Automated Insights
Series B in 2014
Automated Insights Inc. is a Durham, North Carolina-based artificial intelligence company specializing in content automation services. It is best known for its Wordsmith platform, which is a natural language generation tool that transforms raw data into human-readable narratives, articles, summaries, and visualizations such as charts and graphs. This technology allows organizations across various sectors, including finance, real estate, and media, to efficiently produce large volumes of personalized content, enabling them to highlight key trends and insights from their data. With over 200 clients, including notable names like Allstate and The Associated Press, Automated Insights generates more than 1.5 billion pieces of content annually. Founded in 2007, the company originally operated as StatSheet, Inc. before rebranding in 2011.
Mobile Posse
Series C in 2012
Mobile Posse, Inc. is a company based in Arlington, Virginia, specializing in mobile content discovery solutions that empower wireless carriers and device manufacturers to enhance their mobile advertising strategies. Founded in 2005, Mobile Posse offers the Firstly Mobile content discovery platform, which provides users with engaging curated content seamlessly, eliminating the need for swipes or searches. This frictionless experience not only improves user engagement but also helps carriers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) increase their advertising revenues. The company also provides a customer relationship management (CRM) solution for direct outreach to customers and a web portal that transforms default home pages into profitable assets. Mobile Posse operates as a subsidiary of Digital Turbine Media, Inc. as of February 2020.
Automated Insights
Series A in 2011
Automated Insights Inc. is a Durham, North Carolina-based artificial intelligence company specializing in content automation services. It is best known for its Wordsmith platform, which is a natural language generation tool that transforms raw data into human-readable narratives, articles, summaries, and visualizations such as charts and graphs. This technology allows organizations across various sectors, including finance, real estate, and media, to efficiently produce large volumes of personalized content, enabling them to highlight key trends and insights from their data. With over 200 clients, including notable names like Allstate and The Associated Press, Automated Insights generates more than 1.5 billion pieces of content annually. Founded in 2007, the company originally operated as StatSheet, Inc. before rebranding in 2011.
TraffIQ
Venture Round in 2010
TRAFFIQ is a digital media planning and buying platform established in 2006, with offices in New York, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. The company offers a self-service management platform designed to enhance the efficiency and control of advertisers and publishers over their media campaigns. TRAFFIQ provides a comprehensive suite of tools that streamline the media planning and buying process, facilitating negotiations and managing ad operations, including trafficking, tracking, optimization, reconciliation, and billing. The platform enables seamless communication and transactions between agencies, advertisers, and over 2,200 publishers globally, offering access to more than 100 billion daily impressions. TRAFFIQ operates on a commission-based model, where sellers pay a fixed percentage on ads sold, and advertisers only cover the cost of media. The company has experienced significant growth, doubling its staff and marketplace presence over the years, and has been recognized as one of America's Fastest Growing Companies.
Imagine Communications
Venture Round in 2010
Imagine Communications, Inc. specializes in digital video processing and edge multiplexing solutions aimed at enhancing the broadcasting capabilities of its clients. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company offers a range of products, including the ICE video platform, ICE broadcast system, ICE SDV system, and ICE VOD system. These solutions facilitate services such as IPTV, wireless video, and over-the-top Internet video, while improving bandwidth efficiency and enabling on-demand, interactive, and personalized television experiences. The company's technology is designed to empower content providers, cable operators, and digital broadcast and VOD system operators. Additionally, Imagine Communications has research and development and engineering operations located in Israel, further enhancing its innovative capabilities in the media and entertainment sectors.
TRAFFIQ is a digital media planning and buying platform established in 2006, with offices in New York, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. The company offers a self-service management platform designed to enhance the efficiency and control of advertisers and publishers over their media campaigns. TRAFFIQ provides a comprehensive suite of tools that streamline the media planning and buying process, facilitating negotiations and managing ad operations, including trafficking, tracking, optimization, reconciliation, and billing. The platform enables seamless communication and transactions between agencies, advertisers, and over 2,200 publishers globally, offering access to more than 100 billion daily impressions. TRAFFIQ operates on a commission-based model, where sellers pay a fixed percentage on ads sold, and advertisers only cover the cost of media. The company has experienced significant growth, doubling its staff and marketplace presence over the years, and has been recognized as one of America's Fastest Growing Companies.
Grab Media
Private Equity Round in 2009
Grab Media is a prominent video distribution company that specializes in connecting premium video content with a diverse array of professional sources and well-known advertisers. The company offers digital advertising and video syndication solutions, enabling marketers to effectively reach large, engaged audiences. By hosting, distributing, and monetizing streaming media, Grab Media allows brands to concentrate on promoting their messages while ensuring that their content reaches the right viewers.
Echo360 (
Venture Round in 2008
Echo360, Inc. is a developer of a Software-as-a-Service learning and analytics platform tailored for higher education institutions both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Virginia, the company offers a comprehensive solution that enables users to capture, share, and enhance classroom experiences through features such as polls, quizzes, and instructional video recordings. Its platform facilitates connections between students and instructors worldwide and provides learning analytics to identify student engagement levels and potential challenges before exams. Additionally, Echo360 includes a learning library for storing educational materials, universal capture software for recording content on various devices, and an automatic speech recognition solution to support video-based learning. The company aims to transform educational experiences by leveraging active learning technology and interactive software to engage students effectively.
Apreso Classroom
Series B in 2008
Educational institutions the world over are increasingly recognizing the value of making course lectures available to students for online review. They enable students to improve comprehension and retention, professors to improve the effectiveness of class and office hours, and universities to boost facility and technology usage. However, most solutions for getting lecture content online are prohibitively expensive, difficult to use, and lack the operational simplicity required for university-wide acceptance. Anystream's Apreso Classroom is an affordable automated lecture capture and Web publishing system that produces online versions of the classroom experience for on-demand student review. Apreso Classroom can be scheduled to start and stop automatically, removing the need for professors to learn to operate the system or change the way they teach. It automatically captures and synchronizes the professor's voice with visual aids being projected in the classroom, and posts an interactive, indexed Web-based version of the lecture to university websites or course management system. Designed specifically for higher education, Apreso Classroom's enterprise architecture integrates with campus-wide information systems. Permanently installed in the classroom, and operating without attendants, Apreso Classroom is the first lecture capture system affordable and practical enough to be deployed campus-wide.
Echo360 (
Series B in 2008
Echo360, Inc. is a developer of a Software-as-a-Service learning and analytics platform tailored for higher education institutions both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Virginia, the company offers a comprehensive solution that enables users to capture, share, and enhance classroom experiences through features such as polls, quizzes, and instructional video recordings. Its platform facilitates connections between students and instructors worldwide and provides learning analytics to identify student engagement levels and potential challenges before exams. Additionally, Echo360 includes a learning library for storing educational materials, universal capture software for recording content on various devices, and an automatic speech recognition solution to support video-based learning. The company aims to transform educational experiences by leveraging active learning technology and interactive software to engage students effectively.
Bug Labs
Venture Round in 2008
Bug Labs is a technology company based in New York that specializes in developing tools and solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. The company's flagship product is BUG, a modular hardware system that allows users to create custom digital devices by combining various modules such as LCD screens, cameras, GPS units, and sensors. Bug Labs also offers Swarm, a REST-based messaging platform for IoT, and dweet and freeboard, software platforms for data storage, alerts, and user management. Additionally, the company provides prototyping services including systems integration, hardware solution design, and application development workshops, as well as private labeling services to support custom website development and mobile applications. Bug Labs serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 100 companies, developers, and non-technical innovators.
Lively, a subsidiary of Best Buy, specializes in mobile health and safety solutions tailored for older adults and their caregivers. The company offers a range of products designed to promote independence and well-being among seniors, including the Lively Mobile and Lively Wearable devices, as well as the Jitterbug Smart2 and Jitterbug Flip phones. Its suite of mobile applications includes services such as Urgent Care, GreatCall Link, MedCoach, and 5Star, which provide medical assistance, medication management, and emergency response capabilities. With a focus on ease of use, Lively’s products feature senior-friendly hardware and one-touch connectivity to trained agents who can assist with emergencies and other needs. The company serves over 900,000 subscribers across the United States, aiming to enhance the quality of life for aging consumers through innovative technology and dedicated customer care.
Mobile Posse
Series B in 2007
Mobile Posse, Inc. is a company based in Arlington, Virginia, specializing in mobile content discovery solutions that empower wireless carriers and device manufacturers to enhance their mobile advertising strategies. Founded in 2005, Mobile Posse offers the Firstly Mobile content discovery platform, which provides users with engaging curated content seamlessly, eliminating the need for swipes or searches. This frictionless experience not only improves user engagement but also helps carriers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) increase their advertising revenues. The company also provides a customer relationship management (CRM) solution for direct outreach to customers and a web portal that transforms default home pages into profitable assets. Mobile Posse operates as a subsidiary of Digital Turbine Media, Inc. as of February 2020.
Imagine Communications
Series B in 2007
Imagine Communications, Inc. specializes in digital video processing and edge multiplexing solutions aimed at enhancing the broadcasting capabilities of its clients. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Diego, California, the company offers a range of products, including the ICE video platform, ICE broadcast system, ICE SDV system, and ICE VOD system. These solutions facilitate services such as IPTV, wireless video, and over-the-top Internet video, while improving bandwidth efficiency and enabling on-demand, interactive, and personalized television experiences. The company's technology is designed to empower content providers, cable operators, and digital broadcast and VOD system operators. Additionally, Imagine Communications has research and development and engineering operations located in Israel, further enhancing its innovative capabilities in the media and entertainment sectors.
Mintera Corporation, established in 2000 and headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, specializes in the development and marketing of high-speed optical transmission systems. The company's product portfolio includes advanced fiber-optic transport systems designed for deployment in various network environments such as metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul networks. These systems are utilized by carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies to facilitate efficient data transport. Mintera's offerings enable the management of optical channels carrying high-speed signals, ensuring reliable and fast data transmission across different network infrastructures.
Mintera Corporation, established in 2000 and headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, specializes in the development and marketing of high-speed optical transmission systems. The company's product portfolio includes advanced fiber-optic transport systems designed for deployment in various network environments such as metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul networks. These systems are utilized by carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies to facilitate efficient data transport. Mintera's offerings enable the management of optical channels carrying high-speed signals, ensuring reliable and fast data transmission across different network infrastructures.
Voxant is a new media company based in Herndon, Virginia in the United States. Voxant is a privately held company which was founded in 2004. In April 2006, Voxant launched its new media network, syndicating fully-licensed news and information content to Web publishers and bloggers. Today over 35,000 Web publishers and bloggers are members of the network. Content distributed by Voxant includes news clips, stories, and images from about 250 sources including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, MTV News, Reuters, The Associated Press, Agence France Presse and New York Financial Press.
TRAFFIQ is a digital media planning and buying platform established in 2006, with offices in New York, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. The company offers a self-service management platform designed to enhance the efficiency and control of advertisers and publishers over their media campaigns. TRAFFIQ provides a comprehensive suite of tools that streamline the media planning and buying process, facilitating negotiations and managing ad operations, including trafficking, tracking, optimization, reconciliation, and billing. The platform enables seamless communication and transactions between agencies, advertisers, and over 2,200 publishers globally, offering access to more than 100 billion daily impressions. TRAFFIQ operates on a commission-based model, where sellers pay a fixed percentage on ads sold, and advertisers only cover the cost of media. The company has experienced significant growth, doubling its staff and marketplace presence over the years, and has been recognized as one of America's Fastest Growing Companies.
SNOCAP was a digital rights and content management startup founded in 2002 by Shawn Fanning, Jordan Mendelson, and Ron Conway, emerging shortly after the decline of Napster. The company aimed to create technology that allowed content owners, particularly artists and labels, to register their works and establish control over their distribution online. SNOCAP secured partnerships with major music labels to facilitate content registration in its digital registry, which was designed to support "legal P2P" services by tracking and filtering music sharing. The company developed MyStores, enabling independent artists and labels to sell music through platforms like MySpace, where over 110,000 artists participated. Additionally, SNOCAP partnered with imeem to track music played on its platform and share ad revenue with rights holders. In 2008, SNOCAP was acquired by imeem, which continued to utilize its technology for ad-supported streaming services. Throughout its operation, SNOCAP raised over $25 million in funding to support its innovative approach to digital licensing and copyright management.
Mintera Corporation, established in 2000 and headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, specializes in the development and marketing of high-speed optical transmission systems. The company's product portfolio includes advanced fiber-optic transport systems designed for deployment in various network environments such as metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul networks. These systems are utilized by carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies to facilitate efficient data transport. Mintera's offerings enable the management of optical channels carrying high-speed signals, ensuring reliable and fast data transmission across different network infrastructures.
CSTV Networks
Venture Round in 2003
CSTV Networks, Inc., operating as CBS Sports Network, is a prominent sports television channel that broadcasts a wide array of men’s and women’s sports, including college football and basketball, offering live games and programming 24 hours a day. The company reaches over 21 million homes through cable and satellite services and provides online content via its website, which encompasses around 215 official college athletic sites. In addition to its broadcasting services, CSTV Networks operates sports radio stations and sells sports apparel, accessories, and gear through its online store. Originally known as College Sports Television, the company rebranded to CSTV Networks, Inc. in 2005, reflecting its broader scope in sports media and merchandise.
Taqua Systems
Series B in 2003
Taqua Systems, established in 1998, specializes in providing converged switching, gateway, and media processing solutions for wireline, cable, and wireless carriers. Its product portfolio includes the Virtual Mobile Core, enabling rapid deployment of mobile voice and messaging services, and the T7000 Intelligent Switching System, an end-office soft-switch and IP multimedia processing engine. Taqua also offers professional services such as project management, installation, and training, along with business services like hosted PBX and call center solutions. The company has strategic partnerships with industry leaders like BroadSoft and Cisco, and operates globally with headquarters in Richardson, Texas, and R&D facilities in the US and Canada.
Optinel Systems
Series B in 2002
Optinel Systems specializes in optical communication systems and subsystems, focusing on the cable market. The company develops optical Ethernet transport products tailored to meet the needs of high-bandwidth, converged services networks. Optinel's solutions empower service providers to construct high-capacity fiber-optic networks that can transmit video, data, and voice traffic simultaneously over long distances in their native formats. The company offers essential management tools that ensure carrier-level reliability, allowing for flexible and scalable network solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing hardware. With its technology, Optinel supports the deployment of various services, including broadcast video, video-on-demand, high-speed data, cable telephony, and business services.
nCircle Network Security
Series C in 2002
nCircle Network Security, Inc. specializes in agentless security risk and compliance management solutions for various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and government agencies. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of products designed to identify, measure, and manage security risks while automating compliance processes. Key offerings include IP360, which provides vulnerability prioritization and remediation workflow, and the Topology Risk Analyzer, which enhances vulnerability assessment by analyzing network layouts. Additionally, nCircle provides the Security Intelligence Hub for integrating network intelligence and nTellect, a threat prioritization system that improves the effectiveness of intrusion detection systems. The company also offers services such as automated PCI compliance scanning and regulatory compliance solutions, alongside consulting and training services. With regional offices in Atlanta, Toronto, and London, nCircle's solutions help organizations reduce security risks and ensure compliance with internal and governmental standards.
nCircle Network Security
Series B in 2001
nCircle Network Security, Inc. specializes in agentless security risk and compliance management solutions for various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and government agencies. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a range of products designed to identify, measure, and manage security risks while automating compliance processes. Key offerings include IP360, which provides vulnerability prioritization and remediation workflow, and the Topology Risk Analyzer, which enhances vulnerability assessment by analyzing network layouts. Additionally, nCircle provides the Security Intelligence Hub for integrating network intelligence and nTellect, a threat prioritization system that improves the effectiveness of intrusion detection systems. The company also offers services such as automated PCI compliance scanning and regulatory compliance solutions, alongside consulting and training services. With regional offices in Atlanta, Toronto, and London, nCircle's solutions help organizations reduce security risks and ensure compliance with internal and governmental standards.
Mintera Corporation, established in 2000 and headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, specializes in the development and marketing of high-speed optical transmission systems. The company's product portfolio includes advanced fiber-optic transport systems designed for deployment in various network environments such as metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul networks. These systems are utilized by carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies to facilitate efficient data transport. Mintera's offerings enable the management of optical channels carrying high-speed signals, ensuring reliable and fast data transmission across different network infrastructures.