Verizon

Verizon Ventures seeks and invests in promising entrepreneurial companies who are tackling some of today’s biggest technological challenges for Verizon's consumer and enterprise customers. Over the last decade Verizon Ventures has invested in more than forty companies covering a range of industries, technologies and market segments. Verizon Ventures offers support to its portfolio companies with technology and product development, market planning and sales, and access to the networks and platforms of Verizon Communications. Combining the power of experienced investment professionals with a focused venture development team, Verizon Ventures connects innovators with strategic and financial resources that advance their businesses.

Christopher Bartlett

Head of Verizon Ventures

Jeffrey Black

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Thomas Camp

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George Brady Connor

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Matthew Ellis

EVP and CFO

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Laurence Fulton

CIO, Verizon Investment Management

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Mike Giordano

Director, Investor Relation

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Scott Goldman

Director, Investor Relations

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Brad Gugel

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Corey Gutshall

Principal

Lowell McAdam

Chairman and CEO

Michelle Russey McCarthy

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Michael O'Connor

Director Financial Planning and Analysis

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Apurva Patel

Director Investor Relations

Diego Scotti

EVP and Chief Marketing Officer

Kristina Serafim

MD

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Tony Skiadas

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Jennifer Still

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Robert A. Varettoni

Executive Director, Media Relations

215 past transactions

Flash Networks

Series E in 2006
Flash Networks Ltd. develop mobile Internet optimization and monetization solutions. The company offers radio spectral efficiency solutions, data explosion and congestion control, data monetization solutions, clean pipe cyber security services, subscriber engagement solutions, and roaming data control services. It also provides radio connections and signaling, video streaming, and cell based traffic management solutions. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Herzliya, Israel. As of August 5, 2020, Flash Networks Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Volaris Group Inc.

Myx Reality, Inc.

Grant in 2017
Myx Reality provides a web-based storyboarding tool for virtual reality.

YourMechanic

Series B in 2016
YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

Kiip, Inc.

Series C in 2016
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

OmniSci

Series C in 2018
OmniSci is the pioneer in accelerated analytics. The OmniSci platform is used in business and government to find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. Harnessing the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware, the platform is available in the cloud and on-premise. OmniSci originated from research at Harvard and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). OmniSci is funded by GV, In-Q-Tel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more about OmniSci at www.omnisci.com.

Pitstop

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Pitstop is a cloud-based Prognostic Maintenance Platform that enables enterprises to leverage the wealth of information available from their vehicle fleets. Their data engine integrates Connected Vehicles, Dealerships, Fleet Manager, Tier 1 Suppliers, OEMs, Insurance Companies and the Aftermarket Supply Chain.

CloudBees

Series D in 2015
CloudBees is the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for accelerating software development and the fastest path from great ideas to impactful software. Our continuous delivery solutions provide developers and enterprises many choices, from on-premise to cloud native, from self-managed to self-service, from guided best practices to flexible choice. By making the software delivery process more productive, manageable and hassle-free, CloudBees puts companies on the fastest path to transforming great ideas into great software, and returning value to the business more quickly. Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Verizon Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

Elegus Technologies, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Elegus Technologies, Inc. develops and commercializes separator membranes made from nanoscale fibers. It membranes satisfy the requirements of multiple energy storage technologies, including lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, lithium-air batteries, and more. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.

Qualia

Venture Round in 2010
Qualia empowers organizations to deliver seamless consumer experiences across all devices, from intent to conversion. The Qualia Data Intelligence Platform combines its IQ Decision Engine™ with cross-device technology to create a closed-loop, device agnostic, audience insights solution. Trusted by leading brands, agencies and marketing technology providers, Qualia’s cloud-based platform continuously identifies in-market consumers on all of their devices and digital touchpoints, enabling real-time, omni-channel targeting, reach, measurement and attribution. Qualia is led by Kathy Leake, CEO (also co-founder of Dstillery) who is committed to defining the next generation of consumer targeting through data integrity and quality. The company is headquartered in NYC and has offices in Chicago, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta. For additional information, visit www.qualia-media.com

Swiftmile, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2017
Swiftmile, Inc. manufactures and operates parking and charging solution for light electric vehicles. It offers Swiftmile platform, a smart solar powered locking, docking, and charging station for scooter and ebike operators, as well as municipalities, workplaces, transit authorities, schools, hospitality and retail centers, events planners, real estate owners, and others. Swiftmile, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Swiftmile, Inc.

Convertible Note in 2018
Swiftmile, Inc. manufactures and operates parking and charging solution for light electric vehicles. It offers Swiftmile platform, a smart solar powered locking, docking, and charging station for scooter and ebike operators, as well as municipalities, workplaces, transit authorities, schools, hospitality and retail centers, events planners, real estate owners, and others. Swiftmile, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Q-Sensei

Series A in 2012
Q-Sensei Corp. develops a searching and indexing technology for businesses and end-users to find and discover paths to leverage the data deluge around them. The company offers Q-Sensei Fuse, a platform that process structured data for building search and analytics applications. Its platform provides document extraction, optical character recognition, entity extraction, and visualization services; and helps developers to build, use, and maintain data-intensive applications. Q-Sensei Corp. was formerly known as Lalisio GmbH and changed its name to Q-Sensei Corp. in May 2007. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Erfurt, Germany.

Wiliot Ltd.

Series C in 2021
WIliot is a fabless semiconductor company developing passive SoC platforms for the IoT market. No battery and seamless connectivity operation will be the baseline enabler of IoT future growth.

Origin Wireless

Venture Round in 2021
Origin Wireless is a m2m (machine to machine) services company providing solutions to various industries and verticals. Specializing in communication platforms for service related B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to consumer) solutions. These services may include risk assessment and monitoring, customer service communication and monitoring, integrated management and reporting services, end-user gateways and dashboards.

VDOO

Series B in 2021
VDOO Connected Trust Ltd. offers an end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) security platform. It also provides IoT vendors with analysis tools, guidance and prioritization of action items. VDOO Connected Trust Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in Herzliya, Israel with additional offices in the United Kingdom and the United States.
SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) is the world’s first full-spectrum artificial intelligence company devoted entirely to government and national defense. By developing and operationalizing next-generation AI-powered systems, SGS enables government organizations to meet the needs of their most pressing national security missions.

Beamr

Venture Round in 2016
Beamr is an innovative private company comprised of the world's leading imaging scientists, veterans of the Israeli technology industry who are also successful entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Tel-Aviv, Beamr is focused on improving the quality, speed, and user experience of photo and video sharing.

Optibus

Series C in 2021
Optibus leverages the power of machine-learning and optimization algorithms to redefine the way mass-transportation is planned and operated. Optibus’ disruptive technology drive some of the most complex transportation operations worldwide, helping to improve the quality of service, increase efficiencies, save money, and streamline operations.

SoundBetter

Seed Round in 2013
SoundBetter is a marketplace for music production that helps musicians connect and hire music professionals. With SoundBetter, musicians can find hire a pro based on specialty, budget, genre, credits, reviews, and sound samples. It increases transparency via verified reviews and helps the huge market of self-producing musicians securely connect with the right partners from anywhere in the world. SoundBetter was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Kiip, Inc.

Series A in 2011
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

AwesomenessTV

Funding Round in 2016
AwesomenessTV is a multi-platform media company owned by DreamWorks Animation (Nasdaq: DWA) and Hearst Corporation, the latter of which has a 25 percent interest. Included under the AwesomenessTV banner are AwesomenessTV, a leading destination for original programming serving the global Gen Z audience; the ATV Network, a community based MCN with over 90,000 channels; Big Frame, an influencer talent management company; DreamWorksTV; Awestruck; Awesomeness Films; Wildness; as well as consumer products, music and branded entertainment divisions. AwesomenessTV was founded by Brian Robbins (Smallville, Varsity Blues, All That) and Joe Davola (In Living Color, Smallville, MTV Networks). Check out www.awesomenesstv.com.
Phenix Real Time Solutions, Inc. develops a real-time video streaming solution by capturing signals from the source and handle encoding, ingest, transcoding, composition, and content delivery regardless of location, device, and operating system. Its platform rapidly develops, tunes, tests, and rolls out servers optimized for real-time video encoding using Oracle Cloud. The company’s platform also enables the raw video feed to go from the event to Phenix server software running in the cloud and then streamed to each watcher. Phenix Real Time Solutions, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. It has additional offices in San Diego, California; Westport, Connecticut; Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Long Island, New York; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Paris, France; Riga, Latvia; Lagos, Nigeria; and Kiev, Ukraine

Lumina Networks, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Lumina Networks, Inc. designs and develops open source networking solutions to simplify and automate heterogeneous networks. Its products include Lumina extension adaptation platform, Lumina SDN controller, Lumina network resource manager, Lumina service mapper, and open log stack; and solutions, such as network visibility, Software-Defined data center, SD-Core, Internet based service automation. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Mississauga, Canada; the United Kingdom; Ireland; and Bengaluru and Pune, India.

sfara, Inc.

Series A in 2014
sfara, Inc. develops a mobile application that detects car’s speed, distracted driving behaviors, and accidents. The company’s application interprets a person's surroundings via smart device sensors. It enables smart devices with subscription applications and integrated services. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Fermata Energy

Venture Round in 2022
Fermata, LLC, doing business as Fermata Energy, develops and provides vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, which uses the battery capacity in parked electric vehicles (EVs) to provide services to run the electric grid. The company’s bi-directional chargers and software allow electric vehicles to serves as battery storage and enable electric vehicles (EV) batteries to provide energy storage to the power grid. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Fabric

Venture Round in 2018
The Fabric is a startup co-creation foundry with a focus on cloud/IoT infrastructure space. The Fabric has a team of proven company creators who under one roof deeply collaborate with founders to help them grow from concept to company in the cloud and infrastructure space. The Fabric co-creates, funds, and launches companies in the cloud/IoT infrastructure space.

BlueKai

Series D in 2012
BlueKai is the world's first and only complete enterprise data activation solution for intelligent marketing. BlueKai offers its customers a system for managing and activating all their 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data in all marketing and customer engagements. BlueKai represents the only end-to-end SaaS solution for marketers and publishers looking to maximize their cross-channel marketing efforts and create a proprietary solution for unlocking reach, scale and efficiency using data. BlueKai leads the data-driven marketing space with the industry's first, and most advanced, Data Management Platform as well as the industry's first, and most well-connected, Data Exchange. BlueKai currently works with thousands of companies and is currently trusted by almost half the Fortune 30 brands to activate their data. In 2013 BlueKai was named to Forbes "50 Most Promising US Companies" list as well as Fast Company's "10 Most Innovative Global Companies in Big Data."

iguazio

Series B in 2017
The Iguazio Data Science Platform enables enterprises to develop, deploy and manage AI applications at scale. With Iguazio, enterprises can run AI models in real time, deploy them anywhere; multi-cloud, on-prem or edge, and bring to life their most ambitious data-driven strategies. Iguazio is backed by top financial and strategic investors and led by serial entrepreneurs and a diverse team of innovators in the USA, UK, Singapore and Israel.

AdStage

Series A in 2014
From paid search and web analytics, to social media and emerging new tech, AdStage unleashes the power of data to help marketers make decisions that drive business growth. Today, paid marketers at leading agencies and companies in almost every industry depend on our platform as their trusted source of truth.

Securonix

Private Equity Round in 2022
Securonix is working to radically transform all areas of data security with actionable security intelligence. Our purpose-built, advanced security analytics technology mines, enriches, analyzes, scores and visualizes customer data into actionable intelligence on the highest risk threats from within and outside their environment. Using signature-less anomaly detection techniques that track users, account and system behavior, Securonix is able to detect the most advanced insider threats, data security and fraud attacks automatically and accurately. Globally, customers are using Securonix to address the most basic and complex needs around advanced persistent threat detection and monitoring, high privileged activity monitoring, enterprise and web fraud detection, application risk monitoring and access risk management.
Verizon Communications is a broadband and telecommunications company that operates 4G LTE and 3G networks as well as provides information and entertainment services. The company serves mass market, business, government, and wholesale customers by delivering broadband and other wireline and wireless communication innovations. Verizon Communications Wireless operates America’s largest wireless network that serves nearly 102 million customers nationwide. Its wireline operations include Verizon Business and Verizon Telecom. Founded in 1983, Verizon Communications is headquartered in New York.

PrecisionHawk

Series D in 2018
PrecisionHawk Inc. provides drones, sensors, and software packages for agriculture, construction, energy, insurance, and government industries. It offers services in the areas of pilot network, consulting, and training. PrecisionHawk Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It has locations in College Station, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Toronto, Canada; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Denver, Colorado.

SkyWatch.ai

Seed Round in 2019
VOOM is the world’s first on-demand, telematics-based InsurTech platform for Specialized Mobility products, dedicated to protecting users for anything they ride, fly, or sail. The company’s first product, SkyWatch.AI, leverages the power of machine learning to assess and mitigate risks and provide on-demand insurance for thousands of drone pilots operating across the US. VOOM’s data-driven, usage-based insurance products include multiple high-risk, episodic-usage mobility verticals, including e-scooters, e-bikes, powersports, motor boats, and small planes. Headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in Palo Alto, CA, VOOM is a licensed insurance broker in all 50 US states.

OmniSci

Series A in 2016
OmniSci is the pioneer in accelerated analytics. The OmniSci platform is used in business and government to find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. Harnessing the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware, the platform is available in the cloud and on-premise. OmniSci originated from research at Harvard and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). OmniSci is funded by GV, In-Q-Tel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more about OmniSci at www.omnisci.com.

SPLT (Splitting Fares)

Seed Round in 2015
SPLT is an enterprise-first carpooling and car sharing platform that connects employees within organizations to share their commute, saving time and money while reducing traffic congestion and lowering CO2 emissions.

Networks in Motion

Series C in 2006
Networks In Motion is a wireless navigation and local search company. Networks In Motion powers location-based services and search for leading mobile partners around the world including Verizon Wireless, AAA, AT&T, Ericsson, Sprint, TELUS, U.S. Cellular and YellowPages.com. NIM’s NAVBuilder platform is the most widely used mobile phone navigation service in North America. Founded in 2000, the company headquartered in Orange County, Calif., with additional offices throughout the EU, in China and Silicon Valley

Yerba Buena Virtual Reality

Seed Round in 2021
Yerba Buena VR, Inc. develops virtual reality video streaming and distribution platform. The product provides high resolution online videos for live events, entertainment, and education. The product provides turnkey solution for broadcasting networks and premium content generators. Yerba Buena VR, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Campbell, California.

Kiip, Inc.

Series B in 2014
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.

Edgybees Ltd.

Series A in 2021
Edgybees Ltd. develops and operates an online platform that delivers augmented reality experience that moves, even at the highest speeds, from drones to cars, trains, and wearable devices. Its Industrial solutions include; search and rescue / homeland security, real estate, architecture and urban planning, construction and urban development, field view: agriculture and land management, industrial facilities, and automotive. The company’s gaming solution include; Droneprix AR, Drone FX, and Sky Skreemers. It caters to fire departments, police departments, and homeland security sectors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

MobileRQ

Seed Round in 2013
Global consumer brands must now compete on the quality of the customer experience. Great customer experiences only happen when the brand can personalize their customer conversations with relevant, targeted content on a single device that customers won’t leave home without their smartphone.

The Hive

Venture Round in 2012
The Hive is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, and early stage investments. It invests in companies that are leveraging data and the innovations in data science and scale-out infrastructure. The firm also invests in data-driven applications in enterprise, Internet of Things, online segments, financial services, advertising, and e-commerce. It invests between of $.5 million to $2 million. The Hive was founded in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Kiip, Inc.

Venture Round in 2014
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.
Urgent.ly’s Roadside is a digital roadside assistance platform that features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands, roadside assistance professionals, and consumers. Its solution delivers the quickest, safest, and most innovative roadside assistance service, products and technology by combining location-based services, real-time data, AI, and machine-to-machine communication.

Airship, Inc.

Series F in 2018
Urban Airship® is trusted by thousands of businesses to drive growth through real time customer engagement. Every day, marketers and developers depend on Urban Airship to deliver billions of personalized, interactive notifications that inspire interest and drive action across all digital channels including apps, websites, mobile wallets, email, SMS and more. Urban Airship is used by many of the world’s most admired companies, including Adidas, Alaska Airlines, The Home Depot, NBCUniversal, Sky Plc and Zillow.

GankStars

Venture Round in 2017
GankStars owns and operates an esports community which allows users to connect, form teams, play online games together, and compete in gaming competitions. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

mitú

Series D in 2018
mitú connect brands, content buyers, and creators to Latino youth in America. It is a home away from home for Latinos in the U.S. They are young, edgy, smart, loud, funny, relevant, proud, and united.They are what it means to be Latino.

CloudBees

Series E in 2018
CloudBees is the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for accelerating software development and the fastest path from great ideas to impactful software. Our continuous delivery solutions provide developers and enterprises many choices, from on-premise to cloud native, from self-managed to self-service, from guided best practices to flexible choice. By making the software delivery process more productive, manageable and hassle-free, CloudBees puts companies on the fastest path to transforming great ideas into great software, and returning value to the business more quickly. Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Verizon Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

NantHealth

Series B in 2012
NantHealth is a transformational healthcare company converging science and technology through an integrated clinical platform that’s empowering physicians, patients, payers, and researchers to transcend the traditional barriers of today’s healthcare system. NantHealth solutions are advancing diagnostics to better identify and target specific disease characteristics; transforming clinical delivery with clinical data and promoting wellness for a healthier, happier world. They are building an integrated, evidence-based, genomically-informed, personalized approach to the delivery of care and the development of next generation healthcare solutions.

Streamroot

Venture Round in 2017
Streamroot, Inc. develops peer-to-peer video streaming technology for content delivery networks. Its solution is used for live streaming of sporting events, concerts, video conferences, enterprise streams, Web radio, and video-on-demand; and enables users to integrate, monitor, analyze, and manage videos. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of September 6, 2019, Streamroot, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CenturyLink, Inc..

CloudBees

Series C in 2014
CloudBees is the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, providing companies with smarter solutions for accelerating software development and the fastest path from great ideas to impactful software. Our continuous delivery solutions provide developers and enterprises many choices, from on-premise to cloud native, from self-managed to self-service, from guided best practices to flexible choice. By making the software delivery process more productive, manageable and hassle-free, CloudBees puts companies on the fastest path to transforming great ideas into great software, and returning value to the business more quickly. Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Verizon Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

BL Healthcare, Inc.

Venture Round in 2011
healthcare services ecosystem that enables the linking of patients, health advisors, service providers, and caregivers for the monitoring and management of wellness and disease states at distributed points of healthcare access, particularly in the patient's home.

Filament

Series A in 2015
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

Payfone

Series C in 2011
Payfone provides businesses with Identity Certainty - the ability to confirm that their customers are who they say they are to create easy, secure and frictionless experiences across PCs, mobile phones and tablets. They do for digital security what Uber does for hailing taxis and what Amazon does for online shopping. They make authenticating your customers easy for you and effortless for them. They're backed by leading banks, venture firms and wireless carriers, and are based in New York City.

Super Computer International

Funding Round in 2006
Super Computer International provides gaming client applications, on-game display technologies, backend infrastructure, and support for online multiplayer video gaming. The company offers Orion, a fully integrated gaming portal; and Private Label Partner program that enables its partners to sell online game server hosting. Super Computer International markets its products to game publishers and developers, game/multimedia companies, software retailers, and other gaming vertical companies. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Super Computer International is a developer of proprietary, high performance server clustering technologies. The company provides gaming client applications, on-game display technologies, backend infrastructure and support for high speed online multiplayer video gaming.

Light Field Lab, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Light Field Lab, Inc. develops holographic capture display technology systems. It offers integrated processing and imaging solutions that allow immersive visuals to be delivered over commercial network speeds. The company also develops a universal application programming interface to streamline the process of bringing existing content to a light field display with holographic media. Light Field Lab, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Morgan Hill, California.

Rounds

Series A in 2011
Rounds is a live social platform that combines live communication and social activities and allows friends to experience life together. It enables users to get together and send text messages, watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more all while video chatting across networks, operating systems, and devices. The platform offers instant group video chat on mobile. As a live communication platform, Rounds allows users to send text messages, video chat with up to 12 participants, and engage in activities while chatting such as watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more. The platform operates across networks, operating systems, and devices. It raises funds from its investors, including Sequoia Capital, Samsung Ventures, Verizon Ventures, DFJ’s Tim Draper, Rhodium, and other private investors. Rounds was launched in 2008 by Dany Fishel and Ilan Leibovich. It is based in Tel Aviv.

AdStage

Series A in 2018
From paid search and web analytics, to social media and emerging new tech, AdStage unleashes the power of data to help marketers make decisions that drive business growth. Today, paid marketers at leading agencies and companies in almost every industry depend on our platform as their trusted source of truth.

Filament

Series A in 2017
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

Origin Wireless (OW)

Venture Round in 2021
Origin Wireless aims to deliver smart radios for smart life by developing advanced wireless technologies for a wide range of applications, including the world's first centimeter accuracy indoor positioning or tracking, indoor monitoring, security, radio human biometrics, wireless power transfer, and 5G communications. The technologies take advantage of unavoidable but rich multi-paths in signal propagation and the physics of time-reversal that resonate with the environment to focus signal energy to specific positions through Origin’s Waveforming technology.

Bug Labs

Funding Round in 2011
Bug Labs is creating a Lego-like hardware platform that tinkerers and engineers can use to create their own digital devices. Users start with the BUGbase and add Bugmodules to create a several in one gadget. The BUGbase is a general-purpose Linux computer about the size of a PlayStation Portable, encased in white plastic. This has four connectors that plug right into the motherboard. The modules include an LCD screen, a digital camera, a GPS unit, a motion sensor, a keyboard, an EVDO modem, and a 3G GSM modem. There are also places to add USB, Ethernet, WiFi, and serial ports. Bug Labs is planning on making 80 modules over time, and hopes outside companies and developers will create their own.

SocialRadar

Acquisition in 2016
SocialRadar is building technology that makes people aware of the people and connections around them. Developing leading-edge technologies in the mobile, social and location space, SocialRadar is building applications on iPhone, Android and Google Glass that will change the way people connect.

Jaunt

Acquisition in 2019
Jaunt is developing the software, tools, and applications to enable cinematic VR and put the power of virtual reality in the hands of today’s best content creators. Jaunt’s proprietary algorithms for complex computational photography allow content producers to create incredible immersive cinematic VR experiences using existing production software. The company’s investors include The Walt Disney Company, Highland Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Peter Gotcher, Blake Krikorian, and British Sky Broadcasting (corporate.sky.com). Experience more at www.jauntvr.com.

GTE Corporation

Acquisition in 2000
GTE Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides integrated telecommunications services.

TracFone Wireless, Inc.

Acquisition in 2020
TracFone Wireless is a provider of prepaid telecommunications services to fit the client's lifestyle and budget with no contracts. It also offers its services as a no-contract plan, offering unlimited carryover that allows customers to keep all their unused data, texts, and minutes. Through collaboration and innovation, TracFone creates simple solutions for connected lives and empower millions of Americans to stay in touch with who and what they love.

Volicon, Inc.

Acquisition in 2016
Volicon is the leading provider of enterprise media intelligence, monitoring, and compliance logging solutions optimized for broadcasters, networks, cable and IPTV operators, and governments worldwide. Available with Volicon’s Capture, Share, Review, Comply, and Monitor applications, as well as a Multiviewer module, the company’s Observer Media Intelligence Platform® (MIP®) provides powerful tools that accelerate critical media workflows. The platform facilitates efficient and cost-effective content creation and repurposing for the Web and social media, VOD/OTT content preparation, linear production, compliance monitoring (loudness, closed captioning), ad verification, competitive analysis, quality-of-service/experience monitoring (QoS/QoE), and archiving. More information is available at www.volicon.com.

BlueJeans Network

Acquisition in 2020
BlueJeans is the meetings platform for the modern workplace and the first cloud service to connect desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. Thousands of organisations across industries use BlueJeans every day for video, audio and web conferencing meetings and large interactive events, so people can work productively where and how they want.

AOL Ventures

Acquisition in 2015
AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites. Integrated with AIM Express, AIM 7, and AIM for Mac, users can publish their statuses, reply to comments on networking sites from their Lifestream tab, and more. AOL Lifestream is a product of [AOL](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/aol#/entity).

Optibus

Series B in 2018
Optibus leverages the power of machine-learning and optimization algorithms to redefine the way mass-transportation is planned and operated. Optibus’ disruptive technology drive some of the most complex transportation operations worldwide, helping to improve the quality of service, increase efficiencies, save money, and streamline operations.

SkyWatch.ai

Series B in 2021
VOOM is the world’s first on-demand, telematics-based InsurTech platform for Specialized Mobility products, dedicated to protecting users for anything they ride, fly, or sail. The company’s first product, SkyWatch.AI, leverages the power of machine learning to assess and mitigate risks and provide on-demand insurance for thousands of drone pilots operating across the US. VOOM’s data-driven, usage-based insurance products include multiple high-risk, episodic-usage mobility verticals, including e-scooters, e-bikes, powersports, motor boats, and small planes. Headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in Palo Alto, CA, VOOM is a licensed insurance broker in all 50 US states.

Sensity Systems

Acquisition in 2016
Sensity Systems capitalizes on conversions to LED lighting—a process that will affect 4 billion lights worldwide over the next few years—to create a high-speed, sensor-based, multiservice, open networking platform known as a Light Sensory Network (LSN). LSNs help lighting owners improve lighting control and energy efficiency, as well as business processes that go well beyond lighting. By embedding networking technology and sensors within LED luminaires themselves, Sensity uses energy-efficient LED lighting as the foundation for its turnkey NetSense platform, the first Light Sensory Network implementation. By working closely with developers of software applications and services that run on the NetSense platform, Sensity enables facility and municipal lighting owners to link energy efficiency and cost savings to the improvement of business goals as diverse as public safety, parking control, asset management, and retail analytics. Sensity is the first company that has assembled all the relevant technology expertise, process integration know-how, and strong partnerships required to make the Light Sensory Network a reality. Privately held Sensity Systems, founded in 2010 and previously known as Xeralux Inc., is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The company’s global customers include Fortune 500 businesses, commercial and industrial property owners, retail facilities, municipal and regional agencies, universities, school districts, hospitals, transportation authorities, warehousing and distribution facilities, and horticulture operations.

Vidrovr Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media like photos and text. The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

YourMechanic

Series B in 2018
YourMechanic is an online marketplace that enables vehicle owners to find local mechanics for home or office car repair services. Its aim is to make car repair and maintenance affordable and convenient.

Entropic

Funding Round in 2008
Entropic (NASDAQ: ENTR) is a world leader in semiconductor solutions for the connected home. The Company transforms how traditional HDTV broadcast and IP-based streaming video content is seamlessly, reliably, and securely delivered, processed, and distributed into and throughout the home. Entropic's next-generation Set-top Box (STB) System-on-a-Chip (SoC) and Connectivity solutions enable Pay-TV operators to offer consumers more captivating whole-home entertainment experiences by transforming the way digital entertainment is delivered, connected and consumed – in the home and on the go.

Globetouch

Series A in 2019
Airlinq powers the next generation enterprise-grade cloud and edge platform to handle complex AI and IoT use cases around smart mobility and ecosystem monetization for automakers, mobile network operators, and consumers around the world. This highly scalable, globally available platform is ready to support millions of connected assets and vehicles with mission-critical latency, security, and reliability.

Vaxess Technologies, Inc.

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Vaxess Technologies, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops and commercializes silk biomaterial technologies. It offers MIMIX microneedle platform for transdermal delivery of vaccines and therapies; and MATRIX formulation and drying platform for the development of thermostable vaccine, therapeutic, and diagnostic products. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Skyfire Labs

Series C in 2012
Skyfire, acquired by Opera Software in 2013, is now the Network Solutions division of Opera Software. The unit is dedicated to leveraging the power of cloud computing to radically improve the mobile Internet experience for both operators and their consumers, with a focus on NFV-centric architecture as a means to deliver exceptional QoE and mobile monetization capabilities for operators around the world. Skyfire was founded in 2007, acquired by Opera in 2013, and is located in Mountain View, CA.

Terremark Worldwide

Acquisition in 2011
Terremark Worldwide is a provider of IT infrastructure solutions utilizing virtualization and utility computing technologies. It offers colocation, disaster recovery, security, hosting, compliance management, and data protection services to carriers, Internet service providers, network service providers, government entities, multi-national enterprises, and other end users. The company was acquired by Verizon Communications. Its colocation services comprise the provision of space, power, and sensitive compartmented information facility services, as well as the installation and maintenance of complex network environments. It also designs, deploys, operates, monitors, and manages clients' IT infrastructures and data environments, including Websites, enterprise resource planning, tools, and databases; and commercial and secure network operations centers, as well as provide Infinistructure, a virtualized computing platform and digitalOps, a service delivery software tool that facilitates the management of colocation, hosting, and network services, including computing network design, operations, and management environments. In addition, the company provides exchange point services, including interconnect services and peering services. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Cenx, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENX provides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years.

ShotTracker Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
ShotTracker makes sensor-based technology that automatically captures basketball statistics in real-time during practices and games. At ShotTracker, they improve the performance of competitive athletes by bringing elite-level analytics to the masses. Their latest innovation, ShotTracker TEAM, captures real-time practice and game stats for basketball teams, and it's affordable for teams at every level of play.

iguazio

Venture Round in 2020
The Iguazio Data Science Platform enables enterprises to develop, deploy and manage AI applications at scale. With Iguazio, enterprises can run AI models in real time, deploy them anywhere; multi-cloud, on-prem or edge, and bring to life their most ambitious data-driven strategies. Iguazio is backed by top financial and strategic investors and led by serial entrepreneurs and a diverse team of innovators in the USA, UK, Singapore and Israel.

HaptX

Series A in 2021
HaptX® makes technology that simulates touch sensation with unprecedented realism. HaptX Gloves enable natural interaction and realistic haptic feedback in virtual reality for the first time. Built with patented microfluidic technology, HaptX Gloves feature 130 points of touch feedback, apply 4 lbs. of resistive force feedback per finger, and track hand motions with sub-millimeter precision. Founded by Jake Rubin and Dr. Bob Crockett, HaptX has 35 employees, with offices in Seattle, WA and San Luis Obispo, CA.

CardStar

Series A in 2010
CardStar is a privately-held software company developing mobile applications that connect membership and rewards cards to smartphones. It is a solution for managing digital versions of its users’ plastic loyalty cards, reward cards, and club membership cards on their phone. The company allows its consumers to access scannable-cards from within a single app and enabling merchants to tailor mobile deals and information to their customers. CardStar was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, M.A.

Fan Controlled Football

Seed Round in 2020
Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

Bluegrass Cellular

Acquisition in 2020
Bluegrass Cellular was the first cellular carrier to provide analog cellular network service in rural Kentucky. Service was initiated in May 1991 with the construction of cellular sites in Bowling Green, Glasgow, Elizabethtown, Bardstown, Radcliff and Russell Springs. Since the initiation of service, the Bluegrass Cellular wireless network has grown to provide coverage to 40 counties within its license areas.Bluegrass Cellular is committed to serving as a pioneer of wireless service in rural Kentucky. In October 1998, the company launched digital cellular services in Central Kentucky. In November 2004, Bluegrass Cellular launched 2G enhanced services on its CDMA digital 1X data network, and in late 2007, EVDO 3G high-speed data service was added to its markets.

Clipcall

Corporate Round in 2016
Clipcall is an on-demand mobile video platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) to offer an easy way to get quotes for required projects without picking up the phone, enabling homeowners to hire contractors and get a hassle-free way to get things done.ClipCall, we know that maintaining a home can be a pain which is why we bring today‘s technology to home maintenance and improvement.

Apio Systems

Series A in 2014
Apio Systems provides a purpose-built mobile platform to improve driving safety. Its patent-pending proprietary technology, Situational Awareness, leverages sensors in smart devices to sense and identify a broad range of road and driving conditions, augmented by other data, to deliver real-time, relevant alerts to drivers. It is delivered by harnessing the powerful sensors built into smart devices and by applying proprietary algorithms to detect and interpret driving hazards and inconveniences. An Apio-enabled smartphone autonomously detects and crowdsources a broad range of road, traffic, and driving conditions to benefit the entire Apio driver network. Apio Systems has offices in Crystal City, Virginia and Warwick, New York.

Rounds

Series B in 2015
Rounds is a live social platform that combines live communication and social activities and allows friends to experience life together. It enables users to get together and send text messages, watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more all while video chatting across networks, operating systems, and devices. The platform offers instant group video chat on mobile. As a live communication platform, Rounds allows users to send text messages, video chat with up to 12 participants, and engage in activities while chatting such as watch videos, play games, share photos, and much more. The platform operates across networks, operating systems, and devices. It raises funds from its investors, including Sequoia Capital, Samsung Ventures, Verizon Ventures, DFJ’s Tim Draper, Rhodium, and other private investors. Rounds was launched in 2008 by Dany Fishel and Ilan Leibovich. It is based in Tel Aviv.

Renovo Auto

Venture Round in 2017
Renovo builds technology for Automated Mobility on Demand systems. Its technology merges self-driving software, data analytics, and automotive-grade safety systems into a unified high-performance solution. Renovo-enabled vehicles command hundreds of sensors generating multiple terabytes of data—each hour—on a safe, secure, and scalable platform developed in extremely demanding environments.

Sanctuary AI

Series A in 2022
Sanctuary AI is an artificial general intelligence company founded in January 2018, and is based in Vancouver, B.C. Sanctuary's mission is to build synthetic humans – “synths” – that are indistinguishable from us physically, cognitively and emotionally. The company is structured to explore both cutting edge technology and the ethical issues that arise from creating human-like machines.

Flint

Series B in 2013
Flint is a mobile payment service that enables users to easily take credit cards on the spot by scanning, via invoice or online. Flint Mobile can also send invoices for online bill payment, handle cash and checks and manage customized coupons with Apple Passbook integration. Other features include automatic syncing of all transactions as well as line item information and customer information with QuickBooks accounts. Flint is also a payment service provider and offers quick setup without needing a merchant account. Flint was launched in 2011 by Greg Goldfarb and Andrew Laszlo.

StatusPro

Seed Round in 2021
A sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality

8i

Series B in 2017
8i is building consumer media platform that lets users create, experience, and share the most immersive 3D video of real people, for virtual reality, augmented reality, and the web. The company’s mission is to enable everyone to connect with each other in the closest way to real-life. 8i enables true 3D (fully volumetric) capture of people, allowing viewers to walk around real humans in VR. Founded in May 2014 in Wellington, New Zealand, 8i has since expanded to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Qualia

Series A in 2015
Qualia empowers organizations to deliver seamless consumer experiences across all devices, from intent to conversion. The Qualia Data Intelligence Platform combines its IQ Decision Engine™ with cross-device technology to create a closed-loop, device agnostic, audience insights solution. Trusted by leading brands, agencies and marketing technology providers, Qualia’s cloud-based platform continuously identifies in-market consumers on all of their devices and digital touchpoints, enabling real-time, omni-channel targeting, reach, measurement and attribution. Qualia is led by Kathy Leake, CEO (also co-founder of Dstillery) who is committed to defining the next generation of consumer targeting through data integrity and quality. The company is headquartered in NYC and has offices in Chicago, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta. For additional information, visit www.qualia-media.com

Moment

Acquisition in 2018
Moment design digital products in New York City. Since three designers founded Moment in 2002, their goal has been to create digital products that work for people. Everyone at Moment loves a design challenge and their clients bring us some of the toughest around. They’re a curious, creative, and collaborative bunch who help each other see different perspectives, find solutions and get things out there into the real world.

Vidrovr Inc.

Grant in 2016
Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media like photos and text. The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

Wiliot Ltd.

Series B in 2020
WIliot is a fabless semiconductor company developing passive SoC platforms for the IoT market. No battery and seamless connectivity operation will be the baseline enabler of IoT future growth.

Glympse

Series C in 2014
Glympse is the only built-for-mobility SaaS company that helps Fortune 1000 companies improve their customer satisfaction by eliminating the friction and anxiety of product and service delivery experiences. The pioneer in real-time temporary location sharing technology, Glympse has a powerful platform that successfully aggregates existing Service, Marketing and Commerce Cloud capabilities into a single easy-to-use Glympse, helping businesses improve communication and increase satisfaction when their products and services are delivered or picked up by their customers. Many of the world's largest brands trust Glympse to provide a best-in-class location experience with their customers.

Benbria

Corporate Round in 2016
Benbria is a leader in omni-channel guest messaging and feedback solutions, helping the world's greatest brands deliver a superior guest experience that goes above and beyond their competitors. Using a variety of mobile, online, and on-property technologies - including SMS, email, web, in-app and messaging channels, as well as kiosks - Loop® enables brands to capture and direct real-time customer requests, concerns, suggestions, and positive input to management and employees for action and closure.
INVIDI Technologies Corporation provides software applications that track targeted advertising. It offers Advatar, a digital set-top box application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to individual viewers. It facilitates the sales of digital products, digital tiers, and digital services, such as VOD, PVR, and pay-per-view events; Internet, voice, and wireless services; and triple play offers. Advatar serves multi-channel video programming distributors, marketers, advertisers, and media buyers and sellers. The company also provides INVIDI Advertising Decision System, an addressable television advertising technology for managing advertising decisions and selections for household delivery in the evolving business of television advertising. INVIDI Technologies Corporation was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.

TileDB

Venture Round in 2022
TileDB, Inc. develops and maintains TileDB, a system for managing multi-dimensional array data that arise from scientific applications. Its products include TileDB Embedded, a storage engine; and TileDB Cloud, a storage engine that allows managing arrays data. It provides a data engine that allows people to access, analyze, and share any complex data with any tool. The system allows for the management of scientific data and allows programmers to write applications for parallel data analytics. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It has an additional location in Athens, Greece.

Optibus

Series D in 2022
Optibus leverages the power of machine-learning and optimization algorithms to redefine the way mass-transportation is planned and operated. Optibus’ disruptive technology drive some of the most complex transportation operations worldwide, helping to improve the quality of service, increase efficiencies, save money, and streamline operations.

Versa Networks, Inc.

Series B in 2014
Versa Networks, Inc. is a stealth mode company focusing software-defined networking solutions. The company focuses on virtualized network functions and services, along with defining architecture for application delivery networks (ADN) for the virtualized data centers. Versa Networks, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India.

Casa Systems

Post in 2022
Casa Systems, Inc. offers network edge devices based on disruptive technologies to target the market opportunity in interactive digital video and broadband IP services. It provides third-generation DOCSIS CMTS products, as well as universal EdgeQAM and intelligent video processing solutions for broadcast and unicast services. It also offers digital media manager, a bandwidth management platform for digital media services; and digital cable termination systems. It enables cable operators to offer digital unicast video in native MPEG format and migrate to IP streaming video service with the same hardware. The company's products also offer the capability for video and IP data to share the spectral resources of the HFC plant within the same hardware platform. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Andover, Massachusetts.

AdStage

Series A in 2016
From paid search and web analytics, to social media and emerging new tech, AdStage unleashes the power of data to help marketers make decisions that drive business growth. Today, paid marketers at leading agencies and companies in almost every industry depend on our platform as their trusted source of truth.

AiFi Inc.

Series B in 2022
AiFi Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based cashier-free software for retailers. Its software uses a sensor and camera networks and helps to track shoppers as they move through the store, fill their carts, and debit their accounts during checkout. It helps retailers in capturing data on inventory management, consumer shopping habits, and product preferences. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Versa Networks, Inc.

Series C in 2016
Versa Networks, Inc. is a stealth mode company focusing software-defined networking solutions. The company focuses on virtualized network functions and services, along with defining architecture for application delivery networks (ADN) for the virtualized data centers. Versa Networks, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India.

CoreTigo

Series B in 2021
CoreTigo develops secured wireless network system to support IoT nodes at a latency of milliseconds.

Airborne Entertainment

Funding Round in 2005
Airborne Entertainment publishes and provides mobile entertainment content and applications, including games, images, video, ringtones, ring-back tones, and informational content. The company’s product portfolio comprises original and branded properties, including, Family Guy(TM), Donald Trump's Real Estate Tycoon(TM), Speed TV Mobile(TM), Maxim ToGo(TM), and Cosmo Mobile(TM). Its products are available across wireless carriers in North America and Europe. It also provides retailers and branded destinations with the ability to reach mobile consumers directly via premium and promotional channels. Airborne Entertainment was founded in 2000 and is based in Montréal, Quebec.

Civis Analytics, Inc.

Series A in 2016
Civis builds end-to-end person-level analytics solutions and software for the world’s leading nonprofit, commercial and government organizations. With a powerful blend of best-in-class data, cutting-edge science, and our interdisciplinary team of data scientists, engineers, and survey science experts, Civis helps organizations gain a competitive advantage in how they identify, attract, and engage the people they care about. Learn more at civisanalytics.com

SAM Seamless Network

Series B in 2021
SAM Seamless Network develops a cybersecurity technology platform that protects the connected home, by tackling cyber security threats at the source. It offers SAM for Homes, a software that protects connected home by securing threats right at the source; SAM for SMBs, an office network management platform; and SAM On-the-Go, a software platform with parental control. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in New York, New York; and Berlin, Germany.

Senion

Acquisition in 2021
Senion was founded in 2010 and is a global leader in location-responsive solutions, augmenting the mobile experience of people’s everyday life, making it more efficient and smooth. By assisting employees to find available work spaces, automate mundane tasks, and make it easier to meet up and collaborate, Senion helps corporations make better use of their spaces and increase staff productivity.

Civis Analytics, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Civis builds end-to-end person-level analytics solutions and software for the world’s leading nonprofit, commercial and government organizations. With a powerful blend of best-in-class data, cutting-edge science, and our interdisciplinary team of data scientists, engineers, and survey science experts, Civis helps organizations gain a competitive advantage in how they identify, attract, and engage the people they care about. Learn more at civisanalytics.com

Airship, Inc.

Series E in 2016
Urban Airship® is trusted by thousands of businesses to drive growth through real time customer engagement. Every day, marketers and developers depend on Urban Airship to deliver billions of personalized, interactive notifications that inspire interest and drive action across all digital channels including apps, websites, mobile wallets, email, SMS and more. Urban Airship is used by many of the world’s most admired companies, including Adidas, Alaska Airlines, The Home Depot, NBCUniversal, Sky Plc and Zillow.

Mosaic

Grant in 2014
Solar Mosaic enables the modern home possible by providing financing to homeowners for home improvement projects, including generating and storing their own solar energy as well as other energy-efficient upgrades. It empowers solar and home improvement professionals to deliver financing through a simple point-of-sale app creating a hassle-free and positive experience for both the contractor and homeowner. Solar Mosaic was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Wise Systems Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Wise Systems Inc. develops autonomous dispatch and routing software for companies to deliver goods and services to customers when they are needed most. It offers Scheduler to dynamically build and dispatch optimized route plans; Dispatcher that allows managers to monitor routes, including delivery progress, ETAs for each delivery, and driver performance; and Customer Portal that enables delivery recipients to track their orders throughout the day with accurate real-time ETAs. The company also provides Smart Reservation Management that enable to customers choose the delivery date and time that works for them. The company serves food and beverage, parcel and courier, retail, auto parts, less than truckload, third-party logistics, field service and technicians, business services, and other industries. Wise Systems Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Veniam

Series B in 2016
Veniam is building the Internet of Moving Things. We turn vehicles into Wi-Fi hotspots and build city-scale vehicular networks that expand wireless coverage and collect terabytes of urban data. Veniam’s game-changing solutions are composed by hardware, software and cloud components that deliver managed services to intelligent transportation systems in New York and Singapore, as well as in the world's largest network of connected vehicles, which includes taxis, waste collection trucks and the entire public bus fleet in Porto, Portugal, offering free Wi-Fi to more than 500,000 active customers. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

ActionX

Series A in 2013
The ActionX platform connects the dots between mobile customer acquisition and mobile retargeting to drive transactions and maximize customer lifetime value.

GTE

Acquisition in 1998
GTE is a provider of telecommunication products and services in the United States. It was formally known as General Telephone & Electronics Corporation. GTE operates in Canada via companies such as BC TEL and Quebec-Téléphone. Prior to GTE's merger with Bell Atlantic, GTE also maintained an interactive television service joint-venture called GTE mainStreet. GTE was established in 1918 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut.

Vidder Inc.

Acquisition in 2018
Vidder's Trusted Access Control technology mitigates network-based attacks by making servers invisible to everyone except authorized users. Vidder offers managed services that protect high-value networked assets. Vidder's unique solution is based on a new standard called the Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) that is being developed by the Cloud Security Alliance. It was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Campbell, California.

Crunchbase

Series C in 2019
Crunchbase is a platform for finding business information about private and public companies. Crunchbase information includes investments and funding information, founding members and individuals in leadership positions, mergers and acquisitions, news, and industry trends. Originally built to track startups, the Crunchbase website contains information on public and private companies on a global scale. Crunchbase sources its data in four ways: the venture program, machine learning, an in-house data team, and the Crunchbase community. Members of the public can submit information to the Crunchbase database. These submissions are subject to registration, social validation, and are often reviewed by a moderator.

Networks in Motion

Series B in 2004
Networks In Motion is a wireless navigation and local search company. Networks In Motion powers location-based services and search for leading mobile partners around the world including Verizon Wireless, AAA, AT&T, Ericsson, Sprint, TELUS, U.S. Cellular and YellowPages.com. NIM’s NAVBuilder platform is the most widely used mobile phone navigation service in North America. Founded in 2000, the company headquartered in Orange County, Calif., with additional offices throughout the EU, in China and Silicon Valley

UpLynk

Acquisition in 2013
upLynk takes a fundamentally different approach to HD adaptive streaming for both live and on demand video. By using a single video format across all major devices and platforms, upLynk delivers a cheaper, simpler and more scalable solution than traditional methods. Combined with a startlingly simple and predictable pricing model, upLynk's high quality video is suited for all sizes of businesses.

OmniSci

Series B in 2017
OmniSci is the pioneer in accelerated analytics. The OmniSci platform is used in business and government to find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. Harnessing the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware, the platform is available in the cloud and on-premise. OmniSci originated from research at Harvard and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). OmniSci is funded by GV, In-Q-Tel, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more about OmniSci at www.omnisci.com.

TinyTap

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
TinyTap Ltd. develops iPad applications to create personal games for kids. The company allows parents and their kids to turn the moments they share together into personal and educational games. It also allows families, parents, kids, and teachers to create books; create fun games; tell stories and record questions; organize family photos into playable albums and add voice tags; and create fun classroom games and activities. The company also enables author, illustrator, and educator to sell their books, photos, and games through its application. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) is the world’s first full-spectrum artificial intelligence company devoted entirely to government and national defense. By developing and operationalizing next-generation AI-powered systems, SGS enables government organizations to meet the needs of their most pressing national security missions.

Zenverge

Series D in 2011
Semiconductor company developing content networking ICs that connect broadcast content with IP enabled devices

ProtectWise

Acquisition in 2019
ProtectWise™ provides Cloud-Powered Network Detection and Response (NDR). Organizations can achieve defense-in-depth via advanced analytics on cloud, hybrid and enterprise traffic with real time and retrospective detections. Full-fidelity packet captures, indexed and retained indefinitely, create a perfect, rapidly searchable network memory. Analytics and forensics unified in an intuitive and immersive visualizer enable rapid and more effective incident response and threat hunting. Founded in April 2013, ProtectWise is based in Denver and led by a team of security and SaaS industry veterans from McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, and Symantec. The company launched the Immersive Security movement in 2017 to build a new path forward for the security industry. ProtectWise has raised more than $70 million in funding.

SkyWatch.ai

Seed Round in 2018
VOOM is the world’s first on-demand, telematics-based InsurTech platform for Specialized Mobility products, dedicated to protecting users for anything they ride, fly, or sail. The company’s first product, SkyWatch.AI, leverages the power of machine learning to assess and mitigate risks and provide on-demand insurance for thousands of drone pilots operating across the US. VOOM’s data-driven, usage-based insurance products include multiple high-risk, episodic-usage mobility verticals, including e-scooters, e-bikes, powersports, motor boats, and small planes. Headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in Palo Alto, CA, VOOM is a licensed insurance broker in all 50 US states.

SimplyTapp

Venture Round in 2015
SimplyTapp provides cloud-based mobile payment solutions for banks, payment card issuers, transit authorities, and retailers. They provide mobile payment distribution and authorization solutions for enterprises including financial institutions, big-box retailers, fueling stations, quick service merchants as well as mobile wallet providers and developers. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Brit Media, Inc.

Series C in 2017
Brit + Co is a media company that inspires, educates, and entertains real women with a creative spirit. Founded in late 2011 by Brit Morin, Brit + Co has become one of the largest digital media companies for women. Brit + Co now reaches an engaged community of over 125 million online and across platforms. They have garnered tens of millions of video views and produce over 100 pieces of content every day to keep up with everything their audience is up to. As a digital-first company, they have an innate understanding of how the online connection to offline. That’s why, in addition to their website, brit.co, their free app, and their presence across social channels, they extend their reach to experiences.

Kinvey, Inc.

Series B in 2014
Kinvey is the first Backend as a Service that makes it ridiculously easy for developers and enterprises to set up and operate a cloud backend for their mobile, tablet, and web apps. Its service lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their mobile applications. They don't have to worry about connecting to various cloud services or enterprise backend systems, setting up servers for their backend, or maintaining and scaling them. With Kinvey, developers just model their cloud backend needs and we auto-generate all the APIs they would need to access their data from any mobile, web, or computing platform. Developers then grab their APIs and connect to them directly or through native iOS, Android, JavaScript, etc., libraries that we provide. Kinvey is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) is the world’s first full-spectrum artificial intelligence company devoted entirely to government and national defense. By developing and operationalizing next-generation AI-powered systems, SGS enables government organizations to meet the needs of their most pressing national security missions.

Consert

Venture Round in 2010
Consert Inc. is focused on the design and implementation of intelligent energy distribution and management networks. It drives to join all the players in the energy market to its own network creating market solutions built entirely through opt-in participation. Consert Inc. was formed in 2008 and offers the most complete real-time, energy management and conservation ecosystem available today. Consert’s Energy Management Solution gives energy conservation the attributes of generation and offers utilities the opportunity to gain operational savings, address peak load with measurable and verifiable certainty, and realize new revenue streams, all by empowering consumers to set, monitors and reduce energy consumption. Over the years, Consert has proven itself time and time again with major utilities, including the nation’s largest municipal power and gas company. In addition to full-scale commercial program initiated as pilots for among others, Fayetteville Public Works Commission and Wake Electric Membership Corporation, Consert has partnered with CPS Energy of San Antonio – and its more than 700,000 customers – to reduce peak demand by more than 250 megawatts over the next three years.

PrecisionHawk

Series C in 2016
PrecisionHawk Inc. provides drones, sensors, and software packages for agriculture, construction, energy, insurance, and government industries. It offers services in the areas of pilot network, consulting, and training. PrecisionHawk Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. It has locations in College Station, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Toronto, Canada; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and Denver, Colorado.

Edgybees Ltd.

Series A in 2017
Edgybees Ltd. develops and operates an online platform that delivers augmented reality experience that moves, even at the highest speeds, from drones to cars, trains, and wearable devices. Its Industrial solutions include; search and rescue / homeland security, real estate, architecture and urban planning, construction and urban development, field view: agriculture and land management, industrial facilities, and automotive. The company’s gaming solution include; Droneprix AR, Drone FX, and Sky Skreemers. It caters to fire departments, police departments, and homeland security sectors. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Niddel

Acquisition in 2018
Niddel Corp. develops software for threat hunting. The software performs identification, investigation, analyses and decision-making of security professionals. Niddel Corp. was founded in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of January 5, 2018, Niddel Corp. operates as a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc.
Pursuit is a social impact organization that creates transformation where it’s needed most. Through their four-year intensive program, they train adults with the most need and potential to get their first tech jobs, advance in their careers, and become the next generation of leaders in tech. Their graduates are hired by leading companies like Pinterest, Kickstarter, LinkedIn, BlackRock, and JPMorgan Chase, and increase their average annual salaries from $18,000 to over $85,000. In addition to providing training and career support, Pursuit’s innovative operating model combines partnerships with tech companies to retrain their blue-collar workers and social impact investments to re-envision funding for outcomes-based organizations. By connecting talent with opportunity, Pursuit empowers graduates to bring change to their families, tech companies, and communities across the nation.

Airship, Inc.

Series C in 2011
Urban Airship® is trusted by thousands of businesses to drive growth through real time customer engagement. Every day, marketers and developers depend on Urban Airship to deliver billions of personalized, interactive notifications that inspire interest and drive action across all digital channels including apps, websites, mobile wallets, email, SMS and more. Urban Airship is used by many of the world’s most admired companies, including Adidas, Alaska Airlines, The Home Depot, NBCUniversal, Sky Plc and Zillow.

LQD Wifi, LLC

Acquisition in 2016
LQD is WiF specializes in developing smart cities and ubiquitous WiFi, providing cities with new outdoor hubs of social technology. Its technology is designed to enable communities and ignite the new fabric of urban spaces. It offers PALO designed to create an integrated network of elegant and engaging community technology hubs that connect, inform, inspire, and support people in the places they live, work, and play.

PlaySight Interactive

Series C in 2017
PlaySight is connecting the next generation of athletes through immersive sports video and analytics technology. They are bringing advanced sports video and analytics technology to every court in the world, creating a global and connected community of athletes, coaches, and fans. Technology has changed how sports are coached, played, and consumed at the elite levels, and they are focused on delivering the same cutting-edge experience to all levels of sport, all over the world. They are becoming the new standard in sports with our cloud-based Smart Court sports video and analytics platform, integrating what happens on-court with an interactive and social online community.

Skyfire Labs

Series D in 2012
Skyfire, acquired by Opera Software in 2013, is now the Network Solutions division of Opera Software. The unit is dedicated to leveraging the power of cloud computing to radically improve the mobile Internet experience for both operators and their consumers, with a focus on NFV-centric architecture as a means to deliver exceptional QoE and mobile monetization capabilities for operators around the world. Skyfire was founded in 2007, acquired by Opera in 2013, and is located in Mountain View, CA.

go90

Acquisition in 2014
go90 is an American video streaming service for live sports, concerts from the top artists, brand new originals, and tv shows you already love. All on go90™.

Cenx, Inc.

Venture Round in 2012
CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENX provides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years.

Colorfiction

Grant in 2019
Colorfiction is a software developer that enjoys the interstitial zone between art and technology via the creation of interactive experiences. Their work has been showcased with the Indie Megabooth and Leftfield Collection among other selections and featured in Vice, PC Gamer, Venture Beat, etc. Colorfiction was founded in 2014 by Maximilian Arocena. Releases include; 0°N 0°W, a psychedelic voyage through labyrinthine dimensions; Nightline, a relaxing meditation on late night commutes; The Sands of Voltark, an interactive adventure through an otherworldly planet; That feeling Blue, a commissioned installation for The Zium Museum; and Becalm, a serene aquatic journey in search of the sunset. We’re currently working on Ode to a Moon, a magical realism thriller, and Endzone, a collaboration with Verizon and the NFL.

ConteXtream

Series B in 2010
ConteXtream is a privately held software company delivering the industry’s first cloud-based network virtualization framework that enables network operators to leverage the power of proven virtualization and grid technologies to extract more value and profitability from their broadband networks. The ConteXtream Service Delivery Grid delivers higher network performance at a lower cost per subscriber while enabling operators to customize applications on a per-session, per- subscriber basis for a unique, highly personalized subscriber experience. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., ConteXtream is backed by leading Silicon Valley and global investors including Benhamou Global Ventures, Gemini Israel Funds, Norwest Venture Partners and Sofinnova Ventures as well as Comcast Interactive Capital and Verizon Investments.

EdgeCast Networks

Acquisition in 2013
EdgeCast is a content delivery network (CDN) that helps companies accelerate and deliver static and dynamic content to end users around the world. It has since evolved into a full-service web performance company, with the recent launch of front-end optimization, DNS, and eCommerce CDN products. Major customers include Yahoo!, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter, Wordpress, and Hulu. The company has about 6,000 customers (as of October 2013) and carries approximately 6% of the world’s Internet traffic. Deloitte recently ranked EdgeCast as the #1 fastest-growing Internet company in America, and the #1 fastest-growing Los Angeles company in their 2012 "Fast 500" list.

Inceptor, Inc.

Acquisition in 2006
Inceptor develops integrated pay-per-click and organic listing programs.

Zenverge

Venture Round in 2012
Semiconductor company developing content networking ICs that connect broadcast content with IP enabled devices

echoAR, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
EchoAR is an AR-first content management system (CMS) and delivery network (CDN) which helps companies scale their AR solutions. The company enables developers to build their AR app backend in minutes and allows their clients to easily upload, manage, and publish content to the AR app without involving development teams. Founded in 2018 by Alon Grinshpoon, Ben Pedazur, and Koren Grinshpoon, echoAR is headquartered in New York.

School Yourself

Grant in 2015
At School Yourself, we're reinventing online education in the style of 1-on-1 learning. They have authored hundreds of interactive, personalized math lessons, and they use a custom analytics platform to continuously improve their content. The result is a collaboration between teacher and student that provides an unprecedented learning experience. They've assembled a team of the smartest scientists, teachers, and software engineers to create a completely new interactive learning experience for all audiences.

Vessel

Acquisition in 2016
Vessel Group, Inc. operates an online video platform. Its platform enables users to view videos in various categories, such as comedy, gaming, music, science and ideas, geek, prank, food and drink, fashion and beauty, vloggers, travel and nature, news, live performances, backstage pass, pop culture, automotive, reality, action sports, dance, sports, design and build, tech, animation, lifestyle, talk show, and drama. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Qualia

Venture Round in 2011
Qualia empowers organizations to deliver seamless consumer experiences across all devices, from intent to conversion. The Qualia Data Intelligence Platform combines its IQ Decision Engine™ with cross-device technology to create a closed-loop, device agnostic, audience insights solution. Trusted by leading brands, agencies and marketing technology providers, Qualia’s cloud-based platform continuously identifies in-market consumers on all of their devices and digital touchpoints, enabling real-time, omni-channel targeting, reach, measurement and attribution. Qualia is led by Kathy Leake, CEO (also co-founder of Dstillery) who is committed to defining the next generation of consumer targeting through data integrity and quality. The company is headquartered in NYC and has offices in Chicago, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta. For additional information, visit www.qualia-media.com

Swiftmile, Inc.

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Swiftmile, Inc. manufactures and operates parking and charging solution for light electric vehicles. It offers Swiftmile platform, a smart solar powered locking, docking, and charging station for scooter and ebike operators, as well as municipalities, workplaces, transit authorities, schools, hospitality and retail centers, events planners, real estate owners, and others. Swiftmile, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Zenverge

Series E in 2013
Semiconductor company developing content networking ICs that connect broadcast content with IP enabled devices

AdTheorent, Inc.

Series A in 2013
AdTheorent is a leading provider of predictive digital advertising technology and solutions for brands and agencies. The Company leverages Big Data and its proprietary machine learning technology, as well as cross-environment mapping to predictively connect advertisers with their optimal audiences, at scale. Barometric®, AdTheorent’s cross-channel attribution SaaS solution, maps disparate user IDs across numerous devices and environments to a single user, allowing brands to accurately track user engagement and path to purchase. For more information, visit: www.adtheorent.com.

Complex Media, Inc.

Acquisition in 2016
Complex Media, Inc. owns, operates, and provides a network of interactive services and applications. Its network includes Websites that cover music, style, pop culture, sports and entertainment, sneakers, and life. The company offers news, galleries, videos, lists, interviews, reviews, essays, and features. It also sells tees, pillows, hats, fleeces, T-shirts, magazines, crewneck sweatshirts, posters, shower curtains, tote bags, and others online. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in New York, New York. Complex Media, Inc. is a former subsidiary of IP Holdings Unltd LLC.

Newlans, Inc.

Series B in 2014
Newlans, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, specializes in programmable analog signal processing solutions. The company develops programmable silicon-on-insulator capacitor and components for integration into tunable radio frequency front end (RFFE) solutions. It serves smartphone original equipment manufacturers and RFFE module suppliers. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Acton, Massachusetts. Newlans, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Newtel Essence B.V.

Juncture Media

Seed Round in 2019
Juncture Media is currently producing the AVARIA World which includes AVARIAvs and AVARIA Ghost of the Immortal as well as NFL Ultra Toss in partnership with Verizon and The NFL.

Qwest Wireless Spectrum - Network Assets

Acquisition in 2005
Qwest Wireless Spectrum - Network Assets includes spectrum licenses in 62 markets in 14 western and mid-western states, covering a population of 30.8 million people. These licenses, all in the 1900 MHz PCS frequency range, average nearly 10 MHz per market. The transaction also includes Qwest Wireless' network switching centers, cell sites and related network equipment, which operate on the CDMA standard, the same as the Verizon Wireless network.

Incubed IT

Acquisition in 2021
Incubed IT specializes in providing software solutions to operate autonomous, self-navigating, and co-operative mobile shuttles. Their major goal is to develop high-level software to realize the vision of a self-organizing fleet of autonomous, intelligent, and co-operative mobile robots that solve common tasks in different fields of application. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Hart bei Graz, Austria.

SkyWatch.ai

Series A in 2019
VOOM is the world’s first on-demand, telematics-based InsurTech platform for Specialized Mobility products, dedicated to protecting users for anything they ride, fly, or sail. The company’s first product, SkyWatch.AI, leverages the power of machine learning to assess and mitigate risks and provide on-demand insurance for thousands of drone pilots operating across the US. VOOM’s data-driven, usage-based insurance products include multiple high-risk, episodic-usage mobility verticals, including e-scooters, e-bikes, powersports, motor boats, and small planes. Headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in Palo Alto, CA, VOOM is a licensed insurance broker in all 50 US states.

Airship, Inc.

Series D in 2013
Urban Airship® is trusted by thousands of businesses to drive growth through real time customer engagement. Every day, marketers and developers depend on Urban Airship to deliver billions of personalized, interactive notifications that inspire interest and drive action across all digital channels including apps, websites, mobile wallets, email, SMS and more. Urban Airship is used by many of the world’s most admired companies, including Adidas, Alaska Airlines, The Home Depot, NBCUniversal, Sky Plc and Zillow.

ScoreStream

Series A in 2017
ScoreStream, Inc. develops mobile phone applications. The company's application enables users to share information focusing on sporting events. Its clientele include MP3.com, ESPN, Vivendi Universal, Intercasting, Good Technology, and Walt Disney Internet Group. The company was formerly known as Crowdscores, Inc. ScoreStream, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Solana Beach, California.

Flash Networks

Series F in 2006
Flash Networks Ltd. develop mobile Internet optimization and monetization solutions. The company offers radio spectral efficiency solutions, data explosion and congestion control, data monetization solutions, clean pipe cyber security services, subscriber engagement solutions, and roaming data control services. It also provides radio connections and signaling, video streaming, and cell based traffic management solutions. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Herzliya, Israel. As of August 5, 2020, Flash Networks Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Volaris Group Inc.

Hughes Telematics

Acquisition in 2012
Hughes Telematics Inc. (HTI) develops a suite of information-based and wireless services that are adaptable to any sort of vehicle platform. The HTI solutions are developed to be open source architecture, with a telmatics platform "allowing for interconnectivity between multiple content providers, call centers and in-vehicle hardware platforms." Some of the HTI values include "safety and security as the foundation," "a flexible platform for enhanced multiparty services," "a comprehensive yet simple user experience," and more. HTI also customizes to Aftermarket, Manufacturer, and Fleet solutions.

XO Communications

Acquisition in 2016
XO Communications, LLC owns and operates an integrated fiber optic network that provides telecommunications services in the United States markets. The company provides wire line voice and data telecommunications services, including local and long distance voice, prepaid calling card processing, interactive voice response systems, Internet access, private data networking, and hosting services. It also provides voice over Internet protocol, network transport, and broadband wireless access services to government, small and medium businesses, multi-location businesses, and large enterprises, and carrier and wholesale service providers. The company is based in Columbus, Ohio. XO Communications, LLC operates as a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc.
Founded in 1847, City University of New York is a non-profit organisation based in United States. The institution offers over nine hundred programs and liberal arts degrees as well as career oriented courses.

Cooler Screens

Series C in 2020
Cooler Screens Inc. designs and develops IoT-enabled screens for retail cooler surfaces that deliver marketing opportunities and merchandising. The company installs the screens on retail coolers for spotlight advertisements. The company offers full door, multi-door/wall, banner and middle hotspot, spot, native product, native product filters, promotional tags, and nutritional labels advertisement services. Cooler Screens Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

MCI

Acquisition in 2005
MCI Communications was the second-largest long-distance telecommunications service provider in the U.S. until its purchase by WorldCom. MCI was founded in 1963 and operated microwave relay stations and provided two-way radio services to truck drivers and barges.  The company grew with a strategy of mergers and acquisitions, and by going public with large amounts of capital being available at its disposal. By 1990, MCI was the second-largest telecommunications company in the U.S. The company ran into difficulty as a result of U.S. regulatory laws and in 1997 the company was purchased by WorldCom in a deal worth US$ 34.7 million.

Alltel

Acquisition in 2008
Alltel is a telecommunications company that provides consumers and businesses with wireless communication services, products, and solutions. The company serves the transportation, retail, insurance, healthcare, construction, and financial services industries. Alltel’s wireless services include wireless voice and data communication services, postpaid and prepaid wireless calling cards, roaming and long-distance calling services, and data solutions. The company provides text and video messaging, digital gaming, radio streaming, internet access, and emailing services as well as business intelligence, field service automation, security, and systems management services. It also offers mobile handsets and accessories. Alltel is based in Rockport Texas, United States and operates as a subsidiary of Verizon Wireless and AT&T.

ItsOn

Series D in 2015
ItsOn is a proven leader in the carrier space, and enables wireless carriers to fundamentally change how mobile services are marketed, delivered and consumed. The company was founded in 2008, launched the world’s first end-to-end solution for virtual policy and billing in 2014 and supports key carrier accounts such as Sprint and Virgin Mobile. The company is privately held and headquartered in Redwood City, CA. For more information, please visit www.itsoninc.com or follow @ItsOnInc on Twitter.

Bounce Imaging, Inc.

Grant in 2015
Bounce Imaging, Inc. manufactures tactical throwable cameras with multiple lenses and sensors. The company offers a range of cameras for police and fire fighters; and pole attachments, tethers, car chargers, headsets, wrist straps, and magnetic mounts. It also provides cloud services, such as technical consulting, design and implementation support, and troubleshooting services for imaging and processing hardware. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

Telogis

Acquisition in 2016
Telogis provides a comprehensive cloud-based Mobile Enterprise Management (MEM) software platform for companies that require dynamic routing, real-time work order management, navigation, telematics and mobile integration services for their mobile workforces. Telogis’ consistent innovation drives its ability to provide near-instant return on investment while improving driver safety and efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of commercial vehicles. Founded in 2001, Telogis is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and has development and support centers in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, Europe and throughout North America. Its products and services are used and distributed in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Skyward

Seed Round in 2015
Skyward offers an operations management solution for commercial drone businesses. The cloud-­based software integrates a drone airspace map with flight planning tools and a digital system of record. Skyward was founded by career pilots and computer science experts with a mission to ensure that the standards of safety and professionalism are carried into this new era of aviation.

DriveShare

Seed Round in 2015
DriveShare brings the “sharing economy” into the car enthusiast’s garage. Classic and exotic car enthusiasts can now offset their car ownership costs by renting their cars to pre-screened, highly qualified renters. Every rental includes up to $1 million in insurance protection and access to the most comprehensive full-service roadside program designed specifically for classic and exotic cars. Whether a person is looking for a 1956 Chevrolet BelAir for a night out on the town or a 1979 Ferrari 308 for a drive down the coast, Classics&Exotics is looking to connect owners with renters and is free to join with no costly membership fees. The mission of Classics&Exotics is “To make these amazing vehicles available to the masses"

Verdigris Technologies

Series A in 2016
Verdigris enables building intelligent buildings through AI and real-time energy monitoring. In addition, Verdigris delivers insight into the power usage per device when in critical condition. Verdigris Building.AI is cloud analytics software for enterprise facilities managers and large commercial buildings. It allows them to optimize operations, increase facility uptime, and save on energy costs. Building.AI is a sophisticated machine learning analytics SAAS platform and embedded wireless sensor that enables real-time identification, disaggregation, and analysis of the loads in buildings, providing unprecedented insights about behavior and usage.

PICadvanced

Series A in 2020
Picadvanced, S.A. develops and manufactures optoelectronic transceivers. The company provides optics solutions using integrated photonics. Its services include design and layout; packaging; test and characterization; assembly and bring-up; and software, firmware, and DSP design. It serves companies and passive optical network (PON) market. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Ilhavo, Portugal.

FleetMatics

Acquisition in 2016
FleetMatics is a global provider of GPS tracking systems for small and medium-sized businesses delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS).The company’s solutions offer real-time insight into vehicle activity that reduces operational costs and improves customer service. Fleetmatics serves more than 15,000 customers, tracking more than 281,000 vehicles worldwide, and is adding thousands of vehicles monthly. Its SaaS and mobile application gives businesses anytime access to real-time data about their business.

Geodelic Systems

Venture Round in 2010
Geodelic Systems, Inc. provides a white-label platform supporting mobile Web, desktop Web, notifications, and smartphone applications. The company offers GeoBuys, a platform with merchant self-service tools, targeted and filtered consumer offer discovery, and real-time analytics; and GeoGuides that provides businesses and enterprises the tools to create mobile content and engage consumers towards commerce activities. It serves mobile operators and enterprises in the United States, Europe, and Asia.The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

mitú

Series C in 2016
mitú connect brands, content buyers, and creators to Latino youth in America. It is a home away from home for Latinos in the U.S. They are young, edgy, smart, loud, funny, relevant, proud, and united.They are what it means to be Latino.

MobileRQ

Venture Round in 2014
Global consumer brands must now compete on the quality of the customer experience. Great customer experiences only happen when the brand can personalize their customer conversations with relevant, targeted content on a single device that customers won’t leave home without their smartphone.

Swiftmile, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Swiftmile, Inc. manufactures and operates parking and charging solution for light electric vehicles. It offers Swiftmile platform, a smart solar powered locking, docking, and charging station for scooter and ebike operators, as well as municipalities, workplaces, transit authorities, schools, hospitality and retail centers, events planners, real estate owners, and others. Swiftmile, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Entropic

Post in 2008
Entropic (NASDAQ: ENTR) is a world leader in semiconductor solutions for the connected home. The Company transforms how traditional HDTV broadcast and IP-based streaming video content is seamlessly, reliably, and securely delivered, processed, and distributed into and throughout the home. Entropic's next-generation Set-top Box (STB) System-on-a-Chip (SoC) and Connectivity solutions enable Pay-TV operators to offer consumers more captivating whole-home entertainment experiences by transforming the way digital entertainment is delivered, connected and consumed – in the home and on the go.

Verizon Avenue (dba Verizon Enhanced Communities)

Acquisition in 2000
Verizon Avenue Corporation is a provider of Internet, TV, and phone services to single- and multi-family residential communities, co-ops and condominiums, and multi-tenant commercial properties in the United States.

Qualia

Series B in 2016
Qualia empowers organizations to deliver seamless consumer experiences across all devices, from intent to conversion. The Qualia Data Intelligence Platform combines its IQ Decision Engine™ with cross-device technology to create a closed-loop, device agnostic, audience insights solution. Trusted by leading brands, agencies and marketing technology providers, Qualia’s cloud-based platform continuously identifies in-market consumers on all of their devices and digital touchpoints, enabling real-time, omni-channel targeting, reach, measurement and attribution. Qualia is led by Kathy Leake, CEO (also co-founder of Dstillery) who is committed to defining the next generation of consumer targeting through data integrity and quality. The company is headquartered in NYC and has offices in Chicago, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta. For additional information, visit www.qualia-media.com

Cenx, Inc.

Series D in 2015
CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENX provides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years.

The Fabric

Venture Round in 2018
The Fabric is a startup co-creation foundry with a focus on cloud/IoT infrastructure space. The Fabric has a team of proven company creators who under one roof deeply collaborate with founders to help them grow from concept to company in the cloud and infrastructure space. The Fabric co-creates, funds, and launches companies in the cloud/IoT infrastructure space.

Jana

Series C in 2016
Jana enables free apps to be truly free in emerging markets. Through its mCent app, members discover and try a world of new apps without incurring any data charges. Free Internet connectivity is made possible through partnerships with 311 mobile operators. Over 30 million users of the mCent app and hundreds of clients, including Twitter, Amazon, and Tencent, have benefited from 4.0 billion megabytes of app usage driven by Jana’s platform. For more information, visit jana.com.
Urgent.ly’s Roadside is a digital roadside assistance platform that features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands, roadside assistance professionals, and consumers. Its solution delivers the quickest, safest, and most innovative roadside assistance service, products and technology by combining location-based services, real-time data, AI, and machine-to-machine communication.

Mcity

Venture Round in 2017
Mcity, the autonomous vehicle research center on the University of Michigan campus.Mcity is the only advanced mobility R&D center that combines early-stage research, testing in a real-world environment, and on-road vehicle deployments to further prove new technologies.

4Home

Funding Round in 2010
4Home has developed an XML-based software and services platform that OEM hardware vendors and service providers can use to deliver compelling applications and services into the connected home. 4Home's suite of solutions allows users to automate almost any application they want: remotely monitor their homes, get Web-based content on the TV, control home systems from their mobile phones, control all home devices and digital media in one unified user-interface, and track their home energy usage down to the device level. The company feels that "home control services" are the next suite of services to be offered by major broadband providers (after the trifecta of voice, video, and data), and consists of home monitoring, media & entertainment management, home health, and energy management. 4Home received five CES 2008 Innovation awards.

Lexset

Grant in 2020
LexSet.ai LLC develops an artificial intelligence based visual search tool for interior design and the furniture industry. The company offers LexSet Visual Search, which enables customers and designers to feed in any image, identifies the existing objects in the scene, and returns products to make the look they want. It also offers LexSet NextGen Tools, including Mobile Vision AI, a mobile cross-platform software development kit that enables real-time recognition, 3D tracking, and contents listing; Real time attribution and descriptions; and LexSet Data Engine, a training data engine that uses 3D visualization and simulation technologies to generate training sets that can complement existing training sets or serve as the foundation for machine learning models. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Optibus

Series A in 2017
Optibus leverages the power of machine-learning and optimization algorithms to redefine the way mass-transportation is planned and operated. Optibus’ disruptive technology drive some of the most complex transportation operations worldwide, helping to improve the quality of service, increase efficiencies, save money, and streamline operations.
Cellwize Wireless Technologies Pte Ltd. develops and delivers self-organizing network (SON) solutions across vendors and wireless technologies. The company offers Cellwize elastic-SON platform that is deployed and managed on private clouds, and transforms spotty and volatile networks that struggle to meet demand into user-centric and over-performing mobile networks across multiple vendors and wireless technologies; and Cellwize Centralized SON, a SON solution on NFV directly communicating with the cloud with multiple element management systems for SON activities. It serves mobile network operators across Europe, APAC, and LATAM. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore with an additional location in the United Kingdom.

Funnely

Seed Round in 2014
Funnely helps online stores' owners create and optimize their Facebook Ads campaigns with a conversion oriented strategy. Through our platform small and medium online sellers grow their audience, improve their online Ads performance and increase their sales.

Lunar Wireless

Seed Round in 2015
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Straight Path Communications Inc. owns and licenses millimeter wave spectrum configured for 5G wireless services for the United States. The company offers its services for mobile network operators and internet service providers. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Glen Allen, Virginia. As of February 28, 2018, Straight Path Communications Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc.

VideoSurf

Venture Round in 2011
VideoSurf is a video discovery company that helps consumers find what to watch from the world of video in an experience that is uniquely theirs. VideoSurf combines social insights with patented computer vision technology to discover, search and identify videos on any device. In addition to audio recognition, VideoSurf's technology "sees" frames inside videos, providing superior search relevancy and an enhanced user experience. VideoSurf's video discovery mobile app lets users discover, search and identify TV episodes, movies, music videos and video clips by doing a visual and audio search using their smartphone, or by typing a query directly into the app. Users can discover videos by simply pointing their phones at a television or computer screen to capture a few seconds of what they are watching. The VideoSurf mobile app quickly identifies the episode and celebrities, provides more information about what was identified and suggests other videos to watch. In addition, users can share what they are watching and help friends discover new videos by posting directly to Facebook and Twitter. The company was founded by a team of proven entrepreneurs and leading experts in search, multi-grid techniques, computer vision and fast computation.

Payfone

Series E in 2017
Payfone provides businesses with Identity Certainty - the ability to confirm that their customers are who they say they are to create easy, secure and frictionless experiences across PCs, mobile phones and tablets. They do for digital security what Uber does for hailing taxis and what Amazon does for online shopping. They make authenticating your customers easy for you and effortless for them. They're backed by leading banks, venture firms and wireless carriers, and are based in New York City.

Skyward

Acquisition in 2017
Skyward offers an operations management solution for commercial drone businesses. The cloud-­based software integrates a drone airspace map with flight planning tools and a digital system of record. Skyward was founded by career pilots and computer science experts with a mission to ensure that the standards of safety and professionalism are carried into this new era of aviation.

Yahoo

Acquisition in 2016
Yahoo operates an online web portal intended to provide the latest news on cricket, finance, lifestyle, movies, celebrity, travel, and more. It also gives users access to various products and services for email, instant messaging, and mobile blogging, as well as information services, web searches, directories, and alerts. It also offers marketing and advertising services for advertisers with a streamlined, simple advertising technology that leverages data, content, and technology, enabling advertisers to connect with their target audiences.

RUN

Funding Round in 2013
[RUN](www.rundsp.com) is the leader in mobile-focused programmatic advertising technology. The company empowers clients with self-serve or managed service capabilities, and is backed by real-time up-to-the-second analytics. RUN's cutting-edge mobile solutions integrate into its full suite of desktop capabilities and analytics products. Established in 2010, RUN is a NY-based company. For more information, visit our website or follow us on Twitter @RUN_dsp. **RUN DSP** RUN’s industry-leading programmatic buying technologies serve ads to connected devices around the globe. RUN works across both RTB exchanges and premium inventory sources, and empowers both self-serve and managed service capabilities. RUN applies a combination of its Mobile Signature solution with machine learning, data science, cross-platform attribution and more for best-in-class ad targeting and real-time analytics. Mobile Signature is a proprietary solution developed by RUN enabling complete conversion tracking across all platforms and operating systems, mobile retargeting, device recognition, cookieless audience targeting, and more. Using RUN Analytics, RUN backs its targeting and delivery with real-time data to ensure the right audience gets the right ad at exactly the right time. **RUN Desk** RUN’s open source, agile, client-focused approach enables the company to see beyond it’s own in-house technologies to incorporate best-in-class vertical solutions from around the world. RUN Desk combines programmatic buying technologies across mobile, video, and desktop display, with an in-house team of analytic and strategic buying and planning experts. Because the data is truly transparent, planners can be certain that they're getting their message in front of the right audience, within the right environment, in real time. RUN’s independent status affords the necessary flexibility to empower clients with customized technology, tailored to their needs. **RUN Analytics** The campaign data clients receive is up-to-the-second — not minutes, hours or days old. RUN’s analytics are transparent, in-depth, lightning fast and can be visualized, graphed and downloaded in a variety of ways. RUN Analytics is customizable to clients’ data needs and connects seamlessly to RUN’s RTB engine, ensuring that all campaign data is actionable in real time.

FCFL

Venture Round in 2020
The FCFL (Fan Controlled Football League) is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

Revio

Convertible Note in 2015
Revio is a telematics hardware platform that uses connected devices to make power sports safer and more secure.

Flint

Series C in 2014
Flint is a mobile payment service that enables users to easily take credit cards on the spot by scanning, via invoice or online. Flint Mobile can also send invoices for online bill payment, handle cash and checks and manage customized coupons with Apple Passbook integration. Other features include automatic syncing of all transactions as well as line item information and customer information with QuickBooks accounts. Flint is also a payment service provider and offers quick setup without needing a merchant account. Flint was launched in 2011 by Greg Goldfarb and Andrew Laszlo.

Qualia

Series A in 2010
Qualia empowers organizations to deliver seamless consumer experiences across all devices, from intent to conversion. The Qualia Data Intelligence Platform combines its IQ Decision Engine™ with cross-device technology to create a closed-loop, device agnostic, audience insights solution. Trusted by leading brands, agencies and marketing technology providers, Qualia’s cloud-based platform continuously identifies in-market consumers on all of their devices and digital touchpoints, enabling real-time, omni-channel targeting, reach, measurement and attribution. Qualia is led by Kathy Leake, CEO (also co-founder of Dstillery) who is committed to defining the next generation of consumer targeting through data integrity and quality. The company is headquartered in NYC and has offices in Chicago, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta. For additional information, visit www.qualia-media.com

Iris Automation Inc.

Series B in 2020
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

Kumu Networks, Inc.

Series C in 2016
Kumu Networks is revolutionizing the way wireless systems are built using its innovative full-duplex wireless design. Wireless full-duplex allows a radio to transmit and receive signals at the same time using a single frequency channel. Kumu's patent pending full-duplex technology changes the basic assumptions on which current wireless radios are built, allowing for improved performance and reduced complexity in a variety of wireless devices and affecting all wireless markets.

Cellfire

Funding Round in 2014
Cellfire is the largest provider of digital coupons in the world, delivering millions of coupons each week. It has the largest footprint of any digital coupon provider, reaching more than 17,500 stores nationwide, and was recently selected by Consumer Reports as the best instant savings application. Cellfire works with companies including General Mills, Safeway and Kroger. Consumers can instantly save money by linking offers directly to their store loyalty cards through any web enabled device. For more information, visit www.info.cellfire.com. Cellfire was acquired by Catalina Marketing in October 2014.

CloudSwitch

Acquisition in 2011
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