Octane11 is a B2B-focused marketing solutions provider that helps businesses drive measurable impact at scale. Octane11’s suite of workflow tools, data products and intuitive analytics, make it easy for B2B marketers to coordinate “paid, owned and earned” tactics and deliver real world results. The company was incubated by digital advertising leader MediaMath and MathCapital, and officially launched in Q4 2019 in partnership with Oracle, LiveRamp, Intersection, Bombora and EverString. For more information and updates, visit www.octane11.com and follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/octane11.
Appvance.ai specializes in AI-driven test generation, transforming software testing practices. Its flagship product, Appvance IQ, is recognized as the first unified test automation system powered by artificial intelligence. This innovative solution enables enterprises to enhance the quality, performance, and security of their applications while significantly improving the efficiency and productivity of testing teams. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Appvance.ai also has offices in Costa Rica and India. The company has garnered investment from various funds, highlighting its potential and impact within the software testing industry.
Pair Eyewear makes wearing prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses exciting, empowering and playful for children. Pair believes glasses for children can be more than a static medical device. Glasses can be a canvas on which children express their evolving interests and growing personalities. Through an e-commerce platform, Pair is redesigning the glasses experience, making it engaging for children and painless for parents.
Pair Eyewear is redefining the eyewear experience for children by bringing continual customizability, freedom of choice, and affordability to kids' glasses.
Wethos Virtual Studios™ make it easy to confidently team up and scale your independent business.
Viable Fit develops a structured user platform designed to use historical qualitative data to answer new questions instantly. Viable Fit offers a custom-branded survey, measures product/market fits, automatically segments customers into groups, and discovers user feedbacks based on keywords, thereby enabling businesses to get valuable suggestions from customers more accurately.
Pixalate, Inc. is a global intelligence platform that specializes in fraud protection and data intelligence solutions for the advertising industry. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, the company offers a range of products designed to combat various types of advertising fraud, including cookie click fraud, domain masking, and device click fraud. Additionally, Pixalate provides network and campaign analytics to track marketing spend, as well as a rating system for programmatic advertising that assesses domain quality and seller integrity. The company also delivers threat intelligence services and a hardware appliance aimed at preventing advertising fraud, alongside mobile seller rankings. Pixalate serves a diverse clientele, including publishers, supply-side platforms (SSPs), demand-side platforms (DSPs), and advertisement networks, with operations extending to locations such as Sweden, New York, and India.
Octane AI, Inc. is a company that specializes in conversational marketing automation for e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2016 and based in Irvine, California, it offers a comprehensive platform that enables merchants to create engaging quizzes, collect data, and utilize personalized automation through Facebook Messenger and SMS. The platform is designed to enhance customer engagement by allowing users to build chatbots that can perform various functions, including content delivery, customer service, and product showcasing. Octane AI is particularly popular among Shopify brands, with over 1,000 merchants relying on its services to personalize customer journeys and improve conversion rates. The company operates remotely and is supported by notable Silicon Valley investors, emphasizing its commitment to innovation in social media marketing and customer interaction.
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.
Mythical Games Inc. is a gaming studio based in Sherman Oaks, California, with an additional office in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2018, the company develops blockchain-based games for personal computers, mobile devices, and consoles. Its flagship product, Blankos, is a casual multiplayer game that allows players to buy, trade, and sell their custom designs. Mythical Games also provides tools that enable content creators and brands to customize and retain ownership of game assets, fostering a new economy centered on digital ownership and verifiable scarcity. The studio aims to drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through innovative gaming experiences, leveraging a team of experienced game and platform developers.
MasterClass, founded in 2015, is an online education platform that offers video courses taught by renowned experts across various fields. The platform provides users with the opportunity to learn directly from celebrated figures such as Anna Wintour, Timbaland, and Neil Gaiman, among others. With a subscription model, users can access hundreds of lessons featuring over 85 prominent personalities, covering diverse topics from cooking to writing and sports. MasterClass aims to democratize high-quality education by making it accessible anytime and anywhere through its All-Access Pass.
Higharc, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing a three-dimensional home design and customization platform tailored for new homebuyers and builders. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, Higharc enables users to create personalized home plans that align with their specific needs and budget. The platform allows customers to visualize their designs in 3D on actual homesites, facilitating a more interactive and engaging experience in the home-building process.
Pair Eyewear makes wearing prescription and nonprescription glasses and sunglasses exciting, empowering and playful for children. Pair believes glasses for children can be more than a static medical device. Glasses can be a canvas on which children express their evolving interests and growing personalities. Through an e-commerce platform, Pair is redesigning the glasses experience, making it engaging for children and painless for parents.
Pair Eyewear is redefining the eyewear experience for children by bringing continual customizability, freedom of choice, and affordability to kids' glasses.
Landed improves the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants.
Stensul, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email creation platform designed for enterprises and large organizations globally. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to efficiently create and deliver mobile-responsive emails for various purposes, such as email-based customer relationship management and marketing automation. By streamlining the email creation process and reducing the reliance on designers and developers, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on producing engaging content that drives results. The platform is centralized, scalable, and tailored to individual brands, facilitating the quick generation of emails that can be sent directly through users' existing email service providers or marketing clouds.
ARMORY, Inc. operates an open source deployment platform. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker, a cloud-based spinnaker management solution that provides user management, multi-instance support, and deployment analytics; Armory Deploy, that enables users to install and configure a production ready spinnaker within company’s walls; and Armory Elevate that identifies and prevents bad deployments before they happen. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.
WorkPatterns, Inc. develops software for workplace communication and collaboration. It offers WorkPatterns, a platform for one-on-one docs, recurring group meetings, feedback, and recognition. The company’s WorkPatterns creates a private space where managers and their direct reports or small teams can collaborate on a running agenda and align on deliverables, owners, and due dates, enabling asynchronous work. WorkPatterns, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Marina Del Rey, California.
Vacatia, Inc. operates an online marketplace specializing in resort rentals aimed at vacationing families. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a platform for users to search for and book professionally managed timeshare properties and resort condominiums. Vacatia emphasizes the combination of home-like space and hotel services, providing guests with real-time rental listings, high-quality images, floor plans, and comprehensive resort information. The company collaborates with over 600 select resorts, ensuring a focus on professionally managed accommodations rather than private homes or hotels. Additionally, Vacatia engages in property management of independent vacation resorts and partners with select brands to develop vacation ownership marketplaces. Recognized for its innovation in the industry, Vacatia is a member of the Family Travel Association and the American Resort Development Association, where it has received accolades for its contributions to family travel.
Mythical Games Inc. is a gaming studio based in Sherman Oaks, California, with an additional office in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 2018, the company develops blockchain-based games for personal computers, mobile devices, and consoles. Its flagship product, Blankos, is a casual multiplayer game that allows players to buy, trade, and sell their custom designs. Mythical Games also provides tools that enable content creators and brands to customize and retain ownership of game assets, fostering a new economy centered on digital ownership and verifiable scarcity. The studio aims to drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through innovative gaming experiences, leveraging a team of experienced game and platform developers.
ARMORY, Inc. operates an open source deployment platform. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker, a cloud-based spinnaker management solution that provides user management, multi-instance support, and deployment analytics; Armory Deploy, that enables users to install and configure a production ready spinnaker within company’s walls; and Armory Elevate that identifies and prevents bad deployments before they happen. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides a mobile application that facilitates primary care services, allowing users to manage their treatment plans, prescriptions, and lab reports in one place. The company offers omnichannel care through various access points, including clinics, pop-up sites, video consultations, and its application, ensuring convenient and accessible healthcare for patients. Additionally, Carbon Health developed a coronavirus assessment tool and has established COVID-19 testing sites in California, further enhancing its commitment to delivering comprehensive healthcare services.
HitRecord is an online community platform founded in 2004 by actor and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt, based in Glendale, California. The platform facilitates collaboration among over 100,000 artists across various disciplines, including writers, filmmakers, and musicians. It encourages users to produce and share creative works, with more than 250 new members and over 2,500 new pieces of art added daily. By fostering a collaborative environment, HitRecord operates as a unique production company, allowing individuals to contribute to and engage with a diverse range of artistic projects.
Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disrupts production and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations.
Filld is a developer of an on-demand fuel delivery platform designed to deliver gas to car anytime and anywhere. The company's platform helps to fill the car's gas tank while the users are at their work, home, or at the gym, enabling them to save time by not stopping at the gas station for last-mile mobile fueling.
MasterClass, founded in 2015, is an online education platform that offers video courses taught by renowned experts across various fields. The platform provides users with the opportunity to learn directly from celebrated figures such as Anna Wintour, Timbaland, and Neil Gaiman, among others. With a subscription model, users can access hundreds of lessons featuring over 85 prominent personalities, covering diverse topics from cooking to writing and sports. MasterClass aims to democratize high-quality education by making it accessible anytime and anywhere through its All-Access Pass.
ARMORY, Inc. operates an open source deployment platform. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker, a cloud-based spinnaker management solution that provides user management, multi-instance support, and deployment analytics; Armory Deploy, that enables users to install and configure a production ready spinnaker within company’s walls; and Armory Elevate that identifies and prevents bad deployments before they happen. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.
Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disrupts production and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations.
Stensul, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email creation platform designed for enterprises and large organizations globally. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users to efficiently create and deliver mobile-responsive emails for various purposes, such as email-based customer relationship management and marketing automation. By streamlining the email creation process and reducing the reliance on designers and developers, Stensul allows marketers to concentrate on producing engaging content that drives results. The platform is centralized, scalable, and tailored to individual brands, facilitating the quick generation of emails that can be sent directly through users' existing email service providers or marketing clouds.
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.
Cyberinc Corporation is a cybersecurity company based in San Ramon, California, with additional offices in India and the Philippines. It specializes in protecting enterprises from web, email, and document-based threats through its advanced Isla Isolation platform, which safeguards against web-based malware attacks. Cyberinc was formed from the merger of Spikes Security and Aurionpro’s Security Division, focusing on delivering scalable and high-performance security solutions. The company aims to help organizations secure their digital environments and manage their security perimeter effectively. With a commitment to addressing critical threat vectors, Cyberinc's products assist Chief Information Security Officers in preventing information loss and unauthorized access, having already secured over 100 million identities globally.
Wizely is building India’s first platform dedicated to Financial Wellness for emerging India. Our intelligent digital banking experience helps customers take charge of their everyday finances and reach their financial goals. Wizely delivers not only personalized guidance but also empowers users to make their goals a reality with spending controls, smart saving, and a confident path into borrowing and investments.
Founded in 2017, Wizely is transforming the way new-age banking can guide and serve the Indian consumer, with an engaging, personalized experience at the core. Our vision is to grow our offerings as our customers progress in their journeys to Financial Wellness. For now, we’re excited to pave the way for Financial Wellness for emerging India.
Niantic’s mission is to use emerging technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. We seek to build products that inspire movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction. Originally formed at Google in 2010, we are now an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We’re focused on building games that get people outside and exploring by enabling our players to have fun while visiting new places, learning about the world around them, and meeting new friends. We’ve launched Ingress, an immersive real-world mobile game played by millions of people; it's been downloaded more than 20 million times and is played in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. We've also developed Pokémon GO, which has broken records around the world and has been downloaded more than 750 million times in its first year.
ExecThread is the world's largest network of executive-level talent with over 40,000 high-caliber members, whose collective influence is shaping the future of industry. We help hiring companies & recruiters connect with diverse, dynamic leaders; and we help talented exec-level professionals find their dream jobs. By empowering our member community of underrepresented leaders and allies with access to thousands of confidential executive-level jobs and board of director opportunities, ExecThread is upending the traditional practices of executive search and replacing it with a far more transparent, open and inviting process.
Fair is a car leasing company based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in providing vehicle leasing services through a user-friendly mobile application that allows customers to shop for cars, get approved, and make payments using just a driver's license and a bank account. Fair promotes the concept of car-as-a-service (CaaS), empowering users with the flexibility to drive the vehicle of their choice for as long as they desire and to terminate the lease at any time. The company's mission is to enhance access to mobility for all individuals.
Fiix operates an online platform that provides on-demand auto repair services across various locations in Ontario, including Toronto and its surrounding areas. The company specializes in a wide range of services such as tire changes, oil changes, brake replacements, general inspections, and diagnostics for various vehicle systems, including engines and transmissions. Fiix distinguishes itself by offering these services at the convenience of customers' homes or offices. Founded in 2015 by Zain Manji and Arif Bhanji, Fiix has established a strong presence in the automotive repair market and is known for its customer-centric approach. As of late 2019, Fiix operates as a subsidiary of Wrench, Inc.
Filld is a developer of an on-demand fuel delivery platform designed to deliver gas to car anytime and anywhere. The company's platform helps to fill the car's gas tank while the users are at their work, home, or at the gym, enabling them to save time by not stopping at the gas station for last-mile mobile fueling.
When a company can revolutionize the ease of creation, storage, and management of something that has become integral to business and culture, that company can build a billion dollar empire. Microsoft did it with Word, which revolutionized documents; it did it with Excel for spreadsheets; and it did it again with Powerpoint for presentations. Together with the Microsoft Operating System called Windows, Microsoft built an empire on a bundled suite now called Microsoft Office 365. Since Microsoft, the world has moved online, has moved to mobile, and the things that are now integral to business and culture have shifted. Today, if you created a pie chart of the utilities that are essential to business and society it would consist of mobile apps, videos, ads, articles, and online presentations. The problem for these modern utilities is they suffer from the same problems that documents, spreadsheets, and presentations did at the dawn of Microsoft’s empire. They are time consuming, they are costly to create, and there exists to no unified, integrated way of managing and storing them. What Famous intends to do is revolutionize creation, storage, and management of these new Internet utilities. Together with our platform, called Famous Studio, we will offer powerful creation tools for Instant Apps, Instant Ads, Instant Videos, Instant Articles, and Instant Presentations that reduce creation time from months to minutes. To manage and store assets created with our Famous Studio, we offer Famous Publisher to manage them, Famous Analytics to measure their performance, and Famous Drive to store every beautiful creation.
Non Equity Assistance in 2017
KidPass is a new kind of membership that helps parents discover and book amazing children’s activities - including exclusive events, classes, camps, party spaces, museums, and more. We partner with the best kids activity providers to make it fun, easy, and delightful for parents to explore their childrens' interests.
Rinse is a national and global brand focused on clothing care, providing a convenient solution to the challenges of dry cleaning and laundry. It offers a range of services, including dry cleaning, launder and press, wash and fold, hang dry, repairs, leather cleaning, and clothing donations. The company utilizes a technology-driven platform that features smart scheduling for pickups and deliveries, ensuring a high-quality cleaning experience. By effectively managing the complexities of its operations, Rinse aims to standardize and improve the garment care process for consumers, allowing them to outsource their laundry needs with ease.
Estimote, Inc. specializes in developing a sensor-based analytics and engagement platform that enhances interactions between consumers and physical retail environments. The company produces small, wireless sensors known as Estimote Beacons and Stickers, which utilize technologies such as Bluetooth and Ultra Wideband to broadcast signals that smartphones can detect. This capability enables precise indoor location tracking and asset management, facilitating mobile advertising tailored to customers' locations within stores. Founded in 2012, Estimote is headquartered in New York City and has additional offices in San Francisco and Krakow, providing its solutions primarily to brick-and-mortar retail stores in the United States and Europe.
Clutter Inc. is a full-service storage company based in Culver City, California, that specializes in the pick-up, storage, and retrieval of customers' belongings. Founded in 2013, Clutter offers on-demand storage solutions for a variety of items, including boxes, furniture, bicycles, and seasonal decorations, while excluding liquids, illegal substances, perishables, and hazardous materials. The company prioritizes customer satisfaction by utilizing technology to streamline its operations and by providing insurance against theft, loss, natural disasters, and water damage. Through its focus on efficient service and innovative solutions, Clutter aims to offer hassle-free and affordable options for individuals needing extra space for their possessions.
KidPass is a new kind of membership that helps parents discover and book amazing children’s activities - including exclusive events, classes, camps, party spaces, museums, and more. We partner with the best kids activity providers to make it fun, easy, and delightful for parents to explore their childrens' interests.
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides a mobile application that facilitates primary care services, allowing users to manage their treatment plans, prescriptions, and lab reports in one place. The company offers omnichannel care through various access points, including clinics, pop-up sites, video consultations, and its application, ensuring convenient and accessible healthcare for patients. Additionally, Carbon Health developed a coronavirus assessment tool and has established COVID-19 testing sites in California, further enhancing its commitment to delivering comprehensive healthcare services.
Nexenta Systems, Inc. specializes in software-defined storage solutions, focusing on cloud and virtualization-optimized software for various hardware platforms. The company offers a range of products, including NexentaStor, which delivers file and block storage for enterprise applications, and NexentaCloud, tailored for virtual desktop infrastructure. Additionally, NexentaEdge provides an object storage platform that enables users to access data without needing to know its physical location. The company also features NexentaFusion, which offers analytics and orchestration tools for managing complex computing environments. With over 6,000 customers and partnerships with numerous technology firms, Nexenta emphasizes an open-source approach, allowing organizations to avoid vendor lock-in and adapt to diverse applications and cloud environments. Founded in 2005 and based in San Jose, California, Nexenta operates as a subsidiary of DataDirect Networks, Inc., continuing to innovate in the storage industry.
Thanx, Inc. operates a customer relationship management and digital engagement platform designed for offline businesses, including brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants, and malls. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Thanx assists these businesses in adapting to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic by enabling digital purchasing and enhancing customer data collection. The platform offers a range of services, including customer insights, loyalty programs, messaging campaigns, real-time feedback, revenue reporting, online ordering, and email marketing. Through proprietary integrations with credit card networks, Thanx ensures accurate and comprehensive purchase data, which is integral to its CRM and marketing automation tools, allowing businesses to personalize interactions with their customers effectively.
GameCo Inc. is a pioneering company based in New York that specializes in providing skill-based video game gambling machines for casino floors. Founded in 2014, GameCo has developed Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM), which merge the interactive experience of video gaming with the thrill of gambling. This innovative platform is the first of its kind approved by regulators in the United States, allowing players to influence their payouts through skill-based gameplay. GameCo's patented arcade-style cabinets engage a new demographic of casino customers while maintaining the traditional economics associated with slot machines.
GameCo Inc. is a pioneering company based in New York that specializes in providing skill-based video game gambling machines for casino floors. Founded in 2014, GameCo has developed Video Game Gambling Machines (VGM), which merge the interactive experience of video gaming with the thrill of gambling. This innovative platform is the first of its kind approved by regulators in the United States, allowing players to influence their payouts through skill-based gameplay. GameCo's patented arcade-style cabinets engage a new demographic of casino customers while maintaining the traditional economics associated with slot machines.
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.
LeadGenius, Inc. is a lead generation and outreach company that serves businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2011 and based in Berkeley, California, LeadGenius offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes customer research to generate targeted lead lists, data enrichment to ensure the accuracy and relevance of lead information, and lead qualification to identify viable prospects. Additionally, the company provides outbound email prospecting to facilitate sales outreach. With its end-to-end sales solution, LeadGenius assists sales teams in efficiently growing and scaling their operations throughout the sales process, ultimately enhancing their ability to convert leads into customers.
Netpulse, Inc. specializes in developing custom-branded mobile applications tailored for health clubs, aiming to enhance member engagement and boost club revenue. The platform integrates personalized workout data with social media, allowing fitness centers to attract new prospects, convert them into members, and retain existing clientele. Netpulse collaborates with industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness, and Equinox, providing a comprehensive mobile experience through partnerships with key technology providers like ABC Financial and Club Comm. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Francisco, Netpulse has emerged as the leading provider of mobile solutions in the fitness industry, serving clubs worldwide. As of 2018, it operates as a subsidiary of eGym GmbH.
Alpine, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform that focuses on voice-enabled applications. With the rise of voice-first devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, as well as the proliferation of conversational capabilities on Android phones, Alpine aims to enhance brand and retailer accessibility in a voice-driven marketplace. The company is committed to transforming consumer experiences by delivering valuable answers through innovative voice and visual solutions, adapting to the evolving expectations of users in this new environment. As of September 2018, Alpine operates as a subsidiary of Headspace, Inc.
Appvance.ai specializes in AI-driven test generation, transforming software testing practices. Its flagship product, Appvance IQ, is recognized as the first unified test automation system powered by artificial intelligence. This innovative solution enables enterprises to enhance the quality, performance, and security of their applications while significantly improving the efficiency and productivity of testing teams. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Appvance.ai also has offices in Costa Rica and India. The company has garnered investment from various funds, highlighting its potential and impact within the software testing industry.
MasterClass, founded in 2015, is an online education platform that offers video courses taught by renowned experts across various fields. The platform provides users with the opportunity to learn directly from celebrated figures such as Anna Wintour, Timbaland, and Neil Gaiman, among others. With a subscription model, users can access hundreds of lessons featuring over 85 prominent personalities, covering diverse topics from cooking to writing and sports. MasterClass aims to democratize high-quality education by making it accessible anytime and anywhere through its All-Access Pass.
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. It operates platform where people can hire talents and professionals like instructors, painters, photographers, and many more.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thumbtack has raised more than $275 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Google Capital.
FEM Inc. is a media technology company that specializes in creating and delivering personalized video experiences for websites and applications. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, the company leverages neuroscience and psychology to enhance video engagement through its Prizma platform. This platform enables websites to easily implement engaging video discovery and smart syndication, powered by a sophisticated content recommendation engine. For publishers with existing video content, Prizma improves discovery and recirculation, while also offering monetized, relevant content from high-quality creators for those seeking additional video options. By focusing on user engagement, FEM aims to increase video views and overall time spent on sites, ultimately enhancing audience retention.
Seismos, the K-wave Company™, is a data analytics company for production optimization providing proprietary solutions enabling real-time, underground fluid flow monitoring, inside the reservoir, during production. Monitoring fluid movement with conventional seismic technologies requires months for data acquisition and processing, disrupts production and costs millions. Seismos breaks this paradigm and solves all problems associated with conventional methods by providing real-time information, at a fraction of the cost, through its proprietary, cloud-based K-wave technology that is non-invasive to production and to surface operations.
MasterClass, founded in 2015, is an online education platform that offers video courses taught by renowned experts across various fields. The platform provides users with the opportunity to learn directly from celebrated figures such as Anna Wintour, Timbaland, and Neil Gaiman, among others. With a subscription model, users can access hundreds of lessons featuring over 85 prominent personalities, covering diverse topics from cooking to writing and sports. MasterClass aims to democratize high-quality education by making it accessible anytime and anywhere through its All-Access Pass.
Boost Media is a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company based in Silicon Valley, specializing in ad optimization for enterprise advertisers. The company offers a platform that enhances digital advertising across search, social, display, and mobile channels. By enabling businesses to create emotionally engaging and personalized advertisements, Boost Media significantly improves conversions per impression for its clients. The platform leverages a marketplace of expert writers and designers to provide diverse and scalable creative solutions. Trusted by businesses managing over $300 million in advertising spend, Boost Media collaborates with major networks and publishers, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Bing Ads, and Facebook. The company is currently expanding its team in anticipation of an initial public offering.
Founded in 2012, Spikes Security is focused on delivering secure, scalable, high performance appliance and software solutions that empower businesses with the freedom to safely leverage the web without fear of cyber-attacks. Its flagship offering is a powerful web malware isolation system that prevents all browser-borne malware from entering corporate networks and infecting endpoints, including mobile devices, without requiring installation of any endpoint software. Watch an analyst interview with CEO Branden Spikes here: https://vimeo.com/127027498
Netpulse, Inc. specializes in developing custom-branded mobile applications tailored for health clubs, aiming to enhance member engagement and boost club revenue. The platform integrates personalized workout data with social media, allowing fitness centers to attract new prospects, convert them into members, and retain existing clientele. Netpulse collaborates with industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness, and Equinox, providing a comprehensive mobile experience through partnerships with key technology providers like ABC Financial and Club Comm. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Francisco, Netpulse has emerged as the leading provider of mobile solutions in the fitness industry, serving clubs worldwide. As of 2018, it operates as a subsidiary of eGym GmbH.
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. It operates platform where people can hire talents and professionals like instructors, painters, photographers, and many more.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thumbtack has raised more than $275 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Google Capital.
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. It operates platform where people can hire talents and professionals like instructors, painters, photographers, and many more.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thumbtack has raised more than $275 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Google Capital.
ShopTap Industries
Series B in 2014
ShopTap industries operated The Hunt. The Hunt has been recapitalized and bought out by one of the founders in 2016.
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.
Trumaker, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in designing and manufacturing high-quality men's apparel, including shirts, blazers, sweaters, tees, and accessories. Founded in 2011, Trumaker offers a unique shopping experience by pairing clients with personal stylists, known as Outfitters, who provide individualized style guidance and measure customers for a perfect fit. This combination of personalized service and modern technology enables customers to easily reorder tailored clothing online, ensuring that fit and style preferences are consistently met. Trumaker's approach blends made-to-measure options with off-the-rack selections, catering to a diverse range of needs in men's fashion.
Pixalate, Inc. is a global intelligence platform that specializes in fraud protection and data intelligence solutions for the advertising industry. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, the company offers a range of products designed to combat various types of advertising fraud, including cookie click fraud, domain masking, and device click fraud. Additionally, Pixalate provides network and campaign analytics to track marketing spend, as well as a rating system for programmatic advertising that assesses domain quality and seller integrity. The company also delivers threat intelligence services and a hardware appliance aimed at preventing advertising fraud, alongside mobile seller rankings. Pixalate serves a diverse clientele, including publishers, supply-side platforms (SSPs), demand-side platforms (DSPs), and advertisement networks, with operations extending to locations such as Sweden, New York, and India.
ShopTap Industries
Series A in 2013
ShopTap industries operated The Hunt. The Hunt has been recapitalized and bought out by one of the founders in 2016.
Kopo Kopo Inc. is a merchant services platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, that facilitates mobile payment acceptance and provides additional services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Established in 2010, the company leverages the M-PESA platform to help businesses, ranging from salons to restaurants, transition from cash-based transactions to digital payments. Kopo Kopo's secure platform enables real-time processing and analysis of mobile payments while offering a comprehensive online dashboard for managing transactions and settling funds directly into bank accounts. Additionally, the company provides targeted promotional and loyalty tools, enhancing customer engagement and supporting businesses in their growth. Kopo Kopo also offers a suite of tools for merchant acquirers, including banks and mobile network operators, further contributing to the advancement of digital economies in East Africa.
MAGNIFI is a live music service that facilitates connections among fans, venues, and artists, offering a comprehensive platform for discovering local music events. It features show listings, a listening experience, and options for ticket purchasing, all in one place. The platform promotes local music scenes and emerging artists, enhancing user engagement through a community where fans can share and follow their favorite artists and venues. With access to hundreds of thousands of artists and tens of thousands of venues worldwide, MAGNIFI aims to enrich music lovers' experiences and drive ticket sales for live performances.
Boost Media is a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company based in Silicon Valley, specializing in ad optimization for enterprise advertisers. The company offers a platform that enhances digital advertising across search, social, display, and mobile channels. By enabling businesses to create emotionally engaging and personalized advertisements, Boost Media significantly improves conversions per impression for its clients. The platform leverages a marketplace of expert writers and designers to provide diverse and scalable creative solutions. Trusted by businesses managing over $300 million in advertising spend, Boost Media collaborates with major networks and publishers, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Bing Ads, and Facebook. The company is currently expanding its team in anticipation of an initial public offering.
Spotsetter is a social search engine designed to provide personalized recommendations for places to visit. By utilizing a ranking algorithm, the platform aggregates and analyzes content generated by users across various social networks, allowing individuals to discover trending hotspots based on their friends' reviews and experiences. Available on both web and mobile interfaces, Spotsetter addresses the challenge of determining "where to go" in the online-to-offline space, making it easier for users to find relevant places based on social input. The company was part of AngelPad's fourth batch in 2012, further establishing its presence in the market.
Engrade, established in 2003 by a high school student seeking improved communication with teachers, has evolved into a comprehensive learning management system. It connects educators, parents, and students through web-based classroom tools that facilitate the management of classes and provide real-time access to grades and information. As a division of CTB/McGraw-Hill, Engrade supports users throughout the educational process, from curriculum planning to assessments, enhancing the overall learning experience. The platform's development has been driven by user feedback, making it a valuable resource for managing educational interactions and fostering collaboration among all stakeholders in the learning cycle.
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. It operates platform where people can hire talents and professionals like instructors, painters, photographers, and many more.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thumbtack has raised more than $275 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Google Capital.
Uncovet features daily deals on design-centric products for the style addict. graduate of Science, Uncovet is an accessories and home décor site that is building a style graph to personalize product recommendations. With more than 500,000 monthly visitors, the startup uses Facebook Connect to allow users to invite friends to the site and can also take a user’s Facebook Likes into account when recommending products.
3Scale Networks, S.L. operates an application programming interface (API) management platform. The company provides solutions to open, package, distribute, control, and monetize APIs that enables to Share company data, content, or services through Web or mobile applications; transform an API into a business, or promote internal innovation between departments; and avoid the hassle and constant maintenance of building a solution from scratch. Its platform features API traffic control, APIcast cloud hosted gateway, access control and security, developer portal, ActiveDocs, analytics, and monetization. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Barcelona, Spain. As of June 24, 2016, 3Scale Networks, S.L. operates as a subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc.
Famous Industries, Inc., doing business as Famous Wine and Spirits and Famous Liquors, owns and operates a liquor store. It offers wines, beers, and spirits. The company also provides salsas, tortilla chips, sausages, cheese dips, tomatillo and pepper salsas, honey chipotle pretzel dips, and gourmet pretzel dippers. Famous Industries, Inc. was incorporated in 1973 and is based in Lombard, Illinois.
When a company can revolutionize the ease of creation, storage, and management of something that has become integral to business and culture, that company can build a billion dollar empire. Microsoft did it with Word, which revolutionized documents; it did it with Excel for spreadsheets; and it did it again with Powerpoint for presentations. Together with the Microsoft Operating System called Windows, Microsoft built an empire on a bundled suite now called Microsoft Office 365. Since Microsoft, the world has moved online, has moved to mobile, and the things that are now integral to business and culture have shifted. Today, if you created a pie chart of the utilities that are essential to business and society it would consist of mobile apps, videos, ads, articles, and online presentations. The problem for these modern utilities is they suffer from the same problems that documents, spreadsheets, and presentations did at the dawn of Microsoft’s empire. They are time consuming, they are costly to create, and there exists to no unified, integrated way of managing and storing them. What Famous intends to do is revolutionize creation, storage, and management of these new Internet utilities. Together with our platform, called Famous Studio, we will offer powerful creation tools for Instant Apps, Instant Ads, Instant Videos, Instant Articles, and Instant Presentations that reduce creation time from months to minutes. To manage and store assets created with our Famous Studio, we offer Famous Publisher to manage them, Famous Analytics to measure their performance, and Famous Drive to store every beautiful creation.
Nexenta Systems, Inc. specializes in software-defined storage solutions, focusing on cloud and virtualization-optimized software for various hardware platforms. The company offers a range of products, including NexentaStor, which delivers file and block storage for enterprise applications, and NexentaCloud, tailored for virtual desktop infrastructure. Additionally, NexentaEdge provides an object storage platform that enables users to access data without needing to know its physical location. The company also features NexentaFusion, which offers analytics and orchestration tools for managing complex computing environments. With over 6,000 customers and partnerships with numerous technology firms, Nexenta emphasizes an open-source approach, allowing organizations to avoid vendor lock-in and adapt to diverse applications and cloud environments. Founded in 2005 and based in San Jose, California, Nexenta operates as a subsidiary of DataDirect Networks, Inc., continuing to innovate in the storage industry.
Boost Media is a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company based in Silicon Valley, specializing in ad optimization for enterprise advertisers. The company offers a platform that enhances digital advertising across search, social, display, and mobile channels. By enabling businesses to create emotionally engaging and personalized advertisements, Boost Media significantly improves conversions per impression for its clients. The platform leverages a marketplace of expert writers and designers to provide diverse and scalable creative solutions. Trusted by businesses managing over $300 million in advertising spend, Boost Media collaborates with major networks and publishers, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Bing Ads, and Facebook. The company is currently expanding its team in anticipation of an initial public offering.
Telerivet, Inc. is a mobile messaging platform that provides web-based tools for organizations to send and receive SMS globally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Telerivet empowers users to create customized SMS services without the need for programming skills. Its features include setting up SMS keywords, automating replies, managing subscriber groups, conducting polls, and forwarding messages to email. Telerivet's tools are utilized by a diverse range of customers, including international NGOs, technology startups, social enterprises, and small local businesses, facilitating communication with their clients, employees, and communities across various countries. The platform is designed to enhance audience engagement and provide real-time messaging capabilities, making it an effective solution for organizations operating in both urban and remote areas.
AppFirst’s is a patented technology that provides a solution for collecting every event across web-scale applications, regardless of the infrastructure type or programming language. With microsecond visibility into all the applications and supporting resources across their shared infrastructure, IT Operations can now deterministically get to the root cause, effectively footprint applications to determine exactly what resources that application requires, and proactively identify when their applications become wobbly. Those responsible for the infrastructure finally have a way to continuously understand the performance of every application running on the shared-resources they own.
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.
Coterie Baby, Inc. is a manufacturer and retailer of eco-friendly diapers and wipes designed to enhance the experience of parenting. Founded in 2018 and based in New York City, the company focuses on creating high-performing products that prioritize both quality and sustainability. Coterie's innovative diapers are engineered to outperform competing products across various important metrics for both babies and parents, utilizing soft, fragrance-free materials for comfort. Additionally, their oversized wipes are designed to be sufficiently wet, ensuring safety and convenience for caregivers. By emphasizing these attributes, Coterie aims to provide parents with reliable and environmentally conscious options for baby care.
Linqia, Inc. develops and provides performance-based influencer marketing platform for brands, advertisers, and agencies. The company offers role-based campaign management and reporting, influencer content repository, and real-time analytics services. Its clientele include Black & Decker, Gerber, Herdez, Kimberly-Clark, Mezzetta, McDonald's, NBC, Nestle, Purina, Square, Unilever, Uniqlo, Viacom, and Walmart. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York, New York; Chicago, Illinois; and Bentonville, Arkansas.
Netpulse, Inc. specializes in developing custom-branded mobile applications tailored for health clubs, aiming to enhance member engagement and boost club revenue. The platform integrates personalized workout data with social media, allowing fitness centers to attract new prospects, convert them into members, and retain existing clientele. Netpulse collaborates with industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness, and Equinox, providing a comprehensive mobile experience through partnerships with key technology providers like ABC Financial and Club Comm. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Francisco, Netpulse has emerged as the leading provider of mobile solutions in the fitness industry, serving clubs worldwide. As of 2018, it operates as a subsidiary of eGym GmbH.
Skytree is a California-based software company that develops and publishes a machine learning platform for advanced analytics. The company offers a platform that gives organizations the power to discover analytic insights, predict future trends, make recommendations, and reveal untapped markets and customers.
Backed by investments from US Venture Partners, Javelin Venture Partners, Samsung, UPS, and In-Q-Tel, Skytree is involved in enterprise-grade machine learning. The company was founded in 2012 by [Martin Hack](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/martin-hack) and [Alexander Gray](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alexander-gray). It is headquartered in San Jose, C.A.
Nexenta Systems, Inc. specializes in software-defined storage solutions, focusing on cloud and virtualization-optimized software for various hardware platforms. The company offers a range of products, including NexentaStor, which delivers file and block storage for enterprise applications, and NexentaCloud, tailored for virtual desktop infrastructure. Additionally, NexentaEdge provides an object storage platform that enables users to access data without needing to know its physical location. The company also features NexentaFusion, which offers analytics and orchestration tools for managing complex computing environments. With over 6,000 customers and partnerships with numerous technology firms, Nexenta emphasizes an open-source approach, allowing organizations to avoid vendor lock-in and adapt to diverse applications and cloud environments. Founded in 2005 and based in San Jose, California, Nexenta operates as a subsidiary of DataDirect Networks, Inc., continuing to innovate in the storage industry.
Thumbtack is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. It operates platform where people can hire talents and professionals like instructors, painters, photographers, and many more.
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thumbtack has raised more than $275 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Google Capital.
When a company can revolutionize the ease of creation, storage, and management of something that has become integral to business and culture, that company can build a billion dollar empire. Microsoft did it with Word, which revolutionized documents; it did it with Excel for spreadsheets; and it did it again with Powerpoint for presentations. Together with the Microsoft Operating System called Windows, Microsoft built an empire on a bundled suite now called Microsoft Office 365. Since Microsoft, the world has moved online, has moved to mobile, and the things that are now integral to business and culture have shifted. Today, if you created a pie chart of the utilities that are essential to business and society it would consist of mobile apps, videos, ads, articles, and online presentations. The problem for these modern utilities is they suffer from the same problems that documents, spreadsheets, and presentations did at the dawn of Microsoft’s empire. They are time consuming, they are costly to create, and there exists to no unified, integrated way of managing and storing them. What Famous intends to do is revolutionize creation, storage, and management of these new Internet utilities. Together with our platform, called Famous Studio, we will offer powerful creation tools for Instant Apps, Instant Ads, Instant Videos, Instant Articles, and Instant Presentations that reduce creation time from months to minutes. To manage and store assets created with our Famous Studio, we offer Famous Publisher to manage them, Famous Analytics to measure their performance, and Famous Drive to store every beautiful creation.
RxVantage, Inc. develops web-based digital platform that connects healthcare providers to educational resources and experts from life science companies. Its platform solutions include virtual meetings, offsite events, who benefits, sunshine act, and for providers; and video conferencing, mobile app, speaker programs, and for enterprises. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in El Segundo, California.
WellnessFX is a personalized wellness and health startup that offers a leading quantified self platform. This innovative service enables individuals to measure, understand, and enhance their health by integrating advanced medical science with user-friendly web design and social media tools. WellnessFX has launched its Baseline product in six states and is actively expanding its reach across the nation, providing users with a comprehensive approach to health management.
The Marketfish platform allows marketers to build and execute lead generation campaigns using 3rd party marketing lists.Using patented search algorithms, the tool allows users to discover targeted customer lists, build marketing campaigns, execute the campaign, and measure the performance in real time.
Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.com Altruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: 1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers 2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines 3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data
Boost Media is a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company based in Silicon Valley, specializing in ad optimization for enterprise advertisers. The company offers a platform that enhances digital advertising across search, social, display, and mobile channels. By enabling businesses to create emotionally engaging and personalized advertisements, Boost Media significantly improves conversions per impression for its clients. The platform leverages a marketplace of expert writers and designers to provide diverse and scalable creative solutions. Trusted by businesses managing over $300 million in advertising spend, Boost Media collaborates with major networks and publishers, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Bing Ads, and Facebook. The company is currently expanding its team in anticipation of an initial public offering.
GET IT drives high-value user acquisition and engagement campaigns for the world’s most sophisticated mobile app publishers and brands. Our proprietary buy-side technology offers a uniquely transparent and data driven approach to buying quality mobile media at scale based on our clients’ specific success metrics. The San Jose-based company was founded in 2010 by the brains behind Google Earth and is backed by Javelin Venture Partners.
Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops novel therapeutic products, which modulate the human gut microbiome to treat inflammatory, gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases. We are discovering a new frontier in human gut health research by exploring the metabolic capacity of the gut microbiota and translating the functionality of prebiotic-based therapeutics into safe and effective applications that can have a meaningful impact on a patient’s health. Our pipeline of novel microbiome modulators selectively increase the growth of beneficial bacteria in the colonic ecosystem and create a meaningful impact on a patient’s health. Our first therapy, RP-G28, is currently under development for the treatment of lactose intolerance and has the potential to become the first FDA-approved drug for the treatment of lactose intolerance, a debilitating disease that affects over 1 billion people worldwide. RP-G28 has been studied in a Phase 2 clinical trial and is a first-in-class compound.
Rixty is an alternative payment system that lets domestic and international users spend cash and coins for online games, virtual worlds and all types of digital content. Consumers can pay without a credit card and without exposing confidential information by converting cash to Rixty value at 140,000 stores in the US and Brazil or nearly 500,000 locations worldwide. Online game and website publishers use Rixty to engage with and monetize a larger percentage of users. By providing cash-based consumers a safe and flexible way to pay online, Rixty helps these publishers increase sales, enable new business models and attract new customers.
oneforty serves as a comprehensive resource for businesses looking to navigate the complex landscape of social business. It functions as a buyers' guide, assisting social strategists, marketers, and corporate buyers in making informed investments in tools, training, and expertise related to social media. The platform offers access to peer insights, enabling users to understand industry standards and benchmarks. Additionally, oneforty provides valuable business content that guides buyers on effective strategies and the selection of appropriate tools and experts. Its extensive listings include ratings and reviews of social media tools, agencies, and consultants, along with a discovery and comparison engine designed to facilitate the selection of serious business tools. By consolidating information and resources, oneforty empowers businesses to invest wisely in their social media initiatives.
Sociable Labs, Inc. is a software-as-a-service provider based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in social acquisition programs for ecommerce and retail clients. Founded in 2014, the company offers the S2S Engine, a platform designed to enhance referral marketing by allowing users to invite friends to a website or mobile app in exchange for rewards. This seamless integration facilitates social sharing, enabling digital businesses to grow their customer base through word-of-mouth referrals. The platform not only drives referral traffic but also focuses on key ecommerce metrics such as traffic, conversion rates, and sales, helping retailers leverage social interactions to influence purchasing decisions at the point of sale. Through its innovative approach, Sociable Labs aims to transform how consumers engage with brands and discover products based on their friends' recommendations.
Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.com Altruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: 1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers 2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines 3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data