Steamboat Ventures

Steamboat Ventures was founded in 2000, and named after the famous Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie. Theatrically released in New York in 1928, Steamboat Willie was the screen debut of Mickey Mouse. It was also the first animated cartoon to use synchronized sound -- a great innovation at the time. Our mission at Steamboat Ventures is to help young companies successfully face the challenges of becoming leaders in their markets. We invest in early through growth stage companies that are pursuing opportunities at the intersection of technology, media, and consumer sectors.

Liping Fan

Administrative Partner and CFO

108 past transactions

Wosai

Series C in 2017
Wosai is a developer of mobile payment software. It also provides merchants with professional mobile payment collection, marketing management software, advertising, supply chain management, shared charging resources, merchant community, and other services.

Mama+

Series C in 2017
MAMA+ aims to help more mothers "become a better mother," for the benefit of family and society as a concept, is committed to "serve for mothers"; the same time, Internet technology and family relations research as a dual-driven, brought together many passionate technical talent. Researchers who can feel empathy with their mothers are all motivated by their mothers' needs and insist on using their strength to make their feelings come true so as to realize more value for their mothers.

Mama+

Series B in 2016
MAMA+ aims to help more mothers "become a better mother," for the benefit of family and society as a concept, is committed to "serve for mothers"; the same time, Internet technology and family relations research as a dual-driven, brought together many passionate technical talent. Researchers who can feel empathy with their mothers are all motivated by their mothers' needs and insist on using their strength to make their feelings come true so as to realize more value for their mothers.

Joyus

Series C in 2015
Joyus is a startup that's helping shoppers discover goods via short-form videos. Welcome to Joyus, a brand new online shopping experience to help you discover and buy the things you'll love. Our purpose at Joyus is to help delight and transform your shopping experience by harnessing the power of video. Each week our amazing curators share their special apparel, beauty and lifestyle finds with you and then show you how to make them work for you. Each item is available for sale for a limited time through our exclusive video sales platform, making it easy for you to buy the things you love. You can also easily share these videos with your friends on Facebook and Twitter with just a simple click. Whether it's uncovering the latest trends, bringing our favorite brands with you, or solving a dilemma - all our video sales share one thing in common. We believe that sharing our authentic passion and finds with you is the key to creating a truly Joyus shopping experience online.

RazorGator

Series D in 2014
RazorGator is the 3rd largest player in the online ticket reselling business behind eBay's [StubHub](http://www.stubhub.com) and Ticketmaster's [TicketsNow](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ticketsnow) according to December 2007 comScore data. The service covers reselling of sports, theater, and concert tickets, as well as vacation packages for various sporting events.

Photobucket

Venture Round in 2014
Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very best browsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California.

BuyerLink

Series D in 2014
BuyerLink is the leading online marketing platform for the acquisition of locally-targeted and category-specific consumers on a cost-per-click or cost-per-lead basis. BuyerLink makes Internet marketing available to businesses of all sizes by eliminating the need for complex and expensive online marketing infrastructures. BuyerLink provides a highly-profitable alternative to online marketing solutions offered by major search engines and ad networks. BuyerLink provides efficient marketing solutions to help businesses reach the millions of consumers using the Internet everyday to find products or services within automotive, real estate, and home improvement industries.

Vobile

Series C in 2013
Vobile Group Limited is a provider of software as a service focused on online video content protection, measurement, and monetization. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company operates internationally, with offices in the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. Vobile utilizes its patented VDNA technologies to offer automated identification, tracking, and management of video and audio content. Its services cater to a diverse range of clients, including film studios, TV networks, record labels, and sports leagues, helping them protect their content from unauthorized use and measure viewership. Additionally, Vobile’s platforms facilitate monetization through revenue-sharing models and transaction-based services. The company maintains the VDNA Database, a comprehensive repository of authorized video fingerprints and related metadata, further enhancing its capabilities in content management.

Chukong Technologies

Series D in 2013
Chukong Technologies is a mobile entertainment platform company that provides tools to enhance efficiency and lower costs for developers and mobile content creators across the world. Born from CocoaChina.com, the largest iOS developer community in China, Chukong is headquartered in Beijing, China, and also has operations in Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, and Menlo Park, California. Chukong sponsors and maintains Cocos2d-x , the cross platform open source game engine that has been downloaded more than 1.1 million times across 150 countries. Seven of the 10 top grossing games in China were built on Cocos2d-x. To complement the game engine, Chukong has created the developer toolset CocoStudio, which makes it easy for teams to design, build and animate games. Chukong’s in-house development studio has built top-ranking games for players around the world. Previously operating under the name Punchbox, Chukong’s game development team, Coco, is behind top games such as the Fishing Joy franchise (one of the most popular and highest grossing mobile games in China). Pocket Climber, and Where’s My XiYangYang. To date, the company has released 8 games developed in-house since it was founded in 2008. Combined with its published titles, the company’s portfolio has more than 1 billion sessions per month, 63 million monthly active users, and 350 million activated downloads. Under their CocoaChina brand, Chukong Technologies partners with international developers who want to access the Chinese mobile gaming market. CocoaChina offers a full suite of services to help developers go East, from offering feedback on game design to maximize montetization and handling local app store distribution to combating fraud and piracy and assisting with translation and localization. Chukong has worked with more than 20 international studios to help bring their games to Chinese audiences, including mobile gaming giants like Nexon, GameLoft, Disney, Gumi, and Konami. In addition, Chukong is helping elite Chinese developers to explore opportunities overseas and has published top grossing and top downloaded games in Taiwan, Korea, United States and many other markets.

Zettics

Series D in 2013
Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems, identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators.

EdgeCast

Series D 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.

Photobucket

Venture Round in 2013
Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very best browsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California.

FreeWheel

Series E in 2012
FreeWheel manages the economics of content for the enterprise class of entertainment, offering technical infrastructure for revenue rights management and business operations, wrapped in advisory services. They offer advertising sales rights, display, video, mobile ad management, contract management, professional content, ad serving, reporting, analytics, technology, services, advisory services, business operations, programmatic advertising, advertising marketplace, and linear, and online advertising.

Chukong Technologies

Series C in 2012
Chukong Technologies, headquartered in Beijing, China, specializes in mobile game development and distribution for iOS and Android platforms. Founded in 2010, the company originated from CocoaChina.com, the largest iOS developer community in China. Chukong is renowned for sponsoring Cocos2d-x, a widely used open-source game engine that has been downloaded over 1.1 million times globally, contributing to the success of many top-grossing games in China. The company also offers CocoStudio, a toolset designed to streamline game design and animation for developers. With a strong in-house development team, Chukong has produced popular titles such as the Fishing Joy franchise and Pocket Climber. In addition to its own games, Chukong facilitates international developers in entering the Chinese gaming market through its CocoaChina brand, providing services including game design feedback, app store distribution, and localization support. The company has collaborated with numerous international studios and has successfully published games across various global markets, enhancing its reach and influence in the mobile gaming industry.

Yoyi Digital

Series C in 2012
Yoyi Digital is the leading platform in multi-screen programmatic buying in China. With the vision of focusing on data and technology, Yoyi Digital is leading the transformation in display ads from media buying to audience buying. At present, Yoyi has successfully completed four rounds of financing. The investors include Oak Investment Partner , Gobi Partners, Fidelity Investments, NewQuest Capital Partners, and Guangzhou Daily. Since its establishment, Yoyi has been always leading the development of programmatic buying industry. With data and technology advantages, Yoyi launched the first DSP in China which based on Real Time Biding(RTB), and also the first to bring the concept of cross-screen programmatic buying in China. In 2014, Yoyi launched Databank, China’s first real-meaning DMP, which helps advertisers on collecting, analyzing, managing, and acting on this first-party data from advertisers’ website and app as well as third-party data assembled by Yoyi and other data providers. Furthermore, Yoyi took the lead in entering the OTT indursty, launched the programmatic TV platform, established Big Data Lab by cooperating with Hisense, a Chinese famous Smart TV manufacturer,realising the data and platform integration, thus to provide more creative OTT solutions to advertisers. Yoyi is also the only DSP platform that cross multi-screens including PC, mobile,video and OTT. Based on Yoyi’s proprietary audience data and advanced advertising technology, Yoyi is able to deliver the right ads to the right audience through right screen at right time, thus greatly enhancing user experience and advertising effectiveness at the same time. Yoyi Digital provides both branding and performance solutions for over 1000 global and local brands, including Coco Cola, Budweiser, Audi, Toyota, Sumsang, Haier, Shell and Kimberly etc. Yoyi was been selected as the Red Herring 100 Global Winner, one of the technology industry's most respected awards, and also awarded the Most influential advertising company on Ad Stars Festival in Busan. Yoyi Digital was also the first ad tech company in China which been invited to give speech at Cannes Lions in France. With such strong influence,Yoyi Digital is continuously driving the revolution of digital marketing in China. Yoyi Digital is based in Beijing with branches in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

AWS Elemental

Series C in 2012
AWS Elemental is the leading supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company pioneered the use of software-based video processing to distribute and monetize video over IP networks. Solutions from Elemental provide the flexibility, scalability and performance required to transform high quality video into new revenue streams via turnkey, cloud-based and virtualized deployment models. Powering video experiences for more than 600 leading media franchises worldwide, Elemental helps pay TV operators, content programmers, broadcasters and enterprise customers bring video to any screen, anytime – all at once. The company has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India and Brazil.

GameSalad

Series A in 2012
GameSalad is a development platform that enables anyone to create their own games with a visual programming interface. It’s also a way of introducing programming concepts, game design, and digital media creation to students. Launched in 2010, GameSalad has been used by over one million aspiring game developers and has powered over 75 games that reached the top 100 in the App Store.

CC video

Series B in 2011
CC video is a Chinese video operation platform and technology services provider. By February 2011, more than 120 thousand websites had been connected with the company’s video service platform. The daily view count is over 50 million times and uploaded video clips exceed 7 million. The video storage amount exceeds 130,000,000 million. Set up by Zhang Yuan in Peking University Science Park in 2005, CC video has its own intellectual property.

ShangPin

Series C in 2011
ShangPin.com (尚品网) is an e-commerce platform offering branded and seasonal luxury products. It obtains the brands’ authorizations to offer customers with world-class luxuries and fashionable quality goods. The high-end fashionable quality goods and luxuries that it handles concentrates on 4 categories, namely clothing, bags, shoes and accessories, which include nearly 400 international top luxury brands, the global leading fashion and modern brands as well as designer brands. Many of them are authorized to be distributed online for the first time. Meanwhile, ShangPin.com is managing to create comprehensive and high-quality customer service system, which provides the customers with professional pre-sale consulting, sale support, and after-sales service.

Bloomspot

Series B in 2011
Bloomspot provides exclusive offers for renowned local restaurants, spas, salons, weekend getaways, events, and international resorts. A highly targeted member base, expertly sourced partners, and individually designed promotions ensures member satisfaction and profitability for merchant partners. Bloomspot has featured the highest-rated experiences including 100 Zagat-rated restaurants and AAA Four Diamond hotels in some of the largest U.S. markets.

Zettics

Series C in 2011
Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems, identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators.

Fanli

Series A in 2011
Fanli operates an e-commerce shopping website in China. The website includes various home appliance business websites, including e-commerce company’s websites. Fanli lets users click on the rebate link to go to the corresponding merchant website to place an order and the merchant will pay a rebate for the user's order for a marketing fee. Gary Ge and Geng Yongchang founded Fanli in November 2006, with its headquarters in Shanghai in China.

GoPro

Series A in 2011
GoPro is an activity image capture company. It is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography. GoPro produces HD HERO, a line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, making it easy for people to capture and share their lives' most exciting moments in high definition. GoPro's products are sold through specialty retailers in more than 50 countries and online. Founded in 2002 by Nicholas Woodman, GoPro is headquartered in San Mateo, California, United States.

GameSalad

Series A in 2011
GameSalad is a development platform that enables anyone to create their own games with a visual programming interface. It’s also a way of introducing programming concepts, game design, and digital media creation to students. Launched in 2010, GameSalad has been used by over one million aspiring game developers and has powered over 75 games that reached the top 100 in the App Store.

Yoyi Digital

Series B in 2011
Yoyi Digital is the leading platform in multi-screen programmatic buying in China. With the vision of focusing on data and technology, Yoyi Digital is leading the transformation in display ads from media buying to audience buying. At present, Yoyi has successfully completed four rounds of financing. The investors include Oak Investment Partner , Gobi Partners, Fidelity Investments, NewQuest Capital Partners, and Guangzhou Daily. Since its establishment, Yoyi has been always leading the development of programmatic buying industry. With data and technology advantages, Yoyi launched the first DSP in China which based on Real Time Biding(RTB), and also the first to bring the concept of cross-screen programmatic buying in China. In 2014, Yoyi launched Databank, China’s first real-meaning DMP, which helps advertisers on collecting, analyzing, managing, and acting on this first-party data from advertisers’ website and app as well as third-party data assembled by Yoyi and other data providers. Furthermore, Yoyi took the lead in entering the OTT indursty, launched the programmatic TV platform, established Big Data Lab by cooperating with Hisense, a Chinese famous Smart TV manufacturer,realising the data and platform integration, thus to provide more creative OTT solutions to advertisers. Yoyi is also the only DSP platform that cross multi-screens including PC, mobile,video and OTT. Based on Yoyi’s proprietary audience data and advanced advertising technology, Yoyi is able to deliver the right ads to the right audience through right screen at right time, thus greatly enhancing user experience and advertising effectiveness at the same time. Yoyi Digital provides both branding and performance solutions for over 1000 global and local brands, including Coco Cola, Budweiser, Audi, Toyota, Sumsang, Haier, Shell and Kimberly etc. Yoyi was been selected as the Red Herring 100 Global Winner, one of the technology industry's most respected awards, and also awarded the Most influential advertising company on Ad Stars Festival in Busan. Yoyi Digital was also the first ad tech company in China which been invited to give speech at Cannes Lions in France. With such strong influence,Yoyi Digital is continuously driving the revolution of digital marketing in China. Yoyi Digital is based in Beijing with branches in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

AWS Elemental

Series B in 2010
AWS Elemental is the leading supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company pioneered the use of software-based video processing to distribute and monetize video over IP networks. Solutions from Elemental provide the flexibility, scalability and performance required to transform high quality video into new revenue streams via turnkey, cloud-based and virtualized deployment models. Powering video experiences for more than 600 leading media franchises worldwide, Elemental helps pay TV operators, content programmers, broadcasters and enterprise customers bring video to any screen, anytime – all at once. The company has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, India and Brazil.

Fuel Cycle

Venture Round in 2010
Fuel Cycle’s award-winning Market Research Cloud is the most comprehensive intelligence gathering ecosystem that exists today. Our platform enables decision-makers to maintain constant connections with their customers, prospects, and users to uncover real-world actionable intelligence. By integrating human insight with critical business data, and through automated quantitative and qualitative research solutions, Fuel Cycle’s Market Research Cloud powers product innovation, brand intelligence, and enhanced user experience. Breakthroughs require action. We built Fuel Cycle to ignite it.

ShangPin

Series B in 2010
ShangPin.com (尚品网) is an e-commerce platform offering branded and seasonal luxury products. It obtains the brands’ authorizations to offer customers with world-class luxuries and fashionable quality goods. The high-end fashionable quality goods and luxuries that it handles concentrates on 4 categories, namely clothing, bags, shoes and accessories, which include nearly 400 international top luxury brands, the global leading fashion and modern brands as well as designer brands. Many of them are authorized to be distributed online for the first time. Meanwhile, ShangPin.com is managing to create comprehensive and high-quality customer service system, which provides the customers with professional pre-sale consulting, sale support, and after-sales service.

SonicLiving

Series A in 2010
SonicLiving is the Internet’s leading concert discovery service, connecting music fans online and in-person through communities created around live shows of their favorite bands. Through the SonicLiving Wishlist, which seamlessly integrates with iTunes, Pandora, Facebook, and Last.fm, fans can track bands, receive automatic concert alerts and purchase tickets to shows when they’re announced. The SonicLiving API enables music sites and other online services to bring the live music discovery experience to their users. SonicLiving also offers musicians, music labels and promoters the ability to reach fans through special promotions, presales and packages, resulting in increased visibility and ticket sales. 

 SonicLiving was founded in 2006 by Gabe Benveniste, formerly of Pixar Animation Studios, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and on the Internet at www.sonicliving.com

GameSalad

Series A in 2010
GameSalad is a development platform that enables anyone to create their own games with a visual programming interface. It’s also a way of introducing programming concepts, game design, and digital media creation to students. Launched in 2010, GameSalad has been used by over one million aspiring game developers and has powered over 75 games that reached the top 100 in the App Store.

Playdom

Series A in 2010
Playdom is a game developer with a focus on social, online games. The company has a number of popular titles on the iPhone, Myspace, and Facebook.

Zettics

Series B in 2010
Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems, identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators.

FreeWheel

Series D in 2010
FreeWheel manages the economics of content for the enterprise class of entertainment, offering technical infrastructure for revenue rights management and business operations, wrapped in advisory services. They offer advertising sales rights, display, video, mobile ad management, contract management, professional content, ad serving, reporting, analytics, technology, services, advisory services, business operations, programmatic advertising, advertising marketplace, and linear, and online advertising.

EdgeCast

Series C in 2010
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.

Yoyi Digital

Series A in 2010
Yoyi Digital is the leading platform in multi-screen programmatic buying in China. With the vision of focusing on data and technology, Yoyi Digital is leading the transformation in display ads from media buying to audience buying. At present, Yoyi has successfully completed four rounds of financing. The investors include Oak Investment Partner , Gobi Partners, Fidelity Investments, NewQuest Capital Partners, and Guangzhou Daily. Since its establishment, Yoyi has been always leading the development of programmatic buying industry. With data and technology advantages, Yoyi launched the first DSP in China which based on Real Time Biding(RTB), and also the first to bring the concept of cross-screen programmatic buying in China. In 2014, Yoyi launched Databank, China’s first real-meaning DMP, which helps advertisers on collecting, analyzing, managing, and acting on this first-party data from advertisers’ website and app as well as third-party data assembled by Yoyi and other data providers. Furthermore, Yoyi took the lead in entering the OTT indursty, launched the programmatic TV platform, established Big Data Lab by cooperating with Hisense, a Chinese famous Smart TV manufacturer,realising the data and platform integration, thus to provide more creative OTT solutions to advertisers. Yoyi is also the only DSP platform that cross multi-screens including PC, mobile,video and OTT. Based on Yoyi’s proprietary audience data and advanced advertising technology, Yoyi is able to deliver the right ads to the right audience through right screen at right time, thus greatly enhancing user experience and advertising effectiveness at the same time. Yoyi Digital provides both branding and performance solutions for over 1000 global and local brands, including Coco Cola, Budweiser, Audi, Toyota, Sumsang, Haier, Shell and Kimberly etc. Yoyi was been selected as the Red Herring 100 Global Winner, one of the technology industry's most respected awards, and also awarded the Most influential advertising company on Ad Stars Festival in Busan. Yoyi Digital was also the first ad tech company in China which been invited to give speech at Cannes Lions in France. With such strong influence,Yoyi Digital is continuously driving the revolution of digital marketing in China. Yoyi Digital is based in Beijing with branches in Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Mixbook

Series B in 2010
Hi! Welcome to the future of memories. We're Mixbook, an award-winning design platform giving consumers unrivaled creative freedom to design and share one-of-a-kind stories, transforming the lives of more than 6M people. Today, Mixbook is the #1 rated photo book service in the US with 26K 5-star reviews . Our editing platform leverages emerging technologies built upon modern cloud architectures for interactive experiences through React and native mobile frameworks. We utilize empowered methodologies like AI design, photo curation, image classification, discovery, and optimization to deliver consistently delightful consumer experiences.

Photobucket

Venture Round in 2009
Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very best browsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California.

RazorGator

Series C in 2009
RazorGator is the 3rd largest player in the online ticket reselling business behind eBay's [StubHub](http://www.stubhub.com) and Ticketmaster's [TicketsNow](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ticketsnow) according to December 2007 comScore data. The service covers reselling of sports, theater, and concert tickets, as well as vacation packages for various sporting events.

UpSnap

Series E in 2009
UpSnap provides highly-targeted, data-driven mobile and intent-based advertising to attract the ideal audience for brands big and small. Combining first-party proprietary data and real-time analytics, UpSnap goes beyond location to deliver site agnostic and results-driven campaigns that produce qualified, engaged customers. UpSnap tailors each campaign to align with unique business goals, delivering the right customers for more meaningful exposure and better business results.

Sometrics

Series B in 2009
Founded in 2007 and based in El Segundo, Calif., Sometrics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Express, is helping publishers market free-to-play online games and monetize virtual currency with a consumer destination site and the industry’s most advanced in-game payment solutions. Sometrics’ payment processing, optimization and analytics platform is also being used to support Serve, American Express’ new digital payments and commerce platform, to deploy virtual currencies and loyalty programs on a global scale. GameCoins.com, an online games discovery and user acquisition platform, connects gamers with publishers through fun activities and relevant content. Game Coins members have the opportunity to discover new games through Missions, Raffles and other branded activities and earn Game Coins currency that can then be redeemed for many top online games, as well as Facebook Credits via their App2User program. The destination offers publishers access to an audience of millions of dedicated gamers around the world. For more information about GameCoins, please visit http://www.gamecoins.com/. With Sometrics’ in-game payment and optimization platform, game publishers gain a new revenue source that enhances existing payment methods and increases conversions among paying users. The company offers dozens of payment options in over 100 countries including credit cards, mobile, pre-paid cards, bank transfers and more, in addition to hundreds of brand engagement ads. Sometrics’ payment management and optimization platform allows publishers to maximize revenue through existing payment methods while enhancing user conversion via advanced analytics tools. For more information on the in-game payment and optimization platform, please visit http://sometrics.com/. Sometrics raised $2 million in capital in its first round of funding, led by the Mail Room Fund, an investment consortium that combines big Hollywood (the William Morris Talent Agency) with Silicon Valley (Accel and Venrock) venture capitalists, in addition to co-investors AT&T and Greycroft Partners. Series B financing totaling $4 million was closed in October of 2009, led by Steamboat Ventures and including the Mail Room Fund and Greycroft.

Zettics

Series A in 2009
Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems, identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators.

Greystripe

Series C in 2009
Greystripe is the leading mobile advertising platform that provides smarter mobile solutions through full-screen ad formats, world-class data and proprietary cross-device targeting capabilities. With over eight years of mobile experience, Greystripe delivers the highest engagement rates for brand marketers, maximum revenue for publishers and app developers, and the best ad experience for users. Greystripe is a product line of ValueClick Inc. (NASDAQ: VCLK), one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive online marketing services companies. Greystripe was named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Mobile by Fast Company in 2011, the MOBI Awards’ Best Mobile Rich Media Network in 2010, E-Tech CTIA award winner for the Mobile Marketing/Mobile Advertising category in 2009, AlwaysOn OnMedia 100 winner in 2009, AlwaysOn Global 100 winner in 2008, Red Herring Global 100 winner in 2007 and the Under the Radar Best in Show: Mobility winner in 2006.

Fanzter

Series B in 2009
Fanzter Inc. is an American software company that designs and develops consumer-focused mobile and web products. Fanzter's best-known products include Coolspotters.com and the popular iOS applications CoolPapers, Streaks, and Summizer. Fanzter's corporate headquarters are located in Unionville, Connecticut.

Youxigu

Series A in 2009
Beijing Youxigu Information Technology Co., Ltd. (漫游谷) is a web game development platform in China. Since its establishment in 2007, Youxigu focuses on developing web-based social games. It has developed its own game engine and many online and social games such as Might And Hero, Duel on Mount Hua, the Seven Powers Hegemony, Magic Land, Kung Fu Odyssey, and Bomber Man.

Mixbook

Venture Round in 2009
Hi! Welcome to the future of memories. We're Mixbook, an award-winning design platform giving consumers unrivaled creative freedom to design and share one-of-a-kind stories, transforming the lives of more than 6M people. Today, Mixbook is the #1 rated photo book service in the US with 26K 5-star reviews . Our editing platform leverages emerging technologies built upon modern cloud architectures for interactive experiences through React and native mobile frameworks. We utilize empowered methodologies like AI design, photo curation, image classification, discovery, and optimization to deliver consistently delightful consumer experiences.

RazorGator

Series C in 2009
RazorGator is the 3rd largest player in the online ticket reselling business behind eBay's [StubHub](http://www.stubhub.com) and Ticketmaster's [TicketsNow](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ticketsnow) according to December 2007 comScore data. The service covers reselling of sports, theater, and concert tickets, as well as vacation packages for various sporting events.

Greystripe

Series C in 2008
Greystripe is the leading mobile advertising platform that provides smarter mobile solutions through full-screen ad formats, world-class data and proprietary cross-device targeting capabilities. With over eight years of mobile experience, Greystripe delivers the highest engagement rates for brand marketers, maximum revenue for publishers and app developers, and the best ad experience for users. Greystripe is a product line of ValueClick Inc. (NASDAQ: VCLK), one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive online marketing services companies. Greystripe was named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Mobile by Fast Company in 2011, the MOBI Awards’ Best Mobile Rich Media Network in 2010, E-Tech CTIA award winner for the Mobile Marketing/Mobile Advertising category in 2009, AlwaysOn OnMedia 100 winner in 2009, AlwaysOn Global 100 winner in 2008, Red Herring Global 100 winner in 2007 and the Under the Radar Best in Show: Mobility winner in 2006.

CTS Media

Series B in 2008
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

JOYY

Series B in 2008
JOYY Inc. is a social media and interactive communication platform based in China, operating various live streaming and short-form video services. Its key offerings include YY Live, a comprehensive platform for music, dance, and talk shows; Bigo Live, which allows users to share live moments; and Huya, a gaming live streaming service. Additionally, JOYY operates Likee, a platform for creating and sharing short videos, as well as imo, a video communication tool, and Hago, a casual gaming social platform that incorporates live streaming and chat features. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Guangzhou, JOYY engages users in real-time online activities through voice, text, and video, and facilitates virtual currency transactions for various interactive experiences. The company was previously known as YY Inc. until its name change in December 2019.

NetMovie

Series B in 2008
Netmovie (网尚文化) is a leading aggregator and distributor of video on demand (VOD) content into internet cafes, households and mobile devices. The company has developed a proprietary and cost effective end-to-end distribution platform for video content which includes delivery, payments, and customer support. Through their strategic, long-term business partnerships with leading global movie/TV program producers, Netmovie strives to bring high quality and legitimate entertainment content to the China market.

Mediaocean

Series E in 2008
Mediaocean is the mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising. With more than $200 billion in annualized media spend managed through its software, Mediaocean connects brands, agencies, media, technology, and data. Using AI and machine learning technology to control marketing investments and optimize business outcomes, Mediaocean powers campaigns from planning, buying, ad serving, and creative personalization to analysis, optimization, invoices, and payments. Mediaocean employs 1,700 staff across 30 global offices and supports over 100,000 people using its products. Visit www.mediaocean.com for more information.

StrongView

Series C in 2008
StrongView helps brands understand, engage, and deliver value to consumers. Recognized as a leading provider of email and cross-channel marketing solutions, StrongView is reinventing customer relationship marketing through customer context. Our contextual marketing solutions enable brands to recognize and act on consumers' fast-changing circumstances before, during, and after each moment of engagement. Based in Redwood City, CA, and backed by leading investors, StrongView seeks to challenge traditional marketing approaches and enable customer context as a new foundation for delivering value.

Photobucket

Venture Round in 2008
Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very best browsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California.

Rosum

Series B in 2008
Rosum provides a navigation technology that is an alternative to GPS. Interestingly, one of the company's founders was the co-architect of GPS.

Move Networks

Series C in 2008
Move Networks is a provider of comprehensive solutions that delivers the next generation of live, multi-channel television over the Internet. Leveraging its award-winning adaptive streaming technology, Move Networks integrates middleware, content management, subscription packaging, billing, and digital rights management to deliver a rich television experience through the Internet. Move's platform provides both telecommunications providers and media companies with the ability to generate revenue through both subscription-based services and enhanced advertising solutions.

Fuel Cycle

Series C in 2008
Fuel Cycle’s award-winning Market Research Cloud is the most comprehensive intelligence gathering ecosystem that exists today. Our platform enables decision-makers to maintain constant connections with their customers, prospects, and users to uncover real-world actionable intelligence. By integrating human insight with critical business data, and through automated quantitative and qualitative research solutions, Fuel Cycle’s Market Research Cloud powers product innovation, brand intelligence, and enhanced user experience. Breakthroughs require action. We built Fuel Cycle to ignite it.

Kyte

Series B in 2008
Kyte is the online and mobile video platform for media and entertainment. The Kyte Platform combines the real-time, interactive and community building capabilities of the social web with the analytics, control, and monetization features of professional video platforms, enabling companies to converge online and mobile audiences, build community, and monetize.

Kapow Software

Series C in 2008
Kapow Software harnesses the power of legacy data and Big Data, making it actionable and accessible across organizations. Hundreds of large global enterprises including Audi, Intel, Fiserv, Deutsche Telekom, and more than a dozen federal agencies rely on our agile Big Data integration platform to make smarter decisions, automate processes, and drive better outcomes faster. They leverage our platform to give business consumers a flexible 360-degree view of information across any internal and external source, providing organizations with a data-driven advantage.

Troodon

Series B in 2008
Troodon (随手互动) is the leading developer and operator of mobile Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) in China. The company has developed a unique proprietary client/server platform for rapid development, porting, testing and operation of online games on mobile devices. The company currently operates several mobile MMO Role-Playing Game franchises, which are distributed through a network of mobile service providers.

Fanzter

Series A in 2008
Fanzter Inc. is an American software company that designs and develops consumer-focused mobile and web products. Fanzter's best-known products include Coolspotters.com and the popular iOS applications CoolPapers, Streaks, and Summizer. Fanzter's corporate headquarters are located in Unionville, Connecticut.

56.com

Series B in 2007
56.com is a user-generated content (UGC) video-sharing website in China. 56.com hosts more than 80 million online videos, the majority of which is user-generated, followed by in-house productions. 56.com obtained its online video license from the State Administration of Radio and Television of China in December 2008. 56.com was the first online video site to provide video album services in China, and was also the first to offer the “Beauty Show” in China. It has developed partnerships with clients such as Audi, Toyota, Coca Cola, McDonald, Nestle, and Nike. In October 2011, 56.com was fully acquired by Renren Inc. and became a part of the Renren Group.

Mixbook

Series A in 2007
Hi! Welcome to the future of memories. We're Mixbook, an award-winning design platform giving consumers unrivaled creative freedom to design and share one-of-a-kind stories, transforming the lives of more than 6M people. Today, Mixbook is the #1 rated photo book service in the US with 26K 5-star reviews . Our editing platform leverages emerging technologies built upon modern cloud architectures for interactive experiences through React and native mobile frameworks. We utilize empowered methodologies like AI design, photo curation, image classification, discovery, and optimization to deliver consistently delightful consumer experiences.

EdgeCast

Series B in 2007
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.

Move Networks

Series B in 2007
Move Networks is a provider of comprehensive solutions that delivers the next generation of live, multi-channel television over the Internet. Leveraging its award-winning adaptive streaming technology, Move Networks integrates middleware, content management, subscription packaging, billing, and digital rights management to deliver a rich television experience through the Internet. Move's platform provides both telecommunications providers and media companies with the ability to generate revenue through both subscription-based services and enhanced advertising solutions.

UpSnap

Series D in 2007
UpSnap provides highly-targeted, data-driven mobile and intent-based advertising to attract the ideal audience for brands big and small. Combining first-party proprietary data and real-time analytics, UpSnap goes beyond location to deliver site agnostic and results-driven campaigns that produce qualified, engaged customers. UpSnap tailors each campaign to align with unique business goals, delivering the right customers for more meaningful exposure and better business results.

MerchantCircle

Series B in 2007
[MerchantCircle](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/merchantcircle) is the place to find great deals, expert advice & competitive quotes from the best local merchants! [MerchantCircle](http://www.merchantcircle.com) was founded in 2005 as an online marketing platform for local business owners, and has grown into the largest online network of local business owners in the Nation. [MerchantCircle](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/merchantcircle) makes it easy for people to find qualified businesses to provide quality services. [MerchantCircle](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MerchantCircle) helps people get the advice they need from the real experts; local business owners with tons of real world experience. [MerchantCircle](http://www.merchantcircle.com) delivers competitive quotes for all the services people need on a daily basis. [MerchantCircle](http://www.linkedin.com/organization/merchantcircle) provides small businesses with a web listing page, blogging platform, deal building tools, and many other ways for businesses to connect with new potential customers. Consumers can create profiles on [MerchantCircle](https://twitter.com/#!/MerchantCircle) to clip and keep track of coupons in real time, and post business-specific questions to the network of business owners. "Circle" in the company's name comes from a viral marketing strategy that encourages members (both businesses and consumers) to engage with each other to solve everyday problems. Prior to being acquired by [Reply! Inc.](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reply-com) in June 2011, [MerchantCircle](http://www.merchantcircle.com) had acquired both [Bloglines](http://www.bloglines.com) and [TimeBridge](http://timebridge.com) to help deliver more offerings to local businesses!

Fuel Cycle

Series B in 2007
Fuel Cycle’s award-winning Market Research Cloud is the most comprehensive intelligence gathering ecosystem that exists today. Our platform enables decision-makers to maintain constant connections with their customers, prospects, and users to uncover real-world actionable intelligence. By integrating human insight with critical business data, and through automated quantitative and qualitative research solutions, Fuel Cycle’s Market Research Cloud powers product innovation, brand intelligence, and enhanced user experience. Breakthroughs require action. We built Fuel Cycle to ignite it.

NetMovie

Series B in 2007
Netmovie (网尚文化) is a leading aggregator and distributor of video on demand (VOD) content into internet cafes, households and mobile devices. The company has developed a proprietary and cost effective end-to-end distribution platform for video content which includes delivery, payments, and customer support. Through their strategic, long-term business partnerships with leading global movie/TV program producers, Netmovie strives to bring high quality and legitimate entertainment content to the China market.

56.com

Series A in 2007
56.com is a user-generated content (UGC) video-sharing website in China. 56.com hosts more than 80 million online videos, the majority of which is user-generated, followed by in-house productions. 56.com obtained its online video license from the State Administration of Radio and Television of China in December 2008. 56.com was the first online video site to provide video album services in China, and was also the first to offer the “Beauty Show” in China. It has developed partnerships with clients such as Audi, Toyota, Coca Cola, McDonald, Nestle, and Nike. In October 2011, 56.com was fully acquired by Renren Inc. and became a part of the Renren Group.

Greystripe

Series B in 2007
Greystripe is the leading mobile advertising platform that provides smarter mobile solutions through full-screen ad formats, world-class data and proprietary cross-device targeting capabilities. With over eight years of mobile experience, Greystripe delivers the highest engagement rates for brand marketers, maximum revenue for publishers and app developers, and the best ad experience for users. Greystripe is a product line of ValueClick Inc. (NASDAQ: VCLK), one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive online marketing services companies. Greystripe was named one of the Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in Mobile by Fast Company in 2011, the MOBI Awards’ Best Mobile Rich Media Network in 2010, E-Tech CTIA award winner for the Mobile Marketing/Mobile Advertising category in 2009, AlwaysOn OnMedia 100 winner in 2009, AlwaysOn Global 100 winner in 2008, Red Herring Global 100 winner in 2007 and the Under the Radar Best in Show: Mobility winner in 2006.

Pure Digital Technologies

Series F in 2007
Pure Digital Technologies is the provider of innovative imaging solutions for the mass market, including the Flip Video family of digital camcorders. The Flip Video camera is a simple digital camcorder designed especially for Internet video sharing. The camera contains on-board software enabling one-click uploads to [YouTube](/organization/youtube), AOL Video, [MySpace](/organization/myspace) and other websites. The latest model, the Flip Ultra, has been the best-selling camcorder on [Amazon.com](/organization/amazon) since the day of its debut, capturing about 13% of the camcorder market. It captures video in 640x480 resolution at 30 frames per second. It uses 2 AA batteries. It lacks a memory card extension slot but can be connected to a computer with its pop-out USB connector, without the need for a cable. It is simple to use, lacking most of the features of more advanced cameras. Depending on memory size, the current ("Ultra") model camera retails for $150 (1 GB flash memory for about 30 minutes of video) or $180 (s2 GB flash memory). Pure Digital Technologies was acquired in 2009 by [Cisco](/organization/cisco), and in April 2011 Cisco [announced](http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=775104) it was shutting down the Flip line.

CTS Media

Series B in 2007
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

StrongView

Series B in 2007
StrongView helps brands understand, engage, and deliver value to consumers. Recognized as a leading provider of email and cross-channel marketing solutions, StrongView is reinventing customer relationship marketing through customer context. Our contextual marketing solutions enable brands to recognize and act on consumers' fast-changing circumstances before, during, and after each moment of engagement. Based in Redwood City, CA, and backed by leading investors, StrongView seeks to challenge traditional marketing approaches and enable customer context as a new foundation for delivering value.

UUSEE

Series B in 2007
UUSee is a Chinese new media company that provides network television and value-added services to global broadband subscribers. Founded in 2005, the company offers the largest platform for the aggregation and distribution of video and audio content. As of 2009, the download amount of UUSee network TV software has exceeded 200 million. It relies on 3 subordinate platforms: the internet video play platform; the massive site-wide video search platform; and the video community experience platform, thereby making it the leader in the Chinese network video industry.

Move Networks

Series A in 2007
Move Networks is a provider of comprehensive solutions that delivers the next generation of live, multi-channel television over the Internet. Leveraging its award-winning adaptive streaming technology, Move Networks integrates middleware, content management, subscription packaging, billing, and digital rights management to deliver a rich television experience through the Internet. Move's platform provides both telecommunications providers and media companies with the ability to generate revenue through both subscription-based services and enhanced advertising solutions.

PopularMedia

Series B in 2007
PopularMedia, Inc. provides social media marketing services. The company's products include Influencer Ads, a platform that creates, maintains, and reinforces connections between consumers, creating shared experiences around the content, brand or offer with their network of friends, relatives, and colleagues; SocialNotes that delivers instant social interactivity on any Web page; and Importer, which facilitates visitors to the site and import their existing Web-based address books, such as Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, MSN, and Hotmail. It serves advertisers, Website marketers, and publishers. PopularMedia has a strategic partnership with Contagion. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 30, 2009, PopularMedia, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc.

Industrious Kid

Series A in 2006
Industrious Kid builds a family of Internet destinations for children between the ages of 8 and 14. Its products include imbee.com, a social networking and blogging destination that enables kids to upload graphics, personalize their blogs with artwork, and explore the social aspects of the Internet. The company's imbee.com also provides kids, parents, educators, and Internet safety advocates with an alternative to other open blogging and social networking sites, such as MySpace, Bebo, and Xanga. It has a strategic safety partnership with Web Wise Kids. Industrious Kid, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

Quigo

Series C in 2006
Quigo is an ad-targeting network that provides contextual advertising services for many large media websites including ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes.com, and USAToday.com. Quigo is a direct competitor to Google's contextual advertising program, Adsense. Quigo [sold](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/aol-buys-quigo-confirmed/) to AOL for $340 million and will become part of its Platform-A advertising solution.

UpSnap

Series B in 2006
UpSnap provides highly-targeted, data-driven mobile and intent-based advertising to attract the ideal audience for brands big and small. Combining first-party proprietary data and real-time analytics, UpSnap goes beyond location to deliver site agnostic and results-driven campaigns that produce qualified, engaged customers. UpSnap tailors each campaign to align with unique business goals, delivering the right customers for more meaningful exposure and better business results.

Tillster

Series D in 2006
Tillster is the global leader in customer engagement programs and self-service ordering for the quick service restaurant and casual dining industries. The company provides multi-channel, market-specific digital solutions for ordering, payment, loyalty and lifecycle management that integrate across online, mobile, tablet, kiosk and call center platforms. Tillster’s solutions allow consumers to engage seamlessly with their favorite restaurant brands whenever, wherever and on whichever device they choose. Tillster has enabled more than 35 million guest transactions for global and regional brands such as Boston Market, Burger King, California Pizza Kitchen, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Domino’s, Jack in the Box, KFC, McAlister’s Deli, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

Pure Digital Technologies

Series E in 2006
Pure Digital Technologies is the provider of innovative imaging solutions for the mass market, including the Flip Video family of digital camcorders. The Flip Video camera is a simple digital camcorder designed especially for Internet video sharing. The camera contains on-board software enabling one-click uploads to [YouTube](/organization/youtube), AOL Video, [MySpace](/organization/myspace) and other websites. The latest model, the Flip Ultra, has been the best-selling camcorder on [Amazon.com](/organization/amazon) since the day of its debut, capturing about 13% of the camcorder market. It captures video in 640x480 resolution at 30 frames per second. It uses 2 AA batteries. It lacks a memory card extension slot but can be connected to a computer with its pop-out USB connector, without the need for a cable. It is simple to use, lacking most of the features of more advanced cameras. Depending on memory size, the current ("Ultra") model camera retails for $150 (1 GB flash memory for about 30 minutes of video) or $180 (s2 GB flash memory). Pure Digital Technologies was acquired in 2009 by [Cisco](/organization/cisco), and in April 2011 Cisco [announced](http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=775104) it was shutting down the Flip line.

RazorGator

Series B in 2006
RazorGator is the 3rd largest player in the online ticket reselling business behind eBay's [StubHub](http://www.stubhub.com) and Ticketmaster's [TicketsNow](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ticketsnow) according to December 2007 comScore data. The service covers reselling of sports, theater, and concert tickets, as well as vacation packages for various sporting events.

PhotoTLC

Series A in 2005
PhotoTLC is a provider of personalized photo gifts and digital photo restorations to America's largest retailers. PhotoTLC provides its products in partnership with over 15,000 brick-and-mortar retail locations, as well as online merchants.

Quigo

Venture Round in 2005
Quigo is an ad-targeting network that provides contextual advertising services for many large media websites including ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes.com, and USAToday.com. Quigo is a direct competitor to Google's contextual advertising program, Adsense. Quigo [sold](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/aol-buys-quigo-confirmed/) to AOL for $340 million and will become part of its Platform-A advertising solution.

Rosum

Series A in 2005
Rosum provides a navigation technology that is an alternative to GPS. Interestingly, one of the company's founders was the co-architect of GPS.

BuyerLink

Series A in 2005
BuyerLink is the leading online marketing platform for the acquisition of locally-targeted and category-specific consumers on a cost-per-click or cost-per-lead basis. BuyerLink makes Internet marketing available to businesses of all sizes by eliminating the need for complex and expensive online marketing infrastructures. BuyerLink provides a highly-profitable alternative to online marketing solutions offered by major search engines and ad networks. BuyerLink provides efficient marketing solutions to help businesses reach the millions of consumers using the Internet everyday to find products or services within automotive, real estate, and home improvement industries.

Pure Digital Technologies

Series D in 2005
Pure Digital Technologies is the provider of innovative imaging solutions for the mass market, including the Flip Video family of digital camcorders. The Flip Video camera is a simple digital camcorder designed especially for Internet video sharing. The camera contains on-board software enabling one-click uploads to [YouTube](/organization/youtube), AOL Video, [MySpace](/organization/myspace) and other websites. The latest model, the Flip Ultra, has been the best-selling camcorder on [Amazon.com](/organization/amazon) since the day of its debut, capturing about 13% of the camcorder market. It captures video in 640x480 resolution at 30 frames per second. It uses 2 AA batteries. It lacks a memory card extension slot but can be connected to a computer with its pop-out USB connector, without the need for a cable. It is simple to use, lacking most of the features of more advanced cameras. Depending on memory size, the current ("Ultra") model camera retails for $150 (1 GB flash memory for about 30 minutes of video) or $180 (s2 GB flash memory). Pure Digital Technologies was acquired in 2009 by [Cisco](/organization/cisco), and in April 2011 Cisco [announced](http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=775104) it was shutting down the Flip line.

Fastclick

Series A in 2004
Fastclick is a provider of Internet advertising technologies and services.

Rosum

Series A in 2004
Rosum provides a navigation technology that is an alternative to GPS. Interestingly, one of the company's founders was the co-architect of GPS.

Quigo

Series B in 2004
Quigo is an ad-targeting network that provides contextual advertising services for many large media websites including ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes.com, and USAToday.com. Quigo is a direct competitor to Google's contextual advertising program, Adsense. Quigo [sold](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/aol-buys-quigo-confirmed/) to AOL for $340 million and will become part of its Platform-A advertising solution.

Tillster

Series C in 2004
Tillster, Inc. specializes in digital ordering and customer engagement software solutions tailored for the quick service restaurant and casual dining sectors, both in the United States and internationally. The company provides a range of products, including online and mobile ordering systems, delivery solutions, loyalty applications, and promotional tools that enhance customer interaction and encourage repeat business. Tillster’s platform supports various channels such as kiosks, mobile devices, tablets, and call centers, allowing consumers to place orders seamlessly across different platforms. With a focus on improving customer engagement and driving sales, Tillster has facilitated over 35 million transactions for numerous well-known brands, including Burger King, Domino's, and Taco Bell. Founded in 2002 and based in San Diego, California, Tillster was formerly known as EMN8, Inc. and rebranded in November 2013.

BitPass

Series B in 2004
Founded in December 2002, BitPass was an online payment system for digital content and services. The service worked by allowing users to deposit money in an online account, and using that stored value amount to pay for digital content and services. The company had partnerships with high-profile firms like Microsoft, PayPal, the Royal Bank of Scotland and First Data. For undisclosed reasons, BitPass announced that they were shutting down operations in January 2007, and officially closed on January 26, 2007.
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