Miso is a technology company that provides APIs for search and recommendation, enabling personalized web experiences without tracking users. The platform offers real‑time clickstream analysis and semantic intelligence to help marketplaces and brands increase revenue. In addition, Miso operates an online‑to‑offline service that connects consumers with verified home‑service professionals for cleaning, moving, installation, repair, flooring, relocation, and interior design. The service includes rating systems, convenient payment, and instant booking through iOS and Android apps, delivering hotel‑like quality at home.
Miso is a technology company that provides APIs for search and recommendation, enabling personalized web experiences without tracking users. The platform offers real‑time clickstream analysis and semantic intelligence to help marketplaces and brands increase revenue. In addition, Miso operates an online‑to‑offline service that connects consumers with verified home‑service professionals for cleaning, moving, installation, repair, flooring, relocation, and interior design. The service includes rating systems, convenient payment, and instant booking through iOS and Android apps, delivering hotel‑like quality at home.
Qbox Inc. specializes in managed cloud hosting solutions for Elasticsearch, an open-source full-text search engine, facilitating data exploration and analytics for a diverse clientele that includes both startups and Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Qbox provides a user-friendly dashboard that allows clients to easily launch their own Elasticsearch clusters while handling essential operational tasks such as deployment, scaling, monitoring, patching, and support. The company also offers production and development support, consulting, and training for Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform it helped develop. Qbox operates globally, serving clients in major cities across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, ensuring that organizations can effectively manage their data infrastructure and focus on deriving insights from their data.
Pop Up Archive
Seed Round in 2014
Pop Up Archive is an innovative online platform that specializes in organizing and searching digital spoken words through advanced speech-to-text technology. Founded in 2012 by Anne Wootton and Bailey Smith, the company is based in Oakland, California. Its flagship product, Audiosear.ch, functions as a full-text search and recommendation engine specifically for podcasts and radio, enhancing user experiences by converting speech into text, indexing it, and generating extensive data points such as topics, entities, and recommendations. This functionality enables audio distributors, platforms, and advertisers to improve listener engagement, audio discovery, and content targeting, thereby optimizing the overall consumption of audio content.
TalentBin
Series A in 2013
TalentBin is a San Francisco-based company that operates a talent search engine designed to assist technical recruiters and hiring managers in locating passive candidates. Founded in 2011, TalentBin offers a platform that provides access to a comprehensive candidate database, which includes detailed information about candidates' professional and personal interests, as well as their contact details and social media profiles. The platform also features organizational tools that allow users to take notes, track hiring stages, manage tasks, and set reminders. By transforming the internet into a virtual talent sourcing database, TalentBin enhances the talent acquisition process for its users.
AthenaHQ is a technology company that offers a platform to help businesses understand and optimize their brand's visibility in AI-driven search results, particularly in generative engines like ChatGPT. The platform provides real-time monitoring of brand mentions, identifies content gaps where AI lacks knowledge about the business, and pinpoints websites cited by chatbots, enabling clients to enhance their brand's presence and improve its visibility on search platforms.