Meakem Becker Venture Capital

Shipwire provides [product fulfillment](http://www.shipwire.com) to growing product brands and retailers with [ecommerce order fulfillment](http://www.shipwire.com) services powered by a global warehouse network and a cloud logistics platform. Shipwire eliminates the hassle of storage and shipping, so merchants can focus on growth. Warehouse network includes locations in: Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, London, and Hong Kong. Shipwire allows brands to reduce shipping costs by locating inventory closer to buyers. Merchants send inventory to Shipwire warehouses and connect Shipwire to their online store, marketplace listings, or order systems. As orders flow to Shipwire, they are optimized for least-cost delivery and fulfilled from the warehouse located closest to the buyer. Shipwire is developer- and partner-friendly, with an [ecommerce affiliate partner program](http://www.shipwire.com/partners/). Shipwire publishes news about the platform and the logistics industry on their [Order Fulfillment Blog](http://www.shipwire.com/w/blog/).

Schoology, a CODiE-award-winning learning management solution, provides a rich, collaborative learning environment that engages digital natives with the technology they enjoy using. This versatile solution is designed to meet the learning and administrative needs of K-12, higher ed, and corporate settings. Schoology allows for individual subscriptions and school or district-wide enterprise packages. Individual subscriptions allow schools to try the system in a limited number of classrooms before deciding to implement it on a larger scale. Teachers and professors can sign up on their own to start using the system independently.

Niche.com Inc. operates an online platform that allows users to discover the schools, companies, and neighborhoods in the United States. Its platform offers reviews, analysis, rankings, report cards, and profiles for K-12 schools, colleges, graduate schools, and places to live. Niche.com Inc. was formerly known as College Prowler, Inc. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Cloudmeter transforms real-time network data into actionable information for IT and business users, helping organizations understand and optimize their end users’ experiences. The company’s products, Cloudmeter Insight and Cloudmeter Stream, use ultralight agents that passively mine Big Data streams generated by web applications without introducing risk or degrading performance. Cloudmeter Insight is the most advanced End User Management SaaS solution, which uniquely incorporates visual session replay for exceptionally detailed problem analysis. Cloudmeter Stream combines state-of-the-art data capture with event processing, and seamlessly integrates real-time information with many databases, business intelligence and Big Data products to help organizations conquer their most demanding analytics needs. Cloudmeter is a venture-funded start-up based in Mountain View, California that works with companies whose web presence is critical to their business, including name brand customers such as Netflix, SAP, Saks Fifth Avenue and Skinit.

Webcarzz is purportedly to be an online gaming site offering a "casual multiplayer online game that offers a social space in which users can engage in play amongst others, but which does not require fixed play patterns, or skill levels, for success." If you have any further information about Webcarzz, please update this profile.

Schoology, a CODiE-award-winning learning management solution, provides a rich, collaborative learning environment that engages digital natives with the technology they enjoy using. This versatile solution is designed to meet the learning and administrative needs of K-12, higher ed, and corporate settings. Schoology allows for individual subscriptions and school or district-wide enterprise packages. Individual subscriptions allow schools to try the system in a limited number of classrooms before deciding to implement it on a larger scale. Teachers and professors can sign up on their own to start using the system independently.

NearVerse develops the NearCloud tech platform, unifying device-to-device and 3G / 4G wireless networking into a single system for 5-10x faster wireless Internet delivery and 5-10x more accurate location ID service, and LoKast, a real-time mobile messaging and media sharing platform, also supporting best-of-breed proximity-based functionality. NearVerse is based in NYC.

Schoology, a CODiE-award-winning learning management solution, provides a rich, collaborative learning environment that engages digital natives with the technology they enjoy using. This versatile solution is designed to meet the learning and administrative needs of K-12, higher ed, and corporate settings. Schoology allows for individual subscriptions and school or district-wide enterprise packages. Individual subscriptions allow schools to try the system in a limited number of classrooms before deciding to implement it on a larger scale. Teachers and professors can sign up on their own to start using the system independently.

Leostream Corporation operates as a vendor agnostic management software company. The company's products include P>V Direct 3.0 that provides automated conversions without the reboot; and Hosted desktop connection broker, which manages access to hosted desktops. Its solutions comprise one-time automated physical to virtual conversions; Disk Synchronization to create a virtual machine image; and Virtual Hosted Desktop Controller that provides access control. Leostream Corporation was founded in 2002 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Kiva Systems (nee Distrobot Systems) makes an order fulfillment system based around short, orange robots. Inventory is kept on racks which are picked up and moved by the robots.

[Rudder](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rudder), formerly Spendview, is a personalized financial management tool that allows users to separate and classify income, expenses, and how they want to spend money. Rudder keeps track of daily account balances, upcoming bills, outstanding payments on credit cards, and will allow for designated percentages to be set aside for savings. The product includes a Budgeting tool, Personal Budget Calculator, and an Excel budget worksheet, among other services. To protect security, the site does not require personal information, other than email, for login or signup, and does not keep records of bank account numbers. Based in Houston, TX

LiquidTalk is a mobile workforce engagement solution provider, allowing an enterprise to push audio and video content, such as sales training, product information, knowledge, training sessions, recorded conference calls, best sales pitches, customer testimonials, product overviews and demos, heard-on-street news, and corporate and customer communication directly to the mobile devices of remote employees. LiquidTalk assists companies connect and engage mobile employees to spur productivity. Its on-demand application enables sales, services, and other remote workers to find, organize, create, and distribute enterprise audio and video business content to various mobile devices. LiquidTalk was established in 2006 and is based in Chicago, I.L.

HotPads is a map-based housing search engine, delivering the most meaningful and interactive housing search experience online. HotPads features rentals, homes for sale, foreclosures, vacation rentals, and hotels. HotPads.com launched in November of 2005 as a map-based rental housing search engine. It quickly grew to over 500,000 active rental listings including both rental houses and apartments. In November of 2007, HotPads launched a For Sale search engine to compliment its growing rental portal. It has grown to nearly 3,500,000 active For Sale listings. In 2009, HotPads launched vacation rentals and hotels, becoming the first truly map-based vacation housing search engine. HotPads is now a Zillow, Inc. business, having been acquired by the company in 2012. HotPads works to deliver as much relevant information to housing shoppers as possible during their search. It features demographic and housing heat maps that allow users to get quick snapshots of cities or neighborhoods. HotPads also maps points of interest like schools attendance zones, public transportation stops, and enables users to mark their own points of interest like "work" and "favorite cafe". Home shoppers also have the ability to hand-draw their own search right on the map with the Lasso tool and visualize area prices with the HotSpots tool. HotPads also features the first Buy vs. Rent search portal. Housing shoppers can browse both homes for sale and for rent at the same time based on the estimated monthly cost. Users can customize the mortgage variables to meet their unique situation. This allows housing shoppers to see exactly what they can afford to buy and what they can afford to rent, allowing them to make more informed housing decisions.

Leostream Corporation operates as a vendor agnostic management software company. The company's products include P>V Direct 3.0 that provides automated conversions without the reboot; and Hosted desktop connection broker, which manages access to hosted desktops. Its solutions comprise one-time automated physical to virtual conversions; Disk Synchronization to create a virtual machine image; and Virtual Hosted Desktop Controller that provides access control. Leostream Corporation was founded in 2002 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.