Sigma Partners

Sigma Partners, founded in 1984, is a venture capital firm specialising in investments in early stage companies. The firm is based in Boston, Massachusetts and has additional offices in Menlo Park, California and San Ramon, California. Sigma invests in innovative technology startups across the United States. Drawing on deep operational backgrounds as entrepreneurs and executives, Sigma’s partners provide management teams with practical strategic counsel through every phase of company growth.

Melissa Alves

CFO

Richard Dale

Principal

Fahri Diner

MD and General Partner

Lawrence G. Finch

MD

Clifford Haas

MD

Gardner C. Hendrie

Special Limited Partner

JB

J. Burgess Jamieson

Co-Founder

Wade Woodson

MD

347 past transactions

Topio

Series B in 2003
Topio (www.topio.com) provides enterprise-class software for data replication and rapid recovery across the spectrum of locations, platforms and storage that support an enterprise. Worldwide, companies of all sizes depend on Topio for DR, backup consolidation and data migration and continuous data sharing. Topio is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and brings its solutions to market through a combination of global partners.

expressor software

Debt Financing in 2011
expressor provides powerful, feature rich, resource efficient data integration software that offers a unique and intuitive business centric approach to data integration and dramatically simplifies development and reuse. At the core of the platform is expressor's ETL design tool, expressor Studio, which allows users to develop, test, and run data flow applications on their desktop. expressor Standard Edition extends expressor Studio to facilitate team development, version management, and deployment of ETL applications to a standalone parallel processing server.

Tula Technology Inc.

Venture Round in 2012
Tula Technology, Inc. develops and markets Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) cylinder deactivation system, a powertrain technology that integrates digital signal processing with powertrain controls to create variable displacement engines for a range of applications. The company’s DSF cylinder deactivation system enables automotive manufacturers to meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates. It serves customers primarily in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Korea. Tula Technology, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Jose, California with an engineering center in Plymouth, Michigan. Tula Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Delphi Technologies PLC.

Digital Fuel

Series E in 2007
Digital Fuel is the leading provider of customer-facing Business Service Management (BSM) software solutions for SLA management, service catalog, and service financial management. The company's ServiceFlow software manages billions in IT and other business services at companies and governments around the world such as British Telecom, Capgemini, CSC, Cummins, Dell, General Electric, IBM, Nestle, O2, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, and many others. Learn more at www.DigitalFuel.com.

WebGen Systems

Venture Round in 2006
WebGen Systems provides advanced software for energy conservation and control in commercial buildings. They combine the highest level of industry expertise with a reliable suite of open-protocol software tools called IUE®, which provides real-time command of energy use to generate savings. There system connects all aspects of building energy management to automatically measure, monitor, and control energy consumption building by building, system by system, meter by meter, and device by device. In this way, they offer the most effective Enterprise Energy Management solution on the market today.

Silverlink Communications

Series B in 2004
Silverlink Communications is a healthcare IT company that develops solutions for patient communications and engagement. The company provides communications services for managed care, pharmacy, population health, Medicare and Medicaid, multi-channel services, and interactive voice services.

ExaGrid Systems

Series F in 2011
ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based backup solutions in the United States. It also offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions, as well as disk-based backup systems for information technology companies. In addition, the company provides backup applications for backups and restores. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Inflection Systems, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. has satellite offices in the United States and internationally.

TradeBeam

Venture Round in 2003
TradeBeam, a Global Trade Management software and services company, streamlines global trading processes for enterprises and their partners. Comprehensive, integrated solutions delivered via the on-demand SaaS model provide import and export compliance, inventory management, shipment tracking, supply chain event management, and global trade finance solutions.

GainSpan

Series C in 2011
GainSpan brings Ultra-low-power Wi-Fi to sensors and embedded applications. The company's semiconductor solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices. In September of 2006, a core team of engineers and thought leaders spun off from Intel Corporation to form Emphany Systems, later GainSpan. The vision was simple... enable and accelerate the adoption of new wireless usage models for sensor network applications using an existing widely deployed standard technology. The challenge was daunting... while wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years, their market potential has, in fact, been hindered by power consumption issues and lack of mature standards based solutions. The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas.

Jellyvision Inc.

Series B in 2008
Jellyvision Inc. develops and offers online interactive applications and games in the United States. Its interactive conversation applications persuade visitors to take action by adjusting to each visitor's needs in real time. The company was formerly known as Learn Television Inc. and changed its name to Jellyvision Inc. in 1995. Jellyvision Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

ExaGrid Systems

Series A in 2003
ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based backup solutions in the United States. It also offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions, as well as disk-based backup systems for information technology companies. In addition, the company provides backup applications for backups and restores. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Inflection Systems, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. has satellite offices in the United States and internationally.

Aprimo LLC

Series A in 2006
Aprimo delivers technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo is the global leader in delivering technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document effective performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone™ which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo Marketing Studio offers an integrated, interactive marketing solution that enables to develop, implement and manage every aspect of online marketing activities. Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Marketing Studio is designed as a true Software-as-a-Service system to tap underserved market and establish a leadership position in the emerging Online Marketing Management space aimed at mid-size and larger companies.

Nasuni Corporation

Series D in 2014
Nasuni Corporation develops enterprise cloud file storage solutions for organizations worldwide. It offers Nasuni UniFS, a global file system built for the cloud to store, organize, protect, and share unstructured file data. The company’s Nasuni UniFS hybrid cloud platform integrates disparate, siloed point tools into a single as-a-service solution. It serves architecture, engineering and construction, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and advertising, oil and gas, and public sector industries. Nasuni Corporation was founded in 2009 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Reading, United Kingdom; Marlborough, Massachusetts; and Cary, North Carolina.

Solaria Corporation

Series C in 2007
The Solaria Corporation, a solar technology company, manufactures cells and modules for the optics and semiconductor industries. The company develops cell and module technologies that fit into the existing value-add chain. It uses a low-concentration solar PV multiplying technology that produces PV cells from silicon material.

NEXTracker Inc.

Series B in 2015
NEXTracker offers a significant breakthrough in horizontal tracking, with lower costs, better performance and more flexibility for solar power plants. These benefits increase solar project profits for developers, EPCs and system owners. Leveraging world-class design and installation expertise, NEXTracker has delivered trackers for dozens of projects in sizes exceeding 80MW, across 3 continents. The company is headquartered in California with regional offices in Asia, Europe and South America.

Rethink Robotics

Series C in 2012
Rethink Robotics helps manufacturers meet the challenges of an agile economy with an integrated workforce, combining trainable, safe and cost-effective robots with skilled labor. Its Baxter robot, driven by Intera, an advanced software platform, gives world-class manufacturers and distributors in automotive, plastics, consumer goods, electronics and more, a workforce multiplier that optimizes labor. With Rethink Robotics, manufacturers increase flexibility, lower costs and can invest in skilled labor—all advantages in fueling continuous innovation and sustainable competitive advantage. Committed to accelerating robotics innovation in manufacturing and beyond, Rethink Robotics’ Baxter Research Robot gives academic and corporate research environments a humanoid robot platform with integrated sensors and an open software development kit for creating custom applications. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is funded by Bezos Expeditions, Charles River Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Two Sigma Ventures.

Doxo

Series C in 2022
doxo is an all-in-one bill pay service that facilitates secure payment to any biller with any payment method on any device. It currently serves over 4 million users who make payments to 75,000+ local and national businesses, making doxo the largest bill pay directory in the nation. Billers on the network get paid directly and consumers have complete bills pay independence over when and how they pay their bills. The company more than doubled its customer base in 2018 and is expanding its team to further accelerate growth and change the bill pay landscape to focus on the customer. doxo investors include MDV, Sigma Partners, and Bezos Expeditions.
SDL Enterprise Technologies Inc. develops and markets software-as-a-service information management solutions for corporations in the United States and internationally. It offers software solutions in the areas of translation memory, terminology management, and software localization. The company was formerly known as Idiom Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to SDL Enterprise Technologies Inc. in June 2009. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. As of February 11, 2008, SDL Enterprise Technologies Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SDL plc.

AutoVirt

Venture Round in 2010
AutoVirt, Inc. develops and sells a software solution for assessing, migrating, and managing unstructured data stored on NAS devices and Windows file servers. AutoVirt is sold in three product editions: AutoAssess performs a thorough assessment of the file system; AutoMigrate combines assessment with fast, transparent data migration; and AutoManage enables ongoing storage optimization by combing a Global Namespace with a platform for assessing and moving data. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Nashua, New Hampshire.

The Live Green Company

Seed Round in 2021
The Live Green Company develops plant based food. The company offers live green burger mixes, and live green pancake mixes. The Live Green Company was founded in 2018 and is based in Santiago, Chile.

Pindrop Security, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Pindrop uses AI-based IVR Authentication and Anti-Fraud Solutions to increase efficiency in call centers and stop fraudulent transactions. Pindrop solutions are leading the way to the future of voice by providing identity, security, and authentication for every voice interaction. Pindrop solutions protect some of the biggest banks, insurers, and retailers in the world using patented technology that extracts an unrivaled amount of intelligence from every call encountered. Pindrop solutions help detect fraudsters and authenticate callers, reducing fraud and operational costs, while improving customer experience and protecting brand reputation. Pindrop, a privately held company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 2011 and is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, CapitalG, GV, and IVP.

Upwork Inc.

Series C in 2008
Upwork Global Inc. operates an online platform for companies to hire and work with independent professionals. It provides Upwork Enterprise, a freelancer management system that enables companies to access qualified independent talent. The company was formerly known as Elance-oDesk, Inc. and changed its name to Upwork Global Inc. in May 2015. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Mountain View, California with additional offices in San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Oslo, Norway. Upwork Global Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Upwork Inc.

GainSpan

Venture Round in 2012
GainSpan brings Ultra-low-power Wi-Fi to sensors and embedded applications. The company's semiconductor solutions break new ground in Wi-Fi applications by enabling years of battery life for Wi-Fi sensors and other devices. In September of 2006, a core team of engineers and thought leaders spun off from Intel Corporation to form Emphany Systems, later GainSpan. The vision was simple... enable and accelerate the adoption of new wireless usage models for sensor network applications using an existing widely deployed standard technology. The challenge was daunting... while wireless sensor networks have seen steady growth over the past few years, their market potential has, in fact, been hindered by power consumption issues and lack of mature standards based solutions. The solution was innovative... new Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. This allows users to leverage the global Wi-Fi infrastructure, existing tools and knowledge investments, for new applications such as temperature monitoring for energy management, condition monitoring of industrial equipment in manufacturing plants or streetlights in metro areas.
SDL Enterprise Technologies Inc. develops and markets software-as-a-service information management solutions for corporations in the United States and internationally. It offers software solutions in the areas of translation memory, terminology management, and software localization. The company was formerly known as Idiom Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to SDL Enterprise Technologies Inc. in June 2009. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. As of February 11, 2008, SDL Enterprise Technologies Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SDL plc.

ExaGrid Systems

Series D in 2008
ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based backup solutions in the United States. It also offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions, as well as disk-based backup systems for information technology companies. In addition, the company provides backup applications for backups and restores. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Inflection Systems, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. has satellite offices in the United States and internationally.

RaveMobileSafety.com

Series D in 2008
Rave Mobile Safety (formerly Rave Wireless) is the leading provider of safety applications for mobile users. Rave develops, sells and supports enterprise software applications that keep on-the-go people safe and secure.

SugarSync, Inc.

Series D in 2012
SugarSync is a powerful data sync, file sharing and online backup solution ideal for busy professionals and digitally-connected consumers. It enables users to access documents, photos and music across all of their devices, including desktops, laptops and mobile devices (including iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile). The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
BiOM (fromerly iWalk) is a Massachusetts based company whose sole product is the PowerFoot One. The Powerfoot One has two powerful microprocessors and six environmental sensors evaluate and adjust ankle position, stiffness, damping and power thousands of times a second. Control algorithms generate human-like force while traversing level ground, slopes and stairs, providing active amputees with near-normal gait and lower energy expenditure compared to state-of-the-art passive prosthetics.

Strava

Series A in 2011
Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community. Founded in 2009, millions of athletes have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. The company’s free mobile apps and website help members discover and plan workouts, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Strava’s ability to connect athletes around the world makes fitness a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when training alone.

Damballa

Series D in 2011
As the experts in advanced threat protection, Damballa discovers active threats that bypass all security prevention layers. Damballa automatically identifies successful infections and pinpoints devices that represent the highest risk to a business. Our patent-pending solutions combine principles of data science and machine learning to discover threats without prior knowledge of them and regardless of device type, OS and threat vector. Damballa protects nearly a billion endpoints globally at enterprises in every major market and for the world’s largest ISP and telecommunications providers. For more information, visit www.damballa.com, or follow us on Twitter @DamballaInc. Watch an analyst interview with Brian Foster, CTO until June, 2015 , here: https://vimeo.com/129326008

Zetta

Series A in 2010
Zetta provides cloud-based data protection for enterprise and SMBs. It was founded in 2008 by Internet pioneers dedicated to advancing innovation in the cloud and creating better data protection for the modern business.

Recyclebank

Series C in 2011
Recyclebank helps create a more sustainable future by rewarding people for taking everyday green actions with discounts and deals from local and national businesses.

RaveMobileSafety.com

Venture Round in 2010
Rave Mobile Safety (formerly Rave Wireless) is the leading provider of safety applications for mobile users. Rave develops, sells and supports enterprise software applications that keep on-the-go people safe and secure.

Mobiquity

Series A in 2011
Mobiquity Inc. provides digital consulting services. It provides experience design, product engineering, cloud, and analytics services. The company serves retail, restaurants, healthcare, life sciences, insurance, financial services, hospitality, and media and telecom industries. Mobiquity Inc. was formerly known as Mobilocity Inc. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts. It has additional office locations in Ahmedabad and Pune, India; London, United Kingdom; Amsterdam and The Hague, the Netherlands; Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Dallas, Texas; Gainesville, Florida; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and San Francisco, California. As of June 13, 2019, Mobiquity Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Hexaware Technologies, Inc.

MOGL

Venture Round in 2014
MOGL is a restaurant rewards app on a mission to end hunger in the US. Members earn 10% cash-back at 1000's of participating restaurants by paying with a linked credit or debit card. Within seconds of paying they will get an alert on their phone giving them the option to donate some or all of the cash-back to a local food bank. Members can track the progress being made in their city using the Hunger Tracker and compete against friends to see who can donate the most meals. MOGL Loyalty Services, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Solana Beach, California.

Casenet

Venture Round in 2012
Casenet offers customizable care management software solutions, which allow payers and care coordinators of all sizes to partner with consumers and their physicians in making clinical decisions. Among the software solutions, the company offers packages of case management, disease management, utilization management, and extended enterprise.

Encover

Series B in 2004
Encover is a provides applications that help manufacturers collaborate with their channel partners to sell more service contracts into their installed base. Encover's founders designed and built Cisco's award-winning Service Contract Center, which enabled customers to renew service contracts over the Web and provided Cisco with 65% of incremental service revenue over the first two years of operation. High-tech manufacturers that include Juniper Networks have used Encover's applications to increase renewal revenues, reduce the cost of sales and increase visibility into their installed base.

KACE

Series B in 2006
KACE Networks, Inc. operates as a systems management appliance company. The company offers KBOX Systems Management Appliance, which fulfills various systems management needs, such as initial discovery and computer inventory, software distribution, configuration management, patch management, security audit and enforcement, asset management, help desk, remote control, and reporting. Its KBOX Systems Management Appliance offers enhanced support for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices. The company also provides KBOX Systems Deployment Appliance, which fulfills various systems deployment needs, such as computer inventory assessment, OS and application provisioning, migration, and recovery. In addition, it offers Virtual KBOX Systems Management Appliances, an appliance-based solution for companies that have deployed a virtual environment; and AppDeploy, which provides resources for IT professionals focused on application and system deployment. Further, the company provides software license compliance, regulatory compliance, systems and software deployment, cross platform management, virtualization management, and power management solutions. Its products manage desktops, laptops, and servers. KACE Networks, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. As per the transaction announced on February 11, 2010, KACE Networks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dell Inc.

Sage Intacct

Venture Round in 2012
Sage Intacct is 100% invested in meeting the needs of financial professionals, 100% focused on customer success, and 100% committed to the cloud. That’s who they are, and always will be. Customers ranging from startups to public companies rely on Sage Intacct's best-in-class cloud ERP software to deliver the efficiencies and insights that keep them on the fast track of growth, from their first million to their first billion. What distinguishes Sage Intacct most is the company they keep—the employees, partners, and customers that come together to inspire continuous innovation and success. They are the only cloud accounting software company to be appointed a preferred provider by the AICPA and recognized by finance professionals as the highest rated solution for customer satisfaction. They have been ranked Top Workplace for 7 consecutive years and their leadership team includes award winners for Highest Rated CEO, CFO of the Year and CTO Executive of the Year. Headquartered in San Jose, they have a nationwide award-winning channel program and a U.S. based customer support team.

Enkata Technologies

Venture Round in 2006
Enkata is at the cutting edge of big data and data intelligence, with a SaaS platform that uses machine data to help people improve their performance at work. Enkata streams work related activities from the systems people already use, including email, CRM, phone data, and more. We organize that data into useful information about what’s working for people, and find relationships between how people work and the outcomes. Finally, Enkata uses customer specific scoring algorithms to highlight information people should know and recommend specific actions they can take to achieve better outcomes.
BiOM (fromerly iWalk) is a Massachusetts based company whose sole product is the PowerFoot One. The Powerfoot One has two powerful microprocessors and six environmental sensors evaluate and adjust ankle position, stiffness, damping and power thousands of times a second. Control algorithms generate human-like force while traversing level ground, slopes and stairs, providing active amputees with near-normal gait and lower energy expenditure compared to state-of-the-art passive prosthetics.

Nexx Systems

Series D in 2009
NEXX Systems, Inc. provides processing equipment for wafer-level packaging applications. It offers sputter deposition, electro-deposition plating, and plasma cleaning systems. The company’s systems and technologies focus on flip chip advanced packaging, including wafer bumping, wafer cleaning, photoresist strip, and related technologies. Its electro-deposition systems are designed for long deposition time processes required in applications, such as gold and solder wafer bumping, redistribution layers, and various MEMS layers. The company’s systems offer processing technology to the areas of compound semiconductors, hard disk drive head manufacturing, and ink jet printing. NEXX Systems has representatives and distributors in the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, China, Israel, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan. NEXX Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Plasmaquest Astex. NEXX Systems, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts.

Incipient

Series A in 2002
Develops enterprise-class storage, SAN storage virtualization and automated data migration software solutions

Tula Technology Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Tula Technology, Inc. develops and markets Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) cylinder deactivation system, a powertrain technology that integrates digital signal processing with powertrain controls to create variable displacement engines for a range of applications. The company’s DSF cylinder deactivation system enables automotive manufacturers to meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates. It serves customers primarily in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Korea. Tula Technology, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Jose, California with an engineering center in Plymouth, Michigan. Tula Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Delphi Technologies PLC.

Recyclebank

Series B in 2008
Recyclebank helps create a more sustainable future by rewarding people for taking everyday green actions with discounts and deals from local and national businesses.

Zetta

Series B in 2014
Zetta provides cloud-based data protection for enterprise and SMBs. It was founded in 2008 by Internet pioneers dedicated to advancing innovation in the cloud and creating better data protection for the modern business.

Concentric Visions

Series B in 2001
Multimedia internet applications activating through clickable videos.

RaveMobileSafety.com

Series A in 2005
Rave Mobile Safety (formerly Rave Wireless) is the leading provider of safety applications for mobile users. Rave develops, sells and supports enterprise software applications that keep on-the-go people safe and secure.

Empyr

Series B in 2012
Figg is a card-linked platform company uncovering value for advertisers, publishers, and consumers through trusted data insights. Figg is redefining the way advertisers and consumers connect through everyday purchases. Its card-linked platform features the most diverse portfolio of advertiser-funded offers to enrich savings for consumers. The company enables advertisers to design custom offers aimed at building long-term loyalty for leading social platforms, financial institutions, and mobile apps.
Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.

Kateeva

Series D in 2014
Kateeva (formerly TJet Technologies) is driving new advances in OLED production technology. Our inkjet printing manufacturing equipment solution enables flexible and large-size OLEDs to be produced over large areas and in high volume – with longer lifetimes, higher yields and lower production costs. It’s the first economically viable and production-worthy technique to use printing for low-cost mass-production of OLEDs – which means big innovation for the display industry. And for consumer electronics fans, it means those spectacular 55” OLED TVs will soon be within reach, and cool paper-thin, ultra-light wearable computing products will dazzle with extra smarts and smaller form factors. At our LinkedIn home, we’ll keep you up-to-the-minute on our tech milestones and latest moves. And since we’re huge fans on all-things OLED, we’ll occasionally add other cool technology stuff that inspires us to out-invent – even ourselves!

Strava

Series B in 2011
Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community. Founded in 2009, millions of athletes have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. The company’s free mobile apps and website help members discover and plan workouts, record and share activities, and analyze and compare performance. Strava’s ability to connect athletes around the world makes fitness a more social experience, providing extra motivation even when training alone.

Tula Technology Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
Tula Technology, Inc. develops and markets Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) cylinder deactivation system, a powertrain technology that integrates digital signal processing with powertrain controls to create variable displacement engines for a range of applications. The company’s DSF cylinder deactivation system enables automotive manufacturers to meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates. It serves customers primarily in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Korea. Tula Technology, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Jose, California with an engineering center in Plymouth, Michigan. Tula Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Delphi Technologies PLC.

TradeBeam

Venture Round in 2004
TradeBeam, a Global Trade Management software and services company, streamlines global trading processes for enterprises and their partners. Comprehensive, integrated solutions delivered via the on-demand SaaS model provide import and export compliance, inventory management, shipment tracking, supply chain event management, and global trade finance solutions.

ScanCafe

Series B in 2008
ScanCafe Inc. provides image scanning and restoration services in the United States and internationally. It scans and digitally repairs images, including old photos, slides, prints, and negatives. The company also offers pro scanning options, albums and carousels, gift boxes, photo gifts, and gift cards, as well as allows customers to view and select images online. It serves consumers, institutions, photographers, and amateur photo enthusiasts. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Fishers, Indiana with an additional office in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Voxify

Venture Round in 2010
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

Global Food Exchange

Series A in 2000
GlobalFoodExchange.com is the largest and most active business-to-business marketplace for the international food industry. GlobalFoodExchange.com's platform allows buyers and sellers to execute transactions faster and with increased efficiency, while increasing profits and reducing costs. Our customers preserve and enhance their current business relationships while developing new relationships worldwide. Most importantly, our registered users gain valuable market information and drive higher quality and better value products for food companies and their customers worldwide.

OutStart

Venture Round in 2002
OutStart provides social business software and learning systems that act like a lifeline: connecting people to the know-how, creativity, and learning they require to be efficient, effective, and agile.

Bus Radio

Series A in 2006
BusRadio produces a national radio show for broadcast on school buses. The service transmits music, original programming, public service announcements and paid commercials to school children travelling on school buses in selected school districts. Programming was broadcast to the buses via a proprietary radio unit, which downloads BusRadio programming. Other features on the radio unit include GPS, driver panic buttons connected to local emergency services, and internal and external PA systems. BusRadio was founded in 2004 and is based in Needham, Massachusetts.

CallMiner, Inc.

Venture Round in 2010
CallMiner provides speech analytics solutions for improving agent performance. With 14 years of industry leadership and over 2 billion hours of conversations mined, they are able to deliver exceptional value to customers by delivering highly effective, usable, and scalable speech analytics solutions. CallMiner helps businesses and organizations improve contact center performance and gather key business intelligence by automating their ability to listen to every customer interaction. Founders Gallino, LaCoursiere and Brown incubated CallMiner in 2002. Since then they've established a global footprint and have offices throughout the U.S. and U.K. CallMiner strives to maintain an organizational agility that allows them to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the market. Over 300 customer-requested features have been implemented into their products and their software services team brings extensive product knowledge and years of hands-on best-practice expertise to each customer engagement. CallMiner is agnostic to the source system that captures data, supporting integration with all market-leading call recorder, chat, and email systems and popular social networking sites.

Encover

Series A in 2002
Encover is a provides applications that help manufacturers collaborate with their channel partners to sell more service contracts into their installed base. Encover's founders designed and built Cisco's award-winning Service Contract Center, which enabled customers to renew service contracts over the Web and provided Cisco with 65% of incremental service revenue over the first two years of operation. High-tech manufacturers that include Juniper Networks have used Encover's applications to increase renewal revenues, reduce the cost of sales and increase visibility into their installed base.

Aprimo LLC

Series D in 2002
Aprimo delivers technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo is the global leader in delivering technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document effective performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone™ which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo Marketing Studio offers an integrated, interactive marketing solution that enables to develop, implement and manage every aspect of online marketing activities. Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Marketing Studio is designed as a true Software-as-a-Service system to tap underserved market and establish a leadership position in the emerging Online Marketing Management space aimed at mid-size and larger companies.
Hanger Network In-Home Media's EcoHanger Delivery Programs meet business and marketing needs. They are flexible, targeted and efficient. Their products serve the purposes of the client and also protect the environment.

Azuki Systems

Venture Round in 2012
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video delivery platform. To reach this goal they focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for multi-screen video delivery and monetization, and striving to always be building what’s next. Their culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by their customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven managed OTT optimized multi-screen video delivery solution available. Their team is composed of the best leaders, engineers, designers, and technologists in the TV Everywhere, OTT multi-screen video business. Azuki is the only multi-screen video delivery technology built from the ground-up for the unique challenges of mobile and OTT multi-screen. They focus on the challenges of their customers: cable operators, IPTV providers, mobile network operators, content owners and enterprises. Your multi-screen problems are their focus. You can trust that their team, hand-picked, vetted, and proven, is building and supporting the best multi-screen video delivery platform in the world to move your business forward.

Rethink Robotics

Series E in 2017
Rethink Robotics helps manufacturers meet the challenges of an agile economy with an integrated workforce, combining trainable, safe and cost-effective robots with skilled labor. Its Baxter robot, driven by Intera, an advanced software platform, gives world-class manufacturers and distributors in automotive, plastics, consumer goods, electronics and more, a workforce multiplier that optimizes labor. With Rethink Robotics, manufacturers increase flexibility, lower costs and can invest in skilled labor—all advantages in fueling continuous innovation and sustainable competitive advantage. Committed to accelerating robotics innovation in manufacturing and beyond, Rethink Robotics’ Baxter Research Robot gives academic and corporate research environments a humanoid robot platform with integrated sensors and an open software development kit for creating custom applications. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is funded by Bezos Expeditions, Charles River Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Two Sigma Ventures.

Initiate Systems

Venture Round in 2008
Initiate Systems enables companies to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Their master data management (MDM) software and experience as an information exchange leader provide complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple sources, even outside the firewall. This allows companies to unlock the value of your data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements.

Voxify

Series C in 2005
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

Tula Technology Inc.

Venture Round in 2017
Tula Technology, Inc. develops and markets Dynamic Skip Fire (DSF) cylinder deactivation system, a powertrain technology that integrates digital signal processing with powertrain controls to create variable displacement engines for a range of applications. The company’s DSF cylinder deactivation system enables automotive manufacturers to meet fuel efficiency and CO2 mandates. It serves customers primarily in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, and Korea. Tula Technology, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Jose, California with an engineering center in Plymouth, Michigan. Tula Technology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Delphi Technologies PLC.

Incipient

Series D in 2006
Develops enterprise-class storage, SAN storage virtualization and automated data migration software solutions

Voxify

Series C in 2006
Voxify enables contact centers to offer self-service for customer phone calls. Voxify Automated Agents are speech applications that offer the lowest risk to deployment and a rapid return on investment. Built from industry-specific templates and patented conversational models, Voxify Automated Agents allow callers to speak naturally – resulting in the best customer service. Voxify offers managed service for both hosted & premise-based deployments.

OpenPages

Series C in 2004
OpenPages, Inc. provides enterprise governance, risk, and compliance management solutions. The company also offers advisory, implementation, training, hosting, customer support, and optimization services. It serves financial services/insurance, high technology, energy and power, manufacturing, retail/consumer, telecommunications, engineering/construction, media/entertainment/leisure, health services/pharmaceuticals, professional services/consulting, and transportation/freight industries. OpenPages, Inc., formerly known as American Computer Innovators, Inc., was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; London, the United Kingdom; and North America.

Attributor

Series D in 2010
Attributor Corporation provides online book protection services. It offers Digimarc Guardian solution that discovers and validates pirated content on cyberlockers, peer to peer networks, and other offending sites, as well as initiates and manages an integrated takedown process. When Guardian finds a use that is not permitted, the hosting site is alerted and receives a range of alternatives, including an option to switch to authorized content, a licensing request, or ultimately a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice. Attributor also provides an analytics platform that identifies and analyzes a variety of data that illuminates when, how and where digital content is being consumed.
Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.

The Online Asset Exchange

Series B in 2000
The Online Asset Exchange is an internet-based surplus equipment marketplace, which offers extensive support services to its members.

Topio

Series C in 2005
Topio (www.topio.com) provides enterprise-class software for data replication and rapid recovery across the spectrum of locations, platforms and storage that support an enterprise. Worldwide, companies of all sizes depend on Topio for DR, backup consolidation and data migration and continuous data sharing. Topio is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and brings its solutions to market through a combination of global partners.

Azuki Systems

Venture Round in 2010
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video delivery platform. To reach this goal they focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for multi-screen video delivery and monetization, and striving to always be building what’s next. Their culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by their customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven managed OTT optimized multi-screen video delivery solution available. Their team is composed of the best leaders, engineers, designers, and technologists in the TV Everywhere, OTT multi-screen video business. Azuki is the only multi-screen video delivery technology built from the ground-up for the unique challenges of mobile and OTT multi-screen. They focus on the challenges of their customers: cable operators, IPTV providers, mobile network operators, content owners and enterprises. Your multi-screen problems are their focus. You can trust that their team, hand-picked, vetted, and proven, is building and supporting the best multi-screen video delivery platform in the world to move your business forward.

Applied Identity

Series C in 2008
Applied Identity, Inc. offers identity aware network security solutions. It offers ID-Audit, which displays real-time and historical user and resource activity; ID-Unify that enables the management of user identities between disparate identity stores; ID-Enforce, an identity aware network enforcement solution; and ID-Mark, which enables collection of audit data. The company also provides audit and compliance, asset protection, network level user and group separation, and identity virtualization solutions. Its clients include financial services, government department and agencies, technology innovators, and educational institutions.

Centrify Corporation

Series D in 2011
Centrify redefines security from a legacy static perimeter-based approach to protecting millions of scattered connections in a boundaryless hybrid enterprise. As the only industry-recognized leader in both Privileged Identity Management and Identity-as-a-Service, Centrify provides a single platform to secure each user’s access to apps and infrastructure through the power of identity services. This is Next Dimension Security in the Age of Access. Centrify is enabling over 5,000 customers, including over half the Fortune 50, to defend their organizations. To learn more visit www.centrify.com. The Breach Stops Here.

Silverlink Communications

Series D in 2009
Silverlink Communications is a healthcare IT company that develops solutions for patient communications and engagement. The company provides communications services for managed care, pharmacy, population health, Medicare and Medicaid, multi-channel services, and interactive voice services.

Silverlink Communications

Series A in 2003
Silverlink Communications is a healthcare IT company that develops solutions for patient communications and engagement. The company provides communications services for managed care, pharmacy, population health, Medicare and Medicaid, multi-channel services, and interactive voice services.
Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.

View

Series D in 2012
View, Inc. designs and manufactures glass systems for workplace, healthcare, education, and hospitality projects. It markets its products through direct sales and representatives in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Soladigm, Inc. and changed its name to View, Inc. in November 2012. View, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Milpitas, California, with manufacturing facilities in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

VoltDB, Inc.

Series B in 2014
VoltDB's in-memory SQL database combines streaming analytics with transaction processing in a single, horizontal scale-out platform. Customers use VoltDB to build applications that process streaming data the instant it arrives to make immediate, per-event, context-aware decisions. By delivering real-time in-transaction analytics that always produces correct results, VoltDB enables businesses to capture the economic value and develop new revenue opportunities in the mobile, financial services, IoT, energy, advertising, and security industries. The company is privately held with offices in Bedford, Massachusetts, and Santa Clara, California.

Interactions LLC

Series C in 2008
Interactions LLC provides a hosted interactive voice response (IVR) service that enables companies to interact with their customers. Its solutions include HumanTouch, a platform for automated voice and other interactive systems that engages customers in a conversation; Curo Speech, an automatic speech recognition and text to speech application to modernize customer care interactions; and voice, mobile, Web, and consumer electronic interactions. The company serves various financial services and technology industries. Interactions LLC was founded in 2004 and is based in Franklin, Massachusetts with a technology center in Carmel, Indiana. It has additional offices in Austin, Texas; and Franklin, Massachusetts.

Enkata Technologies

Venture Round in 2011
Enkata is at the cutting edge of big data and data intelligence, with a SaaS platform that uses machine data to help people improve their performance at work. Enkata streams work related activities from the systems people already use, including email, CRM, phone data, and more. We organize that data into useful information about what’s working for people, and find relationships between how people work and the outcomes. Finally, Enkata uses customer specific scoring algorithms to highlight information people should know and recommend specific actions they can take to achieve better outcomes.

OpenSpan

Series C in 2008
OpenSpan provides desktop analytics and desktop automation software that improves the productivity of customer-facing and backoffice workers in order to deliver operational efficiency and cost savings, and to enhance the customer experience. OpenSpan is currently deployed to more than 300,000 enterprise desktops in 21 countries, improving an estimated 1.1 billion business processes annually.

Oversight Systems

Series C in 2015
Founded in 2003, Oversight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held, Atlanta-based software company whose continuous transaction monitoring solutions help Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries solve problems related to governance, risk and compliance. Oversight Systems is anchored by a team of professionals who have helped to commercialize network and operating system security; who have secured the largest financial networks in the world; and who have helped to audit some of the most sensitive and mission-critical applications in the world. The Oversight team has revolutionized the way Management, Boards, Auditors, and Shareholders approach ongoing regulatory compliance and the underlying costs and benefits.

Rethink Robotics

Series B in 2010
Rethink Robotics helps manufacturers meet the challenges of an agile economy with an integrated workforce, combining trainable, safe and cost-effective robots with skilled labor. Its Baxter robot, driven by Intera, an advanced software platform, gives world-class manufacturers and distributors in automotive, plastics, consumer goods, electronics and more, a workforce multiplier that optimizes labor. With Rethink Robotics, manufacturers increase flexibility, lower costs and can invest in skilled labor—all advantages in fueling continuous innovation and sustainable competitive advantage. Committed to accelerating robotics innovation in manufacturing and beyond, Rethink Robotics’ Baxter Research Robot gives academic and corporate research environments a humanoid robot platform with integrated sensors and an open software development kit for creating custom applications. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is funded by Bezos Expeditions, Charles River Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Two Sigma Ventures.

High Street Partners

Series C in 2011
HSP simplifies the management and control of international operations and empowers customers to capitalize on their growth opportunities overseas. There unique approach has helped over 300 organizations in over 80 countries.

SugarSync, Inc.

Series B in 2006
SugarSync is a powerful data sync, file sharing and online backup solution ideal for busy professionals and digitally-connected consumers. It enables users to access documents, photos and music across all of their devices, including desktops, laptops and mobile devices (including iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile). The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Vettro

Series A in 2000
Vettro Corp. provides mobile on-demand business applications to the field sales and service organizations. The company offers Vettro 360 solution that exchanges information, including location, driver status, assignment detail, mobile inventory, customer preferences, and time report and expenses, and automates routine tasks and synchronizes the data with the CRM system, as well as allows workers to submit field-generated locate requests from their phones into one-call centers. Vettro Corp. was formerly known as iQenergy.

KACE

Series A in 2005
KACE Networks, Inc. operates as a systems management appliance company. The company offers KBOX Systems Management Appliance, which fulfills various systems management needs, such as initial discovery and computer inventory, software distribution, configuration management, patch management, security audit and enforcement, asset management, help desk, remote control, and reporting. Its KBOX Systems Management Appliance offers enhanced support for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices. The company also provides KBOX Systems Deployment Appliance, which fulfills various systems deployment needs, such as computer inventory assessment, OS and application provisioning, migration, and recovery. In addition, it offers Virtual KBOX Systems Management Appliances, an appliance-based solution for companies that have deployed a virtual environment; and AppDeploy, which provides resources for IT professionals focused on application and system deployment. Further, the company provides software license compliance, regulatory compliance, systems and software deployment, cross platform management, virtualization management, and power management solutions. Its products manage desktops, laptops, and servers. KACE Networks, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. As per the transaction announced on February 11, 2010, KACE Networks, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dell Inc.

Welltok

Series E in 2016
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry’s leading consumer activation platform. Welltok’s solutions empower health plans, employers, providers, and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

CallMiner, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
CallMiner provides speech analytics solutions for improving agent performance. With 14 years of industry leadership and over 2 billion hours of conversations mined, they are able to deliver exceptional value to customers by delivering highly effective, usable, and scalable speech analytics solutions. CallMiner helps businesses and organizations improve contact center performance and gather key business intelligence by automating their ability to listen to every customer interaction. Founders Gallino, LaCoursiere and Brown incubated CallMiner in 2002. Since then they've established a global footprint and have offices throughout the U.S. and U.K. CallMiner strives to maintain an organizational agility that allows them to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the market. Over 300 customer-requested features have been implemented into their products and their software services team brings extensive product knowledge and years of hands-on best-practice expertise to each customer engagement. CallMiner is agnostic to the source system that captures data, supporting integration with all market-leading call recorder, chat, and email systems and popular social networking sites.

iWatt

Series E in 2008
iWatt designs, develops and manufactures power supply control Integrated Circuits (ICs). iWatt technology delivers improvements in size, cost and efficiency. The company's patented techniques set a new standard in power supply performance by reducing component count for lower cost and improved reliability. The iWatt team has made a major breakthrough in power supply control by using digital algorithms to replace traditional analog control solutions.

Servicesoft Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
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MOGL

Series B in 2012
MOGL is a restaurant rewards app on a mission to end hunger in the US. Members earn 10% cash-back at 1000's of participating restaurants by paying with a linked credit or debit card. Within seconds of paying they will get an alert on their phone giving them the option to donate some or all of the cash-back to a local food bank. Members can track the progress being made in their city using the Hunger Tracker and compete against friends to see who can donate the most meals. MOGL Loyalty Services, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Solana Beach, California.

OpenPages

Series B in 2000
OpenPages, Inc. provides enterprise governance, risk, and compliance management solutions. The company also offers advisory, implementation, training, hosting, customer support, and optimization services. It serves financial services/insurance, high technology, energy and power, manufacturing, retail/consumer, telecommunications, engineering/construction, media/entertainment/leisure, health services/pharmaceuticals, professional services/consulting, and transportation/freight industries. OpenPages, Inc., formerly known as American Computer Innovators, Inc., was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; London, the United Kingdom; and North America.

Bus Radio

Series B in 2007
BusRadio produces a national radio show for broadcast on school buses. The service transmits music, original programming, public service announcements and paid commercials to school children travelling on school buses in selected school districts. Programming was broadcast to the buses via a proprietary radio unit, which downloads BusRadio programming. Other features on the radio unit include GPS, driver panic buttons connected to local emergency services, and internal and external PA systems. BusRadio was founded in 2004 and is based in Needham, Massachusetts.

Leyden Energy

Series C in 2013
Leyden Energy formerly Mobius Power, Inc. is a manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries for the consumer electronics, energy storage and electric vehicle markets. The company’s patented and proprietary cell technology addresses the shortcomings of previous generations of lithium-ion products by offering improved energy density, superior product life and optimal safety, even in high temperature environments. In 2010, Leyden Energy was awarded a United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) contract through its government program for lithium-ion advanced development for superior electromechanical energy storage technologies supporting the commercialization of hybrid and electric vehicles. Leyden Energy’s pilot manufacturing, testing facility and executive offices are located in Fremont, Calif.