Resale platform for Brands and Retailers.
Trove AI, Inc. develops a mobile email application. The company develops artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that solve email overload and enhance communications. Its AI solution offers smart multi-swiping and email notifications; surfaces insights about user’s relationships; and lets snoozing emails to get them out of the user’s way until the user is ready to get to them. The application works with existing email services. Its mobile application is compatible with iOS and Android devices. The company was formerly known as Notion AI, Inc. Trove AI, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
DNAnexus develops a cloud platform and global network designed for scientific collaboration and accelerated discovery. It provides security, scalability, and collaboration for enterprises and organizations that are pursuing genomic-based approaches to health in order to accelerate medical discovery. DNAnexus is supporting customers around the world that are tackling some of the most challenging and exciting opportunities in human health. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.
DNAnexus develops a cloud platform and global network designed for scientific collaboration and accelerated discovery. It provides security, scalability, and collaboration for enterprises and organizations that are pursuing genomic-based approaches to health in order to accelerate medical discovery. DNAnexus is supporting customers around the world that are tackling some of the most challenging and exciting opportunities in human health. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.
At Blue Pillar, we connect industrial equipment to the internet and serve up the data to manage, monitor, and control equipment and devices so our customers can create flexible, scalable solutions for themselves or their customers. We're energized by the challenge of making the power of Industrial IoT widely accessible. We make things a little better in a connectivity-centric world where things are a lot harder than they should be.
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our revolutionary thermoelectric approach and materials platform is the only of its kind that lends itself to massive scale at low cost. With our products, made entirely from sustainable materials, customers may use their waste heat to generate electrical power in the range of microwatts to megawatts.
Renew Financial provides financing solutions that help efficiency and renewable energy contractors grow their businesses while promoting energy independence. Its aim is to develop advanced financing designed to transform America’s economy to clean energy. The company’s financing products include PACE financing model and the Warehouse for Energy Efficiency Loans, which opens the residential energy efficiency finance market to large institutional investors. Founded in 2008 by Cisco DeVries, Renew Financial has a partnership with SolarCity targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses utilizing PACE.
Assurex Health is a personalized medicine company dedicated to helping clinicians determine the right medication for individual patients with medical conditions. They provide treatment decision support to healthcare providers for behavioral health and chronic pain conditions.
Genalyte, Inc. is a life sciences company developing and commercializing innovative next-generation multiplexing technology. Genalyte has developed a new approach to immunodetection using silicon chip manufacturing methods. Its Maverick platform uses a technology called silicon photonics to directly measure protein binding between antibodies and antigens or hybridization of nucleic acids.
NuMedii is a biotechnology company that discovers and de-risks effective new drugs by translating life sciences big data into therapies. The Company’s proprietary and dynamic Big Data technology, developed in Atul Butte’s lab at Stanford University and licensed exclusively to NuMedii. It utilizes hundreds of millions of raw human, biological, pharmacological, and clinical data points. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.
EcoFactor® is the leader in cloud-based home energy management services. EcoFactor delivers cloud-based home energy management services that improve energy efficiency, reduce energy bills and vastly increase DR efficacy – all while maintaining consumer comfort. EcoFactor’s patented big-data analytics and machine learning algorithms collect and process massive amounts of residential data – including home thermodynamics, family comfort preferences and schedules, plus external data such as weather – to continually monitor, adapt and learn for optimum energy savings. The company provides homeowners significant cost savings automatically, without the need to manually adjust temperature levels or change behavior. EcoFactor’s award-winning service is available through channel partners such as utilities, energy retailers, broadband service providers and HVAC companies. Based in Redwood City, Calif., EcoFactor is privately held, and funded by Aster Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, NRG and RockPort Capital Partners.
Assurex Health is a personalized medicine company dedicated to helping clinicians determine the right medication for individual patients with medical conditions. They provide treatment decision support to healthcare providers for behavioral health and chronic pain conditions.
ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe that physicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure. Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine. ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development .
Comfy connects people, places, and systems through one intuitive workplace app. With expertise in machine learning, UX design, and enterprise service, they create great relationships between people and their workplaces. At Comfy, they are driven by their passion for creating amazing workplace experiences. Comfy’s cloud-enabled platform seamlessly and securely connects your employees directly to their physical and digital workplace, driving productivity and delight.
SmartZip Analytics is a national leader in predictive marketing solutions for the real estate industry. Using patent-pending predictive analytics, automated marketing campaigns and smart CRM follow-up tools, SmartZip makes big data actionable for real estate and mortgage lending professionals. Our flagship product, SmartTargeting, helps agents land more listings by identifying and targeting the homeowners most likely to sell in any neighborhood across the U.S. As a rapidly growing startup backed by Intel Capital, SmartZip has assembled the most talented team and comprehensive predictive marketing platform in the industry.
GeneWeave Biosciences is advancing clinical microbiology with diagnostic solutions that will enable hospitals and physicians around the world to prevent drug-resistant infections, improve antibiotic stewardship and quickly determine the optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. The company’s innovative and proprietary Smarticles™ technology harnesses the power of biology to enable homogeneous assays that rapidly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or sample preparation.
Assurex Health is a personalized medicine company dedicated to helping clinicians determine the right medication for individual patients with medical conditions. They provide treatment decision support to healthcare providers for behavioral health and chronic pain conditions.
Renew Financial provides financing solutions that help efficiency and renewable energy contractors grow their businesses while promoting energy independence. Its aim is to develop advanced financing designed to transform America’s economy to clean energy. The company’s financing products include PACE financing model and the Warehouse for Energy Efficiency Loans, which opens the residential energy efficiency finance market to large institutional investors. Founded in 2008 by Cisco DeVries, Renew Financial has a partnership with SolarCity targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses utilizing PACE.
Resale platform for Brands and Retailers.
Trove AI, Inc. develops a mobile email application. The company develops artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that solve email overload and enhance communications. Its AI solution offers smart multi-swiping and email notifications; surfaces insights about user’s relationships; and lets snoozing emails to get them out of the user’s way until the user is ready to get to them. The application works with existing email services. Its mobile application is compatible with iOS and Android devices. The company was formerly known as Notion AI, Inc. Trove AI, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Trove AI, Inc. develops a mobile email application. The company develops artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that solve email overload and enhance communications. Its AI solution offers smart multi-swiping and email notifications; surfaces insights about user’s relationships; and lets snoozing emails to get them out of the user’s way until the user is ready to get to them. The application works with existing email services. Its mobile application is compatible with iOS and Android devices. The company was formerly known as Notion AI, Inc. Trove AI, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe that physicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure. Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine. ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development .
DNAnexus develops a cloud platform and global network designed for scientific collaboration and accelerated discovery. It provides security, scalability, and collaboration for enterprises and organizations that are pursuing genomic-based approaches to health in order to accelerate medical discovery. DNAnexus is supporting customers around the world that are tackling some of the most challenging and exciting opportunities in human health. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.
EcoFactor® is the leader in cloud-based home energy management services. EcoFactor delivers cloud-based home energy management services that improve energy efficiency, reduce energy bills and vastly increase DR efficacy – all while maintaining consumer comfort. EcoFactor’s patented big-data analytics and machine learning algorithms collect and process massive amounts of residential data – including home thermodynamics, family comfort preferences and schedules, plus external data such as weather – to continually monitor, adapt and learn for optimum energy savings. The company provides homeowners significant cost savings automatically, without the need to manually adjust temperature levels or change behavior. EcoFactor’s award-winning service is available through channel partners such as utilities, energy retailers, broadband service providers and HVAC companies. Based in Redwood City, Calif., EcoFactor is privately held, and funded by Aster Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, NRG and RockPort Capital Partners.
RidePal is building a network of commuter shuttles for companies of any size and for the general public so that anyone can enjoy the benefits of a shared commute: increased productivity and efficiency, reduced congestion and GHG emissions, and a better quality of life (among others). They are a venture-backed, SF-based startup with an office on Union Square, and they currently operate a dozen+ routes servicing a dozen+ cities around the Bay Area.
NuMedii is a biotechnology company that discovers and de-risks effective new drugs by translating life sciences big data into therapies. The Company’s proprietary and dynamic Big Data technology, developed in Atul Butte’s lab at Stanford University and licensed exclusively to NuMedii. It utilizes hundreds of millions of raw human, biological, pharmacological, and clinical data points. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Comfy connects people, places, and systems through one intuitive workplace app. With expertise in machine learning, UX design, and enterprise service, they create great relationships between people and their workplaces. At Comfy, they are driven by their passion for creating amazing workplace experiences. Comfy’s cloud-enabled platform seamlessly and securely connects your employees directly to their physical and digital workplace, driving productivity and delight.
Natera specializes in cell-free DNA testing and is driven by a passion for elevating the science and utility of prenatal testing. The advent of the Information Age has created a paradigm shift in the fields of computing and informatics. Surprisingly, medical diagnostics have been slow to integrate these advances into genetic testing.
Root3 Technologies Inc. provides software that reduces energy costs 10-30% in onsite energy plants for universities, hospitals, manufacturing facilities and airports. Root3’s no-install, patent-pending technology uses data to optimize decision-making for energy plant managers, enabling them to meet energy demands with the least fuel consumption possible. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, IL and San Francisco, CA.
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our revolutionary thermoelectric approach and materials platform is the only of its kind that lends itself to massive scale at low cost. With our products, made entirely from sustainable materials, customers may use their waste heat to generate electrical power in the range of microwatts to megawatts.
EcoFactor® is the leader in cloud-based home energy management services. EcoFactor delivers cloud-based home energy management services that improve energy efficiency, reduce energy bills and vastly increase DR efficacy – all while maintaining consumer comfort. EcoFactor’s patented big-data analytics and machine learning algorithms collect and process massive amounts of residential data – including home thermodynamics, family comfort preferences and schedules, plus external data such as weather – to continually monitor, adapt and learn for optimum energy savings. The company provides homeowners significant cost savings automatically, without the need to manually adjust temperature levels or change behavior. EcoFactor’s award-winning service is available through channel partners such as utilities, energy retailers, broadband service providers and HVAC companies. Based in Redwood City, Calif., EcoFactor is privately held, and funded by Aster Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, NRG and RockPort Capital Partners.
ShotSpotter is the leader in gunshot detection solutions that helps law enforcement officials and security personnel identify, locate and deter gun violence. Our public safety solution, ShotSpotter Flex, is deployed in urban, high-crime areas to help identify, locate and deter gun violence by accurately detecting and locating gunshots and sending real-time alerts to law enforcement. Our security solutions, SST SecureCampus and ShotSpotter SiteSecure, are designed to help law enforcement and security personnel serving universities, corporate campuses and key infrastructure and transportation centers mitigate risk and enhance security by quickly notifying authorities and first responders of an active-shooter. The speed and accuracy of our solutions enable rapid response by enforcement and security personnel, increase the chances of apprehending the shooter, aid in evidentiary collection and serve as an overall deterrent. ShotSpotter solutions are installed in more than 90 locations across the United States. More information can be found at www.ShotSpotter.com For the latest news on next-generation 9-1-1, community and intelligence-led policing, reduction of gun violence, and other public safety topics, follow here on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/shotspotter http://twitter.com/#!/shotspotter For Career Information visit: http://www.shotspotter.com/company#careers
Billeo Inc.
Series C in 2012
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.
ShotSpotter is the leader in gunshot detection solutions that helps law enforcement officials and security personnel identify, locate and deter gun violence. Our public safety solution, ShotSpotter Flex, is deployed in urban, high-crime areas to help identify, locate and deter gun violence by accurately detecting and locating gunshots and sending real-time alerts to law enforcement. Our security solutions, SST SecureCampus and ShotSpotter SiteSecure, are designed to help law enforcement and security personnel serving universities, corporate campuses and key infrastructure and transportation centers mitigate risk and enhance security by quickly notifying authorities and first responders of an active-shooter. The speed and accuracy of our solutions enable rapid response by enforcement and security personnel, increase the chances of apprehending the shooter, aid in evidentiary collection and serve as an overall deterrent. ShotSpotter solutions are installed in more than 90 locations across the United States. More information can be found at www.ShotSpotter.com For the latest news on next-generation 9-1-1, community and intelligence-led policing, reduction of gun violence, and other public safety topics, follow here on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/shotspotter http://twitter.com/#!/shotspotter For Career Information visit: http://www.shotspotter.com/company#careers
CellScope is bringing diagnostic imaging to the mobile platform, with optical attachments and clever software. They have recently launched CellScope Oto, which turns a smartphone into a digital otoscope with seamless, secure data transmission. Clinicians use their system to share images and video with patients and colleagues, and track changes over time. For home users, their technology will dramatically improve remote telemedicine diagnosis, adding the critical images and video of the condition. CellScope technology enables virtual visits saving time and money, as well as watchful waiting, avoiding the harm of unnecessary antibiotics.
Assurex Health is a personalized medicine company dedicated to helping clinicians determine the right medication for individual patients with medical conditions. They provide treatment decision support to healthcare providers for behavioral health and chronic pain conditions.
At Blue Pillar, we connect industrial equipment to the internet and serve up the data to manage, monitor, and control equipment and devices so our customers can create flexible, scalable solutions for themselves or their customers. We're energized by the challenge of making the power of Industrial IoT widely accessible. We make things a little better in a connectivity-centric world where things are a lot harder than they should be.
ecoATM acquired Gazelle in 2015, allowing our consumers to have an online or kiosk experience Nationwide. Gazelle ecoATM kiosks are automated machines that make it easy and convenient for people to sell back unwanted tablets and smartphones. Gazelle ecoATM kiosks are located in the malls, grocery stores, and Walmart that people already frequent. People receive cash on the spot for the iPhones and Android devices they no longer use. Gazelle ecoATM kiosks and Gazelle.com provide consumers with real cash, real fast and the best options when it comes to buying and trading in pre-owned electronics. We have a commitment to delivering convenient consumer solutions via online channels or in person, depending on the preference of the consumer. Gazelle ecoATM kiosks and Gazelle.com reward people for smart consumption. Each option provides an easy, safe, fast, and secure way for consumers to trade in their devices for cash at their convenience. Gazelle.com also offers certified pre-owned devices at a better value than competitors.
Adura Technologies provides wireless lighting and energy management systems to improve energy efficiency and facilitate cost savings.
ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe that physicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure. Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine. ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development .
Genalyte, Inc. is a life sciences company developing and commercializing innovative next-generation multiplexing technology. Genalyte has developed a new approach to immunodetection using silicon chip manufacturing methods. Its Maverick platform uses a technology called silicon photonics to directly measure protein binding between antibodies and antigens or hybridization of nucleic acids.
GeneWeave Biosciences is advancing clinical microbiology with diagnostic solutions that will enable hospitals and physicians around the world to prevent drug-resistant infections, improve antibiotic stewardship and quickly determine the optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. The company’s innovative and proprietary Smarticles™ technology harnesses the power of biology to enable homogeneous assays that rapidly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or sample preparation.
Natera specializes in cell-free DNA testing and is driven by a passion for elevating the science and utility of prenatal testing. The advent of the Information Age has created a paradigm shift in the fields of computing and informatics. Surprisingly, medical diagnostics have been slow to integrate these advances into genetic testing.
Fluxion Biosciences was formed in 2005 to address critical needs for cellular analysis tools in the pharmaceutical, biotech and research industries. The company has developed a proprietary microfluidic platform which enables precise cellular manipulation, rapid low-volume compound addition, environmental control and software-based data acquisition.
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our revolutionary thermoelectric approach and materials platform is the only of its kind that lends itself to massive scale at low cost. With our products, made entirely from sustainable materials, customers may use their waste heat to generate electrical power in the range of microwatts to megawatts.
Founded in 2006 in San Francisco, California, Project Frog develops component buildings that assemble easily onsite, giving architects and builders a fast and cost-effective way to create beautiful and energy-efficient buildings. Project Frog is on a mission is to revolutionize the way buildings are created by applying technology to overcome the inefficiencies of traditional construction. The company’s approach results in a structure that is measurable greener and significantly smarter, creating brighter, healthier spaces that inspire better performance by the people who occupy them. The versatile ecosystem of products adapt to all kinds of uses including: healthcare, education and retail.
Clean Power Finance (CPF) is building an online business-to-business marketplace to drive the mass-market adoption of solar. The company connects providers of capital who are committed to investing in residential solar with qualified solar marketers, installers and distributors who need residential solar finance products to differentiate and grow their businesses. CPF raises 100 percent third-party‐owned project finance funds from institutional investors such as Morgan Stanley and Google, working with the investors to structure and launch the funds with managed risk and return profiles. CPF then markets the funds as solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) to qualified solar professionals, including Paramount Solar and Real Goods Solar (Nasdaq: RSOL), through its licensed online solar sales platform, CPF Tools. CPF Tools is software-as-a-service that simplifies complex sales, quoting, proposal and finance processes and minimizes the “soft costs” of selling solar. CPF’s fund investors earn favorable returns on stable investments on the resulting portfolios of residential distributed generation projects. The company’s solar professional partners gain access to solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) that they can brand and sell to homeowners who want the benefits of solar without the cost and hassle of owning and maintaining a system. CPF manages approximately half a billion dollars of capacity on behalf of fund investors, and supports more than 100 solar professional customers who currently use the CPF Market to sell residential solar finance products to homeowners in CA, CO, HI, MA and NJ. Thousands of solar professionals in all 50 states have extensively used CPF Tools to quote and design solar systems.
Sentilla software delivers unparalleled intelligence for physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure transformation. Sentilla’s unified IT visibility and continuous, insightful analytics align business requirements with IT resource utilization, capacity, and cost. The result is optimized capacity, reduced CapEx and OpEx, faster deployments, and cheaper service delivery that create agility to enter new markets quickly. Global 1000 enterprises, including cloud service providers and leading telecom companies, deploy Sentilla software to increase infrastructure efficiency by 40%, essentially getting $1.40 for every $1.00 of their IT investment.
SoundThinking, formerly known as ShotSpotter, is a public safety technology company, that provides transformative solutions and strategic advisory services for law enforcement and civic leadership. The company aims to enhance community safety through innovative technology and dedicated advisory services.
Assurex Health is a personalized medicine company dedicated to helping clinicians determine the right medication for individual patients with medical conditions. They provide treatment decision support to healthcare providers for behavioral health and chronic pain conditions.
ecoATM acquired Gazelle in 2015, allowing our consumers to have an online or kiosk experience Nationwide. Gazelle ecoATM kiosks are automated machines that make it easy and convenient for people to sell back unwanted tablets and smartphones. Gazelle ecoATM kiosks are located in the malls, grocery stores, and Walmart that people already frequent. People receive cash on the spot for the iPhones and Android devices they no longer use. Gazelle ecoATM kiosks and Gazelle.com provide consumers with real cash, real fast and the best options when it comes to buying and trading in pre-owned electronics. We have a commitment to delivering convenient consumer solutions via online channels or in person, depending on the preference of the consumer. Gazelle ecoATM kiosks and Gazelle.com reward people for smart consumption. Each option provides an easy, safe, fast, and secure way for consumers to trade in their devices for cash at their convenience. Gazelle.com also offers certified pre-owned devices at a better value than competitors.
Sociogramics launched in 2011 on the premise that existing scores and methods for sorting and assigning consumer behaviors are obsolete in an era of Big Data. We are leveraging emerging data sets coupled with our team's machine learning expertise to fundamentally improve online identity, employment and income verification.
GeneWeave Biosciences is advancing clinical microbiology with diagnostic solutions that will enable hospitals and physicians around the world to prevent drug-resistant infections, improve antibiotic stewardship and quickly determine the optimal antibiotic therapy for critical bacterial infections. The company’s innovative and proprietary Smarticles™ technology harnesses the power of biology to enable homogeneous assays that rapidly measure bacterial drug resistance without the need for enrichment, culture, or sample preparation.
Tibion Corporation, a medical device company, engages in the design and development of bionic devices for the mobility impaired. Its bionic technologies provide non-invasive actively-assisted mobility enhancement and rehabilitation for impaired by surgical recovery, stroke, aging, or loss of muscle function. The company provides PowerKnee, a wearable bionic device for the leg to enhance rehabilitation and help patients improve muscle strength and function, as well as to provide assistance with activities of daily living. Its products are enabled by innovations in orthotics, biomechanics, and embedded control systems. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Moffett Field, California.
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our revolutionary thermoelectric approach and materials platform is the only of its kind that lends itself to massive scale at low cost. With our products, made entirely from sustainable materials, customers may use their waste heat to generate electrical power in the range of microwatts to megawatts.
Adura Technologies provides wireless lighting and energy management systems to improve energy efficiency and facilitate cost savings.
Clean Power Finance (CPF) is building an online business-to-business marketplace to drive the mass-market adoption of solar. The company connects providers of capital who are committed to investing in residential solar with qualified solar marketers, installers and distributors who need residential solar finance products to differentiate and grow their businesses. CPF raises 100 percent third-party‐owned project finance funds from institutional investors such as Morgan Stanley and Google, working with the investors to structure and launch the funds with managed risk and return profiles. CPF then markets the funds as solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) to qualified solar professionals, including Paramount Solar and Real Goods Solar (Nasdaq: RSOL), through its licensed online solar sales platform, CPF Tools. CPF Tools is software-as-a-service that simplifies complex sales, quoting, proposal and finance processes and minimizes the “soft costs” of selling solar. CPF’s fund investors earn favorable returns on stable investments on the resulting portfolios of residential distributed generation projects. The company’s solar professional partners gain access to solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) that they can brand and sell to homeowners who want the benefits of solar without the cost and hassle of owning and maintaining a system. CPF manages approximately half a billion dollars of capacity on behalf of fund investors, and supports more than 100 solar professional customers who currently use the CPF Market to sell residential solar finance products to homeowners in CA, CO, HI, MA and NJ. Thousands of solar professionals in all 50 states have extensively used CPF Tools to quote and design solar systems.
EcoFactor® is the leader in cloud-based home energy management services. EcoFactor delivers cloud-based home energy management services that improve energy efficiency, reduce energy bills and vastly increase DR efficacy – all while maintaining consumer comfort. EcoFactor’s patented big-data analytics and machine learning algorithms collect and process massive amounts of residential data – including home thermodynamics, family comfort preferences and schedules, plus external data such as weather – to continually monitor, adapt and learn for optimum energy savings. The company provides homeowners significant cost savings automatically, without the need to manually adjust temperature levels or change behavior. EcoFactor’s award-winning service is available through channel partners such as utilities, energy retailers, broadband service providers and HVAC companies. Based in Redwood City, Calif., EcoFactor is privately held, and funded by Aster Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, NRG and RockPort Capital Partners.
TargetCast Networks enables advertisers to reach the increasing away from home television viewers watching sports, entertainment, and news programming on television screens in public locations. The TargetCaster patented device creates an IPTV public space network combining the selling power of television with the targeting and flexibility of the internet.
SmartZip Analytics is a national leader in predictive marketing solutions for the real estate industry. Using patent-pending predictive analytics, automated marketing campaigns and smart CRM follow-up tools, SmartZip makes big data actionable for real estate and mortgage lending professionals. Our flagship product, SmartTargeting, helps agents land more listings by identifying and targeting the homeowners most likely to sell in any neighborhood across the U.S. As a rapidly growing startup backed by Intel Capital, SmartZip has assembled the most talented team and comprehensive predictive marketing platform in the industry.
Arcxis Biotechnologies is focused on developing elegant, integrated and compact solutions to molecular diagnostic challenges. From proprietary microfluidics to advanced detection methods; streamlined sample preparation to comprehensive automation technology, we are in the business of making molecular methods more reliable, robust and accessible.
Natera specializes in cell-free DNA testing and is driven by a passion for elevating the science and utility of prenatal testing. The advent of the Information Age has created a paradigm shift in the fields of computing and informatics. Surprisingly, medical diagnostics have been slow to integrate these advances into genetic testing.
Sentilla software delivers unparalleled intelligence for physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure transformation. Sentilla’s unified IT visibility and continuous, insightful analytics align business requirements with IT resource utilization, capacity, and cost. The result is optimized capacity, reduced CapEx and OpEx, faster deployments, and cheaper service delivery that create agility to enter new markets quickly. Global 1000 enterprises, including cloud service providers and leading telecom companies, deploy Sentilla software to increase infrastructure efficiency by 40%, essentially getting $1.40 for every $1.00 of their IT investment.
Natera specializes in cell-free DNA testing and is driven by a passion for elevating the science and utility of prenatal testing. The advent of the Information Age has created a paradigm shift in the fields of computing and informatics. Surprisingly, medical diagnostics have been slow to integrate these advances into genetic testing.
Roc2Loc offers wireless monitoring solutions for a range of applications.
cFares is a travel search engine that tries to offer travelers the lowest fares for their chosen flight. The meta-search site searches the Internet to find the best deals and then connects travelers directly to airline and online travel agency sites to purchase the ticket they want. Through patent-pending dynamic pricing and intelligent rebates technology, cFares is able to identify the lowest fares, provide discounts for its Platinum members, and offer helpful tools that filter and sort results, so travelers can easily find the best flight for them.
Adura Technologies provides wireless lighting and energy management systems to improve energy efficiency and facilitate cost savings.
SoundThinking, formerly known as ShotSpotter, is a public safety technology company, that provides transformative solutions and strategic advisory services for law enforcement and civic leadership. The company aims to enhance community safety through innovative technology and dedicated advisory services.
Blue Vector Systems provides asset tracking and supply chain visibility solutions to pharmaceutical, retail, distribution, and manufacturing industries. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Billeo Inc.
Series B in 2007
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.
Fluxion Biosciences was formed in 2005 to address critical needs for cellular analysis tools in the pharmaceutical, biotech and research industries. The company has developed a proprietary microfluidic platform which enables precise cellular manipulation, rapid low-volume compound addition, environmental control and software-based data acquisition.
TargetCast Networks is a digital advertising company that specializes in reaching away-from-home television viewers who engage with sports, entertainment, and news programming in public settings. Utilizing its patented TargetCaster device, the company establishes an IPTV public space network that merges traditional television advertising with the targeting and flexibility of internet marketing. This technology enables venue operators, such as restaurants, to create and display custom promotional messages directly on their television screens, allowing them to effectively market featured products and introduce new offerings tailored to their specific audience. Through this innovative approach, TargetCast Networks enhances the advertising capabilities of its affiliates while maximizing viewer engagement.
cFares is a travel search engine that tries to offer travelers the lowest fares for their chosen flight. The meta-search site searches the Internet to find the best deals and then connects travelers directly to airline and online travel agency sites to purchase the ticket they want. Through patent-pending dynamic pricing and intelligent rebates technology, cFares is able to identify the lowest fares, provide discounts for its Platinum members, and offer helpful tools that filter and sort results, so travelers can easily find the best flight for them.
ShotSpotter is the leader in gunshot detection solutions that helps law enforcement officials and security personnel identify, locate and deter gun violence. Our public safety solution, ShotSpotter Flex, is deployed in urban, high-crime areas to help identify, locate and deter gun violence by accurately detecting and locating gunshots and sending real-time alerts to law enforcement. Our security solutions, SST SecureCampus and ShotSpotter SiteSecure, are designed to help law enforcement and security personnel serving universities, corporate campuses and key infrastructure and transportation centers mitigate risk and enhance security by quickly notifying authorities and first responders of an active-shooter. The speed and accuracy of our solutions enable rapid response by enforcement and security personnel, increase the chances of apprehending the shooter, aid in evidentiary collection and serve as an overall deterrent. ShotSpotter solutions are installed in more than 90 locations across the United States. More information can be found at www.ShotSpotter.com For the latest news on next-generation 9-1-1, community and intelligence-led policing, reduction of gun violence, and other public safety topics, follow here on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/shotspotter http://twitter.com/#!/shotspotter For Career Information visit: http://www.shotspotter.com/company#careers
Sentilla software delivers unparalleled intelligence for physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure transformation. Sentilla’s unified IT visibility and continuous, insightful analytics align business requirements with IT resource utilization, capacity, and cost. The result is optimized capacity, reduced CapEx and OpEx, faster deployments, and cheaper service delivery that create agility to enter new markets quickly. Global 1000 enterprises, including cloud service providers and leading telecom companies, deploy Sentilla software to increase infrastructure efficiency by 40%, essentially getting $1.40 for every $1.00 of their IT investment.
Arcxis Biotechnologies is focused on developing elegant, integrated and compact solutions to molecular diagnostic challenges. From proprietary microfluidics to advanced detection methods; streamlined sample preparation to comprehensive automation technology, we are in the business of making molecular methods more reliable, robust and accessible.
SoundThinking, formerly known as ShotSpotter, is a public safety technology company, that provides transformative solutions and strategic advisory services for law enforcement and civic leadership. The company aims to enhance community safety through innovative technology and dedicated advisory services.
Billeo Inc.
Series A in 2006
[Acquired by PaymentUs.] Billeo is a leading provider of online shopping and bill pay services since 2006, helping banks, card issuers and product marketplaces better engage, retain, and deepen consumer loyalty. Its services allow financial institutions and marketplaces to simplify and speed up the online and mobile shopping and payment process for their consumers.
PropertyBridge, Inc. provides electronic payment services to the residential real estate management industry. It provides PropertyBridge Payments Platform, an electronic payments solution in various modules, including Lease-Up, Rent, and Collection for property management companies. The company offers various payment types, including credit cards and debit cards, automated clearing house, check scanning, cash payments, online bank bill payments, and lockbox. It serves multifamily property managers and owners, student housing managers and administrators, and utility billing providers, as well as condo and homeowner association, single family property, and parking facility managers. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Oakland, California. As of October 1, 2007, PropertyBridge, Inc. is a subsidiary of Moneygram International Inc.