Apex Venture Partners

Apex Venture Partners, established in 1987, has six funds and more than $600 million under management. The firm has invested in over 130 technology companies. Apex focuses on early stage investments in software applications, technology-enabled services, IT infrastructure, and telecommunications. Apex's guiding investment philosophy is to provide exceptional returns for our investors and build significant value in our portfolio companies. Our central location in Chicago enables us to review opportunities throughout the United States and invest in companies having the greatest potential for value creation, regardless of geography.

Wayne Boulais

General Partner

86 past transactions

contextflow

Venture Round in 2019
contextflow revolutionizes the medical information search process with the help of deep learning: our 3D image-based search engine for radiologists looks for regions of interest within images (currently 18+ patterns in lung CTs); when a suspicious pattern is detected, we immediately find visually similar cases, descriptions and relevant reference information, affording doctors easy access to knowledge currently hidden in large medical image data and their associated reports...all within seconds. No more paging through books, guessing the right keyword or consulting various text-based reference search engines. In addition, our software can be configured to allow for prioritization of cases where patterns of interest are detected. contextflow is a spin-off of the Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Technical University of Vienna (TU) and European research project KHRESMOI. Founded by a team of AI and engineering experts in July 2016, the company was awarded the distinction of Most Promising Startup by the BCS Search Industry, received the Digital Innovation Award by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and was selected as one of 19 startups out of over 700 applications to participate in the Philips HealthWorks accelerator program. It is currently testing its 3D image-based software with six partners, expanding internationally to other locations later this year.

Illumitex

Series C in 2015
Illumitex is a manufacturer of precision LEDs, LED lights, LED grow lights, and digital horticulture solutions. It transforms traditional LED design and increases the functionality with the creation of an LED package that emits light in a uniform, highly-precise beam directly from the source. Its devices provide LED lights which are mainly based on optics technology that predict, diagnose, monitor, and improve all aspects of operations that enable customers to improve the brightness and efficiency of flat-panel televisions, portable electronic devices, and digital projectors to be used for their vertical farms, greenhouses, and indoor gardening.

Illumitex

Debt Financing in 2014
Illumitex is a manufacturer of precision LEDs, LED lights, LED grow lights, and digital horticulture solutions. It transforms traditional LED design and increases the functionality with the creation of an LED package that emits light in a uniform, highly-precise beam directly from the source. Its devices provide LED lights which are mainly based on optics technology that predict, diagnose, monitor, and improve all aspects of operations that enable customers to improve the brightness and efficiency of flat-panel televisions, portable electronic devices, and digital projectors to be used for their vertical farms, greenhouses, and indoor gardening.

DialogTech

Series E in 2014
DialogTech provides actionable marketing analytics for businesses that value inbound phone calls. Consistently recognized as the leader and pioneer in call analytics and optimization, DialogTech is the trusted voice management platform for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, and fast-growing companies. From call attribution to conversation analytics to caller experience optimization, only DialogTech has everything marketers need to drive more of the conversations that drive revenue.

DialogTech

Series D in 2014
DialogTech provides actionable marketing analytics for businesses that value inbound phone calls. Consistently recognized as the leader and pioneer in call analytics and optimization, DialogTech is the trusted voice management platform for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, and fast-growing companies. From call attribution to conversation analytics to caller experience optimization, only DialogTech has everything marketers need to drive more of the conversations that drive revenue.

Sittercity

Debt Financing in 2013
Sittercity pioneered tech-enabled child care in 2001, and connects millions of families with babysitters and nannies every year. With Sittercity and Chime, its new on-demand service, the company is building a platform that radically simplifies the way parents and caregivers connect and manage their trusted relationships. Sittercity is headquartered in Chicago and serves families nationwide. For more information, visit www.sittercity.com and www.hellochime.com.

Sittercity

Series C in 2013
Sittercity pioneered tech-enabled child care in 2001, and connects millions of families with babysitters and nannies every year. With Sittercity and Chime, its new on-demand service, the company is building a platform that radically simplifies the way parents and caregivers connect and manage their trusted relationships. Sittercity is headquartered in Chicago and serves families nationwide. For more information, visit www.sittercity.com and www.hellochime.com.

Smart Lunches

Venture Round in 2013
Smart Lunches is an online ordering and delivery platform that enables parents to order school lunch for their children. They also provide a valuable enhanced service to the school, convenience, and nutritional security to the parents, and a good lunch to the students. It aims to make the midday meal simple and healthy. Smart Lunches was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Smart Lunches

Series A in 2012
Smart Lunches is an online ordering and delivery platform that enables parents to order school lunch for their children. They also provide a valuable enhanced service to the school, convenience, and nutritional security to the parents, and a good lunch to the students. It aims to make the midday meal simple and healthy. Smart Lunches was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Analyte Health

Venture Round in 2012
Analyte Health is an integrated healthcare partner that connects patients and providers with laboratory testing services. We focus on creating an outstanding patient experience by making lab testing more convenient, accessible, and faster than traditional brick and mortar office visits. On average, we reduce the office visit and lab testing turnaround time from weeks to three days or less. Analyte Health has consistently achieved a Net Promoter Score of 70 or higher. To learn more, please visit www.analytehealth.com.

Bloom Energy

Series G in 2012
Bloom Energy is changing the way the world generates and consumes energy. Their unique on-site power generation systems utilize an innovative new fuel cell technology with roots in NASA's Mars program. Derived from a common sand-like powder, and leveraging breakthrough advances in materials science, Their technology is able to produce clean, reliable, affordable power,... practically anywhere,... from a wide range of renewable or traditional fuels. Their Energy Servers™ are among the most efficient energy generators on the planet; providing for significantly reduced electricity costs and dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions. By generating power on-site, where it is consumed, Bloom Energy offers increased electrical reliability and improved energy security, providing a clear path to energy independence. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Illumitex

Venture Round in 2012
Illumitex is a manufacturer of precision LEDs, LED lights, LED grow lights, and digital horticulture solutions. It transforms traditional LED design and increases the functionality with the creation of an LED package that emits light in a uniform, highly-precise beam directly from the source. Its devices provide LED lights which are mainly based on optics technology that predict, diagnose, monitor, and improve all aspects of operations that enable customers to improve the brightness and efficiency of flat-panel televisions, portable electronic devices, and digital projectors to be used for their vertical farms, greenhouses, and indoor gardening.

SolFocus

Private Equity Round in 2012
SolFocus's mission is to enable solar energy generation at a Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) competitive with traditional fossil fuel sources. To achieve this goal, SolFocus has developed leading concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) technology which combines high-efficiency solar cells (approaching 40%) and advanced optics to provide solar energy solutions which are scalable, dependable and capable of delivering on the promise of clean, low-cost, renewable energy.

Bloom Energy

Series G in 2011
Bloom Energy is changing the way the world generates and consumes energy. Their unique on-site power generation systems utilize an innovative new fuel cell technology with roots in NASA's Mars program. Derived from a common sand-like powder, and leveraging breakthrough advances in materials science, Their technology is able to produce clean, reliable, affordable power,... practically anywhere,... from a wide range of renewable or traditional fuels. Their Energy Servers™ are among the most efficient energy generators on the planet; providing for significantly reduced electricity costs and dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions. By generating power on-site, where it is consumed, Bloom Energy offers increased electrical reliability and improved energy security, providing a clear path to energy independence. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

TrunkClub

Series A in 2011
Trunk Club is a personalized clothing service for men, offering designer clothing to customers without any of the hassles of shopping in stores or online. Guys share details about their style, fit and size preferences, and the company ships them a handpicked selection of clothes. Customers keep only what they want and send the rest back with a pre-paid shipping label. All shipping is free and there are no fees for the service. Visit www.trunkclub.com to sign up and get started. The company is headquartered out of Chicago and led by CEO Brian Spaly. Prior to Trunk Club, Brian founded men's online retailer Bonobos while a student at Stanford Business School. Trunk Club has been featured on NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and more.

SiliconBlue Technologies

Series D in 2011
SiliconBlue® provides programmable logic solutions for consumer, battery-based mobile applications such as smart phones, eBooks/ePaper, netbooks, digital picture frames, mobile internet devices (MIDs), portable media players, hand-held POS systems, medical instruments and flash camcorders. The company's iCE65™ mobileFPGA™ devices enable designers of these mobile products to implement differentiating product features quickly and easily. By combining the reprogramming benefit of FPGAs with the low cost, low power and single-chip benefits of ASICs, the iCE65 family offers the best-of-both-worlds solution for the handheld consumer system designer.

Analyte Health

Venture Round in 2011
Analyte Health is an integrated healthcare partner that connects patients and providers with laboratory testing services. We focus on creating an outstanding patient experience by making lab testing more convenient, accessible, and faster than traditional brick and mortar office visits. On average, we reduce the office visit and lab testing turnaround time from weeks to three days or less. Analyte Health has consistently achieved a Net Promoter Score of 70 or higher. To learn more, please visit www.analytehealth.com.

Sittercity

Series B in 2011
Sittercity pioneered tech-enabled child care in 2001, and connects millions of families with babysitters and nannies every year. With Sittercity and Chime, its new on-demand service, the company is building a platform that radically simplifies the way parents and caregivers connect and manage their trusted relationships. Sittercity is headquartered in Chicago and serves families nationwide. For more information, visit www.sittercity.com and www.hellochime.com.

DIRTT Environmental Solutions

Venture Round in 2011
DIRTT Environmental Solutions combines 3D design, configuration, and manufacturing software with in-house manufacturing of its prefabricated interior construction solutions. Their products include solid walls, glass walls, headwalls, doors, casework, timber, access floors, and more.

DialogTech

Series B in 2010
DialogTech provides actionable marketing analytics for businesses that value inbound phone calls. Consistently recognized as the leader and pioneer in call analytics and optimization, DialogTech is the trusted voice management platform for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, and fast-growing companies. From call attribution to conversation analytics to caller experience optimization, only DialogTech has everything marketers need to drive more of the conversations that drive revenue.

Envestnet

Venture Round in 2010
Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV) is an independent provider of technology-enabled, web-based investment solutions and services to financial advisors. By integrating a wide range of investment solutions and services, their technology platform provides financial advisors with the flexibility to address their client's needs. They work with financial advisors who are independent, as well as those who are associated with small or mid-sized financial advisory firms and larger financial institutions, which they refer to as enterprise clients. They focus their technology development efforts and their sales and marketing approach on addressing financial advisors’ front-, middle- and back-office needs. They believe that their investment solutions and services allow financial advisors to be more efficient and effective in the activities critical to their businesses by facilitating client interactions, supporting and enhancing portfolio management and analysis, and enabling reliable account support and administration. Their centrally-hosted technology platform provides financial advisors with the flexibility to choose freely among a wide range of investment solutions, services, investment managers, and custodians to identify those that are most appropriate for their clients.

Appolicious

Series A in 2009
Appolicious Inc. aims to solve the problem of app discovery for iOS and Android devices. Appolicious is the premier provider of "white label" app discovery experiences - we aim to be the "intel inside" vs. the "instagram" of App Discovery. Appolicious recently launched appoLearning, a deep veritcal app discovery site focused on education apps for children, powered by the Appolicious platform. The platform enables a host of experts to "own" categories from a custom taxonomy and score them a proprietary rubric, and can be (and will be) extended to other verticals.

Suniva

Series C in 2009
Suniva develops, manufactures and markets its ARTisun series high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells for clean, earth-friendly power generation and is dedicated to driving down the cost per watt of solar generated power. We are developing our products focused on the intersection of high efficiency and low cost, as we believe that is the mass market for solar PV. Our current and future generation products are and will be high conversion efficiency cells, but not at the expense of high cost.

SolFocus

Series C in 2009
SolFocus's mission is to enable solar energy generation at a Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) competitive with traditional fossil fuel sources. To achieve this goal, SolFocus has developed leading concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) technology which combines high-efficiency solar cells (approaching 40%) and advanced optics to provide solar energy solutions which are scalable, dependable and capable of delivering on the promise of clean, low-cost, renewable energy.

Metatomix

Series C in 2009
Metatomix was founded in 2000 and describes themselves as the "semantic integration provider." Metatomix' solutions aim to link data from "existing disparate systems to create a common semantic understanding of your information across the enterprise, providing you a 360° view of your business information. As a result, business applications can leverage information that comes not just from a single product system or data store, but from across all data sources."

Sittercity

Series A in 2009
Sittercity pioneered tech-enabled child care in 2001, and connects millions of families with babysitters and nannies every year. With Sittercity and Chime, its new on-demand service, the company is building a platform that radically simplifies the way parents and caregivers connect and manage their trusted relationships. Sittercity is headquartered in Chicago and serves families nationwide. For more information, visit www.sittercity.com and www.hellochime.com.

SolFocus

Series C in 2009
SolFocus's mission is to enable solar energy generation at a Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) competitive with traditional fossil fuel sources. To achieve this goal, SolFocus has developed leading concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) technology which combines high-efficiency solar cells (approaching 40%) and advanced optics to provide solar energy solutions which are scalable, dependable and capable of delivering on the promise of clean, low-cost, renewable energy.

DialogTech

Venture Round in 2008
DialogTech provides actionable marketing analytics for businesses that value inbound phone calls. Consistently recognized as the leader and pioneer in call analytics and optimization, DialogTech is the trusted voice management platform for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, and fast-growing companies. From call attribution to conversation analytics to caller experience optimization, only DialogTech has everything marketers need to drive more of the conversations that drive revenue.

CombineNet

Series E in 2008
CombineNet, Inc. is the advanced sourcing technology company, with over 10 years of delivering strong value to mid-sized and global organizations alike, across nearly all industries, as they make supplier and spend decisions on products and services. CombineNet's product ASAP (Advanced Sourcing Application Platform) is a web-based software-as-a-service solution that allows sourcing teams in any spend category to speed and simplify the creation, launch, and management of sourcing events of any size, scale, or complexity.

Analyte Health

Venture Round in 2008
Analyte Health is an integrated healthcare partner that connects patients and providers with laboratory testing services. We focus on creating an outstanding patient experience by making lab testing more convenient, accessible, and faster than traditional brick and mortar office visits. On average, we reduce the office visit and lab testing turnaround time from weeks to three days or less. Analyte Health has consistently achieved a Net Promoter Score of 70 or higher. To learn more, please visit www.analytehealth.com.

BitWave

Series B in 2008
Since its inception, BitWave has been dedicated to the development of a universal programmable transceiver, the Softransceiver RFIC. The technology will allow wireless carriers and cell phone manufacturers to deploy more services and devices in less time with additional functionality.

Initiate Systems

Venture Round in 2008
Initiate Systems enables companies to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Their master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple sources, even outside the firewall. This allows companies to unlock the value of your data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements.

Enkata Technologies

Venture Round in 2008
Enkata is at the cutting edge of big data and data intelligence, with a SaaS platform that uses machine data to help people improve their performance at work. Enkata streams work related activities from the systems people already use, including email, CRM, phone data, and more. We organize that data into useful information about what’s working for people, and find relationships between how people work and the outcomes. Finally, Enkata uses customer specific scoring algorithms to highlight information people should know and recommend specific actions they can take to achieve better outcomes.

Suniva

Series B in 2008
Suniva develops, manufactures and markets its ARTisun series high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells for clean, earth-friendly power generation and is dedicated to driving down the cost per watt of solar generated power. We are developing our products focused on the intersection of high efficiency and low cost, as we believe that is the mass market for solar PV. Our current and future generation products are and will be high conversion efficiency cells, but not at the expense of high cost.

worldhistoryproject

Series A in 2007
The World History Project is the first web site that enables people like you to collaboratively record, discover and share history. It's history recorded by the people, for the people. Help you discover events and history in unexpected and unique ways. Provide you with a place where you can exhibit your knowledge and help others.

Agami System

Series C in 2007
Agami Systems provides enterprise network storage systems with integrated live file system replication and support services. The company serves families, contractors, and corporate entities. Agami Systems is based in Sunnyvale, California.

DialogTech

Series A in 2007
DialogTech provides actionable marketing analytics for businesses that value inbound phone calls. Consistently recognized as the leader and pioneer in call analytics and optimization, DialogTech is the trusted voice management platform for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, and fast-growing companies. From call attribution to conversation analytics to caller experience optimization, only DialogTech has everything marketers need to drive more of the conversations that drive revenue.

Hammerhead Systems

Series D in 2007
Hammerhead Systems, Inc. provides MPLS and Ethernet aggregation and switching solutions for business services, residential broadband, and wireless backhaul markets in the United States and internationally. It offers HSX 6000, which enables aggregation, interworking, and migration of access protocols across various core infrastructure; and Pegador SOA EMS, an element management system that provides Web services through XML/SOAP. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. On May 21, 2009, Hammerhead Systems, Inc filed a voluntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose.

E-Duction

Series B in 2007
E-Duction is at the forefront of the evolving payment industry – paying for goods and services via payroll deduction. The current advent of consumerism is creating demand for more complex payroll deduction products, including variable and dynamic products in which the deduction/payment amount may change each month. E-Duction's transaction processing capabilities make possible a wide range of profitable, consumer-friendly payroll deduction-based services which meet the key demands of today's large and small employers alike.

Metatomix

Series B in 2007
Metatomix was founded in 2000 and describes themselves as the "semantic integration provider." Metatomix' solutions aim to link data from "existing disparate systems to create a common semantic understanding of your information across the enterprise, providing you a 360° view of your business information. As a result, business applications can leverage information that comes not just from a single product system or data store, but from across all data sources."

Enkata Technologies

Venture Round in 2006
Enkata is at the cutting edge of big data and data intelligence, with a SaaS platform that uses machine data to help people improve their performance at work. Enkata streams work related activities from the systems people already use, including email, CRM, phone data, and more. We organize that data into useful information about what’s working for people, and find relationships between how people work and the outcomes. Finally, Enkata uses customer specific scoring algorithms to highlight information people should know and recommend specific actions they can take to achieve better outcomes.

Metatomix

Private Equity Round in 2006
Metatomix was founded in 2000 and describes themselves as the "semantic integration provider." Metatomix' solutions aim to link data from "existing disparate systems to create a common semantic understanding of your information across the enterprise, providing you a 360° view of your business information. As a result, business applications can leverage information that comes not just from a single product system or data store, but from across all data sources."

MobileAware

Series E in 2006
MobileAware helps mobile network operators enhance the customer experience by building exceptional mobile engagement channels. The company's innovative solutions enable operators to rapidly build and launch a mobile presence that is accessible from any device. In this way, MobileAware lowers the cost of providing excellent customer service while creating major new revenue streams. Many of the world's largest operators, including Orange, T-Mobile, TELUS and Vodafone, have relied on MobileAware to help them transition to a Mobile First strategy.

CombineNet

Series D in 2006
CombineNet, Inc. is the advanced sourcing technology company, with over 10 years of delivering strong value to mid-sized and global organizations alike, across nearly all industries, as they make supplier and spend decisions on products and services. CombineNet's product ASAP (Advanced Sourcing Application Platform) is a web-based software-as-a-service solution that allows sourcing teams in any spend category to speed and simplify the creation, launch, and management of sourcing events of any size, scale, or complexity.

Hammerhead Systems

Series C in 2006
Hammerhead Systems, Inc. provides MPLS and Ethernet aggregation and switching solutions for business services, residential broadband, and wireless backhaul markets in the United States and internationally. It offers HSX 6000, which enables aggregation, interworking, and migration of access protocols across various core infrastructure; and Pegador SOA EMS, an element management system that provides Web services through XML/SOAP. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. On May 21, 2009, Hammerhead Systems, Inc filed a voluntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose.

Cogency Software

Venture Round in 2005
Cogency Software, Inc. develops, deploys, and supports automated accounting and operations solutions for the alternative investment industry. It offers portfolio management, partnership accounting, investor prospecting, fund accounting, and contact and investor relations management solutions. The company also provides various modules for fund of hedge funds and single manager hedge funds. In addition, it offers implementation, training, and support services. The company has strategic alliances with FinAnalytica and HedgeOp Compliance, LLC. Cogency Software, Inc. was formerly known as Manage.Com, Inc. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California with an additional office in New York, New York. Cogency Software, Inc. has operations in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Austin Logistics

Series B in 2005
Austin Logistics is a provider of next-generation predictive analytic and business intelligence software solutions that anticipate customer value and behavior to drive more profit from every customer interaction. Since 1992, the company's innovative solutions have helped many of the world's largest financial services, telecommunication, and e-commerce companies to make proactive, profit-focused decisions that optimize actions in collections, risk & fraud, marketing and customer service.

AGEIA Technologies

Series C in 2005
AGEIA Technologies, Inc. develops hardware-accelerated physics for PC games. It offers PhysX, a physics engine and processor that bridges the gap between static virtual worlds and responsive unscripted physical reality. The company’s PhysX processor also provides hardcore gamers and gaming enthusiasts with simulations of collisions, explosions, complex jointed geometries, fabrics, dense smoke and liquids, multiple objects and particles, and other physical effects. It also offers a software development kit to simplify physics programming and gaming consoles. AGEIA Technologies was founded in 2002 and is based in Santa Clara, California with an additional office in Mountain View, California. As of February 10, 2008, AGEIA Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation.

Agami System

Series A in 2004
Agami Systems provides enterprise network storage systems with integrated live file system replication and support services. The company serves families, contractors, and corporate entities. Agami Systems is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Cortera

Series B in 2004
Cortera is a provider of comprehensive business-to-business payment and purchase behavior data and insights on public and private companies. The company tracks $1.6 trillion in business-to-business purchases across 45 spend categories to deliver insights on 20 million U.S. business locations. Cortera's solutions enable companies of all sizes to better understand their customers, suppliers and business partners by gaining visibility into what they purchase, how they pay and how their purchase and payment behavior changes over time. Thousands of companies across diverse industries use Cortera solutions to increase revenue, improve sales and marketing effectiveness, and reduce risk. Cortera is privately held with offices in Boca Raton, Florida; Boston and Quincy, Massachusetts and Bangalore, India.

IQS

Series A in 2004
Founded in 1988, IQS, Inc. has continuously searched for the best technology to assist its customers in successfully managing and improving their business and performance in today’s competitive market. IQS offers a flexible, integrated, web-base software system that empowers clients to increase their profitability and competitiveness, achieving industry registration faster and at a lower cost to the client. IQS helps customers reduce risk while improving visibility among key aspects of business processes and performance. The IQS software model provides an enterprise-wide framework to manage compliance with multiple government regulations, quality assurance standards and compliance mandates. IQS’ integrated data hub provides clients with actionable insight into performance and risk-related metrics. Today, leading companies across multiple industries are using IQS to manage and improve key business processes, assuring higher levels of quality compliance and risk management.

Enkata Technologies

Series C in 2004
Enkata is at the cutting edge of big data and data intelligence, with a SaaS platform that uses machine data to help people improve their performance at work. Enkata streams work related activities from the systems people already use, including email, CRM, phone data, and more. We organize that data into useful information about what’s working for people, and find relationships between how people work and the outcomes. Finally, Enkata uses customer specific scoring algorithms to highlight information people should know and recommend specific actions they can take to achieve better outcomes.

Shoes.com

Series B in 2004
Shoes.com makes it easy, fun and affordable for everyone to find shoes they love. We're driven by the belief that no matter what your journey, having the right pair of shoes can make all the difference. Every day we work to ensure that you find the perfect pair of shoes. That includes bringing you more than one million styles from over 800 of the best brands, through a seamless shopping experience on any device. Shoes.com is headquartered in the greatest shoe city in the world - Boston, Massachusetts, the birthplace of shoe manufacturing. Founded in 2000 as Shoebuy.com, we launched the original online shoe store. Since then, we've served millions of customers of all shapes, sizes and tastes. In 2016, our own journey took a significant leap forward when we were acquired by Jet.com. Part of The Walmart US eCommerce division, Jet is one of the most forward-thinking and innovative online retailers in the world. With their support, we've greatly expanded and enhanced our ability to do what Shoes.com has always done: deliver a superior shoe-shopping experience.

Smart System Technologies

Series A in 2004
Smart System Technologies provides merchants with cashless and contactless payment and marketing analytics services. It is based in Irvine, California.

Informative

Venture Round in 2004
Informative a marketing company, offers online tools for identifying customer priorities and form brand communities. The company also provides marketing analytics services. It offers survey, community and forum, blog, and profiling services. The company serves advertising agencies, marketing services firms, and media properties, as well as consumer products, media, financial services, pharmaceutical, software, and consumer electronic industries. Informative, Inc. was founded in 1999 as Getwebby.com and changed its name to Cahoots, Inc. in 2000. Further, it changed its name to Informative, Inc. in 2002. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

CombineNet

Series C in 2004
CombineNet, Inc. is the advanced sourcing technology company, with over 10 years of delivering strong value to mid-sized and global organizations alike, across nearly all industries, as they make supplier and spend decisions on products and services. CombineNet's product ASAP (Advanced Sourcing Application Platform) is a web-based software-as-a-service solution that allows sourcing teams in any spend category to speed and simplify the creation, launch, and management of sourcing events of any size, scale, or complexity.

Austin Logistics

Series A in 2004
Austin Logistics is a provider of next-generation predictive analytic and business intelligence software solutions that anticipate customer value and behavior to drive more profit from every customer interaction. Since 1992, the company's innovative solutions have helped many of the world's largest financial services, telecommunication, and e-commerce companies to make proactive, profit-focused decisions that optimize actions in collections, risk & fraud, marketing and customer service.

BitWave

Series A in 2004
Since its inception, BitWave has been dedicated to the development of a universal programmable transceiver, the Softransceiver RFIC. The technology will allow wireless carriers and cell phone manufacturers to deploy more services and devices in less time with additional functionality.

Metatomix

Venture Round in 2003
Metatomix was founded in 2000 and describes themselves as the "semantic integration provider." Metatomix' solutions aim to link data from "existing disparate systems to create a common semantic understanding of your information across the enterprise, providing you a 360° view of your business information. As a result, business applications can leverage information that comes not just from a single product system or data store, but from across all data sources."

KnowledgeStorm

Venture Round in 2003
KnowledgeStorm, Inc. provides online search resource for technology solutions and information. The company enables technology buyers to match business requirements to technology providers with the ability to search for technology solutions in the areas, such as geographically based, business, industry, and technical based solutions. It offers services, such as solution and research listings; campaigns, which generate leads with campaign-oriented programs and provide access to technology buyers; and advertising services to advertise products, services, research, and events in monthly newsletter. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. As of November 6, 2007, KnowledgeStorm, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of TechTarget, Inc.

Cortera

Venture Round in 2003
Cortera is a provider of comprehensive business-to-business payment and purchase behavior data and insights on public and private companies. The company tracks $1.6 trillion in business-to-business purchases across 45 spend categories to deliver insights on 20 million U.S. business locations. Cortera's solutions enable companies of all sizes to better understand their customers, suppliers and business partners by gaining visibility into what they purchase, how they pay and how their purchase and payment behavior changes over time. Thousands of companies across diverse industries use Cortera solutions to increase revenue, improve sales and marketing effectiveness, and reduce risk. Cortera is privately held with offices in Boca Raton, Florida; Boston and Quincy, Massachusetts and Bangalore, India.

Thinque Systems

Series D in 2003
Thinque Systems is a developer of mobile enterprise applications and has a history of supplying solutions for Global 2000 companies. Thinque develops and markets mobile enterprise applications for sales force automation and field force automation that reduce field expenses, decrease day's sales outstanding, increase worker efficiency, an drive top line revenue while building customer loyalty. Thinque Systems customers include Colgate-Palmolive, Maybelline, Pepsi Americas and Revlon.

Orexo

Series B in 2003
Orexo develops improved specialty pharmaceuticals and treatments for new areas of use – at a lower cost, in a shorter period of time and at a lower risk – by combining known substances with patented proprietary technologies.

Enkata Technologies

Series B in 2002
Enkata is at the cutting edge of big data and data intelligence, with a SaaS platform that uses machine data to help people improve their performance at work. Enkata streams work related activities from the systems people already use, including email, CRM, phone data, and more. We organize that data into useful information about what’s working for people, and find relationships between how people work and the outcomes. Finally, Enkata uses customer specific scoring algorithms to highlight information people should know and recommend specific actions they can take to achieve better outcomes.

Imaging Portals

Series C in 2002
Imaging Portals is a developer of software focused on the development and deployment of remote monitoring systems for the document imaging industry.

CombineNet

Series B in 2002
CombineNet, Inc. is the advanced sourcing technology company, with over 10 years of delivering strong value to mid-sized and global organizations alike, across nearly all industries, as they make supplier and spend decisions on products and services. CombineNet's product ASAP (Advanced Sourcing Application Platform) is a web-based software-as-a-service solution that allows sourcing teams in any spend category to speed and simplify the creation, launch, and management of sourcing events of any size, scale, or complexity.

e-StudioLive

Series C in 2001
e-StudioLive provides webcasting solutions for creating and deploying live and on-demand interactive webcasting. It creates live web casts by combining video, graphics, data, and viewer interaction. The company’s customers include corporations, organizations, government agencies, institutions, and broadcasters. It provides live video production support to video switchers. e-StudioLive was founded in 1996 and is based in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

e-StudioLive

Series B in 2001
e-StudioLive provides webcasting solutions for creating and deploying live and on-demand interactive webcasting. It creates live web casts by combining video, graphics, data, and viewer interaction. The company’s customers include corporations, organizations, government agencies, institutions, and broadcasters. It provides live video production support to video switchers. e-StudioLive was founded in 1996 and is based in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

ITango

Series C in 2001
ITango provides employee and manager self-service software and services.

Digital Bridges

Series A in 2000
Digital Bridge has a singular focus on owning and operating strong recurring cash flow communications infrastructure companies. The Digital Bridge leadership team has over 100+ years of cumulative investing and operating experience in the communications infrastructure space. They are focused on the sub-asset classes of communications infrastructure: Tower and rooftop antenna site ownership, development and management; Data centers; Fiber and back-haul; Cloud storage; and, Small cell, DAS and WiFi.

Bay Logics

Series C in 2000
Baylogics is the industry leader of Lease Relationship Management (LRM) solutions. Their customers manage more than five billion square feet of property and $100 billion in lease-related expenses each year using Bay Logics products and services. Whether your company has a thousand locations, or five, they bring the power to improve efficiency and communication straight to your desktop. Their comprehensive e-business solutions transform the painstaking details of multiple-unit leasing into information you use to save time and money

Celox Networks

Series B in 2000
Celox Networks, Inc. manufactures Internet protocol switches. The company’s SCx 192 is an Internet protocol service creation switch, which provides tools to create new revenue-generating services over existing access connections, such as traffic prioritization, traffic shaping and bandwidth management, and security across a shared Internet protocol infrastructure, as well as service level agreement performance verifications.

I-Works

Venture Round in 2000
I-Works develops software tools that enable small- to medium-sized businesses to create, maintain, and host their e-commerce websites. It provides products and services for banking, insurance, and international media businesses. I-Works is focused on unleashing the full power of the internet. It is specialized in customized website solutions and concentrates a substantial part of its resources for its technology development center. Founded in 1989, I-Works was acquired by DigitalWork on December 13, 2001. It is based in Chicago, Illinois.

BATNET1

Series B in 2000
BATNET1 is the leading Internet Affinity Marketing company. BATNET1 partners with well-known membership groups and leading Internet merchants to create customized, private-label online marketplaces featuring special offers that are tailored for group members.

DealerSource.com

Series A in 2000
DealerSource is the single full-service source for quality off-lease and used business equipment serving the dealer community by integrating manufacturers, lessors, and dealers. Initially offering commercial copiers, fax machines, printers and OEM-equivalent supplies, DealerSource also provides lines of credit, inspection services and educational content to a growing group of more than 1,800 registered users. DealerSource is an official online marketplace of the Business Technology Association (BTA). DealerSource is committed to delivering "high-touch" customer service to build long-lasting prosperous relationships. The firm's management team is highly experienced and well balanced, combining over 100 years of industry experience with significant technology expertise. Based in Chicago, IL, DealerSource is a privately held company founded in 1999; its investors include Trident Capital (www.tridentcap.com), Apex Investment Partners (www.apexvc.com) and Lunn Partners as well as several angel investors from the office equipment industry.

Thinque Systems

Series B in 2000
Thinque Systems is a developer of mobile enterprise applications and has a history of supplying solutions for Global 2000 companies. Thinque develops and markets mobile enterprise applications for sales force automation and field force automation that reduce field expenses, decrease day's sales outstanding, increase worker efficiency, an drive top line revenue while building customer loyalty. Thinque Systems customers include Colgate-Palmolive, Maybelline, Pepsi Americas and Revlon.

Imagicast

Series C in 2000
Imagicast, Inc. provides strategic merchandising solutions for retailers.

CornerHardware

Series B in 2000
The company delivers a wide range of hardware and tools, editorial advice from home improvement experts, and unmatched customer service.

e-StudioLive

Series A in 2000
e-StudioLive provides webcasting solutions for creating and deploying live and on-demand interactive webcasting. It creates live web casts by combining video, graphics, data, and viewer interaction. The company’s customers include corporations, organizations, government agencies, institutions, and broadcasters. It provides live video production support to video switchers. e-StudioLive was founded in 1996 and is based in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

Ciao

Venture Round in 2000
Ciao was Europe's pioneer of online communities that critically review and rate millions of products and services for the benefit of other consumers. Available free of charge to consumers in local language versions in major western European and North American markets, Ciao combined unbiased consumer reviews and up-to-date price information from hundreds of online retailers to make it the most comprehensive source of intelligent shopping on the web. [Microsoft](/organization/microsoft) acquired Ciao in August, 2008.

WorkplaceIQ

Series A in 1999
WorkplaceIQ is develops and provides software for commercial real estate industry. Its software provides Web-based portfolio, real estate transaction information management, lease administration and project management solutions.

Celox Networks

Series A in 1999
Celox Networks, Inc. manufactures Internet protocol switches. The company’s SCx 192 is an Internet protocol service creation switch, which provides tools to create new revenue-generating services over existing access connections, such as traffic prioritization, traffic shaping and bandwidth management, and security across a shared Internet protocol infrastructure, as well as service level agreement performance verifications.

Critical Data Solutions

Series B in 1996
Data Critical Corporation specializes in developing communication and information systems that utilize wireless and internet technology, along with proprietary software, to facilitate access to essential health information. The company focuses on creating telemedicine solutions for healthcare professionals, enabling the retrieval and transmission of critical healthcare data, including patient vital signs and diagnostic information, from remote locations. Their systems are designed to operate effectively both within and outside hospital environments, enhancing the ability of healthcare providers to monitor and respond to patient needs.

Tut Systems

Venture Round in 1996
Tut Systems, Inc. delivers advanced content processing and distribution products as well as comprehensive system integration services for deploying next-generation data and video services over broadband networks. Service providers, content providers and government agencies worldwide use Tut Systems solutions to deliver broadcast-quality video over broadband networks.

Concord Music Group

Series B in 1996
Concord Music Group is an independent music label and rights management company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Founded in 1969, it oversees a diverse portfolio of well-known music labels, including Concord Records, Concord Jazz, Fantasy, Rounder, and Stax. The company is involved in the management and acquisition of sound recordings and music publishing, and it represents a variety of artistic works, including plays and musicals. In addition to its label operations, Concord organizes music tours for artists and licenses music for various media applications, such as films, television shows, video games, and ringtones. Concord Music Group was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in 2015 and continues to play a significant role in the music industry.

Concord Music Group

Series A in 1995
Concord Music Group is an independent music label and rights management company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. Founded in 1969, it oversees a diverse portfolio of well-known music labels, including Concord Records, Concord Jazz, Fantasy, Rounder, and Stax. The company is involved in the management and acquisition of sound recordings and music publishing, and it represents a variety of artistic works, including plays and musicals. In addition to its label operations, Concord organizes music tours for artists and licenses music for various media applications, such as films, television shows, video games, and ringtones. Concord Music Group was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in 2015 and continues to play a significant role in the music industry.
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