First Round Capital

First Round Capital, established in 2004, is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage investments. It focuses on building a robust community of technology entrepreneurs and companies, providing custom software solutions, in-person experiences, and unique services to help early-stage companies grow. First Round Capital has invested in notable startups like Uber, Square, and Warby Parker, and has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider to promote diversity in its portfolio. The firm invests nationally, with additional offices in San Francisco and New York, typically providing around $500,000 in the initial investment. It actively supports its portfolio companies and has facilitated a VC-sponsored exchange fund for qualified entrepreneurs. To date, members of the First Round Capital community have raised over $2.5 billion in follow-on capital.

Meka Asonye

Partner

Brett Berson

Partner

Jeff Donnon

CFO

Amy Fu

Vice President of Investments

Todd Jackson

Partner

Josh Kopelman

Founder and Partner

Whitnie Narcisse

Operating Partner

James Wu

Infrastructure and AI / ML Investor

Past deals in Marketing

Clay

Series B in 2025
Clay is a company that offers innovative tools designed to assist growth teams in identifying and connecting with their ideal customers. By integrating first-party, intent, and third-party data from over 100 sources, Clay's platform facilitates comprehensive customer research. This streamlined approach allows teams to enhance their workflows and effectively target their outreach efforts, ultimately driving business growth.

Gumloop

Series A in 2025
Gumloop is a technology company that offers a user-friendly, no-code platform for automating various business workflows using artificial intelligence. Its platform enables users, regardless of coding knowledge, to design and execute complex tasks such as web scraping, document processing, and SEO marketing through a visual interface. By integrating with multiple applications, Gumloop helps businesses across diverse sectors boost productivity and optimize operations.

Clay

Series B in 2024
Clay is a company that offers innovative tools designed to assist growth teams in identifying and connecting with their ideal customers. By integrating first-party, intent, and third-party data from over 100 sources, Clay's platform facilitates comprehensive customer research. This streamlined approach allows teams to enhance their workflows and effectively target their outreach efforts, ultimately driving business growth.

Mercantile

Venture Round in 2022
Mercantile offers premium credit card services specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses. By providing these financial products, the company aims to empower business owners to compete effectively against larger corporations. Mercantile's credit cards not only help businesses manage their payables, but also create new high-margin revenue opportunities through program dividends. This focus on enhancing the financial resilience of smaller enterprises positions Mercantile as a valuable partner in a market predominantly governed by larger players.

&open

Series A in 2022
&Open is a gifting platform that facilitates the sending of digital and physical gifts from brands to individuals globally. The platform is designed to enhance customer loyalty, retention, and engagement across various teams, including sales, marketing, and customer experience. It offers tools for branded communication, integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, and provides impact tracking to help brands measure effectiveness. By streamlining the gifting process, &Open enables brands to foster stronger connections with their customers and drive advocacy.

&open

Seed Round in 2021
&Open is a gifting platform that facilitates the sending of digital and physical gifts from brands to individuals globally. The platform is designed to enhance customer loyalty, retention, and engagement across various teams, including sales, marketing, and customer experience. It offers tools for branded communication, integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, and provides impact tracking to help brands measure effectiveness. By streamlining the gifting process, &Open enables brands to foster stronger connections with their customers and drive advocacy.

Stensul

Series B in 2020
Stensul is an email generation platform designed to streamline the email creation process for enterprise marketers. By centralizing and pre-configuring the platform for each brand, Stensul eliminates the need for extensive collaboration with designers, developers, and quality assurance teams. This allows marketers to concentrate on crafting engaging content that drives results. The platform simplifies complex coding and design tasks, enabling marketing teams to produce mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand and legal guidelines. With Stensul, businesses can efficiently build and send emails through their existing email service providers or marketing clouds, ultimately reducing production time and costs while enhancing communication effectiveness.

Clay

Series A in 2019
Clay is a company that offers innovative tools designed to assist growth teams in identifying and connecting with their ideal customers. By integrating first-party, intent, and third-party data from over 100 sources, Clay's platform facilitates comprehensive customer research. This streamlined approach allows teams to enhance their workflows and effectively target their outreach efforts, ultimately driving business growth.

Stensul

Series A in 2018
Stensul is an email generation platform designed to streamline the email creation process for enterprise marketers. By centralizing and pre-configuring the platform for each brand, Stensul eliminates the need for extensive collaboration with designers, developers, and quality assurance teams. This allows marketers to concentrate on crafting engaging content that drives results. The platform simplifies complex coding and design tasks, enabling marketing teams to produce mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand and legal guidelines. With Stensul, businesses can efficiently build and send emails through their existing email service providers or marketing clouds, ultimately reducing production time and costs while enhancing communication effectiveness.

Clay

Seed Round in 2017
Clay is a company that offers innovative tools designed to assist growth teams in identifying and connecting with their ideal customers. By integrating first-party, intent, and third-party data from over 100 sources, Clay's platform facilitates comprehensive customer research. This streamlined approach allows teams to enhance their workflows and effectively target their outreach efforts, ultimately driving business growth.

Zenreach

Series C in 2017
Zenreach, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides online marketing solutions aimed at improving customer acquisition and lifetime value for businesses with physical locations. Founded in 2011, Zenreach developed Walk-Through Marketing to integrate digital marketing with in-store outcomes. Their Zenreach Engage platform automatically tracks customer visits, creating and updating detailed customer profiles. Additionally, Zenreach Attract enhances advertising effectiveness by targeting audiences based on existing customer data, reportedly improving ad performance by four times. The company measures success through its proprietary Walk-Through Rate™, which indicates when an individual exposed to an advertisement subsequently visits a location. Zenreach serves a diverse clientele, including thousands of independent merchants and well-known brands.

Reserve Media

Series B in 2017
Reserve Media, Inc. is a hospitality technology company that offers a digital dining concierge service designed to connect restaurants with diners. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston, Reserve provides a platform that allows customers to discover restaurants, make reservations, and receive personalized services, while also enabling restaurants to enhance their customer relationship management and gain valuable insights into their operations. The platform aims to reduce reservation cancellations and improve the overall dining experience by streamlining the booking process. Reserve has established partnerships with numerous renowned chefs and restaurateurs, positioning itself as a leading resource in the industry. The service is accessible through a mobile app available for both iOS and Android devices. As of 2018, Reserve Media operates as a subsidiary of Resy Network, Inc.

Stensul

Seed Round in 2016
Stensul is an email generation platform designed to streamline the email creation process for enterprise marketers. By centralizing and pre-configuring the platform for each brand, Stensul eliminates the need for extensive collaboration with designers, developers, and quality assurance teams. This allows marketers to concentrate on crafting engaging content that drives results. The platform simplifies complex coding and design tasks, enabling marketing teams to produce mobile-responsive emails that adhere to brand and legal guidelines. With Stensul, businesses can efficiently build and send emails through their existing email service providers or marketing clouds, ultimately reducing production time and costs while enhancing communication effectiveness.

Arbor

Series A in 2016
Arbor Technologies, Inc. operates an online marketplace focused on people-based data, allowing publishers and app developers to effectively monetize their data assets while maintaining privacy and transparency. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in San Francisco, Arbor's platform offers marketers accurate insights into customer behavior and facilitates precise engagement strategies. By leveraging deterministic data, Arbor enhances brand loyalty and revenue per user, ultimately connecting brands with real individuals in a meaningful way. The company is supported by notable investors, including First Round, Canaan Partners, and Great Oaks, and operates as a subsidiary of LiveRamp, Inc.

Zenreach

Series B in 2016
Zenreach, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides online marketing solutions aimed at improving customer acquisition and lifetime value for businesses with physical locations. Founded in 2011, Zenreach developed Walk-Through Marketing to integrate digital marketing with in-store outcomes. Their Zenreach Engage platform automatically tracks customer visits, creating and updating detailed customer profiles. Additionally, Zenreach Attract enhances advertising effectiveness by targeting audiences based on existing customer data, reportedly improving ad performance by four times. The company measures success through its proprietary Walk-Through Rate™, which indicates when an individual exposed to an advertisement subsequently visits a location. Zenreach serves a diverse clientele, including thousands of independent merchants and well-known brands.

Relay Network

Series B in 2016
Relay Network, LLC is a technology company based in Radnor, Pennsylvania, that facilitates communication between brands and their customers via a private messaging application. Established in 2009, Relay Network enables businesses to send messages on behalf of service providers, allowing customers to opt in to receive notifications and service alerts. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, insurance, cable, energy, travel, and hospitality. By providing tools for designing, orchestrating, and automating customer engagement, Relay Network aims to enhance the quality of customer interactions and build lasting relationships.

Zodiac

Seed Round in 2016
Zodiac Inc. specializes in predictive analytics solutions that forecast individualized customer lifetime value by leveraging real-time sales data. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company aims to transform businesses into customer-centric organizations by providing insights into customer behavior. Zodiac’s cloud-based platform employs advanced data models and customer analytics to predict future behaviors, enabling marketers to make informed decisions about campaign optimization and sales forecasting. By focusing on individual customer metrics, Zodiac helps organizations acquire and retain high-value customers while minimizing ineffective spending. The company operates as a subsidiary of NIKE, Inc.

Curalate

Series C in 2016
Curalate, Inc. operates an online platform that helps brands facilitate consumer discovery and purchase decisions. The platform transforms images and videos into digital storefronts across websites, social media, advertisements, and emails. Curalate provides tools for brands to link products from social media, automate content posting, and gain insights into engagement metrics. Additionally, it allows brands to monitor their campaigns, competitors, and influencers. Founded in 2011 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Seattle, and London, Curalate serves hundreds of leading brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, and Sephora. The company's services enhance the connection between off-site discovery and on-site conversion, driving revenue growth on platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook. Curalate was previously known as Storably, Inc. and became a subsidiary of Bazaarvoice, Inc. in July 2020.

Influitive

Series B in 2015
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.

Influitive

Series B in 2015
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.

LiveIntent

Series D in 2015
LiveIntent is a technology platform that enhances email as a marketing tool, allowing brands to effectively connect with their customers. The company specializes in people-based targeting, email monetization, and identity resolution, providing solutions that benefit both marketers and publishers. By facilitating direct engagement with audiences, LiveIntent helps businesses drive sales and increase revenue while ensuring user privacy is respected. The platform aims to bridge the gaps between brands and their target audiences, maximizing the potential of email marketing.

GumGum

Series C in 2015
GumGum, Inc. is a technology company based in Santa Monica, California, that specializes in artificial intelligence, particularly in computer vision and natural language processing. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on unlocking the value of visual content generated across various platforms, including the web and broadcast television. GumGum provides a range of services, such as in-image advertising, influencer marketing, targeted media buying, and site monetization. Its flagship products include GumGum Visual Intelligence, a platform for real-time visual listening that assists brands in identifying and activating online imagery, and AdBuilder, which allows brands to create and manage in-image and in-screen advertisements. By using advanced machine learning and deep learning technologies, GumGum enhances contextual advertising and aids marketers in maximizing the media value of their investments. The company maintains a presence with additional offices in major cities across the United States, as well as locations in London and Sydney.

Percolate

Series C in 2015
Percolate is a content marketing platform that enhances global marketing visibility and collaboration for brands. It offers a comprehensive suite of web and mobile marketing tools that streamline governance, planning, content creation, audience acquisition, customer management, and analytics. By uniting brand narratives, data, and storytelling, Percolate enables marketers to effectively manage complex marketing programs and integrated campaigns. This functionality allows organizations to gain control and agility, ensuring that personalized content is aligned with customer interactions across various teams and locations.

Arbor

Seed Round in 2015
Arbor Technologies, Inc. operates an online marketplace focused on people-based data, allowing publishers and app developers to effectively monetize their data assets while maintaining privacy and transparency. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in San Francisco, Arbor's platform offers marketers accurate insights into customer behavior and facilitates precise engagement strategies. By leveraging deterministic data, Arbor enhances brand loyalty and revenue per user, ultimately connecting brands with real individuals in a meaningful way. The company is supported by notable investors, including First Round, Canaan Partners, and Great Oaks, and operates as a subsidiary of LiveRamp, Inc.

Looker

Series B in 2015
Looker is an enterprise platform specializing in business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics, aimed at enhancing data-driven decision-making for businesses. By integrating data into daily workflows, Looker enables organizations to derive actionable insights that drive operational efficiency and create new value streams. The platform supports various functions, including digital marketing analytics and web event analytics, allowing businesses to unlock the full potential of their data at scale. As part of Google Cloud, Looker continues to evolve its offerings, focusing on delivering meaningful insights at critical decision points and embedding data seamlessly into products and workflows.

Curalate

Series B in 2014
Curalate, Inc. operates an online platform that helps brands facilitate consumer discovery and purchase decisions. The platform transforms images and videos into digital storefronts across websites, social media, advertisements, and emails. Curalate provides tools for brands to link products from social media, automate content posting, and gain insights into engagement metrics. Additionally, it allows brands to monitor their campaigns, competitors, and influencers. Founded in 2011 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Seattle, and London, Curalate serves hundreds of leading brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, and Sephora. The company's services enhance the connection between off-site discovery and on-site conversion, driving revenue growth on platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook. Curalate was previously known as Storably, Inc. and became a subsidiary of Bazaarvoice, Inc. in July 2020.

elicit

Series A in 2014
Elicit, Inc. is an internet SaaS software company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in enhancing on-site search functionalities for marketers and retailers. The company's software offers a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface that allows users to customize search results based on various parameters, including context, time, keyword, and location. This capability enables businesses to better align their search results with brand narratives, marketing strategies, and promotional initiatives, ultimately transforming the search box into a valuable branding and conversion tool. Founded in 2011, Elicit aims to empower marketers by providing them with control over one of the most utilized features on their websites.

Relay Network

Series A in 2014
Relay Network, LLC is a technology company based in Radnor, Pennsylvania, that facilitates communication between brands and their customers via a private messaging application. Established in 2009, Relay Network enables businesses to send messages on behalf of service providers, allowing customers to opt in to receive notifications and service alerts. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, insurance, cable, energy, travel, and hospitality. By providing tools for designing, orchestrating, and automating customer engagement, Relay Network aims to enhance the quality of customer interactions and build lasting relationships.

Percolate

Series B in 2014
Percolate is a content marketing platform that enhances global marketing visibility and collaboration for brands. It offers a comprehensive suite of web and mobile marketing tools that streamline governance, planning, content creation, audience acquisition, customer management, and analytics. By uniting brand narratives, data, and storytelling, Percolate enables marketers to effectively manage complex marketing programs and integrated campaigns. This functionality allows organizations to gain control and agility, ensuring that personalized content is aligned with customer interactions across various teams and locations.

Nomi

Series A in 2013
Nomi is an omni-channel marketing platform designed to enhance customer engagement for retailers. By analyzing and optimizing the return on investment from offline marketing and store operations, Nomi quantifies the effectiveness of marketing campaigns in driving foot traffic and assesses customer lifetime value. The platform helps retailers evaluate how well stores convert visitors into buyers, identify underperforming staff, and measure the impact of training and management investments on customer behavior. Nomi offers a comprehensive view of the customer conversion funnel, enabling retailers to predict store performance and diagnose operational issues proactively. Founded in September 2012 by Marc Ferrentino, Corey Capasso, Wesley Barrow, Peter Quintas, and Robert Balousek, the company is headquartered in New York, United States.

Looker

Series A in 2013
Looker is an enterprise platform specializing in business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics, aimed at enhancing data-driven decision-making for businesses. By integrating data into daily workflows, Looker enables organizations to derive actionable insights that drive operational efficiency and create new value streams. The platform supports various functions, including digital marketing analytics and web event analytics, allowing businesses to unlock the full potential of their data at scale. As part of Google Cloud, Looker continues to evolve its offerings, focusing on delivering meaningful insights at critical decision points and embedding data seamlessly into products and workflows.

Solve Media

Series B in 2013
Solve Media, Inc. is an advertising company that specializes in providing a digital media platform designed for publishers, advertisers, and agencies. The company offers various advertising solutions, including online and mobile formats such as CAPTCHA, display ads, videos, and skippable pre-rolls. These services aim to enhance brand engagement and improve key performance metrics like message delivery, recall rates, and return on investment for advertisers. Additionally, Solve Media's platform serves to protect website publishers from automated submissions and fraudulent activities. Founded in 2009 and originally known as AdCopy, Inc., the company rebranded to Solve Media in 2010 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with additional offices in major cities including New York, Chicago, and London. Since 2015, Solve Media has operated as a subsidiary of Adiant.

Looker

Seed Round in 2013
Looker is an enterprise platform specializing in business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics, aimed at enhancing data-driven decision-making for businesses. By integrating data into daily workflows, Looker enables organizations to derive actionable insights that drive operational efficiency and create new value streams. The platform supports various functions, including digital marketing analytics and web event analytics, allowing businesses to unlock the full potential of their data at scale. As part of Google Cloud, Looker continues to evolve its offerings, focusing on delivering meaningful insights at critical decision points and embedding data seamlessly into products and workflows.

myDocket

Series A in 2013
myDocket, Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that provides a platform for sales teams to organize and share various types of content, such as presentations, whitepapers, case studies, and videos. Founded in 2012 and originally known as Handshakez, Inc., myDocket aims to reduce uncertainty in the sales process by allowing sales representatives to track which materials are viewed and when by their clients. This capability helps salespeople understand customer engagement and improve their follow-up strategies. The platform features an aesthetically pleasing gallery for content presentation, easy customer access, and instant notifications for content views, enhancing the overall sales experience. With its roots in companies like Jive Software, Salesforce.com, and Solarwinds, myDocket is designed to simplify the sales process and optimize communication between sales teams and their customers.

Nomi

Seed Round in 2013
Nomi is an omni-channel marketing platform designed to enhance customer engagement for retailers. By analyzing and optimizing the return on investment from offline marketing and store operations, Nomi quantifies the effectiveness of marketing campaigns in driving foot traffic and assesses customer lifetime value. The platform helps retailers evaluate how well stores convert visitors into buyers, identify underperforming staff, and measure the impact of training and management investments on customer behavior. Nomi offers a comprehensive view of the customer conversion funnel, enabling retailers to predict store performance and diagnose operational issues proactively. Founded in September 2012 by Marc Ferrentino, Corey Capasso, Wesley Barrow, Peter Quintas, and Robert Balousek, the company is headquartered in New York, United States.

Curalate

Series A in 2013
Curalate, Inc. operates an online platform that helps brands facilitate consumer discovery and purchase decisions. The platform transforms images and videos into digital storefronts across websites, social media, advertisements, and emails. Curalate provides tools for brands to link products from social media, automate content posting, and gain insights into engagement metrics. Additionally, it allows brands to monitor their campaigns, competitors, and influencers. Founded in 2011 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Seattle, and London, Curalate serves hundreds of leading brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, and Sephora. The company's services enhance the connection between off-site discovery and on-site conversion, driving revenue growth on platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook. Curalate was previously known as Storably, Inc. and became a subsidiary of Bazaarvoice, Inc. in July 2020.

Percolate

Series A in 2012
Percolate is a content marketing platform that enhances global marketing visibility and collaboration for brands. It offers a comprehensive suite of web and mobile marketing tools that streamline governance, planning, content creation, audience acquisition, customer management, and analytics. By uniting brand narratives, data, and storytelling, Percolate enables marketers to effectively manage complex marketing programs and integrated campaigns. This functionality allows organizations to gain control and agility, ensuring that personalized content is aligned with customer interactions across various teams and locations.

RebelMouse

Seed Round in 2012
RebelMouse, Inc. is a social media aggregator and digital publishing platform founded in 2012 and based in New York City. It enables brands, media companies, and individuals to create and manage dynamic content experiences that foster community engagement and audience growth across various social channels. Unlike traditional content management systems, RebelMouse emphasizes a distributed approach, allowing content to be shared across multiple platforms, including websites, social media, and applications. The platform features tools for social sharing, post creation, and analytics, which help users understand how their content is consumed and shared. RebelMouse has gained recognition for its innovative strategies that have driven significant online traffic for various publishers and brands, including prominent projects with media entities and initiatives to enhance brand engagement, such as transforming United Airlines Hub into a leading airline blog.

Influitive

Seed Round in 2012
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.

Influitive

Seed Round in 2012
Influitive Corporation, established in 2010 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Menlo Park, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in advocate marketing software solutions for B2B software and technology firms. Its flagship product, AdvocateHub, facilitates the creation of advocate communities, enabling customers, partners, and employees to engage in challenges such as referrals, reviews, and reference calls. This software integrates with Salesforce.com for activity tracking and is available via web portal or mobile app. Influitive also offers consulting services, providing coaching and training to help businesses implement and advance their advocate marketing strategies.

33Across

Series C in 2012
33Across Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a social sharing and content discovery platform designed to enhance programmatic advertising in a cookieless environment. Founded in 2007, the company provides innovative marketing technologies such as SocialDNA Targeting, which helps clients identify and engage with social networks related to their brands. Its offerings include the BRAND GRAPH, which predicts consumer behavior to deliver brand and direct response ROI, Social Personas for real-time audience insights, and the Real Platform, which ensures the quality of ads by verifying viewability and mitigating fraudulent traffic. 33Across aims to empower marketers by helping them identify high-potential prospects connected to existing customers and brand loyalists. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Salt Lake City, and Chicago, further extending its reach in the advertising ecosystem.

Jirafe

Series A in 2012
Jirafe specializes in providing analytics solutions for eCommerce retailers, enabling them to optimize their marketing and merchandising strategies. The company delivers real-time insights that help merchants understand customer behavior, identify best-selling products, and ultimately enhance their revenue. By automating essential tasks faced by online stores, Jirafe allows retailers to focus on driving their business forward. Based in New York City, Jirafe is backed by prominent venture capital firms and is dedicated to leveraging big data, analytics, and machine learning to support the growth of its clients.

Curalate

Seed Round in 2012
Curalate, Inc. operates an online platform that helps brands facilitate consumer discovery and purchase decisions. The platform transforms images and videos into digital storefronts across websites, social media, advertisements, and emails. Curalate provides tools for brands to link products from social media, automate content posting, and gain insights into engagement metrics. Additionally, it allows brands to monitor their campaigns, competitors, and influencers. Founded in 2011 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Seattle, and London, Curalate serves hundreds of leading brands, including Gap, Neiman Marcus, and Sephora. The company's services enhance the connection between off-site discovery and on-site conversion, driving revenue growth on platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, and Facebook. Curalate was previously known as Storably, Inc. and became a subsidiary of Bazaarvoice, Inc. in July 2020.

elicit

Series A in 2012
Elicit, Inc. is an internet SaaS software company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in enhancing on-site search functionalities for marketers and retailers. The company's software offers a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface that allows users to customize search results based on various parameters, including context, time, keyword, and location. This capability enables businesses to better align their search results with brand narratives, marketing strategies, and promotional initiatives, ultimately transforming the search box into a valuable branding and conversion tool. Founded in 2011, Elicit aims to empower marketers by providing them with control over one of the most utilized features on their websites.

Moat

Series B in 2012
Moat, Inc. develops analytics solutions tailored for brand advertisers and publishers, focusing on measuring customer attention and advertising effectiveness. Its flagship product, Moat Analytics, serves as an attention measurement platform that offers insights into ad campaigns and website inventory. Additionally, Moat Pro provides real-time ad intelligence, allowing users to visualize relationships between brands, publishers, and programmatic platforms, while offering brand alerts and prospecting reports. Moat also features a dedicated ad search engine that enables users to search for display ads, discover new advertisers, and access creative resources. This centralized ad search utilizes a specialized web crawler to index ads for easy retrieval. Established in 2007 and based in New York, Moat operates internationally and is a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

Percolate

Seed Round in 2011
Percolate is a content marketing platform that enhances global marketing visibility and collaboration for brands. It offers a comprehensive suite of web and mobile marketing tools that streamline governance, planning, content creation, audience acquisition, customer management, and analytics. By uniting brand narratives, data, and storytelling, Percolate enables marketers to effectively manage complex marketing programs and integrated campaigns. This functionality allows organizations to gain control and agility, ensuring that personalized content is aligned with customer interactions across various teams and locations.

GumGum

Series B in 2011
GumGum, Inc. is a technology company based in Santa Monica, California, that specializes in artificial intelligence, particularly in computer vision and natural language processing. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on unlocking the value of visual content generated across various platforms, including the web and broadcast television. GumGum provides a range of services, such as in-image advertising, influencer marketing, targeted media buying, and site monetization. Its flagship products include GumGum Visual Intelligence, a platform for real-time visual listening that assists brands in identifying and activating online imagery, and AdBuilder, which allows brands to create and manage in-image and in-screen advertisements. By using advanced machine learning and deep learning technologies, GumGum enhances contextual advertising and aids marketers in maximizing the media value of their investments. The company maintains a presence with additional offices in major cities across the United States, as well as locations in London and Sydney.

LiveIntent

Series B in 2011
LiveIntent is a technology platform that enhances email as a marketing tool, allowing brands to effectively connect with their customers. The company specializes in people-based targeting, email monetization, and identity resolution, providing solutions that benefit both marketers and publishers. By facilitating direct engagement with audiences, LiveIntent helps businesses drive sales and increase revenue while ensuring user privacy is respected. The platform aims to bridge the gaps between brands and their target audiences, maximizing the potential of email marketing.

Moat

Series A in 2011
Moat, Inc. develops analytics solutions tailored for brand advertisers and publishers, focusing on measuring customer attention and advertising effectiveness. Its flagship product, Moat Analytics, serves as an attention measurement platform that offers insights into ad campaigns and website inventory. Additionally, Moat Pro provides real-time ad intelligence, allowing users to visualize relationships between brands, publishers, and programmatic platforms, while offering brand alerts and prospecting reports. Moat also features a dedicated ad search engine that enables users to search for display ads, discover new advertisers, and access creative resources. This centralized ad search utilizes a specialized web crawler to index ads for easy retrieval. Established in 2007 and based in New York, Moat operates internationally and is a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

elicit

Series A in 2011
Elicit, Inc. is an internet SaaS software company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in enhancing on-site search functionalities for marketers and retailers. The company's software offers a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface that allows users to customize search results based on various parameters, including context, time, keyword, and location. This capability enables businesses to better align their search results with brand narratives, marketing strategies, and promotional initiatives, ultimately transforming the search box into a valuable branding and conversion tool. Founded in 2011, Elicit aims to empower marketers by providing them with control over one of the most utilized features on their websites.

SinglePlatform

Series A in 2011
SinglePlatform, LLC is a New York-based company that provides local listing enhancement services for small businesses, focusing primarily on the restaurant sector. Founded in 2009, it enables businesses to publish and manage critical information such as products, services, menus, photos, and prices across numerous popular media platforms, search engines, and local review sites. This service helps local businesses improve their online visibility and attract new customers. SinglePlatform's extensive reach makes it the largest online provider of restaurant menus and local business storefronts. The company was acquired by Constant Contact in 2012, further strengthening its capabilities in the digital marketing space. Through its innovative techniques and specialized expertise, SinglePlatform supports local businesses in growing and developing their operations.

PerformLine

Series A in 2011
PerformLine is a SaaS platform that specializes in sales and marketing compliance, catering to a diverse range of industries, including banking, fintech, mortgage lending, and technology. The platform offers an end-to-end solution for compliance teams, enabling them to review documents before publication and monitor live consumer interactions across various channels such as the web, social media, calls, messaging, and emails. By providing automated compliance systems, PerformLine helps enterprises mitigate regulatory risks and ensure brand safety. Its tools and insights allow companies to efficiently manage compliance activities, thereby saving time and reducing costs while enhancing oversight across all consumer interaction points.

Relay Network

Series A in 2011
Relay Network, LLC is a technology company based in Radnor, Pennsylvania, that facilitates communication between brands and their customers via a private messaging application. Established in 2009, Relay Network enables businesses to send messages on behalf of service providers, allowing customers to opt in to receive notifications and service alerts. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, insurance, cable, energy, travel, and hospitality. By providing tools for designing, orchestrating, and automating customer engagement, Relay Network aims to enhance the quality of customer interactions and build lasting relationships.

Adaptly

Series A in 2011
Adaptly, Inc. specializes in digital advertising solutions, focusing on enabling large advertisers to effectively manage and scale their campaigns across various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Pinterest. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City, Adaptly provides a range of services that encompass personalized planning and strategy, media buying, execution, and comprehensive analysis. The company utilizes proprietary technology to deliver real-time insights and automated optimization, enhancing advertisers' ability to meet their marketing objectives. With additional offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, Adaptly employs over 120 professionals and has developed strong relationships with notable investors. In December 2018, Adaptly became a subsidiary of Accenture plc.

StumbleUpon

Series B in 2011
StumbleUpon is a content discovery platform designed to help users find new and interesting web and mobile content tailored to their preferences. With a user base exceeding 25 million, the platform allows individuals to share their favorite webpages, submit ratings and reviews, and receive personalized recommendations. StumbleUpon also offers a Paid Discovery service, utilized by over 80,000 brands and marketers to promote their products and services effectively. By combining user engagement with innovative content curation, StumbleUpon aims to enhance the online experience, making it easier for users to explore a diverse range of information and entertainment.

33Across

Series B in 2011
33Across Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a social sharing and content discovery platform designed to enhance programmatic advertising in a cookieless environment. Founded in 2007, the company provides innovative marketing technologies such as SocialDNA Targeting, which helps clients identify and engage with social networks related to their brands. Its offerings include the BRAND GRAPH, which predicts consumer behavior to deliver brand and direct response ROI, Social Personas for real-time audience insights, and the Real Platform, which ensures the quality of ads by verifying viewability and mitigating fraudulent traffic. 33Across aims to empower marketers by helping them identify high-potential prospects connected to existing customers and brand loyalists. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Salt Lake City, and Chicago, further extending its reach in the advertising ecosystem.

Gnip

Venture Round in 2010
Gnip is a provider of social media data, serving customers across various sectors, including social media monitoring, business intelligence, government, and finance. The company plays a crucial role in delivering social media analytics to a majority of Fortune 500 companies, offering access to over 120 billion real-time social data activities each month from numerous sources. Founded in March 2008 by Eric Marcoullier, Gnip is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and Washington. The company also features an on-demand messaging platform that allows clients to access, filter, and integrate web data, facilitating the development of impactful business and social applications while providing a push API service to enhance efficiency in data management.

SkillSlate

Seed Round in 2010
SkillSlate is a platform designed to facilitate connections between consumers and local individual service providers. By offering profiles of various service providers, the platform allows users to easily find and access the services they need. In addition to helping consumers, SkillSlate provides business owners with free marketing tools and leads, enabling them to attract more customers and enhance their visibility within the community. This dual focus on both consumers and service providers positions SkillSlate as a valuable resource for local businesses and individuals seeking services.

AppNexus

Series C in 2010
AppNexus Inc. is a technology company that specializes in a cloud-based software platform designed to enhance and streamline programmatic online advertising. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices both domestically and internationally, AppNexus provides a comprehensive suite of tools for advertisers and publishers. Its platform maximizes campaign performance and yield for online inventory, offering trading solutions and marketplaces for digital advertising. Advertisers can create custom trading desks and advertising networks, while the AppNexus Publisher Suite empowers publishers to optimize revenue through various demand sources. Key features include PriceCheck, a header bidding solution for diverse ad formats, and the AppNexus Apps program, which enables third-party technology vendors to develop tailored features for their clients. By leveraging data and machine learning, AppNexus facilitates intelligent, AI-driven advertising campaigns for marketers and agencies.

SinglePlatform

Seed Round in 2010
SinglePlatform, LLC is a New York-based company that provides local listing enhancement services for small businesses, focusing primarily on the restaurant sector. Founded in 2009, it enables businesses to publish and manage critical information such as products, services, menus, photos, and prices across numerous popular media platforms, search engines, and local review sites. This service helps local businesses improve their online visibility and attract new customers. SinglePlatform's extensive reach makes it the largest online provider of restaurant menus and local business storefronts. The company was acquired by Constant Contact in 2012, further strengthening its capabilities in the digital marketing space. Through its innovative techniques and specialized expertise, SinglePlatform supports local businesses in growing and developing their operations.

UberMedia

Series A in 2010
UberMedia’s diverse suite of products process billions of social, demographic, and location signals daily to understand and influence modern consumers with the most accurate business decision science. Targeted mobile advertising campaigns reach beyond generic visibility to solve real-world business objectives, including customer conquests, improved in-store visits, and increased sales. UberMedia delivers dynamic advertising solutions for Fortune 500 companies across retail, automotive, entertainment, and consumer markets. Recognized as a pioneer in targeted mobile advertising, UberMedia was listed as Fast Company’s “50 Most Innovative Companies” and The Wall Street Journal’s Top “50 Startups.” UberMedia is headquartered in Pasadena, CA as a network company of Idealab, a world-renowned operator of leading technology businesses. For more information, visit www.ubermedia.com.

Readyforce

Series A in 2010
Readyforce is a professional networking platform tailored specifically for college students, enabling them to connect with peers, mentors, and alumni while sharing career-related content and resources. Students can discover relevant events, seek guidance, and engage in discussions around career opportunities. For companies, Readyforce serves as an effective tool for reaching top college talent across the United States. Businesses can create detailed profiles, post job openings and internships, and promote events to attract students. The platform also allows companies to communicate directly with students based on specific criteria such as school and major, facilitating targeted outreach for scholarships, competitions, and brand engagement. Readyforce is designed to streamline the recruitment process and enhance talent community building, offering a free membership to all users.

LiveIntent

Series A in 2009
LiveIntent is a technology platform that enhances email as a marketing tool, allowing brands to effectively connect with their customers. The company specializes in people-based targeting, email monetization, and identity resolution, providing solutions that benefit both marketers and publishers. By facilitating direct engagement with audiences, LiveIntent helps businesses drive sales and increase revenue while ensuring user privacy is respected. The platform aims to bridge the gaps between brands and their target audiences, maximizing the potential of email marketing.

Invite Media

Series A in 2009
Invite Media specializes in media-buying optimization technology for the display advertising sector. The company has developed a platform that enables advertisers and agencies to engage in real-time bidding for display ad space. This technology allows users to set up and manage automated strategies for buying and optimizing online media, facilitating intelligent purchasing across various sources of real-time bidded inventory. Through its platform, Invite Media aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of display ad campaigns for advertisers, agencies, and agency trading desks.

AppNexus

Series B in 2009
AppNexus Inc. is a technology company that specializes in a cloud-based software platform designed to enhance and streamline programmatic online advertising. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices both domestically and internationally, AppNexus provides a comprehensive suite of tools for advertisers and publishers. Its platform maximizes campaign performance and yield for online inventory, offering trading solutions and marketplaces for digital advertising. Advertisers can create custom trading desks and advertising networks, while the AppNexus Publisher Suite empowers publishers to optimize revenue through various demand sources. Key features include PriceCheck, a header bidding solution for diverse ad formats, and the AppNexus Apps program, which enables third-party technology vendors to develop tailored features for their clients. By leveraging data and machine learning, AppNexus facilitates intelligent, AI-driven advertising campaigns for marketers and agencies.

CoTweet

Series A in 2009
CoTweet is a business front-end for Twitter, enabling companies to engage in proactive marketing and response-oriented customer service activities. On March 2, 2010 CoTweet was acquired by ExactTarget.

GumGum

Series A in 2009
GumGum, Inc. is a technology company based in Santa Monica, California, that specializes in artificial intelligence, particularly in computer vision and natural language processing. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on unlocking the value of visual content generated across various platforms, including the web and broadcast television. GumGum provides a range of services, such as in-image advertising, influencer marketing, targeted media buying, and site monetization. Its flagship products include GumGum Visual Intelligence, a platform for real-time visual listening that assists brands in identifying and activating online imagery, and AdBuilder, which allows brands to create and manage in-image and in-screen advertisements. By using advanced machine learning and deep learning technologies, GumGum enhances contextual advertising and aids marketers in maximizing the media value of their investments. The company maintains a presence with additional offices in major cities across the United States, as well as locations in London and Sydney.

StumbleUpon

Series A in 2009
StumbleUpon is a content discovery platform designed to help users find new and interesting web and mobile content tailored to their preferences. With a user base exceeding 25 million, the platform allows individuals to share their favorite webpages, submit ratings and reviews, and receive personalized recommendations. StumbleUpon also offers a Paid Discovery service, utilized by over 80,000 brands and marketers to promote their products and services effectively. By combining user engagement with innovative content curation, StumbleUpon aims to enhance the online experience, making it easier for users to explore a diverse range of information and entertainment.

33Across

Seed Round in 2009
33Across Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a social sharing and content discovery platform designed to enhance programmatic advertising in a cookieless environment. Founded in 2007, the company provides innovative marketing technologies such as SocialDNA Targeting, which helps clients identify and engage with social networks related to their brands. Its offerings include the BRAND GRAPH, which predicts consumer behavior to deliver brand and direct response ROI, Social Personas for real-time audience insights, and the Real Platform, which ensures the quality of ads by verifying viewability and mitigating fraudulent traffic. 33Across aims to empower marketers by helping them identify high-potential prospects connected to existing customers and brand loyalists. The company also has offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Salt Lake City, and Chicago, further extending its reach in the advertising ecosystem.

PerformLine

Seed Round in 2009
PerformLine is a SaaS platform that specializes in sales and marketing compliance, catering to a diverse range of industries, including banking, fintech, mortgage lending, and technology. The platform offers an end-to-end solution for compliance teams, enabling them to review documents before publication and monitor live consumer interactions across various channels such as the web, social media, calls, messaging, and emails. By providing automated compliance systems, PerformLine helps enterprises mitigate regulatory risks and ensure brand safety. Its tools and insights allow companies to efficiently manage compliance activities, thereby saving time and reducing costs while enhancing oversight across all consumer interaction points.

Jingle Networks

Series D in 2009
Jingle Networks is a prominent provider of advertising and technology solutions focused on voice and mobile business search. The company connects businesses with consumers ready to transact by leveraging a robust new media channel within the growing business search market. Jingle Networks offers tailored solutions for carriers, network operators, advertising agencies, brand marketers, and small businesses. Its services enable thousands of national brands and local businesses to utilize brief in-call audio or text advertisements to attract new customers during phone calls or online searches. The company's innovative technology has made it a preferred choice for network operators and telecom carriers. Jingle Networks is also known for creating the free directory assistance service 1-800-FREE411, allowing consumers to obtain phone numbers without charge. This service is funded by short, targeted advertising messages that play while the caller waits for information. Founded by experienced professionals in advertising and technology, Jingle Networks continues to deliver effective solutions for building brand awareness and maximizing business search outcomes.

Gnip

Series B in 2008
Gnip is a provider of social media data, serving customers across various sectors, including social media monitoring, business intelligence, government, and finance. The company plays a crucial role in delivering social media analytics to a majority of Fortune 500 companies, offering access to over 120 billion real-time social data activities each month from numerous sources. Founded in March 2008 by Eric Marcoullier, Gnip is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and Washington. The company also features an on-demand messaging platform that allows clients to access, filter, and integrate web data, facilitating the development of impactful business and social applications while providing a push API service to enhance efficiency in data management.

Gigya

Series C in 2008
Gigya, Inc. offers a customer identity management platform that assists businesses in transforming unknown site visitors into engaged, loyal customers. The platform allows brands to collect and manage customer identities at scale, enabling the creation of personalized experiences that fuel growth and enhance customer relationships. By providing tools for driving registrations and managing customer data, Gigya improves cross-channel user experiences. Additionally, it supplies developers with APIs for secure registration, authentication, profile management, data analytics, and third-party integrations. The platform is designed to accommodate social identities, mobile devices, and modern marketing needs. Gigya serves a diverse clientele across industries such as e-commerce, media, publishing, and travel, with more than 700 leading organizations relying on its technology to foster identity-driven relationships. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Gigya operates as a subsidiary of hybris AG since November 2017.

AppNexus

Series B in 2008
AppNexus Inc. is a technology company that specializes in a cloud-based software platform designed to enhance and streamline programmatic online advertising. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices both domestically and internationally, AppNexus provides a comprehensive suite of tools for advertisers and publishers. Its platform maximizes campaign performance and yield for online inventory, offering trading solutions and marketplaces for digital advertising. Advertisers can create custom trading desks and advertising networks, while the AppNexus Publisher Suite empowers publishers to optimize revenue through various demand sources. Key features include PriceCheck, a header bidding solution for diverse ad formats, and the AppNexus Apps program, which enables third-party technology vendors to develop tailored features for their clients. By leveraging data and machine learning, AppNexus facilitates intelligent, AI-driven advertising campaigns for marketers and agencies.

MeetMe

Series B in 2008
MeetMe is a prominent social network in the United States focused on facilitating connections among individuals. Originally known as MyYearbook, the platform emphasizes social discovery through engaging applications and games, which are monetized via advertising and virtual currency. With a significant portion of its traffic originating from mobile devices, MeetMe caters to the mobile generation, offering services through its website and mobile applications available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The company also provides livestreaming video solutions and tools for the creator economy, enabling brands to engage and monetize their audiences effectively. Overall, MeetMe aims to create a vibrant community where users can find like-minded individuals and foster meaningful interactions.

GumGum

Series A in 2008
GumGum, Inc. is a technology company based in Santa Monica, California, that specializes in artificial intelligence, particularly in computer vision and natural language processing. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on unlocking the value of visual content generated across various platforms, including the web and broadcast television. GumGum provides a range of services, such as in-image advertising, influencer marketing, targeted media buying, and site monetization. Its flagship products include GumGum Visual Intelligence, a platform for real-time visual listening that assists brands in identifying and activating online imagery, and AdBuilder, which allows brands to create and manage in-image and in-screen advertisements. By using advanced machine learning and deep learning technologies, GumGum enhances contextual advertising and aids marketers in maximizing the media value of their investments. The company maintains a presence with additional offices in major cities across the United States, as well as locations in London and Sydney.

Invite Media

Seed Round in 2008
Invite Media specializes in media-buying optimization technology for the display advertising sector. The company has developed a platform that enables advertisers and agencies to engage in real-time bidding for display ad space. This technology allows users to set up and manage automated strategies for buying and optimizing online media, facilitating intelligent purchasing across various sources of real-time bidded inventory. Through its platform, Invite Media aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of display ad campaigns for advertisers, agencies, and agency trading desks.

Gigya

Series B in 2008
Gigya, Inc. offers a customer identity management platform that assists businesses in transforming unknown site visitors into engaged, loyal customers. The platform allows brands to collect and manage customer identities at scale, enabling the creation of personalized experiences that fuel growth and enhance customer relationships. By providing tools for driving registrations and managing customer data, Gigya improves cross-channel user experiences. Additionally, it supplies developers with APIs for secure registration, authentication, profile management, data analytics, and third-party integrations. The platform is designed to accommodate social identities, mobile devices, and modern marketing needs. Gigya serves a diverse clientele across industries such as e-commerce, media, publishing, and travel, with more than 700 leading organizations relying on its technology to foster identity-driven relationships. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Gigya operates as a subsidiary of hybris AG since November 2017.

Gnip

Series A in 2008
Gnip is a provider of social media data, serving customers across various sectors, including social media monitoring, business intelligence, government, and finance. The company plays a crucial role in delivering social media analytics to a majority of Fortune 500 companies, offering access to over 120 billion real-time social data activities each month from numerous sources. Founded in March 2008 by Eric Marcoullier, Gnip is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with additional offices in San Francisco, New York, and Washington. The company also features an on-demand messaging platform that allows clients to access, filter, and integrate web data, facilitating the development of impactful business and social applications while providing a push API service to enhance efficiency in data management.

Jingle Networks

Series C in 2008
Jingle Networks is a prominent provider of advertising and technology solutions focused on voice and mobile business search. The company connects businesses with consumers ready to transact by leveraging a robust new media channel within the growing business search market. Jingle Networks offers tailored solutions for carriers, network operators, advertising agencies, brand marketers, and small businesses. Its services enable thousands of national brands and local businesses to utilize brief in-call audio or text advertisements to attract new customers during phone calls or online searches. The company's innovative technology has made it a preferred choice for network operators and telecom carriers. Jingle Networks is also known for creating the free directory assistance service 1-800-FREE411, allowing consumers to obtain phone numbers without charge. This service is funded by short, targeted advertising messages that play while the caller waits for information. Founded by experienced professionals in advertising and technology, Jingle Networks continues to deliver effective solutions for building brand awareness and maximizing business search outcomes.

AppNexus

Seed Round in 2007
AppNexus Inc. is a technology company that specializes in a cloud-based software platform designed to enhance and streamline programmatic online advertising. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices both domestically and internationally, AppNexus provides a comprehensive suite of tools for advertisers and publishers. Its platform maximizes campaign performance and yield for online inventory, offering trading solutions and marketplaces for digital advertising. Advertisers can create custom trading desks and advertising networks, while the AppNexus Publisher Suite empowers publishers to optimize revenue through various demand sources. Key features include PriceCheck, a header bidding solution for diverse ad formats, and the AppNexus Apps program, which enables third-party technology vendors to develop tailored features for their clients. By leveraging data and machine learning, AppNexus facilitates intelligent, AI-driven advertising campaigns for marketers and agencies.

Invite Media

Seed Round in 2007
Invite Media specializes in media-buying optimization technology for the display advertising sector. The company has developed a platform that enables advertisers and agencies to engage in real-time bidding for display ad space. This technology allows users to set up and manage automated strategies for buying and optimizing online media, facilitating intelligent purchasing across various sources of real-time bidded inventory. Through its platform, Invite Media aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of display ad campaigns for advertisers, agencies, and agency trading desks.

Sendori

Series A in 2007
Sendori specializes in digital marketing solutions designed to benefit both advertisers and publishers by reducing costs, generating revenue, and safeguarding brand equity. The company offers a diverse range of high-converting traffic through its proprietary and third-party network sources. Additionally, Sendori utilizes patented one-click redirect technology and a robust ad serving platform to enhance digital advertising campaigns, focusing on driving conversions and lowering customer acquisition costs. Furthermore, Sendori provides internet navigation support that improves the customer experience by facilitating faster access to popular websites and enhancing security by minimizing the risk of typos leading to malicious sites.

BazaarVoice

Series B in 2007
Bazaarvoice, Inc. is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that specializes in customer-powered marketing solutions for brands and retailers. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Bazaarvoice enables clients to capture and showcase consumer-generated content, such as ratings, reviews, photos, and videos, through its conversations platform. This platform allows clients to integrate content from various social media channels, organize it effectively, and leverage it across online and offline media, enhancing customer engagement and influencing purchase decisions. Bazaarvoice also provides analytics and community management services, helping clients gain valuable insights to inform marketing strategies and improve customer experiences. As of April 2017, the company had 1,494 active clients spanning multiple industries, including retail, technology, and healthcare, and operates in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.

Gigya

Series A in 2007
Gigya, Inc. offers a customer identity management platform that assists businesses in transforming unknown site visitors into engaged, loyal customers. The platform allows brands to collect and manage customer identities at scale, enabling the creation of personalized experiences that fuel growth and enhance customer relationships. By providing tools for driving registrations and managing customer data, Gigya improves cross-channel user experiences. Additionally, it supplies developers with APIs for secure registration, authentication, profile management, data analytics, and third-party integrations. The platform is designed to accommodate social identities, mobile devices, and modern marketing needs. Gigya serves a diverse clientele across industries such as e-commerce, media, publishing, and travel, with more than 700 leading organizations relying on its technology to foster identity-driven relationships. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Gigya operates as a subsidiary of hybris AG since November 2017.

MeetMe

Series A in 2007
MeetMe is a prominent social network in the United States focused on facilitating connections among individuals. Originally known as MyYearbook, the platform emphasizes social discovery through engaging applications and games, which are monetized via advertising and virtual currency. With a significant portion of its traffic originating from mobile devices, MeetMe caters to the mobile generation, offering services through its website and mobile applications available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The company also provides livestreaming video solutions and tools for the creator economy, enabling brands to engage and monetize their audiences effectively. Overall, MeetMe aims to create a vibrant community where users can find like-minded individuals and foster meaningful interactions.

BazaarVoice

Series A in 2006
Bazaarvoice, Inc. is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that specializes in customer-powered marketing solutions for brands and retailers. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Bazaarvoice enables clients to capture and showcase consumer-generated content, such as ratings, reviews, photos, and videos, through its conversations platform. This platform allows clients to integrate content from various social media channels, organize it effectively, and leverage it across online and offline media, enhancing customer engagement and influencing purchase decisions. Bazaarvoice also provides analytics and community management services, helping clients gain valuable insights to inform marketing strategies and improve customer experiences. As of April 2017, the company had 1,494 active clients spanning multiple industries, including retail, technology, and healthcare, and operates in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.

Jingle Networks

Series A in 2005
Jingle Networks is a prominent provider of advertising and technology solutions focused on voice and mobile business search. The company connects businesses with consumers ready to transact by leveraging a robust new media channel within the growing business search market. Jingle Networks offers tailored solutions for carriers, network operators, advertising agencies, brand marketers, and small businesses. Its services enable thousands of national brands and local businesses to utilize brief in-call audio or text advertisements to attract new customers during phone calls or online searches. The company's innovative technology has made it a preferred choice for network operators and telecom carriers. Jingle Networks is also known for creating the free directory assistance service 1-800-FREE411, allowing consumers to obtain phone numbers without charge. This service is funded by short, targeted advertising messages that play while the caller waits for information. Founded by experienced professionals in advertising and technology, Jingle Networks continues to deliver effective solutions for building brand awareness and maximizing business search outcomes.

StumbleUpon

Seed Round in 2005
StumbleUpon is a content discovery platform designed to help users find new and interesting web and mobile content tailored to their preferences. With a user base exceeding 25 million, the platform allows individuals to share their favorite webpages, submit ratings and reviews, and receive personalized recommendations. StumbleUpon also offers a Paid Discovery service, utilized by over 80,000 brands and marketers to promote their products and services effectively. By combining user engagement with innovative content curation, StumbleUpon aims to enhance the online experience, making it easier for users to explore a diverse range of information and entertainment.

Jingle Networks

Series A in 2005
Jingle Networks is a prominent provider of advertising and technology solutions focused on voice and mobile business search. The company connects businesses with consumers ready to transact by leveraging a robust new media channel within the growing business search market. Jingle Networks offers tailored solutions for carriers, network operators, advertising agencies, brand marketers, and small businesses. Its services enable thousands of national brands and local businesses to utilize brief in-call audio or text advertisements to attract new customers during phone calls or online searches. The company's innovative technology has made it a preferred choice for network operators and telecom carriers. Jingle Networks is also known for creating the free directory assistance service 1-800-FREE411, allowing consumers to obtain phone numbers without charge. This service is funded by short, targeted advertising messages that play while the caller waits for information. Founded by experienced professionals in advertising and technology, Jingle Networks continues to deliver effective solutions for building brand awareness and maximizing business search outcomes.
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