Google is a multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. Its extensive product portfolio includes Google Search, which provides access to online information; Google Ads, an auction-based advertising program; AdSense, which allows websites to display ads; and YouTube, a platform for video content. Google also offers Android, an open-source mobile operating system, alongside hardware products like Chromebooks and Chromecast. The company provides cloud-based services such as Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, and Google App Engine, as well as tools for real-time analytics. Additionally, Google AI focuses on advancing artificial intelligence and integrating it into various products. The philanthropic arm, Google.org, supports initiatives that leverage technology for social good, while the Google Foundation invests in innovative technologies to address global challenges. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Mountain View, California, Google has become the world's leading search engine and a key player in the digital landscape.
Provino Technologies Inc. designs and develops interconnect platform for next generation SoCs targeted applications, such as consumer, automotive, industrial automation, medical instrumentation, and AR/VR/SLAM. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
Dysonics, Inc. specializes in advanced audio software and hardware solutions designed for headphones, focusing on the capture, creation, and playback of spatial audio and next-generation content, such as virtual reality. Founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, the company emerged from research conducted at the University of California, Davis, where its team pioneered human audio perception and spatial sound technologies. Dysonics offers products like the Rondo Motion, a wireless motion sensor for headphones, and the Rondo player, which plays back non-DRM content. Their technology is applied in various fields, including teleconferencing, surveillance, home entertainment, and interactive multimedia, enhancing experiences in virtual and augmented reality. Additionally, Dysonics provides content encoding technology to airlines, allowing passengers to enjoy a cinematic surround sound experience through in-flight entertainment. The company's innovations leverage patented algorithms, microphone and speaker arrays, head tracking sensors, and machine learning for personalized audio applications.
Neverware develops desktop operating systems designed to optimize security and manageability. Neverware is a Google-funded company, is the developer of the CloudReady operating system, which enables schools and enterprise organizations to cost-effectively transform their existing computers into simple, secure, and fast machines that can be managed right alongside Chromebooks in the Google Admin console. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.
North, formerly known as Thalmic Labs, is a technology company based in Kitchener, Canada, focused on developing innovative eyewear that integrates digital information into daily life. Founded in 2012, North employs over 400 professionals across four offices in North America, including engineers, designers, and futurists. The company's flagship product is a pair of smart glasses that provide heads-up access to digital notifications, allowing users to engage with their digital lives without the need to constantly check their phones. Features such as customizable replies, emojis, and snooze delays enhance the user experience by offering discreet and manageable access to information. North aims to create technologies that seamlessly blend with everyday activities, emphasizing the harmonious relationship between people and technology.
AppSheet is the intelligent no-code platform for business apps. It also enables business users to leverage their business data and build powerful, code-free apps. The company connects with a range of data sources including spreadsheets on Google Drive, Office 365, Dropbox, and Box, relational databases like SQLServer, MySQL, Postgres, AWS Aurora, and Oracle, cloud SaaS services like Salesforce, Smartsheet, AirTable, and many more. AppSheet quickly generates a working application that can be customized, enhanced, branded and deployed. The apps can be rich in function (offline access, workflow rules, machine learning, etc) and run on the web, iOS, Android, and messaging platforms. AppSheet was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA, USA.
Typhoon Studios is an independent game developer in Montréal. The company is dedicated to create new experiences with a unique voice on both PC and console and then help them grow over time with our audience.
Fitbit is a company focused on promoting healthier lifestyles by developing wearable health and fitness devices. Its flagship product, the Fitbit Tracker, is an ultra-compact wireless sensor that automatically monitors various activities, including calories burned, steps taken, and sleep quality. The data collected by the tracker is wirelessly uploaded to a user-friendly platform, allowing individuals to track their progress toward personal health goals. This platform enables users to log additional health information, such as nutrition and weight, providing a comprehensive view of their overall health. By combining wearable technology with an engaging software interface, Fitbit encourages users to exercise more, eat better, and maintain a balanced lifestyle.
Socratic, Inc. is an education technology company based in New York that specializes in a homework assistance application for students. The app allows users to take photos of their homework questions and utilizes artificial intelligence to provide answers, detailed explanations, and relevant resources across a variety of subjects, including math, science, history, English, and economics. It features curated educational content from platforms like Khan Academy and offers tools such as graphs and step-by-step guidance to enhance the learning experience. Launched in 2013 and formerly known as Vespr, Inc., Socratic operates under the umbrella of Alphabet Inc. The app is available for free on both iPhone and Android devices, with a focus on supporting high school curricula and fostering an educational community for students seeking assistance with their studies.
Elastifile is redefining the way data is stored and managed in the cloud and spanning hybrid clouds. Powered by an elastically scalable, enterprise-grade, distributed file system with integrated object tiering, Elastifile’s cross-cloud data fabric delivers high performance, unified access to global data. By freeing data from traditional storage silos, Elastifile enables frictionless movement of applications to the cloud, between clouds, and across hybrid environments. This allows enterprises to seamlessly leverage cloud infrastructure and services to enhance and accelerate a broad range of data-driven workflows, including: analytics, DevOps, high-performance computing, and many more.
Looker Data Sciences, Inc. is a company that develops a browser-based data platform focused on business intelligence and data analytics. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, with additional offices in multiple global locations, Looker serves various industries, including ecommerce, financial technology, healthcare, media, and technology. Its platform facilitates data exploration and insights, enabling businesses to integrate data into their daily operations and decision-making processes. By providing actionable insights at critical moments, Looker helps organizations create new value streams and enhance their data-driven strategies. The company operates as a subsidiary of Google LLC, further expanding its capabilities within the Google Cloud ecosystem.
Alooma Ltd. provides a data platform that allows users to build data pipelines. The company’s platform enables data teams to have visibility and control, and brings data from your various data silos together to data warehouse in real-time. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with an additional office in California. As of March 31, 2019, Alooma Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Google LLC.
DevOps Research and Assessment LLC, founded in 2015 and based in Portland, Oregon, specializes in providing research and analysis solutions for software development and product management. The firm focuses on digital transformation, particularly within the DevOps sector, delivering valuable insights through its research reports. One of its key offerings is a scorecard that enables organizations to prioritize their initiatives, facilitating informed decisions regarding resource allocation and capability development. As of December 2018, the company operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., further enhancing its ability to contribute to the evolving landscape of business technology transformation.
Workbench's content platform packages your content into custom, engaging learning and get-active experiences that drive continuously fresh content and value to education and consumer learners, makers, and doers. At Workbench, we love to tinker, explore, make, create and discover using robots and circuitry and gardens and drones and all sorts of materials we can work into projects. This kind of project-based learning and exploration is what we’re is all about, so we created a community where like-minded people can come together to engage and inspire each other with their own ideas. Workbench has partnered with some of the most forward-thinking maker-product companies in the world to be on the leading edge of innovation. We will continue to add product partners and introduce dynamic new tools for learning to our community. Here on the Workbench platform, maker-educators, students, hobbyists—anyone, really—can discover engaging projects created by Workbench and the Workbench user community. Members of the community can create and post their own projects and share their unique creations and successes in the Gallery. We know that educators are just as excited about project-based learning as we are, so the Workbench platform gives educators the tools to connect with other educators, create classes, assign hands-on lessons and monitor student progress in real time. Workbench is excited to partner with top product companies to create unique communities focused on using specific products in project-based learning. Find our partner platforms by clicking here.
Onward is a customer service automation platform that creates a range of automated customer service and sales tools for business usage. The platform helps its clients achieve Automation40 - 40% of tickets automated, 40% of messages automated, 40 second average response time. Onward’s solution could be directly integrated into systems such as Zendesk, whilst simultaneously plugging into Salesforce and Hubspot to add leads. Onward’s enterprise chatbot platform leveraged natural language processing to extract meaning from customers’ messages. The platform can contextualize and personalize its responses to queries through drawing on signals such as historical activity, login status, and location.
GraphicsFuzz offers automated reliability testing of GPU drivers. GraphicsFuzz makes graphics processors more secure and reliable by offering innovative testing for graphics drivers.
Cask Data, Inc. is a technology company that addresses big data challenges by providing an open-source application development platform tailored for the Hadoop ecosystem. This platform facilitates data and application virtualization, significantly accelerating the development process for a variety of real-time and batch use cases. Cask offers several key products, including Cask Coopr, a template-based cluster management solution for provisioning and scaling clusters in cloud environments, and Tigon, a distributed framework designed for real-time data processing and analytics. The company also provides a cloud sandbox for its application platform on Amazon Web Services. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, Cask Data was known as Continuuity, Inc. until its name change in 2014. It operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and has formed strategic collaborations, including one with Cloudera.
Velostrata Ltd., founded in 2014 and based in Netanya, Israel, specializes in cloud migration and workload mobility software. The company's technology enables enterprises to create dynamic, multi-vendor hybrid cloud environments, allowing IT managers to swiftly move workloads between on-premises data centers and public cloud platforms. Velostrata's software facilitates the use of public cloud resources as an extension of existing data centers, offering benefits such as on-demand capacity, enhanced development and testing processes, and streamlined full migration of applications. Through its solutions, Velostrata aims to simplify and accelerate the transition to hybrid cloud infrastructures for organizations.
Tenor is a leading mobile GIF search engine, facilitating over 12 billion searches and serving 300 million monthly users. It enhances digital communication by helping individuals find GIFs that express their emotions and personalities effectively. Tenor has developed the Tenor Emotional Graph, which underpins its popular GIF Keyboard app and supports GIF sharing across various platforms, such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google Gboard. In 2017, Tenor introduced the first branded GIF program, attracting notable partnerships with brands like Dunkin Donuts and Nissan, allowing companies to engage authentically with mobile audiences. This platform not only provides users with a seamless experience in locating the ideal GIF but also enables brands to connect with consumers in a meaningful way through animated content.
Xively a global, public company that is a leading provider of essential remote services. The company helps companies connect products securely, manage connected products and the data they produce, and re-imagine how they engage with their customers though its Connected Product Management (CPM).
In 2018, Xively was acquired by tech giant Google and joined the Google Cloud Platform division.
60dB curates and streams today's best short-form audio stories, including news, sports, entertainment, businesses, and technologies. 60dB brings today's best short audio stories from favorite audio brands. Stories in 60dB are from Vox, Recode, Mic, and more.
Relay Media is a scaled and frictionless content distribution platform for the open web.
Relay Media converts publishers' standard web content to AMP HTML, the new format for instantly-loading mobile pages with support for ads, analytics, and paywalls.
Relay Media’s AMP Converter technology was acquired by Google in October 2017.
HTC - Pixel Phone Division
Acquisition in 2017
HTC - Pixel Phone Division responsible for producing the Pixel smartphone.
AIMATTER specializes in building next-gen apps with proprietary advanced image processing technologies. Its SDK is able to run deep learning models in real time directly on smartphones.
Redux Labs creates products and bespoke systems that enable customizable, high-resolution haptic feedback and speakerless surround sound audio. Its technology is based on patented bending wave techniques that accurately control sub-sonic and sonic waves across a flat or curved surface in order to create a high-quality loudspeaker or deliver a customisable haptic effect to a specific coordinate on the device, be it a screen, panel, steering wheel or even joystick. Their technology has been created for mobile and consumer devices, home appliances, automotive and aerospace applications but can be tailored to almost any bespoke application.
Halli Labs Private Limited develops artificial intelligence and machine learning based solutions. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bengaluru, India. As of July 12, 2017, Halli Labs Private Limited operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Owlchemy Labs LLC is a game studio that develops games and VR experiences. It focuses on mechanic-driven games and formed insane premises around them. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. As of May 10, 2017, Owlchemy Labs LLC operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Appbridge Software Inc. develops applications that assist businesses go Google. Its product line includes Transformation Suite, an all-in-one suite to migrate data to G Suite, Gmail, and Google Drive; Surveyor for Google G Suite, a scanning application that supports various content management systems; and Transformer, which allows to migrate business critical content from file shares, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, and other content management systems to Google G Suite. The company also provides various support services. It serves enterprise content management providers, system integrators, value-added resellers, and independent software vendors worldwide focused on enterprise business transformation. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. As of March 9, 2017, Appbridge Software Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.
Kaggle Inc. operates a leading platform for data prediction competitions and is recognized as the world's largest community of data scientists. Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, California, Kaggle allows organizations to post their data for analysis by expert data scientists, thereby offering statistical and analytics outsourcing solutions. The platform facilitates competitions where data scientists apply advanced machine learning techniques to address complex problems, delivering valuable insights and business results. Kaggle serves a diverse clientele, including companies, governments, and researchers, with notable impacts across various industries such as energy, life sciences, financial services, aviation, information technology, and retail. In 2017, Kaggle became a subsidiary of Google, further enhancing its capabilities and reach in the data science field.
Crashlytics specializes in crash reporting solutions for mobile applications on iOS and Android platforms. The company offers a lightweight and powerful tool that helps developers identify and resolve issues within their apps. Recently, Crashlytics expanded its offerings with Beta by Crashlytics, a streamlined solution for beta app distribution that allows users to manage testing with ease. Additionally, they introduced Answers by Crashlytics, a mobile analytics tool that integrates seamlessly with the existing Crashlytics SDK, providing developers with valuable insights without requiring extensive analysis. Through these products, Crashlytics aims to enhance the app development process by improving stability and user experience.
Fastlane is a continuous delivery solution for iOS and Android applications. It automates beta deployments and releases for its users’ devices. It handles tasks such as generating screenshots, dealing with code signing, and releasing applications.
Fastlane was founded in 2014 by Felix Krause. The company was acquired by Twitter on October 22, 2015.
Limes Audio specializes in audio signal processing with a focus on speech enhancement. Founded in 2007 by Lindström and Christian Schüldt, both of whom hold Ph.D. degrees in Applied Signal Processing, the company is based in Umeå, Sweden. Limes Audio develops technology designed to improve the quality of speakerphone communications by effectively removing echoes and background noise, resulting in natural and clear speech. The company's solutions are grounded in extensive academic research in acoustic echo cancellation and are aimed at providing a superior audio experience for its clients' communication systems.
Based in San Mateo in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cronologics Corporation is a startup company focused on accelerating the adoption of wearable technology. They are dedicated to simplifying the process of building compelling wearable hardware and software-driven experiences through an extensible common architecture. Their team comes from Google, MIT Media Lab, Motorola, Facebook and other industry leaders. We are tackling difficult problems and work with startups and established technology companies as well as key players in the lifestyle, fashion, and fitness categories.
Qwiklabs Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that provides virtual lab environments for software training, primarily focused on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The platform allows users to create, manage, and run labs for various applications, including web development, security, big data, and digital media, catering to both beginners and experienced professionals. Users can access hands-on experiences through AWS-authorized instructor-led courses or a self-paced catalog of labs, which are designed to reflect real-world scenarios. Qwiklabs offers a flexible pricing model, allowing users to choose between individual labs or a subscription for extensive access to training materials. The platform also features quests and badges that help learners gain recognized credentials in key areas like AWS certification preparation and serverless design. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Carlisle, Massachusetts, Qwiklabs serves a global audience that includes laboratory creators, trainers, administrators, and students. As of 2016, it operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Eyefluence, Inc. develops an eye-interaction technology solution for controlling augmented reality AR, virtual reality VR, and mixed reality MR head-mounted display HMD equipment with eyes. Its technology integrates with HMDs, as well as combines with eye biomechanics, a deep understanding of the eye-brain connection to deliver fastest interface for HMDs. It serves AR, VR, and MR device manufacturers. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada. As of October 24, 2016, Eyefluence, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.
Fame Bit is a YouTube marketing platform that enable brands to collaborate with YouTube influencers and create videos that are shared across the internet. It is a convenient method to find, hire and work with YouTube Influencers and create brand awareness with tutorial videos Fame Bit provides a Platform that connects Brands with YouTube influencers to create original video content that is shared with millions of engaged viewers on YouTube.
Undecidable Labs
Acquisition in 2016
Undecidable Labs operates as a technology developer.
Dialogflow is a conversational user experience platform enabling brand-unique, natural language interactions for devices, applications, and services. Developers can use Dialogflow services for speech recognition, natural language processing (intent recognition and context awareness), and conversation management to quickly and easily differentiate their business, increase customer satisfaction, and improve business processes. They can also leverage pre-built knowledge packages across a diverse collection of popular topics built from over two and a half billion user queries processed by the system. When enabled, agents can understand thousands of diverse requests out of the box, no coding required.
Urban Engines, Inc. is a technology company focused on enhancing urban mobility through advanced data analytics and software solutions. Founded in 2011 and based in Los Altos, California, the company leverages big data from various transportation sources, including transit systems and delivery vehicles, to provide insights that alleviate congestion and improve commuting experiences. Its cloud-based platform facilitates better utilization of existing infrastructure and supports city planning and operations. Additionally, Urban Engines offers a mobile application that provides commuters with city-level insights and optimized routing options, enabling more efficient travel. As of 2016, Urban Engines operates as a subsidiary of Google, enhancing its capabilities in the field of urban transportation.
Apigee is a provider of API technology and services tailored for enterprises and developers. Its platform enables organizations to manage and gain visibility into the APIs that connect applications and data across various environments, including on-premises and cloud-based systems. Numerous companies, such as Walgreens, Bechtel, eBay, and Pearson, rely on Apigee to facilitate the delivery, management, and analysis of their APIs and applications. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Apigee also maintains offices in Bangalore, India; London; and Austin, Texas.
Orbitera is a cloud commerce company that simplifies and automates the buying and selling of products in the cloud. It enables the operations and processes that software and service providers rely on to sell, distribute, and deliver their solutions. Orbitera also enables enterprise customers to buy, use, and manage these solutions. Its platform offers packaging and provisioning for enterprise applications. It has billing and cost optimization capabilities.
Over the past 2 years, their team has built and released 7 apps into the App Store, and 5 apps into Google Play. During this time, they have tried to share what they have learned and tools they have built to make this easier for other mobile makers. They started by writing a guide on How to Run Live User Testing Sessions for mobile apps. The three part series did so well that they then released data and advice on the Right Way to ask Users for iOS Permissions. This post went was read and shared about 150,000 times. Then they released Screenshotter, a tool we’d built for internal use that helps manage screenshots on iOS devices. The iOS app was downloaded over 25,000 times (about 24,900 more times than they expected). they wrote about the Unexpected Costs of Third Party Login. Most recently, they released Sketch To App Store, a template that cuts hours off prepping screenshots for iTunes Connect that shot to #1 on Product Hunt and has over 1,000 stars on GitHub. Every time they share tools they have built internally, the community seems to truly appreciate them. So they are going to continue this trend. To keep things organized, they are putting them all under the name LaunchKit.
Kifi is building a network of people and teams collaborating on the web. We aim to connect people with and through knowledge, to better understand, utilize, and expand what we know together. We strive to empower people to “keep” or save all of valuable content we come across on the web; free of the cognitive burden of what to keep, when, where, and who will be alerted by it. We believe in disseminating this amassed knowledge to people where we are, when we need it; sparing all of us the time and efforts already spent by any one of us. We aspire to instigate meaningful and productive interactions around the nuggets of knowledge all of us have accumulated; fostering the conditions for serendipitous breakthroughs. Spanning both the personal and professional worlds; Kifi is rooted in delivering a consumer-centric experience. The ease of keeping and continuous organization of content shared within external sources like Slack & Twitter unlock untapped knowledge resources. Kifi mines this collective repository and overlays context to your browsing and Google Search experiences. Almost like an assistant, Kifi is transparently working for you in the background to bring information in perspective and increase your social and professional understanding. Kifi not only surfaces intel you may have been unaware of, but opportunities to connect with people associated with it. From there, content is the mere starting point to spark new relationships and conversations, into an immersive real-time messaging & annotation experience. Kifi literally gets your team on the same page. Kifi has assembled a dream team of software engineers to tackle this challenge, with alumni from Google, LinkedIn, Apple, Netflix, and Oracle. Our team is solving fascinating challenges in the areas of machine learning information retrieval, artificial intelligence, large-scale data analysis, and social graphs. We are passionate about delivering true value through our products to the consumer. We’re always looking for top talent to help achieve our mission, so if you’re interested in working for a company that’s enthusiastic about innovative technology and having fun, we encourage you to get in touch!
Anvato, Inc. is a technology platform for media companies to manage and monetize live and on demand video assets. Anvato serves both publishers and advertisers providing the only end-to-end media content platform with live and on-demand video management, syndication, monetization, and analytics. Anvato's unique technology enables broadcasters to capture live broadcasts, edit live and syndicate to web and mobile devices near real time. Publishers can monetize live streams with dynamic and user-targeted ad insertion. Anvato allows advertisers to track campaign effectiveness and optimize ad revenue. US Media clients include Univision Communications, and Kantar Video, a division of WPP. Anvato is the recipient of the 2010 Frost and Sullivan Global Innovation Award in Online Video. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
Moodstocks bridges the physical and digital worlds thanks to smartphone image recognition. They provide an API and a ready-to-use cross-platform SDK so that any developers can integrate scanning in minutes. Their award winning platform is robust, real-time and scalable. Give it a try!
Webpass, Inc. operates as an Internet service provider. The company provides broadband services to residential and commercial customers. Its customers include Zappos, Foursquare, Wordpress, Mozilla, HBO Films, Oracle Racing, and Lyft. Webpass, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of October 3, 2016, Webpass, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Google Fiber Inc.
Synergyse is an enterprise software company based in Toronto that is focused on teaching the world how to use technology.
Our flagship product Synergyse Training provides interactive in-application training for Google Apps™.
Pie is the fastest, easiest, and most fun messaging app you’ll ever use for work. And best of all, if you love Pie on your mobile device, you'll love our Web app over at pie.co. They'd love to help you get started, send an email to team@pie.co with your questions.
Bebop is a tech startup that assists its users in developing and maintaining enterprise applications.
Bebop has developed a platform that enables them to build enterprise applications. Furthermore, its users are capable of maintaining the applications developed.
Bebop was founded in 2012 by Diane Green and is based in California.
Fly Labs Inc. develops a video editing application for customers in the United States and internationally. Its application enables users to string clips together into one video; trim and arrange clips; add music from their own library to set the tone for how their video feels; add voiceover to narrate their story and tie it all together; find and isolate small perfect moments within their larger clips; and crop their vertical videos. The company’s apps are available on the App Store. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. As of November 6, 2015, Fly Labs Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Divshot is the interface builder for the web. Prototype responsive HTML5 interfaces in minutes and export to clean, semantic markup and CSS. It's the first tool of its kind that is capable of generating the same quality code as developers writing it by hand.
Jibe Mobile, the Cloud Communications Company for mobile operators, handset manufacturers, and other communication networks, provides an open end-to-end technology platform enabling carriers to rapidly launch and commercially scale the most innovative IP communication services to mobile consumers globally. Bridging the worlds of telecom standards and Silicon Valley-style innovation, Jibe’s Communications Cloud supports industry standards (including WebRTC, RCS, joyn™) and interoperability enabling carriers to seamlessly deliver rich IP-based communications services — high quality video calling, group chat and large media-file sharing — as part of mobile consumers’ everyday conversation, regardless of network, device, or region. Jibe Mobile headquarters is in Mountain View, with offices in London and Dusseldorf.
Oyster is a subscription service for ebooks and ebook retailer. Oyster also publishes the Oyster Review, an editorial magazine. Oyster was founded by Eric Stromberg, Andrew Brown, and Willem Van Lancker in 2012 and is based in New York, the United States.
Pixate, Inc. is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that operates a mobile application development platform tailored for designers and developers. Founded in 2012, Pixate offers a user-friendly interface for creating native mobile applications, enabling users to design sophisticated animations and interactions for both iOS and Android platforms without the need for coding. The platform includes the Pixate Engine for iOS, which facilitates the development of interactive prototypes. In addition to its software solutions, Pixate also provides consulting services to assist clients in refining their mobile application designs. As of July 2015, Pixate operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Agawi Inc
Acquisition in 2015
Agawi is the world's 1st cloud-based app streaming platform for mobile, tablets and Smart TVs. We work with a variety of partners including Microsoft, Marvell and Nvidia, leading gaming and mobile app publishers, and Cloud Service Providers to provide a high-performance, scalable, and cost effective cloud-based platform for app streaming. Based in Menlo Park, CA, Agawi was founded in 2010 by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. With 8M users across 150 countries around the globe, it recently won a Best in Biz award for fastest-growing small company. Agawi also introduced AppGlimpse, the world's first interactive ad for apps, where the app is the ad. Agawi was acquired by Google in 2014 and powers Google's Android Instant Apps.
Pulse.io provides a mobile app performance service that helps developers identify issues slowing down their production apps. The company was sold to Google May 2015.
Timeful Inc. develops and markets an application that manages people’s time. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Mountain View, California. As of May 4, 2015, Timeful Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Skillman & Hackett is a San Francisco design studio focused on Rapid Prototyping, Virtual Reality, and Future-Facing Technology. Their team has 20 years development experience on a variety of hardware platforms including Kinect, Kinect 2.0, Leap Motion Controller, PS4 Camera, Oculus, GameFace, Android and iPhone.
Thrive Audio is a young tech startup company made up of a group of Research Engineers from Trinity College Dublin who live and breathe 3D virtual audio environments. Their technology, on which two patent applications were recently filed, stems from almost a decade of internationally acknowledged research into spatial audio. This research has been reported in over 20 peer reviewed publications by the group over the past three years alone. Thrive can now deliver highly realistic, dynamic and very efficient soundfields which react in real-time to listener’s movements providing the most realistic VR experience. Before the advent of the Oculus Rift Their team has experimented with virtual surround audio over headphones using the Microsoft Kinect and other head tracking technologies. From this experience, They have worked with multiple developers on the Vibrant Indie Games scene in Dublin, Ireland. However, now, the fusion of VR headset technology with Their own has finally made it possible to deliver a truly immersive experience.
Softcard is a mobile payments platform that enables users to make payments at several stores, redeem money-saving offers, and store loyalty, membership, and reward cards. Users can setup a prepaid account on Softcard and add money to it with debit cards, credit cards, and U.S. bank accounts in order to use it as payment credentials. The platform protects user information by adding multiple layers of security such as PIN-protection, encryption, and ""one call or click"" option to remotely disable the app on a misplaced smartphone. Softcard was launched by AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless and was later acquired by Google. It is operated from New York, United States.
Apportable Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in porting iOS games to Android automatically. Founded in 2010, the company has developed a software engine that enables iOS developers to convert their applications to Android without the need to rewrite their original Objective-C or C++ code. This streamlined process eliminates the hassle of maintaining separate code bases, allowing developers to focus on creating their games. Apportable also offers SpriteBuilder, a development environment for creating native cross-platform 2D games using Objective-C or Swift. The effectiveness of Apportable's platform is evident in the success of the apps it powers, which have consistently performed well in various app stores, garnering widespread user satisfaction.
Toro is built by Red Hot Labs in San Francisco, California, the team behind Farmville and Castleville for Facebook. Founded in March of 2012, Toro/ Red Hot Labs is a group of former app developers and product managers now focused on arming app developers of today with the tools they always wished they had. Toro's mission is to bring best-in-class mobile marketing to everyone. We accomplish this by guiding app companies through the process of setting up and optimizing marketing campaigns. All of our marketing plans run on the Facebook advertising platform.
Odysee is a video platform designed to serve as a comprehensive library for users who frequently capture videos and photos. It enables individuals to archive their memories on personal storage devices, alleviating the need for costly cloud storage solutions and preventing the overload of mobile devices. Odysee aims to become the primary destination for videos and photos from mobile devices and first-person cameras, offering a solution that leverages existing storage capabilities without compromising performance, even under slow internet conditions. Founded with a vision to restore the freedom and independence of the early internet, Odysee aspires to empower users by providing a space where everyone can express themselves and share their voices.
Launchpad Toys is a computer software company that develops digital toys and tools that empower kids to create, learn and share their ideas through play. It features Toontastic, ToonTube, Toontastic Jr. Pirates, and Toontastic Jr. Shrek. The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Granata's software platform provides real-time optimization and scenario analysis capabilities for large-scale, data-driven marketing problems and group/organizational decision-making. Companies use the technology to amplify the value of machine learning and analytics by distilling the insights produced by multiple analyses and focusing on the factors relevant to global enterprise objectives.
RelativeWave is a research and development shop located in San Francisco that focuses on app development and design tools. RelativeWave's Form is a new approach to interaction design and prototyping. Form lets you build custom prototypes directly on the device. Form prototypes are native and they have access to the device's camera and other sensors. Prototypes built with Form are as powerful as their coded counterparts.
Vision Factory specialised in visual recognition systems and deep learning, applying artificial intelligence techniques to enhance the accuracy and speed of object recognition and other vision-based computer systems.
Dark Blue is one of the leaders on the frontier of deep learning and language: translation, dialogue, summarization, sentiment analysis, semantic parsing, question answering, and mapping language to action. Dark Blue Labs features experts on deep learning for images, video, speech and reinforcement learning tasks
Firebase was acquired by Google in 2014 and has become Googles flagship mobile platform for developers building iOS, Android, and Web apps. Firebase has been bolstered by 3 acquisitions since joining Google: Fabric/Crashlytics, Divshot, and LaunchKit. Firebase is used by >1,000,000 developers and is made up of complementary features that you can mix-and-match to fit your needs including: Free & unlimited Analytics, a Realtime Database, User Authentication, Crash Reporting, Push Notifications, and more. Learn more at http://www.firebase.com
Lift Labs is a creator of a suite of home health hardware for people living with Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor. Its core R&D focuses on areas of healthcare, sustainability, safety, and education. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
ZYNC is the visual effects industry’s first completely integrated cloud-based storage and rendering solution. This pay as you go service provides encrypted, instant and affordable access to high volume computing resources. Currently supported platforms include Maya/VRay/Mental Ray/Arnold and Nuke.
Gecko Design Inc. is a product design firm that focuses on engineering innovation, product quality, and attention to aesthetics. From the initial product idea to supply chain management, Gecko appreciates each client's unique needs. Every project, small or large, local or global, is approached with an unparalleled level of personalization. Founded in 1996 by Jacques Gagne, Gecko's direct approach to design has quickly become sought out by such reputable companies as Dell, Hewlett Packard, and Herman Miller. The product developers or geckos at Gecko work hand in hand with several of the top, cutting-edge industrial design firms including Fuseproject, frogdesign, and Newdeal Design. But creativity without practicality is useless in consumer product development. At Gecko, designers understand the limitations of manufacturing and can intercept potentially costly design glitches early on. The language of design and manufacturing are often divergent. Our ability to converge the two by balancing an industrial designer's organic shape with manufacturing realities allows geckos to create quality products while remaining true to the original design.
Jetpac provides mobile travel recommendations by combining image processing, big data, mobile and social technology. The Jetpac City Guides iPhone app gives city guides for over 6000 cities around the world, from image processing of the world's Instagram photos.
Emu is texting with a built-in assistant. Schedule lunches, share your location, and set reminders — as easily as sending a photo. It’s texting, for grown-ups. Created by veterans of Siri, Apple, Google, TechCrunch, and Yahoo! Messenger, Emu is a messaging product for iPhone that uses artificial intelligence — machine learning and natural language processing — to understand messages, then magically adds relevant information to help you schedule a lunch, reserve a table, buy movie tickets, or share your location in real time. Emu (http://emu.is) was founded in 2012 by Gummi Hafsteinsson (formerly VP Product Siri, previously at Apple and Google), Dave Feldman (previously with AOL/TechCrunch and Yahoo!), and an experienced team of mobile and machine-learning engineers. The company has received seed funding of $1.5M to date from Kleiner Perkins, TriplePoint Capital, Menlo Ventures, DFJ, and additional angel investors. See our Founder Bios for more information on the founding team.
Directr Films is a mobile application company based in the United States that enables users to create and share movies using their smartphones. The platform allows individuals to produce high-quality films in a matter of minutes, with features that automatically edit and sync videos for seamless sharing. By simplifying the filmmaking process, Directr aims to make movie creation accessible to everyone, fostering creativity and engagement among its users.
drawElements is a company of computer graphics experts. Our products and services help businesses to test and improve the quality of computer graphics in their products.
CiiNOW, Inc. is the premier provider of Cloud Gaming technology. The company was founded in August 2010 and quickly attracted the attention and backing of several seasoned investors including, Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, Foundation Capital, and AMD Ventures. At the 2012 Cloud Gaming West conference, the company formally announced its industry-altering, hybrid-streaming platform, and has been building momentum with service providers and game developers ever since.
Songza predicts what you're doing or feeling and then serves an expertly-curated playlist designed to make it better. Songza offers playlists for improving activities such as waking up, working out, commuting, concentrating, unwinding, entertaining, and sleeping. Songza’s team of music experts is comprised of journalists, critics, DJs, ethnomusicologists and musicians. Songza has been named one of the App Store Best of 2012 by Apple, one of Time's Best Android Apps of 2013, and one of Fast Company's 2013 Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Music.
Appurify provides mobile test automation on real devices. Mobile development teams at some of the world’s most prominent companies turn to Appurify’s platform to automate testing, debug and optimize the performance of their applications. The results are better apps, faster launch cycles and improved app store reviews. Appurify is based in San Francisco with backing from Google Ventures and other leading investors. For more information, visit http://www.appurify.com.
mDialog is a provider of video stream management services that specializes in mobile video and in-stream advertising solutions. Its core technology, the Smart Stream™ Video Platform, is utilized by major programmers and service providers across North America, facilitating some of the most popular live broadcasts on connected devices. The platform supports Linear, Live, and On-Demand ad insertion, allowing seamless video delivery to a variety of devices, including smartphones, tablets, streaming media players, and smart TVs. By offering a Video as a Service (VaaS) approach, mDialog enables video publishers and advertisers to efficiently manage and stream high-resolution video content while integrating targeted advertising, thereby enhancing viewer engagement and monetization opportunities.
Alpental Technologies is a startup company that primarily develops wireless technology. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Bothell, Washington. As per the transaction announced on June 19, 2014, Alpental Technologies currently operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.
Terra Bella is a private company that provides commercial, high-resolution satellite imagery and high-definition video and analytics services. It analyzes the movement of goods and people; and provides visual data about supply chains, shipping, industrial plant activity, and humanitarian relief efforts. Terra Bella (originally Skybox Imaging) was co-founded by Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, and Ching-Yu Hu in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States.
Divide (formerly known as Enterproid) helps organizations and individuals get the most out of mobile technology and corporate BYOD policies. Divide creates a secure work environment on theirr personal phone that features an array of business-class apps, including your work email, calendar, and contacts. Work data stays secure, while their personal data stays safe from the prying eyes of their company's IT department, or worse, their boss. Divide also gives access to their own web-based device management dashboard - MyDivide - where they can remotely monitor, locate, lock and wipe their device(s)
Quest Visual is a technology company known for its mobile application, Word Lens, which provides real-time translation of printed text. Utilizing a device's built-in video camera, the application allows users to point their camera at printed words, instantly translating them into different languages. This innovative approach to translation enhances communication and accessibility for users in diverse linguistic environments. Quest Visual's focus on mobile technology positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of language translation solutions.
Stackdriver provides a [powerfully simple monitoring service](http://www.stackdriver.com/product) for cloud-powered applications that helps DevOps spend more time on dev and less on ops. Acquired by Google in May 2014. Since its inception in 2012, Stackdriver has focused on helping cloud-powered companies address performance bottlenecks before they impact customers while reducing the burden associated with patchwork monitoring solutions. Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring includes several breakthrough features, such as: ● Rapid Stack Discovery, which discovers and maps relationships between key system, application, and infrastructure resources within minutes of deployment. ● Stack Scanner, an analytics engine that detects transient performance issues, identifies cluster outliers, pinpoints metric anomalies, and predicts capacity constraints. ● Elastic Monitoring, which enables customers to monitor dynamic and ephemeral resources (such as those that scale automatically) without manually updating alerting policies and dashboards. ● AWS Insights, which correlates AWS events, code deploys, and incidents, identifying performance optimization opportunities. Hundreds of innovative companies, including Smugmug, 99designs, Vocalocity, Extreme Reach, 8k Miles, and Chopra Center, have standardized on Stackdriver for system and infrastructure monitoring.
Appetas' restaurant marketing platform gets restaurants online instantly and empowers to easily market themselves. Appetas’ technology can instantly create beautiful web, mobile, and social sites for restaurants using their real menu, hours, and location. We reach restaurants through established partner channels and provide our marketing platform as a service. Individual and small chain restaurants struggle to establish a quality online presence. They understand the importance of marketing online but existing options are too complex, expensive, and time consuming. Appetas gets restaurants online in seconds with great looking web, mobile, and social sites provided alongside a partner they trust. They can make updates themselves or opt for a full service option.
Adometry by Google transforms the way the world’s top brands improve marketing performance. Acting as marketing's “system of record,” Adometry solves the complex challenge of integrating, measuring, and optimizing marketing performance across all channels―both online and offline. Combining and interpreting previously silo’d sources of data; the Adometry Marketing Intelligence Platform provides data-driven attribution, marketing mix modeling, and intelligent optimization recommendations across and within channels. As a result, marketers are able to identify their true impact on the customer journey and generate actionable insights that improve ROI.
Rangespan provides an automated supply chain service that enables online retailers to massively expand product selection without risk. It operates non-core range (new categories and the long tails of existing categories) on behalf of retailers. It combines a number of technologies, including an order management system, supplier marketplace, customer protection system and product data catalogue, in one end-to-end service.
Titan Aerospace is developing a fleet of revolutionary atmospheric satellites or atmosats. Flying at 60,000 to 65,000 feet, these solar-powered UAVs enable Titan to offer low-cost, reliable and persistent communication and imaging services. Current UAVs provide short-duration services due to inherent limitations of fuel and weather-constrained flight. Titan’s solar-powered atmosats can fly perpetually up to five years above the weather. Unlike traditional orbiting satellites, which cost upwards of $1.0B to design, outfit, launch, and operate, Titan can outfit its atmosats with a 70 lb+ payload, and launch and be operational within days and at a fraction of the cost. As battery technologies, communications technologies and imaging technologies improve, Titan can land, upgrade and relaunch each of its atmosats thereby ensuring the most effective payload services. Titan’s atmosats merge the flexibility and lower cost of UAVs with persistent services of traditional satellites.
Green Throttle Games is a Santa Clara, CA based company that develops high-quality, innovative games and hardware for mobile devices. The company's founders Charles Huang, Matt Crowley and Karl Townsend, visionaries from the video game and mobile industries teamed up to unlock the potential of mobile on the big screen, connecting people and platforms in a way that is simple and fun.
Spider.io specializes in online traffic fraud management, focusing on protecting advertisers from fraudulent activities that exploit hijacked devices. Unlike traditional anti-malware companies that safeguard personal devices from being compromised, Spider.io targets the misuse of these compromised devices in the advertising ecosystem. The company offers real-time identification of automated agents involved in fraudulent ad requests, ensuring that advertisers can maintain the integrity of their campaigns and resources. By addressing the specific challenges posed by online ad fraud, Spider.io plays a crucial role in safeguarding the interests of advertisers in the digital marketplace.
Tired of authentication tokens? Sick of typing passwords? SlickLogin creates the simplest login experience for you using your smartphone. Their product allows you to authenticate yourself just by placing your smartphone near your PC, no typing necessary. SlickLogin’s patented technology combines a seamless user experience with military-grade security, and will replace all authentication tokens that exist in the market today.
DeepMind Technologies Ltd. operates as an artificial intelligence company. They build general-purpose algorithms for use in simulations, e-commerce applications, and games. DeepMind markets its products and services internationally. DeepMind is the world leader in artificial intelligence research and its application for positive impact. They re on a scientific mission to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how. They believe this will be one of the most important and widely beneficial scientific advances ever made, increasing their capacity to understand the mysteries of the universe and to tackle some of their most pressing real-world challenges. From climate change to the need for radically improved healthcare, too many problems suffer from painfully slow progress, their complexity overwhelming their ability to find solutions. With AI as a multiplier for human ingenuity, those solutions will come into reach.
Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup focused on protecting internet sites from account hijacking and malicious user behavior. Over its three-year history, the company has secured more than 1.5 million sites and processed over 8 billion transactions. Impermium's advanced risk-evaluation platform enhances account management by detecting fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions in real-time. Utilizing a combination of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of known malicious actors, the platform effectively prevents fraudulent user account registrations at high transaction rates. By monitoring the web in real-time, Impermium enables organizations to combat user-generated spam, account hacking, and other forms of online fraud and abuse.
Gridcentric has game changing Virtualization Optimization technology for the OpenStack Cloud and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure markets. Gridcentric's Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) technology allows for the instantaneous scaling of Virtualized Cloud Infrastructure while using server hardware resources significantly more efficiently. This results in a more flexible, responsive and cost effective OpenStack Cloud infrastructure. For VDI, VMS optimizes server memory and cuts the boot I/O by put to 90%, resulting in the more than doubling of VM density per server and the elimination of the need to provision storage to accommodate boot storms, cutting storage costs significantly.