capital savings, and boost bottom-line sales.
Industry Sector: Marketplace
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Workona: Revel is a community built exclusively for women over the age of 50. Once a member of the community, a Reveler has access to a wide range of events and gatherings happening continuously all around her, all of which are organized, hosted and attended by women her own age. Most Revel gatherings consist of 10 attendees or less, allowing members to connect on a meaningful level.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Philadelphia, PA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
RJ Metrics (acquired by Magento Commerce, RJ Metrics Pipeline spun out into Stitch Data): In 2009 Robert Moore and Jake Stein founded RJMetrics. They thought every company, regardless of size, should be able to use their data to make better decisions. Today RJMetrics powers online businesses obsessed with growth. Clients include Formstack, Hootsuite, Choxi, and many more. With RJMetrics, any company can be a data-driven company.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
RocketLawyer: Helping 20 million people. Just like you. Our laws were created to protect and empower us — as individuals, families and business owners — but many people don’t get the help they need because of costly legal fees and complexity.
At Rocket Lawyer, we want to change things by making legal services affordable, simple and available to more people than ever before. I’m proud to say that we’ve been able to build a service that millions of people rely upon. Every day we spend our time and resources making it easier for people to get the legal help they need, so they can focus on what’s really important — taking care of their families and building strong businesses.
We combine free legal documents and free legal information with access to affordable representation by licensed attorneys. With Rocket Lawyer On Call, you can create a Will for your family for free or incorporate a business free from legal fees. Then, because we know there’s no replacement for qualified counsel, local attorneys are here to help when you need more guidance. With Rocket Lawyer you never have to go it alone.
Our commitment to affordable and accessible legal services is at the heart of everything we do. Most attorneys and bar associations agree that much can and should be done to improve access to the law by reducing cost and complexity. We invite you to try our service and see why customers like Sean Reid say they’re glad to have Rocket Lawyer On Call®.
Together, we’ll make the law work for you.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Rocket Travel (RocketMiles) acquired by Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN): We’ve done extensive research on where and how people want to travel. Some of them save up miles and points with a specific personal goal in mind. They want to learn to play guitar in Andalusia, bring their daughter to Yellowstone, or take their boyfriend on a trip to Lahaina. Others are enablers: they fuel the adventures of their college-bound sons, or donate their miles to charity.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: New York, NY
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Launch Kids (dba Rockets of Awesome): We are reimagining how parents shop for kids. And it’s basically the future. No, we don’t use hoverboards, but we do use algorithms which are just as cool. Based on what your kids like and don’t like, we design and hand-pick high quality clothes and send them to you free of charge four times a year. If there’s something you don’t like, it’s okay! Tell us. There’s no such thing as TMI. The more feedback you give us, the more personalized your experience becomes. We’re here to make your life easier. And we mean it. That’s our idea of awesome.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: Mountain View
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
SabSe (jaxter): Sabse Technologies Inc. was founded by Yogesh Patel and Sabeer Bhatia in January 2008. Sabse’s first product is Sabsebolo – a cloud-based voice conferencing and fax-to-email service. Since its launch, Sabsebolo has attracted over 500,000 small businesses who use the service for hosting conference calls and receive faxes through their email. Sabse Technologies has acquired 3 companies with promising technologies. – Jaxtr Inc., Mobivox and Vysr. Jaxtr is an IP Messaging platform with APPs for Text, Voice and Video, Mobivoxis a Cloud based PBX. Vysr is a scalable presence engine in the cloud. Why Sabse? Sabse has built a scaleable Cloud Communications Platform which providers developers a robust infrastructure to develop Voice and Text applications on. Sabse has built 3 apps of its own on this platform – PBX, Voice Conferencing and IVR.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum/David Marquardt
Samba TV: Samba TV is a leading provider of television analytics and cross screen advertising. We make TV better.
We started Samba TV in 2008 with one goal: To improve the TV experience for the people who watch, broadcast and advertise on TV.
Our team has deep experience in digital media, algorithms, large-scale Web engineering, big data & design.
At Samba TV, we work together to make television the best it can be.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
SAY Media (exited):We work with advertisers to create authentic campaigns that are aligned with editorial and designed to captivate readers. We also do in-depth research and create beautiful media experiences for publishers. Tempest is our next-generation publishing platform that caters to the needs of storytellers, marketers, and readers.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Scintera (acquired by Maxim Integrated): Scintera’s programmable analog signal processing architecture effectively combines digital programmability with the simplicity, small size and low power consumption of analog circuit design.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Cupertino, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Seagate Technology (STX): Founded in 1979, Seagate is a world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Second Spectrum (acquired by Genius Sports): Second Spectrum was founded in 2013 by Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu-Han Chang, and Jeff Su. Rajiv and Yu-Han were faculty in USC’s Computer Science Department and Jeff was a software engineer at Factual, a leading big data company. In their spare time, Rajiv and Yu-Han began a project analyzing NBA player tracking data, working with a few talented USC undergrads (who later joined the Second Spectrum team). Their work was awarded with the Best Research Paper at the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, garnering the attention of professional sports leagues and teams. They won a second Best Research Paper at Sloan two years later. Today, we have over 40 full-time employees, including former professors, big data startup veterans, talented undergraduates, incredible designers and professional athletes. Together, we are transforming sports through technology.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Redwood City, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
SendBird: SendBird has the leading SDK and API for in-app messaging for mobile apps and websites and is focused on digitizing human interactions for business.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Chicago, IL
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
ShopRunner (acquired by FedEx): ShopRunner connects top retailers and brands to the best online shoppers. ShopRunner’s exclusive member benefits and highly targeted, data-driven marketing help retail partners acquire high value customers while increasing existing customers’ purchase frequency and spend.
Led by CEO Sam Yagan, ShopRunner’s team of e-commerce experts are backed by Kynetic, Alibaba Group and American Express. ShopRunner has offices in Chicago, San Mateo and Philadelphia.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Six Apart (merged with VideoEgg into SAY Media): Formed in 2001 as a blog solution provider in the US, Six Apart provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate around the world every day.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
SkyPilot Networks (acquired by Trilliant): SkyPilot’s leading-edge broadband wireless products offer a total solution for service providers and municipalities who are ready to deploy broadband services. From versatile, long-range wireless infrastructure to cost-effective CPE and management software, SkyPilot supports more applications over a common network to lower total cost of ownership and optimize revenue opportunities.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Richmond, VA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
snagajob.com (majority stake acquired by Rho Acceleration and NewSpring Capital): Since 2000, we’ve made it our mission to help hourly workers find jobs they love–and help hourly employers find the best people for their jobs. We continually develop innovative tools to help hourly workers and employers simplify their jobs and start living their dreams. America’s largest hourly employment network for job seekers and employers. The #1 Source of Hourly Employment ®
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Spacious (acquired by The We Company): We love cities. We love the diversity of people, ideas, and resources converging on a single point. What we don’t love are the stories we hear about how little space there is. We’re told that finding a comfortable place to live, work, or play costs a fortune in the city because there’s just not enough space to go around. But the scarcity of urban space is artificial. It’s a product of outdated ways of thinking. We’ve never been more technologically empowered, yet we continue to make buildings productive for less than 50% of the time, where demand for space exists 100% every day. On every block, on the floors of every building, there is plenty of usable space hiding in plain sight. Spacious selects the best of these, and we’re extending an invitation for you to enter our hidden network.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Splunk (SPLK): It enables the curious to look closely at what others ignore—machine data—and find what others never see: insights that can help make your company more productive, profitable, competitive and secure. What can you do with Splunk?
Just ask. We see data—everywhere. Splunk® offers the leading platform for Operational Intelligence.
Industry Sector: FinTech, Block Chain, Security and Identity
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
SpringLabs: Spring is building a decentralized network for identity and credit to serve as the foundation for a more transparent, secure, and efficient delivery of financial services.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Clemente, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
STANCE: Stance’s founders saw a category that had been ignored, taken for granted, and dismissed. By breathing life into something that had been overlooked, Stance has ignited a movement of art and self-expression that has drawn athletes, performers and iconic cultural influencers to the brand – a group called the Punks & Poets. And by underpinning its creative roots with a relentless focus on technical innovation, Stance is now found in over 40 countries on the feet of those who dare to be different.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Philadelphia, PA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
Stitch Data (acquired by Talend): Stitch evolved out of RJMetrics, a widely used business intelligence platform. Data consolidation was always central to the RJMetrics product, and the team repeatedly heard requests from customers looking for ETL as a standalone service. We listened. When RJMetrics was acquired by Magento in 2016, Stitch was launched as its own company.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Calgary, Canada
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
StumbleUpon: StumbleUpon is a giant collection of the best pages on the Internet. You tell us your interests. We recommend great websites, photos and videos. Simple.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Sun Basket (acquired by Pruvit): Healthy cooking made easy. Organic and sustainable ingredients & delicious recipes delivered weekly. From our 100% recyclable box to the pristine, organic and sustainably sourced ingredients inside it, we create each Sun Basket with exceptional care. Because good food makes life better.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Los Gatos, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
SuVolta (exited asset sale): A developer of CMOS-based transistor and enabling circuit technologies, SuVolta is making possible straightforward power optimization in integrated circuits (ICs). SuVolta’s Deeply Depleted Channel™ (DDC) technology was invented to create a low-variability, low-power optimized transistor in bulk, planar CMOS.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Mountain View, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Swoopo (exited): Swoopo is an online auction site with an alternative bidding system. – See more at: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swoopo#sthash.COkrEYIH.dpuf
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Berkeley, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
TalkShow Industries (acquired by Medium): Talkshow is a simple messaging app that allows you to text these things in public. With Talkshow, individuals, groups of friends, entertainers, creators — anyone! — can have conversations in public, to be viewed by others in real time or after the fact. Every Talkshow can be shared outside the app and embedded into other websites. Talkshows can be about anything: sports, TV, politics, music or what happened last night. It’s as easy as sending messages, pics & GIFs with your friends.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Technorati: Technorati uses technology and real-time market insights to optimize digital advertising interactions across an expanding high-quality publisher network. Since launching, the Technorati has grown into one of the largest digital advertising platforms (thousands of independent sites, blogs, and publishers), boasting an audience of over 138 million US unique visitors per month.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Newark, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Tegile Systems (acquired by Western Digital): Our mission is to accelerate the transformation of enterprise IT by changing the performance and economics of enterprise storage. Our flash storage arrays, with patented IntelliFlash™ architecture, deliver high I/O and low latency for business applications such as databases, server virtualization and virtual desktops. Our Intelligent Flash Arrays enable you to dial up or down the amount of flash storage to meet the specific performance needs of your applications. Get the high performance of flash with the economics of disk storage.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
threadsy (acquired by Facebook): threadsy is an integrated communication client grouping all of a users’ email and social network messages into a single inbox.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
ThreatMetrix (acquired by LexisNexis): Digital Identities. The New Currency of Cybercrime. At ThreatMetrix®, The Digital Identity Company™ we help business fight back through the power of global shared intelligence. With nearly 95% certainty, ThreatMetrix can recognize a user’s digital identity – or digital persona – somewhere in the 1 billion+ transactions we analyze each and every month. The ThreatMetrix® Digital Identity Network inspects each digital transaction across applications, devices and locations in real time at lightning speed.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Tickle (acquired by Monster): A media company providing self-discovery and social networking services. Formerly known as Emode.com, Tickle was founded on the idea that personal insight and connections to others can be scientific, fun and profitable. The site also allowed users to create their own tests, which were available for other users to take.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Tophatter (Blippy): Tophatter is a virtual auction house. It also happens to be the world’s most entertaining live marketplace. Tophatter conducts live online auction every day where buyers and sellers can interact, chat and transact in a wide variety of categories.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Townsquared: Our mission is to empower local businesses. We believe that when businesses connect to share advice and resources and work together, they strengthen themselves as well as their local economy – creating a better community for everyone. Townsquared encourages the exchange of local knowledge for the benefit of all community members.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Seattle, WA
Lead Investment Professional: John Johnston
Trumba (exited): Trumba Corporation is a Seattle-based developer of innovative event calendar publishing technology that helps businesses and organizations more effectively publish, promote, and communicate their events online. Trumba enables customers—from small businesses to large organizations—to connect key audiences with their events, transforming those events into unique and highly valued marketing and communication opportunities. The company’s flagship product, Trumba® Connect, increases awareness of important events through web-hosted calendar solutions and a comprehensive suite of event promotion tools. Developed for organizations that need to communicate event information to customers, members, or employees, Trumba Connect is easy to implement and maintain and is fully customizable for seamless brand integration.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Turo (RelayRides): It’s taken six years, hundreds of thousands of trips, and millions of miles to arrive here at Turo. Our marketplace has blossomed into something truly extraordinary — a vibrant community of car owners and travelers who inspire and fuel us every day.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
TZero Technologies (acquired by NDS Surgical): TZero Technologies, Inc. designs and develops ultra wideband semiconductors for video distribution. The company offers wirelessly connects devices and ultra wideband chipsets, which connect audiovisual components, such as televisions, set-top boxes, and digital video recorders. It serves consumer electronics, service providers, and computer manufacturers.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: San Jose, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Ubicom (acquired by Qualcomm Atheros): Ubicom developed communications and media processor (CMP) and software platforms for real-time interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provided optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media devices, print servers and other network devices.
Industry Sector: Hardware
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Unity Semiconductor Corp (acquired by Rambus): Unity Semiconductor Corp., a memory technology company, is developing an innovative solution for non-volatile solid state memory to replace NAND in the $20 billion and growing market for flash memory in electronic devices. Unity provides its technology and production know-how to memory semiconductor companies as part of a broad licensing program. Unity has been granted more than 147 US patents to date, which span device, process, design and system application inventions.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
UpGuard (ScriptRock): UpGuard is the first digital resilience platform that evaluates the ongoing configuration state of every server, application, or network device in your complex corporate infrastructure to provide deep visibility and insight into your configuration state. UpGuard is now the only company that provides you with your Cyber Security Threat Assessment Report, or CSTAR, score. The CSTAR score is a single, easy-to-understand value representing an organization’s aptitude in monitoring compliance, tracking unwanted change and detecting vulnerabilities in their infrastructure.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: NA
Lead Investment Professional: Andy Rappaport
Uplister (exited):Uplister was a playlist sharing community with several hundred thousand users that operated from 2000-2002. The service allowed music fans from all over the world to create and share annotated playlists of their favorite music and discover new music based on shared personal tastes.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: Sunnyvale, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Vivek Mehra
Virsto (acquired by VMWare): Virsto develops a VM-centric storage hypervisor. The company is privately funded and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. On February 11, 2013, VMware announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Toronto, Canada
Lead Investment Professional: Tripp Jones
Wattpad (acquired by Naver): Wattpad is a global multiplatform entertainment company for original stories. Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. The global multiplatform entertainment company uses the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over 20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios
co-produces stories for film, television, digital and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Palo Alto, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
WePay (acquired by JPMorgan Chase): WePay is built for companies facilitating transactions between merchants and payers on their platform. We understand that these three party transactions (merchants, payers, your platform) have their own unique needs and we’re designed with your needs in mind. The payments API calls are grouped into three categories, based on the key points in the payment user experience. Explore them below and see the flexibility you have in designing your platform’s unique user experience.
Industry Sector: Software and Services
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik
Workona: Workona helps you get your tabs under control to increase productivity, reduce stress, and bring focus to your work. Modern teams run on cloud software and our browser productivity suite helps them run faster. We’ve baked our productivity suite into the core of your browser because that’s where you actually do your work. Collaboration should mean more than just typing into the same doc as someone else. Now you can work as a team where you’re already working on your own. We’re building the operating system for work in the cloud and workspaces are just the start. Workspaces are smart browser windows that can be used to organize all your work on the web. Whether you work in product, marketing, sales, or any other team, your workspaces will ensure everything you need to do your job is always at your fingertips.
Industry Sector: SAAS
Headquartered: San Francisco, CA
Lead Investment Professional: Howard Hartenbaum
Wove Technologies (acquired by Samba TV) : Our mission: To transform business from individual companies working in isolation into communities of companies working together for mutual success. Stop going it alone.
Industry Sector: Data Communications
Headquartered: Thousand Oaks, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Marquardt
Xirrus (acquired by Riverbed): Xirrus delivers the industry’s broadest portfolio of Access Points and Modular Arrays to meet all of your wireless needs for indoor or outdoor uses. Right size your wireless network with choices from 2-radio APs up to 16 radio Array platforms with integrated controllers supporting 802.11a/b/g/n/ac technology on every radio. Deploy 50-75% less equipment to reduce the total cost of ownership of the network.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Los Angeles, CA
Lead Investment Professional: David Hornik, Tripp Jones
Yumi: From the Founders — We started this company because Angela is a giant nerd. You see, when she became pregnant with her first child, Elodie, she spent months researching nutrition. She discovered that scientists consider nutrition in the first 1,000 days to be the most important environmental factor in development. Babies’ brains, their senses, their fat cell production, and their proclivity for sweets are all shaped during this time. And yet, despite this overwhelming research, there were no convenient options for parents who wanted fresh, nutritious, and yummy meals for their baby.We got angry. We got inspired. We quit respectable jobs. We founded Yumi. Whether you use us for all or some of your meals, cook, or buy other brands, we hope our content and products inspire and empower you – and somehow make your life a little bit easier.
Industry Sector: eCommerce
Headquartered: Seattle, WA
Lead Investment Professional: Eric Carlborg
zulily (ZU, acquired by Liberty Interactive): zulily is a fabulous new online store offering something special every day. Members can enjoy savings of up to 70% off retail prices; not to mention discover some exciting new brands and products. Only members can shop our sales, but membership is free and to sign up is instant and easy. zulily is a retailer obsessed with bringing moms special finds every day–all at incredible prices. We feature an always-fresh curated collection for the whole family, including clothing, home décor, toys, gifts and more.