Betterment is a smart automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, ROTH IRA, and rollover 401(k) accounts. Its technology enables users to manage their investments in a customized, diversified portfolio. Charging a management fee of 0.25%, the company enables users to access, view, share, and review their portfolio’s activities as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime. Betterments products also include Tax Loss Harvesting, a program that works to offset taxes on both gains and income; and RetireGuide, a series of online surveys to enable users to determine the success of their long-term financial goals.
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.
Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in one place as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools. Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in one place as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools. Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.
Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems, notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology.
Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in one place as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools. Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
SundaySky combines the power of personalization with the emotion of video to transform customer relationships, one person at a time. Its proprietary SmartVideo™ Marketing Cloud powers billions of personalized video experiences annually for the world's leading brands, including AT&T, Allstate, Citigroup, Saks Fifth Avenue, Staples, Verizon, and more. In 2017, SmartVideo generated more than $1.4 billion in measured value for SundaySky customers. Headquartered in New York City, SundaySky has additional offices in Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
Founded in 2011, BitSight transforms how organizations manage information security risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help manage third party risk, underwrite cyber insurance policies, benchmark performance, conduct M&A due diligence and assess aggregate risk. Organizations worldwide, including seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20% of Fortune 500 companies, and 3 of the top 5 investment banks use BitSight’s proven Security Ratings technology on a daily basis to make integral risk and business decisions. With over 1,000 customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the most widely used Security Ratings Service. For more information, please visit www.bitsighttech.com or follow @BitSight on Twitter.
SundaySky combines the power of personalization with the emotion of video to transform customer relationships, one person at a time. Its proprietary SmartVideo™ Marketing Cloud powers billions of personalized video experiences annually for the world's leading brands, including AT&T, Allstate, Citigroup, Saks Fifth Avenue, Staples, Verizon, and more. In 2017, SmartVideo generated more than $1.4 billion in measured value for SundaySky customers. Headquartered in New York City, SundaySky has additional offices in Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
Betterment is a smart automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, ROTH IRA, and rollover 401(k) accounts. Its technology enables users to manage their investments in a customized, diversified portfolio. Charging a management fee of 0.25%, the company enables users to access, view, share, and review their portfolio’s activities as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime. Betterments products also include Tax Loss Harvesting, a program that works to offset taxes on both gains and income; and RetireGuide, a series of online surveys to enable users to determine the success of their long-term financial goals.
The Perfecto Mobile system is a hardware and software solution. Mobile handsets are mounted on cradles and they connect to the Perfecto Mobile system through their data ports. Users access the handsets via a web-based UI. When a user clicks on a handset’s key in the GUI, the Perfecto Mobile system sends a command to the real handset and the same key on the actual device is pressed. The system also captures and records the handset’s audio. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Petah Tikva, Israel.
Roku, Inc. operates a streaming platform that enables users to access a wide range of content, including movies, TV episodes, live sports, music, and news. The company has two main segments: Platform and Player. The Platform segment includes advertising products such as video ads and brand sponsorships, while the Player segment involves the manufacture and sale of streaming media players and TVs branded under Roku. The Roku OS, a proprietary operating system, powers its devices and is licensed to other television manufacturers. Roku also operates the Roku Channel, a free ad-supported platform that offers a mix of on-demand and live programming. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Roku has established itself as a leader in the streaming industry, reaching millions of active accounts and providing a seamless user experience through its innovative technology. The company's products are available in the United States and several international markets, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and parts of Latin America.
Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems, notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology.
Founded in 2011, BitSight transforms how organizations manage information security risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help manage third party risk, underwrite cyber insurance policies, benchmark performance, conduct M&A due diligence and assess aggregate risk. Organizations worldwide, including seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20% of Fortune 500 companies, and 3 of the top 5 investment banks use BitSight’s proven Security Ratings technology on a daily basis to make integral risk and business decisions. With over 1,000 customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the most widely used Security Ratings Service. For more information, please visit www.bitsighttech.com or follow @BitSight on Twitter.
Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems, notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology.
Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in one place as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools. Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
Turbonomic is an Application Resource Management (ARM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) software provider based in Boston, MA. Turbonomic provides businesses with ARM software that simultaneously optimizes the performance, compliance, and cost of applications in real-time. Turbonomic identifies and executes the right actions at the right time at every layer of the application stack. Applications get the exact resources they need, continuously and in real-time.
Gild is transforming the talent acquisition industry and fundamentally changing how the world hires. Fueled by data science, consumer-friendly technologies, and predictive analytics, Gild’s smart hiring platform powers the way companies find, nurture, and hire talent across all industries and functions. Gild is used by growing companies to hire the talent they need to innovate and succeed—smarter and faster. Founded in 2011, Gild is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Salt Lake City and Milan.
The Perfecto Mobile system is a hardware and software solution. Mobile handsets are mounted on cradles and they connect to the Perfecto Mobile system through their data ports. Users access the handsets via a web-based UI. When a user clicks on a handset’s key in the GUI, the Perfecto Mobile system sends a command to the real handset and the same key on the actual device is pressed. The system also captures and records the handset’s audio. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Petah Tikva, Israel.
Betterment is a smart automated investing service that provides optimized investment returns for individual, IRA, ROTH IRA, and rollover 401(k) accounts. Its technology enables users to manage their investments in a customized, diversified portfolio. Charging a management fee of 0.25%, the company enables users to access, view, share, and review their portfolio’s activities as well as deposit and withdraw money from anywhere, anytime. Betterments products also include Tax Loss Harvesting, a program that works to offset taxes on both gains and income; and RetireGuide, a series of online surveys to enable users to determine the success of their long-term financial goals.
nWay was founded in 2011 with the goal of creating fun console-quality multiplayer games for both the web and mobile platforms. All of nWay’s games will be free-to-play and will feature synchronous multiplayer gameplay. The company is led by gaming and startup veterans and is based in San Francisco. The company is currently working on its first title, ChronoBlade, a free-to-play Action RPG game for the web and mobile platforms. Play the beta at www.chronoblade.com.
Redfin is a provider of real estate search and brokerage services through a combination of real estate web platforms accessible to agents. It represents people buying and selling homes and features all of the broker-listed homes for sale, as well as for-sale-by-owner properties. Its real estate agents work with the company's team of engineers to create tools that make the buying and selling process easier. On their site, Redfin combines MLS listing information with historical data into a single map. Customers can search for homes by neighborhood, city, zip code, MLS number, or school zone, and can refine results using detailed parameters like price and number of beds or baths.
SundaySky combines the power of personalization with the emotion of video to transform customer relationships, one person at a time. Its proprietary SmartVideo™ Marketing Cloud powers billions of personalized video experiences annually for the world's leading brands, including AT&T, Allstate, Citigroup, Saks Fifth Avenue, Staples, Verizon, and more. In 2017, SmartVideo generated more than $1.4 billion in measured value for SundaySky customers. Headquartered in New York City, SundaySky has additional offices in Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
Divide (formerly known as Enterproid) helps organizations and individuals get the most out of mobile technology and corporate BYOD policies. Divide creates a secure work environment on theirr personal phone that features an array of business-class apps, including your work email, calendar, and contacts. Work data stays secure, while their personal data stays safe from the prying eyes of their company's IT department, or worse, their boss. Divide also gives access to their own web-based device management dashboard - MyDivide - where they can remotely monitor, locate, lock and wipe their device(s)
Pursway dramatically improves customer acquisition, cross-sell and retention by unlocking the power of relationships between people in your customer and prospect base. Using sophisticated algorithms and its proprietary database, Pursway transforms existing customer and prospect databases into an exclusive social graph mapped from thousands of open web sources. These social graphs are designed to mathematically identify actual relationships between people, empowering marketers with the knowledge they need to motivate individuals demonstrated to have influence over the purchasing decisions of others. Using the Pursway Influence Value Order (PIVO) technology, marketers have seen a 2-5X lift in program ROI with major improvements in customer acquisition, cross-sell and retention
Pelican Imaging Corporation is a venture-backed software start-up in the business of commercializing computational cameras for the smartphone market. The company is developing a new camera technology that directly addresses the challenges posed by conventional camera design and small pixels. Investors include Globespan Capital Partners, Granite Ventures, InterWest Partners, and IQT.
Founded in 2011, BitSight transforms how organizations manage information security risk. The BitSight Security Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help manage third party risk, underwrite cyber insurance policies, benchmark performance, conduct M&A due diligence and assess aggregate risk. Organizations worldwide, including seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20% of Fortune 500 companies, and 3 of the top 5 investment banks use BitSight’s proven Security Ratings technology on a daily basis to make integral risk and business decisions. With over 1,000 customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information, BitSight is the most widely used Security Ratings Service. For more information, please visit www.bitsighttech.com or follow @BitSight on Twitter.
Pelican Imaging Corporation is a venture-backed software start-up in the business of commercializing computational cameras for the smartphone market. The company is developing a new camera technology that directly addresses the challenges posed by conventional camera design and small pixels. Investors include Globespan Capital Partners, Granite Ventures, InterWest Partners, and IQT.
Turbonomic is an Application Resource Management (ARM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) software provider based in Boston, MA. Turbonomic provides businesses with ARM software that simultaneously optimizes the performance, compliance, and cost of applications in real-time. Turbonomic identifies and executes the right actions at the right time at every layer of the application stack. Applications get the exact resources they need, continuously and in real-time.
Gild is transforming the talent acquisition industry and fundamentally changing how the world hires. Fueled by data science, consumer-friendly technologies, and predictive analytics, Gild’s smart hiring platform powers the way companies find, nurture, and hire talent across all industries and functions. Gild is used by growing companies to hire the talent they need to innovate and succeed—smarter and faster. Founded in 2011, Gild is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Salt Lake City and Milan.
Mowingo develops and operates a Mobile Customer Engagement Platform, used by the world's leading retailers and service providers to generate more foot traffic and revenues. The platform includes a sophisticated targeting engine, white-labeled mobile applications (iOS and Android), and and easy to use dashboard for merchants. To experience Mowingo, download one of our apps at: http://mcdapp.com
Quartics is a consumer electronics company focused on improving video experience for consumers globally. The company patented products and technologies deliver an improvement on HD (High Definition) quality on devices including Netbooks, Laptops, PCs, and more.
BitYota delivers a warehouse-as-a-service for Big Data Analytics. SaaS takes away both Big Cost and Big Headache making Big Data analytics accessible in the fastest, affordable way to the most number of users, with no compromise on functionality or service levels. BitYota was founded by data experts Dev Patel, Harmeek Bedi and Soren Riise. Its core team has 35+ years of big data experience at Yahoo, Oracle, Veritas/Symantec, Informix, BMC, Kabira/Tibco, and Twitter. It has raised $12M through Seed and Series A funding from Globespan Capital, The Social+Capital Partnership, Dawn Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Crosslink Capital, Morado Ventures, and individual investors Maynard Webb, Graham Summers, Jerry Yang and Sharmila Mulligan.
Nantero is a next-generation memory technology that, packs massive amounts of storage and is nonvolatile. Its main focus is the commercial introduction of NRAM – a high-density high-speed nonvolatile random access storage device. The applications for the nonvolatile RAM Nantero is developing include smartphones, tablets, enterprise systems, notebook and desktop computers, as well as applications in the automotive and industrial arena. NRAM can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is also working with licensees on the development of additional applications of Nantero’s core nanotube-based technology.
The Perfecto Mobile system is a hardware and software solution. Mobile handsets are mounted on cradles and they connect to the Perfecto Mobile system through their data ports. Users access the handsets via a web-based UI. When a user clicks on a handset’s key in the GUI, the Perfecto Mobile system sends a command to the real handset and the same key on the actual device is pressed. The system also captures and records the handset’s audio. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Petah Tikva, Israel.
Kontera Technologies specializes in Internet-based big data marketing solutions for marketers and publishers. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company has developed a content activation platform that analyzes over 400 million daily conversations and content views in real-time across 15,000 exclusive publishers and many of the most visited websites. This platform identifies current interest trends and activates brand content across Display, Mobile, and Social environments, allowing it to engage more than 170 million consumers each month. Prominent advertisers, including major automotive and consumer goods companies, utilize Kontera's services to create unique brand experiences. The company is supported by notable investors and maintains offices in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and London.
Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Storage Class Memory (SCM), a class of disruptive technologies which includes flash memory, that can revolutionize the data center and cloud computing by redefining the memory-storage hierarchy. However, these technologies have traditionally presented significant performance, reliability, and serviceability problems. Virident Systems brings its substantial know-how and intellectual property in this area to create hardware and software solutions that solve these problems. The tachIOn™ solid-state disk eclipses competing storage products by enabling customers to tackle data-intensive applications with 4-10x predictable performance, sustained over the life of the product, and with enterprise-class reliability and serviceability. Virident Systems was founded by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel. The company has built world-class expertise in flash and flash-like technologies and assembled a world-class team focused on the use of these technologies by modern applications. This expertise gives the company a unique view into how such disruptive technologies can be used to solve some of the most challenging problems in data centers and cloud computing deployments.
Gild is transforming the talent acquisition industry and fundamentally changing how the world hires. Fueled by data science, consumer-friendly technologies, and predictive analytics, Gild’s smart hiring platform powers the way companies find, nurture, and hire talent across all industries and functions. Gild is used by growing companies to hire the talent they need to innovate and succeed—smarter and faster. Founded in 2011, Gild is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Salt Lake City and Milan.
Roku, Inc. operates a streaming platform that enables users to access a wide range of content, including movies, TV episodes, live sports, music, and news. The company has two main segments: Platform and Player. The Platform segment includes advertising products such as video ads and brand sponsorships, while the Player segment involves the manufacture and sale of streaming media players and TVs branded under Roku. The Roku OS, a proprietary operating system, powers its devices and is licensed to other television manufacturers. Roku also operates the Roku Channel, a free ad-supported platform that offers a mix of on-demand and live programming. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Roku has established itself as a leader in the streaming industry, reaching millions of active accounts and providing a seamless user experience through its innovative technology. The company's products are available in the United States and several international markets, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and parts of Latin America.
Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Storage Class Memory (SCM), a class of disruptive technologies which includes flash memory, that can revolutionize the data center and cloud computing by redefining the memory-storage hierarchy. However, these technologies have traditionally presented significant performance, reliability, and serviceability problems. Virident Systems brings its substantial know-how and intellectual property in this area to create hardware and software solutions that solve these problems. The tachIOn™ solid-state disk eclipses competing storage products by enabling customers to tackle data-intensive applications with 4-10x predictable performance, sustained over the life of the product, and with enterprise-class reliability and serviceability. Virident Systems was founded by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel. The company has built world-class expertise in flash and flash-like technologies and assembled a world-class team focused on the use of these technologies by modern applications. This expertise gives the company a unique view into how such disruptive technologies can be used to solve some of the most challenging problems in data centers and cloud computing deployments.
BitYota delivers a warehouse-as-a-service for Big Data Analytics. SaaS takes away both Big Cost and Big Headache making Big Data analytics accessible in the fastest, affordable way to the most number of users, with no compromise on functionality or service levels. BitYota was founded by data experts Dev Patel, Harmeek Bedi and Soren Riise. Its core team has 35+ years of big data experience at Yahoo, Oracle, Veritas/Symantec, Informix, BMC, Kabira/Tibco, and Twitter. It has raised $12M through Seed and Series A funding from Globespan Capital, The Social+Capital Partnership, Dawn Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Crosslink Capital, Morado Ventures, and individual investors Maynard Webb, Graham Summers, Jerry Yang and Sharmila Mulligan.
Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in one place as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools. Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
Certeon, Inc. provides virtual appliance software solutions. It offers aCelera Virtual Appliance that is used for application acceleration, virtualization, and manageability applications; and S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances, a physical appliance that accelerates traffic in a wide area network. The company also provides Object Differencing Engine, a disk-based object store and difference, and compress engine within Certeon appliances; and application acceleration blueprints. In addition, it offers solutions for accelerating remote application delivery, business environment, office application delivery, security and risk management, enterprise content management, Web application performance acceleration, wide area file services performance acceleration, WAN optimization, and product lifecycle management applications. The company has a strategic relationship with Microsoft; and strategic reseller partnerships with Champion Solutions Group and Nth Generation. Certeon, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Amalfi Semiconductor is a fabless developer of high-performance CMOS power amplifiers for the cellular industry.
Private Equity Round in 2012
Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Storage Class Memory (SCM), a class of disruptive technologies which includes flash memory, that can revolutionize the data center and cloud computing by redefining the memory-storage hierarchy. However, these technologies have traditionally presented significant performance, reliability, and serviceability problems. Virident Systems brings its substantial know-how and intellectual property in this area to create hardware and software solutions that solve these problems. The tachIOn™ solid-state disk eclipses competing storage products by enabling customers to tackle data-intensive applications with 4-10x predictable performance, sustained over the life of the product, and with enterprise-class reliability and serviceability. Virident Systems was founded by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel. The company has built world-class expertise in flash and flash-like technologies and assembled a world-class team focused on the use of these technologies by modern applications. This expertise gives the company a unique view into how such disruptive technologies can be used to solve some of the most challenging problems in data centers and cloud computing deployments.
Upwork is an online work marketplace that connects millions of businesses with independent talents around the globe. It serves everyone from one-person startups to 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and freelancers to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Their talent community earned over $2 billion on Upwork in 2019 across more than 8,000 skills, including website and app development, creative and design, customer support, finance and accounting, consulting, and operations. Upwork’s mission is to create economic opportunities so people have better lives.
Zea2 formerly ZeaChem will change the world by creating high margin and sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based fuels and chemicals. Able to use wood chips, wheat straw, corn stover, or grasses to make a range of drop-in products for the $1T+ chemicals and fuels markets, ZeaChem can profit today without any subsidies and is competitive with $50 per barrel oil. ZeaChem’s advantage centers around its fermentation process which converts 100% of the carbon in the sugars into end products, delivering unmatched yields
Through a combination of industry-leading AI, a marketplace of human transcriptionists, and over 6.5 millions of hours of real-world data, Rev is the most accurate transcription service on the market. Leading in price, speed and quality, Rev delivers compliant captions, transcriptions and subtitles in 75+ languages. The chosen speech-to-text partner for Vimeo, Spotify, Yale, PBS and Sundance Film Festival, Rev is progressing accessibility across industries and revolutionizing what it means to understand the human voice. Do more with every word at Rev.com.
expressor provides powerful, feature rich, resource efficient data integration software that offers a unique and intuitive business centric approach to data integration and dramatically simplifies development and reuse. At the core of the platform is expressor's ETL design tool, expressor Studio, which allows users to develop, test, and run data flow applications on their desktop. expressor Standard Edition extends expressor Studio to facilitate team development, version management, and deployment of ETL applications to a standalone parallel processing server.
Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Storage Class Memory (SCM), a class of disruptive technologies which includes flash memory, that can revolutionize the data center and cloud computing by redefining the memory-storage hierarchy. However, these technologies have traditionally presented significant performance, reliability, and serviceability problems. Virident Systems brings its substantial know-how and intellectual property in this area to create hardware and software solutions that solve these problems. The tachIOn™ solid-state disk eclipses competing storage products by enabling customers to tackle data-intensive applications with 4-10x predictable performance, sustained over the life of the product, and with enterprise-class reliability and serviceability. Virident Systems was founded by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel. The company has built world-class expertise in flash and flash-like technologies and assembled a world-class team focused on the use of these technologies by modern applications. This expertise gives the company a unique view into how such disruptive technologies can be used to solve some of the most challenging problems in data centers and cloud computing deployments.
Redfin is a provider of real estate search and brokerage services through a combination of real estate web platforms accessible to agents. It represents people buying and selling homes and features all of the broker-listed homes for sale, as well as for-sale-by-owner properties. Its real estate agents work with the company's team of engineers to create tools that make the buying and selling process easier. On their site, Redfin combines MLS listing information with historical data into a single map. Customers can search for homes by neighborhood, city, zip code, MLS number, or school zone, and can refine results using detailed parameters like price and number of beds or baths.
Pursway dramatically improves customer acquisition, cross-sell and retention by unlocking the power of relationships between people in your customer and prospect base. Using sophisticated algorithms and its proprietary database, Pursway transforms existing customer and prospect databases into an exclusive social graph mapped from thousands of open web sources. These social graphs are designed to mathematically identify actual relationships between people, empowering marketers with the knowledge they need to motivate individuals demonstrated to have influence over the purchasing decisions of others. Using the Pursway Influence Value Order (PIVO) technology, marketers have seen a 2-5X lift in program ROI with major improvements in customer acquisition, cross-sell and retention
Gupshup enables its users to communicate and share their short messages privately and publicly.HDFC and ZeeTV to engage and retain consumers. Its platform handles over 4 billion messages per month and has delivered over 150 billion messages in total. Gupshup also developed a smart messaging app, Teamchat, which introduced patent-pending “smart” messages in 2014, only now being offered by other messaging apps. Gupshup’s Smart messaging platform also provides tools for developers to quickly and easily build, test, deploy, monitor, and track bots and other smart messaging services. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.
Gild is transforming the talent acquisition industry and fundamentally changing how the world hires. Fueled by data science, consumer-friendly technologies, and predictive analytics, Gild’s smart hiring platform powers the way companies find, nurture, and hire talent across all industries and functions. Gild is used by growing companies to hire the talent they need to innovate and succeed—smarter and faster. Founded in 2011, Gild is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Salt Lake City and Milan.
Roku, Inc. operates a streaming platform that enables users to access a wide range of content, including movies, TV episodes, live sports, music, and news. The company has two main segments: Platform and Player. The Platform segment includes advertising products such as video ads and brand sponsorships, while the Player segment involves the manufacture and sale of streaming media players and TVs branded under Roku. The Roku OS, a proprietary operating system, powers its devices and is licensed to other television manufacturers. Roku also operates the Roku Channel, a free ad-supported platform that offers a mix of on-demand and live programming. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Roku has established itself as a leader in the streaming industry, reaching millions of active accounts and providing a seamless user experience through its innovative technology. The company's products are available in the United States and several international markets, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and parts of Latin America.
CloudShare enables on-premise solutions and SaaS applications to use the cloud unchanged. The company's virtual IT lab solutions for training, sales enablement, support, and sandboxing enable software vendors to increase productivity, agility, and reach. Founded in 2007, CloudShare is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
PerkStreet Financial is a next-generation banking platform that generates industry-leading payments revenues. PerkStreet customers earn cash back for spending on their debit cards, weekly offers customized to their buying habits, and special cash back opportunities at the places they spend most. PerkStreet accounts generate an unprecedented level of transaction revenues, three times what a typical bank account will earn. PerkStreet generates such high levels of usage and revenue by using its proprietary commerce engine that predicts the purchase demands of its customers and incents them to take profitable actions using the company's rewards platform. PerkStreet serves more customers than 75% of the banks and credit unions in the country.
Seattle-based SignalSet has developed the first wireless infrastructure solution that allows machine-to-machine device manufacturers and OEMs to deploy and remotely manage wireless devices capable of seamlessly switching between GSM and CDMA wireless networks with no manual intervention. With SignalSet's patent-pending Remote Carrier Switchingâ„¢ technology, wireless machine-to-machine devices are being built to have continuous carrier choice, freely moving between networks as needed to maximize coverage, data transmission speed, and automatic redundancy at an affordable price.
Overture Networks develops and manufactures high-speed carrier ethernet edge and aggregation solutions. Its products combine packet-switched and circuit-switched areas into a single architecture-at cost points to offer carrier Ethernet services to any size location over copper, fiber, or optical transport.
Open Mile believes that the domestic truckload market should be smarter, pricing should be transparent, and information should be easily accessible for all. Open Mile's business utilizes the best aspects of web and mobile technology to empower shippers and carriers to interact, collect market intelligence and match demand with capacity all in real-time. The company has created tools that power a smarter freight industry, automating much of the process, creating lower cost and better service for shippers while creating new customers and revenue opportunities for qualified carriers.
The Perfecto Mobile system is a hardware and software solution. Mobile handsets are mounted on cradles and they connect to the Perfecto Mobile system through their data ports. Users access the handsets via a web-based UI. When a user clicks on a handset’s key in the GUI, the Perfecto Mobile system sends a command to the real handset and the same key on the actual device is pressed. The system also captures and records the handset’s audio. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Petah Tikva, Israel.
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Clean Cell International is a solar module manufacturer that develops flexible solar modules.
Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Storage Class Memory (SCM), a class of disruptive technologies which includes flash memory, that can revolutionize the data center and cloud computing by redefining the memory-storage hierarchy. However, these technologies have traditionally presented significant performance, reliability, and serviceability problems. Virident Systems brings its substantial know-how and intellectual property in this area to create hardware and software solutions that solve these problems. The tachIOn™ solid-state disk eclipses competing storage products by enabling customers to tackle data-intensive applications with 4-10x predictable performance, sustained over the life of the product, and with enterprise-class reliability and serviceability. Virident Systems was founded by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel. The company has built world-class expertise in flash and flash-like technologies and assembled a world-class team focused on the use of these technologies by modern applications. This expertise gives the company a unique view into how such disruptive technologies can be used to solve some of the most challenging problems in data centers and cloud computing deployments.
Pelican Imaging Corporation is a venture-backed software start-up in the business of commercializing computational cameras for the smartphone market. The company is developing a new camera technology that directly addresses the challenges posed by conventional camera design and small pixels. Investors include Globespan Capital Partners, Granite Ventures, InterWest Partners, and IQT.
SundaySky combines the power of personalization with the emotion of video to transform customer relationships, one person at a time. Its proprietary SmartVideo™ Marketing Cloud powers billions of personalized video experiences annually for the world's leading brands, including AT&T, Allstate, Citigroup, Saks Fifth Avenue, Staples, Verizon, and more. In 2017, SmartVideo generated more than $1.4 billion in measured value for SundaySky customers. Headquartered in New York City, SundaySky has additional offices in Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.
expressor provides powerful, feature rich, resource efficient data integration software that offers a unique and intuitive business centric approach to data integration and dramatically simplifies development and reuse. At the core of the platform is expressor's ETL design tool, expressor Studio, which allows users to develop, test, and run data flow applications on their desktop. expressor Standard Edition extends expressor Studio to facilitate team development, version management, and deployment of ETL applications to a standalone parallel processing server.
Gupshup enables its users to communicate and share their short messages privately and publicly.HDFC and ZeeTV to engage and retain consumers. Its platform handles over 4 billion messages per month and has delivered over 150 billion messages in total. Gupshup also developed a smart messaging app, Teamchat, which introduced patent-pending “smart” messages in 2014, only now being offered by other messaging apps. Gupshup’s Smart messaging platform also provides tools for developers to quickly and easily build, test, deploy, monitor, and track bots and other smart messaging services. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.
Pursway dramatically improves customer acquisition, cross-sell and retention by unlocking the power of relationships between people in your customer and prospect base. Using sophisticated algorithms and its proprietary database, Pursway transforms existing customer and prospect databases into an exclusive social graph mapped from thousands of open web sources. These social graphs are designed to mathematically identify actual relationships between people, empowering marketers with the knowledge they need to motivate individuals demonstrated to have influence over the purchasing decisions of others. Using the Pursway Influence Value Order (PIVO) technology, marketers have seen a 2-5X lift in program ROI with major improvements in customer acquisition, cross-sell and retention
Ampulse was founded in 2007 by Innovation Valley Partners and Battelle Ventures, an independent venture fund formed by the Battelle Memorial Institute, the world's largest non-profit research and development organization, manager of seven National and four major private laboratories in the United States. Ampulse is leveraging proprietary technology developed over the past ten years at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and National Renewal Energy Laboratory (NREL), focused on flexible thin-film photovoltaic technologies.
Blackwave provides an integrated infrastructure platform for the storage and delivery of video over IP. Blackwave’s core value proposition is to significantly lower the cost and increase the simplicity of building, scaling and managing the infrastructure required to stream deep libraries of video content to a large, concurrent audience. Blackwave infrastructure significantly reduces both the required Cap-Ex and the ongoing Op-Ex associated with IP video delivery through breakthroughs in the way video data is stored and read from standard disk drives. A system begins with 48TBs of storage coupled with 10Gbps delivery capacity. Both storage and delivery are independently scalable, and the system natively manages video delivery via HTTP, Flash, and WMS protocols through a single web UI. Today, Telcos, CDNs, content aggregators and distributors deploy the Blackwave system for use anywhere from the storage-intensive Origin to distributed nodes at the Edge of their content delivery network. The company brought their first system to market in the US and Asia in February, 2009, and announced their first customer, CDNetworks, shortly thereafter.
Analogix Semiconductor designs and manufactures high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for the Digital Media market. Analogix is a leader in providing semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort, the next-generation digital interconnect for the Personal Computer. Analogix also provides a full suite of HDMI 1.3 and 1.2 transmitter and receiver solutions for the distribution of high-definition video and audio in consumer electronics. Analogix is based in Santa Clara, Calif., with offices in Beijing, China, Taipei, Taiwan and Tokyo, Japan.
Amalfi Semiconductor is a fabless developer of high-performance CMOS power amplifiers for the cellular industry.
5min Media is the leading syndication platform for lifestyle, knowledge and instructional videos. Reinventing the cable network online, 5min reaches engaged and targeted audiences of passionate consumers through its network of 100s of lifestyle and niche websites. The 5min video library comprises more than 200,000 short-form videos from some of the world’s largest media companies, as well as the most innovative independent producers. Visit http://www.5minmedia.com for more information.
StrongView helps brands understand, engage, and deliver value to consumers. Recognized as a leading provider of email and cross-channel marketing solutions, StrongView is reinventing customer relationship marketing through customer context. Our contextual marketing solutions enable brands to recognize and act on consumers' fast-changing circumstances before, during, and after each moment of engagement. Based in Redwood City, CA, and backed by leading investors, StrongView seeks to challenge traditional marketing approaches and enable customer context as a new foundation for delivering value.
Silicor Materials Inc. is the new name for Calisolar Inc., effective February 1, 2012. Silicor Materials is a manufacturer of solar and aluminum products, including the leading high-quality, low-cost solar silicon. The company has silicon purification operations at the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Silicor Materials Canada Inc., located in Ontario, Canada; and a state-of-the-art research and development center in Berlin, Germany. Its investors include Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, Good Energies, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, and Ventures West.
iAd is helping advertisers reach millions of iPhone and iPod touch users around the world with dynamic, engaging ads right in their favorite apps. The iAd Network combines the emotion of TV advertising with the interactivity of the web, giving advertisers a powerful new way to reach mobile users. They believe iAd is the best mobile ad network in the world, and starting next month they're going to focus all of their resources on the iAd advertising platform. They are no longer accepting new campaigns for the Quattro Wireless Network, and they will soon begin winding down existing campaigns. As of September 30, they will support ads exclusively for the iAd Network.
COPAN Systems, Inc. provides massive array of idle disks storage solutions to unlock the value of long-term persistent data. The company offers virtual tape library products for backup/restore and disaster recovery applications; and archive products to retain digital assets with store and retrieve features at the file level. It offers data protection, archive, tiered storage, power and cooling, backup/restore, and disaster recovery solutions. The company’s customers include education, financial, government, healthcare, technology, media, and service provider industries. COPAN Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Longmont, Colorado.
Solar Power Partners, Inc. (SPP), America’s premier independent solar power producer, helps businesses, institutions, municipalities and agricultural customers embrace solar energy. SPP develops, owns, and operates distributed solar energy facilities (SEFs) and sells solar-generated electricity through solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPA), long-term energy financing solutions that help customers go green without the hassles or costs of solar facility ownership and maintenance. SPP serves the continental United States and Hawaii and teams with solar integrators for customized, renewable energy installations. SPP’s customers include water districts, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals and healthcare facilities, water districts, airports, detention centers, commercial facilities, agricultural facilities, and municipalities.
Nurien is a social networking and online gaming company that develops platforms for virtual social networks.
Zea2 formerly ZeaChem will change the world by creating high margin and sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based fuels and chemicals. Able to use wood chips, wheat straw, corn stover, or grasses to make a range of drop-in products for the $1T+ chemicals and fuels markets, ZeaChem can profit today without any subsidies and is competitive with $50 per barrel oil. ZeaChem’s advantage centers around its fermentation process which converts 100% of the carbon in the sugars into end products, delivering unmatched yields
SundaySky combines the power of personalization with the emotion of video to transform customer relationships, one person at a time. Its proprietary SmartVideo™ Marketing Cloud powers billions of personalized video experiences annually for the world's leading brands, including AT&T, Allstate, Citigroup, Saks Fifth Avenue, Staples, Verizon, and more. In 2017, SmartVideo generated more than $1.4 billion in measured value for SundaySky customers. Headquartered in New York City, SundaySky has additional offices in Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.
Silicor Materials Inc. is the new name for Calisolar Inc., effective February 1, 2012. Silicor Materials is a manufacturer of solar and aluminum products, including the leading high-quality, low-cost solar silicon. The company has silicon purification operations at the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Silicor Materials Canada Inc., located in Ontario, Canada; and a state-of-the-art research and development center in Berlin, Germany. Its investors include Advanced Technology Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, Good Energies, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, and Ventures West.
Applied Identity, Inc. offers identity aware network security solutions. It offers ID-Audit, which displays real-time and historical user and resource activity; ID-Unify that enables the management of user identities between disparate identity stores; ID-Enforce, an identity aware network enforcement solution; and ID-Mark, which enables collection of audit data. The company also provides audit and compliance, asset protection, network level user and group separation, and identity virtualization solutions. Its clients include financial services, government department and agencies, technology innovators, and educational institutions.
Solar Power Partners, Inc. (SPP), America’s premier independent solar power producer, helps businesses, institutions, municipalities and agricultural customers embrace solar energy. SPP develops, owns, and operates distributed solar energy facilities (SEFs) and sells solar-generated electricity through solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPA), long-term energy financing solutions that help customers go green without the hassles or costs of solar facility ownership and maintenance. SPP serves the continental United States and Hawaii and teams with solar integrators for customized, renewable energy installations. SPP’s customers include water districts, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals and healthcare facilities, water districts, airports, detention centers, commercial facilities, agricultural facilities, and municipalities.
[Challenge Games](http://www.challengegames.com) creates online social games that are fun and easy to play whether you're a serious or casual gamer. Tapping the capabilities of social networks, Challenge Games helps people play with and against friends.
expressor provides powerful, feature rich, resource efficient data integration software that offers a unique and intuitive business centric approach to data integration and dramatically simplifies development and reuse. At the core of the platform is expressor's ETL design tool, expressor Studio, which allows users to develop, test, and run data flow applications on their desktop. expressor Standard Edition extends expressor Studio to facilitate team development, version management, and deployment of ETL applications to a standalone parallel processing server.
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
Advertising solutions that unify, optimize and grow your business. Finally, there’s a platform that understands how people consume content today. A platform that understands that as people move across screens, advertisers and broadcasters need to adapt instantly. Only Amobee makes it easy for you to find your audience—no matter where they are, no matter what they’re watching. Amobee is built on three fundamental truths: consumers move fluidly across screens, love video, and value their privacy. Amobee helps brands, agencies, and media companies unify audiences to optimize results across all TV, connected TV, and digital media, including social, to drive customers’ growth.
OpenSpan provides desktop analytics and desktop automation software that improves the productivity of customer-facing and backoffice workers in order to deliver operational efficiency and cost savings, and to enhance the customer experience. OpenSpan is currently deployed to more than 300,000 enterprise desktops in 21 countries, improving an estimated 1.1 billion business processes annually.
Upwork is an online work marketplace that connects millions of businesses with independent talents around the globe. It serves everyone from one-person startups to 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and freelancers to work together in new ways that unlock their potential. Their talent community earned over $2 billion on Upwork in 2019 across more than 8,000 skills, including website and app development, creative and design, customer support, finance and accounting, consulting, and operations. Upwork’s mission is to create economic opportunities so people have better lives.
Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that aims to help enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software. The company was founded by Bob Gett, former CEO of Viant Corporation and former President of Cambridge Technology Partners North America.
Since 1995, [MarketLive](http://www.marketlive.com/) has provided world class eCommerce technology and expert services that help fast-growing companies successfully sell goods and services across multiple channels. Designed to meet the unique requirements of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers, the extensible MarketLive® eCommerce Suite and MarketLive's best practices-based Intelligent Selling® methodology enable merchants to enhance customer experience online while dramatically improving acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive powers many leading eCommerce sites, including Peruvian Connection, Learning Resources, Sports Chalet, Jessica Simpson, Warner Brothers, Cost Plus World Market, Helzberg Diamonds, and Party City, and Armani/Exchange, to name a few.
Nurien is a social networking and online gaming company that develops platforms for virtual social networks.
Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol from a wide variety of input materials to provide economic, environmental, and national security benefits.
Incipient, engages in the development of enterprise-class storage, storage area networks (SAN) storage virtualization, and automated data migration software solutions. It offers Incipient Automated Data Migration Software for data migration projects, such as data center moves, storage array refreshes, application tiering, and storage resource balancing; and Incipient Network Storage Platform Software, which combines storage virtualization technology with management allowing customers to move data across their SAN environment. The company also offers data migration, automated storage provisioning, data copy services, and data protection solutions. It serves data migration, storage virtualization, storage provisioning, storage area networks management, and copy services markets. The company distributes its products through channel partners. Incipient, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Strata8 is telecommunications consultant that owns cellular spectrum licenses to provide personal cellular services to enterprises.