Apple

Apple is a multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of consumer electronics, including smartphones, personal computers, and portable digital music players. The company also offers various software, services, and accessories, with notable products such as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Founded in 1976 by Steven Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has built a reputation for innovation, particularly with the introduction of the Macintosh, the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple sells its products globally through a combination of retail and online stores, direct sales, and partnerships with third-party carriers and resellers. The company is recognized for its strong brand and customer loyalty, having been named one of the most admired companies in the world multiple times by Fortune magazine.

Debi Coleman

CFO

Tim Cook

Chief Executive Officer

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Vice President, Communications

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Senior Director - Finance

Steve Jobs

Co-Founder

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Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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VP, Applications Marketing

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Trala

Venture Round in 2021
Trala, Inc. develops a violin teaching application for students and teachers. It offers Trala, an application that enables students to get instant feedback on mistakes, view tutorial videos, learn daily lessons, chat with a teacher, learn songs, and practice journals. The company’s application also enables teachers to list of pieces practiced, measure information on students' progress, snapshot practice activities, and give feedback to students. Trala, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Lime

Convertible Note in 2021
Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first and last mile transportation problem by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so we can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to the e-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet.

VamosVentures

Corporate Round in 2021
VamosVentures is a venture capital impact fund based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2018. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies, particularly in the B2B, commercial services, B2C, health tech, fintech, and technology sectors within the United States. VamosVentures aims to partner with and support diverse tech founders, particularly those from Latinx backgrounds, by addressing the challenges they face in capital markets. The firm invests at the late-angel, seed, and series A stages, either leading, co-leading, or participating in funding rounds. In addition to financial investment, VamosVentures connects its portfolio companies with essential resources and networks to enhance their product development, financing, and commercial efforts. The firm has successfully managed two investment funds and made four investments to date, reflecting its commitment to fostering diversity in entrepreneurship and innovation.

SweetBio

Corporate Round in 2021
SweetBio, Inc. is a Memphis, Tennessee-based company that develops and manufactures innovative wound care solutions by bioengineering medical grade Manuka honey into advanced membranes. Founded in 2015, SweetBio aims to reduce complications and infections associated with various types of wounds, including pressure ulcers, diabetic ulcers, and surgical wounds. The company's flagship product, Apis, is a patented, FDA-cleared wound care patch that utilizes a unique combination of gelatin and nanoparticles to incorporate honey at a molecular level, resulting in a solid, durable patch that maintains a moist wound environment and manages exudate effectively. SweetBio has gained recognition through its participation in various accelerators and competitions, and has been featured in prominent media outlets.
Alabama A & M University in Normal, Alabama has five different schools of study in both undergrad and graduate studies: the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Education, School of Agricultural and Environmental Science, and the School of Engineering and Technology. The many programs in these schools include behavioral science, English, languages, mathematics, military science, natural & physical sciences, physics, social work, art, teaching, music, psychology and many more. There’s sure to be something of interest for you. Alabama A & M’s academic advising has comprehensive programs like SOAR (an orientation and registration program), and university survival skill courses, which will give you everything you need to prepare for your time in the university. The financial aid counselors are dedicated to assisting students in finding financial aid, like loans, grants and scholarships, as well as helping to plan the financial aid application process. The career development services center has an online recruiting system where students, alumni and employers can network. The center also offers advice and job fairs for students looking to find careers. Alabama A&M University is an HBCU.
Initially founded as a private institution in the Methodist tradition, Morgan State University was purchased by the state of Maryland in 1939 to offer more higher education opportunities to its minority constituents. Morgan State University is an HBCU. Morgan State University is located in Baltimore, and offers a wide range of studies for undergraduate and graduate degrees. Graduate studies include a long list of social studies, business and all sciences, while doctoral programs include a list almost as long in areas such as engineering, environmental sciences, public health, and so much more. Morgan State University proudly provides a well-rounded educational experience to all students. The faculty encourage students to get involved on-campus to ensure students are invested in their future. Student programs and support services are available, from organizations to academic and personal counseling. Staff and faculty understand the pressures of academic life, and want to make sure the students are able to deal constructively with those stresses. If you’re interested in a unique institution that values the highest level of education, a well-rounded experience and dedicated faculty, look no further. Call Baltimore your new home and check out Morgan State University.

II-VI

Post in 2021
II-VI Incorporated develops, manufactures, and markets materials and derivative precision components and products for precision use in industrial, medical, military, and aerospace applications worldwide. It offers a line of precision infrared optical components, such as lenses, output couplers, windows, and mirrors for use in CO2 lasers; and laser-related products for solid-state lasers and precision optical elements used to focus and direct laser beams onto target work surfaces. The company also provides military infrared optical products and assemblies, including optics for targeting and navigation systems; Selenium and tellurium metals and chemicals that are used as additive materials for metallurgical, glass and animal feed applications, and are used for photovoltaic, electronic, and other industrial applications; thermo-electric coolers, thermo-electric systems, power generation modules, and power generation systems, which provide temperature control; and silicon carbide substrates used in solid-state lighting, wireless infrastructure, radio frequency electronics, and power switching industries. II-VI Incorporated sells its products to original equipment manufactures, system integrators, laser end users, and military and aerospace customers through its direct sales force, as well as through distributors and agents. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania.

SourceDNA

Acquisition in 2021
SourceDNA, Inc. is a technology company based in Oakland, California, founded in 2011. It specializes in application store intelligence, providing tools that automatically scan iOS and Android applications to identify code usage and track the market share of software development kits (SDKs). The company offers a platform called Searchlight, which allows users to analyze and monitor applications for security vulnerabilities and quality issues. SourceDNA's services enable developers and service providers to understand who is utilizing their code by continuously scanning app stores and binaries for matches. The analytics software developed by SourceDNA acts as a code watchdog, assessing the security of various platforms, including mobile devices, game consoles, and micro-controller firmware, thereby assisting users in making informed decisions about their software development and security practices.

UnitedMasters

Series B in 2021
UnitedMasters gives musicians an alternative to exploitative record label deals. Artists pay UnitedMasters a competitive rate to distributes their music across the internet from Spotify to YouTube to SoundCloud, and they split the royalties while the artist retains the rights to the master recordings.

Vilynx

Acquisition in 2020
Vilynx, Inc. offers an online platform designed to enhance video management for publishers and creators. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Barcelona, Spain, Vilynx provides tools that enable users to publish, edit, store, and share videos effectively. The platform utilizes machine learning technology to enrich videos with metadata, facilitating intelligent recommendations and improving searchability. Users can generate engaging summaries, create a grid of short clips for quick previews, and share content on social media to drive traffic. The platform also features interactive elements, allowing viewers to engage with video summaries directly. Vilynx's analytics capabilities provide insights into viewer behavior, helping publishers understand which video segments capture attention and optimize audience engagement. With its innovative solutions, Vilynx aims to transform the online video landscape, increasing both viewer interaction and advertising revenue for its clients.

Scout FM

Acquisition in 2020
Scout FM is a hand-curated podcast radio stations personalized with the power of data and artificial intelligence. They create talk radio stations with the latest, highest quality radio shows, and podcasts, and then personalize these stations for each listener. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, the company was founded in 2017 by Cara Meverden, Saul Carlin, and Dan McCartney.

Spaces

Acquisition in 2020
Spaces, officially formed in January 2016, says it’s already working on a range of VR and mixed-reality projects with companies including NBCUniversal, Microsoft, Big Blue Bubble and the Hettema Group. Platforms it’s developing for include Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Microsoft HoloLens, Samsung Gear VR, PlayStation VR and Google Cardboard. “Spaces has a compelling and clear vision to be the catalyst for companies looking to create VR and MxR (mixed reality) experiences,” Comcast Ventures managing director Michael Yang said in a statement. “Spaces is combining remarkable capabilities, tools and creativity to push the boundaries of the VR frontier.”

Mobeewave

Acquisition in 2020
Mobeewave Inc. develops a PCI-compliant mobile point of sale platform that enables merchants to accept payments by tapping a contactless payment card on the back of their NFC-enabled mobile device. It serves merchant acquirers, software vendors, and transit authorities. The company has a strategic partnership with Samsung Electronics. Mobeewave Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Montréal, Canada. As of August 3, 2020, Mobeewave Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Fleetsmith

Acquisition in 2020
Fleetsmith, Inc. specializes in cloud-based management software for Apple devices, designed to simplify the administration of Mac fleets. The platform automates various tasks, including device setup, inventory management, application updates, and security protocols for Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs. Key features include the ability to manage applications and settings, import users, upgrade to the latest macOS, auto-detect devices for user assignment, enforce encryption and firewall settings, and maintain a comprehensive inventory of devices. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, Fleetsmith has established a client base that includes notable companies such as Robinhood and Segment. As of June 2020, Fleetsmith operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Inductiv

Acquisition in 2020
Inductiv developed technology that uses artificial intelligence to automate the task of identifying and correcting errors in data. Having clean data is important for machine learning, a popular and powerful type of AI that helps software improve with less human intervention.

Copan Diagnostics

Grant in 2020
Copan Diagnostics is a supplier of bacteriology swabs, viral transport media, VTM, and molecular transport systems. Specialties include innovations in pre-analytics in microbiology, liquid based microbiology, pre-analytical automated specimen processing, and digital bacteriology.

NextVR

Acquisition in 2020
NextVR, Inc. develops and delivers video capture technology for live and recorded experiences. The company offers NextVR that capture, compresses, transmits, and displays virtual reality content over the Internet. The company has strategic relationship with Samsung and Oculus. NextVR, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Laguna Beach, California. NextVR, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Voysis

Acquisition in 2020
Voysis is an Ireland-based AI startup. Voysis works specifically in the speech recognition domain and develops tech that makes it easier for digital voice assistants to understand a user’s natural language. Voysis believes that voice will soon be the first point of contact between ‘man’ and machine. Voysis believes that voice driven natural language interfaces will change the way people interact with consumer and enterprise facing applications by creating more intuitive, efficient, and personalized experiences. Voysis is a voice AI platform that will play a key role in bringing about this change. Voysis' mission is to be the de-facto platform to enable any business to rapidly ‘stand up’ deep domain, brand-specific, intelligent voice systems enabling rich, natural language interactions between their brands and users.

The Dark Sky Company

Acquisition in 2020
The Dark Sky Company specializes in weather forecasting and visualization. Dark Sky uses state-of-the-art technology to predict when it will rain or snow — down to the minute — at your exact location, and presents it to you alongside the most beautiful weather visualizations you’ve ever seen.

Xnor.ai

Acquisition in 2020
XNOR.AI, Inc. develops machine learning software models. It offers XNOR platform that allows product developers to run deep learning algorithms on a range of devices. Its applications are used in aerospace, automotive, retail, photography, consumer electronics, and government sectors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of January 15, 2020, XNOR.AI, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Spectral Edge

Acquisition in 2019
Spectral Edge combines patented Image Fusion tech with Deep Learning to reveal more of the color, detail and clarity in any image.

IKinema

Acquisition in 2019
IKinema Ltd. develops animation technology solutions for the gaming and related industries. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Farnham, United Kingdom. As of October 4, 2019, IKinema Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Corning

Post in 2019
Corning Incorporated, founded in 1851 and headquartered in Corning, New York, operates in several key sectors, including display technologies, optical communications, environmental technologies, specialty materials, and life sciences. The Display Technologies segment specializes in manufacturing glass substrates for organic light-emitting diodes and liquid crystal displays, which are essential for televisions and computer monitors. The Optical Communications segment provides a range of products, including optical fibers, cables, and various hardware and equipment for carrier networks. In the Environmental Technologies segment, Corning offers ceramic substrates and filters that aid in emissions control for vehicles. The Specialty Materials segment focuses on advanced material formulations, while the Life Sciences segment produces laboratory products and pharmaceutical glass tubing. Additionally, Corning is known for its Gorilla Glass, widely used in mobile devices. The company collaborates with industry leaders like Intel to advance technologies such as 5G.

Fashwell

Acquisition in 2019
Fashwell automatically recognizes and tags products in images. Their cutting-edge deep learning algorithms are tuned to identify fashion and furniture in images. They leverage this tech to power visual search solutions for eCommerce players around the world. Easy to integrate into any platform, their products boost conversion, create new revenue channels and increase user engagement.

Drive.ai

Acquisition in 2019
Drive.ai is a Silicon Valley startup founded by former lab mates out of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. They are creating AI software for autonomous vehicles using deep learning, which they believe is the key to the future of transportation. They founded Drive.ai because they believe that this technology has the potential to save lives and transform industries, and they think this is the right team to do it.

Tueo Health

Acquisition in 2019
The name Tueo ("too-ee-oh") comes from a Latin word meaning to observe, care for, and maintain. Tueo Health is creating a solution that puts this meaning to work in asthma management. The solution delivers accurate, objective indicators of asthma control together with clinical insight and understanding of what patients and their families need to achieve the best control and outcomes.

Stamplay

Acquisition in 2019
Stamplay is a low code platform that enables organizations to build high value business process spanning multiple cloud services. The platform provides enterprise integration, process automation, and a citizen experience, enabling business users and IT to collaborate in order to build, operate and roll out automations. Stamplay is a 500Startups and its customer base include Box, MSC Cruise, Lennar and Cisco.

Laserlike

Acquisition in 2019
Laserlike is a computer software company that develops a web-scale content search, discovery, and personalization platform. The company's mission is to provide high-quality information and diverse perspectives on various topics sourced from across the web. Utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, Laserlike's platform enables users to receive timely and relevant updates on subjects they care about, incorporating a range of content types including news, web articles, videos, and local information. This approach aims to enhance the user's experience by delivering personalized content tailored to individual interests.

PullString

Acquisition in 2019
PullString, Inc. is an entertainment and technology company that specializes in developing interactive applications for computer conversations with characters. Founded in 2011 and originally named ToyTalk, the company offers the PullString Platform, a comprehensive authoring environment that integrates AI and machine learning to create engaging conversational experiences across various sectors, including entertainment, customer service, and gaming. The platform supports major conversational interfaces such as Facebook Messenger and Amazon Alexa, enabling users to design, prototype, and publish voice applications. PullString has produced notable projects like Hello Barbie and Call of Duty’s Lt Reyes on Messenger, showcasing its ability to blend art and technology in creating innovative communication experiences. Based in San Francisco, PullString continues to expand its impact in the realm of interactive digital conversations.

Camerai

Acquisition in 2019
Camerai is a cross-platform engine that delivers computer vision and AR technologies to developers, messaging & social platforms, and brands who are looking to deliver revolutionary user experiences. Camerai has new automatic editing capabilities for mobile and web, bringing the strength and sophistication of professional video software to mobile, enabling users to superimpose themselves into any story and enhance their photos and videos with innovative real-time AR effects.

Platoon

Acquisition in 2018
Platoon lives to create. We live for the creatives. Platoon is a platform for fearless creatives. Founded by veteran entrepreneurs from the creative and tech industries, our mission is to discover the very best emerging talent (musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, designers) and provide them with the platform to create, distribute and commercialize exceptional creative work.

Asaii

Acquisition in 2018
Asaii is an automated machine learning A&R and music management platform. The company builds tools that make it easier to discover and develop talent. By aggregating and generating insights on the digital footprints of content and talent on the internet, Asaii contextualizes and creates structures for music business folks. Asaii has built a recommendation engine to quickly identify future and budding hits. Asaii offers two products: a music management dashboard for A&Rs to quickly scout and manage talent and an API for services to integrate a recommendation engine into their platforms. Asaii was founded in August 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. Asaii was acquired by Apple in October 2018 for under $100 million.

Dialog Semiconductor

Acquisition in 2018
Dialog Semiconductor creates energy-efficient, highly integrated, mixed-signal integrated circuits. These are optimised for personal mobile and automotive applications. The company provides flexible and dynamic support, world-class innovation, and the assurance of dealing with an established business partner.

Akonia Holographics

Acquisition in 2018
Akonia Holographics focuses on the development of advanced data storage technologies based on holography. The company is also focused on GRIN and 3D optics. The company was founded by Mark Ayres, Ken Anderson, and Fred Askham, and is based in Longmont, Colorado.

Texture by Next Issue

Acquisition in 2018
Texture is a digital magazine platform owned by Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, KKR, Meredith, News Corp, Rogers Media and Time Inc. It is a completely new way for readers to experience the world’s best magazines, reimagined for how people consume content today. Texture combines everything readers know and love about the print magazine experience and layers onto it the power of digital—giving people a curated reading experience that's available anytime, anywhere.

Next Issue Media

Acquisition in 2018
Next Issue Media offers a digital, publishing platform to develop, distribute, sell, and consume paid digital content of magazines and newspapers. The company serves publishers, advertisers, technology companies, e-tailers, and retailers. Founded in 2009, Next Issue Media is based in Palo Alto, California.

eMagin

Post in 2018
eMagin Corporation, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Hopewell Junction, New York, specializes in the design, development, manufacturing, and marketing of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) micro displays. The company produces a range of products, including various formats of OLED micro displays, virtual imaging products, and design reference kits that assist original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in evaluating display solutions. eMagin's offerings are aimed at enhancing visual experiences in diverse sectors such as military, aviation, law enforcement, medical, and entertainment. The company also provides near-eye virtual imaging modules and night vision accessories, which incorporate its advanced OLED technology. eMagin markets its products directly in North America, Asia, and Europe, and works with distributors in specific markets like South Korea.

Finisar

Grant in 2017
Finisar Corporation specializes in providing optical components and subsystems essential for high-speed communication across various sectors, including networking equipment manufacturers, data center operators, telecom service providers, consumer electronics, and automotive industries globally. The company's offerings encompass a range of products, such as transmitters, receivers, transceivers, transponders, and active optical cables, which facilitate the optical-electrical interface between electronic devices in both wireline and wireless networks. Additionally, Finisar produces wavelength selective switches, packaged lasers, photodetectors, and passive optical components for data communication and telecommunication applications. The company markets its products through a combination of direct sales, distributors, and system integrators, targeting manufacturers of storage systems and telecommunication equipment. Founded in 1987, Finisar is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operates as a subsidiary of II-VI Incorporated as of September 2019.

Shazam Entertainment

Acquisition in 2017
Shazam Entertainment Limited is a company that specializes in music discovery through its mobile application, Shazam, available on iOS, Android, and Windows devices. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in London, the application allows users to identify, explore, and share music and television content. Shazam also offers applications for MAC and Windows PC platforms. The company has established strategic partnerships with major media entities such as iHeartMedia, Cumulus, Entercom, Cox, and Sun Broadcast Group, enhancing its reach within the music and entertainment sectors. In addition to its London headquarters, Shazam has offices in several locations, including New York City, Redwood City, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, and North Sydney, Australia. As a subsidiary of Apple Operations Europe since 2018, Shazam continues to play a significant role in connecting artists with fans.

Pop Up Archive

Acquisition in 2017
Pop Up Archive is an online platform that offers tools for organizing and searching digital spoken words, utilizing advanced speech-to-text technology. The platform enables users to make audio content searchable by automatically generating timestamped transcripts and keywords. Additionally, Pop Up Archive operates Audiosear.ch, a full-text search and recommendation engine specifically designed for podcasts and radio. This service analyzes audio to create extensive data points, enhancing audio discovery and listener experiences. Founded in 2012 by Anne Wootton and Bailey Smith, Pop Up Archive is based in Oakland, California, and serves audio distributors, platforms, and advertisers by improving content targeting and accessibility.

Spektral

Acquisition in 2017
Spektral, originally known as CloudCutout, is a Copenhagen-based visual effects company founded in 2014 by Henrik Paltoft and Toke Jansen. The company specializes in applying machine learning techniques to image and video editing, particularly focusing on automating the process of background removal from studio images. Spektral's innovative software computes an alpha channel solution to achieve seamless cutouts, leveraging Paltoft's extensive experience in the graphical industry and Jansen's expertise in machine learning. This combination of skills has enabled the development of an algorithm that efficiently transforms original images into precise cutouts, catering to the needs of professionals in various visual content sectors.

Vrvana

Acquisition in 2017
Vrvana is a Canadian company that develops a extended reality headset for the gaming community. As a high-tech startup, it is doing research and development in the virtual and augmented reality space. Currently Vrvana is developing Totem, a full-featured 3D VR headset. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

InVisage Technologies

Acquisition in 2017
InVisage Technologies Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, produces quantum dot-based image sensors. The company's product enables the high resolution images from handheld devices, such as camera phones and PDAs. Its products are used in security and surveillance, automotive imaging, military, and medical imaging applications, as well as mobile phone cameras, Webcams, and digital still cameras. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

PowerbyProxi

Acquisition in 2017
PowerbyProxi is a leader in advanced, safe, wireless power solutions for consumer electronics (CE) and industrial markets. Our advanced wireless power solutions solve mission-critical problems in demanding, hostile industrial environments. We license and sell robust, flexible wireless power and data solutions, with proven implementations ranging from less than one watt to multiple kilowatts. PowerbyProxi is a venture-backed company spun out of The University of Auckland—an internationally recognized leader in wireless power innovation—and holds a comprehensive portfolio of over 350 patents worldwide. For more information visit: www.powerbyproxi.com

Regaind

Acquisition in 2017
Regaind, SAS engages in sorting pictures. The company’s activities include reviewing, tagging, and rating images on various criteria. It offers its services worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Paris, France. As of March 31, 2017, Regaind, SAS operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc..

SensoMotoric Instruments GmbH

Acquisition in 2017
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) is a world leader in dedicated computer vision applications. Working closely with their clients, they have more than 20 years experience in developing and marketing application-specific gaze & eye tracking systems and OEM solutions. More than 6,000 of their eye tracker systems in operation worldwide are testimony to their continuing success in providing innovative products and outstanding services.

Lattice

Acquisition in 2017
Lattice Data, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Menlo Park, California, specializes in data analytics solutions that focus on processing unstructured data, including text and images. Originating from a Stanford research project known as DeepDive, the company leverages this framework for statistical inference to develop products aimed at addressing critical real-world challenges. As a subsidiary of Apple Inc. since May 2017, Lattice is dedicated to unlocking the value of "dark data" for various industries and government sectors.

Corning

Post in 2017
Corning Incorporated, founded in 1851 and headquartered in Corning, New York, operates in several key sectors, including display technologies, optical communications, environmental technologies, specialty materials, and life sciences. The Display Technologies segment specializes in manufacturing glass substrates for organic light-emitting diodes and liquid crystal displays, which are essential for televisions and computer monitors. The Optical Communications segment provides a range of products, including optical fibers, cables, and various hardware and equipment for carrier networks. In the Environmental Technologies segment, Corning offers ceramic substrates and filters that aid in emissions control for vehicles. The Specialty Materials segment focuses on advanced material formulations, while the Life Sciences segment produces laboratory products and pharmaceutical glass tubing. Additionally, Corning is known for its Gorilla Glass, widely used in mobile devices. The company collaborates with industry leaders like Intel to advance technologies such as 5G.

Beddit

Acquisition in 2017
Beddit.com Oy offers Beddit, a smart bed sensor that is placed under the mattress topper and linked to an online service, which tracks user’s sleep, wellbeing, and health. Its solution measures user’s sleep time recuperation. The company was formerly known as Finsor Oy. Beddit.com Oy was founded in 2006 and is based in Espoo, Finland. As of May 8, 2017, Beddit.com Oy operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Workflow

Acquisition in 2017
Workflow connects your apps and services together to automate things you do every day. The company also builds DeskConnect: the missing link between your devices.

Realface

Acquisition in 2017
RealFace - Innovating people recognition with frictionless login! Our revolutionary software is offering customers a smart biometric log-in solution that is changing frictionless access to applications on mobile.

indoor.io

Acquisition in 2016
Company was earlier called What a Map.

tuplejump

Acquisition in 2016
Tuplejump is a unified data mining and analysis platform that leverage data equity and build on it. Tuplejump is a smartly integrated and passionately crafted platform to speed up the development and ease the operations for modern big data solutions. Tuplejump unifies and optimizes workflows for engineers, analysts, and data scientists by bringing in a fresh experience to data processing and reporting with a modern visualization framework built on the latest technologies with great flexibility in sharing and embedding.

Gliimpse

Acquisition in 2016
Gliimpse is a healthcare platform designed to empower individuals to manage their health records and share them securely with trusted parties. The company focuses on overcoming data silos in the healthcare system by aggregating fragmented medical information into a comprehensive, patient-owned health profile. This approach enables users to have their complete personal health history readily accessible, facilitating better management of their health information. Currently operating in stealth mode, Gliimpse aims to enhance patient autonomy and improve the overall healthcare experience by providing a streamlined solution for accessing, managing, and sharing health records.

Turi

Acquisition in 2016
Turi is a machine learning platform that creates big data analytics products for its users. This open source project was initially intended for applying large scale machine learning to graph analysis. The functionality of its product has since been greatly expanded to include tables, text, as well as images and is now in broad use to make recommendations, detect fraud, conduct customer sentiment analysis, and generally build predictive apps at many notable e-tailers, service providers, and Fortune 5000 firms, including Zillow, ExxonMobil, StumbleUpon, Adobe, Pandora, and Bosch. Turi was launched as Dato in 2013 by Danny Bickson, Haijie Gu, Yucheng Low, Joseph Gonzalez, and Carlos Guestrin. It is based in Seattle, W.A.

Didi

Funding Round in 2016
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation. Bo Zhang and Wei Cheng established the company in 2012 in Beijing, Beijing.

LegbaCore

Acquisition in 2016
LegbaCore is a security consultancy firm based in Beltsville, Maryland, specializing in internet security services. The company offers research and advisory services focused on enhancing cybersecurity measures and provides training in BIOS-level computer security. By combining expertise in information technology research with practical training, LegbaCore aims to equip organizations with the knowledge and tools necessary to safeguard their digital environments against emerging threats.

Flyby Media

Acquisition in 2016
Flyby Media is a venture-backed company that develops next-generation consumer mobile social applications that connect the physical world with digital content. Its team of mobile industry entrepreneurs and computer vision scientists is dedicated to building new technology that can elevate, rather than replace, real-world experiences. Founded in 2010, Flyby Media is headquartered in New York.

LearnSprout

Acquisition in 2016
MISSION: To help K-12 educators use data to analyze the past, understand the present, and anticipate the future. THE PROBLEM: K-12 districts collect an enormous amount of student data. Educators now recognize that data can inform decisions that improve student outcomes, but few are equipped to make sense of data in a timely manner. Efforts to be “data-driven” require costly software, time-consuming setup, and extensive training. The resulting reports, which are often complex and outdated, fail to provide the information needed for daily decision-making. WHAT IS LEARNSPROUT? LearnSprout is an online data insights service for K-12 educators. It is the only education analytics solution available that uses live data directly from a district’s student information system. LearnSprout combines assessment results, course grades, and attendance to provide actionable insights into student and school performance. Supported by simple setup, and clear, purposeful design, LearnSprout creates an experience that engages and informs.

Emotient

Acquisition in 2016
Emotient specializes in automated facial expression recognition and analysis, utilizing artificial intelligence to identify and interpret human emotions. Originating from the Machine Perception Lab at the University of California, San Diego, the company has become a leader in the field, pioneering the application of machine learning for facial expression analysis. This innovative technology has emerged as a vital component in developing emotionally aware technologies, enhancing the responsiveness of personal computing devices and improving customer engagement. Emotient's proprietary methodology is recognized for its accuracy and capability to deliver real-time analysis of facial expressions, setting a benchmark in the industry.

faceshift

Acquisition in 2015
faceshift is a real-time markerless facial performance software that enables its users to perform motion capture. The software uses 3D cameras to identify facial expressions, head motions, and environments. faceshift was founded in 2011 and is based in Zurich.

God-i

Seed Round in 2015
God-i is a startup specialized in Wearable Devices for Broadcasting your life in Real Time.

Perceptio

Acquisition in 2015
Perceptio is a startup developing technology to let companies run advanced artificial intelligence systems on smartphones without needing to share as much user data. Perceptio is developing "deep learning" technology for smartphones, that allows phones to independently identify images without relying on external data libraries

VocalIQ

Acquisition in 2015
VocalIQ Limited is a company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, that specializes in developing a platform for voice interfaces, enabling voice activation for various devices and applications. Founded in March 2011, VocalIQ emerged from technology developed by the Spoken Dialogue Systems Group at the University of Cambridge. Its solutions are applicable across a range of sectors, including smartphones, robotics, automotive, call centers, and gaming. As of October 2015, VocalIQ operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc.

Mapsense

Acquisition in 2015
There are almost 10 billion devices collecting location data that didn't exist just a few years ago - we created Mapsense to help people deal with this tsunami of geospatial data. By providing lightning-fast tools to filter, search, and visualize location data at any scale, we'll improve the world by enabling people to answer important questions about what happens where. Our team is a group of engineering, product and computer scientist from Google, Palantir and the Ivy League. We're backed by tier one VCs and are working with some of the most innovative companies in the world.

Privaris

Acquisition in 2015
Privaris has designed and developed a family of key-fob sized, personal, mobile devices that authenticate an individual's identity before interacting with their existing security systems used for granting access to buildings, offices, and garages (physical security), and computers, networks, and websites (logical security), as well as with the latest "wave and pay" contactless point-of-sale terminals for biometrically authenticated credit card transactions.

Metaio

Acquisition in 2015
Founded in 2003, **metaio** is a pioneer in the field of **Augmented Reality** (AR), constantly working on revolutionizing interfaces. We make the digital a natural experience! According to **Gartner Inc.**, Augmented Reality is one of the Top 10 strategic IT technologies of our time and **Juniper Research** recently forecasted $1.5 billion revenue stream by 2015. With Augmented Reality we can access, understand and enjoy digital data when are where we want it. AR is the user interface of a new era and Metaio will pave the way to an augmented future. With more than 10 years of experience, 500 projects, 450 business customer, an international partner network, numerous federal, national and international research projects, a platform with over 140,000 developers, and a comprehensive, patented product portfolio, Metaio is a pioneer and leader in augmented reality technology.

Coherent Navigation

Acquisition in 2015
Coherent Navigation Inc provides space based navigation services. The Company offers satellite navigation hardware, software which includes precise, secure, robust positioning, timing, and communication solutions.

Linx Imaging

Acquisition in 2015
Utilizing state-of-the-art multi aperture imaging technology that combines innovative image processing, advanced sensor and optics technology, our cameras set new standards for image quality parameters such as low light performance, HDR, refocusing, color fidelity, shutter lag and more… LinX cameras are significantly smaller than any camera on the market today, leading the way to DSLR performance in slim handsets. The LinX cameras not only capture 2D images but also acquire very accurate depth information of the complete scene. We allow Apps to freely use the 3D information captured by our camera to achieve amazing new features such as the ability to refocus an image after it has been captured, measurement of the true dimensions of objects, 3D object modeling and real time background replacement for video calls.

Dryft

Acquisition in 2015
Dryft is a virtual keyboard that lets you type naturally on touch screens. You just rest your fingers on the screen and begin typing as you would on a normal keyboard - and just as fast! Dryft allows you to type without looking, preserving the muscle memory you've built up over years of typing. The company is a recent start-up, but already has two patents granted related to the technology, with several more pending. From the founders of Swype, Dryft is the answer to efficient content creation on your tablet. (Dryft is a spin-out of Cleankeys Inc, a company that manufactures cleanable glass-surfaced keyboards for healthcare environments.)

OttoCat

Acquisition in 2015
OttoCat organizes the App Store into various categories and makes finding applications easier. Its technology adds some metadata around the app listing such as star ratings and percentile rankings. Ottocat also offers software tools for application developers to get their applications in front of the relevant users. It was launched in 2012 by Edwin Cooper and Michelle Cooper. OttoCat is operated from Oakland, California.

FoundationDB

Acquisition in 2015
FoundationDB is a scalable NoSQL database designed to provide high-performance multi-key ACID transactions while accommodating multiple data models. Founded in 2009 by Nick Lavezzo, Dave Rosenthal, and Dave Scherer, the company emerged to fill the gap in the market for transactional NoSQL database systems. The founding team leverages their extensive experience in executive and technology roles, particularly from their time at Visual Sciences, to develop advanced data processing technologies. FoundationDB's architecture emphasizes fault tolerance and scalability, making it suitable for various applications that require reliable and efficient data management.

Camel Audio

Acquisition in 2015
Camel Audio is a music technology company based in Edinburgh, UK, that specializes in developing innovative software solutions for music production. The company is best known for its flagship products, including the Free Alchemy Player VST/AU plugin and the Free Alchemy iOS App. Their comprehensive Alchemy software suite, which was previously available for $249, features over 1,000 sounds and 5.5GB of samples, alongside a powerful additive and spectral resynthesis engine, as well as virtual analog synthesis capabilities. Camel Audio's products are designed to balance flexibility and ease of use, making them appealing to musicians and sound designers. The company has received numerous accolades for its offerings, including the Electronic Musicians Best Soft Synth award in 2010. Renowned artists such as Orbital, Sasha, and Hans Zimmer are among those who utilize Camel Audio's tools in their creative processes.

Semetric

Acquisition in 2015
Semetric was founded in 2008 by Gregory Mead, Marie-Alicia Chang and Matthew Jeffery. The Chief Technical Officer, Jameel Syed, was a founding member of life sciences data and business analytics company InforSense. Its Executive Chairman, Dr Jeremy Silver, was previously Chief Executive of Sibelius Software and Vice President, new media at EMI Group in Los Angeles. Executive Vice President, Musicmetric North America, Daniel Savage was previously General Manager of Maverick records and has held positions at Atlantic, Island, and Hollywood Records.

Zomato

Series E in 2014
Zomato is a global food aggregator and online restaurant guide headquartered in New Delhi, India. Founded in 2008, the platform connects users to a vast network of restaurants, allowing them to discover, rate, and review dining options while facilitating meal orders and deliveries. Zomato serves over 55 million users across 24 countries, providing detailed restaurant information and enabling customers to create personalized networks for trusted food recommendations. The company's subsidiary, Zomato Base, offers a cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) system tailored for restaurants, featuring tools for menu management, inventory control, customer relationship management, and real-time analytics. Zomato has garnered support from numerous investors, enhancing its capacity to operate in diverse markets, including the United Arab Emirates.

Union Bay Networks

Acquisition in 2014
Union Bay Networks is focused on delivering solutions that will enable the next generation of networking for cloud computing and software-defined datacenters. Union Bay was founded by a team of industry veterans with roots from F5 Networks who have proven track records in application layer networking, virtualization, optimization, and security solutions. It is a stealth mode startup headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and backed by leading VCs: Madrona, Greylock, and Divergent.

Prss

Acquisition in 2014
Prss, founded in 2013 by the creators of Trvl, is a platform designed to simplify the creation of digital magazines for iPad. Building on their experience with Trvl, which was one of the first iPad-exclusive newsstand publications, Prss provides an intuitive web-based tool that allows publishers to design and publish magazines easily. This open platform enables magazine creators to produce visually appealing digital publications from any location, catering to the needs of modern readers and publishers alike.

Concept.io

Acquisition in 2014
Concept.io is the creator of Swell Radio, a delightful mobile app that streams personalized audio news and information. Swell helps users discover new content and expand their minds on the go. Concept.io strives to connect people with ideas and knowledge efficiently so we can all be more productive with our time. Concept.io is a technology startup funded by top-tier venture firms. The founding team consists of experienced entrepreneurs with a successful track record.

Booklamp

Acquisition in 2014
Booklamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles. The technology BookLamp alows you to find books that are written with a similar tone, tense, perspective, action level, description level and dialogue level.

Spotsetter

Acquisition in 2014
Spotsetter is a social search engine designed to provide personalized recommendations for places to visit. By utilizing a ranking algorithm, the platform aggregates and analyzes content generated by users across various social networks, allowing individuals to discover trending hotspots based on their friends' reviews and experiences. Available on both web and mobile interfaces, Spotsetter addresses the challenge of determining "where to go" in the online-to-offline space, making it easier for users to find relevant places based on social input. The company was part of AngelPad's fourth batch in 2012, further establishing its presence in the market.

Beats Electronics

Acquisition in 2014
Beats Electronics is a company specializing in premium consumer headphones, earphones, and speakers, along with software technology and streaming music subscription services. Founded by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the company aims to deliver an exceptional music experience that allows fans to hear music as artists intended, mirroring the sound quality found in professional recording studios. Beats Electronics is based in Santa Monica, California, and has formed partnerships with notable brands such as HP, Chrysler Group, and HTC Mobile to enhance its offerings. The company is led by Co-Founder and CEO Jimmy Iovine, Co-Founder Dr. Dre, and President Luke Wood, all of whom share a vision of providing high-quality audio products that resonate with music lovers.

LuxVue Technology

Acquisition in 2014
LuxVue Technology Corporation develops low-power, microLED-based displays for consumer electronics applications. LuxVue Technology Corporation was formerly known as Papierlos Corporation. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Novauris

Acquisition in 2014
Novauris is a company founded by the creators of Dragon Systems, specializing in speech recognition technology for mobile devices. It develops both server-based and embedded speech recognition systems, aiming to enhance voice interaction capabilities in various applications. The company's focus on mobile technology positions it to address the growing demand for efficient and accurate voice recognition solutions in today's digital landscape.

Burstly

Acquisition in 2014
From beta testing to analytics to monetization, Burstly offers a full suite of products to power the entire app lifecycle. The app ecosystem is crowded but Burstly provides tools to help you navigate with ease. Burstly's products include: - TestFlight – leading app beta-testing platform - FlightPath – intuitive analytics solution for mobile app developers - SkyRocket – app monetization solution to work with any ad partner

SnappyLabs

Acquisition in 2014
SnappyLabs is all about hand-crafted beautiful mobile- and web-apps that are innovative to the core. SnappyCam, for example, is the fastest smart-phone camera on earth, capable of ultra-high resolution photography at unbelievable high speeds.

BroadMap

Acquisition in 2013
BroadMap serves business and government GIS users through a unique three-prong approach, offering industry-leading geographic data products, GIS services and solutions. BroadMap’s highly regarded technology team brings over 300 years of combined mapping experience across multiple industry sectors. Providing partners with a single destination to meet their GIS needs including base map and additional data layers, world-class services in geocoding, mapping, boundary creation and consulting and complete, custom, turnkey GIS solutions has allowed BroadMap to establish itself as both a community and market leader.

Topsy Labs

Acquisition in 2013
Topsy Labs is a social analytics company that specializes in real-time analysis of public conversations on social media. It operates the world's only comprehensive index of the public social web, allowing organizations to access instant insights into various business questions. Topsy's services are utilized by major marketing, news, entertainment, and financial entities to track breaking news, assess customer satisfaction, evaluate TV programming responses, and gauge political sentiment. Many leading brands rely on Topsy as their social dashboard to monitor trending topics and predict future events. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is supported by notable investors.

Acunu

Acquisition in 2013
Acunu Analytics offers a platform for low-latency, continuous analytics on big data; powering dashboards and embedded applications to monitor and control environments in manufacturing, telecommunications, media, financial services and other industries where high-velocity data must be analysed in real time. The Cassandra NoSQL database is at the core of the Acunu offering and Acunu is a very engaged Cassandra contributor donating many of its innovations back to the community. Acunu was founded in 2009 and is backed by some of Europe’s top VC funds. Started by a unique mix of researchers and engineers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities, Acunu has offices in London (near Old Street, London’s “Silicon Roundabout”) and California.

Cue

Acquisition in 2013
Cue (formerly Greplin) is a free service that helps people make the most of their day. Cue intelligently ties together and surfaces useful information at the right time from the accounts they use most, including email, contacts, and calendar. People can see their entire day at a glance or simultaneously search across all of their accounts with Cue.

AlgoTrim

Acquisition in 2013
AlgoTrim™ develops advanced solutions for mobile devices within the fields of data compression, mobile imaging and video, and computer graphics. These solutions are designed to excel in terms of high performance and small memory requirements, making them ideal for mobile devices. Many solutions offered by AlgoTrim are codecs that are the fastest on the market.

Embark

Acquisition in 2013
Embark is a mobile application designed to make it easy to get around cities using mass transit. Among other features, the iOS and Android application tells users when trains and busses are coming and will send push notifications when services are delayed. With over half a million users and rapid growth, Embark's simple and powerful mobile application is designed to bring urban transportation into the age of the smartphone. Embark is available for twelve major transportation systems in the US and the UK and is expanding rapidly. Embark won best transit and mobility app awards from the New York MTA App Quest and NYC Big Apps 3.0 contests.

Matcha

Acquisition in 2013
Our Video Discovery experience is the easiest and most enjoyable way to find and watch movies and TV shows on connected devices. We provide smart aggregation and personalized recommendations around 250,000 titles from the most popular video services such as Netflix, iTunes, HBO GO, Hulu, Amazon Prime and more.

Passif Semiconductor

Acquisition in 2013
Passif Semiconductor Corp manufactures semiconductors. The company manufactures switch-based wireless transceivers with low power consumption and a small footprint. Passif Semiconductor Corp was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Oakland, California.

Locationary

Acquisition in 2013
Locationary created Saturn, the management and exchange platform for local business places data. Saturn helps companies improve their local business profiles by making it easy to convert and integrate different data sources into their custom format. Saturn also offers a new type of API that everyone can use to exchange this info. Legacy APIs distribute data in the provider's format which makes it difficult to integrate with the subscriber's internal databases which are usually in a different format. With Saturn, you can push information in whatever format you're using, and your subscribers can receive real-time updates in whatever custom format they need.

HopStop.com

Acquisition in 2013
HopStop is a location-based service, providing free door-to-door mass transit, walking, biking, and taxi directions for over 1,000 transit agencies in over 750 cities throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Russia, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. HopStop pioneered the pedestrian navigation market, and is the #1 ranked transit app in the Apple App Store for both iPhone and iPad as well as the #1 ranked transit app for Android in Google Play and the Amazon App Store. Since 2005, HopStop has calculated over 1 billion API requests for transit directions. In April of 2013, HopStop launched HopStop Live!, the largest crowd-sourced platform for real-time transit information ever created to allow users to report and consume information such as train or bus delays. HopStop Live! works across all 1,000 transit agencies, 25,000 lines and 550,000 stations and stops. HopStop is a private company, and is based in New York City.

PrimeSense

Acquisition in 2013
PrimeSense developed a technology that enables computers to perceive and understand the world in three dimensions, similar to human vision. The company's interactive device consists of a sensor that captures a user's complete environment and a digital component that interprets user movements within that space. This system allows for natural interaction with digital devices without the need for wearables or changes to the environment, functioning as a plug-and-play solution that is platform-independent. PrimeSense's technology supports various applications, including gesture-based interaction with video games, navigation of digital interfaces without traditional input devices, and enhanced video communication features such as virtual backgrounds and drawing boards. The company gained recognition for its role in Microsoft's "Project Natal."

Catch.com

Acquisition in 2013
Catch.com (formerly Snaptic) is a market leader for Android smartphones and tablets. Millions have downloaded our mobile apps, including Catch Notes, AK Notepad and Compass. Our mobile apps also run on iOS and the web, and we are just getting started. Catch.com was founded in 2008 and is on the cusp of a seismic shift driven by growth in smartphone use -- reinventing how people interact, collaborate and discover what’s important to them.