Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global leader in software solutions, primarily focused on digital media, digital marketing, and document management. The company operates through three main segments: Digital Media, which provides tools for content creation and management, including its flagship Creative Cloud subscription service; Digital Experience, which offers marketing solutions for managing customer interactions; and Publishing, which serves legacy publishing needs. Adobe's products, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat, enable users to create, publish, and optimize digital content across various platforms and devices. The company also supports innovation through Adobe Ventures, its investment arm, which funds emerging companies that leverage Adobe technologies. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe distributes its products directly to enterprise customers and end-users through its website and various retail channels.

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Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy

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Principal APAC Evangelist

Hannah Elaskr

Vice President of Corporate Development, Direct Investing and M&A

Hannah Elsakr

Vice President, Chief of Staff to the CEO and Head of M&A Integration and Board President, Adobe Foundation

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EVP and Chief Business Officer - Digital Media Business

117 past transactions

Truepic

Series B in 2021
Truepic provides authenticity infrastructure for the internet. The company’s transparency tools deliver verifiable information about the origin and editing history of digital content. Truepic is dedicated to advancing products and services that establish transparency in digital content, empowering viewers and users to identify authenticity and differentiate human from computer-generated. Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, consumers, businesses, creators, and publishers trust Truepic’s technologies to make informed decisions.

Tiled

Series A in 2021
Tiled is an online platform that transforms static content into engaging interactive micro-apps to drive engagement and deliver insight. It enables users to create an unlimited number of public and private micro apps equipped with security, permissions and user management to control who has access to your content. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Frame.io

Acquisition in 2021
Frame.io is a cloud-based video collaboration platform that allows users to upload source media and assets into private workspaces. It is used by media companies to streamline their video review and collaboration process with teammates, clients, and a variety of stakeholders. It supports over over 1 million media professionals and companies by bringing together media and stakeholders in a single platform for efficient and intuitive collaboration.

zeroheight

Series A in 2021
Zeroheight is a software company developing a design documentation platform to easily build style guides and reuse common design elements. Its platform offers an easy-to-create design system to edit style guides that are synced with design and code to create beautiful and sophisticated style guides. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
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LucidLink

Series A in 2021
LucidLink is a developer of a cloud-native file service that connects creative teams working on shared data sets across distance. The company's Filespaces provides best-in-class security and high-performance scalability to run file-based workloads on object storage for maximum efficiency and productivity.

Cortex

Seed Round in 2021
Cortex is the leading internal developer portal (IDP), helping companies catalog, score, and assign action to improve service quality and velocity, so developers can easily prioritize work that drives the business forward.

LottieFiles

Series A in 2021
LottieFiles is a micro animation design company that features a mobile-based platform that enables designers to share, test, and iterate micro animations. Its software platform specializes in digital art, motion graphics, web design, and app design.

Workfront

Acquisition in 2020
Workfront is a cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solution that helps marketing teams, creative agencies, and other enterprise teams conquer the chaos of excessive email, redundant status meetings, and disconnected tools. Unlike other tools, Workfront Enterprise Work Cloud is a centralized, easy-to-adopt solution for managing and collaborating on all types of work through the entire work lifecycle, which improves team productivity and executive visibility. Workfront is trusted by thousands of global enterprises, like Cars.com, Cisco Systems, Comcast, iProspect, Schneider Electric, and Trek. To learn more, visit www.workfront.com or follow us on Twitter @Workfront_Inc.

Skillshare

Series D in 2020
Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business, and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

LottieFiles

Seed Round in 2020
LottieFiles is a micro animation design company that features a mobile-based platform that enables designers to share, test, and iterate micro animations. Its software platform specializes in digital art, motion graphics, web design, and app design.

CAGE

Venture Round in 2019
Based in Oklahoma City, Cage is a media collaboration and visual project management platform that empowers creative teams and improves digital workflows. Cage’s cloud-based platform powers the visual collaboration and streamlines team communication, task management, collaborative media reviews, asset management and faster approvals for freelancers, designers, creative teams, marketers, vfx studios, filmmakers, agencies, and post production teams around the world. Cage’s current enterprise customers include innovative brands such as Sapient, CMT, The Foundry, Best Buy, Crayola, Intel, Leo Burnett, Jim Henson Company and Lego

zeroheight

Seed Round in 2019
Zeroheight is a software company developing a design documentation platform to easily build style guides and reuse common design elements. Its platform offers an easy-to-create design system to edit style guides that are synced with design and code to create beautiful and sophisticated style guides. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

By Humankind

Seed Round in 2019
by Humankind is a direct-to-consumer personal care brand dedicated to reducing our global dependence on single-use plastic in the products we use every day. Offering revolutionary products that take a more responsible approach to your body and our planet, the brand’s refillable deodorant, mouthwash tablets, and shampoo bar offer clean-ingredient, scientifically advanced solutions to reduce single-use plastic waste by 90 percent or more when compared to current market offerings. The brand’s refill model is designed to measure the collective impact of the by Humankind community over time, making one small step for you, one giant step by Humankind.

Allegorithmic

Acquisition in 2019
Allegorithmic is the first company to propose a professional toolset for compression, authoring and on-the-fly rendering of smart textures. Based on the patented concept of FX-maps released by the company in 2003, Substance allows content developers to produce texture assets twice as fast as usual, while Substance Air and Substance description files are typically 500-1000 times smaller than regular textures. Allegorithmic's new product range Substance is poised to redefine the development and distribution of rich content for the next generation of online and retail games. Allegorithmic is currently partnering with the most innovative companies of the field to provide industry innovators with the most advanced packages for content production.

Marketo

Acquisition in 2018
Marketo provides a complete software solutions for fast-growing small companies and global enterprises alike. Built for marketers, by marketers, Marketo is designed to allow companies to launch their first campaign in days and scale to meet the needs of the most complex global enterprise. The solution delivers everything a marketer needs to deliver more sales leads with less work, including inbound marketing, social marketing, event management, instant CRM integration, sales dashboards, and marketing ROI reporting and analytics.

Magento Commerce

Acquisition in 2018
Magento is a modern cloud commerce platform with an open-source ecosystem. Flexible for B2C, B2B, and hybrid solutions, Magento extends beyond the shopping cart for every shoppable experience, including email, mobile, in-store, shipping, and marketplaces. Recognized as the leading commerce platform to the 2015 Internet Retailer Top 1000, B2B 300, and Europe 500 lists, Magento works hand-in-hand with the world’s biggest retailers, brands, and branded manufacturers across B2C and B2B industries.

Uru

Acquisition in 2018
Uru uses computer vision and machine learning to help businesses and brands understand all of the video and other visual media out there, in real time, and then leverage it in more impactful ways. Uru was founded by Brunno Attorre and Bill Marino in May, 2016. It is based in New York.

Sayspring

Acquisition in 2018
Sayspring, Inc. develops software to create voice interfaces for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York. As of April 16, 2018, Sayspring, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Adobe Inc.

Zight

Venture Round in 2017
Zight is an award-winning and top-rated solution with a community of over 4M users and growing who are finding freedom with visual asynchronous communication. Zight scales with you, is easy to use and eliminates the need to use different applications for screenshots, GIFs, screen recordings, and web recordings. Zight is used for internal and external communication across teams, helping organizations save hundreds of people hours, reducing productivity losses caused by poor communication and misunderstanding, and eliminating unnecessary and draining meetings.

KyleBrush.com

Acquisition in 2017
KyleBrush.com is a service that offers digital brushes for Adobe’s Creative Cloud tools.

Demandbase

Series H in 2017
Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. By aligning your sales and marketing teams around a combination of your data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what they call account you can identify, engage, and focus your time and money on the accounts likely to buy.

TubeMogul

Acquisition in 2016
TubeMogul is the leading enterprise software company for digital branding. The world’s largest brands and agencies unify their video advertising on TubeMogul’s programmatic platform. By using a single, integrated solution, TubeMogul’s clients gain control over their video spend, simplify their workflow and verify the success of their campaigns. Founded in 2006, TubeMogul is based in Emeryville, California with offices across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Livefyre

Acquisition in 2016
Livefyre is a social depth platform according to top industry analysts, gives marketers the tools they need to easily weave on-brand user-generated content into their own websites and other marketing experiences. Livefyre’s intuitive technology gives brands and publishers the ability to add social content to their branded websites, driving audience exploration of products and services that drive traffic, conversions, and revenue. Livefyre is powering real-time content marketing experiences for over 1,500 leading brands including CBS, Cisco Systems, Conde Nast, Cox Media Group, CNN, Dow Jones/WSJ, FedEx, Hallmark, Intel, Mashable, Motorola, NASCAR, the PGA Tour, and Universal Music Group. In 2015, Livefyre announced game-changing partnerships and integrations with Adobe, Salesforce, and Twitter. Livefyre was founded in 2009 and is backed by Adobe Systems, Salesforce Ventures, Greycroft, and U.S. Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.livefyre.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @livefyre.

Digital Analytix

Acquisition in 2015
Digital Analytix Enterprise combines the best of analytics and audience demographics to give you unparalleled data access and visibility into the characteristics of your entire user base. Access data in raw form for the real-time insights needed to help your business compete—and thrive. Digital Analytix Enterprise provides the platform and tools to help you discover, analyze and communicate key business insights. With access to the full spectrum of features, Enterprise is your solution to unlock your data and find the most granular insights to maximize the value of your digital investments.

Demandbase

Series G in 2015
Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. By aligning your sales and marketing teams around a combination of your data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what they call account you can identify, engage, and focus your time and money on the accounts likely to buy.

Oversight

Series C in 2015
Founded in 2003, Oversight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held, Atlanta-based software company whose continuous transaction monitoring solutions help Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries solve problems related to governance, risk and compliance. Around the time that people first put their whole music library in their pockets, and just before we could all pause and record live TV, we started using data to help our clients detect patterns of spend errors and misuse. Over the last two decades, we’ve pioneered and led the industry in artificial intelligence, comprehensive data-driven solutions, and quality delivery. Oversight is AI in Action: Oversight is anchored by a team of professionals who have helped to commercialize network and operating system security; who have secured the largest financial networks in the world; and who have helped to audit some of the most sensitive and mission-critical applications in the world. The Oversight team has revolutionized the way Management, Boards, Auditors, and Shareholders approach ongoing regulatory compliance and the underlying costs and benefits.

Mixamo

Acquisition in 2015
Mixamo’s end-to-end, web-based suite of tools makes the process of 3D character creation, rigging and animation accessible to artists of all skill levels. Mixamo Inc. is a Silicon Valley, VC-funded company founded by 3D pioneers Stefano Corazza, CEO, and Nazim Kareemi. Based on research from Stanford University’s BioMotion lab, Mixamo provides 3D game developers the power to customize and create professional-quality animated characters at unprecedented speeds. Located in San Francisco, Mixamo currently employs a team of outstanding computer vision experts, 3D animators, software engineers and serial entrepreneurs from around the world. Mixamo is currently in use by several thousand paying customers spanning individual artists to indie developers to AAA game and film studios including Eidos Montreal, Behavior Interactive and GREE. On a monthly basis, Mixamo’s website draws over 70,000 unique visitors and users download over 40,000 assets and rig 6,000 characters.

Livefyre

Series D in 2015
Livefyre is a social depth platform according to top industry analysts, gives marketers the tools they need to easily weave on-brand user-generated content into their own websites and other marketing experiences. Livefyre’s intuitive technology gives brands and publishers the ability to add social content to their branded websites, driving audience exploration of products and services that drive traffic, conversions, and revenue. Livefyre is powering real-time content marketing experiences for over 1,500 leading brands including CBS, Cisco Systems, Conde Nast, Cox Media Group, CNN, Dow Jones/WSJ, FedEx, Hallmark, Intel, Mashable, Motorola, NASCAR, the PGA Tour, and Universal Music Group. In 2015, Livefyre announced game-changing partnerships and integrations with Adobe, Salesforce, and Twitter. Livefyre was founded in 2009 and is backed by Adobe Systems, Salesforce Ventures, Greycroft, and U.S. Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.livefyre.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @livefyre.

Fotolia

Acquisition in 2014
Fotolia is an image bank that offers a crowdsourced library, which includes royalty-free images, vectors, illustrations and video footage clips. It is a community of artists, graphic designers, and a list of well-known agencies that provide content for this image bank. It maintains an international team of moderators who validates the submitted content and ensures the quality of the images, vectors, illustrations, and video clips. The contributing artists receive a commission when the images, vectors, illustrations, and videos are purchased. All images offered on Fotolia are royalty-free and can be used for any design project or document with no time limits. Fotolia provides its services across the span of the globe with websites in 15 languages and in 23 regions. It was founded in 2005, based in New York City, U.S.

Gigya

Series F in 2014
Gigya's Customer Identity Management Platform helps companies build better customer relationships by turning unknown visitors into known, loyal and engaged customers. With Gigya’s technology, businesses increase registrations and identify customers across devices, consolidate data into rich customer profiles, and provide better service, products and experiences by integrating data into marketing and service applications. Gigya's platform was designed from the ground up for social identities, mobile devices, consumer privacy and modern marketing. Gigya provides developers with the APIs they need to easily build and maintain secure and scalable registration, authentication, profile management, data analytics and third-party integrations. More than 700 of the world’s leading businesses such as Fox, Forbes, and Verizon rely on Gigya to build identity-driven relationships and to provide scalable, secure Customer Identity Management.

Demandbase

Series F in 2014
Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. By aligning your sales and marketing teams around a combination of your data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what they call account you can identify, engage, and focus your time and money on the accounts likely to buy.

Aviary

Acquisition in 2014
Aviary is a photo-editing platform built to ignite creative freedom. Its imaginative tools empower millions of people all over the world to freely express themselves through imagery. Headquartered in New York City, Aviary powers thousands of mobile applications, including its self-titled iOS and Android apps, and has been used to edit billions of images. By combining an intuitive editing experience with an ever-expanding collection of creative content - including custom photo filters, frames, graphics, and overlays - the platform serves as an imaginative canvas for everyday content creators and professional photographers alike. The cornerstone of the Aviary platform is a free SDK that provides developers with a robust, customizable photo editor that can be effortlessly embedded into apps on iOS, Android, Windows and Web (HTML5). The company was founded in 2007 to put professional-quality photo editing tools within thumbs-reach of everyone on the planet. Aviary has since received more than $19 million in funding from top-tier investors such as Spark Capital and Bezos Expeditions. For more information, visit aviary.com.

Neolane

Acquisition in 2013
Neolane, Inc. is a conversational marketing technology provider, which develops marketing automation and cross-channel campaign management software and services for business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketers. In 2012, Neolane recorded $58 million in revenue representing 40% year-over-year growth. In 2013, Neolane was named #64 on the Forbes list of America's Most Promising companies. Neolane provides the only conversational marketing technology that empowers organizations to build and sustain one-to-one lifetime dialogues, dramatically increasing revenue and marketing efficiency. Neolane has a track record of enabling its customers to adapt to new customer engagement challenges and exploit opportunities more quickly than their competition. Neolane is used by more than 400 of the world's leading companies including Alcatel Lucent, barnesandnoble.com, Orange, Sears Canada, Sephora Europe, and Sony Music.

Ideacodes

Acquisition in 2013
Ideacodes is a design consultancy that helps startups, organizations and businesses with the design and user experience of web applications, smart devices, digital products and networked communities.

Thumb Labs

Acquisition in 2013
Thumb Labs is a mobile software development company specialized in the creation of innovative applications for iOS devices. The company offers Travveling for Dribbble, BPM - Metronome & Tap Tempo, Trash the Tree - A Christmas Game, take flight, holymolies, Colllumns, and many other applications. Thumb Labs was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, United States.

Demandbase

Series D in 2013
Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. By aligning your sales and marketing teams around a combination of your data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what they call account you can identify, engage, and focus your time and money on the accounts likely to buy.

Behance

Acquisition in 2012
Behance is an online platform that enables creative professionals to showcase and discover creative work via online portfolios. It features talent of individuals in creative industries; powers creative networks for schools and organizations; distributes work to other online galleries; enables portfolio display throughout the social web; and syncs with ProSite, a customizable personal portfolio site builder. The platform offers its services for advertising, animation, architecture, art direction, automotive design, branding, calligraphy, cartooning, character design, cinematography, computer animation, copywriting, costume design, crafts, creative direction, culinary art, digital art, digital photography, directing, drawing, editorial design, engineering, entrepreneurship, exhibition design, fashion styling, film, fine arts, furniture design, game design, graffiti, and graphic design. It also provides its services for other creative fields such as icon design, illustration, industrial design, information architecture, interaction design, interior design, jewelry design, journalism, landscape design, makeup arts, motion graphics, music, packaging, painting, pattern design, performing arts, photography, photojournalism, print design, product design, programming, retouching, sculpting, set design, sound design, storyboarding, street art, textile design, toy design, typography, user interface design, visual effects, web design, and web development. Behance serves as the backbone of AdWeek, LinkedIn, and other portfolio sites and online galleries of creative talent. Used by millions of individuals to display and find talent every month, Behance received over 50 million page views from over 9 million visitors per month by the winter of 2011. Behance was launched by Matias Corea, and Scott Belsky in September 2006 and its operations are based in New York, United States.

Convo

Venture Round in 2012
Convo provides an enterprise social collaboration platform that enables easy, secure conversations between desk/non-desk workers to accelerate company productivity and engagement. Unlike existing email-focused or chat-centric collaboration platforms, only Convo combines the ease of social networks with rich collaboration capabilities to simplify and optimize work interactions for all employees -- no email required.

Efficient Frontier

Acquisition in 2011
Efficient Frontier is a leader in online performance and social media marketing, managing search marketing, display and social media campaigns for advertisers and agencies around the world. Efficient Frontier currently manages more than $1 billion in annual marketing spend on behalf of their clients globally. In 2011, Efficient Frontier acquired Context Optional, a leader in enterprise social marketing solutions. The acquisition significantly expanded Efficient Frontier's social media offering, marking the first unified solution for managing and optimizing Facebook fan acquisition through to fan retention and engagement. Founded in 2002, Efficient Frontier pioneered the application of modern portfolio theory for search engine marketing and today combines its core predictive modeling algorithms and bidding technology with comprehensive strategic and tactical value-added services. The largest and most sophisticated advertisers and agencies partner with Efficient Frontier to achieve and sustain optimal campaign performance and growth in highly complex and competitive marketplaces. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in New York, San Francisco, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and India, and technology licensing partnerships in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. Efficient Frontier is a privately held company with funding from Redpoint Ventures and Cambrian Ventures.

Auditude

Acquisition in 2011
Auditude is a leading video management and monetization technology company that helps content owners and aggregators grow their video revenues. The company's proprietary technology, Auditude Connect, is an innovative ad management system that allows premium video websites and content owners to manage their business requirements and ad serving needs around professional video. Auditude works with some of the largest names in online video as their ad serving and management platform. Clients include Comcast, Major League Baseball, MTV Networks, MySpace Music and Video, Universal Music Group and Yahoo!, among others. Auditude's executive and technology team is made up of talent from some of the world's most successful technology companies including DoubleClick, eBay, Google, PayPal, and Yahoo!, among others. Auditude is based in Palo Alto with offices in Los Angeles and New York City.

PlayJam

Series A in 2011
PlayJam's core mission is to bring affordable gaming to the big screen. To that end, they have developed and operate a built-for-TV games platform that currently powers casual games on over 90 million Smart TV devices worldwide. In doing so, they have created one of the largest, most vibrant casual game network around. In 2013, PlayJam announced support for Android and launched GameStick - the world's most portable TV game console. Working with leading TV and STB manufacturers, the company is licensing its underlying technology that will afford every household access to rich, affordable games the whole family can enjoy.

Adobe Fonts

Acquisition in 2011
Adobe Fonts allows subscribers to embed fonts into online documents and websites, as well as activate fonts on their desktop computers. It's a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries. Their fonts are served from a global network on redundant servers, offering bulletproof service and incredible speed. Adobe Fonts is formerly Typekit, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011.

Nitobi Software

Acquisition in 2011
Nitobi Software offers PhoneGap, an open source solution that provides web developers with JavaScript access to mobile device features.

IRIDAS

Acquisition in 2011
IRIDAS is a company that was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2011.

Adobe Sign

Acquisition in 2011
Previously known as EchoSign, Adobe Sign services brings trusted e-signatures to your organization and makes 100% digital workflows a reality. It integrates with the entire Adobe Document Cloud portfolio of solutions. And it’s the only e-sign solution that lets you create secure digital document processes across your entire organization — while partnering with a single vendor. The company is a direct competitor to [DocuSign](http://crunchbase.com/organization/docusign) which took a substantial round of financing in the summer of 2007. EchoSign fired back with a second round of $6 million and partnerships with CRM powerhouse Salesforce.com, NetSuite, SAP, WebEx and [Zoho](http://crunchbase.com/organization/zoho). Salesforce.com named EchoSign to the "Best Apps of 2012, "Best Apps of 2011", "Best Apps of 2010", "Best Apps of 2009" and "Best Apps of 2008", as well as a three-time AppExchange Essential. Adobe Sign's signature process requires users to email documents through its system which takes care of the signing process on the other side. The recipients can e-sign instantly in any browser, an iPhone or a Blackberry, or via a widget on any website. Or if desired, recipients can sign by fax using a toll-free fax gateway. Adobe Sign also offers full integration with Google Apps / Google Docs, NetSuite, SAP Sourcing, Oracle CRM On Demand, eFax, DropBox, Evernote, Box.net, SugarCRM, Xobni and [SpringCM](http://crunchbase.com/organization/springcm). In July 2011, EchoSign was acquired by Adobe. https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/documents/esignatures.html

Demandbase

Series C in 2011
Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. By aligning your sales and marketing teams around a combination of your data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what they call account you can identify, engage, and focus your time and money on the accounts likely to buy.

Demdex

Acquisition in 2011
Demdex provides Audience Management solutions for powering dynamic, multi-channel data strategies online. Having pioneered the SaaS Audience Management market since 2008, Demdex's services are continually being embraced by some of the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. As the best alternative to homegrown systems which are expensive to build, operate and maintain, Demdex's enterprise-level technology provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance necessary for businesses to succeed online.

Day Software

Acquisition in 2010
Day was founded in Basel, Switzerland, in 1993 to design web applications and manage content for global companies. Day Software allows customers to deploy global, multi-lingual internet initiatives. Day markets and delivers its software through partnerships with system integrators and consultants, as well as its own direct sales team.

Omniture

Acquisition in 2009
The Omniture product suite provides an integrated set of services: advanced web analytics and segmentation (SiteCatalyst, Discover and Data Warehouse), search marketing (SearchCenter), optimization (Advanced Testing and Targeting -- Offermatica and TouchClarity), and the marketing integration platform (Genesis). They also have an iPhone application that allows customers to sign into their Omniture account and view statistics from anywhere.

Oversight

Venture Round in 2009
Founded in 2003, Oversight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held, Atlanta-based software company whose continuous transaction monitoring solutions help Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries solve problems related to governance, risk and compliance. Around the time that people first put their whole music library in their pockets, and just before we could all pause and record live TV, we started using data to help our clients detect patterns of spend errors and misuse. Over the last two decades, we’ve pioneered and led the industry in artificial intelligence, comprehensive data-driven solutions, and quality delivery. Oversight is AI in Action: Oversight is anchored by a team of professionals who have helped to commercialize network and operating system security; who have secured the largest financial networks in the world; and who have helped to audit some of the most sensitive and mission-critical applications in the world. The Oversight team has revolutionized the way Management, Boards, Auditors, and Shareholders approach ongoing regulatory compliance and the underlying costs and benefits.

GoodBarry

Acquisition in 2009
GoodBarry is an integrated online business system that provides website content management, ecommerce, email marketing, business analytics and simple CRM. GoodBarry's difference comes from tracking capturing customer actions on your website, automatically building a customer profile within the built in CRM. This means that online orders, email marketing campaigns, web form submissions - all customer interactions on your website - are captured and collected against a central customer record.

Business Catalyst

Acquisition in 2009
BC is a hosted application for building and managing online businesses. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation

YaWah

Acquisition in 2008
YaWah is an Adobe Group Company and its products are now part of the Adobe Scene7 product family. YaWah provided imaging software.

Demandbase

Series B in 2008
Demandbase helps B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. By aligning your sales and marketing teams around a combination of your data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what they call account you can identify, engage, and focus your time and money on the accounts likely to buy.

Oversight

Series B in 2008
Founded in 2003, Oversight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held, Atlanta-based software company whose continuous transaction monitoring solutions help Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries solve problems related to governance, risk and compliance. Around the time that people first put their whole music library in their pockets, and just before we could all pause and record live TV, we started using data to help our clients detect patterns of spend errors and misuse. Over the last two decades, we’ve pioneered and led the industry in artificial intelligence, comprehensive data-driven solutions, and quality delivery. Oversight is AI in Action: Oversight is anchored by a team of professionals who have helped to commercialize network and operating system security; who have secured the largest financial networks in the world; and who have helped to audit some of the most sensitive and mission-critical applications in the world. The Oversight team has revolutionized the way Management, Boards, Auditors, and Shareholders approach ongoing regulatory compliance and the underlying costs and benefits.

Veoh

Series D in 2008
Veoh: Open. Personalized. Free. TV. Veoh is an Internet TV service that gives viewers the power to easily discover, watch, and personalize their online viewing experience. With a simple broadband connection Veoh gives you free access to all of the great TV and film studio content, independent productions, and user-generated videos on the Web. From hit CBS, WB, NBC, FOX and MTV Networks shows to your favorite YouTube clips, Veoh turns the vast universe of Internet video into an easy-to-use, high-quality, personalized experience that TV fans everywhere can enjoy. Who can publish on Veoh? Veoh is an open platform for content publishers of all sizes and sophistication who want to reach tomorrow's television audience. Currently more than 100,000 publishers - from forward-thinking, well-known entertainment brands to independent, made-for-the-Web producers - use Veoh to connect with an audience of more than 28 million engaged, influential viewers. In addition, Veoh's unique publisher optimization program gives publishers powerful tools to help them raise awareness of their content and cultivate loyal viewing audiences. Who's behind Veoh? With offices in San Diego and Los Angeles, CA, Veoh is home to a diverse team of entertainment industry insiders, outsiders, technologists and creative types who share a common vision: To make Veoh the most valuable video experience on the Internet. And like any good business, we have our fair share of suits -- Veoh is privately held and backed by leading technology and media investors, including Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Michael Eisner's Tornante Company, Goldman Sachs, Time Warner Inc., Intel Capital, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Gordon Crawford, Tom Freston and Jonathan Dolgen.

Bunchball

Series B in 2008
Bunchball is the market leader and visionary in gamification. Bunchball enables organizations to improve business performance throughout their ecosystem by creating highly active and loyal customers, employees, and partners. Bunchball’s comprehensive suite of innovative cloud-based solutions empowers companies to engage and motivate, leading to improved employee productivity, customer loyalty, audience engagement, and ROI. Bunchball’s world-class customers include Adobe, HP, Cisco, MTV, Comcast, LiveOps, VMware and Hasbro. Based in Silicon Valley, Bunchball's investors include Granite Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners, Northport Investments, and Correlation Ventures. For more information, visit www.bunchball.com, our blog at www.gamification.com, or follow @bunchball.

TuVox/West Corporation

Series D in 2007
TuVox, Inc. provides speech application solutions and contact center solutions for inbound and outbound calls. Its applications and solutions handle various call types, including natural language call routing, customer support triage and product support with knowledge voice, solutions that integrate with live agents, contact center solutions supporting multiple centers, and outbound notification solutions. The company offers on demand hosting services; managed services, such as turnkey application support, monitoring, grammar tuning, VUI tuning, content updates, project management, quality assurance, and live call transcription; and design center services. It also provides development and CTI integration, customer support and maintenance, and training services. In addition, the company offers TuVox On Premise, which provides ongoing turnkey application support; and TuVox On Demand Portal, which provides access to control applications and make applications changes. It serves telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, high technology, and retail industries, as well as enterprises in media and publishing, travel, and energy sectors.

56.com

Series B in 2007
56.com is a user-generated content (UGC) video-sharing website in China. 56.com hosts more than 80 million online videos, the majority of which is user-generated, followed by in-house productions. 56.com obtained its online video license from the State Administration of Radio and Television of China in December 2008. 56.com was the first online video site to provide video album services in China, and was also the first to offer the “Beauty Show” in China. It has developed partnerships with clients such as Audi, Toyota, Coca Cola, McDonald, Nestle, and Nike. In October 2011, 56.com was fully acquired by Renren Inc. and became a part of the Renren Group.

FORA.tv

Seed Round in 2007
FORA.tv helps users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. FORA.tv presents the web's largest collection of videos drawn from live events, lectures, interviews, and debates going on all the time at top universities, public forums, think tanks and conferences. FORA.tv has partnered with hundreds of organizations to bring provocative and compelling video content for free, and pay-per-view, to audiences around the world. FORA.tv was founded in 2005 and is funded by a select group of investors including William R. Hearst III and Adobe Ventures.

Virtual Ubiquity

Acquisition in 2007
Virtual Ubiquity, the Waltham-based developer of an online word processing application.

Scrybe

Series A in 2007
Scrybe Corp., a Boston-based provider of an online organizer.

Convio

Series E in 2007
Convio, Inc. provides on-demand software and services that enable nonprofit organizations (NPO) to raise funds, influence public policy, and support their missions by leveraging the Internet to build relationships with constituents in North America. It offers Constituent360 platform, an online constituent relationship management (eCRM) solution, which includes a suite of on-demand software modules for fundraising, advocacy, email marketing, and Web content management. The Constituent360 allows NPOs to view constituent behavior by tracking online activities, including online donations, purchases, page visits, event registrations, surveys, and advocacy activities. The platform also provides query and reporting tools to enable clients to retrieve and analyze this information to design online fundraising and advocacy campaigns. In addition, the company offers DataSync software, which enables synchronization of constituent information between Constituent360 and its clients' offline donor databases. Further, it provides fee-based Internet strategy and interactive services to help clients in their online programs, account management services, deployment services, and client support and education services. The company, formerly known as ShowSupport.com, Inc., was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Scene7

Acquisition in 2007
Adobe [acquired](http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/8df47bafeccc8db6c9830dc69df1e5a3) Scene7 in May 2007 and now offers Scene7 as one of its products. Scene7 – provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform – enables companies to grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs. With Scene7, businesses can improve the entire selling and marketing cycle – from attracting customers, to guiding them to the right products and services, to successfully converting them into loyal buyers. The company offers rich media solutions built on a robust, integrated technology platform – for unrivaled breadth, depth, scalability and ease of ongoing rich media use. Adobe acquired Scene7 in May 2007.

introNetworks

Series A in 2007
[introNetworks](http://www.intronetworks.com/index.html) builds social networks for businesses that can be molded to suit the needs of any type of community, including large-scale open communities and small, private ones. Corporations, organizations, event planners, trade associations, and publishers can create an innovative online community for a product launch, a user group, an annual sales meeting, or a special event to bring together customers and employees.

scanR

Series B in 2007
scanR, Inc. develops handset applications that allow camera phone or digital camera to scan, copy, and fax documents. The company provides scanR service, which produces copies of documents, whiteboards, and business cards; extracts text information; and creates a PDF file, electronic contact, or fax. scanR also offers Office Files (beta) product that allows to upload office files through the uploader in its Web site and enable to read those files on mobile phones, as well as supports Excel, Word, Powerpoint, pdf, WordPerfect, rtf, and csv file formats. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Antepo

Acquisition in 2006
Antepo, Inc. provides enterprise instant messaging (EIM) and presence technology solutions. It offers Open Presence Network (OPN) System that enables real-time communication and collaboration between employees, customers, suppliers, and partners. OPN System supports interoperability between EIM solutions based on the XMPP or SIP/SIMPLE protocols.

MobiTV

Series C in 2006
MobiTV delivers live and on-demand video to any screen, connecting media reliably and securely anytime, anywhere, on any device. The company’s end-to-end platform delivers a true TV everywhere experience that helps service providers reduce time to market and control costs associated with the deployment and operation of high concurrency, multiple platform services. MobiTV’s connected media solutions solve the complexity of delivering video across networks, operating systems, and devices while managing associated rights. The company efficiently optimizes for network conditions to deliver multiscreen media services that center on empowering the viewer. MobiTV’s connected media solutions are tailored for IPTV operators, as well as mobile TV and over-the-top customers including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, T-Mobile, TELUS, US Cellular, and Verizon among others.

Serious Magic

Acquisition in 2006
Developer of video and communication software. The company's products provide functionalities like - improving the quality of footage on location while capturing directly to a PC; creating realistic background composites; bringing broadcast quality effects and transitions to PowerPoint presentations; creating video blogs and assisting in video production.

Amicima

Acquisition in 2006
Amicima, Inc. was a software company headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, United States, developing new network protocols for client-server and peer-to-peer communication over the Internet and applications using the new protocols. Amicima was purchased by [Adobe](/organization/adobe-systems).

Bunchball

Series A in 2006
Bunchball is the market leader and visionary in gamification. Bunchball enables organizations to improve business performance throughout their ecosystem by creating highly active and loyal customers, employees, and partners. Bunchball’s comprehensive suite of innovative cloud-based solutions empowers companies to engage and motivate, leading to improved employee productivity, customer loyalty, audience engagement, and ROI. Bunchball’s world-class customers include Adobe, HP, Cisco, MTV, Comcast, LiveOps, VMware and Hasbro. Based in Silicon Valley, Bunchball's investors include Granite Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners, Northport Investments, and Correlation Ventures. For more information, visit www.bunchball.com, our blog at www.gamification.com, or follow @bunchball.

InterAKT

Acquisition in 2006
InterAKT is an Advertising company.

Movaris

Series C in 2006
Movaris, Inc. offers solutions to integrate and manage financial close and other governance, risk, and compliance processes. The company's Movaris Unity application suite includes Enterprise Risk Manager that allows corporations to document and manage identified risk in the organization; GRC for use in the enterprise to address compliance, risk, and performance management initiatives; Account Reconciliation, which enables financial organizations to track and review account reconciliation tasks during the financial close process; Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance that manages various SOX activities by documenting various controls, testing, and remediation, as well as assigns tasks to individuals and delivers audit trails; and Financial Close, which enables financial organizations to track and review financial close tasks during the auditing and reporting processes. It also provides OneClose e-Binder that creates a system of record for various close, reconciliation, and compliance activities, as well as enables management and auditors to retrieve various documents to reconstruct a financial period; and OneClose Platform, which assigns tasks to performers and reviewers, as well as integrates account reconciliations with SOX compliance testing and financial close activities. In addition, the company offers implementation, training, and on-going support services. It serves financial services, insurance, manufacturing, technology, consumer goods, retail and distribution, media, energy, transportation, health, and medical industries. The company was formerly known as Paper2net and changed its name to Movaris, Inc. in 2001. Movaris, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in San Jose, California. As of February 14, 2008, Movaris, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Trintech Group plc.

Pixmantec

Acquisition in 2006
Pixmantec develops digital imaging software.

Trade and Technologies France

Acquisition in 2006
Trade and Technologies France is a company that was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2006.

Navisware

Acquisition in 2005
Navisware engages in connecting computer aided design data and enterprise intelligence. Its enterprise connection framework enables computer aided design application instances to collaborate within the department, throughout the enterprise, and around the world. Navisware is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1984 by James Wicker. The company was acquired by Adobe Systems on December 16, 2005.

Arcot Systems

Series A in 2005
Arcot Systems, Inc. offers authentication and digital signing solutions to protect and verify digital identity. The company offers TransFort for Issuers that enables authentication for card holders and merchants; TransFort for Merchants, which enables authentication of cardholders that enroll in 3-D secure; RiskFort that blocks fraud in real-time; WebFort and ArcotID software-only authentication solutions; A-OK On-Demand that provides security for authentication process; and SignFort, which enables organizations to replace ‘print and sign’ methods with streamlined process for signing and approving documents. The company provides solutions for consumer portal protection, FFIEC compliance, identity management, Internet threat protection, SAFE biopharmaceutical compliance, and VPN authentication. It helps financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-shopping sites to prevent online fraud and identity theft. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a technology center in Bangalore, India.

Kollective Technology

Venture Round in 2004
Kollective Technology operates as an enterprise content delivery network provider. Its cloud-native enterprise peering platform leverages existing network infrastructure to offset bandwidth constraints and deliver Live Events, Video on Demand, and software via SCCM. The company is headquartered in Bend, Oregon.

OKYZ

Acquisition in 2004
OKYZ has developed Raider3D, a fully patented technology set to revolutionize the world of 3D collaboration.

Q-Link Technologies

Acquisition in 2004
Q-Link is an innovator in business process management software. It provides a pure J2EE component based workflow architecture that enables developers to visually assemble complete applications faster than traditional application development. From workflow to forms, UI design, rules, web services, integration and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), Q-Link offers a fully unified solution to easily build process-driven applications.

Above All Software

Series B in 2004
Above All Software (formerly BAM Software) is pioneering point-and-click software that enables the rapid assembly of composite applications that are based on existing information resources such as enterprise applications, legacy systems and database procedures. With no programming and no changes to existing systems, both business and technical users can assemble solutions that integrate critical business functions like sales, finance and manufacturing.

TuVox/West Corporation

Series B in 2003
TuVox, Inc. provides speech application solutions and contact center solutions for inbound and outbound calls. Its applications and solutions handle various call types, including natural language call routing, customer support triage and product support with knowledge voice, solutions that integrate with live agents, contact center solutions supporting multiple centers, and outbound notification solutions. The company offers on demand hosting services; managed services, such as turnkey application support, monitoring, grammar tuning, VUI tuning, content updates, project management, quality assurance, and live call transcription; and design center services. It also provides development and CTI integration, customer support and maintenance, and training services. In addition, the company offers TuVox On Premise, which provides ongoing turnkey application support; and TuVox On Demand Portal, which provides access to control applications and make applications changes. It serves telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, high technology, and retail industries, as well as enterprises in media and publishing, travel, and energy sectors.

Biz360

Series C in 2003
Biz360, Inc. is an information-services company focused on transforming information to help businesses make better decisions. They use technology to aggregate, measure and analyze news media and consumer opinion information from a vast amount of traditional and social media sources (i.e. print, broadcast, websites, blogs and message boards) to yield invaluable insights which enable marketing and media executives to better understand, reach and motivate their target audiences. Biz360 is distinguished by its broad, global network of content sources, superior leading-edge analytical expertise and outstanding service & support — which enables us to deliver to their clients the most accurate, relevant and insightful information/metrics in the most flexible, consumable formats.

Syntrillium Software

Acquisition in 2003
Syntrillium Software Corporation designs and develops computer software products for sound and visual effects. The company’s products include Cool Edit 2000, which records, edits, and mixes music, Cool Edit Pro, Loop CD Sets, and Red Rover. Syntrillium was founded in 1995 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Above All Software

Series A in 2002
Above All Software (formerly BAM Software) is pioneering point-and-click software that enables the rapid assembly of composite applications that are based on existing information resources such as enterprise applications, legacy systems and database procedures. With no programming and no changes to existing systems, both business and technical users can assemble solutions that integrate critical business functions like sales, finance and manufacturing.

Kollective Technology

Series B in 2002
Kollective Technology operates as an enterprise content delivery network provider. Its cloud-native enterprise peering platform leverages existing network infrastructure to offset bandwidth constraints and deliver Live Events, Video on Demand, and software via SCCM. The company is headquartered in Bend, Oregon.

Accelio Corporation

Acquisition in 2002
Accelio Corporation Formerly known as Jetform Corporation. The principal activity of the Company are development and distribution of web based software solutions. The Company operates in three business segments: Products, consulting services and customer support. The products segment licenses the Company's software products. The consulting segment configures, implements, integrates and customizes products and designs automated processes to meet the customers specific needs. This segment also provides necessary training to the customers. The customer support segment provides after sale support for software products as well as providing software upgrades and support programs. Software and license accounted for 61% of fiscal 2001 revenues; consulting, 11% and customer support, 28%.

Salon Media Group

Funding Round in 2002
Salon Media Group operates the pioneering, award-winning news site Salon.com. With an audience of 15 million monthly unique visitors, Salon.com covers breaking news, politics, culture, technology and entertainment through investigative reporting, fearless commentary and criticism, and provocative personal essays. Salon.com has been a leader in online media since the dawn of the digital age and has bureaus in San Francisco, New York City and Washington, D.C.

Fotiva

Acquisition in 2001
Fotiva provides software and information that enables consumers to use digital cameras.

Biz360

Series B in 2001
Biz360, Inc. is an information-services company focused on transforming information to help businesses make better decisions. They use technology to aggregate, measure and analyze news media and consumer opinion information from a vast amount of traditional and social media sources (i.e. print, broadcast, websites, blogs and message boards) to yield invaluable insights which enable marketing and media executives to better understand, reach and motivate their target audiences. Biz360 is distinguished by its broad, global network of content sources, superior leading-edge analytical expertise and outstanding service & support — which enables us to deliver to their clients the most accurate, relevant and insightful information/metrics in the most flexible, consumable formats.

Digital Fountain

Series D in 2001
As experts in broadcast and real-time data transport, Digital Fountain software optimizes the delivery of digital media over any network. Their technology eliminates the common limitations associated with digital media distribution solutions over both private and public networks, maximizing their customers' existing infrastructure investments, and enabling expanded revenue opportunities.

Convio

Series B in 2001
Convio, Inc. provides on-demand software and services that enable nonprofit organizations (NPO) to raise funds, influence public policy, and support their missions by leveraging the Internet to build relationships with constituents in North America. It offers Constituent360 platform, an online constituent relationship management (eCRM) solution, which includes a suite of on-demand software modules for fundraising, advocacy, email marketing, and Web content management. The Constituent360 allows NPOs to view constituent behavior by tracking online activities, including online donations, purchases, page visits, event registrations, surveys, and advocacy activities. The platform also provides query and reporting tools to enable clients to retrieve and analyze this information to design online fundraising and advocacy campaigns. In addition, the company offers DataSync software, which enables synchronization of constituent information between Constituent360 and its clients' offline donor databases. Further, it provides fee-based Internet strategy and interactive services to help clients in their online programs, account management services, deployment services, and client support and education services. The company, formerly known as ShowSupport.com, Inc., was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Kinecta

Series C in 2001
Kinecta Corporation was a content syndication company.

Digital Fountain

Series C in 2000
As experts in broadcast and real-time data transport, Digital Fountain software optimizes the delivery of digital media over any network. Their technology eliminates the common limitations associated with digital media distribution solutions over both private and public networks, maximizing their customers' existing infrastructure investments, and enabling expanded revenue opportunities.

AvantGo

Venture Round in 2000
AvantGo, Inc. provides software and services that enable and enhance the use of Internet-based content and corporate intranets to mobile devices, including personal digital assistants and Internet-enabled phones. The company licenses its AvantGo M-Business Server products and AvantGo mobile applications products to help its customers provide their employees, customers, suppliers, and business affiliates with easy access to business information. The AvantGo Mobile Internet service allows individuals to access Internet-based content and applications, and gives content providers and other businesses a new medium for reaching and interacting with new and existing customers. In February 2002, AvantGo was chosen by Microsoft for the participation in the Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council. AvantGo provides solutions for the Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002.

Sendmail

Series D in 2000
Sendmail simplifies business email complexity and reduces IT infrastructure costs for large enterprises. The company’s solutions ensure global email connectivity, routing, and message delivery between people, systems, and applications located on-premises, in-cloud or on mobile devices. The Sentrion Email Infrastructure Platform performs intelligent email policy and message inspection ensuring all critical communications and content are integrated with business policies, applications and processes.

Shutterfly

Series B in 2000
Shutterfly manufactures and retails personalized products primarily in the United States, Canada, and the European Community. It operates through three reportable segments: Shutterfly Consumer, Lifetouch, and Shutterfly Business Solutions. The Shutterfly Consumer segment provides products, such as portraits, cards, and stationery items, professionally-bound photo books and yearbooks, personalized gifts and home décor products, and calendars and prints; and mugs, ornaments, candles, pillows, and blankets through the Shutterfly, Tiny Prints, and Groovebook domains, as well as rents photographic and video equipment under BorrowLenses brand. The Lifetouch segment offers photography services for schools, preschools, and retail stores the under the JCPenney portrait brand at approximately 400 retail studios, as well as churches and other groups. Shutterfly Business Solutions provides direct marketing and other end-consumer communications, as well as just-in-time and inventory-free printing services. Christopher North and Eva Manolis founded it on September 1, 1999, with its headquarters in Redwood City in California.

CoVia Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
CoVia Technologies is a pioneer of business-to-business Internet workplace solutions.
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