Clay offers advanced tools for growth teams to conduct comprehensive customer research. By integrating over 100 data sources, including first-party, intent, and third-party data, Clay enables deep insights into ideal customers.
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.
Clay offers advanced tools for growth teams to conduct comprehensive customer research. By integrating over 100 data sources, including first-party, intent, and third-party data, Clay enables deep insights into ideal customers.
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.
Apollo is a revenue platform offering a scalable go-to-market solution for sales and marketing teams. The platform consolidates data on contacts and companies into a single interface, enabling users to identify, analyze, and engage potential customers throughout the lifecycle. It provides access to verified data for more than 210 million B2B contacts and about 35 million companies worldwide, supporting targeted outreach and conversion and helping revenue professionals find accurate information, nurture leads, and accelerate sales velocity.
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.
Front is a communication hub that centralizes customer interactions across various digital channels to enhance relationship management. The platform focuses on streamlining conversations by integrating collaboration tools and contextual data from multiple systems, allowing teams to provide timely, accurate, and personalized communications. Over 7,500 businesses, including notable names like Shopify, Airbnb, and Hulu, utilize Front to improve their customer engagement. The company's multi-channel inbox platform specializes in consolidating communication, facilitating internal discussions, and incorporating social features, thus enabling users to chat effectively and save time. By placing customer conversations at the forefront, Front empowers organizations to build stronger relationships through each interaction.
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.
Hubble Money
Seed Round in 2022
Hubble Money is a developer of an online saving platform that aims to assist consumers in saving money while offering rewards for their savings efforts. The platform connects users with trustworthy and transparent saving plans in partnership with well-known brands. By facilitating these connections, Hubble Money not only enhances the savings experience for consumers but also allows brands to engage more meaningfully with their customers during the consideration phase. This approach fosters a closer relationship between consumers and top brands, ultimately enriching the overall savings journey.
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.
Apollo is a revenue platform offering a scalable go-to-market solution for sales and marketing teams. The platform consolidates data on contacts and companies into a single interface, enabling users to identify, analyze, and engage potential customers throughout the lifecycle. It provides access to verified data for more than 210 million B2B contacts and about 35 million companies worldwide, supporting targeted outreach and conversion and helping revenue professionals find accurate information, nurture leads, and accelerate sales velocity.
Creable
Angel Round in 2022
Creable is an influencer marketing platform designed to assist brands in discovering, analyzing, and connecting with over 300 million creators across major social media channels like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. It streamlines the influencer selection process, enhancing return on investment for brands. The platform offers a suite of workspace services that allows users to manage their business effectively. Creable's specialized system enables the sharing of social media accounts, affiliate links, and promo codes through a single link known as a super link. This feature helps creators and their managers reduce repetitive tasks, allowing them to concentrate on business growth, securing more brand partnerships, and overseeing those collaborations in one centralized location.
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.
Copy.ai develops an AI-powered platform offering copywriting tools for businesses. Its automated tools generate marketing copy swiftly, including social media text, headlines, link descriptions, blog ideas, benefiting digital agencies, copywriters, and eCommerce brands by saving time and enhancing conversion rates.
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.
Mailmodo
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2020, Mailmodo is a Delaware-based company specializing in email marketing solutions. It enables users to create and send app-like interactive AMP emails, enhancing customer engagement through widgets that convert the email space into an app-like environment.
Copy.ai
Seed Round in 2021
Copy.ai develops an AI-powered platform offering copywriting tools for businesses. Its automated tools generate marketing copy swiftly, including social media text, headlines, link descriptions, blog ideas, benefiting digital agencies, copywriters, and eCommerce brands by saving time and enhancing conversion rates.
MUSINSA
Venture Round in 2021
Musinsa Co., Ltd. is a fashion-focused company based in Seoul, South Korea, established in 2012. It operates both online and offline, offering a diverse range of products that include apparel, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and more. Musinsa serves as a platform for various brands, including subculture, national, and global sports brands, providing customers with curated content, styling pictorials, and information on fashion trends. The company emphasizes customer engagement by allowing users to interact with brands and access personalized curation and storytelling. Additionally, Musinsa publishes an online fashion web magazine that showcases product information and brand highlights, further enriching the fashion culture and consumption experience in the Korean market.
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.
Insider is a growth management platform that assists digital marketers in optimizing their strategies across the entire marketing funnel, from acquisition to retention and revenue generation. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore, the company utilizes advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to provide real-time predictive segmentation. This enables marketers to create personalized customer journeys across various channels, including web, mobile, and advertising platforms. Insider's unified data layer simplifies implementation and usage, reducing reliance on complex IT integrations. The platform is designed to minimize marketing waste by enhancing cross-channel customer experiences and optimizing return on ad spend. With a focus on delivering insights that enhance personalization efforts, Insider serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, finance, automotive, and travel, and has established a global presence with offices in multiple countries.
Front is a communication hub that centralizes customer interactions across various digital channels to enhance relationship management. The platform focuses on streamlining conversations by integrating collaboration tools and contextual data from multiple systems, allowing teams to provide timely, accurate, and personalized communications. Over 7,500 businesses, including notable names like Shopify, Airbnb, and Hulu, utilize Front to improve their customer engagement. The company's multi-channel inbox platform specializes in consolidating communication, facilitating internal discussions, and incorporating social features, thus enabling users to chat effectively and save time. By placing customer conversations at the forefront, Front empowers organizations to build stronger relationships through each interaction.
ActionIQ is an enterprise customer data platform that enables marketers, analysts, and technologists to capture, unify, and activate customer data across channels. The cloud-based platform integrates multiple data sources, including email, CRM, and clickstream, and centralizes them on an analytics dashboard to support building, testing, and launching personalized campaigns without writing code or relying on IT. It provides data access, analytics, and campaigning tools to create cross-channel experiences for retail, media and entertainment, subscription services, and telecommunications clients. Headquartered in New York with an additional office in San Francisco, ActionIQ focuses on scalable, data-driven marketing that speeds up campaign creation and measurement through a unified CDP rather than marketing clouds. It aims to fill the gaps left by traditional marketing platforms by delivering rapid, individualized campaigns across channels.
MUSINSA
Venture Round in 2019
Musinsa Co., Ltd. is a fashion-focused company based in Seoul, South Korea, established in 2012. It operates both online and offline, offering a diverse range of products that include apparel, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and more. Musinsa serves as a platform for various brands, including subculture, national, and global sports brands, providing customers with curated content, styling pictorials, and information on fashion trends. The company emphasizes customer engagement by allowing users to interact with brands and access personalized curation and storytelling. Additionally, Musinsa publishes an online fashion web magazine that showcases product information and brand highlights, further enriching the fashion culture and consumption experience in the Korean market.
Freshworks
Series H in 2019
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
Clay offers advanced tools for growth teams to conduct comprehensive customer research. By integrating over 100 data sources, including first-party, intent, and third-party data, Clay enables deep insights into ideal customers.
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.
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.
Front is a communication hub that centralizes customer interactions across various digital channels to enhance relationship management. The platform focuses on streamlining conversations by integrating collaboration tools and contextual data from multiple systems, allowing teams to provide timely, accurate, and personalized communications. Over 7,500 businesses, including notable names like Shopify, Airbnb, and Hulu, utilize Front to improve their customer engagement. The company's multi-channel inbox platform specializes in consolidating communication, facilitating internal discussions, and incorporating social features, thus enabling users to chat effectively and save time. By placing customer conversations at the forefront, Front empowers organizations to build stronger relationships through each interaction.
ActionIQ is an enterprise customer data platform that enables marketers, analysts, and technologists to capture, unify, and activate customer data across channels. The cloud-based platform integrates multiple data sources, including email, CRM, and clickstream, and centralizes them on an analytics dashboard to support building, testing, and launching personalized campaigns without writing code or relying on IT. It provides data access, analytics, and campaigning tools to create cross-channel experiences for retail, media and entertainment, subscription services, and telecommunications clients. Headquartered in New York with an additional office in San Francisco, ActionIQ focuses on scalable, data-driven marketing that speeds up campaign creation and measurement through a unified CDP rather than marketing clouds. It aims to fill the gaps left by traditional marketing platforms by delivering rapid, individualized campaigns across channels.
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.
ActionIQ is an enterprise customer data platform that enables marketers, analysts, and technologists to capture, unify, and activate customer data across channels. The cloud-based platform integrates multiple data sources, including email, CRM, and clickstream, and centralizes them on an analytics dashboard to support building, testing, and launching personalized campaigns without writing code or relying on IT. It provides data access, analytics, and campaigning tools to create cross-channel experiences for retail, media and entertainment, subscription services, and telecommunications clients. Headquartered in New York with an additional office in San Francisco, ActionIQ focuses on scalable, data-driven marketing that speeds up campaign creation and measurement through a unified CDP rather than marketing clouds. It aims to fill the gaps left by traditional marketing platforms by delivering rapid, individualized campaigns across channels.
Jifflenow
Venture Round in 2017
Jifflenow is a Meeting Automation Platform that enhances sales cycles by facilitating a greater number of strategic meetings at various events and venues. It allows enterprises to streamline the scheduling, management, and analysis of meetings at events, briefing centers, roadshows, executive sessions, and training forums. The platform offers advanced analytics, robust security features, GDPR compliance, and integration capabilities with leading sales and marketing software. Jifflenow is recognized as a trusted solution in the industry, serving hundreds of enterprise clients, including over 50 Fortune 1000 companies, and is designed to simplify the tracking and management of business-to-business meetings, ultimately driving business growth.
IngageApp
Series D in 2017
Xiaoshouyi develops software solutions for customer relationship, sales force, and workforce management.
IngageApp provides a next-generation CRM solution by leveraging mobile social platform and big data technologies. With its SaaS and PaaS framework, the solution empowers users to engage, sell and provide services to their customers through a seamlessly integrated end-to-end process from marketing automation, sales automation, partner relationship management, to customer and field services.
Founded in 2011, in 2017 IngageApp became the first Chinese CRM vendor to be named in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation (SFA).
More than 4,000 companies in over 20 industries use IngageApp to grow their business. Founded by Allan Shi, IngageApp is based in Beijing, China with offices across China and an R&D center in the Silicon Valley. IngageApp has raised several rounds of venture funding from leading investors like Sequoia, Tencent and Matrix Partners.
Thanx is a guest engagement platform for offline businesses, including brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls, that links purchases from card networks to a CRM and marketing automation suite. The platform enables data capture from card transactions, personalized customer interactions, and loyalty programs through messages, email marketing, and real-time feedback tools, along with revenue reporting and online ordering integrations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thanx helps merchants improve retention and revenue by turning purchase data into personalized engagement across channels.
Content Promotion and Content Marketing Software
Fave is a fintech platform designed to facilitate the transition of offline merchants into the digital economy. The application connects consumers with local businesses, enabling users to plan activities, purchase discounted offers, and enhance their engagement with merchants in various sectors, including health and fitness, food, and wellness. By serving as a payment aggregator for major cards and digital wallets, Fave streamlines transactions and provides a seamless payment experience. The platform also offers merchants additional value through integrated marketing, data services, financing, and operational support, allowing them to focus on their core offerings. Operating in over 35 cities across Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, Fave aims to foster growth for both merchants and consumers, ultimately enhancing accessibility to a wide range of services.
EverString
Series B in 2015
EverString, established in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, specializes in a predictive analytics platform designed for B2B companies. Its cloud-based SaaS solution identifies and engages customer prospects by tracking and analyzing user data patterns, developing custom predictive models, and monitoring prospect behaviors to reveal intent. The platform offers predictive scoring, demand generation, and targeted advertising, aiding clients in building new pipelines and enhancing conversion rates. As of November 2020, EverString operates as a subsidiary of ZoomInfo Technologies 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.
Lattice Engines
Series D in 2015
Lattice Engines, Inc. is a software company that specializes in predictive applications for marketing and sales organizations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company offers a range of solutions designed to enhance marketing and sales performance through data-driven insights. Its flagship product, Lattice Atlas, utilizes artificial intelligence to integrate multiple data sources and build targeted audiences. Additional offerings include Lattice for Salesforce, which provides sales analytics; Lattice for Marketo, delivering predictive insights for marketing programs; and tools for predictive lead scoring, customer retention, and hyper-personalized marketing campaigns. Lattice Engines combines internal and external data with proprietary analytics to optimize sales targeting and improve the efficiency of marketing teams. The company also provides professional curriculum services and has a strategic partnership with Engagio Inc. In 2019, Lattice Engines became a subsidiary of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, further expanding its capabilities in the field.
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.
IngageApp
Series C in 2015
Xiaoshouyi develops software solutions for customer relationship, sales force, and workforce management.
IngageApp provides a next-generation CRM solution by leveraging mobile social platform and big data technologies. With its SaaS and PaaS framework, the solution empowers users to engage, sell and provide services to their customers through a seamlessly integrated end-to-end process from marketing automation, sales automation, partner relationship management, to customer and field services.
Founded in 2011, in 2017 IngageApp became the first Chinese CRM vendor to be named in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation (SFA).
More than 4,000 companies in over 20 industries use IngageApp to grow their business. Founded by Allan Shi, IngageApp is based in Beijing, China with offices across China and an R&D center in the Silicon Valley. IngageApp has raised several rounds of venture funding from leading investors like Sequoia, Tencent and Matrix Partners.
IngageApp
Series B in 2014
Xiaoshouyi develops software solutions for customer relationship, sales force, and workforce management.
IngageApp provides a next-generation CRM solution by leveraging mobile social platform and big data technologies. With its SaaS and PaaS framework, the solution empowers users to engage, sell and provide services to their customers through a seamlessly integrated end-to-end process from marketing automation, sales automation, partner relationship management, to customer and field services.
Founded in 2011, in 2017 IngageApp became the first Chinese CRM vendor to be named in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation (SFA).
More than 4,000 companies in over 20 industries use IngageApp to grow their business. Founded by Allan Shi, IngageApp is based in Beijing, China with offices across China and an R&D center in the Silicon Valley. IngageApp has raised several rounds of venture funding from leading investors like Sequoia, Tencent and Matrix Partners.
Thanx is a guest engagement platform for offline businesses, including brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls, that links purchases from card networks to a CRM and marketing automation suite. The platform enables data capture from card transactions, personalized customer interactions, and loyalty programs through messages, email marketing, and real-time feedback tools, along with revenue reporting and online ordering integrations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thanx helps merchants improve retention and revenue by turning purchase data into personalized engagement across channels.
ActionIQ
Seed Round in 2014
ActionIQ is an enterprise customer data platform that enables marketers, analysts, and technologists to capture, unify, and activate customer data across channels. The cloud-based platform integrates multiple data sources, including email, CRM, and clickstream, and centralizes them on an analytics dashboard to support building, testing, and launching personalized campaigns without writing code or relying on IT. It provides data access, analytics, and campaigning tools to create cross-channel experiences for retail, media and entertainment, subscription services, and telecommunications clients. Headquartered in New York with an additional office in San Francisco, ActionIQ focuses on scalable, data-driven marketing that speeds up campaign creation and measurement through a unified CDP rather than marketing clouds. It aims to fill the gaps left by traditional marketing platforms by delivering rapid, individualized campaigns across channels.
EverString
Series A in 2014
EverString, established in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, specializes in a predictive analytics platform designed for B2B companies. Its cloud-based SaaS solution identifies and engages customer prospects by tracking and analyzing user data patterns, developing custom predictive models, and monitoring prospect behaviors to reveal intent. The platform offers predictive scoring, demand generation, and targeted advertising, aiding clients in building new pipelines and enhancing conversion rates. As of November 2020, EverString operates as a subsidiary of ZoomInfo Technologies 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.
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.
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.
IngageApp
Series A in 2013
Xiaoshouyi develops software solutions for customer relationship, sales force, and workforce management.
IngageApp provides a next-generation CRM solution by leveraging mobile social platform and big data technologies. With its SaaS and PaaS framework, the solution empowers users to engage, sell and provide services to their customers through a seamlessly integrated end-to-end process from marketing automation, sales automation, partner relationship management, to customer and field services.
Founded in 2011, in 2017 IngageApp became the first Chinese CRM vendor to be named in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation (SFA).
More than 4,000 companies in over 20 industries use IngageApp to grow their business. Founded by Allan Shi, IngageApp is based in Beijing, China with offices across China and an R&D center in the Silicon Valley. IngageApp has raised several rounds of venture funding from leading investors like Sequoia, Tencent and Matrix Partners.
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.
Lattice Engines
Series C in 2012
Lattice Engines, Inc. is a software company that specializes in predictive applications for marketing and sales organizations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company offers a range of solutions designed to enhance marketing and sales performance through data-driven insights. Its flagship product, Lattice Atlas, utilizes artificial intelligence to integrate multiple data sources and build targeted audiences. Additional offerings include Lattice for Salesforce, which provides sales analytics; Lattice for Marketo, delivering predictive insights for marketing programs; and tools for predictive lead scoring, customer retention, and hyper-personalized marketing campaigns. Lattice Engines combines internal and external data with proprietary analytics to optimize sales targeting and improve the efficiency of marketing teams. The company also provides professional curriculum services and has a strategic partnership with Engagio Inc. In 2019, Lattice Engines became a subsidiary of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, further expanding its capabilities in the field.
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.
Decolar.com
Venture Round in 2012
Decolar.com is an online travel agency that offers complete travel services, including tickets, tour packages, accommodation, and car rental. Since 1999, more than 2,000,000 people have bought their air tickets through this platform.
Decolar.com is present in 21 countries, including Argentina, the U.S., and Spain. It has a partnership of more than 500 airlines and 150,000 hotels worldwide. When purchasing an airline ticket or travel package, Decolar.com’s customers also receive discounts at restaurants and shops in the chosen destination, plus 10% discount on purchases in Duty Free.
Decolar.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.
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.
Backplane
Series A in 2012
Backplane is a platform designed to facilitate connections among individuals who share common interests. Its initial community, LittleMonsters.com, centered around Lady Gaga, has grown to nearly one million members. The company emphasizes the importance of meaningful interactions between consumers and brands, aiming to foster authentic communities. Backplane advocates for the development of niche social networks that serve specific purposes, rather than a singular, overarching network. By partnering with leading brands, Backplane seeks to create environments where members can engage more deeply and purposefully.
Lattice Engines
Series B in 2011
Lattice Engines, Inc. is a software company that specializes in predictive applications for marketing and sales organizations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company offers a range of solutions designed to enhance marketing and sales performance through data-driven insights. Its flagship product, Lattice Atlas, utilizes artificial intelligence to integrate multiple data sources and build targeted audiences. Additional offerings include Lattice for Salesforce, which provides sales analytics; Lattice for Marketo, delivering predictive insights for marketing programs; and tools for predictive lead scoring, customer retention, and hyper-personalized marketing campaigns. Lattice Engines combines internal and external data with proprietary analytics to optimize sales targeting and improve the efficiency of marketing teams. The company also provides professional curriculum services and has a strategic partnership with Engagio Inc. In 2019, Lattice Engines became a subsidiary of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, further expanding its capabilities in the field.
DianDian is a leading light blog social community in China, designed to facilitate the easy and rapid sharing of content such as text, images, and videos. With over 6 million registered users, the platform emphasizes social interaction and content mobilization, catering to the growing demand for simplified blogging experiences. Users can express their interests and characteristics through various styles, making it a dynamic space for communication and engagement. By focusing on short and mixed-media content, DianDian enhances the blogging experience, allowing individuals to connect and interact with peers effectively.
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.
Stella & Dot
Series A in 2011
Stella & Dot designs and sells jewelry, handbags, and accessories through a hybrid model that combines in-home trunk shows by independent stylists with online shopping. The product range includes necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, watches, bags, wallets, scarves, and related storage and display items. The company supports a network of Stylists who market products directly to consumers, enabling entrepreneurial opportunities for women through a social selling platform that blends direct sales, ecommerce, and social media. It has grown into a global brand with rapid growth and profitability and operates across multiple channels, reflecting a boutique-style, designer product assortment.
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.
StrongView
Series D in 2009
StrongView is a company based in Redwood City, California, specializing in email and cross-channel marketing solutions aimed at enhancing customer relationship marketing. It provides a range of integrated products, including the Email Marketing Server, which allows marketers to manage their email campaigns effectively, and the Transactional Email Server, which personalizes transactional communications. Additionally, StrongView offers the Email Integration Server for message assembly, delivery, reporting, and tracking, as well as the Email Delivery Server for managing email delivery in complex server environments. By focusing on customer context, StrongView helps brands engage with consumers in a more meaningful way, adapting to their changing needs and circumstances throughout the customer journey.
Skai is an AI-powered platform that provides businesses with consumer and market insights, strategic planning, and omnichannel media activation services. The company focuses on empowering brands and retailers by offering a suite of machine learning technologies designed to enhance decision-making and improve outcomes through actionable intelligence. Skai's offerings include tools for market intelligence, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make informed predictions and optimize their strategic planning. By facilitating better connections with customers, Skai serves as a comprehensive solution for driving growth across key customer channels.
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.
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.
Skyrider, Inc. designs and markets Peer to Peer (P2P) networking solutions. Its platform enables online content delivery and publishing, data analysis, report generation, and online marketing and advertising services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Kfar Saba, Israel.
Skai is an AI-powered platform that provides businesses with consumer and market insights, strategic planning, and omnichannel media activation services. The company focuses on empowering brands and retailers by offering a suite of machine learning technologies designed to enhance decision-making and improve outcomes through actionable intelligence. Skai's offerings include tools for market intelligence, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make informed predictions and optimize their strategic planning. By facilitating better connections with customers, Skai serves as a comprehensive solution for driving growth across key customer channels.
StrongView
Series B in 2007
StrongView is a company based in Redwood City, California, specializing in email and cross-channel marketing solutions aimed at enhancing customer relationship marketing. It provides a range of integrated products, including the Email Marketing Server, which allows marketers to manage their email campaigns effectively, and the Transactional Email Server, which personalizes transactional communications. Additionally, StrongView offers the Email Integration Server for message assembly, delivery, reporting, and tracking, as well as the Email Delivery Server for managing email delivery in complex server environments. By focusing on customer context, StrongView helps brands engage with consumers in a more meaningful way, adapting to their changing needs and circumstances throughout the customer journey.
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.
Skyrider
Venture Round in 2006
Skyrider, Inc. designs and markets Peer to Peer (P2P) networking solutions. Its platform enables online content delivery and publishing, data analysis, report generation, and online marketing and advertising services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Kfar Saba, Israel.
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.
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.
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.
StrongView
Series B in 2006
StrongView is a company based in Redwood City, California, specializing in email and cross-channel marketing solutions aimed at enhancing customer relationship marketing. It provides a range of integrated products, including the Email Marketing Server, which allows marketers to manage their email campaigns effectively, and the Transactional Email Server, which personalizes transactional communications. Additionally, StrongView offers the Email Integration Server for message assembly, delivery, reporting, and tracking, as well as the Email Delivery Server for managing email delivery in complex server environments. By focusing on customer context, StrongView helps brands engage with consumers in a more meaningful way, adapting to their changing needs and circumstances throughout the customer journey.
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.
Skyrider, Inc. designs and markets Peer to Peer (P2P) networking solutions. Its platform enables online content delivery and publishing, data analysis, report generation, and online marketing and advertising services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Kfar Saba, Israel.
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.
StrongView
Series A in 2004
StrongView is a company based in Redwood City, California, specializing in email and cross-channel marketing solutions aimed at enhancing customer relationship marketing. It provides a range of integrated products, including the Email Marketing Server, which allows marketers to manage their email campaigns effectively, and the Transactional Email Server, which personalizes transactional communications. Additionally, StrongView offers the Email Integration Server for message assembly, delivery, reporting, and tracking, as well as the Email Delivery Server for managing email delivery in complex server environments. By focusing on customer context, StrongView helps brands engage with consumers in a more meaningful way, adapting to their changing needs and circumstances throughout the customer journey.
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.
Vividence
Series D in 2000
Vividence offers e-businesses with market information services and evaluation applications. It provides consulting services that focus on online customer experience, market trends, and industry strategies.
Vividence enables individuals to earn gift cards by evaluating and giving feedback on e-commerce sites.
Vividence was founded in 1998 and is based in San Mateo, California.
Vividence
Series B in 1999
Vividence offers e-businesses with market information services and evaluation applications. It provides consulting services that focus on online customer experience, market trends, and industry strategies.
Vividence enables individuals to earn gift cards by evaluating and giving feedback on e-commerce sites.
Vividence was founded in 1998 and is based in San Mateo, California.
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).