Mirvie is a biotech company that creates precise, actionable, and non-invasive tests for maternal-fetal health. The company delivers insights to moms and families to make pregnancy safe. It was founded in 2018 by Maneesh Jain and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States.
Delix Therapeutics is a neuroscience company focused on harnessing the power of psychoplastogens—novel neuroplasticity-promoting therapeutics—to better treat mental health disorders at scale. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Vendasta is the creator of an end-to-end e-commerce platform that aims to stimulate local economies by democratizing technology for small companies. The platform of the company offers a white-labelable marketplace of products and services, lead generation and go-to-market tools, billing, fulfillment, and task management, allowing clients to effortlessly supply digital services to small and medium-sized enterprises.
DISCO is a legal technology company that applies artificial intelligence and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes for clients. Corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies around the world use DISCO as an e-discovery solution for compliance, disputes, and investigations. The company is reinventing legal technology to automate and simplify complex and error-prone tasks that distract from practicing law. DISCO was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Private Equity Round in 2020
AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperature sensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies. AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals.
Cognota is the first and only operations platform for learning and development teams. Our platform enables L&D teams to streamline training request management, improve project and capacity planning, rapidly design content and collaborate more effectively with SMEs. Clients across all industries are leveraging Cognota to improve their productivity by eliminating the need for multiple tools to manage learning operations. Looking to thrive in the L&D industry? Join the vibrant LearnOps® Community, a hub where L&D professionals gain insights, engage in thought-provoking discussions, access curated resources, and stay ahead of industry trends. Unlock the power of collective wisdom and experience in the #LearnOpsCommunity Join for free at LearnOps.com
Clearinghouse CDFI is a provider of community development lending services intended to address unmet credit needs. The company provides equal access to credit in neighborhoods of all income levels and ethnicities and spends the time and energy required to find creditworthy borrowers whose projects create assets in the community. Its lending services bridge the gap between conventional lending standards and the needs of low-income and distressed communities by offering financial lending for projects that include community facilities, affordable housing, commercial real estate, new markets tax credits, and small businesses, enabling borrowers to receive critical funding for their projects. It was founded by Douglas J. Bystry in 1996 and is located in Lake Forest, California.
Navan provides travel, expense, and corporate card management to automate manual processes and drive spend visibility. With one of the first enterprise technologies combining the cloud, mobile, and AI to balance business requirements with current standards, the company is reinventing the legacy category of travel and expense.
Moda Operandi is a platform that facilitates the discovery of fashion by connecting consumers directly with both established and emerging designers. It offers a diverse range of products across women's, men's, fine jewelry, and home categories. The company also supports designers in growing their businesses through a robust global network.
CareWorx is a provider of advanced technology hardware, cloud products and related services to senior care facilities leveraging a strategic partnership with PointClickCare® – the market-leader in Electronic Health Records (EHR) software for senior care. CareWorx provides customers with focused expertise, wireless networking and out-of-the-box point-of-care and mobile technology designed specifically for use in senior care.
Prophet is a consultancy that helps clients unlock uncommon growth by developing new business models, reimagining brands and experiences, driving demand and customer engagement, and empowering people to transform their organizations. The largest privately-owned firm of its kind, Prophet brings a unique blend of creativity and strategy to identify paths to purposeful, transformative , and sustainable growth. Based in San Francisco, with 15 global offices and more than 600 strategists, data analysts, marketers, digital experts, and creatives, Prophet has worked with the world’s most successful companies, including AXA, CVS Health, The Home Depot, Samsung, T-Mobile, and UBS, partnering with them from ideation to in-market execution.
AT THOUGHTWIRE, WE'RE ON A MISSION TO CREATE SMARTER SPACES USING ThoughtWireOS ThoughtWireOS orchestrates data from people, process, and the physical built environment to deliver smarter, safer and more efficient hospitals, commercial buildings, and cities. Our innovative software applications put people first, whether for clinicians, patients, office workers, or first responders, ThoughtWire puts people in control. ThoughtWire’s applications for smart hospitals, smart buildings, and smart cities unlock the value of data generated from built environments by combining it with context from people, processes and IoT devices.
Sweeping Corporation of America is a power sweeping company. Sweeping Corporation started with one street sweeper and a few small contracts, but quickly established a reputation for providing exceptional service at a fair price.
Chef’s Plate is an online platform that enables users to get fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and chef-inspired recipes to their homes. It was launched by Jamie Shea and Patrick Meyer in December 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Invincea is the leader in advanced endpoint threat protection, protecting more than 25,000 customers and 3 million active users. The company provides the most comprehensive solution to contain, identify, and control the advanced attacks that evade legacy security controls. Invincea protects enterprises against targeted threats, including spear-phishing and Web drive-by attacks that exploit Java, Flash, and other applications. Combining the visibility and control of an endpoint solution with the intelligence of cloud analysis, Invincea offers the only market-deployed solution that defends against 0-day exploits, file-less malware, and previously unknown malware. The company has been in market with its award-winning technology since 2009. In 2011, Invincea was recognized as "Most Innovative Company of the Year" at RSA Conference, and since then the company has won numerous awards for its technology and business. Invincea maintains an OEM agreement with Dell to ship a customized version of Invincea's award-winning endpoint security solution, under the Dell Data Protection | Protected Workspace brand. This offering ships on Dell's entire line of commercial PCs and tablets, comprising 20 million devices per year. The company, which was founded by Dr. Anup Ghosh to address the rapidly increasing security threat from nation states, cyber criminals, and rogue actors, has commercialized technology originally built under DARPA funding. The company is venture capital-backed and based in Fairfax, VA. For more information, visit https://www.invincea.com.
IDX is a consumer privacy platform that enables consumers to take control of their privacy and identity. Data breach response, employee benefits, strategic partnerships, and consumer solutions all on a flexible and secure platform. IDX is trusted by government and enterprise customers, as well as employee benefits and e-commerce partners.
good natured is producing and distributing one of North America’s widest assortments of better everyday products made with the highest possible percentage of renewable, plant-based materials and no BPAs, phthalates or other chemicals of concern potentially harmful to human health and the environment. With a growing assortment of over 385 products and services, good natured creates eco-friendly home and business products, food packaging, restaurant/take-out containers, medical and industrial supplies designed to do good for the planet, good for human health and good for business by driving incremental sales, minimizing waste and reducing environmental impact, all bundled up in a fresh and approachable brand.
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.
BioAmber is a private US company registered in the state of Delaware. The company, formerly known as DNP Green Technology, changed its name to BioAmber following its acquisition of its joint venture with ARD. Following the transaction, they adopted the name BioAmber, which had been used to that point by the joint venture.
Innography delivers a correlation, visualization, and collaboration analytics software platform that enables companies to fully manage, protect, and exploit patent portfolios. It focuses on answering IP questions more quickly, more accurately, and more insightfully than was possible before. Every feature and visualization is designed to solve a business need, not just present pretty graphs or list out reams of data. Innography was launched on 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
LiveOps, Inc. specializes in providing cloud-based, multichannel customer service solutions across various industries, including finance, healthcare, insurance, retail, and technology. The company offers a range of services, such as LiveOps Chat, which enhances online customer engagement, and an on-demand outsourced call center agent solution that enables businesses to efficiently manage customer interactions. Additionally, LiveOps provides agents with a comprehensive view of customer communications through its Email service and supports enterprises with Skill Builder, a customizable training platform for developing skilled customer service agents. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, LiveOps employs a pay-per-use model that allows organizations to quickly scale their customer service operations without the overhead costs associated with traditional call centers. With a focus on flexibility and efficiency, LiveOps serves over 400 clients, helping them achieve faster program readiness, increased revenue, and improved customer satisfaction.
OrthoAccel Technologies (OATI) designs, develops, markets, and sells the most revolutionary device in orthodontics – the Celerect 1000 – that cuts treatment time for braces in half and works in combination with all existing orthodontic bracket technologies. This proprietary technology (three issued patents) is licensed from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the company has engaged the leading researchers in this field including the inventor, Dr. Jeremy Mao, at Columbia University, Baylor College of Dentistry, and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Dental Branch. Together with these world-class partners, management will commercialize this innovation by 2009.
Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational and overall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future. Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time. Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more.
Visto is a technology company dedicated to bringing transparency, interoperability and accountability to digital advertising. The company’s Visto™ Enterprise Advertising Hub is a vendor-agnostic platform that unites the complete ad tech stack in a single user-friendly interface. Brands, media companies and agencies benefit from transparency in managing execution partners, optimizing ad spend, measuring performance and leveraging analytics to drive efficiencies and improve ROI. For more information, contact www.vistohub.com.
Spinal Restoration was formed to identify and develop new, early intervention, minimally invasive therapies for the treatment of chronic low back pain. The company’s first endeavor is the Biostat® System, a proprietary resorbable biologic compound and delivery system for the treatment of chronic disc pain. The new treatment specifically targets discogenic pain, which represents the single largest population of patients—an estimated four million adults—who suffer from chronic low back pain annually.
Rocket Fuel Inc. is a technology company specializing in digital advertising solutions across various regions, including North America and Europe. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it operates as a subsidiary of Sizmek Inc. The company offers a programmatic media-buying platform that leverages artificial intelligence and big data to optimize marketing return on investment across web, mobile, video, and social channels. Rocket Fuel's services include a demand-side platform that enables highly automated advertising campaigns tailored to meet both direct response and brand objectives. Additionally, it provides a data management platform for marketers to analyze and segment audience data, as well as a multi-modal advertising optimization platform for executing programmatic campaigns. The company's solutions are marketed through direct sales teams, resellers, and channel partners, focusing on advertising agencies and direct advertisers.
Livingly Media is an online publisher reaching an audience of more than 30 million across fashion, beauty, celebrity and entertainment. Livingly owns and operates three lifestyle sites: Zimbio.com, comScore's #5 entertainment news site, StyleBistro.com, comScore's #7 Fashion/Beauty site, and Lonny Magazine, which Livingly acquired in July 2012. Brands are connected with a deeply engaged and influential audience through high impact media placements and innovative content integrations. Livingly was founded in late 2006 with the goal of bringing high quality, deeply engaging content experiences to the largest possible audience. Professionally produced content, photos and videos, combined with an at-scale publishing system have driven strong growth and exceptionally high user engagement. The company was founded as Zimbio, Inc and changed its name to Livingly Media in August 2012. Livingly has offices in San Carlos, Calif. and New York City and is venture-backed by Menlo Ventures, Draper Associates, and Great Oaks Venture Capital.
NanoH2O enhances current polymer-based membranes with a nano-structured material that allows additional control of key membrane properties. The result is a wide array of advantageous membrane characteristics including improved throughput at requisite salt and contaminant rejection levels, passive and active fouling resistance, and the flexibility to address specific water chemistries.
BrightRoll builds software that automates video advertising globally. BrightRoll is the only independent and unified programmatic video advertising platform for reaching audiences across web, mobile and connected TV. The company powers digital video advertising for the world’s largest brands, including more than 80 of the top 100 US advertisers and 18 of the top 20 advertising technology companies. The platform enables advertisers to reach 4 in 5 video viewers online and consistently ranks among the top two video ad platforms in ads served. As a result, BrightRoll technology collects and analyzes hundreds of billions of data points monthly enabling real-time decisions that drive ROI for advertisers.
Sterling Bancshares provides various financial products and services to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses.
WealthEngine.com is the leading wealth research services firm for nonprofit organizations and financial services companies. Recognizing the value of wealth indicators and identifying links to prospects, WealthEngine gathers information to assist wealth managers, marketers and development professionals to create strategies for up-selling, cross-selling or fundraising. Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, WealthEngine offers sophisticated analytics, offering cutting-edge wealth identification products and services. Thousands of financial service providers and prospect researchers depend on our data mining expertise and sophisticated ratings.
PlayFirst is the global leader in mobile games for family and friends. PlayFirst develops great mobile games for family and friends, and tens of millions of fans worldwide have played our hit titles. PlayFirst's portfolio of games includes the DASH® series (Diner Dash®, Wedding Dash®, Cooking Dash®, Hotel Dash®, SpongeBob Diner Dash® and Hotel Transylvania Dash®) and Stars series (Mall Stars™).
eBridge provides marketing services to small business and corporate customers through the use of Internet properties and innovative, relevant marketing strategies. eBridge currently helps over 38,000 business customers promote their products and services on the web.
Spectrum K12 School Solutions, Inc. provides response to intervention (RTI) and special education IEP software for K-12 student population in the United States. It offers Encore, a special education data management system, which provides a Web-based solution to manage the individualized learning process for various students receiving special services, including special education, 504, limited English proficiency (LEP/ESL), and pre-referral response to intervention (RTI) programs. Spectrum K12 School Solutions, Inc. was formerly known as 4GL School Solutions, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Towson, Maryland.
maniaTV is network of original pop culture TV shows satiating the viewing habits of the Internet's most rabid video consumers. Shows that are network quality and that include major established Hollywood personalities like MTV's Audrina Patridge, Fox Sports' Tom Arnold, MADtv Bobby Lee, Jackass Superstar Wee-man, Comedian Tom Green, CBS Rockstar's Dave Navarro, and many more. Most importantly, maniaTV takes advantage of, and benefits from, the current disruption of television and huge shift of TV dollars to the Internet. To wit, maniaTV has worked with over 90 leading brands from every major advertising agency.
Harmony Information Systems, Inc. provides integrated case and financial management solutions for the health and human services organizations. Its solutions include Harmony Aging Services, a solution that helps adult and aging service providers in managing cases, programs, resources, and dollars supporting adult and aging programs; Adult Protective Services (APS) solution, a Web-based integrated case management system for APS agencies; Harmony SS Government, which provides an electronic case record containing demographic, eligibility, clinical, and service data for each client that allows agencies to forecast and control budget expenditures and financial obligations; Harmony SS Provider, which provides an electronic case record containing demographic, eligibility, clinical, and service data for each client that allows agencies to manage caseloads, program enrollments, bed assignments, and service delivery; Harmony CW, a Web-based case management solution for child welfare organizations, which administers and supports foster care, adoption and related family preservation, and wrap around services. It serves public and private organizations in North America. Harmony’s strategic partners include Microsoft Corporation, VisionWare, and LogiXML. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia with additional offices in Essex Junction, Vermont.
Hyperion is a biotech company developing therapies to address "orphan or underserved patient populations." They are located in South San Francisco, CA.
Rob Elam and Michael Kudriavtseff founded Propel Fuels in Seattle WA, in 2004. Fueling change means empowering drivers with a way to make clean, American-made fuels a part of our daily lives. The American consumer has waited too long for a better fueling option, one that positively affects our economy, and our environment. Propel builds, owns and operates a growing network of clean fueling points. Our goal is to provide you with easy access to high quality clean fuels, and quantify the positive impact of your fuel choice. Propel CleanDrive shows the difference you make when you choose renewable fuels instead of petroleum. And weâ€:tm:re building clean fuel points both at traditional gas stations, and in new locations convenient to you. Together, we can change what we put in our tanks, protect our environment, and break free from imported oil.
Center'd is a local search and discovery site that organizes and distributes content based on SentimentAnalysis - its unique approach to analyzing conversations about local places on the Web. By analyzing millions of conversations from multiple online sources, Center'd is able to surface detailed insights about local businesses that give consumers a faster way to determine the tone of what people are saying about a place. Based on its contextual understanding of these conversations, Center'd has created a unique and growing index of more than 5 million U.S. places with sentiment data. Center'd formerly owned and operated [The Dealmap](/organization/the-dealmap), a source for savvy consumers to find and share the hottest local deals, all in one place. The Dealmap aggregates the largest number of local deals on the Web from the largest number of sources, and makes previously hard-to-find deals available to consumers when and where they want them through its website and social applications, and its daily email. [Google](/organization/google) [acquired](http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/google-scoops-up-daily-deal-aggregator-the-dealmap/) The Dealmap in August 2011. Center'd uses its technology platform to create local applications on its website, mobile devices and social media websites, and to distribute unique local content through publicly available APIs and widgets. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Center'd is led by former Microsoft and Yahoo! executives, and is funded by Norwest Venture Partners and KeyNote Ventures. Center'd was formerly named [Fatdoor](/organization/fatdoor).
Greenplum, Inc., a data warehousing company, develops database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. It offers Greenplum Database that supports multi-terabyte data warehousing demands; and Greenplum Network, a customer and partner portal that delivers instant download access to database products. The company primarily serves telecommunications and banking industries.
Spot Runner, Inc - Founded in 2003 with the world's first TV advertising platform for local advertisers.
Quantum Leap Packaging is an electronic packaging and polymer science company. The company is based in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Alacritech provides storage network acceleration solutions that dramatically improve the performance of the existing enterprise network storage infrastructure. Alacritech eliminates corporate storage/NAS sprawl by extending the life of the enterprise’s existing storage framework while reducing the dependency on growing pools of over-provisioned and underutilized disk drives. Only Alacritech allows enterprises to drastically increase application performance without having to replace the investment made in the NFS-based storage network. Alacritech was founded in 1997 by technology pioneer Larry Boucher, the author of the SCSI standard and founder of both Auspex and Adaptec. Larry and his team of fellow entrepreneurs foresaw the convergence of storage and networking and the large amount of processing power and bandwidth consumed when moving data across the network. To solve this problem, the team designed Dynamic TCP Offload and cast it into silicon and has now taken it a step further by leveraging this technology in the form of an NFS acceleration appliance. By applying its vision of accelerated storage/NAS solutions and leveraging its 54 patents in the area of network acceleration, Alacritech is redefining the next generation of enterprise storage, allowing companies to accelerate their existing storage/NAS infrastructure.
Truckload Carriers Association is a trade association whose sole engagement is with the truckload segment of the motor carrier industry. They represent dry van, refrigerated, flatbed, tanker, and intermodal container carriers.
Celite Systems
Series A in 2002
Celite Systems is changing the game for facility-based service providers, driving rapid and profitable deployment of broadband services to residential subscribers. By pre-wiring entire neighborhoods, the company's outside plant broadband products help service providers bring broadband to every home with only one truck roll. Incorporating novel technology that activates subscribers' broadband services as easy as dial-up, the up front cost of adding new subscribers is dramatically reduced. The company's products work seamlessly with current generation DSL products and are non-disruptive to established services.
IntelCore Technologies develops, manufactures, and markets specialty optical fiber and fiber-based solutions for the photonics industry. They create world-changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet.
Imperial Bancorp is a Banking company offers a wide range of financial services to corporate customers, entrepreneurs, and professionals through regional banking offices.