Conor Venture Partners

Conor Venture Partners is a Finnish venture capital firm established in 2005 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, with additional offices in Stockholm and London. The firm specializes in early-stage investments in technology companies, primarily focusing on the Nordic and Baltic regions. Conor Venture Partners targets a range of sectors, including information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, and electronics, among others. The firm has managed two investment funds, enabling it to make 42 investments to date, with nine successful exits. Conor typically invests between €0.2 million and €7 million initially, with the potential for total investments of up to €8 million over the lifetime of each investment, while seeking minority stakes in the companies it supports.

Manu Makela

Founding Partner

Jari Mieskonen

Managing Partner

48 past transactions

Neo4j

Series C in 2015
Neo4j is the leader in graph database technology. As the world’s most widely deployed graph database, we help global brands – including Comcast, NASA, UBS and Volvo – to reveal and predict how people, processes and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built with Neo4j tackle connected data challenges such as analytics and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and knowledge graphs. Find out more at neo4j.com. © 2020 Neo4j, Inc., Neo Technology®, Neo4j®, Cypher®, Neo4j® Bloom™ and Neo4j® Aura™ are registered trademarks or a trademark of Neo4j, Inc. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.

TactoTek

Venture Round in 2015
TactoTek Oy designs and manufactures injection-molded 3D structural electronic solutions. The company offers structural electronics that integrate printed circuitry, printed touch controls, and discrete electronic components into 3D injection-molded plastics to produce standard equipment enabling brands to design light, thin, and durable components, including LEDs for lighting, sensors, antennae, circuitry, integrated circuits, and printed touch controls. It involves in the development of solutions for a range of market segments, such as Internet of Things; automotive solutions, including electric vehicles; wearable technology; and scalable mass production. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kempele, Finland.

Zervant

Series A in 2016
Zervant Oy develops online invoicing software for small businesses and entrepreneurs in Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It offers expense management and time tracking software solutions; and support services. The company serves photographers, freelance sales professionals, business consultants, and designers. Zervant Oy was founded in 2009 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Concilio Networks

Venture Round in 2006
Concilio Networks provides technology that brings social networks to every mobile phone. Concilio's Community Connect Solution - CCS – can be used with any mobile handset without a special client application in the handset. People can call, chat and see the presence status of their community contacts, remotely set their own presence, subscribe to news feeds, post and see the contents of social media sites and much more. CCS is the solution to convert social networks into an intimate mobile experience.

Behaviometrics AB

Private Placement in 2018
Behaviometrics AB provides information security solutions for IT organizations worldwide. It offers BehavioSense, a solution that uses continuous authentication to prevent account takeover, stop fraud, and help users to provide a frictionless user experience for their customers. The company also offers SDKs for developers. Behaviometrics AB was founded in 2006 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. It has additional offices in Luleå, Sweden; London, United Kingdom; Palo Alto, California; and WanChai, Hong Kong.

TactoTek

Venture Round in 2017
TactoTek Oy designs and manufactures injection-molded 3D structural electronic solutions. The company offers structural electronics that integrate printed circuitry, printed touch controls, and discrete electronic components into 3D injection-molded plastics to produce standard equipment enabling brands to design light, thin, and durable components, including LEDs for lighting, sensors, antennae, circuitry, integrated circuits, and printed touch controls. It involves in the development of solutions for a range of market segments, such as Internet of Things; automotive solutions, including electric vehicles; wearable technology; and scalable mass production. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kempele, Finland.

Verto Analytics

Series C in 2019
Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’ behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

BehavioSec

Series B in 2018
BehavioSec is the first vendor to pioneer behavioral biometrics. The company’s Behavioral Biometrics as a Service (BBaaS) platform is widely deployed across Global 2000 companies for its proven ability to dramatically reduce account fraud and data theft. Founded in 2008 out of groundbreaking academic research, BehavioSec technology allows companies, to continuously verify digital identities with superior precision, in real-time. Strengthened with the leadership of serial entrepreneurs and experienced industry professionals, the BehavioSec team now spans the world, providing security while preserving a rich digital experience throughout web and mobile apps. BehavioSec is the only enterprise-grade vendor used in global deployments with some of the largest companies, reducing manual review whilst safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions. BehavioSec investors include Forgepoint Capital, Cisco, ABN AMRO, Conor Ventures and Octopus Ventures. BehavioSec is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has global operations throughout Europe and Asia Pac. For more information, visit www.behaviosec.com.

TactoTek

Private Placement in 2018
TactoTek Oy designs and manufactures injection-molded 3D structural electronic solutions. The company offers structural electronics that integrate printed circuitry, printed touch controls, and discrete electronic components into 3D injection-molded plastics to produce standard equipment enabling brands to design light, thin, and durable components, including LEDs for lighting, sensors, antennae, circuitry, integrated circuits, and printed touch controls. It involves in the development of solutions for a range of market segments, such as Internet of Things; automotive solutions, including electric vehicles; wearable technology; and scalable mass production. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kempele, Finland.

TactoTek

Venture Round in 2013
TactoTek Oy designs and manufactures injection-molded 3D structural electronic solutions. The company offers structural electronics that integrate printed circuitry, printed touch controls, and discrete electronic components into 3D injection-molded plastics to produce standard equipment enabling brands to design light, thin, and durable components, including LEDs for lighting, sensors, antennae, circuitry, integrated circuits, and printed touch controls. It involves in the development of solutions for a range of market segments, such as Internet of Things; automotive solutions, including electric vehicles; wearable technology; and scalable mass production. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kempele, Finland.

Neo4j

Series A in 2011
Neo4j is the leader in graph database technology. As the world’s most widely deployed graph database, we help global brands – including Comcast, NASA, UBS and Volvo – to reveal and predict how people, processes and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built with Neo4j tackle connected data challenges such as analytics and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and knowledge graphs. Find out more at neo4j.com. © 2020 Neo4j, Inc., Neo Technology®, Neo4j®, Cypher®, Neo4j® Bloom™ and Neo4j® Aura™ are registered trademarks or a trademark of Neo4j, Inc. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.

TactoTek

Seed Round in 2012
TactoTek Oy designs and manufactures injection-molded 3D structural electronic solutions. The company offers structural electronics that integrate printed circuitry, printed touch controls, and discrete electronic components into 3D injection-molded plastics to produce standard equipment enabling brands to design light, thin, and durable components, including LEDs for lighting, sensors, antennae, circuitry, integrated circuits, and printed touch controls. It involves in the development of solutions for a range of market segments, such as Internet of Things; automotive solutions, including electric vehicles; wearable technology; and scalable mass production. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kempele, Finland.

Blackwood Seven

Venture Round in 2016
Blackwood Seven A/S provides an automated media allocation platform, which allows advertisers to plan and execute campaigns across various media groups–on and offline–on the basis of performance data. It specializes in video and audio media investments for high-profile disruptive businesses; and provides real-time predictive modeling and media allocation modeling platforms. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with locations in Munich, Los Angeles, New York, and Barcelona.

Zervant

Private Placement in 2018
Zervant Oy develops online invoicing software for small businesses and entrepreneurs in Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It offers expense management and time tracking software solutions; and support services. The company serves photographers, freelance sales professionals, business consultants, and designers. Zervant Oy was founded in 2009 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Verto Analytics

Private Placement in 2019
Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’ behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

Scint-X

Venture Round in 2011
Scint-X AB develops and manufactures structured and customized scintillator products for X-ray imaging. The company’s products are used in industrial and scientific, medical, non-destructive testing, intra-oral sensor, and other applications. Scint-X AB was founded in 2006 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Zervant

Series B in 2018
Zervant Oy develops online invoicing software for small businesses and entrepreneurs in Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It offers expense management and time tracking software solutions; and support services. The company serves photographers, freelance sales professionals, business consultants, and designers. Zervant Oy was founded in 2009 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

crystalsol

Seed Round in 2009
crystalsol GmbH manufactures and markets photovoltaic modules for building integration application and consumer products. The company provides monograin membrane photovoltaic modules. Additionally, it offers transparent and opaque photovoltaic modules. crystalsol GmbH was founded in 2008 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

Eniram

Series A in 2008
Eniram Ltd. provides maritime energy management systems for the shipping industry. It offers Eniram Vessel Platform, a real-time data collection platform that measures vessel performance and fuel consumption; Dynamic Trimming Assistant, a system used for maintaining optimum trim; Optimum Speed Assistant, a speed optimization solution; and Engine Load Assistant, a system that balances the required engine load for multiple engines helps to enable fuel savings. The company also provides Vessel Performance Manager, a solution that helps vessel’s crew analyze and track energy efficiency of the vessel; Fleet Performance Manager, a system that enables onshore monitoring and management of vessel performance for optimizing fuel efficiency; Eniram Engine, a tool for TFDE LNG carriers' engineers and officers that suggests optimal engine combination and fuel types for the prevailing conditions in order to save fuel; and Eniram analytics services that include vessel performance data analysis to save fuel, including hull fouling, dry-dock impacts, hull-ageing, and custom analysis. Its products are used in cruise ships, ferries, container ships, tankers, bulkers, and LNG vessels. Eniram Ltd. was founded in 2005 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. It has additional offices in Singapore, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. As of July 1, 2016, Eniram Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Wärtsilä Oyj Abp.

BehavioSec

Series A in 2014
BehavioSec is the first vendor to pioneer behavioral biometrics. The company’s Behavioral Biometrics as a Service (BBaaS) platform is widely deployed across Global 2000 companies for its proven ability to dramatically reduce account fraud and data theft. Founded in 2008 out of groundbreaking academic research, BehavioSec technology allows companies, to continuously verify digital identities with superior precision, in real-time. Strengthened with the leadership of serial entrepreneurs and experienced industry professionals, the BehavioSec team now spans the world, providing security while preserving a rich digital experience throughout web and mobile apps. BehavioSec is the only enterprise-grade vendor used in global deployments with some of the largest companies, reducing manual review whilst safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions. BehavioSec investors include Forgepoint Capital, Cisco, ABN AMRO, Conor Ventures and Octopus Ventures. BehavioSec is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has global operations throughout Europe and Asia Pac. For more information, visit www.behaviosec.com.

Verto Analytics

Series B in 2016
Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’ behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

TactoTek

Series B in 2018
TactoTek Oy designs and manufactures injection-molded 3D structural electronic solutions. The company offers structural electronics that integrate printed circuitry, printed touch controls, and discrete electronic components into 3D injection-molded plastics to produce standard equipment enabling brands to design light, thin, and durable components, including LEDs for lighting, sensors, antennae, circuitry, integrated circuits, and printed touch controls. It involves in the development of solutions for a range of market segments, such as Internet of Things; automotive solutions, including electric vehicles; wearable technology; and scalable mass production. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kempele, Finland.

crystalsol

Series A in 2013
crystalsol GmbH manufactures and markets photovoltaic modules for building integration application and consumer products. The company provides monograin membrane photovoltaic modules. Additionally, it offers transparent and opaque photovoltaic modules. crystalsol GmbH was founded in 2008 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

Neo4j

Series B in 2012
Neo4j is the leader in graph database technology. As the world’s most widely deployed graph database, we help global brands – including Comcast, NASA, UBS and Volvo – to reveal and predict how people, processes and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built with Neo4j tackle connected data challenges such as analytics and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and knowledge graphs. Find out more at neo4j.com. © 2020 Neo4j, Inc., Neo Technology®, Neo4j®, Cypher®, Neo4j® Bloom™ and Neo4j® Aura™ are registered trademarks or a trademark of Neo4j, Inc. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.

Aito Technologies

Series A in 2007
We are a world leader in Customer Experience Analytics for mobile operators. Aito provides better understanding and management the entire customer life cycle helping them identify key relationships and the context between business drivers, customer segments, networks, services, and devices, throughout the customer life cycle.

Eniram

Series B in 2009
Eniram Ltd. provides maritime energy management systems for the shipping industry. It offers Eniram Vessel Platform, a real-time data collection platform that measures vessel performance and fuel consumption; Dynamic Trimming Assistant, a system used for maintaining optimum trim; Optimum Speed Assistant, a speed optimization solution; and Engine Load Assistant, a system that balances the required engine load for multiple engines helps to enable fuel savings. The company also provides Vessel Performance Manager, a solution that helps vessel’s crew analyze and track energy efficiency of the vessel; Fleet Performance Manager, a system that enables onshore monitoring and management of vessel performance for optimizing fuel efficiency; Eniram Engine, a tool for TFDE LNG carriers' engineers and officers that suggests optimal engine combination and fuel types for the prevailing conditions in order to save fuel; and Eniram analytics services that include vessel performance data analysis to save fuel, including hull fouling, dry-dock impacts, hull-ageing, and custom analysis. Its products are used in cruise ships, ferries, container ships, tankers, bulkers, and LNG vessels. Eniram Ltd. was founded in 2005 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. It has additional offices in Singapore, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. As of July 1, 2016, Eniram Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Wärtsilä Oyj Abp.

Helmi Technologies

Series B in 2006
Helmi Technologies, Inc. provides user interface software solutions for enterprise Web developers. The company provides Rich Internet Application Platform that includes Virtual Browser, Intelligent Web Application Structure, UI component library, and Plug-ins for Web-development tools, as well as services, including custom component creation, migration service for current applications, consultation, and support. Helmi Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Oulu, Finland. The company also has offices in San Jose, California and Helsinki, Finland.

Sticky

Series A in 2015
Sticky’s marketing optimization platform uses visual and emotional insights to uncover what real people see, miss, and feel when engaging with websites, ads, emails, videos, and much more. As a leader in SaaS visual marketing technology, Sticky provides the only biometric solution in the market that helps digital marketers measure and optimize the Visual Web. With Sticky's flagship platform, Insight & Audit, content creators and marketers can optimize their digital media in near real-time. Using Sticky's disruptive technology publishers, brand advertisers and agencies can achieve significant savings, operational efficiency and increased engagement, all at a fraction of the time and cost of more traditional methodologies. www.sticky.ai

Blackwood Seven

Private Placement in 2018
Blackwood Seven A/S provides an automated media allocation platform, which allows advertisers to plan and execute campaigns across various media groups–on and offline–on the basis of performance data. It specializes in video and audio media investments for high-profile disruptive businesses; and provides real-time predictive modeling and media allocation modeling platforms. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with locations in Munich, Los Angeles, New York, and Barcelona.

Verto Analytics

Series C in 2018
Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’ behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

Neo4j

Seed Round in 2009
Neo4j is the leader in graph database technology. As the world’s most widely deployed graph database, we help global brands – including Comcast, NASA, UBS and Volvo – to reveal and predict how people, processes and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built with Neo4j tackle connected data challenges such as analytics and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and knowledge graphs. Find out more at neo4j.com. © 2020 Neo4j, Inc., Neo Technology®, Neo4j®, Cypher®, Neo4j® Bloom™ and Neo4j® Aura™ are registered trademarks or a trademark of Neo4j, Inc. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.

Omegawave

Seed Round in 2013
Omegawave Oy develops and provides training and performance management solutions for athletes, teams, and coaches. It offers Omegawave Team and Omegawave Coach solutions that provide comparison chart, team readiness, athlete readiness, HRV analysis, CNS analysis, and trend analysis for teams, personal trainers, tactical teams, government organizations, and more. The company also provides actionable data for various types of training; and adaptive training plans. Its products are used by multiple Olympic Federations, soccer teams, and franchises from the NFL, MLS, NHL, and MLB, as well as various other sports organizations and individual athletes. It serves its customers in China, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and internationally. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Blackwood Seven

Private Equity Round in 2018
Blackwood Seven A/S provides an automated media allocation platform, which allows advertisers to plan and execute campaigns across various media groups–on and offline–on the basis of performance data. It specializes in video and audio media investments for high-profile disruptive businesses; and provides real-time predictive modeling and media allocation modeling platforms. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with locations in Munich, Los Angeles, New York, and Barcelona.

Blackwood Seven

Venture Round in 2015
Blackwood Seven A/S provides an automated media allocation platform, which allows advertisers to plan and execute campaigns across various media groups–on and offline–on the basis of performance data. It specializes in video and audio media investments for high-profile disruptive businesses; and provides real-time predictive modeling and media allocation modeling platforms. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with locations in Munich, Los Angeles, New York, and Barcelona.

Imbera Electronics

Series B in 2009
Imbera provides embedded solutions with state-of-the-art embedding technology. Imbera's pioneering and patented Integrated Module Board (IMB) technology, the result of over a decade of research on embedding technologies, is the answer to the demand for new, more efficient ways to package electronics today and tomorrow. Imbera's IMB technology enables the embedding of both discrete active and passive components inside a printed circuit board. The technology efficiently miniaturizes electronic products while providing improved electrical performance and competitive overall cost level.

Rakuten Fits Me

Series A in 2013
Fit Origin is the ultimate fit recommendation solution for eCommerce fashion retailers which puts fit and body shapes at the heart of the online shopping experience. It combines garment data and shopper data to determine which size garment will fit them, the way they want to wear it. Each shopper’s measurements are calculated based on height, weight, age and body shape. Deep statistical analysis of thousands of detailed body scans allows their data scientists to use these limited data points to infer high quality information about the shopper’s measurements. Every garment is analysed by their garment technologists, taking many factors into account including silhouette, stretch and fit preference. A shopper’s body measurements are used in conjunction with garment measurements to interpret how each size will fit a shopper. Fit Origin recommends the best size to fit shoppers, with the ability to compare sizes based on their own fit preferences. Their fit recommendation solution allows your shoppers to buy with confidence. At Rakuten Fits Me they are all about ‘Me’ fashion, not mass fashion. They are the only size and fit solution provider to align your product data with shopper body data so they get the perfect fit, first time, every time.

AnaCatum

Venture Round in 2012
AnaCatum Design AB is a joint Venture between Cognicatus AB and AnSyn AB. AnSyn AB provides EDA software for analog and mixed-signal design. AnSyn offer a system that let designers take full advantage of optimization and parallel simulation to reducer design time, improve performance, and ensure yield. Cognicatus ABs mission is to be a leading provider of advanced silicon IP for integration in products with human friendly behaviour and interfaces. Cognicatus target applications are robust, adaptive sensor networks applications where cognition plays a role.

Supponor

Series B in 2016
Supponor Oy manufactures, commercializes, and installs digital billboard replacement technology for live sports broadcasts. Its international billboard rights allow advertisers to target various markets/regions with advertising from the same event in local language/with relevant messages for various markets. The company was formerly known as Virtual Advertising Systems Ltd. Supponor Oy was founded in 2001 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Supponor

Series A in 2008
Supponor Oy manufactures, commercializes, and installs digital billboard replacement technology for live sports broadcasts. Its international billboard rights allow advertisers to target various markets/regions with advertising from the same event in local language/with relevant messages for various markets. The company was formerly known as Virtual Advertising Systems Ltd. Supponor Oy was founded in 2001 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Verto Analytics

Series B in 2014
Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’ behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

Sensinode

Venture Round in 2011
Sensinode is a pioneer and world leader in technology and software solutions for the Internet of Things; the next evolution of the Internet where devices of all types and capabilities can be accessed through web services. There software products enable optimized Internet IP and web services access to networks and devices that are constrained by bandwidth, processing power, memory and power consumption, and improve bandwidth utilization by up to 900%. There main markets include all Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market segments, including Smart Grid, Building Automation, Wireless Health, Asset Tracking, Logistics, and Security. We are major contributors in the IETF for the standardization of key technologies for the Internet of Things, 6LoWPAN and CoAP, were a founder of the IPSO Alliance and are active members of other key industry forums such as the Zigbee Alliance.

Sticky

Series A in 2013
Sticky’s marketing optimization platform uses visual and emotional insights to uncover what real people see, miss, and feel when engaging with websites, ads, emails, videos, and much more. As a leader in SaaS visual marketing technology, Sticky provides the only biometric solution in the market that helps digital marketers measure and optimize the Visual Web. With Sticky's flagship platform, Insight & Audit, content creators and marketers can optimize their digital media in near real-time. Using Sticky's disruptive technology publishers, brand advertisers and agencies can achieve significant savings, operational efficiency and increased engagement, all at a fraction of the time and cost of more traditional methodologies. www.sticky.ai

Zervant

Seed Round in 2015
Zervant Oy develops online invoicing software for small businesses and entrepreneurs in Finland, Sweden, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It offers expense management and time tracking software solutions; and support services. The company serves photographers, freelance sales professionals, business consultants, and designers. Zervant Oy was founded in 2009 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

BehavioSec

Seed Round in 2011
BehavioSec is the first vendor to pioneer behavioral biometrics. The company’s Behavioral Biometrics as a Service (BBaaS) platform is widely deployed across Global 2000 companies for its proven ability to dramatically reduce account fraud and data theft. Founded in 2008 out of groundbreaking academic research, BehavioSec technology allows companies, to continuously verify digital identities with superior precision, in real-time. Strengthened with the leadership of serial entrepreneurs and experienced industry professionals, the BehavioSec team now spans the world, providing security while preserving a rich digital experience throughout web and mobile apps. BehavioSec is the only enterprise-grade vendor used in global deployments with some of the largest companies, reducing manual review whilst safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions. BehavioSec investors include Forgepoint Capital, Cisco, ABN AMRO, Conor Ventures and Octopus Ventures. BehavioSec is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has global operations throughout Europe and Asia Pac. For more information, visit www.behaviosec.com.

Verto Analytics

Series A in 2014
Verto Analytics (Verto) operates a passive metering panel that provides researchers, advertisers, and publishers the data they need to keep up with the rapid and changing pace of consumer media consumption on every app, device, service, and platform. This ongoing, longitudinal panel captures a wide breadth of behaviors—all enriched to clients’ behavioral analysis or custom survey studies. Our single-source, passive metering data sets provide the information needed to understand the full digital footprint of the U.S. population. Our Data Labs are located in the US, and in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.vertoanalytics.com.

PlexPress

Seed Round in 2009
PlexPress provides a high-content gene expression analysis platform to support the next wave of gene function analysis. With TRAC 2 to 150 genes can be easily monitored in 10 to 1000s of samples. The Key to this is a novel multiplexing method to generate reliable data fast and at low cost.

Scoopshot

Series A in 2013
Scoopshot connects mobile photographers and news media worldwide. We're building a worldwide ecosystem for crowdsourcing news photos. Users download our free app, snap newsworthy photos, and send them for sale on the Scoopshot Store, worldwide.