Avalon Ventures

Jnana Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing medicines that improve patient lives. Utilizing its RAPID platform, the firm accelerates the identification of therapeutic targets and the creation of small molecule therapies for various diseases. Jnana aims to enhance drug discovery efficiency through advanced chemoproteomics techniques, addressing unmet medical needs.

Primer is an internet company that helps companies understand massive stores of text data using AI. It uses machine learning techniques to help parse and collate a large number of documents across several languages in order to facilitate further investigation.

Fortis Therapeutics is immuno-oncology biotech focused on developing new antibody-drug conjugate therapies against CD46 for the treatment of late-stage multiple myeloma and late-stage prostate cancer and other indications.

Janux Therapeutics develops immunotherapies that generate immune responses to prevent tumors and not affecting a patient’s healthy tissue. Janux technology targets all three stages of the anti-tumor immune response.

Pando is the one-stop Basecamp for high-potential dreamers and the ambitious builders who refuse to settle. We leverage world class peer groups and financial tools to supercharge your founder journey. We deliver an experience that aligns incentives to unleash founders’ potential, facilitate connection and realize prosperity.

Figg is a card-linked marketing company. Our unique advertising platform enables brands of every size to market to consumers in a private marketplace of banks and publishers. Bank and publisher partners leverage our platform to provide advertiser-funded offers to their customers, driving sustainable loyalty. Today, Figg is the only card-linked platform company supporting both card-specific bank programs and a platform where consumers can enroll any card they choose. Powerful transaction data enables advertisers to reach specific consumer segments with unparalleled targeting and precise attribution of marketing spend.

Orion Labs is the voice-first communication platform for deskless & frontline teams. It delivers instant and secure voice, location, and data messaging across a constellation of connected devices, applications, and AI-powered services. This combination enables mobile teams to collaborate without losing focus, on any device, across any distance, without boundaries. The Orion platform includes the Orion Push to Talk app along with Orion Sync and Onyx wearables. These work with Orion’s web-based command center, advanced location services, language translation, voice bots, and workflows. Orion interoperates with traditional VoIP and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, and Orion’s APIs and SDKs enable developers to build on and extend the Orion platform. The company was founded by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht, who were inspired by their unique experiences using traditional radios as first responders. Orion is backed by leading investors and is based in San Francisco, California. Orion was recently named an IDC Innovator, received an Edison Award for Voice Technology, and won the 2018 “IoT Wearables Innovation Vendor of the Year” and “AI Breakthrough Best Overall Bot Solution” awards.

AristaMD is a healthcare company that features a software platform that helps hospitals and practitioners on improving patient outcomes. It also offers a solution that enables primary care providers to ask questions about patients that they would otherwise refer out and transmit patient clinical notes, history, lab results and images to collaborate on care plans with a panel of on-call, board-certified specialists, all within a matter of hours. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Simulmedia is the leader in cross-channel TV advertising. With our TV+® platform, we deliver unparalleled reach, measurement, and results wherever audiences watch or stream. Founded In 2008, Simulmedia pioneered a data-first, digital approach to TV ad placement and optimization that changed TV advertising forever. With TV+, Simulmedia helps advertisers and agencies quickly and effectively reach viewers scattered across both linear television and connected TV at guaranteed scale without wasteful duplication.

Seva is a hosted information discovery and collaboration platform that helps teams be smarter, work faster, and be more efficient. Integrated across a broad set of applications for email, messaging, document management, code management, and others, Seva gives knowledge workers a single source of truth across today's modern work stack, giving users frictionless access to the most important information they need to do their jobs. Founded in late 2017 Seva is a venture backed company in New York City launching in mid-2018.

Joy is a wedding company that gives couples a smarter way to plan their big day. Using Joy, couples can create a beautifully-designed wedding website and mobile app, build their All-in-One Registry, manage guest lists and RSVPs, send online or printed Save the Dates, invitations, and eCards, provide travel and accommodations options for guests, host virtual wedding events, create a shared virtual wedding album and virtual guest book, and more. Wedding guests can purchase registry gifts, book travel plans and accommodations, get directions to wedding events via a Google Maps integration, order a ride to wedding events via ride-sharing integrations, add wedding events to their calendars with a click, and more. Based in San Francisco, Joy launched in 2016 through Y Combinator.

Memrise is a language learning platform available in iOS, android, and web. It has more than 150 language courses across 25 languages. The app has over 40 million registered users, all courses are totally free to learn, and there is no advertising. There are extra features and learn modes that can be unlocked with a Memrise Pro subscription. Memrise has been profitable since late 2016.

BotChain enables universal registration, identity validation, audit, and coordination of A.I. agents and autonomous software. The BotChain was created by the team at Talla. After more than two years of building intelligent, AI-driven bots for the enterprise, Talla began pursuing their idea for BotChain. The leadership team represents decades of experience in software development, Artificial Intelligence, startups, and innovation.

Synthorx is a biotechnology company using ground-breaking synthetic biology starting with our novel DNA base pair to discover and develop new protein therapeutics. The company uses new building blocks to create proteins that impart specificity not possible with native proteins. The result is treatments with improved efficacy, better safety, and better convenience for patients. Utilizing proprietary engineered organisms we have the ability to manufacture these improved proteins with high fidelity and the required yield for drug discovery and development. This unique platform expands the chemical and structural repertoire of protein therapeutics and uncovers new ways to modulate pharmacological properties of biologics, not possible with other technologies. The company was founded by Avalon Ventures based on important discoveries in Dr. Floyd Romesberg’s lab at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. These discoveries include research published by the Romesberg lab in Nature, describing the first example of in vivo replication of a synthetic DNA base pair and the development of a semi-synthetic organism (read more here). Synthorx has the exclusive rights to this synthetic biology technology from The Scripps Research Institute. Investors include Avalon Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Medicxi, Orbimed, Osage University Partners, and RA Capital Management.

Averon is on a mission to restore sanity in online identity. Our conversion-increasing innovations instantly authenticate mobile users, creating a world where we can all move safely and efficiently around the internet with zero effort and maximum trust—no more frustrating and unsecure login IDs and passwords. Averon's technology is the new gold standard for digital identity—the easiest, fastest and most secure verification solution for users on both WiFi and LTE. Simple to implement and effortless for users, Averon's solutions don't rely on personally identifiable information, providing the most private authentication method in the digital realm. Protected by 35 patents, Averon's methods are trusted by the world's leading ride share and transportation services, digital currencies, cryptocurrency wallets, and global telecommunications companies to deliver the most elegant user experience with the highest caliber security. Join us in helping the online world Be Authentic. For more information, visit www.averon.com

Pando is the one-stop Basecamp for high-potential dreamers and the ambitious builders who refuse to settle. We leverage world class peer groups and financial tools to supercharge your founder journey. We deliver an experience that aligns incentives to unleash founders’ potential, facilitate connection and realize prosperity.

Jnana Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing medicines that improve patient lives. Utilizing its RAPID platform, the firm accelerates the identification of therapeutic targets and the creation of small molecule therapies for various diseases. Jnana aims to enhance drug discovery efficiency through advanced chemoproteomics techniques, addressing unmet medical needs.

ScoreStream, Inc. is a communication platform that enables fans to share information about sporting events through its mobile applications and website. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, California, ScoreStream provides tools for capturing and syndicating local sports content, particularly focusing on high school sports. The platform allows users to engage by sharing scores, photos, videos, and chat conversations from various games, facilitating accurate and timely reporting for local sports coverage. The company was previously known as Crowdscores, Inc. and has served clients including major media organizations.

Averon is on a mission to restore sanity in online identity. Our conversion-increasing innovations instantly authenticate mobile users, creating a world where we can all move safely and efficiently around the internet with zero effort and maximum trust—no more frustrating and unsecure login IDs and passwords. Averon's technology is the new gold standard for digital identity—the easiest, fastest and most secure verification solution for users on both WiFi and LTE. Simple to implement and effortless for users, Averon's solutions don't rely on personally identifiable information, providing the most private authentication method in the digital realm. Protected by 35 patents, Averon's methods are trusted by the world's leading ride share and transportation services, digital currencies, cryptocurrency wallets, and global telecommunications companies to deliver the most elegant user experience with the highest caliber security. Join us in helping the online world Be Authentic. For more information, visit www.averon.com

Talla is an AI and automation platform that is transforming the way businesses deliver customer support. Talla simultaneously improves customer satisfaction and support rep productivity by automating support workflows and allowing users to self-serve accurate answers to support questions. Unlike other providers, Talla learns and improves over time, provides answers using machine learning, and integrates with all the tools support teams need. Talla was founded in 2015 and is based in Boston, MA.

Nanonets is an AI-driven solution that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. Leveraging advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and deep learning models, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order processing and insurance underwriting. Nanonets processes unstructured documents such as invoices, receipts, purchase orders, contracts, claims, and forms and converts them into structured output. By integrating with your existing systems via APIs, Nanonets can reduce manual effort by up to 90%, delivering industry-leading accuracy, speed, and cost savings of up to 50%.

Smyte protects millions of actions a day and was built by industry experts to scale to even the most complex trust and safety use cases. Smyte code into any website or mobile app, which gives Smyte access to a data feed. Smyte’s automated labeling system identifies any potentially malicious activity, based on a variety of signals and relationships, and flags it for manual review.

Piper Networks powers a new train and worker tracking solution that can finally meet the real-time location awareness requirements of sophisticated transportation systems and their challenging environments. Our suite of proprietary proximity solutions utilize technology like Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to offer better performance than other RTLS by providing greater granularity and accuracy to within 10cm,reduced signal latency, added security, and minimal multi path interference. In addition, Piper’s reliable wireless data communication and systems integration experience makes our solution ideal for performing in restrictive locations and congested RF environments like underground subway tunnels.

Fortis Therapeutics is immuno-oncology biotech focused on developing new antibody-drug conjugate therapies against CD46 for the treatment of late-stage multiple myeloma and late-stage prostate cancer and other indications.

At Avelas Biosciences, their mission is to advance a new standard-of-care in cancer surgery by providing a real time luminous map for oncologic surgeons, leading to improved surgical results and better outcome for patients.

AristaMD is a healthcare company that features a software platform that helps hospitals and practitioners on improving patient outcomes. It also offers a solution that enables primary care providers to ask questions about patients that they would otherwise refer out and transmit patient clinical notes, history, lab results and images to collaborate on care plans with a panel of on-call, board-certified specialists, all within a matter of hours. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Synthorx is a biotechnology company using ground-breaking synthetic biology starting with our novel DNA base pair to discover and develop new protein therapeutics. The company uses new building blocks to create proteins that impart specificity not possible with native proteins. The result is treatments with improved efficacy, better safety, and better convenience for patients. Utilizing proprietary engineered organisms we have the ability to manufacture these improved proteins with high fidelity and the required yield for drug discovery and development. This unique platform expands the chemical and structural repertoire of protein therapeutics and uncovers new ways to modulate pharmacological properties of biologics, not possible with other technologies. The company was founded by Avalon Ventures based on important discoveries in Dr. Floyd Romesberg’s lab at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. These discoveries include research published by the Romesberg lab in Nature, describing the first example of in vivo replication of a synthetic DNA base pair and the development of a semi-synthetic organism (read more here). Synthorx has the exclusive rights to this synthetic biology technology from The Scripps Research Institute. Investors include Avalon Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Medicxi, Orbimed, Osage University Partners, and RA Capital Management.

Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.

Orion Labs is the voice-first communication platform for deskless & frontline teams. It delivers instant and secure voice, location, and data messaging across a constellation of connected devices, applications, and AI-powered services. This combination enables mobile teams to collaborate without losing focus, on any device, across any distance, without boundaries. The Orion platform includes the Orion Push to Talk app along with Orion Sync and Onyx wearables. These work with Orion’s web-based command center, advanced location services, language translation, voice bots, and workflows. Orion interoperates with traditional VoIP and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems, and Orion’s APIs and SDKs enable developers to build on and extend the Orion platform. The company was founded by cloud infrastructure pioneers Jesse Robbins and Greg Albrecht, who were inspired by their unique experiences using traditional radios as first responders. Orion is backed by leading investors and is based in San Francisco, California. Orion was recently named an IDC Innovator, received an Edison Award for Voice Technology, and won the 2018 “IoT Wearables Innovation Vendor of the Year” and “AI Breakthrough Best Overall Bot Solution” awards.

AlphaSheets seeks to bring the Apple/Slack ethos of intuitive, beautiful computing to currently unintuitive applications. Our main product, AlphaSheets, seeks to eliminate all the problems that plague spreadsheets in the enterprise.

Enlibrium is developing novel drugs based on metformin to treat a range of different cancers by reducing cancer energy consumption and reestablishing energy balance. Given their high growth rate and energy requirements, cancers are particularly sensitive to agents that reduce their energy production. Enlibrium was founded based on technology exclusively licensed from UCLA and developed in laboratories headed by Michael Jung, Ph.D. and Richard Pietras, M.D., Ph.D. Enlibrium's investors are Avalon Ventures, TPG Biotech, Correlation Ventures and Osage University Partners.

Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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.

AeroFS is an enterprise file sync and share solution. It changes the way creative agencies, consultants, freelancers, and work teams collaborate with their co-workers and clients. The company’s flagship collaboration platform, Amium, makes sharing information and ideas more intuitive and efficient, and dramatically improves and simplifies collaboration with users outside the organization. The service, which stores files in a private cloud-like platform, stores data on the devices designated by the client. AeroFS desktop and server software can run entirely behind a firewall, including authentication. Their vision is to redefine the current view of the ‘cloud’ with better controls, privacy and scalability, whether for administrators, end-users or anyone else.

Ankasa Regenerative Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing strategies to improve tissue healing by exploiting the potential of stem cell reactivation. The company is developing proprietary formulations of a potent WNT stem cell activator with the potential to accelerate tissue healing in a broad range of degenerative conditions affecting bone, cartilage, skin, muscle, vasculature, and the central nervous system. Its proprietary approach has demonstrated superiority for bone reformation over existing standards of care in various preclinical models. Ankasa Regenerative Therapeutics was established in 2014 and is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Indix has built a Products Platform that delivers product information and commerce-ready services for a fraction of the cost of alternatives. Indix combines AI with the largest collection of product data available: price, availability, and seller information, along with code-based identifiers and attributes. Businesses use the Indix Platform to improve the size and quality of their digital product catalog and develop innovative ways to buy and sell products.

Pronoun, previously known as Vook, is a new kind of publisher that’s using technology and data to empower authors to publish faster, market smarter, and keep creative and financial control of their work.

Calporta is developing selective small molecule agonists of TRPML1 (transient receptor potential cation channel, mucolipin subfamily, member 1) for the treatment of Niemann-Pick C Disease (NPC) and other lysosomal storage diseases. Mutations that cause NPC lead to impaired intracellular lipid trafficking and lead to lysosomal accumulation of cholesterol and biolipds. TRPML1 is an ion channel in the lysosome and a key regulator of lysosomal trafficking processes. Impaired TRPML1 function has been implicated in multiple pathological conditions, including NPC. Agonists of TRPML1 restore calcium efflux and normalize lysosomal trafficking and function. In addition to NPC and other lysosomal storage diseases, agonists of TRPML1 may have broad potential in other diseases such as muscular dystrophy and various taopathies such as Alzheimer's disease. Calporta's approach is based on research from the lab of Haoxing Xu, Ph.D., at the University of Michigan.

Cadherx Therapeutics develops therapeutic antibodies targeting soluble E-cadherin.

BookBub is a rapidly growing startup launched by serial entrepreneurs and run by a team gathered from the publishing and tech industries. Every day millions of readers use our service to discover great books, and thousands of leading publishers and authors work with us to drive sales and find new fans. Connecting readers with great deals on ebooks is just the beginning for BookBub. The rise of digital publishing is altering the way books are found, purchased, and read. We’re expanding our team to help address the challenges and opportunities of the publishing industry while continuing to help readers find books and authors they’ll love.

Tapad is a global marketing technology company providing a comprehensive suite of identity-based marketing solutions. By leveraging the company’s proprietary and privacy-safe Tapad Graph. Their groundbreaking, proprietary technology assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets, connected TVs, and game consoles. The result: an unprecedented understanding of consumer behavior across related screens and the ability to reach the right people on the right device at the right time. With Tapad, publishers and advertisers can deepen consumer engagement with a more fluid experience while increasing campaign cost-effectiveness. The company is reinventing personalization for the modern marketer through its identity-driven solutions. The Tapad Graph combines the company’s proprietary Device Graph with behavioral signals so marketers can finally see their customers as unique individuals, and ultimately, deliver personalization at scale.

Cardeas Pharma is developing a novel antibiotic formulation of two drugs with synergistic activity against all relevant, highly resistant Gram-negative bacilli, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. In addition, this antibiotic formulation has activity on biofilms. The combination also has activity against Gram-positive pathogens including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This formulation is administered using a single-patient use, vibrating-plate nebulizer that is compatible with all ventilators. The nebulizer creates small, uniform aerosol droplets that deliver drug to the small airways and alveoli. Integration of this novel antibiotic formulation and device has the potential to achieve significant clinical outcomes relative to current standard therapy.

ScoreStream, Inc. is a communication platform that enables fans to share information about sporting events through its mobile applications and website. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, California, ScoreStream provides tools for capturing and syndicating local sports content, particularly focusing on high school sports. The platform allows users to engage by sharing scores, photos, videos, and chat conversations from various games, facilitating accurate and timely reporting for local sports coverage. The company was previously known as Crowdscores, Inc. and has served clients including major media organizations.

Nanigans provides an advertising automation software that powers the in-house performance marketing teams. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, Nanigans software features programmatic media buying, predictive revenue optimization, and real-time business intelligence across today’s most valuable channels. Nanigans is headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Sydney, and Singapore.

Primer is an internet company that helps companies understand massive stores of text data using AI. It uses machine learning techniques to help parse and collate a large number of documents across several languages in order to facilitate further investigation.

StackRox helps enterprises secure their containers and Kubernetes environments at scale. StackRox delivers a Kubernetes-native container security platform that enables security and DevOps teams to enforce their security and compliance policies across the entire container life cycle, from build to deploy to runtime. The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform integrates with existing DevOps and security tools, enabling teams to quickly operationalize container and Kubernetes security. StackRox customers span cloud-native companies, Global 2000 enterprises, and government agencies. StackRox is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Primer is an internet company that helps companies understand massive stores of text data using AI. It uses machine learning techniques to help parse and collate a large number of documents across several languages in order to facilitate further investigation.

For enterprises that are automating their infrastructure, Conjur provides software to identify, authorize, and audit all service and user identities that enables velocity with compliance. With Conjur, customers identify, authorize, and audit every cloud, VM, container, service, job, and user. Conjur addresses critical operational, compliance, and security challenges enterprises face when using a public or hybrid clouds, containers with microservices, and highly automated software delivery processes. By securing infrastructure with Conjur, organizations protect, monitor in real-time, and audit access to critical and sensitive IT systems. In addition to actively enforcing security policy and reducing vulnerability points, Conjur provides detailed activity reports for compliance and security audits. With the cost and frequency of security breaches on the rise, Conjur provides a critical piece of infrastructure to adopt modern IT and maintain compliance. Conjur customers include Discovery Communications, AOL, Cisco (OpenDNS), Puppet Labs, Ability Networks, and Kyruus. Conjur is seed funded by Avalon Partners, Amplify Partners, and Andy Palmer.

Redbooth is a task and project management platform that provides a single place for team collaboration such as tasks, discussions, and file sharing. Redbooth is simple and flexible to use, enabling project teams and departments at thousands of companies to get work done. Redbooth is used by over 400,000 organizations, including AT&T, Avis, BBC, Canal+, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Duke University, Harvard University, Intuit, Novartis, Subaru, ReMax, and Volkswagen Audi. Founded in 2008, the company is privately held and headquartered in Palo Alto, 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.

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.

StackIQ develops a multi-server management system for clusters and clouds. Its software suite automates the deployment, provisioning, and management of Big Infrastructure. It allows customers to integrate nearly any application with the StackIQ software stack. StackIQ was founded by Greg Bruno, Mason Katz, and Tim McIntire in October 2006.

Kinvey is the first Backend as a Service that makes it ridiculously easy for developers and enterprises to set up and operate a cloud backend for their mobile, tablet, and web apps. Its service lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their mobile applications. They don't have to worry about connecting to various cloud services or enterprise backend systems, setting up servers for their backend, or maintaining and scaling them. With Kinvey, developers just model their cloud backend needs and we auto-generate all the APIs they would need to access their data from any mobile, web, or computing platform. Developers then grab their APIs and connect to them directly or through native iOS, Android, JavaScript, etc., libraries that we provide. Kinvey is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Thyritope Biosciences is developing therapeutics that target thyroid stimulating auto-antibodies, which are the causative drivers of Graves' hyperthyroidism and Graves' orbitopathy. Graves' disease is an autoimmune disorder caused by antibodies that over-stimulate the thyroid, causing excessive thyroid hormone production. The same antibodies stimulate the tissue around the eyes, resulting in an increase of orbital fat and extra-ocular muscle volume which causes the bulging of the eyes characteristic of Graves' orbitopathy.

Silarus Therapeutics is developing therapeutics targeting erythroferrone for the treatment of iron deficiency and iron overload disorders. Erythroferrone is a recently-discovered hormone that regulates the iron supply for red blood cell production. Iron deficiency, also known as anemia, is a condition in which blood does not contain the normal amount of red blood cells or lacks the proper amount of hemoglobin. This, in turn, lowers the amount of oxygen-rich blood in circulation, causing shortness of breath, dizziness or headaches.

Sidecar Technologies provides B2B delivery transportation network in the world. It is building the world's most convenient and affordable transportation network created for and powered by everyday people. All drivers are pre-vetted for safety and are free to give rides whenever they want. Sidecar safety system includes driver background checks, driver and rider rating systems, GPS tracking features, and the ability to share details of your trip in real-time. Sidecar was founded in San Francisco in 2011 and currently operates in ten cities and has facilitated more than half a million rides.

At Avelas Biosciences, their mission is to advance a new standard-of-care in cancer surgery by providing a real time luminous map for oncologic surgeons, leading to improved surgical results and better outcome for patients.

ScoreStream, Inc. is a communication platform that enables fans to share information about sporting events through its mobile applications and website. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Diego, California, ScoreStream provides tools for capturing and syndicating local sports content, particularly focusing on high school sports. The platform allows users to engage by sharing scores, photos, videos, and chat conversations from various games, facilitating accurate and timely reporting for local sports coverage. The company was previously known as Crowdscores, Inc. and has served clients including major media organizations.

Tapad is a global marketing technology company providing a comprehensive suite of identity-based marketing solutions. By leveraging the company’s proprietary and privacy-safe Tapad Graph. Their groundbreaking, proprietary technology assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets, connected TVs, and game consoles. The result: an unprecedented understanding of consumer behavior across related screens and the ability to reach the right people on the right device at the right time. With Tapad, publishers and advertisers can deepen consumer engagement with a more fluid experience while increasing campaign cost-effectiveness. The company is reinventing personalization for the modern marketer through its identity-driven solutions. The Tapad Graph combines the company’s proprietary Device Graph with behavioral signals so marketers can finally see their customers as unique individuals, and ultimately, deliver personalization at scale.

Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BookBub is a rapidly growing startup launched by serial entrepreneurs and run by a team gathered from the publishing and tech industries. Every day millions of readers use our service to discover great books, and thousands of leading publishers and authors work with us to drive sales and find new fans. Connecting readers with great deals on ebooks is just the beginning for BookBub. The rise of digital publishing is altering the way books are found, purchased, and read. We’re expanding our team to help address the challenges and opportunities of the publishing industry while continuing to help readers find books and authors they’ll love.

Otonomy is an expert in the otology field in order to build the premier company dedicated to the treatment of otic disorders via localized drug delivery. This approach has already been widely adopted for the delivery of short-acting antibiotics to treat otitis media through a tympanostomy tube. In addition, otolaryngologists have demonstrated that the injection of steroids into the middle ear cavity can provide a therapeutic effect for patients with acute inner ear disorders such as Ménière’s disease and sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Expansion of this effort holds great promise for the treatment of chronic hearing loss, severe vertigo, and even tinnitus. The key to Otonomy's leading position in this nascent field is the development of a proprietary formulation platform that provides sustained drug exposure from a single administration. Broad application of this technology has already been established across a number of therapeutic classes, and from these, three product candidates have been advanced into development.

Synthorx is a biotechnology company using ground-breaking synthetic biology starting with our novel DNA base pair to discover and develop new protein therapeutics. The company uses new building blocks to create proteins that impart specificity not possible with native proteins. The result is treatments with improved efficacy, better safety, and better convenience for patients. Utilizing proprietary engineered organisms we have the ability to manufacture these improved proteins with high fidelity and the required yield for drug discovery and development. This unique platform expands the chemical and structural repertoire of protein therapeutics and uncovers new ways to modulate pharmacological properties of biologics, not possible with other technologies. The company was founded by Avalon Ventures based on important discoveries in Dr. Floyd Romesberg’s lab at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. These discoveries include research published by the Romesberg lab in Nature, describing the first example of in vivo replication of a synthetic DNA base pair and the development of a semi-synthetic organism (read more here). Synthorx has the exclusive rights to this synthetic biology technology from The Scripps Research Institute. Investors include Avalon Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Medicxi, Orbimed, Osage University Partners, and RA Capital Management.

Indix has built a Products Platform that delivers product information and commerce-ready services for a fraction of the cost of alternatives. Indix combines AI with the largest collection of product data available: price, availability, and seller information, along with code-based identifiers and attributes. Businesses use the Indix Platform to improve the size and quality of their digital product catalog and develop innovative ways to buy and sell products.

Sidecar Technologies provides B2B delivery transportation network in the world. It is building the world's most convenient and affordable transportation network created for and powered by everyday people. All drivers are pre-vetted for safety and are free to give rides whenever they want. Sidecar safety system includes driver background checks, driver and rider rating systems, GPS tracking features, and the ability to share details of your trip in real-time. Sidecar was founded in San Francisco in 2011 and currently operates in ten cities and has facilitated more than half a million rides.

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.

Quippi offers a new fee-free alternative to international money transfer services. Quippi international gift cards are available for purchase in the United States and are redeemable by loved ones in leading retailers in Mexico. Quippi cards carry no fees, no commissions, and no other hidden charges for the purchaser or recipient. Quippi is simple: the customer purchases a gift card online or in-store in the US and communicates the Quippi PIN code to the recipient in Mexico via text, email or telephone. The recipient in Mexico can then shop immediately at one of Quippi’s many retail partners. Quippi has 7 partners in Mexico offering products ranging from groceries, clothing, appliances, home goods, educational supplies, health goods and services, and mobile recharge. While Quippi will continue to expand its retail partner network in Mexico, the company plans to expand throughout Latin America and the world!

Chartio is on a mission to democratize data so that everyone has the freedom to explore, transform, and visualize their data. Chartio has built a simple, yet intuitive cloud-based data exploration solution that makes it easy to connect all of your data to create powerful dashboards, without any SQL knowledge. With a drag and drop user interface and powerful data pipeline, Chartio helps businesses intuitively query, analyze and track key metrics in real-time to quickly identify trends, patterns, and outliers. Chartio was co-founded by Dave Fowler and Daniel Levine in June 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

At Avelas Biosciences, their mission is to advance a new standard-of-care in cancer surgery by providing a real time luminous map for oncologic surgeons, leading to improved surgical results and better outcome for patients.

Simulmedia is the leader in cross-channel TV advertising. With our TV+® platform, we deliver unparalleled reach, measurement, and results wherever audiences watch or stream. Founded In 2008, Simulmedia pioneered a data-first, digital approach to TV ad placement and optimization that changed TV advertising forever. With TV+, Simulmedia helps advertisers and agencies quickly and effectively reach viewers scattered across both linear television and connected TV at guaranteed scale without wasteful duplication.

Sitari Pharmaceuticals is a operator of a biotechnology company intended to develop treatments for multiple disease indications with an initial focus in celiac disease.

Redbooth is a task and project management platform that provides a single place for team collaboration such as tasks, discussions, and file sharing. Redbooth is simple and flexible to use, enabling project teams and departments at thousands of companies to get work done. Redbooth is used by over 400,000 organizations, including AT&T, Avis, BBC, Canal+, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Duke University, Harvard University, Intuit, Novartis, Subaru, ReMax, and Volkswagen Audi. Founded in 2008, the company is privately held and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Otonomy is an expert in the otology field in order to build the premier company dedicated to the treatment of otic disorders via localized drug delivery. This approach has already been widely adopted for the delivery of short-acting antibiotics to treat otitis media through a tympanostomy tube. In addition, otolaryngologists have demonstrated that the injection of steroids into the middle ear cavity can provide a therapeutic effect for patients with acute inner ear disorders such as Ménière’s disease and sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Expansion of this effort holds great promise for the treatment of chronic hearing loss, severe vertigo, and even tinnitus. The key to Otonomy's leading position in this nascent field is the development of a proprietary formulation platform that provides sustained drug exposure from a single administration. Broad application of this technology has already been established across a number of therapeutic classes, and from these, three product candidates have been advanced into development.

For enterprises that are automating their infrastructure, Conjur provides software to identify, authorize, and audit all service and user identities that enables velocity with compliance. With Conjur, customers identify, authorize, and audit every cloud, VM, container, service, job, and user. Conjur addresses critical operational, compliance, and security challenges enterprises face when using a public or hybrid clouds, containers with microservices, and highly automated software delivery processes. By securing infrastructure with Conjur, organizations protect, monitor in real-time, and audit access to critical and sensitive IT systems. In addition to actively enforcing security policy and reducing vulnerability points, Conjur provides detailed activity reports for compliance and security audits. With the cost and frequency of security breaches on the rise, Conjur provides a critical piece of infrastructure to adopt modern IT and maintain compliance. Conjur customers include Discovery Communications, AOL, Cisco (OpenDNS), Puppet Labs, Ability Networks, and Kyruus. Conjur is seed funded by Avalon Partners, Amplify Partners, and Andy Palmer.

The Happy Cloud network lets you play games on demand, much like video on demand for your cable TV--no more waiting for long downloads! Our patent-pending technology pre-installs and pre-packages the game on the network, bypassing the need for installation on the user's end. Our cloud computing-based technology does not use server-side rendering and video streaming, so there is no lag--the game plays the same as it would if you had installed it from a disc. Happy Cloud is true on-demand digital distribution for video games.

Cloudant’s distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) allows developers of fast-growing web and mobile apps to focus on building and improving their products, instead of worrying about scaling and managing their databases on their own. Cloudant was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2008 by three MIT physicists who at the time were moving multi-petabyte data sets around from the Large Hadron Collider. Frustrated by the available tools for managing and analyzing Big Data in their research, the founders built a distributed, fault-tolerant, globally scalable data layer on top of Apache CouchDB. The service has grown since then. The team now manages and serves mobile and web app data on behalf of thousands of developers and hundreds of customers to their users around the world.

Nanigans provides an advertising automation software that powers the in-house performance marketing teams. Offered as Software-as-a-Service, Nanigans software features programmatic media buying, predictive revenue optimization, and real-time business intelligence across today’s most valuable channels. Nanigans is headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Sydney, and Singapore.

Indix has built a Products Platform that delivers product information and commerce-ready services for a fraction of the cost of alternatives. Indix combines AI with the largest collection of product data available: price, availability, and seller information, along with code-based identifiers and attributes. Businesses use the Indix Platform to improve the size and quality of their digital product catalog and develop innovative ways to buy and sell products.

Proximal Data is the leading provider of server-side caching solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments. Proximal Data's AutoCache software can dramatically increase virtual machine density by eliminating I/O bottlenecks with adaptive I/O caching. When coupled with PCIe flash cards or SSDs from their partners, Proximal Data's fast virtual cache significantly improves the efficiency and performance of virtualized servers without disrupting IT operations or processes.

Tapad is a global marketing technology company providing a comprehensive suite of identity-based marketing solutions. By leveraging the company’s proprietary and privacy-safe Tapad Graph. Their groundbreaking, proprietary technology assimilates billions of data points to find the human relationship between smartphones, desktops, laptops, tablets, connected TVs, and game consoles. The result: an unprecedented understanding of consumer behavior across related screens and the ability to reach the right people on the right device at the right time. With Tapad, publishers and advertisers can deepen consumer engagement with a more fluid experience while increasing campaign cost-effectiveness. The company is reinventing personalization for the modern marketer through its identity-driven solutions. The Tapad Graph combines the company’s proprietary Device Graph with behavioral signals so marketers can finally see their customers as unique individuals, and ultimately, deliver personalization at scale.

Simulmedia is the leader in cross-channel TV advertising. With our TV+® platform, we deliver unparalleled reach, measurement, and results wherever audiences watch or stream. Founded In 2008, Simulmedia pioneered a data-first, digital approach to TV ad placement and optimization that changed TV advertising forever. With TV+, Simulmedia helps advertisers and agencies quickly and effectively reach viewers scattered across both linear television and connected TV at guaranteed scale without wasteful duplication.

Welcome to LoopIt, where you can get great shopping advice from friends & experts and help others by sharing your opinons & experiences. We are just getting started, but with your help, we can build a great community that is not only helpful, but fun.

Cheezburger is a Seattle-based company that operates a network of social humor websites, including such as I Can Has Cheezburger, FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, and Memebase. It enables its website visitors to view, create, or remix themes and share their favorite funny pictures. Cheezburger has published five books: A LOLcat Colleckshun, How to Take Over Teh Wurld, FAIL Nation, GRAPH OUT LOUD, and I HAS A HOTDOG: What Your Dog Is Really Thinking. Cheezburger was founded by Ben Huh and Eric Nakagawa in September 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

At Avelas Biosciences, their mission is to advance a new standard-of-care in cancer surgery by providing a real time luminous map for oncologic surgeons, leading to improved surgical results and better outcome for patients.

Kaltura’s mission is to power any video experience for any organization. Our Video Experience Cloud offers live, real-time, and on-demand video products for enterprises of all industries, as well as specialized industry solutions, currently for educational institutions and for media and telecom companies. Underlying our products and solutions is a broad set of Media Services that are also used by other cloud platforms and companies to power video experiences and workflows for their own products. Kaltura’s Video Experience Cloud is used by leading brands reaching millions of users, at home, at school and at work, for communication, collaboration, training, marketing, sales, customer care, teaching, learning, virtual events, and entertainment experiences.

Pingup provides direct, convenient access to the real-time scheduling availability of local businesses nationwide, anytime, anywhere - putting the power of action into the hands of the mobile consumer. With its mobile API, Pingup enables directories and local listings providers to quickly and seamlessly bring the power of "book it now" to mobile consumers everywhere. With more than 30,000 properties across 200 business categories on the Pingup platform, the company continues to add thousands of new businesses to its network each month. The company is headquartered in Boston’s Innovation District and backed by Avalon Ventures.

Proximal Data is the leading provider of server-side caching solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments. Proximal Data's AutoCache software can dramatically increase virtual machine density by eliminating I/O bottlenecks with adaptive I/O caching. When coupled with PCIe flash cards or SSDs from their partners, Proximal Data's fast virtual cache significantly improves the efficiency and performance of virtualized servers without disrupting IT operations or processes.

Selectable Media enables consumers to unlock digital content and services in exchange for interacting with brand advertising. For advertisers, Selectable Media offers a unique way to reach your target audience by providing access to content that consumers are most interested in. Publishers in all verticals can leverage the Selectable Media platform to more effectively monetize their content.

Shelby.tv is the best way to discover and enjoy web video. Now available in the App Store, the Shelby.tv app delivers you a personalized channel of videos from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, Blip, and DailyMotion, as well as video shared by your friends on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook. Over time, Shelby.tv gets smart about what you like and don’t like and improves recommendations to give you that perfect daily dose of video entertainment.

Backupify, a Datto brand, provides cloud-to-cloud backup, allowing businesses to extend best practices for data safety and accessibility to the cloud. Backupify provides IT professionals with the protection and control they require to protect against data loss caused by user mistake, external attacks, and service outages.

Kinvey is the first Backend as a Service that makes it ridiculously easy for developers and enterprises to set up and operate a cloud backend for their mobile, tablet, and web apps. Its service lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their mobile applications. They don't have to worry about connecting to various cloud services or enterprise backend systems, setting up servers for their backend, or maintaining and scaling them. With Kinvey, developers just model their cloud backend needs and we auto-generate all the APIs they would need to access their data from any mobile, web, or computing platform. Developers then grab their APIs and connect to them directly or through native iOS, Android, JavaScript, etc., libraries that we provide. Kinvey is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Byliner works directly with the writers to deliver their stories to readers. These e-shorts are written to be read in two hours or less and can be purchased individually through major digital bookstores. It is also available online to subscribers, who get access to premium content from a by-invitation community of writers--including thousands of rarely-seen and exclusive stories from authors.

Cardeas Pharma is developing a novel antibiotic formulation of two drugs with synergistic activity against all relevant, highly resistant Gram-negative bacilli, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. In addition, this antibiotic formulation has activity on biofilms. The combination also has activity against Gram-positive pathogens including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This formulation is administered using a single-patient use, vibrating-plate nebulizer that is compatible with all ventilators. The nebulizer creates small, uniform aerosol droplets that deliver drug to the small airways and alveoli. Integration of this novel antibiotic formulation and device has the potential to achieve significant clinical outcomes relative to current standard therapy.

Awarepoint is the leader in providing workflow automation and tracking solutions to the acute care hospital marketplace. Real-time Location System (RTLS) solutions have quickly become must-have tools for hospitals tackling asset management, compliance, and efficient patient throughput challenges. Ever increasing numbers of advanced healthcare provider organizations are turning to Awarepoint and our software and technology platform solution as their RTLS-enabled workflow automation provider of choice. Awarepoint's industry leading RTLS solutions portfolio addresses needs throughout the hospital enterprise versus a best-of-breed island approach that forces hospitals to manage a multitude of vendor solutions for asset tracking and patient flow. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in San Diego, California.

Simulmedia is the leader in cross-channel TV advertising. With our TV+® platform, we deliver unparalleled reach, measurement, and results wherever audiences watch or stream. Founded In 2008, Simulmedia pioneered a data-first, digital approach to TV ad placement and optimization that changed TV advertising forever. With TV+, Simulmedia helps advertisers and agencies quickly and effectively reach viewers scattered across both linear television and connected TV at guaranteed scale without wasteful duplication.

Memrise is a language learning platform available in iOS, android, and web. It has more than 150 language courses across 25 languages. The app has over 40 million registered users, all courses are totally free to learn, and there is no advertising. There are extra features and learn modes that can be unlocked with a Memrise Pro subscription. Memrise has been profitable since late 2016.

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.