Cubic Creative
Acquisition in 2019
Cubic Creative is a full-service creative agency based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, specializing in advertising services. The agency offers a comprehensive range of solutions, including brand research and strategy, creative development, media implementation, and website development. By focusing on trans-media innovation, Cubic Creative builds and promotes brands while delivering effective marketing strategies that drive sales opportunities and foster stronger relationships between clients and their audiences. The agency combines an understanding of brand value, marketing strategies, and technology to enhance business efficiencies for its clients.
Rivet
Venture Round in 2015
Rivet Radio, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that creates and distributes audio news and feature stories on a global scale. It offers a range of products, including business podcasts, national and international news, corporate reports, and training materials for employee communications and compliance. Rivet provides an API that allows businesses to access and integrate its audio content into their own distribution channels, enhancing their communication strategies. Additionally, the company produces custom branded audio content for corporate websites and offers a mobile app that delivers personalized audio news. Founded in 2012 and originally known as HearHere Radio, Rivet has established itself as a notable player in the audio news industry, providing services that cater to both individual consumers and enterprise clients.
Distribion
Acquisition in 2015
Distribion is a provider of a comprehensive marketing solution software designed to streamline the complexities of distributed marketing for organizations. Its web-based platform enables clients to manage various aspects of their brand efficiently, offering features such as content management, campaign execution, and analytics. The software allows corporate and local marketers, along with field sales and marketing partners, to create, store, localize, and measure marketing communications across multiple channels. By empowering producers and franchises with dynamic customization options for corporate collateral, Distribion helps organizations enhance their marketing effectiveness while maintaining brand consistency.
Vertical Nerve
Acquisition in 2015
Vertical Nerve is a digital optimization agency that specializes in delivering measurable results for clients through tailored programs aimed at increasing traffic and converting visitors into sales and leads. With 17 years of experience, the company has a proven track record of enhancing return on investment from digital channels. Vertical Nerve offers a comprehensive range of online performance marketing services, including digital analytics, conversion rate optimization, search marketing, display advertising, and both web and mobile marketing. Additionally, the agency provides web development and design services, ensuring a holistic approach to improving clients' online presence and effectiveness.
Rivet
Venture Round in 2014
Rivet Radio, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that creates and distributes audio news and feature stories on a global scale. It offers a range of products, including business podcasts, national and international news, corporate reports, and training materials for employee communications and compliance. Rivet provides an API that allows businesses to access and integrate its audio content into their own distribution channels, enhancing their communication strategies. Additionally, the company produces custom branded audio content for corporate websites and offers a mobile app that delivers personalized audio news. Founded in 2012 and originally known as HearHere Radio, Rivet has established itself as a notable player in the audio news industry, providing services that cater to both individual consumers and enterprise clients.
Digital Air Strike
Venture Round in 2009
Digital Air Strike is a prominent company specializing in social media technology, digital engagement, and lead response services, aimed at enhancing social engagement for businesses worldwide while delivering measurable returns on investment. As a pioneer in digital response, social marketing, and online reputation management, the company offers a range of industry-specific mobile applications, software, and managed service platforms designed to monitor and improve consumer engagement. Digital Air Strike serves thousands of businesses across the United States and Canada, including several major automotive manufacturers, helping them effectively manage their digital presence and interactions with customers.
Homesnap
Seed Round in 2009
Homesnap is a technology company specializing in real estate services. It offers a mobile platform that aggregates comprehensive property data from various sources like MLS listings, tax records, census data, and geographic boundaries. This platform enables agents, brokers, and consumers to access detailed property information, including school zones, property lines, and history. Additionally, Homesnap powers the Broker Public Portal, a collaborative venture between real estate brokerages and Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), providing consumers with direct access to accurate property data while adhering to fair display guidelines.
Digital Cyclone
Venture Round in 2000
Digital Cyclone is a provider of weather information software, specializing in mobile applications that deliver location-based weather data. The company focuses on enhancing users' access to accurate and timely weather information, utilizing advanced technology to meet the needs of consumers. By offering solutions that cater to various locations, Digital Cyclone helps users make informed decisions based on real-time weather updates. The company's commitment to innovation and user-friendly design positions it as a significant player in the weather information sector.
Digital:Convergence Corporation
Series A in 1999
Digital:Convergence allows media companies, manufacturers and virtually all organizations to link their printed or broadcast content and advertisements as well as their products directly to web pages deep within their websites. The company's technology, which includes the :CueCat device and :CRQ software, takes a broadcast viewer or reader of print media directly to relevant information on the Internet. The :CRQ software responds to a proprietary digital signal called a "cue" that is transmitted. Digital:Convergence became on of the first .dotCom era Unicorns (even before the term was coined). Scheduled for it's IPO lead by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, ING Barings LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC and Bear, Sterns & Co. Inc. The IPO was registered to share an initial 10,000,000 shares at a price which could go as high as $40. The IPO was pushed due to weakening markets and then the company became part of the huge .dotCom market crash. The company was shuttered, however a new company was formed - lead by founder Jovan Hutton Pulitzer; to insure the patents and the technology survived. Those patents matured and are now one of the most financially successful patent portfolios ever created.
Digital:Convergence Corporation
Seed Round in 1998
Digital:Convergence allows media companies, manufacturers and virtually all organizations to link their printed or broadcast content and advertisements as well as their products directly to web pages deep within their websites. The company's technology, which includes the :CueCat device and :CRQ software, takes a broadcast viewer or reader of print media directly to relevant information on the Internet. The :CRQ software responds to a proprietary digital signal called a "cue" that is transmitted. Digital:Convergence became on of the first .dotCom era Unicorns (even before the term was coined). Scheduled for it's IPO lead by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, ING Barings LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC and Bear, Sterns & Co. Inc. The IPO was registered to share an initial 10,000,000 shares at a price which could go as high as $40. The IPO was pushed due to weakening markets and then the company became part of the huge .dotCom market crash. The company was shuttered, however a new company was formed - lead by founder Jovan Hutton Pulitzer; to insure the patents and the technology survived. Those patents matured and are now one of the most financially successful patent portfolios ever created.