Canopy
Acquisition in 2020
Canopy uses on-device machine learning to discover sights, sounds, and stories to inspire your life.
The company is taking a new approach to personalized discovery. One that doesn’t require knowing every action you take or every preference you have. Your personal data stays on your phone, in your hands. Canopy doesn’t see your personal information or track your behavior. The company's app looks at things you like—songs you’ve played, places you’ve explored, articles you’ve read and loved—and makes a summary of your tastes. This vector can’t be reverse engineered to identify you or your personal preferences. Most importantly, nothing but this unidentifiable summary leaves your phone.
Canopy uses this anonymized summary, along with other anonymized summaries, as a roadmap to find content you’ll enjoy. We then share these picks back to you in your app each day.
BeMe Health
Acquisition in 2016
BeMe Health is a mobile platform dedicated to supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of teenagers. It offers curated content, learning opportunities, and live coaching connections.
Zite is a mobile application designed to curate and deliver personalized news content to users, combining their favorite magazines, newspapers, videos, and blogs into a single, user-friendly format. The application focuses on presenting online news through mobile devices, allowing users to access a tailored selection of information that aligns with their interests. By employing advanced algorithms, Zite enhances the user experience by continually learning from individual preferences, ensuring that the content remains relevant and engaging.
DG Pathfire
Venture Round in 2007
Pathfire, Inc. is a provider of digital media distribution and management solutions tailored for the television, media, and entertainment industries. Founded in 1996 and based in Roswell, Georgia, Pathfire delivers a digital IP store-and-forward platform known as Digital Media Gateway. This platform facilitates the distribution and management of various digital media content, including news stories, syndicated programming, advertising spots, and video news releases, to broadcasters and cable companies. With a primary focus on servicing broadcasters, news organizations, television networks, and Hollywood studios, Pathfire plays a key role in enhancing the efficiency of media content delivery within the evolving landscape of digital communications. The company was formerly known as Video Networks, Inc. before rebranding to Pathfire, Inc. in 2001.