Ceros

Oroson Limited is a company that designs and develops productivity software aimed at enhancing collaboration and workflow for users. Founded in 2013 and based in Ballyclare, United Kingdom, Oroson offers a cloud-based platform that centralizes content and communication, allowing users to store, share, and discuss their work in one online hub. The platform addresses challenges related to information overload and miscommunication by streamlining processes and facilitating feedback. By providing a single location for visual work and collaboration, Oroson helps clients avoid lengthy email exchanges and ensures efficient communication among team members, regardless of their geographical location.

Avocode, Inc. is a software company that specializes in facilitating collaboration between designers and developers. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, it offers a range of tools aimed at streamlining the design-to-development workflow. Avocode's products include features for auto-generating specifications from various design files, conducting design reviews, and enabling online editing of copy directly within design applications such as Adobe XD, Sketch, and Figma. The software allows users to export and share assets, including colors, images, fonts, and CSS, without the need for extensive layer preparation. By acting as a bridge between design and development teams, Avocode enhances efficiency in web and mobile project workflows.

ChartBlocks Ltd. is a cloud-based platform established in 2013, based in Medway, United Kingdom. It specializes in providing an online charting service that enables users to create interactive and embeddable charts. The platform allows users to customize their charts, connect them to various data sources—including spreadsheets and databases—and easily share them online or offline. By offering tools for drawing, designing, and hosting charts, ChartBlocks simplifies the process of integrating visual data representations into websites and applications. The company was founded by Arron Woods and Sam Bell and operates as a subsidiary of Ceros Inc.

Crowd Fusion (now Ceros) is a publishing platform that combines the best of several popular applications like blogging, wikis, tagging and workflow management into a powerful open source framework in order to enable rapid deployment of new features and to solve the pain points of publishing vertical destination sites at scale. Founded in 2007 by CEO Brian Alvey (former co-founder of Weblogs, Inc) and CTO Craig Wood, Crowd Fusion raised $3 million from Velocity Interactive Group, Greycroft Partners and Marc Andreessen in July of 2008. Velocity's Jon Miller and Greycroft's Ian Sigalow joined the company's board of directors. When Miller left Velocity to become the CEO of Digital Media at Newscorp, Velocity changed its name to Fuse Capital and Fuse's Mickie Rosen joined the board. In September of 2008, Crowd Fusion launched its first showcase site, Obsessable, covering consumer electronics. In December of 2008, Crowd Fusion launched another showcase site, Super Eco, covering green news. In 2009, Crowd Fusion has explored working with other publishers to conquer various verticals like sports, finance, food, fashion, music, health, cars, entertainment and parenting, while using the showcase sites as a testing ground to further plan and develop the Crowd Fusion platform. Ceros acquired by Crowd Fusion and changed name to Ceros.