Literati
Venture Round in 2024
Founded in 2016, Literati is a subscription-based service that delivers age-appropriate books to children aged 0-9 in the United States. It offers personalized book selections under categories like Club Neo, Sprout, Nova, and Sage, along with gifting options.
Zestworld
Series A in 2022
Zestworld is an online platform dedicated to empowering comic book artists and writers by facilitating the self-distribution of their work. The company provides creators with tools to publish their comics and stories while retaining ownership of their fan contact information. This enables artists and writers to engage with their audience in innovative ways and maintain control over their intellectual property rights. By offering a space where creators can monetize their work effectively, Zestworld aims to revolutionize the comic book community and enhance the connection between creators and fans.
Incredible Dream
Seed Round in 2021
Incredible Dream is a company focused on creating a diverse portfolio of iconic game intellectual properties aimed at the next generation of gamers. It operates an online game platform designed to streamline and enhance the gaming experience. The company develops original fantasy worlds, characters, and games, along with transmedia experiences tailored for digital natives. By emphasizing meaningful connections among gamers, Incredible Dream aims to foster engaging and enjoyable interactions through both digital and tabletop gaming.
Founded in 2016, Literati is a subscription-based service that delivers age-appropriate books to children aged 0-9 in the United States. It offers personalized book selections under categories like Club Neo, Sprout, Nova, and Sage, along with gifting options.
Contentful
Series E in 2020
Contentful is a cloud-based content platform that unifies and structures content in a single hub for web and mobile applications, enabling digital experiences at scale across multiple channels. It provides an extensible framework with open APIs that allow seamless integration with hundreds of tools, supporting developers in building and reusing content components, templates, and design elements across properties. The platform is used by digital-first businesses and a diverse set of brands to accelerate content delivery and maintain on-brand experiences. Contentful was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Berlin, with offices in San Francisco and Denver.
Contentful
Series D in 2018
Contentful is a cloud-based content platform that unifies and structures content in a single hub for web and mobile applications, enabling digital experiences at scale across multiple channels. It provides an extensible framework with open APIs that allow seamless integration with hundreds of tools, supporting developers in building and reusing content components, templates, and design elements across properties. The platform is used by digital-first businesses and a diverse set of brands to accelerate content delivery and maintain on-brand experiences. Contentful was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Berlin, with offices in San Francisco and Denver.
Supermedium
Seed Round in 2018
Supermedium is a company focused on creating immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences, initially launching a VR browser application that allows users to access various web-based content. The application supports standard web technologies, enabling users to explore a diverse range of experiences, including mini-games, art installations, journalistic pieces, and social environments. With a particular emphasis on delivering a comic book reader, Supermedium aims to enhance the way users engage with digital content in VR without the need for installations or app store dependencies. The company is rooted in the foundational work of pioneers in WebVR and the creators of A-Frame, contributing to the evolution of accessible VR utilities.
Contentful
Series C in 2017
Contentful is a cloud-based content platform that unifies and structures content in a single hub for web and mobile applications, enabling digital experiences at scale across multiple channels. It provides an extensible framework with open APIs that allow seamless integration with hundreds of tools, supporting developers in building and reusing content components, templates, and design elements across properties. The platform is used by digital-first businesses and a diverse set of brands to accelerate content delivery and maintain on-brand experiences. Contentful was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Berlin, with offices in San Francisco and Denver.
Outlearn
Seed Round in 2015
Outlearn Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a cloud-based platform designed for creating, sharing, and delivering custom online learning content specifically for professional software developers. Founded in 2014 and originally named Hatchlearn Inc., the company rebranded in 2015 to reflect its focus on enhancing the learning experience for developers. Outlearn's platform allows individual developers and teams to curate modular learning content from various sources, enabling them to assemble personalized learning paths that facilitate trackable team development in enterprise settings. By providing a comprehensive catalog of curated content and tools for publishing original material, Outlearn aims to streamline the learning process for software professionals, paralleling the transformative impacts of platforms like GitHub and Wikipedia in their respective fields.
Cricket's Circle
Seed Round in 2015
Cricket's Circle, Inc. is a retail company based in New York that operates an online platform dedicated to expectant and new parents. Founded in 2014, the company offers a wide range of product recommendations and useful information related to baby care. Its offerings include essential items across various categories such as bath and skin care, diapering, feeding, health and safety, nursery products, and toys. Additionally, Cricket's Circle provides a shoppable solution and a baby gift registry, utilizing personalized content and data to enhance the shopping experience for mothers. By focusing on both e-commerce and content, the company aims to support parents in making informed choices for their children.
Outlearn
Seed Round in 2014
Outlearn Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a cloud-based platform designed for creating, sharing, and delivering custom online learning content specifically for professional software developers. Founded in 2014 and originally named Hatchlearn Inc., the company rebranded in 2015 to reflect its focus on enhancing the learning experience for developers. Outlearn's platform allows individual developers and teams to curate modular learning content from various sources, enabling them to assemble personalized learning paths that facilitate trackable team development in enterprise settings. By providing a comprehensive catalog of curated content and tools for publishing original material, Outlearn aims to streamline the learning process for software professionals, paralleling the transformative impacts of platforms like GitHub and Wikipedia in their respective fields.
Shareaholic
Series A in 2014
Founded in 2008, Shareaholic provides a content amplification platform that helps marketers, publishers, and site owners increase engagement by personalizing how relevant content is discovered, consumed, shared, and promoted. Its platform serves over 300,000 websites worldwide.
Kin Community
Series C in 2014
Kin is a lifestyle entertainment company that develops, creates and distributes lifestyle entertainment in all forms and across all platforms for women in the “Builder” stage of their lives.
Jumptap
Venture Round in 2012
Jumptap is a prominent mobile advertising network that specializes in targeted mobile advertising. It connects with 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million globally, leveraging an extensive portfolio of technology and strategic partnerships with third-party data providers to gain deep insights into mobile audiences. This enables Jumptap to deliver precise targeting at scale. The company maintains a large network of premium publishers and applications, ensuring continuous campaign optimization to maximize return on investment for advertisers while providing high yields for publishers and developers. Jumptap is also recognized for its commitment to mobile advertising privacy standards and actively engages in industry research, including its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports, to enhance mobile opportunities for all stakeholders involved.
Shareaholic
Series A in 2012
Founded in 2008, Shareaholic provides a content amplification platform that helps marketers, publishers, and site owners increase engagement by personalizing how relevant content is discovered, consumed, shared, and promoted. Its platform serves over 300,000 websites worldwide.
Brit + Co is a media company serving a large online audience of women with a creative spirit. It operates a digital platform and related experiences that combine editorial content, tutorials, and shopping, connecting users with makers, designers, chefs, and inventors to foster creativity. The company offers do-it-yourself project kits and a curated line of products, with content distributed via its app, website, and social channels to inspire, educate, and entertain a digitally connected community.
Locu is a platform that assists local businesses in managing and publishing their listings and offerings online. By allowing businesses to input essential information such as street address, phone number, hours of operation, and service menus, Locu ensures that they are easily discoverable by over 200 million potential customers. The platform simplifies the process of updating business information, enabling users to make changes in one central location. These updates are then disseminated in real-time to various partner sites, including Yelp, Foursquare, OpenTable, YP, TripAdvisor, and Facebook. This streamlined approach helps businesses maintain accurate and consistent online presence without the need to individually manage multiple listings across different platforms.
Shareaholic
Seed Round in 2011
Founded in 2008, Shareaholic provides a content amplification platform that helps marketers, publishers, and site owners increase engagement by personalizing how relevant content is discovered, consumed, shared, and promoted. Its platform serves over 300,000 websites worldwide.
Telaria
Venture Round in 2011
Telaria is a software platform that enables publishers worldwide to manage and monetize their digital video inventory. It offers real-time analytics, data-driven decisioning tools, and optimization solutions for publishers' ad yield.
Jumptap
Venture Round in 2011
Jumptap is a prominent mobile advertising network that specializes in targeted mobile advertising. It connects with 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million globally, leveraging an extensive portfolio of technology and strategic partnerships with third-party data providers to gain deep insights into mobile audiences. This enables Jumptap to deliver precise targeting at scale. The company maintains a large network of premium publishers and applications, ensuring continuous campaign optimization to maximize return on investment for advertisers while providing high yields for publishers and developers. Jumptap is also recognized for its commitment to mobile advertising privacy standards and actively engages in industry research, including its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports, to enhance mobile opportunities for all stakeholders involved.
Jumptap is a prominent mobile advertising network that specializes in targeted mobile advertising. It connects with 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million globally, leveraging an extensive portfolio of technology and strategic partnerships with third-party data providers to gain deep insights into mobile audiences. This enables Jumptap to deliver precise targeting at scale. The company maintains a large network of premium publishers and applications, ensuring continuous campaign optimization to maximize return on investment for advertisers while providing high yields for publishers and developers. Jumptap is also recognized for its commitment to mobile advertising privacy standards and actively engages in industry research, including its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports, to enhance mobile opportunities for all stakeholders involved.
WonderHowTo
Series A in 2008
WonderHowTo, Inc., founded in 2007 and based in Santa Monica, California, specializes in providing a comprehensive search engine and directory solutions for how-to videos across a wide range of categories. These categories include beauty, arts and crafts, fitness, cooking, education, and technology, among others. Initially launched in January 2008, the platform began by curating and indexing video tutorials from various sources on the internet, leveraging the backgrounds of its founders in television programming and software development. Over time, WonderHowTo evolved to enable users to contribute original articles, catering to topics better suited for written content. The company's innovative approach includes the creation of a community platform that allows energetic creators to showcase their work and engage with other members, further enriching the user experience and expanding the diversity of content available.
EveryZing
Series B in 2007
EveryZing is a media merchandising platform that helps content producers and web publishers dynamically increase the volume of consumable online multimedia content while simultaneously enhancing its monetary value.
Unlike other general web search and aggregation services that work only on meta data and tags, EveryZing leverages its unique speech to text, search, and optimization technologies to unlock the content within multimedia and automatically process and organize it to power a compelling ecosystem which easily connects media companies with publishers, consumers, and advertisers.
Jumptap is a prominent mobile advertising network that specializes in targeted mobile advertising. It connects with 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million globally, leveraging an extensive portfolio of technology and strategic partnerships with third-party data providers to gain deep insights into mobile audiences. This enables Jumptap to deliver precise targeting at scale. The company maintains a large network of premium publishers and applications, ensuring continuous campaign optimization to maximize return on investment for advertisers while providing high yields for publishers and developers. Jumptap is also recognized for its commitment to mobile advertising privacy standards and actively engages in industry research, including its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports, to enhance mobile opportunities for all stakeholders involved.
BzzAgent, Inc. is a social marketing services company that specializes in influencer marketing, leveraging a network of consumers to participate in word-of-mouth campaigns for various products and services. Founded in 2001 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, BzzAgent connects brands with consumers who share their authentic experiences and opinions through social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The company operates primarily in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and it focuses on creating measurable marketing programs that build trust and influence purchasing decisions. BzzAgent is recognized as one of the pioneering companies in the influencer marketing sector, with over 15 years of experience collaborating with some of the world's largest brands. The company also encourages consumers to rate and review a wide range of products and services, contributing to its clients' business growth. BzzAgent has been operating as a subsidiary of PowerReviews, Inc. since July 2018.
Jumptap is a prominent mobile advertising network that specializes in targeted mobile advertising. It connects with 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million globally, leveraging an extensive portfolio of technology and strategic partnerships with third-party data providers to gain deep insights into mobile audiences. This enables Jumptap to deliver precise targeting at scale. The company maintains a large network of premium publishers and applications, ensuring continuous campaign optimization to maximize return on investment for advertisers while providing high yields for publishers and developers. Jumptap is also recognized for its commitment to mobile advertising privacy standards and actively engages in industry research, including its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports, to enhance mobile opportunities for all stakeholders involved.
MForma Group
Series D in 2005
MFORMA is a leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment. MFORMA provides wireless operators and their customers with the world's best content and brands, and provides developers and brand owners with the shortest route to market. MFORMA's customers include more than 100 of the world's leading wireless carriers. In addition to the industry's most comprehensive catalog of BREW, Java, SMS, MMS, and WAP games, MFORMA also provides sports, lifestyle, and information services subscription products. MFORMA's carrier-grade platform manages the delivery of downloadable games and applications for some of the world's largest carriers. MFORMA is a U.S. corporation with offices in San Francisco (headquarters), San Diego, and Los Angeles, California; Bellevue, Washington; London and Manchester, England; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Seoul, Korea.
MForma Group
Series C in 2005
MFORMA is a leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment. MFORMA provides wireless operators and their customers with the world's best content and brands, and provides developers and brand owners with the shortest route to market. MFORMA's customers include more than 100 of the world's leading wireless carriers. In addition to the industry's most comprehensive catalog of BREW, Java, SMS, MMS, and WAP games, MFORMA also provides sports, lifestyle, and information services subscription products. MFORMA's carrier-grade platform manages the delivery of downloadable games and applications for some of the world's largest carriers. MFORMA is a U.S. corporation with offices in San Francisco (headquarters), San Diego, and Los Angeles, California; Bellevue, Washington; London and Manchester, England; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Seoul, Korea.
Jumptap is a prominent mobile advertising network that specializes in targeted mobile advertising. It connects with 107 million mobile users in the U.S. and 156 million globally, leveraging an extensive portfolio of technology and strategic partnerships with third-party data providers to gain deep insights into mobile audiences. This enables Jumptap to deliver precise targeting at scale. The company maintains a large network of premium publishers and applications, ensuring continuous campaign optimization to maximize return on investment for advertisers while providing high yields for publishers and developers. Jumptap is also recognized for its commitment to mobile advertising privacy standards and actively engages in industry research, including its Understanding Mobile Audience series and monthly MobileSTAT reports, to enhance mobile opportunities for all stakeholders involved.
MForma Group
Series B in 2004
MFORMA is a leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment. MFORMA provides wireless operators and their customers with the world's best content and brands, and provides developers and brand owners with the shortest route to market. MFORMA's customers include more than 100 of the world's leading wireless carriers. In addition to the industry's most comprehensive catalog of BREW, Java, SMS, MMS, and WAP games, MFORMA also provides sports, lifestyle, and information services subscription products. MFORMA's carrier-grade platform manages the delivery of downloadable games and applications for some of the world's largest carriers. MFORMA is a U.S. corporation with offices in San Francisco (headquarters), San Diego, and Los Angeles, California; Bellevue, Washington; London and Manchester, England; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Seoul, Korea.
MForma Group
Series A in 2004
MFORMA is a leading global publisher and distributor of mobile entertainment. MFORMA provides wireless operators and their customers with the world's best content and brands, and provides developers and brand owners with the shortest route to market. MFORMA's customers include more than 100 of the world's leading wireless carriers. In addition to the industry's most comprehensive catalog of BREW, Java, SMS, MMS, and WAP games, MFORMA also provides sports, lifestyle, and information services subscription products. MFORMA's carrier-grade platform manages the delivery of downloadable games and applications for some of the world's largest carriers. MFORMA is a U.S. corporation with offices in San Francisco (headquarters), San Diego, and Los Angeles, California; Bellevue, Washington; London and Manchester, England; Shanghai and Beijing, China; and Seoul, Korea.
Venetica is a provider of content integration software, specializing in solutions that streamline the creation of content-rich applications such as portals and collaborative tools. Its flagship product, VeniceBridge®, simplifies the integration of multiple content repositories and business processes through a consistent, bi-directional interface. This innovative software enhances the functionality of applications by offering relevant views of content that can be reused across different enterprise systems. Venetica also offers consulting services that encompass strategic planning, implementation, and education and training programs. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including financial services, insurance, government, media and entertainment, life sciences, and manufacturing, and partners with leading software vendors and system integrators across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region to deliver its solutions globally.