Granite Ventures

Granite Ventures, LLC is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1992 that specializes in pre-revenue and early-stage technology companies. The firm primarily invests in seed, Series A, and Series B funding rounds, focusing on sectors such as audio and video equipment, multimedia software, enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, mobility, and internet applications. It particularly emphasizes investments in communications, network security, and digital media. Granite Ventures typically invests between $0.5 million and $4 million in initial funding, with the potential for total investments reaching up to $10 million over the life of each company. While the firm predominantly targets U.S.-based companies, it is open to select international opportunities. Granite Ventures usually leads its investments and prefers to secure a board seat in its portfolio companies. Over its history, the firm has invested over $1 billion in more than 90 private companies, partnering with entrepreneurs to help them establish competitive advantages and achieve market leadership.

Jacqueline Berterretche

CFO and MD

Jackie Berterretche

CFO and Managing Director

Jeff Cooke

President & Managing Director

Christopher B. Hollenbeck

Managing Partner

Christopher McKay

Managing Director

Standish O’Grady

Managing Director

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Marqeta

Private Equity Round in 2020
Marqeta is a modern card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs. With its open API, the Marqeta platform is designed for businesses that want a simple and tailored way of managing payment programs so that they can create experiences and power new modes of commerce. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and is certified to process payments in 10 countries in APAC.

Lucidworks

Series F in 2019
Lucidworks, Inc. specializes in AI-powered search engine software, primarily through its flagship platform, Lucidworks Fusion. This platform integrates various features such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hyper-personalization to enhance search capabilities for enterprises. It serves diverse industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and publishing, providing solutions for digital workplaces, commerce, and search engine replacement. Additionally, Lucidworks offers the Connected Experience Cloud (CXC), which utilizes user signals to create personalized omnichannel digital experiences. Major brands like Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, and Cisco Systems utilize Lucidworks' products to improve product discovery, customer service, and knowledge management. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Marqeta

Series E in 2019
Marqeta is a modern card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs. With its open API, the Marqeta platform is designed for businesses that want a simple and tailored way of managing payment programs so that they can create experiences and power new modes of commerce. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and is certified to process payments in 10 countries in APAC.

Anaplan

Series F in 2017
Anaplan, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based connected planning platform designed to enhance collaboration and decision-making across various business functions, including finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, and human resources. The platform integrates different database structures, allowing organizations to create and utilize models in a unified manner. Anaplan operates under a subscription model and offers its services over the Internet, in addition to providing professional services such as consulting, implementation, and training to support users in leveraging the platform effectively. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Anaplan has a global presence with offices in multiple countries and a network of expert partners, catering to large and fast-growing organizations seeking to streamline their planning processes.

Marqeta

Series D in 2017
Marqeta is a modern card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs. With its open API, the Marqeta platform is designed for businesses that want a simple and tailored way of managing payment programs so that they can create experiences and power new modes of commerce. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and is certified to process payments in 10 countries in APAC.

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, Inc. specializes in drone security solutions, focusing on the detection, interception, and capture of unauthorized drones. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Leandro, California, the company caters to various sectors, including entertainment, enterprise, and utilities. Airspace Systems stands out as the only provider capable of autonomously identifying, tracking, and removing rogue drones from the airspace. Its innovative hardware and software are designed specifically for this purpose, continually improving with each operation. This approach enables users to effectively safeguard their airspace with minimal effort.

Smule

Series G in 2016
Smule, Inc. develops music applications that enable users to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. Smule, Inc. was formerly known as SonicMule, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Anaplan

Series E in 2016
Anaplan, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based connected planning platform designed to enhance collaboration and decision-making across various business functions, including finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, and human resources. The platform integrates different database structures, allowing organizations to create and utilize models in a unified manner. Anaplan operates under a subscription model and offers its services over the Internet, in addition to providing professional services such as consulting, implementation, and training to support users in leveraging the platform effectively. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Anaplan has a global presence with offices in multiple countries and a network of expert partners, catering to large and fast-growing organizations seeking to streamline their planning processes.

Lucidworks

Series D in 2015
Lucidworks, Inc. specializes in AI-powered search engine software, primarily through its flagship platform, Lucidworks Fusion. This platform integrates various features such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hyper-personalization to enhance search capabilities for enterprises. It serves diverse industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and publishing, providing solutions for digital workplaces, commerce, and search engine replacement. Additionally, Lucidworks offers the Connected Experience Cloud (CXC), which utilizes user signals to create personalized omnichannel digital experiences. Major brands like Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, and Cisco Systems utilize Lucidworks' products to improve product discovery, customer service, and knowledge management. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Marqeta

Series C in 2015
Marqeta is a modern card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs. With its open API, the Marqeta platform is designed for businesses that want a simple and tailored way of managing payment programs so that they can create experiences and power new modes of commerce. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and is certified to process payments in 10 countries in APAC.

Motiv

Series A in 2015
Motiv Inc. is a personal technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in developing and manufacturing wearable products, including rings designed for fitness tracking and online security. Motiv's products monitor essential health metrics such as heart rate, steps, and sleep activity, with an accompanying application that enhances user experience by providing data insights and notifications. The company focuses on creating aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly devices that integrate seamlessly into daily life. Motiv Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Proxy Technologies, Inc. since April 2020 and sells its products primarily online.

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. specializes in cloud-based reporting solutions aimed at enhancing retail operations and loss prevention. The company offers 20/20 Data Analytics, which automatically collects and summarizes data to help organizations identify anomalies and trends within their stores. Additionally, Agilence provides 20/20 Rx, a pharmacy analytics software designed to address the unique needs of pharmacies and retailers with pharmacy departments. Serving clients in the retail and food and beverage sectors, Agilence has established strategic partnerships with organizations such as The Zellman Group and Heartland Commerce. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

Telltale

Series D in 2015
Telltale is a developer and publisher of digital games that specializes in interactive episodic content, notable for its unique monthly release schedule. The company has gained recognition for its award-winning internal development studio, which has created influential titles such as Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale focuses on delivering narrative-driven gaming experiences across various platforms, including PC and gaming consoles. The company's approach emphasizes interactive storytelling, allowing players to engage with the content in meaningful ways. Telltale continues to explore opportunities for expansion to additional platforms and channels.

Motiv

Debt Financing in 2015
Motiv Inc. is a personal technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in developing and manufacturing wearable products, including rings designed for fitness tracking and online security. Motiv's products monitor essential health metrics such as heart rate, steps, and sleep activity, with an accompanying application that enhances user experience by providing data insights and notifications. The company focuses on creating aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly devices that integrate seamlessly into daily life. Motiv Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Proxy Technologies, Inc. since April 2020 and sells its products primarily online.

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. specializes in cloud-based reporting solutions aimed at enhancing retail operations and loss prevention. The company offers 20/20 Data Analytics, which automatically collects and summarizes data to help organizations identify anomalies and trends within their stores. Additionally, Agilence provides 20/20 Rx, a pharmacy analytics software designed to address the unique needs of pharmacies and retailers with pharmacy departments. Serving clients in the retail and food and beverage sectors, Agilence has established strategic partnerships with organizations such as The Zellman Group and Heartland Commerce. Founded in 2006, the company is 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, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based connected planning platform designed to enhance collaboration and decision-making across various business functions, including finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, and human resources. The platform integrates different database structures, allowing organizations to create and utilize models in a unified manner. Anaplan operates under a subscription model and offers its services over the Internet, in addition to providing professional services such as consulting, implementation, and training to support users in leveraging the platform effectively. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Anaplan has a global presence with offices in multiple countries and a network of expert partners, catering to large and fast-growing organizations seeking to streamline their planning processes.

Smule

Series E in 2014
Smule, Inc. develops music applications that enable users to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. Smule, Inc. was formerly known as SonicMule, Inc. The company was founded 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 Inc. is a personal technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in developing and manufacturing wearable products, including rings designed for fitness tracking and online security. Motiv's products monitor essential health metrics such as heart rate, steps, and sleep activity, with an accompanying application that enhances user experience by providing data insights and notifications. The company focuses on creating aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly devices that integrate seamlessly into daily life. Motiv Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Proxy Technologies, Inc. since April 2020 and sells its products primarily online.

Workboard

Seed Round in 2014
WorkBoard Inc. is an enterprise SaaS company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in providing an OKR (Objectives and Key Results) software platform designed to enhance alignment and accountability within organizations. Its flagship product, the WorkBoard Enterprise Results Platform, allows businesses to localize company objectives to individual teams, facilitating alignment on outcomes and measurement of results. The platform supports the automation of business reviews and the execution of strategic goals, enabling organizations to transform traditional approaches to strategy alignment into a dynamic, data-driven practice. By promoting transparency and accountability, WorkBoard helps teams develop habits that drive results and maintain focus as organizations grow.

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 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.

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.

Marqeta

Series B in 2013
Marqeta is a modern card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs. With its open API, the Marqeta platform is designed for businesses that want a simple and tailored way of managing payment programs so that they can create experiences and power new modes of commerce. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and is certified to process payments in 10 countries in APAC.

Lucidworks

Series C in 2013
Lucidworks, Inc. specializes in AI-powered search engine software, primarily through its flagship platform, Lucidworks Fusion. This platform integrates various features such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hyper-personalization to enhance search capabilities for enterprises. It serves diverse industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and publishing, providing solutions for digital workplaces, commerce, and search engine replacement. Additionally, Lucidworks offers the Connected Experience Cloud (CXC), which utilizes user signals to create personalized omnichannel digital experiences. Major brands like Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, and Cisco Systems utilize Lucidworks' products to improve product discovery, customer service, and knowledge management. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based connected planning platform designed to enhance collaboration and decision-making across various business functions, including finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, and human resources. The platform integrates different database structures, allowing organizations to create and utilize models in a unified manner. Anaplan operates under a subscription model and offers its services over the Internet, in addition to providing professional services such as consulting, implementation, and training to support users in leveraging the platform effectively. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Anaplan has a global presence with offices in multiple countries and a network of expert partners, catering to large and fast-growing organizations seeking to streamline their planning processes.

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, Inc. is an online social marketplace based in San Francisco, California, that connects individuals seeking advice and expertise with a community of knowledgeable experts. Established in 2010, the platform allows users to offer monetary rewards in exchange for assistance on various topics, including home repair, automotive issues, and technology troubleshooting. With over 500,000 registered experts, Rewarder emphasizes the quality and trustworthiness of the solutions provided, distinguishing itself from traditional forums and free Q&A sites by ensuring prompt and reliable responses. The company's founding vision was to create an effective means for people to access the extensive knowledge available worldwide.

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, Inc. specializes in AI-powered search engine software, primarily through its flagship platform, Lucidworks Fusion. This platform integrates various features such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hyper-personalization to enhance search capabilities for enterprises. It serves diverse industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and publishing, providing solutions for digital workplaces, commerce, and search engine replacement. Additionally, Lucidworks offers the Connected Experience Cloud (CXC), which utilizes user signals to create personalized omnichannel digital experiences. Major brands like Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, and Cisco Systems utilize Lucidworks' products to improve product discovery, customer service, and knowledge management. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Anaplan

Series B in 2012
Anaplan, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based connected planning platform designed to enhance collaboration and decision-making across various business functions, including finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, and human resources. The platform integrates different database structures, allowing organizations to create and utilize models in a unified manner. Anaplan operates under a subscription model and offers its services over the Internet, in addition to providing professional services such as consulting, implementation, and training to support users in leveraging the platform effectively. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Anaplan has a global presence with offices in multiple countries and a network of expert partners, catering to large and fast-growing organizations seeking to streamline their planning processes.

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, Inc. develops music applications that enable users to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. Smule, Inc. was formerly known as SonicMule, Inc. The company was founded 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 is a modern card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs. With its open API, the Marqeta platform is designed for businesses that want a simple and tailored way of managing payment programs so that they can create experiences and power new modes of commerce. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California. It operates in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and is certified to process payments in 10 countries in APAC.

Bunchball

Series C in 2011
Bunchball Inc. specializes in gamification, integrating game mechanics into existing platforms to enhance user engagement and loyalty. Founded in 2005 and based in Des Moines, Iowa, the company offers a range of solutions designed to motivate participation and improve business performance. Its flagship product, Nitro Studio, allows administrators to create and manage gamification strategies easily, while features like a rules engine and analytics provide insights into user behavior. Bunchball serves various sectors with tailored solutions such as Nitro for Salesforce, which boosts sales and service performance, and Nitro for SAP SuccessFactors Learning, aimed at improving training program outcomes. The company has established strategic partnerships with major players like Salesforce, BMC, IBM, and SAP, and counts notable clients such as Adobe, HP, and Cisco among its customer base. Bunchball operates as a subsidiary of Schoeneckers, Inc. since April 2018.

Telltale

Series C in 2011
Telltale is a developer and publisher of digital games that specializes in interactive episodic content, notable for its unique monthly release schedule. The company has gained recognition for its award-winning internal development studio, which has created influential titles such as Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale focuses on delivering narrative-driven gaming experiences across various platforms, including PC and gaming consoles. The company's approach emphasizes interactive storytelling, allowing players to engage with the content in meaningful ways. Telltale continues to explore opportunities for expansion to additional platforms and channels.

Kitu Systems

Venture Round in 2011
Kitu Systems, Inc. specializes in the design, development, and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, focusing on smart energy and home automation solutions. The company offers technologies such as Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP2) and OpenADR, which facilitate smart grid services and manage energy demand response for various devices. Kitu Systems provides a range of products, including smart electric vehicle charging systems, smart appliances, and enterprise solar panel management solutions. Its software ensures secure and reliable communication between devices and the cloud over different wired and wireless networks. Kitu Systems serves a diverse clientele, including enterprises, smart device manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and automotive firms. Originally established as Grid2Home Inc. in 2007, the company rebranded to Kitu Systems, Inc. in 2015 and is currently headquartered in San Diego, 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.

Kitu Systems

Seed Round in 2010
Kitu Systems, Inc. specializes in the design, development, and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, focusing on smart energy and home automation solutions. The company offers technologies such as Smart Energy Profile 2.0 (SEP2) and OpenADR, which facilitate smart grid services and manage energy demand response for various devices. Kitu Systems provides a range of products, including smart electric vehicle charging systems, smart appliances, and enterprise solar panel management solutions. Its software ensures secure and reliable communication between devices and the cloud over different wired and wireless networks. Kitu Systems serves a diverse clientele, including enterprises, smart device manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and automotive firms. Originally established as Grid2Home Inc. in 2007, the company rebranded to Kitu Systems, Inc. in 2015 and is currently headquartered in San Diego, 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, Inc. specializes in AI-powered search engine software, primarily through its flagship platform, Lucidworks Fusion. This platform integrates various features such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hyper-personalization to enhance search capabilities for enterprises. It serves diverse industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and publishing, providing solutions for digital workplaces, commerce, and search engine replacement. Additionally, Lucidworks offers the Connected Experience Cloud (CXC), which utilizes user signals to create personalized omnichannel digital experiences. Major brands like Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, and Cisco Systems utilize Lucidworks' products to improve product discovery, customer service, and knowledge management. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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, Inc. develops music applications that enable users to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. Smule, Inc. was formerly known as SonicMule, Inc. The company was founded 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.

Indicee

Series A in 2009
Indicee is a cloud analytics company based in Vancouver, Canada. Indicee was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet® (D&B) on April 29, 2014 and joins the global D&B team as part of the newly created Cloud Innovation Center.

Agilence

Series B in 2009
Agilence, Inc. specializes in cloud-based reporting solutions aimed at enhancing retail operations and loss prevention. The company offers 20/20 Data Analytics, which automatically collects and summarizes data to help organizations identify anomalies and trends within their stores. Additionally, Agilence provides 20/20 Rx, a pharmacy analytics software designed to address the unique needs of pharmacies and retailers with pharmacy departments. Serving clients in the retail and food and beverage sectors, Agilence has established strategic partnerships with organizations such as The Zellman Group and Heartland Commerce. Founded in 2006, the company is 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
Oversight Systems, Inc., founded in 2003 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in software solutions designed to detect fraud, misuse, and errors in business transactions and master data files. The company offers Continuous Transaction Monitoring (CTM), a virtual analyst that addresses issues across various processes, including procure-to-pay, card spending, accounting, human resources, and order-to-cash. This technology continuously monitors key transactions from financial and ERP systems, as well as other critical applications, providing essential support for CFOs, process managers, controllers, auditors, and government institutions. Oversight Systems aims to enhance governance, risk management, and compliance for organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, through its innovative solutions and dedicated professional team. Additionally, the company offers training and support services to ensure effective utilization of its technology.

Mixamo

Series A in 2009
Mixamo, Inc. develops and provides a Web based 3D character creation, rigging, and animation platform for 3D design and game professionals. The company offers Adobe Fuse CC (Preview), a modular 3D character creator; 3D Characters Preview, a searchable store of 3D characters; and Decimator Preview that allows users to create various levels of detail versions for various assets. It also provides Auto-Rigger Preview, an automatic online rigging tool; Control Rig Scripts, which automates tedious processes with scripts; 3D Animations (Preview) that offers animation content and software; and Face Plus (Preview) unity plugin that captures facial expressions. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 1, 2015, Mixamo, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

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, Inc. develops music applications that enable users to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. It also operates a social platform that allows people using its application to create music together. Smule, Inc. was formerly known as SonicMule, Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lucidworks

Series A in 2009
Lucidworks, Inc. specializes in AI-powered search engine software, primarily through its flagship platform, Lucidworks Fusion. This platform integrates various features such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hyper-personalization to enhance search capabilities for enterprises. It serves diverse industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and publishing, providing solutions for digital workplaces, commerce, and search engine replacement. Additionally, Lucidworks offers the Connected Experience Cloud (CXC), which utilizes user signals to create personalized omnichannel digital experiences. Major brands like Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, and Cisco Systems utilize Lucidworks' products to improve product discovery, customer service, and knowledge management. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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. specializes in cloud-based reporting solutions aimed at enhancing retail operations and loss prevention. The company offers 20/20 Data Analytics, which automatically collects and summarizes data to help organizations identify anomalies and trends within their stores. Additionally, Agilence provides 20/20 Rx, a pharmacy analytics software designed to address the unique needs of pharmacies and retailers with pharmacy departments. Serving clients in the retail and food and beverage sectors, Agilence has established strategic partnerships with organizations such as The Zellman Group and Heartland Commerce. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.

PowerGenix

Funding Round in 2008
PowerGenix develops and manufactures nickel-zinc rechargeable batteries and chargers for power-intensive electronics, toys, power tools, and hybrid electric vehicles. The company’s products are used in cordless power tools, UPS systems, electric scooters, specialty military equipment, and high-intensity DC lighting; military starting, lighting, and ignition vehicles; silent watches; equipment actuation; hybrid-electric propulsion systems; and consumer electronic devices and batteries. It supplies its products to original equipment manufacturers globally. PowerGenix was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, United States with an additional manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China.

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
Oversight Systems, Inc., founded in 2003 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in software solutions designed to detect fraud, misuse, and errors in business transactions and master data files. The company offers Continuous Transaction Monitoring (CTM), a virtual analyst that addresses issues across various processes, including procure-to-pay, card spending, accounting, human resources, and order-to-cash. This technology continuously monitors key transactions from financial and ERP systems, as well as other critical applications, providing essential support for CFOs, process managers, controllers, auditors, and government institutions. Oversight Systems aims to enhance governance, risk management, and compliance for organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, through its innovative solutions and dedicated professional team. Additionally, the company offers training and support services to ensure effective utilization of its technology.

Arcot Systems

Series B in 2008
Arcot Systems, Inc. specializes in authentication and digital signing solutions designed to protect and verify the digital identities of cardholders and merchants. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with a technology center in Bangalore, India, the company offers a range of products, including TransFort for Issuers and Merchants, which facilitate secure authentication processes; RiskFort, which addresses real-time fraud prevention; and SignFort, which streamlines document signing and approval. Additional solutions include WebFort and ArcotID for software-based authentication, as well as A-OK On-Demand for enhanced security in authentication. Arcot Systems caters to various sectors, including financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-commerce platforms, helping them mitigate online fraud and identity theft while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

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 Inc. specializes in gamification, integrating game mechanics into existing platforms to enhance user engagement and loyalty. Founded in 2005 and based in Des Moines, Iowa, the company offers a range of solutions designed to motivate participation and improve business performance. Its flagship product, Nitro Studio, allows administrators to create and manage gamification strategies easily, while features like a rules engine and analytics provide insights into user behavior. Bunchball serves various sectors with tailored solutions such as Nitro for Salesforce, which boosts sales and service performance, and Nitro for SAP SuccessFactors Learning, aimed at improving training program outcomes. The company has established strategic partnerships with major players like Salesforce, BMC, IBM, and SAP, and counts notable clients such as Adobe, HP, and Cisco among its customer base. Bunchball operates as a subsidiary of Schoeneckers, Inc. since April 2018.

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

Series D in 2007
Speech application solutions and contact center solutions for inbound and outbound calls

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Telltale

Series B in 2007
Telltale is a developer and publisher of digital games that specializes in interactive episodic content, notable for its unique monthly release schedule. The company has gained recognition for its award-winning internal development studio, which has created influential titles such as Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale focuses on delivering narrative-driven gaming experiences across various platforms, including PC and gaming consoles. The company's approach emphasizes interactive storytelling, allowing players to engage with the content in meaningful ways. Telltale continues to explore opportunities for expansion to additional platforms and channels.

Convio

Series E in 2007
Software and services enabling non-profit organizations to raise funds, influence public policy and support their processes

SPS Commerce

Series C in 2007
SPS Commerce, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based supply chain management solutions aimed at enhancing the order management and fulfillment processes for retailers, suppliers, grocers, distributors, and logistics firms globally. Utilizing a multi-tenant SaaS model, the SPS Commerce platform offers various solutions, including Trading Partner Community, Trading Partner Fulfillment, and Trading Partner Assortment, which help organizations manage supply chain requirements, automate fulfillment, and handle item attributes. Additionally, the Trading Partner Analytics solution provides data analytics applications to improve supply chain visibility, while Trading Partner Sourcing facilitates connections between retailers and suppliers. The company also offers supplementary services such as barcode labeling and scan and pack applications to streamline operations. SPS Commerce primarily serves small to mid-sized suppliers and other trading partners through its dedicated sales representatives. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the company was previously known as St. Paul Software, Inc. before rebranding in 2001.

Net Effect Systems

Series C in 2007
NetEffect, Inc. operates as a network connectivity solutions company. The company develops and provides multi-gigabit Ethernet products. It offers iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters, which simplify datacenter management by enabling a single, consolidated fabric for networking, storage, and clustering applications. The company's products implement IETF for Ethernet, while maintaining with existing Ethernet infrastructure in data center. It also provides data networking, cluster computing, and storage networking solutions. The company has strategic partnerships with ABAQUS; Blade.org; Ciara Technologies; Critical Software; Evergrid; Force10 Networks; Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.; Fulcrum Microsystems; HP BladeSystem Solution Builder; Quadrics; VMware; and Woven Systems. The company was formerly known as Banderacom, Inc. and changed its name to NetEffect, Inc. in 2004. NetEffect, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Austin, Texas. On August 27, 2008, NetEffect Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. As of October 14, 2008, NetEffect, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Intel Corporation.

Lamina

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

Mojo Networks

Series C in 2007
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.