Adobe

Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions. Its tools and services allow its customers to create ground-breaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. The company helps its customers make, manage, measure, and monetize their content across every channel and screen. Its main products include Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Freehand, InDesign, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and many others. Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Their tools and services allow their customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. Adobe helps their customers make, manage, measure, and monetize their content across every channel and screen. Adobe was founded on January 1, 1982 in California, United States.

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Gigya, Inc.

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.

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. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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.

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.

zeroheight

Series A in 2021
We're building the future of designer collaboration. Like developers, designers need advanced tools to match their increasingly collaborative and complex workflows. But unlike developer tools, designer tools for collaboration simply haven’t kept up with the industry. Thanks to a strong engineering background and backing from world-class investors, we're able to finally give designers the sophisticated infrastructure they need to work together at scale. Our mission is to empower design teams of all shapes and sizes to create truly amazing user experiences by working together more closely.

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).

Cortex

Seed Round in 2021
Cortex is a software platform that manages and operates microservices. The platform enables users to explore, understand, and operate their microservices. It improves user's incident response, it helps with documentation searches, audits service health, and prevents user's next outage. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Opulence Images

Seed Round in 2021
Opulence Images specialize in creating organic lifestyle images that tell the story of your brand & Integrates the product seamlessly.

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.

Magento, Inc.

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.

Marketo

Acquisition in 2018
Marketing automation software

Truepic

Series B in 2021
Truepic is the trust authority for visual media. Our mission is to speed up business, foster healthy civil societies, and push back against disinformation. We do this by bolstering the value of authentic photos and videos, while leading the fight against deceptive ones. Truepic pioneered "controlled capture" technology for a new breed of visual media: photos and videos that have verifiable origin, contents, and metadata. For traditional photos and videos, Truepic uses industry-leading image forensics to help customers evaluate their trustworthiness. Our promise is simple, yet profound: photos and videos you can trust.

Aviary

Acquisition in 2014
Photo-editing platform for ios, android, windows and html5

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.

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.

CloudApp

Venture Round in 2017
CloudApp is the all-in-one visual sharing platform that lets you record, host, and share short videos, GIFs, and visuals (images, annotated screenshots) to make team and customer conversations faster and more succinct. Enhancing conversations visually means that messages don't get lost in translation! With CloudApp, team collaboration is a breeze.

Demandbase

Series F in 2014
Demandbase specializes in account-based marketing offering AI-enabled ABM platform. It is dedicated to helping B2B marketers achieve greater business impact. The company pioneered the ABM category nearly a decade ago, and today it operates as an indispensable part of the B2B tech stack. Demandbase offers the only end-to-end ABM platform that helps B2B companies identify, win, and grow the accounts that matter most.

Movaris

Series C in 2006
Solutions that integrate and manage financial close and other governance, risk and compliance processes

Macromedia

Acquisition in 2005
Macromedia was a North American graphics and Web development software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products as Macromedia Flash. The line of Macromedia products is now controlled by its former rival, Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005.

Frame.io, Inc.

Acquisition in 2021
Frame.io, Inc. provides a video review and collaboration platform that enables users to upload, review, and share media with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. Its platform enables creative professionals to streamline the video creation process by centralizing media assets, including dailies, scripts, storyboards, work-in-progress, and more, as well as allows feedback and comments, annotations, and real-time approvals. The company’s platform is used by filmmakers and media professionals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Pixmantec

Acquisition in 2006
Pixmantec develops digital imaging software.

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.

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.

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.

Demandbase

Series B in 2008
Demandbase specializes in account-based marketing offering AI-enabled ABM platform. It is dedicated to helping B2B marketers achieve greater business impact. The company pioneered the ABM category nearly a decade ago, and today it operates as an indispensable part of the B2B tech stack. Demandbase offers the only end-to-end ABM platform that helps B2B companies identify, win, and grow the accounts that matter most.

Convio

Series B in 2001
Software and services enabling non-profit organizations to raise funds, influence public policy and support their processes

introNetworks, Inc.

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.

IRIDAS

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

BluePoint Technologies

Acquisition in 1990
BluePoint Technologies is a provider of Computer chips.

TuVox

Series D in 2007
Speech application solutions and contact center solutions for inbound and outbound calls

Oversight Systems

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. Oversight Systems 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.

TuVox

Series B in 2003
Speech application solutions and contact center solutions for inbound and outbound calls

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.

Skillshare, Inc.

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.

Photoshop

Acquisition in 1995
Photoshop.com is the online complement to Adobe's family of Photoshop software. Photoshop is the world’s best imaging and design app is at the core of almost every creative project. Work across desktop and mobile devices to create and enhance your photographs, web and mobile app designs, 3D artwork, videos, and more.

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.

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.

Efficient Frontier

Acquisition in 2011
An online performance and social media marketing platform, manages social media campaigns for advertisers and agencies

Oculus Medium

Acquisition in 2019
Oculus Medium is a virtual reality sculpting tool that used in video games and filmmaking. It is used to create and paint digital sculptures. Medium works only on Oculus Rift. The tool works with virtual reality headsets and 6DoF motion controllers. Oculus Medium enables users to sculpt, model and paint in an immersive environment to easily create characters, objects, environments, expressive works of art and more. The integration of Medium’s tools and technology will greatly contribute to our 3D and immersive strategy. Oculus Medium's versatile and intuitive toolkit is designed for 3D modeling speed and fluidity. Oculus Medium was released on December 5, 2016.

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.

LucidLink Corp.

Series A in 2021
Lucid provides a cloud-backed distributed file service allowing instant access to an unlimited, shared, and secure file space in the cloud. It believes cloud object storage has the power to transform the way individuals and businesses store and access their files. LucidLink aims to change that with universal distributed file system that streams data from cloud object storage. It purpose built it to integrate with object storage through high latency environments, and address the source of the challenge, not the symptom. Simply stated, LucidLink provides the ability to mount an object store in the cloud and use it as local storage.

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.

OKYZ

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

Sandcastle

Acquisition in 1997
Sandcastle was founded in 1995 by Bob Sands and it was acquired by Adobe Systems on March 14, 1997.

Bunchball inc.

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.

NetClerk

Series B in 2000
As of April 22, 2002, NetClerk Inc. was acquired by Builders Information Group Inc. NetClerk is an application service provider (ASP) for requesting, submitting and storing permits and related forms usually ralated to electricians, plumbers and mechanical contractors. The company's flagship product, PermitCentral, provides one online system for contractors to access and submit non-planned, over-the-counter permits.

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.

Oversight Systems

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. Oversight Systems 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.

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.

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.

Nitobi Software

Acquisition in 2011
Nitobi Software creates rich web applications and developer toolkits in Ajax and Javascript.

HyWay Ferranti

Acquisition in 1997
HyWay Ferranti is a company that was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1997.

InterAKT

Acquisition in 2006
InterAKT is an Advertising company.

Livefyre

Acquisition in 2016
Livefyre helps companies engage consumers through a combination of real-time content, conversation and social curation

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.

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.

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

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.

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%.

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. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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.

Shutterfly

Series B in 2000
Your life events & everyday moments beautifully preserved and shared. Photo books, cards, stationery & gifts.

eSign Services

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

CoVia Technologies

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

Livefyre

Series D in 2015
Livefyre helps companies engage consumers through a combination of real-time content, conversation and social curation

Cascade Systems

Venture Round in 1999
Cascade Systems is a provider of e-Merchandising solutions.

Scrybe

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

Fotiva

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

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.

Kinecta

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

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.

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.

Demandbase

Series H in 2017
Demandbase specializes in account-based marketing offering AI-enabled ABM platform. It is dedicated to helping B2B marketers achieve greater business impact. The company pioneered the ABM category nearly a decade ago, and today it operates as an indispensable part of the B2B tech stack. Demandbase offers the only end-to-end ABM platform that helps B2B companies identify, win, and grow the accounts that matter most.

Oversight Systems

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. Oversight Systems 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.

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.

FORA.tv, Inc.

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.

Demandbase

Series G in 2015
Demandbase specializes in account-based marketing offering AI-enabled ABM platform. It is dedicated to helping B2B marketers achieve greater business impact. The company pioneered the ABM category nearly a decade ago, and today it operates as an indispensable part of the B2B tech stack. Demandbase offers the only end-to-end ABM platform that helps B2B companies identify, win, and grow the accounts that matter most.

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.

Demandbase

Series C in 2011
Demandbase specializes in account-based marketing offering AI-enabled ABM platform. It is dedicated to helping B2B marketers achieve greater business impact. The company pioneered the ABM category nearly a decade ago, and today it operates as an indispensable part of the B2B tech stack. Demandbase offers the only end-to-end ABM platform that helps B2B companies identify, win, and grow the accounts that matter most.

Veoh

Series D in 2008
Watch Movies Online For Free | Your #1 Online Movie Experience | Veoh

Frame Technology

Acquisition in 1995
Frame Technology Corporation is engaged in the development, marketing, and support of writing and publishing software for the creation and distribution of critical business and technical documents.

Trade and Technologies France

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

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.

KyleBrush.com

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

OCR Systems

Acquisition in 1992
OCR Systems is a company that was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1992.

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.

Demandbase

Series D in 2013
Demandbase specializes in account-based marketing offering AI-enabled ABM platform. It is dedicated to helping B2B marketers achieve greater business impact. The company pioneered the ABM category nearly a decade ago, and today it operates as an indispensable part of the B2B tech stack. Demandbase offers the only end-to-end ABM platform that helps B2B companies identify, win, and grow the accounts that matter most.

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.

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.

Uru, Inc.

Acquisition in 2018
Uru, Inc. develops content-aware video advertising solutions. The company’s SaaS lets creators and publishers to identify the objects, themes, and monetization opportunities inside a video, as well as makes pairing them with brand graphics; and API lets video player platforms to empower their users to monetize and video publishers consumer Uru directly from inside their content management system. It serves publishers and creators, and brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

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.

Bunchball inc.

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.

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.

Virage

Venture Round in 1999
Virage is the leading provider of software products and application services that enable media and entertainment companies, enterprises, and consumers to publish, manage and distribute their video content over the Internet or intranets. Our products and services enable Internet users to find and use the video content they want, and then to interact with it in a way that is familiar and comfortable to them. Additionally, we increase the value of video to content owners by transforming their video assets into engaging web experiences that incorporate on-demand viewing, targeted advertising, community building and e-commerce.

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.

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.

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.

Digimarc

Series A in 1996
Digimarc Corporation provides media identification and management solutions to government and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. The company offers Digimarc Platform for the identification, discovery, and verification of digitally-enhanced media, which includes Digimarc Barcode, an imperceptible data carrier for identifying the object; Digimarc Discover, a software for relevant devices to discover objects, such as decode data from that carrier; and Digimarc Verify, a suite of verification and quality control tools used to assess signal quality and validate data at critical stages of production. Its solutions are used in various media identification and management products and solutions, such as retail point of sale transaction processing; track and trace of products within the supply chain; quality control in manufacturing processes; inventory management and planogram compliance; sorting of consumer packaged goods in recycling streams; counterfeiting and piracy deterrence; online e-publication piracy protection; content identification and media management; authentication and monitoring; linking to networks and providing access to information; and enhanced services in support of mobile commerce. The company provides its solutions directly and through its business partners. Digimarc Corporation was founded in 2008 and is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

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.

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.

Convio

Series E in 2007
Software and services enabling non-profit organizations to raise funds, influence public policy and support their processes

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.

zeroheight

Seed Round in 2019
We're building the future of designer collaboration. Like developers, designers need advanced tools to match their increasingly collaborative and complex workflows. But unlike developer tools, designer tools for collaboration simply haven’t kept up with the industry. Thanks to a strong engineering background and backing from world-class investors, we're able to finally give designers the sophisticated infrastructure they need to work together at scale. Our mission is to empower design teams of all shapes and sizes to create truly amazing user experiences by working together more closely.

GoLive Systems

Acquisition in 1999
GoLive Systems is a company that was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1999.

Digital Fountain

Venture Round 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.

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.

Aldus Corp

Acquisition in 1994
Aldus Corporation, named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software, a program that is generally credited with creating the desktop publishing (DTP) field. The company was founded by Jeremy Jaech, Mark Sundstrom, Mike Templeman, Dave Walter, and chairman Paul Brainerd.[1] Aldus Corporation was based in Seattle, Washington.

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.

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

Salon Media Group, Inc.

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.

Digimarc

Series B in 1998
Digimarc Corporation provides media identification and management solutions to government and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. The company offers Digimarc Platform for the identification, discovery, and verification of digitally-enhanced media, which includes Digimarc Barcode, an imperceptible data carrier for identifying the object; Digimarc Discover, a software for relevant devices to discover objects, such as decode data from that carrier; and Digimarc Verify, a suite of verification and quality control tools used to assess signal quality and validate data at critical stages of production. Its solutions are used in various media identification and management products and solutions, such as retail point of sale transaction processing; track and trace of products within the supply chain; quality control in manufacturing processes; inventory management and planogram compliance; sorting of consumer packaged goods in recycling streams; counterfeiting and piracy deterrence; online e-publication piracy protection; content identification and media management; authentication and monitoring; linking to networks and providing access to information; and enhanced services in support of mobile commerce. The company provides its solutions directly and through its business partners. Digimarc Corporation was founded in 2008 and is based in Beaverton, Oregon.

Virtual Ubiquity

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

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.

Emerald City Software

Acquisition in 1990
Emerald City Software develops and publishes PostScript language typographic products and development tools, among them the TypeAlign type styling program, the Smart Art collection of four volumes of PostScript typographic and graphic effects, and the Displaytalk, NeXT, Lasertalk Mac and Lasertalk PC PostScript development products.

Mixamo

Acquisition in 2015
Mixamo, Inc. develops and provides a Web based 3D character creation, rigging, and animation platform for 3D design and game professionals. The company offers Adobe Fuse CC (Preview), a modular 3D character creator; 3D Characters Preview, a searchable store of 3D characters; and Decimator Preview that allows users to create various levels of detail versions for various assets. It also provides Auto-Rigger Preview, an automatic online rigging tool; Control Rig Scripts, which automates tedious processes with scripts; 3D Animations (Preview) that offers animation content and software; and Face Plus (Preview) unity plugin that captures facial expressions. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 1, 2015, Mixamo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

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.

DigiDox

Acquisition in 1997
DigiDox is a company that was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1997.