Claim operates a social shopping app that lets brands invest directly in customer acquisition through weekly Drops, helping Gen Z discover products with friends. The platform turns brand discovery into a social experience by linking consumer credit cards and social habits, enabling users to earn cash back for finding and sharing places they love. This approach aims to attract and engage the next generation of shoppers for brands in a scalable, low-risk way.
Claim operates a social shopping app that lets brands invest directly in customer acquisition through weekly Drops, helping Gen Z discover products with friends. The platform turns brand discovery into a social experience by linking consumer credit cards and social habits, enabling users to earn cash back for finding and sharing places they love. This approach aims to attract and engage the next generation of shoppers for brands in a scalable, low-risk way.
Mad Street Den
Series C in 2023
Mad Street Den is a computer vision and artificial intelligence company that develops a cloud-based platform to build models of generalizable intelligence and deploy them in retail and other industries. Its Vue.ai retail AI stack provides end-to-end solutions across the retail value chain, enabling onsite experiences, marketing, social channels, and operations automation. The MADstack platform offers modules such as object recognition, gaze tracking, emotion-expression detection, head and facial gestures, and 3D facial reconstruction for customizable AI applications. The company serves clients in online fashion, mobile gaming, IoT and connected cars, robotics, photos and social analytics, among other engagements. Founded in 2013 by Anand Chandrasekaran, the company operates from offices in Fremont, California, and maintains additional offices in Chennai and Bengaluru, India, and Tokyo, Japan.
WATI is an early-stage, fast-growing SaaS platform that is revolutionizing how businesses communicate with their customers. We believe customer relationships are built through conversations, one message at a time. Through our cutting-edge customer engagement software built on WhatsApp’s Business API, businesses are now able to have personalized conversations, be easily accessible and engage with their customers in real-time - at scale! We live in the on-demand economy, where customers expect fast, simple and easy service and that’s exactly what our platform empowers companies to do.
This is made possible through WATI’s easy-to-use platform that can be made up and running in no time. As a result, small and medium businesses have embraced the platform rapidly, and thousands of customers across 54 countries are now using WATI within just a year of launch.
Mutiny empowers B2B companies and SaaS businesses to personalize website experiences for target accounts using AI-powered microsites and account intelligence, driving pipeline generation and revenue growth.
Rigi is a creator-focused company that assists content creators and influencers with growing, managing, and monetizing their communities. Rigi allows creators of all levels to begin earning revenue. Rigi's automated features free users from the hassle of manual tasks, allowing them to concentrate on creating content.
Rigi was founded in 2021 with the goal of enabling India's ever-growing creator economy.
Tianyigou
Series A in 2022
Tianyigou is a supplier of international marketing services targeted at Chinese eCommerce companies. The business offers international marketing strategies, such as brand positioning, advertising, brand cooperation, and live streaming eCommerce, to Chinese retailers and merchants, allowing customers to expand their online sales channels.
Census is a leading data activation platform that utilizes Reverse ETL technology to transform data warehouses into central hubs for marketing and business operations. By facilitating the synchronization of customer data with essential tools, Census enables organizations to take actionable steps without the need for custom scripts or extensive engineering resources. The platform is utilized by numerous modern companies to enhance various outcomes, including personalized marketing for millions of users, significant improvements in sales productivity, and drastic reductions in customer support response times. Census focuses on aligning sales and marketing teams by sharing audience data effectively, allowing businesses to leverage and distribute product information where it is most needed.
Torus Labs
Series A in 2022
Torus Labs is a technology company that focuses on enhancing user experiences in the digital space through innovative solutions. It provides an online platform that facilitates information sharing related to digital marketing, market research, business growth, and analytics. Torus Labs is also known for its development of a blockchain platform that simplifies cryptographic key management, enabling users to manage token accounts securely. By leveraging decentralized key generation and proof mechanisms, the platform allows for secure control of transactions through private channels. With a culture that emphasizes impact and flexibility, Torus Labs aims to empower users with self-sovereignty and easy access to their digital assets.
Mutiny empowers B2B companies and SaaS businesses to personalize website experiences for target accounts using AI-powered microsites and account intelligence, driving pipeline generation and revenue growth.
Instacart
Venture Round in 2021
Instacart operates a grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada, partnering with local and national grocers to offer a broad catalog of items for home delivery. Customers can mix items from multiple stores in a single order, and orders are picked and delivered by shoppers who are typically independent contractors. The platform supports fast delivery, including options in as little as an hour. Instacart earns revenue from service fees based on order value and by selling advertising to consumer-packaged goods brands. The service catalogs about 500,000 items and attracts about 8 million monthly active users, supported by roughly 600,000 shoppers.
Site Biz Pros
Seed Round in 2021
Site Biz Pros provides a suite of software tools for small businesses to get online
Census is a leading data activation platform that utilizes Reverse ETL technology to transform data warehouses into central hubs for marketing and business operations. By facilitating the synchronization of customer data with essential tools, Census enables organizations to take actionable steps without the need for custom scripts or extensive engineering resources. The platform is utilized by numerous modern companies to enhance various outcomes, including personalized marketing for millions of users, significant improvements in sales productivity, and drastic reductions in customer support response times. Census focuses on aligning sales and marketing teams by sharing audience data effectively, allowing businesses to leverage and distribute product information where it is most needed.
Oribi Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in web analytics through its innovative online platform. The platform is designed for companies and marketing agencies, enabling them to focus on key conversions, analyze user interactions, and track various marketing channels. Oribi stands out as it does not require any integration or coding, allowing users to automatically track and group all actions on their websites, including button clicks. This functionality empowers product and marketing teams to obtain actionable insights without relying on developers. By utilizing artificial intelligence, Oribi provides businesses with valuable marketing statistics and insights that enhance their online campaigns, improve decision-making, and ultimately drive impactful results.
Mad Street Den
Series B in 2019
Mad Street Den is a computer vision and artificial intelligence company that develops a cloud-based platform to build models of generalizable intelligence and deploy them in retail and other industries. Its Vue.ai retail AI stack provides end-to-end solutions across the retail value chain, enabling onsite experiences, marketing, social channels, and operations automation. The MADstack platform offers modules such as object recognition, gaze tracking, emotion-expression detection, head and facial gestures, and 3D facial reconstruction for customizable AI applications. The company serves clients in online fashion, mobile gaming, IoT and connected cars, robotics, photos and social analytics, among other engagements. Founded in 2013 by Anand Chandrasekaran, the company operates from offices in Fremont, California, and maintains additional offices in Chennai and Bengaluru, India, and Tokyo, Japan.
Percolate
Series D in 2019
Percolate is a provider of a content marketing platform that enhances global marketing visibility and collaboration. The company's software integrates various marketing functions, including governance, planning, content creation, audience acquisition, customer management, and analytics. By uniting brand narratives, data, and customer interactions, Percolate empowers marketers to effectively build and manage complex marketing programs. This enables brands to efficiently organize integrated campaigns and deliver personalized content, ensuring that marketing efforts are aligned with customer engagement across all platforms and locations. With a focus on increasing productivity and driving sales, Percolate facilitates comprehensive control and agility for marketing teams.
Drawbridge
Venture Round in 2018
Drawbridge operates as a technology company specializing in identity management solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop scalable identity technologies. Its primary product is a platform designed to connect brands with consumers across various devices, supporting applications such as advertising, personalization, authentication, and risk detection. Drawbridge serves clients from diverse industries, aiming to enhance customer experiences through better understanding of users. The company has received backing from notable investors like Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Northgate Capital, and has been recognized for its growth and innovation by publications such as CNBC, Fortune, and Inc.
Drift is a revenue acceleration platform that leverages conversational marketing and sales techniques to enhance business growth and customer lifetime value. The platform is utilized by over 50,000 companies to synchronize sales and marketing efforts, providing a cohesive customer experience. Drift enables businesses to engage website visitors in real-time through the use of bots and artificial intelligence, facilitating live chat sessions that gather immediate customer feedback. This functionality allows clients to convert website traffic into qualified sales meetings, streamline the sales cycle, and create a contemporary buying experience for potential customers.
Instacart
Series E in 2018
Instacart operates a grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada, partnering with local and national grocers to offer a broad catalog of items for home delivery. Customers can mix items from multiple stores in a single order, and orders are picked and delivered by shoppers who are typically independent contractors. The platform supports fast delivery, including options in as little as an hour. Instacart earns revenue from service fees based on order value and by selling advertising to consumer-packaged goods brands. The service catalogs about 500,000 items and attracts about 8 million monthly active users, supported by roughly 600,000 shoppers.
Drift is a revenue acceleration platform that leverages conversational marketing and sales techniques to enhance business growth and customer lifetime value. The platform is utilized by over 50,000 companies to synchronize sales and marketing efforts, providing a cohesive customer experience. Drift enables businesses to engage website visitors in real-time through the use of bots and artificial intelligence, facilitating live chat sessions that gather immediate customer feedback. This functionality allows clients to convert website traffic into qualified sales meetings, streamline the sales cycle, and create a contemporary buying experience for potential customers.
Beyond One, an AR tech startup, is bringing people together by developing cutting edge Augmented Reality software for mobile devices and researching AR consumer content. Beyond One offers mobile AR content development and consulting services. We create mobile apps that advertise a brand’s product via interactive 3D product placement in Augmented Reality. Our advertisement strategy enables brands to reach highly targeted audiences through content relevancy and interactive gameplay, thus yielding higher customer conversions. We work with brands to create a marketing strategy, develop the AR app in house, and deploy it through the brand’s marketing networks.
Beyond One created the Local Position Sync (LPS) system, which enables several people to see and interact with virtual objects in AR at the same time. Through LPS, Beyond One has conducted research on AR consumer content development to identify compelling use-cases for mobile AR.
Instacart
Series D in 2017
Instacart operates a grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada, partnering with local and national grocers to offer a broad catalog of items for home delivery. Customers can mix items from multiple stores in a single order, and orders are picked and delivered by shoppers who are typically independent contractors. The platform supports fast delivery, including options in as little as an hour. Instacart earns revenue from service fees based on order value and by selling advertising to consumer-packaged goods brands. The service catalogs about 500,000 items and attracts about 8 million monthly active users, supported by roughly 600,000 shoppers.
Drawbridge
Series C in 2016
Drawbridge operates as a technology company specializing in identity management solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop scalable identity technologies. Its primary product is a platform designed to connect brands with consumers across various devices, supporting applications such as advertising, personalization, authentication, and risk detection. Drawbridge serves clients from diverse industries, aiming to enhance customer experiences through better understanding of users. The company has received backing from notable investors like Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Northgate Capital, and has been recognized for its growth and innovation by publications such as CNBC, Fortune, and Inc.
Kahuna, Inc. is a marketing automation software company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in creating highly personalized experiences for both buyers and sellers within various marketplaces. Utilizing advanced machine-learning technology, Kahuna provides solutions for cross-channel marketing, optimization, and analytics, enabling clients to enhance engagement, product, and pricing strategies. Its notable clientele includes major brands such as The Dollar Shave Club, Yahoo, Yelp, Overstock.com, and Travelzoo. With a substantial user base of over 144 million engaged users and billions of messages and optimized events processed, Kahuna has established itself as a leading solution for marketplaces of all sizes.
Percolate
Series C in 2015
Percolate is a provider of a content marketing platform that enhances global marketing visibility and collaboration. The company's software integrates various marketing functions, including governance, planning, content creation, audience acquisition, customer management, and analytics. By uniting brand narratives, data, and customer interactions, Percolate empowers marketers to effectively build and manage complex marketing programs. This enables brands to efficiently organize integrated campaigns and deliver personalized content, ensuring that marketing efforts are aligned with customer engagement across all platforms and locations. With a focus on increasing productivity and driving sales, Percolate facilitates comprehensive control and agility for marketing teams.
Zomato is a global online platform that combines restaurant discovery, reviews, and food ordering with table reservations. It enables users to search for restaurants, read and write reviews, rate experiences, and order meals for delivery or book a table. The platform connects millions of users with restaurants across multiple countries and provides an ecosystem for partners to engage through advertising. In India, it operates Hyperpure, a program that supplies high-quality ingredients to partner kitchens. Through its integrated services, Zomato aims to simplify dining and food procurement for consumers and support partners with a comprehensive suite of dining and ordering options.
Instacart
Series C in 2015
Instacart operates a grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada, partnering with local and national grocers to offer a broad catalog of items for home delivery. Customers can mix items from multiple stores in a single order, and orders are picked and delivered by shoppers who are typically independent contractors. The platform supports fast delivery, including options in as little as an hour. Instacart earns revenue from service fees based on order value and by selling advertising to consumer-packaged goods brands. The service catalogs about 500,000 items and attracts about 8 million monthly active users, supported by roughly 600,000 shoppers.
Zomato is a global online platform that combines restaurant discovery, reviews, and food ordering with table reservations. It enables users to search for restaurants, read and write reviews, rate experiences, and order meals for delivery or book a table. The platform connects millions of users with restaurants across multiple countries and provides an ecosystem for partners to engage through advertising. In India, it operates Hyperpure, a program that supplies high-quality ingredients to partner kitchens. Through its integrated services, Zomato aims to simplify dining and food procurement for consumers and support partners with a comprehensive suite of dining and ordering options.
Instacart
Series B in 2014
Instacart operates a grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada, partnering with local and national grocers to offer a broad catalog of items for home delivery. Customers can mix items from multiple stores in a single order, and orders are picked and delivered by shoppers who are typically independent contractors. The platform supports fast delivery, including options in as little as an hour. Instacart earns revenue from service fees based on order value and by selling advertising to consumer-packaged goods brands. The service catalogs about 500,000 items and attracts about 8 million monthly active users, supported by roughly 600,000 shoppers.
AgilOne Inc., founded in 2005 and based in Sunnyvale, California, develops a predictive marketing cloud technology aimed at enhancing omni-channel experiences for retailers. The company's platform combines advanced database management, predictive analytics, and campaign management to help marketers understand customers better and send effective marketing messages. AgilOne offers solutions such as predictive cart recovery, email retargeting, repeat purchase programs, and customer reactivation to increase conversions and customer lifetime value. Additionally, the company provides tools like Cohort Analysis for business insights and Lightning IQ for querying large datasets quickly. These offerings enable businesses to optimize customer engagement, boost repeat purchases, and foster more profitable relationships across various channels.
Percolate
Series B in 2014
Percolate is a provider of a content marketing platform that enhances global marketing visibility and collaboration. The company's software integrates various marketing functions, including governance, planning, content creation, audience acquisition, customer management, and analytics. By uniting brand narratives, data, and customer interactions, Percolate empowers marketers to effectively build and manage complex marketing programs. This enables brands to efficiently organize integrated campaigns and deliver personalized content, ensuring that marketing efforts are aligned with customer engagement across all platforms and locations. With a focus on increasing productivity and driving sales, Percolate facilitates comprehensive control and agility for marketing teams.
Flite
Venture Round in 2014
Flite, Inc., established in 2006, is a technology company based in San Francisco with offices in New York and Chicago. It operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. Flite develops and runs a cloud-based platform that empowers advertisers to create, manage, and optimize digital ad campaigns in real-time. The platform enables creative professionals to design visually appealing, interactive ads and allows marketers to respond to real-time performance metrics and daily events by updating their paid media creatives with relevant content and functionality. Flite's offerings include a Programmatic Creative platform, Design Studio, and responsive ad creation for mobile, tablet, and desktop browsers.
Kahuna, Inc. is a marketing automation software company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2012. The company specializes in creating highly personalized experiences for both buyers and sellers within various marketplaces. Utilizing advanced machine-learning technology, Kahuna provides solutions for cross-channel marketing, optimization, and analytics, enabling clients to enhance engagement, product, and pricing strategies. Its notable clientele includes major brands such as The Dollar Shave Club, Yahoo, Yelp, Overstock.com, and Travelzoo. With a substantial user base of over 144 million engaged users and billions of messages and optimized events processed, Kahuna has established itself as a leading solution for marketplaces of all sizes.
Zomato is a global online platform that combines restaurant discovery, reviews, and food ordering with table reservations. It enables users to search for restaurants, read and write reviews, rate experiences, and order meals for delivery or book a table. The platform connects millions of users with restaurants across multiple countries and provides an ecosystem for partners to engage through advertising. In India, it operates Hyperpure, a program that supplies high-quality ingredients to partner kitchens. Through its integrated services, Zomato aims to simplify dining and food procurement for consumers and support partners with a comprehensive suite of dining and ordering options.
Instacart
Series A in 2013
Instacart operates a grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada, partnering with local and national grocers to offer a broad catalog of items for home delivery. Customers can mix items from multiple stores in a single order, and orders are picked and delivered by shoppers who are typically independent contractors. The platform supports fast delivery, including options in as little as an hour. Instacart earns revenue from service fees based on order value and by selling advertising to consumer-packaged goods brands. The service catalogs about 500,000 items and attracts about 8 million monthly active users, supported by roughly 600,000 shoppers.
Drawbridge
Series B in 2013
Drawbridge operates as a technology company specializing in identity management solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop scalable identity technologies. Its primary product is a platform designed to connect brands with consumers across various devices, supporting applications such as advertising, personalization, authentication, and risk detection. Drawbridge serves clients from diverse industries, aiming to enhance customer experiences through better understanding of users. The company has received backing from notable investors like Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Northgate Capital, and has been recognized for its growth and innovation by publications such as CNBC, Fortune, and Inc.
AgilOne Inc., founded in 2005 and based in Sunnyvale, California, develops a predictive marketing cloud technology aimed at enhancing omni-channel experiences for retailers. The company's platform combines advanced database management, predictive analytics, and campaign management to help marketers understand customers better and send effective marketing messages. AgilOne offers solutions such as predictive cart recovery, email retargeting, repeat purchase programs, and customer reactivation to increase conversions and customer lifetime value. Additionally, the company provides tools like Cohort Analysis for business insights and Lightning IQ for querying large datasets quickly. These offerings enable businesses to optimize customer engagement, boost repeat purchases, and foster more profitable relationships across various channels.
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points.
By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.
Hua Data Technology is a Chinese professional service company established in March 2002, specializing in high-level data mining and data analysis. The company offers a digital and risk marketing platform that provides comprehensive services, including application software and consulting solutions for marketing analysis, customer relationship management, and decision support. By focusing on advanced data analytics, Hua Data Technology aims to enhance scientific decision-making and optimize management processes for its clients, enabling them to achieve marketing excellence and improve operational efficiency.
Drawbridge
Series A in 2012
Drawbridge operates as a technology company specializing in identity management solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop scalable identity technologies. Its primary product is a platform designed to connect brands with consumers across various devices, supporting applications such as advertising, personalization, authentication, and risk detection. Drawbridge serves clients from diverse industries, aiming to enhance customer experiences through better understanding of users. The company has received backing from notable investors like Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Northgate Capital, and has been recognized for its growth and innovation by publications such as CNBC, Fortune, and Inc.
Instagram
Series B in 2012
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing platform founded in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It enables users to capture, edit with custom filters, and share content on various social networks. The platform facilitates user-generated content and targeted advertising, helping businesses connect with younger demographics.
POPSUGAR
Venture Round in 2011
POPSUGAR is a global lifestyle brand catering to women aged 18-40. It offers updates, trends, and tips across entertainment, fashion, parenting, fitness, food, and news, along with original video content and shopping experiences. POPSUGAR also enables brands to reach consumers through custom content solutions.
Flite, Inc., established in 2006, is a technology company based in San Francisco with offices in New York and Chicago. It operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. Flite develops and runs a cloud-based platform that empowers advertisers to create, manage, and optimize digital ad campaigns in real-time. The platform enables creative professionals to design visually appealing, interactive ads and allows marketers to respond to real-time performance metrics and daily events by updating their paid media creatives with relevant content and functionality. Flite's offerings include a Programmatic Creative platform, Design Studio, and responsive ad creation for mobile, tablet, and desktop browsers.
Clickatell
Series B in 2011
Clickatell is a technology company that enables chat-based commerce and mobile messaging for businesses. Its platform supports real-time notifications, marketing campaigns, two-factor authentication, customer relationship management, and mobile payments, allowing brands to engage customers via SMS, chat, and other channels. It also offers on-device prepaid top-up services and USSD-based self-service banking features, along with security tools such as multi-factor authentication and a digital contact center solution for real-time agent support. Clickatell’s Chat Commerce Platform facilitates creating and growing customer relationships through chat, engagement, and payment solutions, enabling organizations to manage millions of conversations and transactions without apps or cash. The company serves enterprises, government, and developers worldwide, with offices in the United States, South Africa, and Nigeria. Founded in 2000, Clickatell focuses on connecting brands with customers through chat and mobile messaging across global markets.
AgilOne Inc., founded in 2005 and based in Sunnyvale, California, develops a predictive marketing cloud technology aimed at enhancing omni-channel experiences for retailers. The company's platform combines advanced database management, predictive analytics, and campaign management to help marketers understand customers better and send effective marketing messages. AgilOne offers solutions such as predictive cart recovery, email retargeting, repeat purchase programs, and customer reactivation to increase conversions and customer lifetime value. Additionally, the company provides tools like Cohort Analysis for business insights and Lightning IQ for querying large datasets quickly. These offerings enable businesses to optimize customer engagement, boost repeat purchases, and foster more profitable relationships across various channels.
Meebo is a consumer internet company based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in enhancing user engagement across the web through an advertising-supported embedded social media platform. Launched in September 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry, Meebo's flagship product, the Meebo Bar, is integrated into various websites, allowing publishers and advertisers to weave content engagement and brand experiences into users' online interactions. The platform enables users to share pictures, videos, websites, and articles across multiple social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, while also providing insights into the performance of their shared content. Meebo has expanded its operations to six offices across major U.S. cities, including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, and aims to connect people and facilitate real-time communication through a simple, user-friendly solution.
Huayi is a company focused on offering long-distance medical education training and service technology to the Chinese medical industry. Its website operations are based on more than two million doctor databases and rely on a township medical education platform, CME education platform, science and education management platform, as well as other platforms.
Huayi provides pharmaceutical enterprises with services such as doctor-oriented professional training, on-line interaction, and doctor database marketing.
Huayi's branches include Huayi Medical Education Center, Beijing Zhijin Leye Education Technology, and Beijing Huayi Xinye Technology. It is a double soft certification enterprise recognized by the Beijing Committee of Science and Technology, and the strategic cooperation partner of the School of Distance Learning for Medical Education of Peking University.
POPSUGAR is a global lifestyle brand catering to women aged 18-40. It offers updates, trends, and tips across entertainment, fashion, parenting, fitness, food, and news, along with original video content and shopping experiences. POPSUGAR also enables brands to reach consumers through custom content solutions.
Cdream Network
Series A in 2008
Cdream Network is an internet value-added service platform dedicated to the development and operation of CERNET internet services. The company has independently researched and expanded four key business lines: the Shutter desktop terminal for campus new media, the Monternet Alliance which is the largest campus network advertisement alliance, the Dream Team for campus activities management, and Cdream Outdoor Media, an outdoor media platform for campuses. Additionally, Cdream Network creates integrated marketing platforms that facilitate communication, academics, employment, entertainment, and community services, helping enterprises effectively enter the campus market. Through these initiatives, the company leverages its expertise in internet resources to provide valuable services tailored to the educational environment.
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that enables app developers to monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps through ads. It offers discovery, branding, and monetization solutions for the mobile Web, including support for mobile sites, a Mobile Analytics solution that provides traffic and usage insights to inform decisions, and a Mobile Metrics Report that tracks trends in the mobile ecosystem.
PopularMedia
Series C in 2008
PopularMedia, Inc. specializes in social media marketing services, offering tools designed to enhance consumer engagement and interaction. Its key products include Influencer Ads, which fosters connections among consumers to create shared experiences around brands and content; SocialNotes, which enables instant social interactivity on any webpage; and Importer, a tool that allows users to import their existing web-based address books from various platforms. The company caters to advertisers, website marketers, and publishers, enhancing their marketing capabilities through innovative social media solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PopularMedia has formed a strategic partnership with Contagion and has been operating as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc. since June 30, 2009.
MarketLive
Series E in 2008
MarketLive is a prominent provider of eCommerce technology and expert services, established in 1995. The company specializes in helping fast-growing businesses sell products and services across various channels. Its flagship offering, the MarketLive eCommerce Suite, is designed to cater to the specific needs of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers. This platform, combined with MarketLive's Intelligent Selling methodology, enhances the online customer experience while significantly improving key performance metrics such as customer acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive supports numerous well-known eCommerce sites, enabling them to establish a robust online sales and marketing presence and effectively manage content, process orders, and track website activity.
Meebo is a consumer internet company based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in enhancing user engagement across the web through an advertising-supported embedded social media platform. Launched in September 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry, Meebo's flagship product, the Meebo Bar, is integrated into various websites, allowing publishers and advertisers to weave content engagement and brand experiences into users' online interactions. The platform enables users to share pictures, videos, websites, and articles across multiple social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, while also providing insights into the performance of their shared content. Meebo has expanded its operations to six offices across major U.S. cities, including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, and aims to connect people and facilitate real-time communication through a simple, user-friendly solution.
Flite, Inc., established in 2006, is a technology company based in San Francisco with offices in New York and Chicago. It operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. Flite develops and runs a cloud-based platform that empowers advertisers to create, manage, and optimize digital ad campaigns in real-time. The platform enables creative professionals to design visually appealing, interactive ads and allows marketers to respond to real-time performance metrics and daily events by updating their paid media creatives with relevant content and functionality. Flite's offerings include a Programmatic Creative platform, Design Studio, and responsive ad creation for mobile, tablet, and desktop browsers.
Yueqing Easythink Media
Series A in 2007
Yueqing Easythink Media (乐清我乐网) is a local network focused on providing online media advertising solutions. Through integration of online and offline resources, it reasonably uses advertisement sites and eventually became the top-ranking media in Yueqing.
Currently, the company is building a restroom advertising platform, and the website is also being maintained.
POPSUGAR is a global lifestyle brand catering to women aged 18-40. It offers updates, trends, and tips across entertainment, fashion, parenting, fitness, food, and news, along with original video content and shopping experiences. POPSUGAR also enables brands to reach consumers through custom content solutions.
Flite, Inc., established in 2006, is a technology company based in San Francisco with offices in New York and Chicago. It operates as a subsidiary of Snap Inc. Flite develops and runs a cloud-based platform that empowers advertisers to create, manage, and optimize digital ad campaigns in real-time. The platform enables creative professionals to design visually appealing, interactive ads and allows marketers to respond to real-time performance metrics and daily events by updating their paid media creatives with relevant content and functionality. Flite's offerings include a Programmatic Creative platform, Design Studio, and responsive ad creation for mobile, tablet, and desktop browsers.
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that enables app developers to monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps through ads. It offers discovery, branding, and monetization solutions for the mobile Web, including support for mobile sites, a Mobile Analytics solution that provides traffic and usage insights to inform decisions, and a Mobile Metrics Report that tracks trends in the mobile ecosystem.
PopularMedia
Series B in 2007
PopularMedia, Inc. specializes in social media marketing services, offering tools designed to enhance consumer engagement and interaction. Its key products include Influencer Ads, which fosters connections among consumers to create shared experiences around brands and content; SocialNotes, which enables instant social interactivity on any webpage; and Importer, a tool that allows users to import their existing web-based address books from various platforms. The company caters to advertisers, website marketers, and publishers, enhancing their marketing capabilities through innovative social media solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PopularMedia has formed a strategic partnership with Contagion and has been operating as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc. since June 30, 2009.
Collactive
Series A in 2007
Collactive, Inc. is a company that specializes in recruitment and management platforms tailored for social networking websites. Founded in 2006 and based in Herzliya, Israel, Collactive offers a range of services including the Collactive Social Media Manager, which streamlines social media activities for marketing managers to enhance relationships with influencers. The company provides comprehensive support in social media strategy planning, activity management, integration into existing online platforms, and monitoring services. It primarily serves public relations agencies, advertising firms, and marketing companies. Additionally, Collactive focuses on the Public Affairs market, collaborating with nonprofit organizations to facilitate community engagement on social media platforms like YouTube and Digg through its All Points Bulletin system, which notifies community members about relevant content. The team has previous experience developing anti-spam solutions, enhancing their expertise in digital engagement.
Clickatell
Series A in 2006
Clickatell is a technology company that enables chat-based commerce and mobile messaging for businesses. Its platform supports real-time notifications, marketing campaigns, two-factor authentication, customer relationship management, and mobile payments, allowing brands to engage customers via SMS, chat, and other channels. It also offers on-device prepaid top-up services and USSD-based self-service banking features, along with security tools such as multi-factor authentication and a digital contact center solution for real-time agent support. Clickatell’s Chat Commerce Platform facilitates creating and growing customer relationships through chat, engagement, and payment solutions, enabling organizations to manage millions of conversations and transactions without apps or cash. The company serves enterprises, government, and developers worldwide, with offices in the United States, South Africa, and Nigeria. Founded in 2000, Clickatell focuses on connecting brands with customers through chat and mobile messaging across global markets.
POPSUGAR is a global lifestyle brand catering to women aged 18-40. It offers updates, trends, and tips across entertainment, fashion, parenting, fitness, food, and news, along with original video content and shopping experiences. POPSUGAR also enables brands to reach consumers through custom content solutions.
Waps.cn
Venture Round in 2006
WAPS is a Chinese mobile marketing service provider founded in 2005. The company specializes in mobile internet-based advertising and integrated marketing services tailored for mobile developers and advertisers. WAPS is focused on constructing a comprehensive intelligent mobile advertisement network and offers a mobile internet marketing platform. Its platform features tools for advertising management and monitoring, including a WAP advertising affiliation and eSite application, enabling users to create mobile internet marketing portals and build WAP sites. Through its services, WAPS aims to enhance the effectiveness of mobile marketing strategies for its clients.
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that enables app developers to monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps through ads. It offers discovery, branding, and monetization solutions for the mobile Web, including support for mobile sites, a Mobile Analytics solution that provides traffic and usage insights to inform decisions, and a Mobile Metrics Report that tracks trends in the mobile ecosystem.
Celles
Venture Round in 2006
Celles New Media (北京盛思新媒广告有限公司) is an advertising platform and provider of media integrated marketing services for global advertising clients for placing advertisements on the wireless internet media. It provides wireless internet advertisement services for over a thousand clients including HP, Nokia, JNJ, Microsoft, and more.
Celles New Media has professional wireless internet media resources and wireless advertisement operation experience accumulated throughout the years. It has established long-term corperate relationship with over ten thousand WAP sites like Sina, Souhu, Tecent, Kongzhong, 3g.cn, and more. Celles New Media was founded in 2005.
MarketLive
Series D in 2006
MarketLive is a prominent provider of eCommerce technology and expert services, established in 1995. The company specializes in helping fast-growing businesses sell products and services across various channels. Its flagship offering, the MarketLive eCommerce Suite, is designed to cater to the specific needs of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers. This platform, combined with MarketLive's Intelligent Selling methodology, enhances the online customer experience while significantly improving key performance metrics such as customer acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive supports numerous well-known eCommerce sites, enabling them to establish a robust online sales and marketing presence and effectively manage content, process orders, and track website activity.
PopularMedia
Series A in 2006
PopularMedia, Inc. specializes in social media marketing services, offering tools designed to enhance consumer engagement and interaction. Its key products include Influencer Ads, which fosters connections among consumers to create shared experiences around brands and content; SocialNotes, which enables instant social interactivity on any webpage; and Importer, a tool that allows users to import their existing web-based address books from various platforms. The company caters to advertisers, website marketers, and publishers, enhancing their marketing capabilities through innovative social media solutions. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, PopularMedia has formed a strategic partnership with Contagion and has been operating as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc. since June 30, 2009.
Meebo is a consumer internet company based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in enhancing user engagement across the web through an advertising-supported embedded social media platform. Launched in September 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry, Meebo's flagship product, the Meebo Bar, is integrated into various websites, allowing publishers and advertisers to weave content engagement and brand experiences into users' online interactions. The platform enables users to share pictures, videos, websites, and articles across multiple social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, while also providing insights into the performance of their shared content. Meebo has expanded its operations to six offices across major U.S. cities, including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, and aims to connect people and facilitate real-time communication through a simple, user-friendly solution.
Qwikker is a provider of location-based mobile content distribution, and mobile and proximity marketing solutions. The company offers Enterprise solution that enables customers to build large scale networks and implement campaigns; and Build Your Own Network solution that allows customers to build Bluetooth network.
Qwikker is a provider of location-based mobile content distribution, and mobile and proximity marketing solutions. The company offers Enterprise solution that enables customers to build large scale networks and implement campaigns; and Build Your Own Network solution that allows customers to build Bluetooth network.
MarketLive
Venture Round in 2003
MarketLive is a prominent provider of eCommerce technology and expert services, established in 1995. The company specializes in helping fast-growing businesses sell products and services across various channels. Its flagship offering, the MarketLive eCommerce Suite, is designed to cater to the specific needs of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers. This platform, combined with MarketLive's Intelligent Selling methodology, enhances the online customer experience while significantly improving key performance metrics such as customer acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive supports numerous well-known eCommerce sites, enabling them to establish a robust online sales and marketing presence and effectively manage content, process orders, and track website activity.
Marketwired
Series D in 2003
Marketwired is a social communications company that specializes in press release distribution and communication workflow services. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, it offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that includes social media monitoring, analytics, and a marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Marketwired serves a diverse clientele, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, and plays a vital role in influencing public discourse across newsrooms, corporate environments, and social networks. Its services are designed to help clients manage public relations and investor relations effectively, facilitating engagement and impacting consumer behavior.
Marketwired
Venture Round in 2001
Marketwired is a social communications company that specializes in press release distribution and communication workflow services. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, it offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that includes social media monitoring, analytics, and a marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Marketwired serves a diverse clientele, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, and plays a vital role in influencing public discourse across newsrooms, corporate environments, and social networks. Its services are designed to help clients manage public relations and investor relations effectively, facilitating engagement and impacting consumer behavior.
linkexchange
Venture Round in 1997
LinkExchange was the web's largest banner exchange network and expanded to become the web's first small-business portal before being acquired by Microsoft for US $265 million in 1998: http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft-acquires-LinkExchange/2100-1033_3-217516.html
LinkExchange was founded in the spring of 1996 by 23-year-old Harvard grads [Tony Hsieh](/people/tony-hsieh) and [Sanjay Madan](/people/sanjay-madan). 24-year-old Harvard grad [Ali Partovi](/people/ali-partovi) joined them a few months later as a third partner.
At its peak, the LinkExchange banner network reached over half of Internet-enabled households every month, according to Media Metrix. In June, 1998, LinkExchange acquired Submit It! Inc. (makers of Submit It!, ClickTrade, and ListBot), and MerchantPlanet (a turnkey e-commerce solution for merchants). In November, 1998, LinkExchange was acquired by Microsoft for US$265 million.
Other notable LinkExchange people included CFO [Alfred Lin](/people/alfred-lin), and via acquisition of Submit-it, [Scott Banister](/people/scott-banister), and contractor [Max Levchin](/people/max-levchin).
Yahoo is a media technology company that connects people with their passions through a web portal and ecosystem of services. It offers a full-stack platform for businesses to reach audiences across advertising, search, and media, and operates core consumer products such as Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo News. The company provides advertising and media solutions that cover entertainment, finance, sports, shopping, and games, supporting publishers and advertisers with tools for content discovery and user engagement. Based in New York, Yahoo combines internet services, technology, and consumer experiences to facilitate online advertising, information discovery, and interoperable digital services for users and partners.
Yahoo is a media technology company that connects people with their passions through a web portal and ecosystem of services. It offers a full-stack platform for businesses to reach audiences across advertising, search, and media, and operates core consumer products such as Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo News. The company provides advertising and media solutions that cover entertainment, finance, sports, shopping, and games, supporting publishers and advertisers with tools for content discovery and user engagement. Based in New York, Yahoo combines internet services, technology, and consumer experiences to facilitate online advertising, information discovery, and interoperable digital services for users and partners.
Marketwired
Series A in 1990
Marketwired is a social communications company that specializes in press release distribution and communication workflow services. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, it offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that includes social media monitoring, analytics, and a marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Marketwired serves a diverse clientele, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, and plays a vital role in influencing public discourse across newsrooms, corporate environments, and social networks. Its services are designed to help clients manage public relations and investor relations effectively, facilitating engagement and impacting consumer behavior.