Ada is a global health company founded by doctors, scientists, and industry pioneers to create new possibilities for personal health. Ada’s core system connects medical knowledge with intelligent technology to help all people actively manage their health and medical professionals to deliver effective care. Ada is proud to collaborate with leading health systems and global non-profit organizations to carry out this vision. Ada Health was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
Bijak is a developer of B2B platform for agricultural commodities that gives buyers and sellers better prices, increased working capital and optimized logistics. Bijak is a business-to-business trade platform for the agricultural sector in India that enables traders, wholesalers, and food processors to keep a ledger of their transactions, access transparent pricing, optimize logistics, and improve their working capital cycles.
Electives is an enterprise live learning platform that offers interactive classes for employees. Its classes cover a range of topics: new manager training, communications, team building, negotiations, innovation, resiliency, diversity, equity, inclusion, and more. Its teachers include professors, authors, CEOs, judges, Olympians, FBI Agents, improv comedians, anti-racism thought leaders, and more.
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.
Babel Finance is a global leading cryptocurrency financial institution dedicated to serving high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients worldwide with professional crypto financial services including 3 core businesses: crypto lending, crypto asset management, and crypto prime financing.
Club Factory built an integrated supply chain from manufacturers to consumers for cross-border e-commerce. They scan the whole Internet to find factories which sell on Wish/Ebay/Amazon, and bring consumers the best prices.
Dashbot is an unstructured conversational analytics platform for extracting insights from any customer interaction at scale. While virtually every other field/application of A.I. is trying to understand the world around us (e.g. computer vision), Dashbot is harnessing the power of Conversational AI to understand the world within us (i.e. intention). Dashbot is backed by world-class investors including ff Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Scrum Ventures and Samsung.
Scroll is creating a sustainable experience that puts amazing content in front of engaged users without all the noise. They want to pierce filter bubbles and leverage economic models that can afford uncomfortable truths. It's time to escape the distraction economy and focus on what's important again.
Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.
Involve is a customer intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses accelerate growth from existing data. It organizes all customer data and interactions in a single dashboard to quickly predict customer health, stop customers from leaving, and expand them to increase revenue.
Penguin Random House Canada is the Canadian division of Penguin Random House, the world’s most global trade book publisher which was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 53% and 47%, respectively. Penguin Random House comprises the adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses of Penguin and Random House in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa, and Penguin’s trade publishing activity in Asia and Brazil; DK worldwide; and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial’s Spanish-language companies in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Chile. Penguin Random House employs more than 10,000 people globally across almost 250 editorially and creatively independent imprints and publishing houses that collectively publish more than 15,000 new titles annually. Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors. In Canada, Penguin Random House Canada is comprised of Penguin Canada and Random House of Canada, trade publishers and distributors of books from their sister imprints in the U.S. and the U.K.
Nico is a dating app provides a diverse and fun dating community for everyone.
Club Factory built an integrated supply chain from manufacturers to consumers for cross-border e-commerce. They scan the whole Internet to find factories which sell on Wish/Ebay/Amazon, and bring consumers the best prices.
Raven Tech is a startup which focus on artificial intelligent, big data and the next generation operating system. Besides, Raven Tech is the fifth alumni of Microsoft Venture Accelerator and the only one startup team from mainland China in Y Combinator W15.
Skyrocket Your Online Sales. We help SME's, Manufacturers, Creative People and Service Providers setup their brand online and get sales from their own stores and also from other sales channels.
Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector, as well as data science, autonomous systems, and cloud computing. It offers nanodegree programs such as front-end and senior web developer, full-stack web developer, data analyst, machine learning engineer, iOS and Android developer, programming introduction, tech entrepreneur, iOS app development beginning, Ruby beginning, and 2D mobile game developer courses. Udacity's online courses teach the skills that industry employers need and deliver credentials endorsed by employers. The company aims to democratize education making it affordable and accessible to get the jobs they desire to improve their lives. David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky, and Sebastian Thrun founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
HotChalk is a leading provider of education technology and services. The Silicon Valley company partners with universities to provide turnkey solutions that put degree programs on line. HotChalk solutions incorporate all phases of the education lifecycle and deliver industry leading student retention and graduation rates. HotChalk operates the largest global network of free education content on the Internet through the HotChalk Education Network. The company believes all people should have access to education, and is on a mission to make meaningful education outcomes available to everyone, everywhere. To learn more, visit HotChalk.com.
Jioaavn is a music streaming service. Their application provides bollywood, english, hindi, regional songs, top artists, playlists, and custom radio stations that enable listeners to access music.
Private Equity Round in 2015
Affero Lab is the result of a merger of Brazilian companies in Corporate Education, Affero and LAB SSJ. Affero has a unique portfolio and dozens of successful cases of technology solutions geared toward learning while LAB SSJ is recognized for its classroom-based and blended solutions, which link training to results. Both companies have an amazing team, full of competent people who are passionate about what they do and eager to innovate and continue learning. Affero Lab aims to partner with clients to transform their educational programs and generate business results based on innovative, intuitive, and engaging learning.
UCloud Information Technology provides IaaS (base cloud computing), independent research and development, computational resource, storage resource, network resource, and other basic IT infrastructure services. It offers UCloud Physical Host that provides physical servers, UCloud Host, a UCloud-based mature cloud computing technology, UCloud Load Balancer, a load balancing service that offers automatic allocation of application data among multiple cloud hosts, UCloud Network, a UCloud network service that manages network resources, and UCloud Extended Hybrid Cloud that offers a hybrid deployment service of cloud platforms and server hosting. UCloud Information Technology also provides UCloud Disk that provides permanent hard disk storage space for cloud hosting, UCloud DataBase, a data base service based on mature cloud computing technology, UCloud Memory Storage, a key-value memory database, UCloud Content Delivery Network services, Object Storage that provides unstructured file storage services for Internet applications, UCloud Distributed Data Processing solutions, Cloud Security that provides testing services, and scheduling interface solutions for cloud computing resources. It serves video, O2O and E-Commerce, Internet finance, PaaS/SaaS, game, mobile SNS, online education, and digital marketing sectors. Ji Xinhua, Hua Kun, and Mo Xianfeng founded UCloud Information Technology in 2011. Its headquarters is in Shanghai in China.
Synergis Education provides educational services designed for college and university leaders who are not satisfied with the status quo. It develops on ground, online, and hybrid degree programs to serve the non-traditional adult learning population. The company offers integrated services, including marketing and enrollment management, academic program and instructional design support, technology integration and course delivery, student retention support and placement, student accounting, and additional services; and EdVantage Learning System that co-develops associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degree curricula with its partner institution; and EdVantage Information Systems, a solution that manages a set of technologies, processes, and services. It partners with non-profit, traditional colleges, and universities. The company was formerly known as Academic Partners University and changed its name to Synergis Education in May 2012. Synergis Education was founded in 2011 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.
LexinFintech Holdings is an online consumer finance platform for educated young adults in China. As one of China's leading financial technology companies, Lexin integrates its e-commerce-driven installment finance platform, Fenqile, with advanced risk management technologies, the Company's Dingsheng online investment platform, and the Company's Juzi Licai online investment platform for individual investors, to create a comprehensive consumer finance ecosystem. The Company utilizes technologies including big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence to enable the near-instantaneous matching of user funding requests with offers from the Company's more than 30 funding partners, which include commercial banks, consumer finance companies, and other licensed financial institutions. By serving the credit needs of China's educated young adults, Lexin helps its more than 20 million registered users to enjoy a better quality of life through the use of better credit.
Relias Learning offers online training to senior care, health and human services, corrections, and intellectual and developmental disabilities organizations. It’s their mission to help clients achieve the highest quality practice and accreditation standards with online learning and compliance programs. Though the name Relias Learning is new, they’ve been delivering online training programs to organizations with specialized needs since 2002. By bringing together Silverchair Learning Systems, Essential Learning, Care2Learn, Hospice Education Network, and Advanced Training Solutions, they provide their clients with a wealth of courses and dedicated support to meet their compliance needs. Strong partnerships with leading advocacy and professional organizations enable us to create engaging, relevant, and timely learning experiences. Their intuitive user interface makes learning enjoyable.
Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector, as well as data science, autonomous systems, and cloud computing. It offers nanodegree programs such as front-end and senior web developer, full-stack web developer, data analyst, machine learning engineer, iOS and Android developer, programming introduction, tech entrepreneur, iOS app development beginning, Ruby beginning, and 2D mobile game developer courses. Udacity's online courses teach the skills that industry employers need and deliver credentials endorsed by employers. The company aims to democratize education making it affordable and accessible to get the jobs they desire to improve their lives. David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky, and Sebastian Thrun founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.
Lagou.com offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com.
Pepperfry is an online home and lifestyle shopping store selling products with cash on delivery facilities. The company's aim is to be a one-stop shop for customers seeking to spice up their homes. The company's marketplace sells products from around the world, including its own brand, in verticals such as furniture, home décor, cooking, dining, and pet supplies, giving users a wide range of options for decorating their house.
Bidu is an online recommendation, comparison and marketplace portal for insurance and financial services. The company helped millions of consumers compare the prices and benefits of several types of insurance, including auto, travel, home, life, and health insurance, in addition to a variety of financial products, such as credit cards, financing options, and loans. Our mission is to help people make smart financial decisions throughout their lives by way of our technology and objective and content. Bidu was named Best of Insurance 2017, of the magazine Revista. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
IndiaProperty.com provides in-depth information on buying, selling and renting out properties in India. It has partnered with leading media organisations to provide prompt and reliable service to customers through various channels and to enhance better visibility and increase responses. IndiaProperty.com is a part of Consim Info Pvt. Ltd, India's leading Internet company. Consim is Red Herring's Global 100 Winner, and also majors in other verticals like Matrimony, Jobs and Classifieds.
UCloud Information Technology provides IaaS (base cloud computing), independent research and development, computational resource, storage resource, network resource, and other basic IT infrastructure services. It offers UCloud Physical Host that provides physical servers, UCloud Host, a UCloud-based mature cloud computing technology, UCloud Load Balancer, a load balancing service that offers automatic allocation of application data among multiple cloud hosts, UCloud Network, a UCloud network service that manages network resources, and UCloud Extended Hybrid Cloud that offers a hybrid deployment service of cloud platforms and server hosting. UCloud Information Technology also provides UCloud Disk that provides permanent hard disk storage space for cloud hosting, UCloud DataBase, a data base service based on mature cloud computing technology, UCloud Memory Storage, a key-value memory database, UCloud Content Delivery Network services, Object Storage that provides unstructured file storage services for Internet applications, UCloud Distributed Data Processing solutions, Cloud Security that provides testing services, and scheduling interface solutions for cloud computing resources. It serves video, O2O and E-Commerce, Internet finance, PaaS/SaaS, game, mobile SNS, online education, and digital marketing sectors. Ji Xinhua, Hua Kun, and Mo Xianfeng founded UCloud Information Technology in 2011. Its headquarters is in Shanghai in China.
Synergis Education provides educational services designed for college and university leaders who are not satisfied with the status quo. It develops on ground, online, and hybrid degree programs to serve the non-traditional adult learning population. The company offers integrated services, including marketing and enrollment management, academic program and instructional design support, technology integration and course delivery, student retention support and placement, student accounting, and additional services; and EdVantage Learning System that co-develops associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degree curricula with its partner institution; and EdVantage Information Systems, a solution that manages a set of technologies, processes, and services. It partners with non-profit, traditional colleges, and universities. The company was formerly known as Academic Partners University and changed its name to Synergis Education in May 2012. Synergis Education was founded in 2011 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.
UniversityNow is an education and technology start-up based in San Francisco. Its mission is to help ensure that affordable, high-quality post-secondary education is available to people everywhere. To accomplish this, UniversityNow has built the most affordable and accessible accredited online learning platform for Patten University (http://patten.edu). UniversityNow's vision is a world in which no one is deprived of access to quality education — a world in which students can obtain recognized college degrees that improve their futures, without taking on the burden of student debt.
Jusbrasil brings thousands of individuals and lawyers every day together by providing them with the most comprehensive set of legal data. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Founded in 2007, WizIQ is one of the world’s largest cloud based education platforms. Over 400,000 educators have leveraged WizIQ to deliver learning services to 4 Million+ learners across 200 countries. WizIQ’s award winning Virtual Classroom solution that enables online delivery of live instructor-led learning, has received acclaim from education service providers from around the world. The WizIQ Online Academy Builder represents an evolutionary leap in education technology by empowering education service providers to set up their own customized academies within minutes. Online Academy Builder is designed to increase learner engagement through cutting-edge features, such as mobile learning, video streaming, live online classroom, discussion boards, assessments, insights and analytics. By taking away the complexities of development and the burden of setup costs and server infrastructure this solution allows educators to focus on what they know best. Besides, the in-built e-commerce capability enables them to monetize their services and rapidly expand their reach to newer markets.
Bidu is an online recommendation, comparison and marketplace portal for insurance and financial services. The company helped millions of consumers compare the prices and benefits of several types of insurance, including auto, travel, home, life, and health insurance, in addition to a variety of financial products, such as credit cards, financing options, and loans. Our mission is to help people make smart financial decisions throughout their lives by way of our technology and objective and content. Bidu was named Best of Insurance 2017, of the magazine Revista. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
UniversityNow is an education and technology start-up based in San Francisco. Its mission is to help ensure that affordable, high-quality post-secondary education is available to people everywhere. To accomplish this, UniversityNow has built the most affordable and accessible accredited online learning platform for Patten University (http://patten.edu). UniversityNow's vision is a world in which no one is deprived of access to quality education — a world in which students can obtain recognized college degrees that improve their futures, without taking on the burden of student debt.
DramaFever, a subsidiary of SoftBank Internet and Media, Inc. ("SIMI"), is the leading online destination for international television shows and movies. Our millions of young, passionate viewers discover and enjoy hit shows from around the world, with professional subtitles and HD quality across a wide variety of apps and devices. We also partner with AMC Networks and others to develop next-generation online entertainment sites. We're a group of 130+ people building an experience for the shows and movies our customers love watching. With roughly 50 other engineers, you'll be responsible for creating a user experience enjoyed by millions. We believe in supporting people who want to take ownership of functionality and make it the best they can. We stress communication as one of the most important parts of our job.
Hoolai Games, founded in 2008 by CEO Qiao Wanli and President Jian Huang, is a prominent developer and publisher of social web and mobile games in China. The company has rapidly expanded its diverse portfolio, which includes popular titles such as Hoolai Three Kingdoms, War of Immortals, Hoolai Poker, and Checkmate. Hoolai Games focuses on delivering engaging cross-platform gaming experiences that players can enjoy across various devices. Headquartered in Beijing, the company also maintains offices in Shanghai, Tokyo, Guangzhou, Taipei, and Silicon Valley, enhancing its reach and operational capabilities in the gaming industry.
Smashing Ideas creates the most actively engaging digital experiences possible. The company focuses on active engagement, building more than just great mobile or web experiences, through understanding customers, thoughtfully planning their user experience across the many screens they use, and applying a bit of behavioral psychology - motivating them to participate in the interaction. Smashing Ideas refers to this approach as the Power of Play, which combines art and science to create engagement. They fuse innovation, creativity, and storytelling with their expertise in game theory, user experience, and multiscreen development. The results are rich, digital experiences that command attention and shape customer behavior, improving customer loyalty by inspiring them to return for more. Whether it's a global digital experience for an entertainment brand, rethinking online higher education, or changing the experience of in-flight media, their methodology ensures everything they create is focused on achieving a measurable Return on Engagement (ROE) for their client partners.
Learnship has globalized traditional face-to-face language training with a proprietary distance learning technology and has created an innovative Live Teaching Method for online training. The German company’s mission is to help employees communicate in foreign languages in their everyday working life, with highly customized and effective trainer-based online training. With their product, Learnship has established itself as an effective alternative to face-to-face onsite training, generating significant cost savings and ROI for clients without compromising on teaching quality. Meanwhile, courses are taught successfully in more than 75 countries around the world at approximately 2,000 European and American corporations.
Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology. Mojiva, Inc. provides products and solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
Audible is a provider of spoken audio information and entertainment , on the Internet. They provide premium spoken audio content, such as audio versions of books and newspapers and radio programs, that is delivered over the Internet and played back on personal computers and hand-held electronic devices. The Audible service allows consumers to purchase and download their content from their Website, store it in digital files and play it back on personal computers and electronic devices. More than 15,000 hours of audio content are available on their Web site, including audio versions of books, periodicals and radio programs. Several manufacturers have agreed to support and promote the playback of their content on their hand-held audio-enabled electronic devices.
Napster offers the ultimate in interactive music experiences, creating better ways to discover, share, acquire, and enjoy the universe of music — anytime, anywhere. The Napster service is the easiest way to find, discover, and enjoy the universe of music online, on the go, and in the living room. With unlimited, on-demand access to music from a web browser, smartphone, and home entertainment devices, Napster lets you enjoy music your way anytime, anywhere. The service is available at www.napster.com in the U.S. and is also available in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The company is a fully owned subsidiary of Best Buy, Inc. (NYSE: BBY).
Codeonline Ltd., a developer of interactive mobile entertainment, and Springtoys, a developer of wireless gaming technology, have agreed to merge to create what they claim will be the world’s largest wireless entertainment company. Under the terms of the agreement, the merger will be carried out through a share swap.
As of May 30, 2001, myplay, Inc. was acquired by Bertelsmann AG. Myplay, Inc. is an online digital music service that provides consumers with a centralized storage capability along with the ability to access their personalized music collection from any location worldwide from multiple devices such as a laptop or desktop computer, a hand-held PDA or cellular phone. Myplay, Inc. has strategic partnerships with listen.com, Tunes.com, and Emusic.com. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Redwood City, California.
Liquid Digital Media, Inc. provides custom solutions for Internet media delivery to content owners and online retail merchants. Its services include video and audio encoding in WMA, WMV, and MP3 formats; windows DRM encryption; metadata management; image processing/conversion; content hosting/storage; distribution and fulfillment; activity and sales reporting; and physical/digital tie-ins. The company services also include catalog distribution, download management, windows media DRM licensing, fulfillment API, customer service/tech support, reporting/reconciliation, merchandising, front end design and development, integration with existing store fronts and user interfaces, and application and tool development. Liquid Digital Media, Inc. was formerly known as Liquid Audio. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California
CDNOW.com was an online retailer. The company was founded in February 1994 by twin brothers Jason Olim and Matthew Olim of Ambler, Pennsylvania. Initially launched as a telnet service in August 1994, CDNow became a retail website in September 1994 far earlier than most of the dot.com retailers that gained notoriety after 2000.
Musicbank, www.musicbank.com, will provide on-demand access to and portability of consumers' personal music collections. musicbank will allow users to access, listen to and manage their personal music collections via the Web without having to upload the content. Financial backers include Atlas Venture, Bertelsmann Ventures, Bonaventure Investments Ltd and Universal Music Group. Prior to its fall 2000 launch, musicbank has secured licensing agreements with BMG Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, and an exclusive retail partnership with Virgin Megastores. Michael Downing and Pierce Ledbetter founded musicbank in 1999. The Company is based in San Francisco.
eGroups, Inc. provided a gathering place on the Internet for groups to send and receive emails, schedule meetings, share files and photos, or have private group chats. eGroups, Inc., was formerly known as FindMail Communications, Inc., and changed its name to eGroups, Inc., in March 2000. eGroups, Inc., was incorporated in 1998 and was based in San Francisco, California. On August 31, 2000, eGroups, Inc. was acquired by [Yahoo! Inc.](/organization/yahoo), and its technology was subsequently incorporated into Yahoo! Groups.
Riffage.com, based in Palo Alto, California, was founded by Ken Wirt, the strategic visionary behind Diamond Multimedia's ground-breaking Rio portable MP3 music player. Our mission is to revolutionize the way music is distributed by using the Internet to allow bands to communicate directly with -- and sell music to -- their fans. Unlike some other sites, Riffage.com is staffed by people who genuinely care about music -- musicians, former radio DJs, record company veterans and rabid fans. We think you'll see the difference. On the site, Riffage.com offers a large selection of authorized digital music, both for free as well as for purchase via download from the Internet. The ability to purchase single songs by download -- or even buy an entire physical CD -- from the comfort of a home, office, school or any "connected" location, makes Riffage.com an enticing alternative to shopping at a physical retail outlet. One of the biggest obstacles for most Internet music fans is finding music they like. Among the key features differentiating Riffage.com from the growing ranks of online music distributors are its unique personalization tools, which "learn" an individual's preferences as he or she uses the site. As a result, Riffage is able to quickly begin sending users recommendations about music that will appeal to them. Riffage.com has also rapidly developed into an active online community where fans of similar -- and even diverse -- musical tastes can meet to discover and discuss independent artists and their music. Musicians will find that Riffage.com offers an impressive roster of services, using the Internet as a direct marketing and distribution channel straight to the consumer. As a result, Riffage is successfully supplanting the traditional music industry paradigm of artist-label-distributor-retailer. Through Riffage.com, artists can deliver their music to fans either via direct downloads or by plugging into Riffage's turnkey e-commerce system for selling physical goods. And thanks to a state-of-the-art, daily updated system for reporting current sales, rankings and customer lists, band members are always just a mouse click away from accessing this important information. To increase awareness and improve communications with their fans, musicians can tap into Riffage.com's site to publish and promote upcoming concert dates, music previews, artist news and band merchandise, as well as use Riffage to help manage fan contact lists. Bands can also host live chats and discussion boards through Riffage.com, and are eligible to participate in company-generated promotional activities and events.
Headquartered in Redmond, WA, imandi.com was formed by Microsoft alumni Raghav Kher and Eric Johnson in November 1998. At Microsoft, Kher was Director of Strategic Business Decisions and orchestrated the company's acquisition of Hotmail, while Johnson was a lead developer within Microsoft Research for several leading-edge applications. Kher's proven expertise in marketing and business development complements Johnson's track record in software innovation.