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. specializes in mobile content discovery solutions designed to enhance the user experience for wireless carriers and device manufacturers. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with an additional office in New York, the company offers the Firstly Mobile™ platform, which delivers engaging curated content directly to users' smartphones without the need for traditional search methods. This frictionless approach not only improves consumer engagement but also helps carriers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) increase advertising revenues. Mobile Posse's offerings include a customer relationship management solution for direct outreach and a web portal that transforms default home pages into profit-generating assets. As of early 2020, the company operates as a subsidiary of Digital Turbine Media, Inc., further solidifying its position in the mobile advertising economy.
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 located in New York, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. The platform serves both advertisers and publishers by offering a self-service management system that enhances efficiency and cost-effectiveness while providing complete control over budgets and campaign management. TRAFFIQ streamlines media planning and buying through a comprehensive suite of tools that facilitate negotiations, centralized ad operations, trafficking, tracking, optimization, reconciliation, and billing, all within its platform. The marketplace offers over 100 billion daily impressions from 2,200 publishers, catering to more than 400 agencies and advertisers. TRAFFIQ operates without upfront costs or hidden fees, charging sellers a fixed commission on ads sold and allowing advertisers to pay solely for media costs. The platform has gained recognition for its innovative approach and was recently ranked #50 on the Inc. 500 list 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 located in New York, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. The platform serves both advertisers and publishers by offering a self-service management system that enhances efficiency and cost-effectiveness while providing complete control over budgets and campaign management. TRAFFIQ streamlines media planning and buying through a comprehensive suite of tools that facilitate negotiations, centralized ad operations, trafficking, tracking, optimization, reconciliation, and billing, all within its platform. The marketplace offers over 100 billion daily impressions from 2,200 publishers, catering to more than 400 agencies and advertisers. TRAFFIQ operates without upfront costs or hidden fees, charging sellers a fixed commission on ads sold and allowing advertisers to pay solely for media costs. The platform has gained recognition for its innovative approach and was recently ranked #50 on the Inc. 500 list 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, 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, Inc. is a technology company specializing in the development and sale of tools and solutions for M2M and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The company offers a modular hardware system known as BUG, which allows users to create customized digital devices by adding various Bugmodules, including components like LCD screens, cameras, and sensors. Additionally, Bug Labs provides a cloud-based messaging platform called Swarm, along with software solutions such as dweet and freeboard for data storage, alerts, and device management. The company also offers prototyping services, including systems integration and application development, as well as private labeling support for custom models and applications. Bug Labs serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 100 companies, developers, and innovators across the United States. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in New York, New York.
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. specializes in mobile content discovery solutions designed to enhance the user experience for wireless carriers and device manufacturers. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with an additional office in New York, the company offers the Firstly Mobile™ platform, which delivers engaging curated content directly to users' smartphones without the need for traditional search methods. This frictionless approach not only improves consumer engagement but also helps carriers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) increase advertising revenues. Mobile Posse's offerings include a customer relationship management solution for direct outreach and a web portal that transforms default home pages into profit-generating assets. As of early 2020, the company operates as a subsidiary of Digital Turbine Media, Inc., further solidifying its position in the mobile advertising economy.
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, founded in 2000 and based in Acton, Massachusetts, specializes in developing and marketing high-speed optical transmission systems. The company offers advanced transport subsystems, including the MI 40000XS, designed for carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies. Mintera's fiber-optic transport systems facilitate the deployment of optical transport across various network types, including metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra long-haul networks. This technology enables clients to effectively manage and supervise optical channels that carry data signals.
Mintera Corporation, founded in 2000 and based in Acton, Massachusetts, specializes in developing and marketing high-speed optical transmission systems. The company offers advanced transport subsystems, including the MI 40000XS, designed for carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies. Mintera's fiber-optic transport systems facilitate the deployment of optical transport across various network types, including metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra long-haul networks. This technology enables clients to effectively manage and supervise optical channels that carry data signals.
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 located in New York, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland. The platform serves both advertisers and publishers by offering a self-service management system that enhances efficiency and cost-effectiveness while providing complete control over budgets and campaign management. TRAFFIQ streamlines media planning and buying through a comprehensive suite of tools that facilitate negotiations, centralized ad operations, trafficking, tracking, optimization, reconciliation, and billing, all within its platform. The marketplace offers over 100 billion daily impressions from 2,200 publishers, catering to more than 400 agencies and advertisers. TRAFFIQ operates without upfront costs or hidden fees, charging sellers a fixed commission on ads sold and allowing advertisers to pay solely for media costs. The platform has gained recognition for its innovative approach and was recently ranked #50 on the Inc. 500 list of America's Fastest Growing Companies.
SNOCAP was a digital rights and content management startup established in 2002 by Shawn Fanning, Jordan Mendelson, and investor Ron Conway, emerging in the wake of Napster's closure. The company aimed to provide technology that allowed content owners, particularly artists and labels, to register their works and manage how they were distributed online. SNOCAP secured partnerships with all four major music labels to integrate their content into its digital registry. Its technology was designed to facilitate legal peer-to-peer sharing by enabling services to track and filter music sharing, although efforts with services like Mashboxx and Grokster did not materialize. In collaboration with MySpace, SNOCAP developed MyStore widgets, allowing over 110,000 independent artists to sell music directly. Additionally, in 2007, SNOCAP partnered with imeem to track music played on the platform and share ad revenue with content creators. The company was acquired by imeem in 2008, which continued to utilize SNOCAP's technology for its streaming music service. Overall, SNOCAP focused on digital licensing and copyright management, supporting artists in navigating the evolving landscape of digital music distribution.
Mintera Corporation, founded in 2000 and based in Acton, Massachusetts, specializes in developing and marketing high-speed optical transmission systems. The company offers advanced transport subsystems, including the MI 40000XS, designed for carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies. Mintera's fiber-optic transport systems facilitate the deployment of optical transport across various network types, including metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra long-haul networks. This technology enables clients to effectively manage and supervise optical channels that carry data signals.
CSTV Networks
Venture Round in 2003
CSTV Networks, Inc., known as CBS Sports Network, is a prominent operator of a sports television channel that focuses on college sports. The network broadcasts a variety of men’s and women’s sports, including live games and programming centered around college football and basketball. With a commitment to showcasing college athletics 24 hours a day, CSTV Networks reaches over 21 million households through cable and satellite distribution. Additionally, the company operates sports radio stations and offers online broadcasts, complementing its television presence with a digital platform that includes around 215 official college athletic websites. CSTV Networks also features an online store that sells sports apparel, accessories, and gear. Originally founded as College Sports Television, the company rebranded in 2005 to reflect its broader programming focus.
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 tailored for high-bandwidth, converged services networks. The company offers optical Ethernet transport products that enable service providers to construct high-capacity fiber-optic networks, facilitating the simultaneous transmission of video, data, and voice traffic in their native formats over long distances. Optinel's solutions are designed to ensure carrier-level reliability and can easily integrate with existing hardware, providing flexible and scalable network capabilities. These products support a range of services, including broadcast video, video-on-demand, high-speed data, cable telephony, and business communications, catering to both residential and commercial markets.
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, founded in 2000 and based in Acton, Massachusetts, specializes in developing and marketing high-speed optical transmission systems. The company offers advanced transport subsystems, including the MI 40000XS, designed for carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies. Mintera's fiber-optic transport systems facilitate the deployment of optical transport across various network types, including metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra long-haul networks. This technology enables clients to effectively manage and supervise optical channels that carry data signals.