Private Equity Round in 2021
Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automation, visualizations, and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis.
Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines. Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence on electromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability.
Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneering ultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.
Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturers greater control over their lending options.
Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automation, visualizations, and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis.
Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. The Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use the tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support. Businesses have processes for everything -- whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper-intensive, and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT.
Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneering ultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.
Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturers greater control over their lending options.
Khoros is an enterprise social media management software.
Khoros is a computer software company that offers a customer engagement platform that turns siloed knowledge into enterprise value and customers into contributors. It enables companies the ability to run their business with their customers, anticipating their needs, accelerating sales, loyalty, and innovation.
Bloomfire is a knowledge engagement platform that enables and empowers teams to tap into their organization’s collective intelligence. Bloomfire gives organizations one centralized, searchable place to collect, find and democratize knowledge and insights. Its purpose-built knowledge solution makes it simple for brands like Burberry, Capital One, Conagra, Jackson Hewitt, Metlife and Lubrizol, to find, contribute to, and manage company knowledge so that employees have the information they need to do their jobs.
Liquibase, powered by open-source innovation, simplifies and automates database deployment and configuration for applications that eliminate risk from the deployment process. Its platform removes database deployments as a barrier and eliminates the security vulnerabilities, errors, data loss, and downtime associated with current database deployment methods that enable enterprises to shorten the time it takes to bring application innovation to the market.
Silvercar is an airport car rental experience re-imagined for the connected traveler. Their mission is to remake the airport car rental business. They are a team of innovators with exceptional experience from the worlds of automotive, travel, web, and mobile technologies. The company was formed in 2012 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
The Largest Database of Mineral Ownership Information in the US. Oil and gas companies use RunTitle to quickly access the data they need to make sound decisions about land acquisitions. The net mineral ownership information provided by RunTitle minimizes cost, and most critically, the time necessary during the diligence stages of an oil and gas transaction where accuracy is paramount. Using RunTitle, you can search for the data you need and purchase it at the individual tract level, or we can help facilitate larger position acquisitions by allowing you to request an entire township, county, play or state. RunTitle is the largest online database providing access to mineral ownership information. RunTitle data is primarily comprised of: Mineral Ownership Reports (MORs) Chains of Title Title Opinions Associated Court Documents Our data has typically been used in acquisitions and deals in the past, which is why it's so accurate and reliable. Want to find out more? Check us out online at www.RunTitle.com or email us at hello@runtitle.com.
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.
Liquibase, powered by open-source innovation, simplifies and automates database deployment and configuration for applications that eliminate risk from the deployment process. Its platform removes database deployments as a barrier and eliminates the security vulnerabilities, errors, data loss, and downtime associated with current database deployment methods that enable enterprises to shorten the time it takes to bring application innovation to the market.
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.
Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneering ultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.
MOGL is a restaurant rewards app on a mission to end hunger in the US. Members earn 10% cash-back at 1000's of participating restaurants by paying with a linked credit or debit card. Within seconds of paying they will get an alert on their phone giving them the option to donate some or all of the cash-back to a local food bank. Members can track the progress being made in their city using the Hunger Tracker and compete against friends to see who can donate the most meals. MOGL Loyalty Services, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Solana Beach, California.
Empyr is a card-linked offer engagement platform for national brands and digital publishers. It powers online-to-offline (O2O) commerce programs for some of the world’s largest tech companies, banks, airlines, hotels, and more. Each year in the US over $3 trillion in offline commerce is being driven by online/mobile, but most of that is not being tracked or monetized, representing a large untapped opportunity. Empyr’s direct integrations with all three leading credit card associations, including Visa and MasterCard, make it possible for online consumers to earn cashback at offline merchants in a frictionless way, simply by paying with a debit or credit card. Referring websites or apps also earn revenue from every purchase, and merchants are able to attribute actual offline sales to specific online marketing campaigns. Empyr’s growing network of partners currently includes Microsoft, LivingSocial, Coupons.com, Swagbucks and over 1,500 other partners. Empyr has raised $35M through it's parent company Mogl and currently has 60 employees.
Silvercar is an airport car rental experience re-imagined for the connected traveler. Their mission is to remake the airport car rental business. They are a team of innovators with exceptional experience from the worlds of automotive, travel, web, and mobile technologies. The company was formed in 2012 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
TrackingPoint is a Pflugerville-based that focuses on creating advanced technology optics that produce pinpoint accuracy when paired with quality firearms. With fighter jet lock-and-launch technology, TrackingPoint enables incredible accuracy at long-range distances, transforming rifles into Precision-Guided Firearms (PGFs). TrackingPoint offers the first and only rifle with a fire control system that guides the release of ordnance, and virtually eliminates human error. It’s the first significant small-arms innovation since 1844’s release of the telescopic scope and puts the power of accuracy into the hands of any level of shooter. With a variety of semi-automatic and bolt-action models available, users of any skill level can bypass decades of training to enjoy even first-time success hunting or on the range. Internet-enabled, PGFs allow hunters and sport shooters to stream live video and audio using its ShotView app, available on Android and iPhone.
Eagle Eye Networks is the worldwide #1 provider of cloud video surveillance, incorporating both cloud and on-premise recording. The company provides AI, Analytics, big data analytics, business operations optimization, and standard analytics in its platform for video surveillance. Eagle Eye provides a fully open, robust, and restful API for access to video and the integration of analytics and other business processes with video cameras. Its video surveillance products offer secure recording, transmission storage, camera management, mobile viewing, and alerts from a cloud-managed platform that provides organizations with time-based data structures used for indexing, searching, retrieval, and analysis of live and archived video.
Unbill is a mobile application that pays its users’ bills on behalf of them. Additionally, developers can use its biller API inside their own apps. It enables consumers to easily manage and pay all their bills through intelligent bill payment technologies. Unbill is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2013 by Jordan Wright and Scott Weinert.
Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines. Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence on electromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability.
Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automation, visualizations, and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis.
Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics) is the platform behind today’s most inspiring shopping experiences. By allowing shoppers to communicate their unique preferences, context and shopping style, we empower them to discover products on their own terms. Using a proprietary combination of machine learning and human content curation, the Edgecase platform enables shopping experiences as unique as the brands we work with. Our solutions integrate new and evolving layers of merchandising data to fuel product discovery, omni-channel engagement and online experiences that today's shoppers crave. Edgecase was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas. Our team is made up of experts in retail technology, machine learning and natural language processing. Together, we’re committed to creating memorable shopping experiences and propelling what's next in retail. Forward-thinking retailers using Edgecase include: Crate and Barrel, Golfsmith, Kate Somerville, Rebecca Minkoff, Urban Decay, and The Wasserstrom Company.
Founded in 1994, SAM, Inc. is a leading provider of complete geospatial data solutions using advanced surveying and mapping technologies. We’re one of the largest geospatial companies in North America. With more than 100 field crews, we’ve become a market leader in services for oil and gas, electric, rail, transportation, telecommunications, and public sector clients. Our wholly owned subsidiary, SAM-Construction Services, Inc. (SAM-CS, Inc.), also delivers a wide range of construction phase services. We’ve invested heavily in technology across the enterprise and continue to advance our geospatial technology expertise.
MOGL is a restaurant rewards app on a mission to end hunger in the US. Members earn 10% cash-back at 1000's of participating restaurants by paying with a linked credit or debit card. Within seconds of paying they will get an alert on their phone giving them the option to donate some or all of the cash-back to a local food bank. Members can track the progress being made in their city using the Hunger Tracker and compete against friends to see who can donate the most meals. MOGL Loyalty Services, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Solana Beach, California.
Empyr is a card-linked offer engagement platform for national brands and digital publishers. It powers online-to-offline (O2O) commerce programs for some of the world’s largest tech companies, banks, airlines, hotels, and more. Each year in the US over $3 trillion in offline commerce is being driven by online/mobile, but most of that is not being tracked or monetized, representing a large untapped opportunity. Empyr’s direct integrations with all three leading credit card associations, including Visa and MasterCard, make it possible for online consumers to earn cashback at offline merchants in a frictionless way, simply by paying with a debit or credit card. Referring websites or apps also earn revenue from every purchase, and merchants are able to attribute actual offline sales to specific online marketing campaigns. Empyr’s growing network of partners currently includes Microsoft, LivingSocial, Coupons.com, Swagbucks and over 1,500 other partners. Empyr has raised $35M through it's parent company Mogl and currently has 60 employees.
Innography delivers a correlation, visualization, and collaboration analytics software platform that enables companies to fully manage, protect, and exploit patent portfolios. It focuses on answering IP questions more quickly, more accurately, and more insightfully than was possible before. Every feature and visualization is designed to solve a business need, not just present pretty graphs or list out reams of data. Innography was launched on 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Khoros is a computer software company that offers a customer engagement platform that turns siloed knowledge into enterprise value and customers into contributors. It enables companies the ability to run their business with their customers, anticipating their needs, accelerating sales, loyalty, and innovation.
Khoros is an enterprise social media management software.
Liquibase, powered by open-source innovation, simplifies and automates database deployment and configuration for applications that eliminate risk from the deployment process. Its platform removes database deployments as a barrier and eliminates the security vulnerabilities, errors, data loss, and downtime associated with current database deployment methods that enable enterprises to shorten the time it takes to bring application innovation to the market.
Lynx Laboratories is a technological leader in structural capture and next-generation photography. Their team has over twenty years of combined experience in machine learning - resulting in hundreds of publications and a few patents. Their company has received prestigious awards including the 1st Place Idea2Product (I2P) Texas, 1st Place I2P Global, Top 10 Dell Innovators and National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Funding.
Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines. Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence on electromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability.
The Largest Database of Mineral Ownership Information in the US. Oil and gas companies use RunTitle to quickly access the data they need to make sound decisions about land acquisitions. The net mineral ownership information provided by RunTitle minimizes cost, and most critically, the time necessary during the diligence stages of an oil and gas transaction where accuracy is paramount. Using RunTitle, you can search for the data you need and purchase it at the individual tract level, or we can help facilitate larger position acquisitions by allowing you to request an entire township, county, play or state. RunTitle is the largest online database providing access to mineral ownership information. RunTitle data is primarily comprised of: Mineral Ownership Reports (MORs) Chains of Title Title Opinions Associated Court Documents Our data has typically been used in acquisitions and deals in the past, which is why it's so accurate and reliable. Want to find out more? Check us out online at www.RunTitle.com or email us at hello@runtitle.com.
Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics. Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneering ultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility.
TrueAbility is an advanced platform for delivering skills-based assessments for the 21st-century workforce. Important to the classroom and workplace, TrueAbility provides solutions built upon performance-based technology, bridging a gap for both end-users and the entities measuring their skill by providing the most accurate and comprehensive environment for a person to learn or demonstrate ability. Performance-based assessment captures more educational objectives than any other assessment method alone. TrueAbility’s platform combines this innovation with traditional assessment methods and a menu of features to create the most optimal assessment capability available today.
Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines. Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence on electromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability.
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.
Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics) is the platform behind today’s most inspiring shopping experiences. By allowing shoppers to communicate their unique preferences, context and shopping style, we empower them to discover products on their own terms. Using a proprietary combination of machine learning and human content curation, the Edgecase platform enables shopping experiences as unique as the brands we work with. Our solutions integrate new and evolving layers of merchandising data to fuel product discovery, omni-channel engagement and online experiences that today's shoppers crave. Edgecase was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas. Our team is made up of experts in retail technology, machine learning and natural language processing. Together, we’re committed to creating memorable shopping experiences and propelling what's next in retail. Forward-thinking retailers using Edgecase include: Crate and Barrel, Golfsmith, Kate Somerville, Rebecca Minkoff, Urban Decay, and The Wasserstrom Company.
Omni Water Solutions is an emerging technology company, that specializes in developing and deploying mobile water treatment platforms for water re-use. Through its patent-pending Octozone automation technology, Omni’s platforms are able to treat a wide variety of contaminated, high-volume water sources. The result is output water custom-tailored to the requirements needed by the operator at significantly lower energy and maintenance costs. The company is based in Austin, Texas.
Founded in 2008 by Jeffrey Dachis, Dachis Group was created to unlock the value of social business for large corporate enterprises and brands through their social marketing optimization software and solutions. The company's strategy is backed by a commitment from Austin Ventures to build and grow organically and through acquisitions.
Spinal Restoration was formed to identify and develop new, early intervention, minimally invasive therapies for the treatment of chronic low back pain. The company’s first endeavor is the Biostat® System, a proprietary resorbable biologic compound and delivery system for the treatment of chronic disc pain. The new treatment specifically targets discogenic pain, which represents the single largest population of patients—an estimated four million adults—who suffer from chronic low back pain annually.
You email a ton of collateral to your customers. How do you know they actually read it? myDocket helps salespeople take some of the uncertainty out of sales by letting reps know who is reading what content, and when. Uncertainty is a daily part of life in sales: trying to figure out when a deal will close, whether a prospect will return a call, or even if the customer read the information you sent. It doesn’t have to be that way anymore. myDocket was built by veterans of Jive Software, Salesforce.com and Solarwinds to help make selling easier. All of your content is shared in a beautifully presented gallery. One-click customer entry makes for a hassle-free experience for your customers. And with instant alerts & notifications, you’ll know the moment your content is viewed. Share, track, sell, repeat with myDocket.
Bloomfire is a knowledge engagement platform that enables and empowers teams to tap into their organization’s collective intelligence. Bloomfire gives organizations one centralized, searchable place to collect, find and democratize knowledge and insights. Its purpose-built knowledge solution makes it simple for brands like Burberry, Capital One, Conagra, Jackson Hewitt, Metlife and Lubrizol, to find, contribute to, and manage company knowledge so that employees have the information they need to do their jobs.
Khoros is an enterprise social media management software.
Khoros is a computer software company that offers a customer engagement platform that turns siloed knowledge into enterprise value and customers into contributors. It enables companies the ability to run their business with their customers, anticipating their needs, accelerating sales, loyalty, and innovation.
Adometry by Google transforms the way the world’s top brands improve marketing performance. Acting as marketing's “system of record,” Adometry solves the complex challenge of integrating, measuring, and optimizing marketing performance across all channels―both online and offline. Combining and interpreting previously silo’d sources of data; the Adometry Marketing Intelligence Platform provides data-driven attribution, marketing mix modeling, and intelligent optimization recommendations across and within channels. As a result, marketers are able to identify their true impact on the customer journey and generate actionable insights that improve ROI.
Spinal Restoration was formed to identify and develop new, early intervention, minimally invasive therapies for the treatment of chronic low back pain. The company’s first endeavor is the Biostat® System, a proprietary resorbable biologic compound and delivery system for the treatment of chronic disc pain. The new treatment specifically targets discogenic pain, which represents the single largest population of patients—an estimated four million adults—who suffer from chronic low back pain annually.
Silvercar is an airport car rental experience re-imagined for the connected traveler. Their mission is to remake the airport car rental business. They are a team of innovators with exceptional experience from the worlds of automotive, travel, web, and mobile technologies. The company was formed in 2012 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Calxeda provides revolutionary efficiency to the data center. Leveraging ultra-low power technology from ARM, servers built on Calxeda’s silicon and software platform consume a fraction of the power and space of today’s best-in-class servers, enabling data centers to realize significant reduction in capital and operating expenses. The Calxeda platform scales efficiently to thousands of server nodes, with unique network and storage acceleration, and is enhanced with management technology to deliver true “energy-proportional” computing. The result is a stunning breakthrough in performance efficiency, density, and scalability.
Flash Valet, an Austin, TX-based developer of a cloud-based mobile management system for the valet parking industry. Led by Alex Broeker, chairman of the board, Flash Valet provides cloud-based software that streamlines operations for parking providers who have the opportunity to operate away from cash registers and paper tickets by channeling communications and payment through mobile phones. They can track vehicles in real time to control and boost their revenue, manage employee time and attendance (including payroll integration), accept credit cards at the curb and through mobile payments, etc.
OutboundEngine is an Austin, TX-based marketing technology company that helps businesses grow by making online marketing simple. The company’s SaaS platform automates email marketing, social media posting, online review collection and more for over 10,000 customers. Founded in 2012, OutboundEngine is ranked No. 95 on the Inc. 5000 and has been consistently named a top workplace in Austin. For more information, please visit www.outboundengine.com
For over a decade, Draker has been providing monitoring, management and control solutions for commercial and utility solar energy systems. Draker’s range of products and services allows PV developers, owners and operators to increase efficiency and optimize profitability of their solar assets. Draker’s turnkey commercial and end-to-end utility solutions include project-based services, field instrumentation, data collection and management, robust web applications with advanced analytical tools, and public information displays.
Nitero is a fabless semiconductor company with offices in Austin, Texas and Melbourne Australia. They are designing an ultra-low power 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi solution that performs at speeds up to 10X faster than even the very latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions – all that with close to zero latency. They spun out in 2011 from National ICT Australia (NICTA) and have benefited from years of their 60GHz commercial-focused research. In the past two years they put together a world class team and are aggressively developing a unique mobile-60GHz product. They are growing rapidly and seeking more world changers to join the effort. If you are looking for a challenging opportunity, check out their careers page and drop us a line.
Liquibase, powered by open-source innovation, simplifies and automates database deployment and configuration for applications that eliminate risk from the deployment process. Its platform removes database deployments as a barrier and eliminates the security vulnerabilities, errors, data loss, and downtime associated with current database deployment methods that enable enterprises to shorten the time it takes to bring application innovation to the market.
ESO develops an electronic health record and data exchange software intended to improve community health through the power of data. Their healthcare, public safety, and technology experts provide innovative software solutions on the market, including the ESO Electronic Health Record (EHR) software, as well as the first-of-its-kind healthcare interoperability platform, ESO Health Data Exchange (HDE). ESO was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
MapMyFitness is a fitness monitoring program that lets users track their activities using the built-in GPS on their mobile devices.
Mass Relevance develops and offers cloud-based software for media and entertainment sectors. Its software enables social media content aggregation, filtration, and integration. The company's clientele includes [CISCO](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cisco), GolfDigest, [MSNBC](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/msnbc), NBC Sports, and Pepsi. It was formerly known as TweetRiver and changed its name to Mass Relevance Inc. in December, 2010. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Austin, Texas. In April 2014, Mass Relevance merged with Spredfast, forming a comprehensive social marketing company.
Umbel Corp., founded in 2010 and based in Austin, Texas, specializes in cloud-based customer data software solutions aimed at sports and entertainment companies. The company offers a data management platform that helps organizations unify and access their customer data, facilitating engagement and enhancing audience insights. Its suite of tools includes audience activators for collecting identity data, Digital Genome for audience analysis, and a CRM Acquisition Tool for gathering first-party data. Umbel's intelligent segmenting solutions allow users to analyze their audience based on various demographics and behaviors, thereby driving revenue and increasing fan loyalty. The company serves a diverse clientele that includes brands, retailers, teams, and venues, and it has established a strategic partnership with R/GA. In February 2018, Umbel was acquired by MVPindex, Inc.
Bloomfire is a knowledge engagement platform that enables and empowers teams to tap into their organization’s collective intelligence. Bloomfire gives organizations one centralized, searchable place to collect, find and democratize knowledge and insights. Its purpose-built knowledge solution makes it simple for brands like Burberry, Capital One, Conagra, Jackson Hewitt, Metlife and Lubrizol, to find, contribute to, and manage company knowledge so that employees have the information they need to do their jobs.
Omni Water Solutions is an emerging technology company, that specializes in developing and deploying mobile water treatment platforms for water re-use. Through its patent-pending Octozone automation technology, Omni’s platforms are able to treat a wide variety of contaminated, high-volume water sources. The result is output water custom-tailored to the requirements needed by the operator at significantly lower energy and maintenance costs. The company is based in Austin, Texas.
Black Sand Technologies, Inc., is a fabless semiconductor company dedicated to building solutions for the wireless industry by combining sensitive analog and powerful digital circuits in silicon. Black Sand’s unique combination of patented mixed-signal technology and industry experience will lead the way to new levels of cost and performance in wireless products of the future. Based in Austin, Texas, Black Sand is funded by Austin Ventures and Northbridge Venture Partners. Black Sand's innovative technology will enable wireless devices in the future to achieve higher performance while at the same time reducing total cost and size. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Empyr is a card-linked offer engagement platform for national brands and digital publishers. It powers online-to-offline (O2O) commerce programs for some of the world’s largest tech companies, banks, airlines, hotels, and more. Each year in the US over $3 trillion in offline commerce is being driven by online/mobile, but most of that is not being tracked or monetized, representing a large untapped opportunity. Empyr’s direct integrations with all three leading credit card associations, including Visa and MasterCard, make it possible for online consumers to earn cashback at offline merchants in a frictionless way, simply by paying with a debit or credit card. Referring websites or apps also earn revenue from every purchase, and merchants are able to attribute actual offline sales to specific online marketing campaigns. Empyr’s growing network of partners currently includes Microsoft, LivingSocial, Coupons.com, Swagbucks and over 1,500 other partners. Empyr has raised $35M through it's parent company Mogl and currently has 60 employees.
MOGL is a restaurant rewards app on a mission to end hunger in the US. Members earn 10% cash-back at 1000's of participating restaurants by paying with a linked credit or debit card. Within seconds of paying they will get an alert on their phone giving them the option to donate some or all of the cash-back to a local food bank. Members can track the progress being made in their city using the Hunger Tracker and compete against friends to see who can donate the most meals. MOGL Loyalty Services, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Solana Beach, California.
Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. The Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use the tool so the user can create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support. Businesses have processes for everything -- whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper-intensive, and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT.
Donuts Inc is the registry of next generation domain names. With nearly 200 top-level domains, and millions of registrants, Donuts offers a wide variety of clear and meaningful names that represent your identity online in the best possible way. Whether looking for business identifiers (.ltd), navigation (.support), vertical market specifics (.builders) or broad-based generics (.world), their portfolio offers unequaled precision and differentiation. Using their industry-first DPML product, they also work with a large majority of the top global brands to protect their trademarks online. With office locations in Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong, they sell their products through the world's leading registrars and resellers, including Go Daddy, Alibaba and 1and1.
Khoros is an enterprise social media management software.
Khoros is a computer software company that offers a customer engagement platform that turns siloed knowledge into enterprise value and customers into contributors. It enables companies the ability to run their business with their customers, anticipating their needs, accelerating sales, loyalty, and innovation.
Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturers greater control over their lending options.
Civitas Learning’s student success intelligence platform leverages each institution’s unique data to help them chart the best course to improved outcomes for students. The platform is grounded in unparalleled work in data science, built into workflows with integrated applications, and implemented on-site with seasoned strategic service teams. Today, Civitas Learning works with 375 colleges and universities, serving nearly 8 million students. Together with their growing community of customers, Civitas Learning is making the most of the world’s learning data to help graduate a million more students per year by 2025.
Mavenir develops a cloud-native network software, a mobile communications software stack that runs on cloud infrastructure and connects devices, as well as people to the internet and apps, thereby offering multimedia messaging for connectivity among people.
Jam City is a leader in mobile entertainment, providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to broad global audiences. Jam City was founded in 2009 by MySpace cofounder and CEO Chris DeWolfe and former 20th Century Fox executive Josh Yguado. Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest grossing and most enduring social gaming franchises for mobile, including Cookie Jam (Facebook “Game of the Year” winner) and Panda Pop. Jam City is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands including Harry Potter, Family Guy and Marvel Avengers. Jam City has studios in Los Angeles (HQ), San Francisco, San Diego, Bogotá and Buenos Aires. The Jam City team is known for its creative excellence and technological innovation in key areas including storytelling, data science and audience insights.
Explorys provides a secure cloud-computing platform specialized for the healthcare industry. We empower our customers to accelerate research and product development, while enabling critical measurement for healthcare reform, performance management and protocol safety.
Spiceworks is the marketplace that connects the IT industry to help tech buyers and sellers get their jobs done, every day. The company helps people in the world’s businesses find, adopt, and manage the latest technologies while also helping IT brands build, market, and support better products and services. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks empowers people to use technology to make their organizations, their communities, and the world better.
Limos.com is an online and mobile marketplace that connects passengers to affordable and trusted limo and private car services worldwide. From stress-free wedding day transportation to affordable town cars for your next business trip, Limos.com has over 41,000 available vehicles in 370 destinations across 62 countries. Compare vehicles, prices, rider ratings and customer reviews to find the perfect ride in your area – or destination of your travel. And the best part is, your quoted price is all-inclusive, including tax and tip – so no surprises. Limos.com is revolutionizing the limo and private car industry by offering easy access to affordable and dependable rides anytime, anywhere. Join the Ride Revolution today!
Boundless Network is a full-service promotional products company that connects buyers across organizations to create efficiencies of scale and reduce the cost of branded merchandise.
MOGL is a restaurant rewards app on a mission to end hunger in the US. Members earn 10% cash-back at 1000's of participating restaurants by paying with a linked credit or debit card. Within seconds of paying they will get an alert on their phone giving them the option to donate some or all of the cash-back to a local food bank. Members can track the progress being made in their city using the Hunger Tracker and compete against friends to see who can donate the most meals. MOGL Loyalty Services, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Solana Beach, California.
Empyr is a card-linked offer engagement platform for national brands and digital publishers. It powers online-to-offline (O2O) commerce programs for some of the world’s largest tech companies, banks, airlines, hotels, and more. Each year in the US over $3 trillion in offline commerce is being driven by online/mobile, but most of that is not being tracked or monetized, representing a large untapped opportunity. Empyr’s direct integrations with all three leading credit card associations, including Visa and MasterCard, make it possible for online consumers to earn cashback at offline merchants in a frictionless way, simply by paying with a debit or credit card. Referring websites or apps also earn revenue from every purchase, and merchants are able to attribute actual offline sales to specific online marketing campaigns. Empyr’s growing network of partners currently includes Microsoft, LivingSocial, Coupons.com, Swagbucks and over 1,500 other partners. Empyr has raised $35M through it's parent company Mogl and currently has 60 employees.
Key Ring is a simple app for smart phones that puts the customer in control, allowing them to consolidate all of their cards, coupons, weekly ads, and shopping lists into one spot. However, the benefit extends well beyond the customer. Key Ring works with retailers and brands to drive in-store transactions through promotional content such as weekly ads, promoted/featured products, recipes, and coupons. In addition Key Ring can help extend the capabilities of a retailers loyalty program by helping them acquire more customers and reengage inactive members.
Emerus Hospital Partners they are providing compassionate care and support in free-standing emergency rooms or urgent care centers, primary care, surgery, imaging, pediatrics, and other health care services in the communities where patients work.
LCE is a developer, owner, and operator of clean power projects with a particular focus on wind and solar power in the United States. LCE has successfully developed projects involving over $2 billion in capital investment in some of the largest electricity markets in the US (including Texas, California and New Jersey). In late 2015 LCE was acquired by I Squared Capital through its $3 billion ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund. Following this transaction, LCE is now positioned to be the long term owner of the projects it develops. Building on its strong track record in project development, LCE plans to deploy in excess of $250 million of equity capital as it builds out its backlog of development projects.
Founded in 2008 by Jeffrey Dachis, Dachis Group was created to unlock the value of social business for large corporate enterprises and brands through their social marketing optimization software and solutions. The company's strategy is backed by a commitment from Austin Ventures to build and grow organically and through acquisitions.
Solar Power Technologies provides intelligent power optimization, monitoring and control systems for commercial and utility scale solar power sites. The Clarityâ„¢ optimization and monitoring system is a complete site performance optimization and management solution built around an innovative combination of advanced power control technology, wireless communications and web based data management. The company aims to maximize energy harvest potential, while allowing maximum flexibility for [large scale, solar PV array] site designers and owners. By adapting to any solar panel type, inverter, storage element or wiring topology, the Clarityâ„¢ optimization and monitoring system can be deployed in any new solar design, as well as bringing instant energy and financial performance benefits to existing sites.
Mass Relevance develops and offers cloud-based software for media and entertainment sectors. Its software enables social media content aggregation, filtration, and integration. The company's clientele includes [CISCO](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cisco), GolfDigest, [MSNBC](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/msnbc), NBC Sports, and Pepsi. It was formerly known as TweetRiver and changed its name to Mass Relevance Inc. in December, 2010. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Austin, Texas. In April 2014, Mass Relevance merged with Spredfast, forming a comprehensive social marketing company.
Gazzang provides data security solutions and expertise to help enterprises protect sensitive information and maintain performance in big data and cloud environments. Gazzang technology enables SaaS vendors, health care organizations, financial institutions, public sector agencies and more to meet regulatory compliance initiatives, secure personally identifiable information and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data and systems. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas and backed by Austin Ventures and Silver Creek Ventures. Gazzang’s mission is to develop products that keep data secure, available and actionable in the cloud. Our solutions secure big data and any other application or database that runs on Linux, and provide high-performance monitoring, alerting and analysis of cloud environments. Gazzang also offers a universal key and secrets manager as a service to protect your most important corporate information.
Silverback Enterprise Group, based in Austin, Texas, specializes in acquiring and optimizing enterprise software businesses that create cloud-based mission-critical products for enterprise clients. Founded in 2010, the company focuses on consolidating smaller, subscale software companies to enhance their value and capabilities. Through its strategic acquisitions and development efforts, Silverback aims to provide comprehensive, long-term solutions to its customers, thereby fostering growth within the enterprise software sector. The company was previously known as Silverback Acquisition Corporation before rebranding in 2011.
Upland is a cloud-based enterprise technology tool that helps businesses communicate with clients on key digital channels. The Upland Cloud gives millions of businesses the ability to automate crucial document workflows, manage projects and IT budgets, communicate with customers on important digital channels, and improve sales force effectiveness. The UplandOne platform, which puts consumers at the center of all they do, and a 100% dedication to customer success underpin the Upland Cloud. Upland is based in Austin, Texas, and was established in 2010.
MapMyFitness is a fitness monitoring program that lets users track their activities using the built-in GPS on their mobile devices.
Workstreamer was created with the idea that business professionals need a way to receive relevant company news, social media conversations, contact updates and other related business information happening on the web. Actively listening to myriads of sources such as news sites, blogs, Twitter and LinkedIn, workstreamer filters, processes, ranks and streams only relevant pieces of business information related to a users role in an organization.
Zilliant, Inc. provides price optimization and price management software for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. The company's pricing software enables manufacturers and distributors to adopt an approach to price analysis, optimization, price list management, quoting, and negotiation. It offers Zilliant Precision Pricing Suite (ZPPS), an enterprise software that combines price segmentation and price optimization science with analytics and process automation software for price management; ZPPS Analytics, which provides segment-specific metrics and KPIs to deliver a view of pricing performance and uncover opportunities to improve; ZPPS Price Optimization that produces price and deal envelope recommendations for various price segment; and ZPPS Price List Manager, which administers price lists and policies, as well as other price instruments, such as discount and markup schedules. The company also provides ZPPS Deal Manager and Deal Manager for Agreements, and ZPPS Price Campaign Manager that provides inline analytics and KPIs for scoring deals against peer group benchmarks and enforces corporate price policies; and ZPPS Pricing Information Manager, which manages product mix and selection in various deals. In addition, Zilliant, Inc. offers deployment strategy and planning, and implementation methodology, as well as Zilliant education services for business and technical users. The company has a strategic alliance with Advanous. Zilliant, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
AstroWatt technology reduces the cost of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells by half while meeting market high-efficiency cell requirements.
Adometry by Google transforms the way the world’s top brands improve marketing performance. Acting as marketing's “system of record,” Adometry solves the complex challenge of integrating, measuring, and optimizing marketing performance across all channels―both online and offline. Combining and interpreting previously silo’d sources of data; the Adometry Marketing Intelligence Platform provides data-driven attribution, marketing mix modeling, and intelligent optimization recommendations across and within channels. As a result, marketers are able to identify their true impact on the customer journey and generate actionable insights that improve ROI.
Mavenir develops a cloud-native network software, a mobile communications software stack that runs on cloud infrastructure and connects devices, as well as people to the internet and apps, thereby offering multimedia messaging for connectivity among people.