Accelerator Ventures

Accelerator Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, specializing in seed and early-stage investments primarily in technology companies. Founded in 2008, the firm focuses on sectors such as financial technology and virtual and augmented reality, targeting startups that are seeking their first institutional round of funding. Accelerator Ventures aims to support entrepreneurs by leveraging its expertise in technology and venture markets, providing assistance in areas like financing strategy, business development, and management team development. The firm typically invests in startups that are either preparing to establish their business model or have lower capital requirements, usually less than $2 million. This approach is designed to maximize potential returns for both the entrepreneurs and the firm, fostering the growth of innovative companies in their early stages.

Thomas J. Cervantez

Venture Partner

Linda Jacobson

Venture Partner

Alexander Lloyd

Founder, Managing Partner and Managing Director

55 past transactions

Mytaverse

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2020, Miami-based GathR Virtual Studios, Inc. was formed to meet rising demand for 3D, digitally-visualized, hybrid work spaces. As a fully immersive ecosystem using Epic Games Unreal Engine, GathR utilizes dynamic experiences for job simulations, interactive meetings and 3D asset-rich showrooms. Thanks to a hardware-agnostic approach, GathR enables users from anywhere to enter using only their browser on their PC or Mac. Coming soon will be the GathR mobile version allowing users to engage us anywhere, anytime, all the time.

Rinse

Seed Round in 2021
Rinse is a national and global brand focused on clothing care, providing a convenient solution to the challenges of dry cleaning and laundry. It offers a range of services, including dry cleaning, launder and press, wash and fold, hang dry, repairs, leather cleaning, and clothing donations. The company utilizes a technology-driven platform that features smart scheduling for pickups and deliveries, ensuring a high-quality cleaning experience. By effectively managing the complexities of its operations, Rinse aims to standardize and improve the garment care process for consumers, allowing them to outsource their laundry needs with ease.

Facet

Series B in 2020
Facet Wealth, Inc. is a financial services firm that specializes in wealth management and financial planning for small accounts. Established in 2016 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company offers a range of services including retirement planning, education planning, income tax planning, estate planning, insurance planning, and asset management. Facet Wealth distinguishes itself by providing personalized financial guidance through dedicated Certified Financial Planners on a subscription basis, making financial planning more accessible and affordable. The firm serves a diverse clientele, including professionals, pre-retirees, and retirees, with a focus on enhancing their financial security and overall prosperity.

LoanSnap

Series B in 2020
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Facet

Series A in 2018
Facet Wealth, Inc. is a financial services firm that specializes in wealth management and financial planning for small accounts. Established in 2016 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company offers a range of services including retirement planning, education planning, income tax planning, estate planning, insurance planning, and asset management. Facet Wealth distinguishes itself by providing personalized financial guidance through dedicated Certified Financial Planners on a subscription basis, making financial planning more accessible and affordable. The firm serves a diverse clientele, including professionals, pre-retirees, and retirees, with a focus on enhancing their financial security and overall prosperity.

Fuzzy

Seed Round in 2017
Fuzzy Pet Health, Inc. is a San Francisco-based startup that provides in-home pet healthcare services through a subscription model. Founded in 2016, the company aims to make pet care accessible and affordable for pet owners. Fuzzy offers membership-based nose-to-tail examinations and vaccinations for pets, as well as a mobile application that facilitates real-time communication between pet parents and veterinarians. This app includes features such as Ask-a-Vet mobile chat, electronic health records, and personalized health programs for pets. Additionally, Fuzzy provides a direct mailing service for medications, supplements, and food, ensuring convenience for pet owners. The company was previously known as PetChi, Inc. before rebranding in December 2018.

Sixup

Convertible Note in 2017
Sixup PBC, Inc. is a for-profit technology company based in San Francisco that provides an online platform offering loans to low-income, high-achieving students. Established in 2014, Sixup focuses on addressing the financial needs of underserved students by aggregating, underwriting, and funding loans that support their educational pursuits. The company aims to create a new asset class, termed Future-Prime, which encompasses approximately seven million students and represents a significant annual market volume. Sixup is supported by $14 million in equity funding from various investors, including Collaboration Capital and the Kellogg Foundation, and has secured an additional $41 million in lending and grant capital from institutions like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. Operating in 18 states, Sixup collaborates with numerous community-based and advocacy organizations to enhance access to education for its target demographic.

Snapdocs

Series A in 2017
Snapdocs, Inc. is a real estate technology company that provides a digital platform designed to streamline the mortgage closing process. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Snapdocs connects lenders, title and escrow companies, notary publics, and home buyers to enhance collaboration and efficiency in real estate transactions. The platform features advanced automation and standardized workflows, allowing participants to choose their preferred closing methods while improving accuracy and consumer satisfaction. It also enables notary signing agents to showcase their qualifications, helping them attract potential clients. By simplifying mortgage loan closings and improving the overall borrower experience, Snapdocs empowers its users to operate more effectively and transparently in a competitive market.

Karmic Labs

Series B in 2017
Karmic Labs, Inc., based in San Francisco and incorporated in 2014, specializes in smart payment cards that enhance the funding distribution workflow. The company offers corporate cards and modern applications designed to assist users in managing expenses efficiently. By merging payment cards with mobile software, Karmic provides an integrated solution that streamlines expense management for both small and large financial institutions. Its platform is designed for ease of enrollment and real-time mobile experiences, enabling businesses to save time and money while effectively managing their expenditures. Karmic's commitment to developing reliable financial applications positions it as a leader in the industry.

sourcerer.io

Funding Round in 2017
Sourcerer Incorporated aggregates and stores source code from repositories like GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket to create a visual representation of a developer's work experience over time. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Rinse

Series B in 2017
Rinse is a national and global brand focused on clothing care, providing a convenient solution to the challenges of dry cleaning and laundry. It offers a range of services, including dry cleaning, launder and press, wash and fold, hang dry, repairs, leather cleaning, and clothing donations. The company utilizes a technology-driven platform that features smart scheduling for pickups and deliveries, ensuring a high-quality cleaning experience. By effectively managing the complexities of its operations, Rinse aims to standardize and improve the garment care process for consumers, allowing them to outsource their laundry needs with ease.

Snapdocs

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Snapdocs, Inc. is a real estate technology company that provides a digital platform designed to streamline the mortgage closing process. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Snapdocs connects lenders, title and escrow companies, notary publics, and home buyers to enhance collaboration and efficiency in real estate transactions. The platform features advanced automation and standardized workflows, allowing participants to choose their preferred closing methods while improving accuracy and consumer satisfaction. It also enables notary signing agents to showcase their qualifications, helping them attract potential clients. By simplifying mortgage loan closings and improving the overall borrower experience, Snapdocs empowers its users to operate more effectively and transparently in a competitive market.

Vantage Robotics

Seed Round in 2017
Vantage Robotics, LLC, founded in 2013 and based in San Leandro, California, specializes in the development and manufacture of camera drones. The company's flagship product, Snap, is designed for capturing high-quality aerial photos and videos while simplifying the user experience. This innovative flying camera has received significant attention, achieving over $1 million in pre-sales and securing a landmark FAA waiver for commercial operations near people. Vantage Robotics aims to address the $7 billion camera drone market by offering differentiated technology that enhances usability. Major companies, including prominent retailers, have expressed interest in distributing Snap, with projected annual sales exceeding $100 million. Vantage began shipping Snap in the second quarter of 2017, and it has garnered positive reviews since its launch. The company has attracted investments from notable figures in the drone industry and venture capital firms.

Comparably

Venture Round in 2017
Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better.

Laugh.ly

Seed Round in 2017
Laugh Radio is changing the way people experience stand up comedy. Their mobile app, Laugh.ly is set to launch summer of 2016. It will allow big and small name comedians to grow and monetize their fan base. The company has lined up more than 400 comedians whose content will stream on its app, and a total of 20,000 individual tracks.

Sixup

Seed Round in 2016
Sixup PBC, Inc. is a for-profit technology company based in San Francisco that provides an online platform offering loans to low-income, high-achieving students. Established in 2014, Sixup focuses on addressing the financial needs of underserved students by aggregating, underwriting, and funding loans that support their educational pursuits. The company aims to create a new asset class, termed Future-Prime, which encompasses approximately seven million students and represents a significant annual market volume. Sixup is supported by $14 million in equity funding from various investors, including Collaboration Capital and the Kellogg Foundation, and has secured an additional $41 million in lending and grant capital from institutions like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank. Operating in 18 states, Sixup collaborates with numerous community-based and advocacy organizations to enhance access to education for its target demographic.

SALIDO

Seed Round in 2015
SALIDO, a hospitality technology company, evolved what hospitality operators can expect from their software. SALIDO's restaurant operating system is a single platform that helps operators manage every aspect of their restaurant businesses across their enterprise. SALIDO's product enables restaurant stakeholders to control, analyze, and leverage their own critical data allowing them to focus on what drives their core business: the experience. SALIDO's mission is to improve every hospitality experience--Starting with the hospitality workforce--SALIDO partnered with top hospitality operators to deliver better, easier to use software, which truly drives team performance. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in the Noho neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, USA.

Hivemapper

Seed Round in 2015
Hivemapper Inc. is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in developing community-edited mapping applications for drones. Founded in 2012, the company focuses on creating a global 4D map that is collaboratively built and accessible to all users. Hivemapper enhances the intelligence of airborne cameras by transforming video feeds into 3D maps, allowing users to capture and share new waypoints. This technology aims to improve the safety of aerial navigation by connecting these waypoints to establish secure routes for drones. Hivemapper operates as a subsidiary of Sidebar, Inc.

StudySoup

Seed Round in 2015
StudySoup is a marketplace for college students to buy and sell notes, study guides, and tutoring.StudySoup is a peer to peer learning marketplace for college students. Top students can make money selling notes, study guides and tutoring services to their peers.

Karmic Labs

Series A in 2015
Karmic Labs, Inc., based in San Francisco and incorporated in 2014, specializes in smart payment cards that enhance the funding distribution workflow. The company offers corporate cards and modern applications designed to assist users in managing expenses efficiently. By merging payment cards with mobile software, Karmic provides an integrated solution that streamlines expense management for both small and large financial institutions. Its platform is designed for ease of enrollment and real-time mobile experiences, enabling businesses to save time and money while effectively managing their expenditures. Karmic's commitment to developing reliable financial applications positions it as a leader in the industry.

MyTime

Series B in 2015
MyTime is a fully integrated appointment scheduling, point-of-sale and customer engagement platform for multi-location chains and franchises. It’s built to be modular, but it really shines when the various components work together to maximize revenue by reaching customers wherever they are at the moment they are ready to transact. Our award-winning online booking experience can be integrated into your website and mobile apps, as well as Google Search and Google Maps, Bing, Facebook, and Instagram, thereby enabling your customers to find, book, and transact with you from anyplace they engage with your brand. Our automated marketing system increases client retention and visit frequency. And we automate the many tedious, manual operational tasks so you can focus on your service and your customers. Find out what it means to integrate scheduling, marketing and payments into a single, easy-to-use platform and why MyTime won Best Local Commerce Service of 2017 from the Local Search Association and has been featured by both Apple and Google as “Best New App” in their respective App Stores. Our cloud-based platform is scalable, secure, and ready for any size deployment.

Snapdocs

Seed Round in 2014
Snapdocs, Inc. is a real estate technology company that provides a digital platform designed to streamline the mortgage closing process. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Snapdocs connects lenders, title and escrow companies, notary publics, and home buyers to enhance collaboration and efficiency in real estate transactions. The platform features advanced automation and standardized workflows, allowing participants to choose their preferred closing methods while improving accuracy and consumer satisfaction. It also enables notary signing agents to showcase their qualifications, helping them attract potential clients. By simplifying mortgage loan closings and improving the overall borrower experience, Snapdocs empowers its users to operate more effectively and transparently in a competitive market.

Insikt

Series A in 2013
Aura is a technology-powered, Community Development Financial Institution that provides fair, affordable loans to working families in America. Aura's mission is to build financially healthy low-income communities, by providing empowering financial services to underbanked and unbanked. Aura uses its proprietary scoring algorithms to review and approve credit applications and offers free credit scores and personalized expense management guidance to borrowers, allowing the working population to access loans in a simplified manner. Aura was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Braze

Series A in 2013
Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. Context underpins every Braze interaction, helping brands foster human connection with consumers through interactive conversations across channels that deliver value quickly and continuously. The company was named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms and was recognized as one of Inc Magazine's 2019 Best Workplaces. Braze is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Learn more at braze.com.

Sproutling

Venture Round in 2013
Sproutling, Inc. is a company that designs and manufactures innovative baby monitoring products, primarily focusing on wearable devices that track vital signs such as heart rate, motion, and positioning of infants. These devices provide parents with real-time insights into their child's sleep patterns and environment, helping them to optimize sleep quality. The flagship product, The Sproutling Baby Monitor, is notable for its ability to learn and predict sleep behaviors, offering guidance on the best times for sleep and wakefulness. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Sproutling also publishes a magazine aimed at parents and families. As of January 2016, the company operates as a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc.

Manifest

Seed Round in 2013
Manifest, Inc. operates a product feed-based advertising platform that enables retailers to optimize their product catalogs for promotion on various digital platforms, including Facebook and Google. The platform allows users to add product feeds, create product groups, and gain insights into customer preferences. Manifest's Matching Engine enhances advertising effectiveness by helping retailers not only retarget existing customers but also discover and engage new ones by showcasing relevant products. The company has facilitated the optimization of over 14 million products across 4 billion ads, resulting in more than $70 million in revenue for its clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Manifest was formerly known as SocialWire, Inc. and rebranded in 2015. It serves a diverse clientele that includes notable retailers such as Neiman Marcus and Gilt, and it operates as a subsidiary of Rakuten Marketing LLC.

Insikt

Seed Round in 2013
Aura is a technology-powered, Community Development Financial Institution that provides fair, affordable loans to working families in America. Aura's mission is to build financially healthy low-income communities, by providing empowering financial services to underbanked and unbanked. Aura uses its proprietary scoring algorithms to review and approve credit applications and offers free credit scores and personalized expense management guidance to borrowers, allowing the working population to access loans in a simplified manner. Aura was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

isocket

Series A in 2012
iSocket is a technology platform designed to streamline the buying and selling of fixed-price, premium, reserved advertising inventory. It offers two main services: iSocket For Publishers, which provides sales automation and programmatic direct tools to enhance the efficiency of publisher sales teams, and iSocket For Advertisers, which simplifies the process for agencies and brands to purchase guaranteed inventory directly from top publishers. By leveraging automation, iSocket minimizes errors and reduces the overhead costs associated with traditional media sales, thereby facilitating direct online advertising and enhancing the overall effectiveness of ad transactions.

QuickPay

Seed Round in 2012
QuickPay was founded in 2010 with a vision to leverage trends in mobile technology to remove the pain and hassle of finding, accessing, and paying for parking and transportation. Their revolutionary QP QuickPay mobile parking platform offers users one mobile parking application that works across all parking environments — drivers can even raise parking gates using their mobile phones — and gives parking owners and operators an efficient way to enable mobile parking across all their assets with a single integrated solution. Today drivers can use QP QuickPay and a mobile phone to find and pay for parking at hundreds of locations across the U.S., with new locations being added continually.

Rockbot

Seed Round in 2012
Rockbot, Inc. provides a comprehensive music solution for businesses, enabling them to manage their soundtracks and enhance guest engagement through an online dashboard. The company assists clients with music licensing, hardware setup, and technical support, allowing for remote control of music playback. Rockbot serves a variety of industries, including restaurants, retail, fitness, hotels, bars, and educational institutions. Additionally, it offers a mobile app that allows customers to select licensed music in public venues from their smartphones. Founded in 2009 and originally named Roqbot, Inc., the company rebranded to Rockbot, Inc. in 2013 and is headquartered in Oakland, California, with an additional office in Detroit, Michigan.

LocoMobi

Seed Round in 2012
LocoMobi is reinventing parking technology. LocoMobi is the only provider of unified physical, mobile and cloud-based parking technology. LocoMobi provides complete parking revenue and access control systems as are traditionally available, but all of which are connected in real-time to cloud-based servers and integrated with license plate recognizing cameras. LocoMobi is the result of a recent merger between QuickPay and Nautical Technologies. QuickPay provides users a unified mobile payment application that works across all types of parking environments and scenarios. Nautical Technologies was the very first company to offer a cloud-based license plate recognition (LPR) system with a complete revenue engine that also provides a management system for virtual permitting systems, violation and citation management. With these two innovators merging into one company we can now offer a full and ideal parking solution by combining the best integrated parking systems.

DataPop

Series B in 2012
DataPop, Inc. provides OmniAds, a platform that delivers optimized ads for various retail customers across search, shopping, and social channels. Its OmniAds helps retailers to better merchandise their products in product listing ads and comparison shopping engines; and connects advertiser messages to users’ intent. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in New York, Austin, and Phoenix. As of February 17, 2015, DataPop, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Criteo SA.

Braze

Seed Round in 2012
Braze is a comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love. Context underpins every Braze interaction, helping brands foster human connection with consumers through interactive conversations across channels that deliver value quickly and continuously. The company was named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms and was recognized as one of Inc Magazine's 2019 Best Workplaces. Braze is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Learn more at braze.com.

Artspace

Series A in 2012
Artspace is the premier online retailer where collectors can purchase works by top contemporary artists directly from leading commercial galleries, prestigious cultural institutions, and non-profits. Our curators also commission works directly from the most renowned artists working today, working closely with their studios to produce exclusive limited editions. Our mission is to help both aspiring and experienced collectors discover, learn about, and acquire art while helping artists and the institutions that support them reach broader audiences worldwide. Proceeds from many of the works on our site benefit these esteemed institutions and artists.

Fundly

Series A in 2011
Fundly Inc. operates an online fundraising platform that empowers individuals and organizations to launch campaigns for a wide array of causes, including community projects, health initiatives, memorials, and educational programs. Founded in 2009 and based in Palo Alto, California, Fundly has facilitated over 50,000 campaigns, raising more than $325 million since its inception. The platform is designed to enhance the fundraising experience by providing users with guides, tips, and customizable social communication tools. Fundly also collaborates with major charitable organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity and Teach for America, to support their fundraising efforts. Formerly known as BlueSwarm Inc., the company rebranded to Fundly in 2010 and currently operates as a subsidiary of NonProfitEasy, Inc.

FlashSoft

Series A in 2011
FlashSoft provides software that enables any standard SSD as a high-performance, read-write cache in the server, to economically increase application performance and scalability.

Gigwalk

Seed Round in 2011
Gigwalk, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in mobile workforce management. It offers two primary solutions: Gigwalk Enterprise, which helps businesses manage distributed teams by tracking worker availability and assigning tasks, and Gigwalkers, an on-demand workforce platform designed for crowdsourced data collection. This service enables companies to gain insights about their operational environments through a network of 1.2 million freelancers or by utilizing their existing teams. Founded in 2010, Gigwalk serves brands and retailers by enhancing their channel execution and operational efficiency. The company is supported by various investors, including August Capital and Greylock Discovery.

Nutanix

Series A in 2011
Nutanix is a cloud software company that provides a comprehensive enterprise cloud platform, enabling organizations to build and manage hybrid multi-cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix offers a range of solutions, including Acropolis for virtualization and storage, Nutanix Prism for management and analytics, and Nutanix Calm for application lifecycle automation. The company's services also encompass software-defined storage solutions, cloud-native environment management, and disaster recovery services. Notably, Nutanix Beam, a multi-cloud optimization service, enhances cloud cost efficiency by delivering insights into consumption patterns and automating security compliance. Serving diverse industries such as healthcare, finance, and technology, Nutanix aims to simplify IT operations, allowing businesses to focus on innovation while efficiently managing their data and applications across various environments.

Playnomics

Series A in 2011
Playnomics, a predictive data and marketing platform for free-to-play games and apps, empowers marketers and developers to quickly predict player value and behavior, and immediately act on those insights with customized messaging. Equipped with Playnomics’ dynamic player segmentation engine and drag-and-drop campaign marketing tools, apps can tailor monetization and retention campaigns that protect VIPs, nurture new spenders, and monetize non-spenders. Their smarter, predictive analytics and messaging platform help app makers and marketers make better choices and earn from everyone.

Fundly

Seed Round in 2011
Fundly Inc. operates an online fundraising platform that empowers individuals and organizations to launch campaigns for a wide array of causes, including community projects, health initiatives, memorials, and educational programs. Founded in 2009 and based in Palo Alto, California, Fundly has facilitated over 50,000 campaigns, raising more than $325 million since its inception. The platform is designed to enhance the fundraising experience by providing users with guides, tips, and customizable social communication tools. Fundly also collaborates with major charitable organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity and Teach for America, to support their fundraising efforts. Formerly known as BlueSwarm Inc., the company rebranded to Fundly in 2010 and currently operates as a subsidiary of NonProfitEasy, Inc.

DataPop

Series A in 2010
DataPop, Inc. provides OmniAds, a platform that delivers optimized ads for various retail customers across search, shopping, and social channels. Its OmniAds helps retailers to better merchandise their products in product listing ads and comparison shopping engines; and connects advertiser messages to users’ intent. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in New York, Austin, and Phoenix. As of February 17, 2015, DataPop, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Criteo SA.

Carwoo

Series A in 2010
Carwoo is an online platform that enables its users to anonymously buy cars from dealers in their local area. Carwoo was launched in 2008 and is based in California.

Marketfish

Venture Round in 2010
The Marketfish platform allows marketers to build and execute lead generation campaigns using 3rd party marketing lists.Using patented search algorithms, the tool allows users to discover targeted customer lists, build marketing campaigns, execute the campaign, and measure the performance in real time.

Smartling

Series A in 2010
Smartling uses technology to transform the way content is created and consumed around the world. Smartling’s solution helps brands to access new markets, more customers and greater value. The Translation Management Platform allows ambitious brands to achieve a more dominant global position. Smartling enables brands such as British Airways, InterContinental Hotels Group, Uber, AdRoll, Shinola, Spotify, Pinterest, Hasbro and SurveyMonkey to provide truly native brand experiences. Smartling is headquartered in NYC with over 100 employees.

Rixty

Seed Round in 2010
Rixty is an alternative payment system that lets domestic and international users spend cash and coins for online games, virtual worlds and all types of digital content. Consumers can pay without a credit card and without exposing confidential information by converting cash to Rixty value at 140,000 stores in the US and Brazil or nearly 500,000 locations worldwide. Online game and website publishers use Rixty to engage with and monetize a larger percentage of users. By providing cash-based consumers a safe and flexible way to pay online, Rixty helps these publishers increase sales, enable new business models and attract new customers.

Playnomics

Seed Round in 2009
Playnomics, a predictive data and marketing platform for free-to-play games and apps, empowers marketers and developers to quickly predict player value and behavior, and immediately act on those insights with customized messaging. Equipped with Playnomics’ dynamic player segmentation engine and drag-and-drop campaign marketing tools, apps can tailor monetization and retention campaigns that protect VIPs, nurture new spenders, and monetize non-spenders. Their smarter, predictive analytics and messaging platform help app makers and marketers make better choices and earn from everyone.

isocket

Seed Round in 2009
iSocket is a technology platform designed to streamline the buying and selling of fixed-price, premium, reserved advertising inventory. It offers two main services: iSocket For Publishers, which provides sales automation and programmatic direct tools to enhance the efficiency of publisher sales teams, and iSocket For Advertisers, which simplifies the process for agencies and brands to purchase guaranteed inventory directly from top publishers. By leveraging automation, iSocket minimizes errors and reduces the overhead costs associated with traditional media sales, thereby facilitating direct online advertising and enhancing the overall effectiveness of ad transactions.

Marketfish

Venture Round in 2009
The Marketfish platform allows marketers to build and execute lead generation campaigns using 3rd party marketing lists.Using patented search algorithms, the tool allows users to discover targeted customer lists, build marketing campaigns, execute the campaign, and measure the performance in real time.
VoxPop's pop culture gaming network is used by top online publishers to make and distribute games based on current events and topics

Tapulous

Angel Round in 2008
Tapulous is a developer specializing in mobile applications and games for iPhone and Android platforms. The company is known for creating popular apps such as Tap Tap Revenge, a rhythm-based game, as well as Twinkle, a Twitter client, and Collage, which allows for real-time collaborative photo sharing. Recently, Tapulous launched Riddim Ribbon, further expanding its portfolio of innovative mobile applications.

RateItAll

Series A in 2008
RateItAll, Inc. operates a consumer rating community that allows users to find and share reviews on a wide array of topics, including movies, television, electronics, travel, and more. Founded in 1999 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform serves as a distributed network where members can create personalized ratings channels and publish them using various widgets and applications. Participants can also earn revenue through the AdSense API while maintaining ownership of their contributed content. This community-driven approach enables users to promote their products, brands, or personal interests, functioning similarly to a comprehensive review platform for diverse subjects.

Oyster.com

Series A in 2008
Detailed, comprehensive hotel reviews and true photos taken by Oyster's trained hotel experts who visit each hotel on Oyster. While at the hotel, Oyster's experts, review photograph and rate the hotel. Oyster's editors compile rounds up of the best hotels in each destination for different types of travellers. e.g. - best hotels for families, best luxury hotels, best boutique hotels, best hotel gyms...

Grouply

Series A in 2008
Grouply is pioneering the “social group” — a new type of online community that combines the best features of social networks and online groups. Social groups offer the social interactivity, media sharing, and modern design of social networking sites like Facebook; and the rich discussions, popular email interface, and people-discovery opportunities found in traditional online group systems like Yahoo! Groups. With Grouply, you can create a new social group about anything you like or join a social group and connect with others who share your interests and passions. Existing Google and Yahoo! Groups get an “extreme makeover” on Grouply; each gets a modern, professional, fully customizable website that automatically interoperates with Google and Yahoo! Groups. Grouply was founded in 2006 and is funded by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, SoftTech VC and prominent angel investors including Reid Hoffman.
VoxPop's pop culture gaming network is used by top online publishers to make and distribute games based on current events and topics
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