Phunware

Phunware, Inc. is a software company that offers a multiscreen-as-a-service (MaaS) cloud platform designed for mobile devices. The platform enables businesses to effectively engage, manage, and monetize their mobile application audiences through a variety of products and services. Phunware's offerings include enterprise mobile software solutions such as content management, location-based services, marketing automation, business intelligence, audience engagement, and monetization tools. Additionally, the company provides application transaction services for user acquisition and engagement, along with data licensing for targeted marketing. With a focus on integrating its software components, Phunware aims to streamline the development and deployment of mobile applications across various sectors. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Phunware was founded in 2009 and serves a predominantly U.S. customer base.

Troy Reisner

CFO

6 past transactions

Odyssey Mobile Interaction

Acquisition in 2014
Odyssey Mobile Interaction is a mobile advertising company, which merges media, creative and technology. We deliver high impact, rich media ad units that allow brands to communicate to their consumers on mobile like never before. We deliver these ads to smartphones and tablets via our advertising platform M-Rich™ which uses intelligent data to target the right ads to the right users at the right time, across our premium publishers. Odyssey launched in 2010 with a mission to improve mobile advertising for brand advertisers. The concept was conceived during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with the coming together of experts in digital media, technology and creative with the aim to pioneer a new form of display advertising to engage audiences on smartphones. Today, Odyssey’s ‘end-to-end’ solution, is powering mobile advertising campaigns for some of the world's leading advertisers including Nike, Lexus, The European Commission, Zurich Financial Services, Samsung and Warner Brothers to name a few. Odyssey is rapidly expanding its international footprint with the opening of offices across the UK, Europe, Asia and USA. Odyssey's focus is to deliver high impact brand advertising in premium environments across multiple markets, offering advertisers transparency, effectiveness and accountability. Through our leading technology platform, premium publisher partnerships and high standards of creative design, we want to deliver results to our advertisers and become a leader in the mobile advertising space across the globe.

Simplikate

Acquisition in 2014
Simplikate is a provider of a mobile shopping platform designed to enhance the consumer experience by enabling users to make purchases from various locations, including malls, airports, and luxury real estate. The platform supports mobile trading, allowing customers to seamlessly engage in transactions while on the go. By focusing on convenience and accessibility, Simplikate aims to cater to the needs of modern consumers who seek efficient shopping solutions in diverse environments.

Digby

Acquisition in 2014
Mobile technology's collision with brick and mortar stores challenges retailers to keep up with consumers who are better connected, better informed and more nimble than ever before. Digby’s Localpoint platform enables you to become proactive in the buying process by connecting digital engagement to the physical world. With Localpoint embedded in your branded mobile app, you can seamlessly guide a consumer’s purchase path across channels: driving store traffic through location-relevant marketing, personally engaging your customers in the brick and mortar store and developing new insights into consumer visit patterns across your locations.

TapIt

Acquisition in 2013
TapIt are a branded mobile advertising platform and Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS) monetization module for iOS and Android mobile applications, and the core of Phunwareʼs cloud-based MaaS Advertising global platform. Through its platform of publishers and developers, TapIt maximizes mobile monetization through a comprehensive advertising product suite including self-service media buying, real-time bidding (RTB), publisher mediation and yield optimization, cross-platform ad creation and dynamic ad serving. TapIt currently supports more than four billion global ad impressions per month in more than 225 countries and territories.

ClearBlade

Seed Round in 2013
ClearBlade, Inc. is an Edge Computing software company that specializes in enabling enterprises to develop and operate secure, real-time, and scalable Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with an additional office in Raleigh, North Carolina, ClearBlade provides a comprehensive mobile Back-end-as-a-Service platform that supports various applications, including tools for managing work items, test case results, and job queues. The company's solutions facilitate data ingestion, analysis, and real-time decision-making across diverse industries such as rail, mining, healthcare, and smart cities. ClearBlade’s Edge technology operates independently of network connectivity, ensuring security and resiliency while integrating seamlessly with enterprise systems. The platform’s patented communication technology keeps environments up-to-date and fully extensible, allowing businesses to enhance their operations efficiently. Through its offerings, ClearBlade aims to empower organizations to achieve significant business outcomes by leveraging local computing and actionable insights.

GoTV Networks

Acquisition in 2011
GoTV Networks was the industry’s original and largest mobile media network. The firm created rich media applications and syndicated original content to mobile and enabled media owners and brands (including the NFL, NASCAR, Oprah Winfrey Network and SONY) to deliver compelling, personalized, highly-engaged content experiences through media-rich smart applications distributed to the widest audience possible. GoTV’s technology, syndication and production studio capabilities made GoTV the go-to partner for brands, agencies and media owners and was distributed through a broad base of wireless carriers including Sprint, Boost, Cingular, AT&T, Nextel, Virgin, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. The company was headquartered in Los Angeles, CA until it was acquired in mid 2011.
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