Granite Ventures

Granite Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, specializing in investments in early-stage technology companies. Founded in 1992, the firm focuses on pre-revenue and early-stage investments, primarily targeting seed, Series A, and Series B funding rounds. Granite Ventures concentrates its investments in sectors such as audio and video equipment, multimedia software, enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, mobility, and internet applications. The firm typically invests between $0.5 million and $4 million initially, with the potential for up to $10 million over the life of the company. While it primarily invests in U.S.-based companies, Granite Ventures is open to select opportunities outside the United States. The firm tends to lead its investments and prefers to take an active role by securing board seats in its portfolio companies. Over its history, Granite Ventures has invested over $1 billion in more than 90 private companies, partnering with entrepreneurs to build competitive businesses and achieve category leadership.

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Marqeta

Private Equity Round in 2020
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.

Lucidworks

Series F in 2019
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment. Lucidworks Connected Experience Cloud (CXC) makes it easy for customers to capture user signals and create personalized search, browse, and discovery experiences. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees. Lucidworks’ investors include Francisco Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, and Walden International. Learn more at Lucidworks.com.

Marqeta

Series E in 2019
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.

Anaplan

Series F in 2017
Anaplan is driving a new age of connected planning. Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s cloud platform in every business function to make better-informed plans and decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. Anaplan also provides support, training, and planning transformation advisory services. Anaplan is a privately held company based in San Francisco with 16 offices and over 150 expert partners worldwide.

Marqeta

Series D in 2017
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.

Mojo Networks

Series E in 2017
The Future of Cloud WiFi At Mojo Networks, we are leading a revolution in cloud managed WiFi services and products for enterprise wireless. Existing architectures are antiquated. Controllers will soon be obsolete. We make it simple to move your massive enterprise WLAN to the cloud with automation and built-in scaling. Mojo's cloud WiFi platform is easy to deploy and intuitive to manage while also enabling advanced features like graphical troubleshooting, WiFi user analytics and social engagement. Above all, we continue to advance our widely acknowledged industry-leading security capabilities. We've secured the air and built our cloud designed for a new frontier of prolific connectivity. Prolific – We want seamless connectivity for everyone, everywhere, all the time. Manage your Mojo Networks WiFi products from anywhere in the world – no controllers required. Intuitive – Our access points and sensors are programmed out-of-the-box to automatically discover and connect to the Mojo Networks cloud wireless platform. Deployment and management is a piece of cake. Responsive – Most of the time the Mojo Networks cloud managed WiFi platform works like magic, but when it doesn’t, we respond immediately to do what’s right for our customers. Trustworthy – The credibility of our top-ranked wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) is proven every day from the highest levels of government to the infrastructure of developing nations. At Mojo Networks, we are obsessive with making our customers successful. We are committed to fearless creativity and partnering with others who share the same passion.

Airspace Systems

Seed Round in 2016
Airspace Systems designs develop and build specialized drones. Its products solve meaningful problems that impact the world. Its teams are from some of the companies in the world. It is a company that develops aerial security systems for enterprises. It is the drone security solution capable of identifying, tracking, and autonomously removing rogue drones from the sky.

Smule

Series G in 2016
Smule develops music-making apps that connect people. The company was founded to enable anyone to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. The company's products include AutoRap, Magic Piano, Guitar!, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, and more. Smule was established in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Anaplan

Series E in 2016
Anaplan is driving a new age of connected planning. Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s cloud platform in every business function to make better-informed plans and decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. Anaplan also provides support, training, and planning transformation advisory services. Anaplan is a privately held company based in San Francisco with 16 offices and over 150 expert partners worldwide.

Lucidworks

Series D in 2015
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment. Lucidworks Connected Experience Cloud (CXC) makes it easy for customers to capture user signals and create personalized search, browse, and discovery experiences. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees. Lucidworks’ investors include Francisco Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, and Walden International. Learn more at Lucidworks.com.

Marqeta

Series C in 2015
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.

Motiv

Series A in 2015
Motiv is a personal technology brand focused on making devices that fit seamlessly into people's lives. With their first line of personal fitness trackers, they’re dedicated to building product experiences that are beautiful and easy to use. Motiv was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

HireVue

Series E in 2015
HireVue is transforming the way companies discover and hire the best talent with its AI-driven Hiring Intelligence platform. Combining predictive, validated industrial/organizational science with artificial intelligence allows recruiting professionals to augment human decision-making in the hiring process, delivering higher quality talent, faster. HireVue has hosted over six million interviews for more than 700 customers worldwide, including more than one-third of the Fortune 100 and leading brands such as Vodafone, Nike, Intel, Hilton, HealthSouth, Qantas and Carnival Cruise Lines.

HyTrust

Series D in 2015
HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption. The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk of catastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud. HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures.

Agilence

Venture Round in 2015
Agilence Inc. is the industry leader in Next-Generation Exception-Based Reporting solutions for Retail Loss Prevention and Operations. Agilence develops Retail 20/20™, an intelligent store-level reporting solution that provides visibility into daily store operations to reduce fraud and increase efficiency. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

Telltale Games

Series D in 2015
Telltale is the first and only digital publisher to release interactive episodic content on a monthly schedule. Their award-winning internal development studio is responsible for creating landmark episodic content, including Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale currently develops and publishes episodic series on PC, Wii™, and Xbox 360™, with plans to expand to additional platforms and channels this year.

Motiv

Debt Financing in 2015
Motiv is a personal technology brand focused on making devices that fit seamlessly into people's lives. With their first line of personal fitness trackers, they’re dedicated to building product experiences that are beautiful and easy to use. Motiv was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Fastback Networks

Series C in 2015
Fastback Networks was founded with a vision to deliver innovative technology for the mobile infrastructure of the future, enabling network operators to deliver new services, tap new markets and monetize a new generation of mobile applications. With insights derived from the collective team's vast experience building leading edge radio and data networking solutions, Fastback Networks looked at the challenges of 4G/LTE deployment with fresh eyes and better ideas, and developed a transformational solution that enables the acceleration of next generation mobile services.

Agilence

Series C in 2014
Agilence Inc. is the industry leader in Next-Generation Exception-Based Reporting solutions for Retail Loss Prevention and Operations. Agilence develops Retail 20/20™, an intelligent store-level reporting solution that provides visibility into daily store operations to reduce fraud and increase efficiency. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

Sense Platform

Seed Round in 2014
Sense is next-generation cloud platform for data science and big data analytics. Designed for data scientists and data-driven enterprises, Sense provides a collaborative, scalable, and highly extensible platform for data analysis, statistical modeling, visualization, and reporting. Sense allows data scientists to use the powerful data analysis tools they know, including R, Python, JavaScript, Hive, Impala, and more; scale their analysis easily, without managing infrastructure; share and collaborate on data, code, and results; and move data science solutions from exploration to production within a unified platform. Sense provides enterprises and business users an advanced analytics platform that can realize the true power of their data.

Hobo Labs

Series A in 2014
Founded by successful entrepreneurs who created Rotten Tomatoes and Lithium, they believe in bringing the guild-mechanics that they love from PC games to the mobile platform. They want to make innovative games that they would want to play theirselves. And they believe the best games are the ones you can play with friends, so they are baking social into the core of what they do.

Survios

Series A in 2014
Survios is a virtual reality company that creates groundbreaking interactive content powered by cutting edge immersive technology. It is composed of a team of dreamers, makers, artists, thinkers, and gamers. It's focus is all about engaging games., immersive tech and unparalleled presence. Nathan Burba, James Iliff and Alexander Silkin launched Project Holodeck as an interdisciplinary effort at the University of Southern California’s Games program. From Project Holodeck they founded Survios, and continue to focus on virtual reality gaming and immersive technology.

Anaplan

Series D in 2014
Anaplan is driving a new age of connected planning. Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s cloud platform in every business function to make better-informed plans and decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. Anaplan also provides support, training, and planning transformation advisory services. Anaplan is a privately held company based in San Francisco with 16 offices and over 150 expert partners worldwide.

Smule

Series E in 2014
Smule develops music-making apps that connect people. The company was founded to enable anyone to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. The company's products include AutoRap, Magic Piano, Guitar!, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, and more. Smule was established in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

AirPair

Seed Round in 2014
AirPair is a consultation development company that provides development resources and helps businesses complete projects. Its staff includes professionals with experience across many technology stacks and solutions. AirPair accelerates software development by pairing its team with its clients’ engineers in real time via video and screen sharing. The company specializes in remote consulting and pair programming. AirPair was founded in 2013 by Maksim Ioffe, Jonathon Kresner, and Igor Lebovic. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Motiv

Seed Round in 2014
Motiv is a personal technology brand focused on making devices that fit seamlessly into people's lives. With their first line of personal fitness trackers, they’re dedicated to building product experiences that are beautiful and easy to use. Motiv was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Workboard

Seed Round in 2014
Workboard is an enterprise SaaS company that helps companies unlock growth by making alignment and accountability remarkably easy. The Workboard SaaS Solution transforms an antiquated approach to strategy alignment and progression into a dynamic, data-driven practice augmented by analytics and intelligence. It helps organizations align OKRs and FAST goals, automate business reviews, and execute for growth. Workboard enables goal and execution alignment with full transparency for faster, better results. The Workboard solution helps teams make results in a habit with software to localize, activate, and execute strategic priorities fast and efficiently, and coaching to rapidly localize​ strategy through the org so everyone's engaged on this quarter's results. It sustains high speed, focus, and purpose as the organization grows exponentially. Workboard was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States.

HireVue

Series D in 2013
HireVue is transforming the way companies discover and hire the best talent with its AI-driven Hiring Intelligence platform. Combining predictive, validated industrial/organizational science with artificial intelligence allows recruiting professionals to augment human decision-making in the hiring process, delivering higher quality talent, faster. HireVue has hosted over six million interviews for more than 700 customers worldwide, including more than one-third of the Fortune 100 and leading brands such as Vodafone, Nike, Intel, Hilton, HealthSouth, Qantas and Carnival Cruise Lines.

Martini Media

Series D in 2013
Martini Media is a digital media and content platform for brands to engage with influential audiences. It provides solutions for delivering media campaigns that integrate content, videos, and social functionality across sites its audience interacts with. Martini Media was launched in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

HyTrust

Series C in 2013
HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption. The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk of catastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud. HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures.

Pelican Imaging

Series C in 2013
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.

Pelican Imaging

Series C in 2013
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.

Marqeta

Series B in 2013
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.

Lucidworks

Series C in 2013
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment. Lucidworks Connected Experience Cloud (CXC) makes it easy for customers to capture user signals and create personalized search, browse, and discovery experiences. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees. Lucidworks’ investors include Francisco Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, and Walden International. Learn more at Lucidworks.com.

Fastback Networks

Series B in 2013
Fastback Networks was founded with a vision to deliver innovative technology for the mobile infrastructure of the future, enabling network operators to deliver new services, tap new markets and monetize a new generation of mobile applications. With insights derived from the collective team's vast experience building leading edge radio and data networking solutions, Fastback Networks looked at the challenges of 4G/LTE deployment with fresh eyes and better ideas, and developed a transformational solution that enables the acceleration of next generation mobile services.

Quantance

Series D in 2013
Quantance is a fabless semiconductor company enabling a major breakthrough in data speed and battery life in mobile devices. Quantance's patented RF technology enables users to transmit more signal power from their mobile devices and data cards, which enhances data performance without adversely impacting battery life or requiring any changes to wireless network infrastructure.

Anaplan

Series C in 2013
Anaplan is driving a new age of connected planning. Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s cloud platform in every business function to make better-informed plans and decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. Anaplan also provides support, training, and planning transformation advisory services. Anaplan is a privately held company based in San Francisco with 16 offices and over 150 expert partners worldwide.

Aspen Avionics

Series C in 2012
Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded by aviation enthusiasts in 2004. The company specializes in bringing the most advanced technology and capability into general aviation cockpits. Its products increase situational awareness and reduce pilot workload, making it even easier and safer to fly in both VFR and IFR conditions. The company’s philosophy is that getting the latest avionics technology shouldn’t always mean spending a lot of money—on equipment or on installation.

HireVue

Series C in 2012
HireVue is transforming the way companies discover and hire the best talent with its AI-driven Hiring Intelligence platform. Combining predictive, validated industrial/organizational science with artificial intelligence allows recruiting professionals to augment human decision-making in the hiring process, delivering higher quality talent, faster. HireVue has hosted over six million interviews for more than 700 customers worldwide, including more than one-third of the Fortune 100 and leading brands such as Vodafone, Nike, Intel, Hilton, HealthSouth, Qantas and Carnival Cruise Lines.

YottaMark

Series D in 2012
YottaMark, Inc. provides the most secure and simple to deploy unit-level brand security and real-time channel intelligence solution in the market. YottaMark's powerful technology platform delivers effective product authentication and unit-level traceability to help brand owners increase consumer trust, build new levels of channel intelligence, and drive sales.

Rewarder

Series A in 2012
Rewarder is a marketplace for knowledge and expertise covering a wide variety of topics ranging from home repair to product & auto advice. Everyone has unique skills and knowledge they have gathered through their life experiences and personal interests. Rewarder enables individuals to offer a monetary Reward in exchange for knowledge or expertise from real people whose experience they can always trust. Whether it is help with a home repair project, troubleshooting a car problem or resolving a tech issue, Rewarder’s community of experts can help. Over 500K people have signed up to become a Rewarder expert. The company started when a team of two entrepreneurs set out to build a better way for people to tap into the vast knowledge around the world. Unlike forums or free Q&A sites, the monetary Reward ensures that the person in need will always receive a high quality solution, quickly from someone they can trust. Founded in 2010, Rewarder is located in San Francisco, CA and backed by Granite Ventures, Radar Partners, and other industry-leading investors.

Ozmo Devices

Venture Round in 2012
Ozmo Devices develops Wi-Fi compatible communication technologies that deliver cost-effective wireless personal area network (WPAN) connectivity for battery-operated devices. Ozmo Devices's Wi-Fi Personal Area Network (Wi-Fi PAN) technology allows manufacturers to connect laptops, mobile phones and consumer electronic devices using Wi-Fi.

Lucidworks

Private Equity Round in 2012
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment. Lucidworks Connected Experience Cloud (CXC) makes it easy for customers to capture user signals and create personalized search, browse, and discovery experiences. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees. Lucidworks’ investors include Francisco Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, and Walden International. Learn more at Lucidworks.com.

Anaplan

Series B in 2012
Anaplan is driving a new age of connected planning. Large and fast-growing organizations use Anaplan’s cloud platform in every business function to make better-informed plans and decisions and drive faster, more effective planning processes. Anaplan also provides support, training, and planning transformation advisory services. Anaplan is a privately held company based in San Francisco with 16 offices and over 150 expert partners worldwide.

Martini Media

Venture Round in 2011
Martini Media Network, Inc. provides solutions for delivering brand campaigns across the passion-based niche sites this audience interacts with at work and at play. The company specializes in reaching and engaging the affluent online; and provides insights focused on the affluent market, and their online engagement and behavior. It provides solutions for brands, clients/agencies, and publishers. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 16, 2015, Martini Media Network, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Evolve Media, LLC.

Smule

Series D in 2011
Smule develops music-making apps that connect people. The company was founded to enable anyone to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. The company's products include AutoRap, Magic Piano, Guitar!, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, and more. Smule was established in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Quantance

Series C in 2011
Quantance is a fabless semiconductor company enabling a major breakthrough in data speed and battery life in mobile devices. Quantance's patented RF technology enables users to transmit more signal power from their mobile devices and data cards, which enhances data performance without adversely impacting battery life or requiring any changes to wireless network infrastructure.

Localmind

Seed Round in 2011
Localmind allows you to send a question to any place in the world, and get an answer from someone at that location in real-time. Localmind connects you, temporarily and anonymously, to someone at the location you are interested in, allowing you to ask any question you want, and get an answer in real-time. You can find out how crowded it is at a bar, how long the line is at a club, or how many tables are open at the restaurant. Localmind integrates with every location-based service (e.g. Foursquare, Facebook Places, Gowalla, etc.) to automatically target questions to users at specific locations.

Empowered Careers

Series A in 2011
As a pioneer in mobile education technology, Empowered Careers works tirelessly in developing and implementing innovative mobile technology products to accommodate evolving academic trends and student needs. Our technology solutions are designed for anytime, anywhere learning, while maintaining the highest quality content that prestigious universities and organizations demand.

Marqeta

Series A in 2011
Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card-issuing technology. Its modern architecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards, and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California, and is certified to operate in 40 countries globally.

Bunchball

Series C in 2011
Bunchball is the market leader and visionary in gamification. Bunchball enables organizations to improve business performance throughout their ecosystem by creating highly active and loyal customers, employees, and partners. Bunchball’s comprehensive suite of innovative cloud-based solutions empowers companies to engage and motivate, leading to improved employee productivity, customer loyalty, audience engagement, and ROI. Bunchball’s world-class customers include Adobe, HP, Cisco, MTV, Comcast, LiveOps, VMware and Hasbro. Based in Silicon Valley, Bunchball's investors include Granite Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners, Northport Investments, and Correlation Ventures. For more information, visit www.bunchball.com, our blog at www.gamification.com, or follow @bunchball.

Telltale Games

Series C in 2011
Telltale is the first and only digital publisher to release interactive episodic content on a monthly schedule. Their award-winning internal development studio is responsible for creating landmark episodic content, including Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale currently develops and publishes episodic series on PC, Wii™, and Xbox 360™, with plans to expand to additional platforms and channels this year.

Kitu Systems

Venture Round in 2011
Kitu Systems develops smart energy and home automation software for OEM product manufacturers and semiconductor vendors. It offers wireless and wired network solutions for smart meters, lighting controls, wireless to wired bridges, in-home displays, network USB plugs, thermostats water heater and pool pumps, load controllers, white goods communications modules, solar panel communications modules, and electric vehicle battery charger communications modules. Its solutions create an upper layer that integrates a wired and wireless mesh, which is managed as a single network. The company also provides consulting services for building applications and businesses. Kitu Systems was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Campbell, California.

Auditude

Series B in 2011
Auditude is a leading video management and monetization technology company that helps content owners and aggregators grow their video revenues. The company's proprietary technology, Auditude Connect, is an innovative ad management system that allows premium video websites and content owners to manage their business requirements and ad serving needs around professional video. Auditude works with some of the largest names in online video as their ad serving and management platform. Clients include Comcast, Major League Baseball, MTV Networks, MySpace Music and Video, Universal Music Group and Yahoo!, among others. Auditude's executive and technology team is made up of talent from some of the world's most successful technology companies including DoubleClick, eBay, Google, PayPal, and Yahoo!, among others. Auditude is based in Palo Alto with offices in Los Angeles and New York City.

Symplified

Series B in 2011
Symplified is an Identity-as-a-Service-based hybrid platform offering user access to applications and helping meet compliance requirements. The company simplifies user access to applications, provides visibility and control over usage, and helps meet security and compliance requirements. Symplified delivers single sign-on, identity and access management, directory integration, centralized provisioning, strong authentication, mobile device support, and flexible deployment options. Unlike legacy IAM products or lightweight cloud-based offerings, Symplified allows convenient access to any cloud or on-premises application through a unified, customizable SSO portal and delivers a single-tenant identity control point, with no need to replicate sensitive user data to a third party, no “side-door” access to cloud applications and an enterprise-wide audit trail. With operations in Silicon Valley, the northeastern U.S., the Midwestern U.S., the United Kingdom, and EMEA, Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Pelican Imaging

Series B in 2010
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.

Kitu Systems

Seed Round in 2010
Kitu Systems develops smart energy and home automation software for OEM product manufacturers and semiconductor vendors. It offers wireless and wired network solutions for smart meters, lighting controls, wireless to wired bridges, in-home displays, network USB plugs, thermostats water heater and pool pumps, load controllers, white goods communications modules, solar panel communications modules, and electric vehicle battery charger communications modules. Its solutions create an upper layer that integrates a wired and wireless mesh, which is managed as a single network. The company also provides consulting services for building applications and businesses. Kitu Systems was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Campbell, California.

HireVue

Series B in 2010
HireVue is transforming the way companies discover and hire the best talent with its AI-driven Hiring Intelligence platform. Combining predictive, validated industrial/organizational science with artificial intelligence allows recruiting professionals to augment human decision-making in the hiring process, delivering higher quality talent, faster. HireVue has hosted over six million interviews for more than 700 customers worldwide, including more than one-third of the Fortune 100 and leading brands such as Vodafone, Nike, Intel, Hilton, HealthSouth, Qantas and Carnival Cruise Lines.

Martini Media

Series B in 2010
Martini Media Network, Inc. provides solutions for delivering brand campaigns across the passion-based niche sites this audience interacts with at work and at play. The company specializes in reaching and engaging the affluent online; and provides insights focused on the affluent market, and their online engagement and behavior. It provides solutions for brands, clients/agencies, and publishers. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 16, 2015, Martini Media Network, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Evolve Media, LLC.

Ozmo Devices

Series D in 2010
Ozmo Devices develops Wi-Fi compatible communication technologies that deliver cost-effective wireless personal area network (WPAN) connectivity for battery-operated devices. Ozmo Devices's Wi-Fi Personal Area Network (Wi-Fi PAN) technology allows manufacturers to connect laptops, mobile phones and consumer electronic devices using Wi-Fi.

Lucidworks

Series B in 2010
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment. Lucidworks Connected Experience Cloud (CXC) makes it easy for customers to capture user signals and create personalized search, browse, and discovery experiences. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees. Lucidworks’ investors include Francisco Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, and Walden International. Learn more at Lucidworks.com.

HyTrust

Series B in 2010
HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption. The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk of catastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud. HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community. Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures.

Smule

Series C in 2009
Smule develops music-making apps that connect people. The company was founded to enable anyone to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. The company's products include AutoRap, Magic Piano, Guitar!, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, and more. Smule was established in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

YottaMark

Series C in 2009
YottaMark, Inc. provides the most secure and simple to deploy unit-level brand security and real-time channel intelligence solution in the market. YottaMark's powerful technology platform delivers effective product authentication and unit-level traceability to help brand owners increase consumer trust, build new levels of channel intelligence, and drive sales.

Agilence

Series B in 2009
Agilence Inc. is the industry leader in Next-Generation Exception-Based Reporting solutions for Retail Loss Prevention and Operations. Agilence develops Retail 20/20™, an intelligent store-level reporting solution that provides visibility into daily store operations to reduce fraud and increase efficiency. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

Ozmo Devices

Series C in 2009
Ozmo Devices develops Wi-Fi compatible communication technologies that deliver cost-effective wireless personal area network (WPAN) connectivity for battery-operated devices. Ozmo Devices's Wi-Fi Personal Area Network (Wi-Fi PAN) technology allows manufacturers to connect laptops, mobile phones and consumer electronic devices using Wi-Fi.

Oversight

Venture Round in 2009
Founded in 2003, Oversight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held, Atlanta-based software company whose continuous transaction monitoring solutions help Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries solve problems related to governance, risk and compliance. Around the time that people first put their whole music library in their pockets, and just before we could all pause and record live TV, we started using data to help our clients detect patterns of spend errors and misuse. Over the last two decades, we’ve pioneered and led the industry in artificial intelligence, comprehensive data-driven solutions, and quality delivery. Oversight is AI in Action: Oversight is anchored by a team of professionals who have helped to commercialize network and operating system security; who have secured the largest financial networks in the world; and who have helped to audit some of the most sensitive and mission-critical applications in the world. The Oversight team has revolutionized the way Management, Boards, Auditors, and Shareholders approach ongoing regulatory compliance and the underlying costs and benefits.

Pelican Imaging

Series A in 2009
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.

Mixamo

Series A in 2009
Mixamo’s end-to-end, web-based suite of tools makes the process of 3D character creation, rigging and animation accessible to artists of all skill levels. Mixamo Inc. is a Silicon Valley, VC-funded company founded by 3D pioneers Stefano Corazza, CEO, and Nazim Kareemi. Based on research from Stanford University’s BioMotion lab, Mixamo provides 3D game developers the power to customize and create professional-quality animated characters at unprecedented speeds. Located in San Francisco, Mixamo currently employs a team of outstanding computer vision experts, 3D animators, software engineers and serial entrepreneurs from around the world. Mixamo is currently in use by several thousand paying customers spanning individual artists to indie developers to AAA game and film studios including Eidos Montreal, Behavior Interactive and GREE. On a monthly basis, Mixamo’s website draws over 70,000 unique visitors and users download over 40,000 assets and rig 6,000 characters.

Ozmo Devices

Series B in 2009
Ozmo Devices develops Wi-Fi compatible communication technologies that deliver cost-effective wireless personal area network (WPAN) connectivity for battery-operated devices. Ozmo Devices's Wi-Fi Personal Area Network (Wi-Fi PAN) technology allows manufacturers to connect laptops, mobile phones and consumer electronic devices using Wi-Fi.

Plato Networks

Series C in 2009
Plato Networks, Inc. designs and delivers physical layer integrated circuits (ICs) for wireline and wireless applications. It offers PHY ICs for interconnections in computing, networking, and storage applications. The company also provides reference designs and evaluation kits for system original equipment manufacturers. Plato Networks, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Zeugma Systems

Series C in 2009
Zeugma Systems is a privately held telecommunications equipment supplier delivering open solutions that accelerate new service deployment for broadband service providers of all types. The Zeugma Services Node, a service delivery router (SDR), uniquely combines massive compute resources with next-generation capacity, service awareness, and subscriber awareness in a carrier-grade, fully redundant system. The result is a new class of equipment that enables service providers to: Rapidly prototype and launch new revenue-generating services and network behaviors, Identify and monitor session flows on a highly granular per-subscriber, per-service basis, Manage individual session flows in order to enforce policy-based quality of service (QOS), Develop applications, such as targeted ad insertion, that add value to individual session flows, Reduce the number and types of edge devices required to deliver high-value services while performing, standard broadband aggregation and subscriber management functions.

Smule

Series B in 2009
Smule develops music-making apps that connect people. The company was founded to enable anyone to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. The company's products include AutoRap, Magic Piano, Guitar!, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, and more. Smule was established in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lucidworks

Series A in 2009
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment. Lucidworks Connected Experience Cloud (CXC) makes it easy for customers to capture user signals and create personalized search, browse, and discovery experiences. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees. Lucidworks’ investors include Francisco Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Top Tier Capital Partners, Shasta Ventures, Granite Ventures, and Walden International. Learn more at Lucidworks.com.

RipCode

Series C in 2009
RipCode provides a realtime transcoding software for video clips and streaming. RipCode's technology processes simultaneous transcode paths. This consolidated, high concurrency processing enables RipCode to supplant existing servers and reduce overall hardware, storage and energy use. RipCode supports live mobile video or video on-demand transcoding for mobile and user generated content applications. RipCode enables video to be dynamically transcoded and served to a customer on any screen size as they request it, giving viewers an expansion of content choices while reducing an operator's server hardware, storage and energy use.

Quantance

Series B in 2008
Quantance is a fabless semiconductor company enabling a major breakthrough in data speed and battery life in mobile devices. Quantance's patented RF technology enables users to transmit more signal power from their mobile devices and data cards, which enhances data performance without adversely impacting battery life or requiring any changes to wireless network infrastructure.

Agilence

Series B in 2008
Agilence Inc. is the industry leader in Next-Generation Exception-Based Reporting solutions for Retail Loss Prevention and Operations. Agilence develops Retail 20/20™, an intelligent store-level reporting solution that provides visibility into daily store operations to reduce fraud and increase efficiency. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

PowerGenix

Funding Round in 2008
PowerGenix manufactures nickel-zinc battery-based uninterruptible power supplies for mission critical applications in data centers and intelligent transportation.

Percello

Series B in 2008
Percello, a fabless semiconductor company, was founded in 2007 to provide digital baseband solutions to the challenges of the 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+/LTE femtocells market: cost, power, level of integration, development time and flexibility. Percello team has vast knowledge in silicon design, software and 3G/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA+/LTE communication systems. The team has proven capability to deliver complicated SoC from standard to mass production.

YottaMark

Series B in 2008
YottaMark, Inc. provides the most secure and simple to deploy unit-level brand security and real-time channel intelligence solution in the market. YottaMark's powerful technology platform delivers effective product authentication and unit-level traceability to help brand owners increase consumer trust, build new levels of channel intelligence, and drive sales.

Oversight

Series B in 2008
Founded in 2003, Oversight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held, Atlanta-based software company whose continuous transaction monitoring solutions help Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries solve problems related to governance, risk and compliance. Around the time that people first put their whole music library in their pockets, and just before we could all pause and record live TV, we started using data to help our clients detect patterns of spend errors and misuse. Over the last two decades, we’ve pioneered and led the industry in artificial intelligence, comprehensive data-driven solutions, and quality delivery. Oversight is AI in Action: Oversight is anchored by a team of professionals who have helped to commercialize network and operating system security; who have secured the largest financial networks in the world; and who have helped to audit some of the most sensitive and mission-critical applications in the world. The Oversight team has revolutionized the way Management, Boards, Auditors, and Shareholders approach ongoing regulatory compliance and the underlying costs and benefits.

Arcot Systems

Series B in 2008
Arcot Systems, Inc. offers authentication and digital signing solutions to protect and verify digital identity. The company offers TransFort for Issuers that enables authentication for card holders and merchants; TransFort for Merchants, which enables authentication of cardholders that enroll in 3-D secure; RiskFort that blocks fraud in real-time; WebFort and ArcotID software-only authentication solutions; A-OK On-Demand that provides security for authentication process; and SignFort, which enables organizations to replace ‘print and sign’ methods with streamlined process for signing and approving documents. The company provides solutions for consumer portal protection, FFIEC compliance, identity management, Internet threat protection, SAFE biopharmaceutical compliance, and VPN authentication. It helps financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-shopping sites to prevent online fraud and identity theft. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a technology center in Bangalore, India.

PSS Systems

Series D in 2008
PSS leads the industry with its visionary products. They anticipated the legal holds and retention problem years ahead of others and launched the Atlas Solution Suite two years before the FRCP changes. They have invested deeply for five years in creating solutions on the Atlas platform to meet evolving market needs. PSS is committed to advancing legal holds and retention practices across the industry through the Corporate Governance and Oversight Council, a corporate practitioners' community focused on retention, preservation and privacy.

Biz360

Venture Round in 2008
Biz360, Inc. is an information-services company focused on transforming information to help businesses make better decisions. They use technology to aggregate, measure and analyze news media and consumer opinion information from a vast amount of traditional and social media sources (i.e. print, broadcast, websites, blogs and message boards) to yield invaluable insights which enable marketing and media executives to better understand, reach and motivate their target audiences. Biz360 is distinguished by its broad, global network of content sources, superior leading-edge analytical expertise and outstanding service & support — which enables us to deliver to their clients the most accurate, relevant and insightful information/metrics in the most flexible, consumable formats.

Fulcrum Microsystems

Series E in 2008
Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprises Ethernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California.

Bunchball

Series B in 2008
Bunchball is the market leader and visionary in gamification. Bunchball enables organizations to improve business performance throughout their ecosystem by creating highly active and loyal customers, employees, and partners. Bunchball’s comprehensive suite of innovative cloud-based solutions empowers companies to engage and motivate, leading to improved employee productivity, customer loyalty, audience engagement, and ROI. Bunchball’s world-class customers include Adobe, HP, Cisco, MTV, Comcast, LiveOps, VMware and Hasbro. Based in Silicon Valley, Bunchball's investors include Granite Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners, Northport Investments, and Correlation Ventures. For more information, visit www.bunchball.com, our blog at www.gamification.com, or follow @bunchball.

Sellpoints

Venture Round in 2008
Sellpoints is an e-commerce optimization platform that enables brands and retailers to engage consumers with targeted shopping experiences that help them make their desired purchase decision. Sellpoints enables brands to share their product stories on retail websites through interactive content experiences that engage, inform, and inspire shoppers. In addition, Sellpoints provides robust data and insights to help their clients make informed business decisions on how to optimize their product pages. The results are increased sales and a reduction in costly product returns. Sellpoints allows clients to fully enrich their SKUs with interactive content experiences that include marketing content such as videos, product tours, image galleries, 360 views, short animations, customer reviews, product comparison charts, and much more.

Symplified

Series A in 2008
Symplified is an Identity-as-a-Service-based hybrid platform offering user access to applications and helping meet compliance requirements. The company simplifies user access to applications, provides visibility and control over usage, and helps meet security and compliance requirements. Symplified delivers single sign-on, identity and access management, directory integration, centralized provisioning, strong authentication, mobile device support, and flexible deployment options. Unlike legacy IAM products or lightweight cloud-based offerings, Symplified allows convenient access to any cloud or on-premises application through a unified, customizable SSO portal and delivers a single-tenant identity control point, with no need to replicate sensitive user data to a third party, no “side-door” access to cloud applications and an enterprise-wide audit trail. With operations in Silicon Valley, the northeastern U.S., the Midwestern U.S., the United Kingdom, and EMEA, Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

TuVox/West Corporation

Series D in 2007
TuVox, Inc. provides speech application solutions and contact center solutions for inbound and outbound calls. Its applications and solutions handle various call types, including natural language call routing, customer support triage and product support with knowledge voice, solutions that integrate with live agents, contact center solutions supporting multiple centers, and outbound notification solutions. The company offers on demand hosting services; managed services, such as turnkey application support, monitoring, grammar tuning, VUI tuning, content updates, project management, quality assurance, and live call transcription; and design center services. It also provides development and CTI integration, customer support and maintenance, and training services. In addition, the company offers TuVox On Premise, which provides ongoing turnkey application support; and TuVox On Demand Portal, which provides access to control applications and make applications changes. It serves telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, high technology, and retail industries, as well as enterprises in media and publishing, travel, and energy sectors.

Zeugma Systems

Series B in 2007
Zeugma Systems is a privately held telecommunications equipment supplier delivering open solutions that accelerate new service deployment for broadband service providers of all types. The Zeugma Services Node, a service delivery router (SDR), uniquely combines massive compute resources with next-generation capacity, service awareness, and subscriber awareness in a carrier-grade, fully redundant system. The result is a new class of equipment that enables service providers to: Rapidly prototype and launch new revenue-generating services and network behaviors, Identify and monitor session flows on a highly granular per-subscriber, per-service basis, Manage individual session flows in order to enforce policy-based quality of service (QOS), Develop applications, such as targeted ad insertion, that add value to individual session flows, Reduce the number and types of edge devices required to deliver high-value services while performing, standard broadband aggregation and subscriber management functions.

Crowd Science

Series A in 2007
Crowd Science provides audience targeting and segmentation for online publishers and brands. Crowd Science's technology combines web analytics and survey research to improve marketing and advertising precision and increase revenue.

DecisionView

Series C in 2007
DecisionView develops innovative web-based software solutions that enable life sciences organizations to improve clinical trial performance. The company helps organizations make informed decisions with predictive analytics and scenario modeling. With DecisionView, patient enrollment finishes on budget and on schedule and the products get to market faster.

Plato Networks

Series B in 2007
Plato Networks, Inc. designs and delivers physical layer integrated circuits (ICs) for wireline and wireless applications. It offers PHY ICs for interconnections in computing, networking, and storage applications. The company also provides reference designs and evaluation kits for system original equipment manufacturers. Plato Networks, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Aspen Avionics

Series B in 2007
Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded by aviation enthusiasts in 2004. The company specializes in bringing the most advanced technology and capability into general aviation cockpits. Its products increase situational awareness and reduce pilot workload, making it even easier and safer to fly in both VFR and IFR conditions. The company’s philosophy is that getting the latest avionics technology shouldn’t always mean spending a lot of money—on equipment or on installation.

Telltale Games

Series B in 2007
Telltale is the first and only digital publisher to release interactive episodic content on a monthly schedule. Their award-winning internal development studio is responsible for creating landmark episodic content, including Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale currently develops and publishes episodic series on PC, Wii™, and Xbox 360™, with plans to expand to additional platforms and channels this year.

Convio

Series E in 2007
Convio, Inc. provides on-demand software and services that enable nonprofit organizations (NPO) to raise funds, influence public policy, and support their missions by leveraging the Internet to build relationships with constituents in North America. It offers Constituent360 platform, an online constituent relationship management (eCRM) solution, which includes a suite of on-demand software modules for fundraising, advocacy, email marketing, and Web content management. The Constituent360 allows NPOs to view constituent behavior by tracking online activities, including online donations, purchases, page visits, event registrations, surveys, and advocacy activities. The platform also provides query and reporting tools to enable clients to retrieve and analyze this information to design online fundraising and advocacy campaigns. In addition, the company offers DataSync software, which enables synchronization of constituent information between Constituent360 and its clients' offline donor databases. Further, it provides fee-based Internet strategy and interactive services to help clients in their online programs, account management services, deployment services, and client support and education services. The company, formerly known as ShowSupport.com, Inc., was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

SPS Commerce

Series C in 2007
SPS Commerce is a retail trading partner with an intelligent way to manage and fulfill orders services deliver greater functionality, integration, and reliability with less cost and risk than traditional software.

NetEffect Sytems

Series C in 2007
NetEffect has offered dependable cybersecurity and IT services to companies in Las Vegas.

Lamina

Series D in 2007
Lamina, a Westhampton, N.J.-based LED developer.
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