Hearst Ventures

The Hearst Corporation is an American multinational diversified media and information company group that publishes daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines. The company also operates television stations and radio stations, and cable networks; and provides information, insights, analytics, and workflow solutions to finance, healthcare, and transportation markets. Some of its major ownership interests include 15 daily and 36 weekly newspapers and more than 300 magazines worldwide, including Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine; 30 television stations through Hearst Television, Inc., which reach a combined 19% of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including A+E Networks, and ESPN Inc.; as well as business publishing, digital distribution, television production, newspaper features distribution, and real estate ventures. The Hearst Corporation was founded in 1887 and is based in New York City.
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Karen Alsup

MD of Institutional Investments

Ken Bronfin

Senior MD

Gil Canaani

MD

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Gili Canaani

Director and General Manager

Scott English

Senior MD

David Famolari

MD

Darcy Frisch

MD

Katie Hu

MD

Megumi Ikeda

MD

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Barnabas Kui

VP and Corporate Controller

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Roger Paschke

CIO

Barin Nahvi Rovzar

VP of Finance and Corporate Development

Mitchell Scherzer

EVP and CFO

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Jeana Stanley

VP of Finance

Steven Swartz

President and CEO

202 past transactions

Pandora Media, Inc.

Series E in 2009
Pandora Media, LLC provides music and podcast discovery platform services in the United States. It offers music streaming services to approximately 70 million users each month with its proprietary Music Genome Project and Podcast Genome Project technology at home or on the go through its mobile app, the web, and integrations with approximately 2,000 connected products. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Oakland, California. Pandora Media, LLC is a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.

Answerology

Acquisition in 2008
Answerology is a New York based startup founded by Matt Milner in 2005 that aims to solve "miscommunication between the sexes" through relationship advice. It is similar to Yahoo Answers in that its principal component is a Q&A service, but it offers additional capabilities aimed at the dating and relationships niche. These include anonymous Q&A, surveys, and some limited social-networking functionality. The site received funding in 2006 from investors including Jim Treacy, a former president and COO of Monster.com. It was acquired in March 2008 for an undisclosed sum by Hearst Corporation.

Caavo

Series B in 2017
Caavo is an entertainment obsessed hardware and software company. Our mission is to bring the art of TV viewing up to the level of today’s sophisticated audiences by uniting all of their entertainment into a single, elegant, voice controlled experience. Our products allow audiences to seamlessly move between linear TV, streaming services and web content, using voice or a single remote – to control it all.

Snappy Gifts

Series A in 2018
Snappy App provides Snappy Gifts, an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that uses the power of experience and delight to connect people around the world. It sources products and experiences from various brands and retailers. Dvir Cohen and Hani Goldstein founded Snappy App in 2015. Its headquarters is in New York City.
Houston Community Newspapers & Media Group is administered within the umbrella of 1013 Star Communications. Our innovative publications and digital platforms fill a distinct niche in Suburban communities spanning from Texas to Arizona.

FreightWaves

Series B in 2019
FreightWaves is a SaaS provider of data for the North American freight market. FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As the leading provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. FreightWaves.com is the highest rank news and commentary site in the industry and the firm is introducing a freight futures product which will help participants derisk their exposure to trucking spot rates.

Yoka

Series C in 2013
YOKA.com is a Chinese fashion website that offers services for high income earners who prefer premium brands and a higher quality of life. YOKA.com has become a comprehensive sub-brand of Trends Media Group with 17 magazines published including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Bazaar Men's Style, and other custom-made titles such as Audi and Toyota. Following the principle of ""Think Global, Act Local"", Trends has partnered with world famous media groups through copyright cooperation and joint ventures. In 2013, Trends received $15 million in their Series A round of funding led by Baidu, followed by Fidelity Growth Partners, Hearst Corporation, Matrix Partners, and IDG.

Wanderful Media, LLC

Venture Round in 2012
Wanderful Media is a retail-focused mobile media company – engaging 160MM US consumers via their shopping apps, mobile and regional networks. Wanderful Media owns and operates Find&Save, CoffeeTable, the Wanderful Mobile Network and the Wanderful Regional Network. Wanderful Media is an independent company financed by a powerful group of media companies, including Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Community Newspaper Holdings, Cox Media Group, The E. W. Scripps Company, Gannett Co., GateHouse Media, Graham Holdings Company, Hearst Corporation, Lee Enterprises, MediaNews Group, and The McClatchy Company.
Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. operates Tezign.com, an Internet platform in China that provides design, creativity, marketing, and experience need services. It offers market and design services, including web/app design, graphic design, illustration, photography, creative strategy, brand strategy, e-commerce solution, event planning, and AR and VR. Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Shanghai, China.

LiveSafe, Inc.

Series B in 2018
LiveSafe, Inc. designs and develops a mobile safety communications platform. The company’s safety communications platform combines a mobile application and a cloud-based command dashboard that allows people to send actionable crowd-sourced intelligence to connect people to the help they need. It serves media and technology, property management, retail, entertainment and sports, and financial services enterprises, as well as malls, hospitals, and government contractors. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Arlington, Virginia with an additional office in Clearwater, Florida. As of October 6, 2020, LiveSafe, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Vector Solutions, Inc.

Miso

Series B in 2011
Miso is a 2nd screen experience that makes watching TV more fun and social. It's available on the iPhone, iPad, Android, and Web. Miso lets you check-in to your favorite shows and episodes to unlock fun, virtual badges, earn points, and compare with your friends to see who is the biggest fan! Connect Miso with Facebook and Twitter to automatically and instantly share what you’re watching with your friends. See what other Miso users are watching and check-out the hottest trending shows. You can even edit episodes, media titles and posters, personalize your profile, and more to make your TV watching experience more you! Learn more at GoMiso.com

Buzzfeed, Inc.

Series C in 2012
BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M. It covers breaking news, produces original video, and creates content that people want to share on the web. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John Johnson. It is headquartered in New York, N.Y.

DroneBase, Inc.

Series E in 2023
DroneBase is a aerial data analytics company, which provides businesses with a platform to leverage the world’s largest Pilot Network to make better decisions about their most critical assets. Based in Los Angeles, the company is the trusted, go-to software platform for worldwide enterprise clients spanning industries such as renewable energy, insurance, telecommunications, construction, real estate, and media. DroneBase has completed over 100,000 commercial missions flown in over 70 countries and in all 50 states.

NaviNet

Venture Round in 2000
NaviNet, Inc. operates a healthcare collaboration network to connect health plans and physicians in the United States. The company offers NaviNet Open, a payer-provider collaboration solution that consists of a platform, a set of network services, a suite of applications, and a set of tools. Its NaviNet Open platform is also used for developing network-based applications; and handles basic HIPAA transactions, such as eligibility, claims management, referrals, and authorizations to deliver value-based care. NaviNet, Inc. was formerly known as NaviMedix, Inc. and changed its name to NaviNet, Inc. in May 2009. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. As of January 5, 2016, NaviNet, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nanthealth, LLC and NantWorks, LLC.

Aiir Innovations B.V.

Venture Round in 2023
Aiir Innovations B.V. develops and offers software solutions to optimize industrial processes using artificial intelligence and computer vision techniques. Its maintenance consists of a visual inspection, which requires high-concentration during the entire inspection. The company’s software analyses video footage and images to assist team throughout the work, which furthers allows team to save time and quality. Aiir Innovations B.V. was founded in 2016 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

DroneBase, Inc.

Series C in 2020
DroneBase is a aerial data analytics company, which provides businesses with a platform to leverage the world’s largest Pilot Network to make better decisions about their most critical assets. Based in Los Angeles, the company is the trusted, go-to software platform for worldwide enterprise clients spanning industries such as renewable energy, insurance, telecommunications, construction, real estate, and media. DroneBase has completed over 100,000 commercial missions flown in over 70 countries and in all 50 states.

New Haven Register

Acquisition in 2017
A multimedia news service and daily newspaper serving the New Haven area since 1812.

ShotTracker Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
ShotTracker makes sensor-based technology that automatically captures basketball statistics in real-time during practices and games. At ShotTracker, they improve the performance of competitive athletes by bringing elite-level analytics to the masses. Their latest innovation, ShotTracker TEAM, captures real-time practice and game stats for basketball teams, and it's affordable for teams at every level of play.

Via

Series E in 2020
Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters. The company transforms public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via's mobile app connects passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders to seamlessly share a premium vehicle. The platform operates in the United States and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via's technology is deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, integrating with public transit infrastructure to power cutting-edge on-demand mobility. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Gather

Series C in 2006
Gather is a demand-driven media company. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Skyword, the leader in Search-Driven Media (SDM). The site is powered by content created by Skywriters, who create more than 8,000 pieces of content that reach more than 9M people worldwide. Gather is the place where millions and millions of people come for fresh perspective on what's happening now. Gather members can share their own views and join in conversation with others who share their interests. The Gather site offers thousands of pieces of content in the following categories: Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Celebs, Business and Technology.

Gazillion, Inc.

Venture Round in 2010
Gazillion Entertainment, we develop, publish and operate diverse games on many platforms. Our goal: To build breakthrough experiences featuring world-class brands and original franchises, superior production quality and unmatched gameplay. Gazillion is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

Relationship Science

Series C in 2013
Relationship Science (RelSci) is a technology solutions company that helps individuals and organizations leverage their relationships for a competitive business advantage. The RelSci platform provides deep information about over 6 million influential decision makers - who they are and who they know, what you have in common with them, and how you can gain access to them and their organizations. Our relationship mapping tool empowers you to discover new relationships, advance existing ones, and maximize every opportunity.

Gather

Series D in 2009
Gather is a demand-driven media company. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Skyword, the leader in Search-Driven Media (SDM). The site is powered by content created by Skywriters, who create more than 8,000 pieces of content that reach more than 9M people worldwide. Gather is the place where millions and millions of people come for fresh perspective on what's happening now. Gather members can share their own views and join in conversation with others who share their interests. The Gather site offers thousands of pieces of content in the following categories: Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Celebs, Business and Technology.

Yoka

Series B in 2011
YOKA.com is a Chinese fashion website that offers services for high income earners who prefer premium brands and a higher quality of life. YOKA.com has become a comprehensive sub-brand of Trends Media Group with 17 magazines published including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Bazaar Men's Style, and other custom-made titles such as Audi and Toyota. Following the principle of ""Think Global, Act Local"", Trends has partnered with world famous media groups through copyright cooperation and joint ventures. In 2013, Trends received $15 million in their Series A round of funding led by Baidu, followed by Fidelity Growth Partners, Hearst Corporation, Matrix Partners, and IDG.

Scene7

Series B in 2001
Adobe [acquired](http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/8df47bafeccc8db6c9830dc69df1e5a3) Scene7 in May 2007 and now offers Scene7 as one of its products. Scene7 – provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform – enables companies to grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs. With Scene7, businesses can improve the entire selling and marketing cycle – from attracting customers, to guiding them to the right products and services, to successfully converting them into loyal buyers. The company offers rich media solutions built on a robust, integrated technology platform – for unrivaled breadth, depth, scalability and ease of ongoing rich media use. Adobe acquired Scene7 in May 2007.

Wyng Inc.

Series C in 2015
Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers.

The Telegraph

Acquisition in 2017
The Telegraph publishes a morning paper seven days a week. The Telegraph operates under the highest journalistic standards to provide the area the highest quality editorial content offered. It has been the unequaled, unmatched provider of news for the area for more than 175 years and offers a generous variety of services for businesses and readers. We work to serve you every single day.

DroneBase, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
DroneBase is a aerial data analytics company, which provides businesses with a platform to leverage the world’s largest Pilot Network to make better decisions about their most critical assets. Based in Los Angeles, the company is the trusted, go-to software platform for worldwide enterprise clients spanning industries such as renewable energy, insurance, telecommunications, construction, real estate, and media. DroneBase has completed over 100,000 commercial missions flown in over 70 countries and in all 50 states.
Huboo Technologies Limited operates as a multi-channel fulfillment service provider for e-commerce business. The company delivers vitamins, CBD oils, headphones, bingo tickets, electronic bagpipes, antiques, coffee, electronics, clothes, and beauty products. It serves startups, subscription businesses, and individuals selling niche and boutique products. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bath, United Kingdom.

Sphere

Series A in 2006
Sphere operates as a developer of a blog search engine.

Wellthy

Venture Round in 2023
Wellthy, Inc. provides a concierge service that helps individuals and families to manage and coordinate care for chronically ill, aging, or disabled loved ones using its platform in the United States. It operates a network of family caregivers to help individuals and families find, vet, and coordinate care, as well as provides assistance in the areas of legal, medical, financial, and housing-related issues. The company serves people with aging-related complications, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, spinal injuries, and cancer. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Applied XL

Seed Round in 2022
Applied XL develops real-time information systems to track the health of people, places, and planet to help accelerate the path to sustainable growth. AppliedXL combines pioneering computational journalism techniques and expert networks to power intuitive intelligence products for professionals in specialized industries.
Stylus Stylus provides business intelligence to consumer companies in order to inspire new ideas and improve profitability. An online business resource, Stylus (Stylus.com) is used by nearly 250 leading companies in the automotive, fashion & beauty, electronics, home & industrial design, media & technology, hospitality, architecture and advertising industries. Users across 52 countries rely on the Stylus editorial content to learn about consumer behaviour, global industry events and new ideas for product design and consumer services. Stylus is headquartered in London and has offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Truepic

Series B in 2021
Truepic is the trust authority for visual media. Our mission is to speed up business, foster healthy civil societies, and push back against disinformation. We do this by bolstering the value of authentic photos and videos, while leading the fight against deceptive ones. Truepic pioneered "controlled capture" technology for a new breed of visual media: photos and videos that have verifiable origin, contents, and metadata. For traditional photos and videos, Truepic uses industry-leading image forensics to help customers evaluate their trustworthiness. Our promise is simple, yet profound: photos and videos you can trust.

CAMP

Acquisition in 2016
CAMP is the leading independent provider of aviation management products and services with a proven track record of over 45 years. CAMP is committed to providing the highest quality products and services to the business aviation community across the globe.

Artemis Health

Series C in 2019
Artemis Health operates as a health data analytics company. It operates a platform that provides self-insured employers with actionable data on their benefits programs, opportunities and gaps, and tools to help them make decisions. Artemis Health's platform enables users to identify problems in their benefits’ programs; share findings with the right people; find solutions for problems and to enhance their programs; and track solutions. Dallen Allred, Dallin Regehr, and Grant Gordon founded it in 2013, with its headquarters in Salt Lake City in Utah.

Refinery29

Series B in 2013
Refinery29 is a digital media and entertainment company focused on women. Through a variety of lifestyle stories, original video programming, and social, shareable content across all platforms, Refinery29 provides its audience with the inspiration and tools to discover and pursue a more independent, stylish, and informed life. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York.

Duality

Series B in 2021
Duality Technologies Inc. provides a secure collaboration platform for organizations. Its platform enables the organization to streamline its digital collaboration processes and implement new collaboration modalities. It offers SecurePlus Data, a secure collaboration platform that enables secure data collaboration at scale between data-owners and analyzing parties; and SecurePlus Insights, which integrates with analytical and Al tools to be securely offered in a hosted environment. It serves healthcare, financial, automotive, insurance, telecommunication, and education industries. Duality Technologies Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Internet Broadcasting Systems

Venture Round in 2001
Aiming to transform how broadcast media leaders engage and interact with their audiences, Internet Broadcasting offers scalable publishing solutions that power digital growth and strengthen consumer relationships. Internet Broadcasting solutions include an innovative SaaS-based web publishing platform, original and syndicated content, and the IB Digital Agency, one of the largest digital advertising agencies. Internet Broadcasting has had a long-term focus on serving local television companies with award-winning websites and services. Leading media companies such as Hearst Television, E.W. Scripps, CNN, The Washington Post Company's Post-Newsweek Stations and Turner Broadcasting are clients. Founded in 1996, Internet Broadcasting is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn. For more information, visit ibsys.com.

Hootsuite

Series A in 2010
Hootsuite is the world's most widely used platform for managing social media. More than 15 million users, including 800+ of the Fortune 1000 companies, trust Hootsuite to manage their social media programs across multiple social networks from one integrated dashboard.

Rodale - Magazine Media Brands

Acquisition in 2017
Rodale - Magazine Media Brands

Insurify, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Insurify is an internet company that features a software platform that specializes in car insurance. Its software platform utilizes artificial intelligence, language processing, and chatbots it provides personalized recommendations that help its users to decide about their car insurance. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Aver Inc.

Series B in 2016
Aver’s solutions help healthcare payers and providers design, implement, and administer value-based programs. Together, we are simplifying value-based healthcare.

Wellthy

Series B in 2021
Wellthy, Inc. provides a concierge service that helps individuals and families to manage and coordinate care for chronically ill, aging, or disabled loved ones using its platform in the United States. It operates a network of family caregivers to help individuals and families find, vet, and coordinate care, as well as provides assistance in the areas of legal, medical, financial, and housing-related issues. The company serves people with aging-related complications, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, spinal injuries, and cancer. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Jingle Networks

Series C in 2006
Jingle Networks is the leading provider of advertising and technology solutions for voice and mobile business search. By tapping into the thriving business search market, Jingle Networks provides a powerful new media channel to connect businesses with consumers ready to transact. Jingle Networks offers solutions that cater to carriers, network operators, adverting agencies, brand marketers and small businesses. Thousands of national brand marketers and local businesses use Jingle Network solutions to leverage brief in-call audio or text advertisements to acquire new customers via phone or during mobile app or online searches. Network operators and telecom carriers have also discovered the power of Jingle Networks technology and advertising solutions. Many select Jingle Networks as their search provider of choice. Whether you want to build a brand, create awareness or maximize business search, Jingle Networks has a solution that will guarantee success. Jingle Networks invented the free directory assistance service called 1-800-FREE411. Consumers dial 1-800-FREE411 (1-800-373-3411) from any phone in the United States to use the toll-free service, which allows callers to obtain any residential, business, or government phone number for no charge. Sponsors cover the service cost by playing short advertising messages, about 12 seconds long, customized based on the number the customer is looking up. The company was founded by veteran advertising and technology executives.

TurnHere, Inc.

Series B in 2010
SmartShoot gets customers high-quality video & photos by connecting them with trusted professional filmmakers & photographers.

Welltok

Series D in 2015
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry’s leading consumer activation platform. Welltok’s solutions empower health plans, employers, providers, and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

FreightWaves

Private Equity Round in 2021
FreightWaves is a SaaS provider of data for the North American freight market. FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As the leading provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. FreightWaves.com is the highest rank news and commentary site in the industry and the firm is introducing a freight futures product which will help participants derisk their exposure to trucking spot rates.

Local Corporation

Post in 2007
Local Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM) is a leading national online media company that connects merchants and consumers. Using their powerful technology platforms, they provide a host of innovative business solutions including digital marketing products and tools such as local business and product search, mobile, SEO, web hosting, social media and daily deals—all to help merchants grow their business.

Pixvana, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Pixvana is a Seattle-based software startup building a Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) video processing and delivery platform for media and entertainment applications. Pixvana’s founders have proven startup success in media technology and hail from senior product and engineering leadership positions at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, and Lucasfilm.

Jingle Networks

Series D in 2009
Jingle Networks is the leading provider of advertising and technology solutions for voice and mobile business search. By tapping into the thriving business search market, Jingle Networks provides a powerful new media channel to connect businesses with consumers ready to transact. Jingle Networks offers solutions that cater to carriers, network operators, adverting agencies, brand marketers and small businesses. Thousands of national brand marketers and local businesses use Jingle Network solutions to leverage brief in-call audio or text advertisements to acquire new customers via phone or during mobile app or online searches. Network operators and telecom carriers have also discovered the power of Jingle Networks technology and advertising solutions. Many select Jingle Networks as their search provider of choice. Whether you want to build a brand, create awareness or maximize business search, Jingle Networks has a solution that will guarantee success. Jingle Networks invented the free directory assistance service called 1-800-FREE411. Consumers dial 1-800-FREE411 (1-800-373-3411) from any phone in the United States to use the toll-free service, which allows callers to obtain any residential, business, or government phone number for no charge. Sponsors cover the service cost by playing short advertising messages, about 12 seconds long, customized based on the number the customer is looking up. The company was founded by veteran advertising and technology executives.

Signal Media

Series C in 2019
Signal AI is an AI-powered business intelligence and media monitoring company that aggregates, analyses, and provides business leaders with insights into digital, print and broadcast media, news, and regulatory data. Signal AI’s machine learning enables businesses to track their competitive landscape, changes to regulation, and monitor their reputation—empowering them to make smarter, faster business decisions. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Cymfony

Series B in 2000
Cymfony, a Kantar Media company, provides market influence analytics by scanning and interpreting the millions of voices at the intersection of social and traditional media. Their third generation listening and influence platform, Maestro, integrates innovative technology with expert analysis to identify the people, issues, and trends impacting your business - at the speed of the market.

Inrupt

Series A in 2021
Inrupt is an open-source platform that uses a set of modular requirements to decentralize the web. The platform allows consumers and organizations to distinguish their information from the apps using it. It enables clients to develop, handle and safeguard their internet personal online data store (POD) while using the same information to simultaneously search for distinct apps. The company is founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Spartan Race, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Peak.com and Peak Races were founded in 2007 by Joe De Sena, Julian Kopald, and Andy Weinberg. Peak Races, the parent company of "Death Race", eventually went on to create the current Spartan Race series.

3D Hubs

Series C in 2019
3D Hubs is an online manufacturing platform that provides engineers with on-demand access to a global network of manufacturing partners. Users can easily upload their design, instantly receive a quote, and start production at the click of a button. Founded in Amsterdam in 2013, 3D Hubs has raised over US$30 million and produced more than 5 million parts, using various manufacturing technologies, including CNC Machining, 3D Printing, Injection Molding and Sheet Metal Fabrication.

Insurify, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Insurify is an internet company that features a software platform that specializes in car insurance. Its software platform utilizes artificial intelligence, language processing, and chatbots it provides personalized recommendations that help its users to decide about their car insurance. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

E Ink Corporation

Venture Round in 2005
E Ink Corp. is a supplier of electronic paper display (EPD) technologies. Products made with E Ink's electronic ink are designed to possess a paper-like high contrast appearance, ultra-low power consumption and a thin, light form. E Ink's technology is tailored for many consumer and industrial applications including handheld devices, watches, clocks and public information and promotional signs.

Fitch Ratings

Corporate Round in 2006
Fitch Ratings is a global rating agency committed to providing the world’s credit markets with independent and prospective credit opinions, research, and data. With 50 offices worldwide, Fitch Ratings’ global expertise, built on a foundation of local market experience, spans across capital markets in over 150 countries. Fitch Ratings is widely recognized by investors, issuers, and bankers for its credible, transparent, and timely coverage.

Journal-Courier

Acquisition in 2017
The Journal-Courier is an American daily newspaper published in Jacksonville, Illinois.

drugstore.com

Private Equity Round in 2001
Drugstore.com is an online provider of health, beauty, vision, and pharmacy products. Their portfolio of brands includes drugstore.com™, Beauty.com™, and VisionDirect.com™. They provide a convenient, private, and informative shopping experience while offering a wide assortment of more than 45,000 products at competitive prices.

The NewsMarket

Series B in 2004
The NewsMarket, Inc. operates a Web-based video marketing and distribution platform. The company's platform enables corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations to market and share their video content with media, blogs, consumers, and online communities. It offers stories, videos, audios, and stills in the categories of aerospace and defense, agriculture, automotive and transportation, business and industry, charities and non-profits, countries-cities, education, energy, entertainment, environment, climate change, fashion, government and international affairs, green, health care, human interests, public service announcements, science, sports, technology, Internet, telecommunications, trade shows, and travel and leisure. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Beijing, Delhi, Dubai, London, San Francisco, Munich, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. After acquiring MediaLink in 2009, The NewsMarket rebranded as [Synaptic Digital](/organization/synaptic-digital).

Kujiale

Series D in 2018
Kujiale is an online information and design platform that offers information and reviews on businesses related to home decoration and furnishing. It was launched by Hang Chen and is operated from Hangzhou, China. Create 3D models, swap textures, and apply them in cutting-edge floor planning software. Visualize in 360-degree views, augmented reality, photo-realistic rendering, or virtual reality.

Atzuche

Series B in 2015
Atzuche is a peer-to-peer car rental start-up. Founded in 2014, Atzuche operates an app, which customers can use to rent cars from car owners. After the customer orders a car, Atzuche staff will pick up the car from the owner and drive it to the customer. The platform is expanding fast. It claims to have three million registered users, and 100, 000 registered cars in 14 Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Half of of its users rent cars for day trips, 20% for taking test drives, and 20% for their daily commute.

Signal Media

Series D in 2021
Signal AI is an AI-powered business intelligence and media monitoring company that aggregates, analyses, and provides business leaders with insights into digital, print and broadcast media, news, and regulatory data. Signal AI’s machine learning enables businesses to track their competitive landscape, changes to regulation, and monitor their reputation—empowering them to make smarter, faster business decisions. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Systum Inc.

Series A in 2018
Systum Inc. provides a wholesale inventory management software for distributors. Its software integrates marketing, customer relationship management (CRM), wholesale and distribution business, streamlining internal processes from sales and order management to inventory and shipping; omni channel e-commerce, manages inventory, customers, and reporting; inventory and order management, automates order management processes; and marketing and lead generation, customize marketing campaigns by targeting segments of customers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Plano, Texas.

Snappy Gifts

Series C in 2021
Snappy App provides Snappy Gifts, an all-in-one enterprise gifting platform that uses the power of experience and delight to connect people around the world. It sources products and experiences from various brands and retailers. Dvir Cohen and Hani Goldstein founded Snappy App in 2015. Its headquarters is in New York City.

Science, Inc.

Venture Round in 2013
Science Media LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in incubation, seed/startup, early stage and later stage investments in fintech. The firm typically invests in technology, blockchain, internet, mobile media, Internet of Things, gaming, and mobile phone applications building companies. It considers investment specifically in India. The firm prefers to take minority interest in its portfolio companies. Science Media LLC is based in the Santa Monica, California, with additional offices in Karnataka, India and Yerevan, Armenia.

Buzzfeed, Inc.

Series A in 2008
BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M. It covers breaking news, produces original video, and creates content that people want to share on the web. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John Johnson. It is headquartered in New York, N.Y.

GeoPhy

Series B in 2019
GeoPhy provides database and analytics tools for the property and financial sector. It offers data warehouse that allows users with access to data at the building, portfolio, area, city, and country level, and also enables users to check, monitor, structure, analyze, and export the data; and solutions to optimize investment portfolio by tracking investments. Sander Mulders and Teun van den Dries founded OfficeRank on June 1, 2014 that became GeoPhy in March 2015. It has its headquarters in Delft in the Netherlands.

Tonic Health

Venture Round in 2014
Tonic Solutions Inc. develops and operates an online medical data collection platform. Its platform allows users to create, edit, and manage various surveys, questionnaires, screeners, and forms, such as patient intake forms, patient satisfaction surveys, screening and risk assessments, patient reported outcomes, research studies, clinical trials, and more; and deploy them to iPads or Web. The company serves health care clinicians, providers, and researchers worldwide. Tonic Solutions Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Menlo Park, California. As of January 10, 2020, Tonic Solutions Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SCI Solutions, Inc.

Buzzfeed, Inc.

Series B in 2010
BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M. It covers breaking news, produces original video, and creates content that people want to share on the web. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John Johnson. It is headquartered in New York, N.Y.

The Plum Guide Limited

Series B in 2019
The Plum Guide Limited operates as vacation rental company providing spaces and hosts to tourists. It offers homes, apartments, and lofts on rent. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
ZCOOL's online platforms allow designers to share and display their work, potentially leading them to commercial opportunities. The platform currently has over four million users, with around 20,000 design work released on the site daily. The company also partners with image firm Shutterstock to provide image database services. The company says it plans to use the latest proceeds to expand its online community, strengthen content and provide more services to members, including training courses and job matching services. ZCOOL was founded in August 2006 in Beijing.

VYNE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Seed Round in 2021
Vyne Technologies Limited operates online bank-to-bank payments processing mobile application for e-commerce businesses. It offers account-to-account payments for online businesses, which allows customers to pay directly from their bank account to businesses without need of middle-man. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Kobalt Music Group, Ltd.

Series D in 2017
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Roku

Series F in 2013
Roku pioneered streaming for the TV, and we aspire to power every TV in the world. We developed a streaming platform that delivers a best-in-class user experience. At the heart of the Roku platform is our proprietary operating system, the Roku OS, which we built from the ground up. Roku is recognized for streaming innovation. This is demonstrated by our growing, passionate and highly engaged customer base who love Roku streaming devices because of our coveted content selection, ease of use, and value.

Cymfony

Series C in 2003
Cymfony, a Kantar Media company, provides market influence analytics by scanning and interpreting the millions of voices at the intersection of social and traditional media. Their third generation listening and influence platform, Maestro, integrates innovative technology with expert analysis to identify the people, issues, and trends impacting your business - at the speed of the market.

LiveSafe, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
LiveSafe, Inc. designs and develops a mobile safety communications platform. The company’s safety communications platform combines a mobile application and a cloud-based command dashboard that allows people to send actionable crowd-sourced intelligence to connect people to the help they need. It serves media and technology, property management, retail, entertainment and sports, and financial services enterprises, as well as malls, hospitals, and government contractors. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Arlington, Virginia with an additional office in Clearwater, Florida. As of October 6, 2020, LiveSafe, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Vector Solutions, Inc.

Acrobatiq, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Acrobatiq, backed by Carnegie Mellon is scaling the pioneering research in online learning from CMU's Open Learning Initiative (OLI) and enabling educational institutions to improve learning outcomes at reduced costs through data-driven, personalized learning solutions. Our learning-science based approach to course design, and breakthrough analysis and modeling of learning data enables adaptive instruction for students, and gives faculty visibility into who is learning, who’s not, and where help is needed. Together, this convergence of learning science, technology, and data is empowering more students to succeed at a time when post-secondary credentials are more in demand than ever.

Blue Wall Technology

Series A in 2022
Blue Wall Network is a cloud data collaboration and analysis tool provider for the construction industry.It uses micro-service project management components to complete the aggregation and transfer of data and information from the construction site to the project manager. Data modeling helps customers improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enable real-time data-driven decision making.

Diversion

Series B in 2011
Diversion was formed in early 2010 with a clear goal to provide a necessary fusion between the entertainment industry and the current social gaming renaissance. The founders are all highly seasoned experts in gaming, web development, digital marketing and entertainment and are setting out in this space with two key differentiators: Provide users with real-world entertainment tie-in opportunities and experiences. Use of gaming expertise to create a more enjoyable and fulfilling social gaming experience. Diversion, Inc. is currently developing a game called FameTown, which is modeled after games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars and will be released Nov. 1, 2010.

TurnHere, Inc.

Series A in 2008
SmartShoot gets customers high-quality video & photos by connecting them with trusted professional filmmakers & photographers.

E Ink Corporation

Venture Round in 2006
E Ink Corp. is a supplier of electronic paper display (EPD) technologies. Products made with E Ink's electronic ink are designed to possess a paper-like high contrast appearance, ultra-low power consumption and a thin, light form. E Ink's technology is tailored for many consumer and industrial applications including handheld devices, watches, clocks and public information and promotional signs.

iVillage

Post in 2001
iVillage, bought out by NBC Universal for over $600 million, is a online network geared towards women. It consists of iVillage.com, Astrology.com, gardenweb.com, www.ivillage.co.uk and gurl.com. It targets teens, young women and mothers with unique content, community forums and other interactive tools. iVillage is a leading online destination for women with over 30 million unique visitors a month. As of December 2007, iVillage records almost 4 billion page views annually. Competitors include Yahoo Shine, [Sugar Publishing](http://crunchbase.com/organization/sugar) and [Glam Media](http://crunchbase.com/organization/glammedia).

Atzuche

Series C in 2017
Atzuche is a peer-to-peer car rental start-up. Founded in 2014, Atzuche operates an app, which customers can use to rent cars from car owners. After the customer orders a car, Atzuche staff will pick up the car from the owner and drive it to the customer. The platform is expanding fast. It claims to have three million registered users, and 100, 000 registered cars in 14 Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Half of of its users rent cars for day trips, 20% for taking test drives, and 20% for their daily commute.

Inrupt

Venture Round in 2021
Inrupt is an open-source platform that uses a set of modular requirements to decentralize the web. The platform allows consumers and organizations to distinguish their information from the apps using it. It enables clients to develop, handle and safeguard their internet personal online data store (POD) while using the same information to simultaneously search for distinct apps. The company is founded in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Cymfony

Series D in 2005
Cymfony, a Kantar Media company, provides market influence analytics by scanning and interpreting the millions of voices at the intersection of social and traditional media. Their third generation listening and influence platform, Maestro, integrates innovative technology with expert analysis to identify the people, issues, and trends impacting your business - at the speed of the market.

Otonomo

Series B in 2017
otonomo Technologies Ltd. develops and operates a cloud marketplace that connects cars to services and application for collecting car data and delivering safety services. Its technology allows car manufacturers, drivers, and commercial service providers to adopt an ecosystem and market for in-car services and applications. otonomo Technologies Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Herzliya, Israel. It has additional offices in Redwood City, California; and Frankfurt, Germany.

Kubra Data Transfer

Acquisition in 2014
KUBRA provides customer interaction management solutions to some of the largest utility, insurance, financial services, health care, and communication companies across North America. Our portfolio of integrated multi-channel outsource solutions include document print and mailing, e-billing and self-service, document management, and payment solutions. With over 400 clients and 1 billion customer interactions annually, KUBRA delivers innovative, performance-driven value to its clients every day.

Welltok

Series E in 2016
Welltok is a data-driven, enterprise SaaS company that delivers the healthcare industry’s leading consumer activation platform. Welltok’s solutions empower health plans, employers, providers, and public entities to connect consumers with personalized health improvement resources, making it easy and rewarding for consumers to complete actions that optimize their health and wellbeing. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Brightcove

Series C in 2007
Powerful cloud solutions for delivering and monetizing video across every connected device

E Ink Corporation

Venture Round in 1998
E Ink Corp. is a supplier of electronic paper display (EPD) technologies. Products made with E Ink's electronic ink are designed to possess a paper-like high contrast appearance, ultra-low power consumption and a thin, light form. E Ink's technology is tailored for many consumer and industrial applications including handheld devices, watches, clocks and public information and promotional signs.

Aver Inc.

Series C in 2020
Aver’s solutions help healthcare payers and providers design, implement, and administer value-based programs. Together, we are simplifying value-based healthcare.

8i

Series B in 2017
8i is building consumer media platform that lets users create, experience, and share the most immersive 3D video of real people, for virtual reality, augmented reality, and the web. The company’s mission is to enable everyone to connect with each other in the closest way to real-life. 8i enables true 3D (fully volumetric) capture of people, allowing viewers to walk around real humans in VR. Founded in May 2014 in Wellington, New Zealand, 8i has since expanded to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. operates Tezign.com, an Internet platform in China that provides design, creativity, marketing, and experience need services. It offers market and design services, including web/app design, graphic design, illustration, photography, creative strategy, brand strategy, e-commerce solution, event planning, and AR and VR. Tezign (Beijing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Shanghai, China.
Diginex is a digital financial services and blockchain solutions company. They partner with institutional investors, corporations, and governments to make digital assets more accessible, business processes more efficient, and societies more secure.

ScoreBig, Inc.

Series D in 2014
ScoreBig, Inc. operates a Website that helps fans save on tickets to their favorite live events, games, shows, and concerts. It sells a limited number of tickets per event. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Hollywood, California. As of November 12, 2016, ScoreBig, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Ticket Software, LLC.

First30Days

Series A in 2008
First30days is self-help site designed to take people through the first 30 days (and beyond) of major life changes, such as the first 30 days of finding your dream job, starting a new business, buying a home, being pregnant, or getting a divorce. The site plans to make money with ads and sponsorships targeted at each life change—stroller ads for people looking at how to deal with pregnancy or being a new parent pages, banking ads for people contemplating starting a new business. Before founding First 30 Days, Ariane de Bonvoisin worked as a corporate strategist/VC at Bertelsmann, Sony, and Time Warner. At Time Warner, she worked directly for former CEO Dick Parsons, who personally put up the seed money for First30days.

Pandora Media, Inc.

Series F in 2009
Pandora Media, LLC provides music and podcast discovery platform services in the United States. It offers music streaming services to approximately 70 million users each month with its proprietary Music Genome Project and Podcast Genome Project technology at home or on the go through its mobile app, the web, and integrations with approximately 2,000 connected products. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Oakland, California. Pandora Media, LLC is a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.

Hire.com

Venture Round in 2000
The online marketplace for outdoor activities. Providing the consumer with a single platform to research, book, and review outfitters and guides. GuideHire creates an informed buyer in a centralized marketplace.

Carto

Series C in 2021
From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns spatial data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioral marketing, strategic store placements, and much more. Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts solve spatial problems using CARTO’s data and analysis to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science. Backed by leading VC firms Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, CARTO is the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform. Founded in 2012 by an environmental scientist and visualization experts, CARTO is headquartered in New York City with offices in Madrid, Seville and Washington DC. CARTO has a team of 130 employees, a portfolio of 2,500 customers including BBVA, BCG, New York City, and Twitter and more than 350,000 users around the globe - and has regularly been recognized by Gartner and Forrester for its innovation in the Location Intelligence space.

Recurrent Motors, Inc.

Venture Round in 2022
Recurrent Motors, Inc. engages in analyzing and providing reports for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. It offers car dealers and private party buyers with vehicle reports to buy used electric cars; and owners with personalized monthly battery analysis of their EVs. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

TRENCH

Seed Round in 2018
TRENCH is a fashion-sharing community based on digital currency. It allows women to enjoy new fashion products without spending more money and get products delivered to their doorstep. While facilitating the trade of fashion items, TRENCH also connects similar-minded girls with one another, provides a management tool for swap parties, and allows its members to get to know new people. TRENCH was launched in 2015 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

JoyTunes Ltd.

Series D in 2021
JoyTunes Ltd. develops mobile application for learning musical instruments for adults and children. Its Simply Piano, a mobile application helps people learn how to play the piano step by step with little to no previous experience. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Kfar Saba, Israel.

The Plum Guide Limited

Venture Round in 2021
The Plum Guide Limited operates as vacation rental company providing spaces and hosts to tourists. It offers homes, apartments, and lofts on rent. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Vault AI uses artificial intelligence or AI to create a system of prediction of content. Its AI platform analyzes thousands of variables, anticipating and solving complex audience problems in order to gain advanced market optics for precise decision making. Its DeepAudience aims to forecast audience demand and size. Its demographic predictions provide streamlined marketing strategies for pre- and post-release states. The company's Alpha Vault predicts revenues and investment outcomes and optimizes and follows investments to market post-investment. Osiris developed it.

Otonomo

Post in 2021
otonomo Technologies Ltd. develops and operates a cloud marketplace that connects cars to services and application for collecting car data and delivering safety services. Its technology allows car manufacturers, drivers, and commercial service providers to adopt an ecosystem and market for in-car services and applications. otonomo Technologies Ltd. was founded in 2015 and is based in Herzliya, Israel. It has additional offices in Redwood City, California; and Frankfurt, Germany.

Swirl Networks, Inc.

Series B in 2013
Swirl is an in-store mobile marketing platform provider that is helping retailers leverage the power of mobile to attract and influence consumers while they shop in retail stores. The company's indoor location-based marketing platform allows retailers to deliver highly targeted messages, content and offers to consumer smartphones while they shop in specific areas of the store. The platform combines patent-pending indoor location beacons with cloud-based marketing campaign management services and a software development kit that allows retailers to add an in-store mobile experience to any existing mobile app.
Huboo Technologies Limited operates as a multi-channel fulfillment service provider for e-commerce business. The company delivers vitamins, CBD oils, headphones, bingo tickets, electronic bagpipes, antiques, coffee, electronics, clothes, and beauty products. It serves startups, subscription businesses, and individuals selling niche and boutique products. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bath, United Kingdom.

Signal Media

Series A in 2016
Signal AI is an AI-powered business intelligence and media monitoring company that aggregates, analyses, and provides business leaders with insights into digital, print and broadcast media, news, and regulatory data. Signal AI’s machine learning enables businesses to track their competitive landscape, changes to regulation, and monitor their reputation—empowering them to make smarter, faster business decisions. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Brightcove

Series B in 2005
Powerful cloud solutions for delivering and monetizing video across every connected device

PowerToFly Inc.

Series A in 2015
PowerToFly is a global platform dedicated to more diversity, inclusion, and transparency at work via virtual events and remote jobs. It propels companies to meet mandated diversity hiring goals and connect diverse candidates to companies that care. The platform is connecting women with companies that value work-life integration, female-friendly benefits, equal pay for equal work and environments where they thrive. PowerToFly optimized search and sourcing tools, targeted job promotions, and high visibility employer branding services reduce the time to hire hard to reach talent tools of underrepresented female engineers at a centralized and lower cost. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

Pandora Media, Inc.

Series C in 2006
Pandora Media, LLC provides music and podcast discovery platform services in the United States. It offers music streaming services to approximately 70 million users each month with its proprietary Music Genome Project and Podcast Genome Project technology at home or on the go through its mobile app, the web, and integrations with approximately 2,000 connected products. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Oakland, California. Pandora Media, LLC is a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.

Share2

Series B in 2019
Share2 is a female second-hand idle genuine trading APP, providing users with convenient and fast idle goods trading services.

Yieldex

Series C in 2011
Yieldex is the leading provider of digital ad forecasting, analytic pricing and marketplace tools for publishers and advertisers. The world’s most successful publishers rely on Yieldex Analytics for forward-looking insights that help them save time, close more deals and increase revenue. Both advertisers and publishers use Yieldex’s programmatic marketplace, YieldexDirect, to buy and sell targeted, guaranteed inventory in one convenient location. Leading media companies such as The New York Times, Scripps, CBS, Comcast, Viacom, ESPN, Fox, The Wall Street Journal, Pandora, The Weather Channel, and dozens of others use Yieldex to get more value from their digital advertising strategies.

Circles

Series C in 2002
Circles is an innovative personal services provider that reliably completes simple, complex and unique tasks by integrating leading edge technology and proprietary knowledge with high touch assistance. Founded in 1997 by Kathy Sherbrooke and Janet Kraus, graduates of Stanford Business School, Circles revolutionizes how corporations build life-long relationships with their employees and customers by offering end-user members comprehensive and simplified personal assistance for doing anything from completing household chores to events planning to tracking down the hard-to-find. Circles' clients are progressive organizations that have partnered with Circles to attract, retain and build loyalty with customers and employees.

Kaboodle

Acquisition in 2007
Kaboodle offers an easy way to collect information from the web and also search for things you may be interested in. Kaboodle can be used to collect and share information for shopping, travel, research, or just about anything else. With over 35,000 users, Kaboodle's user base is relatively small, but the site is young and has much room to grow. The company has received funding and strong support from such investors as Kanwal Rekhi of Inventus Capital, Junglee founder Ashish Gupta, and co-author of Google's early search algorithm research Rajeev Motwani.

Relationship Science

Venture Round in 2010
Relationship Science (RelSci) is a technology solutions company that helps individuals and organizations leverage their relationships for a competitive business advantage. The RelSci platform provides deep information about over 6 million influential decision makers - who they are and who they know, what you have in common with them, and how you can gain access to them and their organizations. Our relationship mapping tool empowers you to discover new relationships, advance existing ones, and maximize every opportunity.

DroneBase, Inc.

Series C in 2021
DroneBase is a aerial data analytics company, which provides businesses with a platform to leverage the world’s largest Pilot Network to make better decisions about their most critical assets. Based in Los Angeles, the company is the trusted, go-to software platform for worldwide enterprise clients spanning industries such as renewable energy, insurance, telecommunications, construction, real estate, and media. DroneBase has completed over 100,000 commercial missions flown in over 70 countries and in all 50 states.

Cymfony

Series C in 2003
Cymfony, a Kantar Media company, provides market influence analytics by scanning and interpreting the millions of voices at the intersection of social and traditional media. Their third generation listening and influence platform, Maestro, integrates innovative technology with expert analysis to identify the people, issues, and trends impacting your business - at the speed of the market.

LiveSafe, Inc.

Series B in 2015
LiveSafe, Inc. designs and develops a mobile safety communications platform. The company’s safety communications platform combines a mobile application and a cloud-based command dashboard that allows people to send actionable crowd-sourced intelligence to connect people to the help they need. It serves media and technology, property management, retail, entertainment and sports, and financial services enterprises, as well as malls, hospitals, and government contractors. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Arlington, Virginia with an additional office in Clearwater, Florida. As of October 6, 2020, LiveSafe, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Vector Solutions, Inc.

Savored

Series A in 2011
Savored is the nation’s leading provider of yield management solutions to the restaurant industry. Over 1,000 restaurants nationwide use the Savored reservation platform to lower prices when they have empty tables and to increase prices when they have excess demand. Savored leverages a proprietary technology that searches restaurant availability and leverages yield management to offer diners the lowest possible price at great restaurants. Consumers browse Savored’s list of leading restaurants, make free online reservations and then receive discounts of 15%-40% off their total bill automatically applied at the end of their meal.

Current Communications Group

Private Equity Round in 2005
CURRENT provides electric utilities a Smart Grid solution that increases the efficiency and reliability of the electric grid while reducing the environmental impact of electric usage. Their integrated solution combines advanced sensing technology, two-way high-speed communications, 24/7 monitoring and enterprise analysis software and related services to provide location-specific, real-time actionable data. CURRENT is also a fully-integrated communications service provider, with the capability to offer high-performance broadband services and home energy management services to every plug in every home or office using the electric wires.

ClaimKit

Series A in 2017
ClaimKit LLC develops a cloud-based application to review insurance policies. It offers DocKit, a Web-based software that collects, organizes, reviews, and shares claim documents. The company also deploys claim consultants to collect documents and data; and replicates on-site file organization, collects electronic data, and generates searchable claim files. Its clients and working partners include sureties, claim professionals, attorneys, claim handlers, consultants, and accountants. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Overland Park, Kansas.

Duality

Series A in 2019
Duality Technologies Inc. provides a secure collaboration platform for organizations. Its platform enables the organization to streamline its digital collaboration processes and implement new collaboration modalities. It offers SecurePlus Data, a secure collaboration platform that enables secure data collaboration at scale between data-owners and analyzing parties; and SecurePlus Insights, which integrates with analytical and Al tools to be securely offered in a hosted environment. It serves healthcare, financial, automotive, insurance, telecommunication, and education industries. Duality Technologies Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Handbag.com

Acquisition in 2006
Handbag.com is an e-commerce website for handbags.

Voodle

Series A in 2020
Voodle, Inc. develops a cloud-based software that builds a virtual reality and augmented reality video processing and delivery platform for media and entertainment applications. It offers Voodle, an application that is used to capture business moments as they happen and share the knowledge that connects the team and drives action. The company’s application is available on App Store and Google Play. Voodle, Inc. was formerly known as Pixvana, Inc. and changed its name to Voodle, Inc. in March 2020. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Pandora Media, Inc.

Series D in 2006
Pandora Media, LLC provides music and podcast discovery platform services in the United States. It offers music streaming services to approximately 70 million users each month with its proprietary Music Genome Project and Podcast Genome Project technology at home or on the go through its mobile app, the web, and integrations with approximately 2,000 connected products. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Oakland, California. Pandora Media, LLC is a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.

Via

Series C in 2016
Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters. The company transforms public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via's mobile app connects passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders to seamlessly share a premium vehicle. The platform operates in the United States and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via's technology is deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, integrating with public transit infrastructure to power cutting-edge on-demand mobility. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Amino Apps

Series C in 2018
Amino Apps enables people to discover, develop, and express their interests and passions. Founded in 2011, Amino Apps offer a network of communities allowing its users explore and obsess over the things they're into.

Zendrive

Series B in 2019
Zendrive Inc. develops traffic data tracking application for mobile phones. It offers Zendrive, an application that tracks speed, location, direction, and acceleration of traffic using smartphone sensors. The company provides traffic and driving information to users based on the accumulated data. The company was formerly known as Inner Circle Technologies, Inc. Zendrive Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Double Fusion

Series C in 2006
Double Fusion, Inc. provides in-game, around-game, and web-based solutions for marketers and their advertising agencies to engage and sell gamer demographics. The company offers fusion.sdk, suite of tools that enable spectrum of ad placements to be served in-game, tracked, and reported. Its products also include fusion.runtime that provides the power to define, integrate, serve, track, and report 2D, 3D, and video ads into games, as well as allows for a range of applications including PC back catalogue titles. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Jerusalem, Israel; London, United Kingdom; and Tokyo, Japan.
Liulishuo is a leading artificial intelligence-driven educational technology company founded in September 2012 by Dr. Wang Wei and Dr. Hu Zhe and Dr. Lin Hui. Liulishuo offers a personalized and adaptive language learning experience to 50 million learners in 379 cities in China and over 175 countries around the world. Its self-developed artificial intelligence English teacher, based on deep learning technology, can provide personalized and adaptive learning courses for each user.

Zinc

Venture Round in 2017
Zinc is a secure enterprise communication platform built to connect deskless and mobile workers with colleagues both in and out of the office. Zinc combines a full-featured mobile messaging platform that employees love to use with the security, compliance and administrative features that businesses need.

WideOrbit

Series D in 2008
WideOrbit is the leading provider of advertising management technology for cable networks, local television stations and radio stations. More than 3,000 broadcasters and networks leverage WideOrbit solutions to streamline operations, maximize revenue from traditional, digital and programmatic channels, and extend their business across distribution platforms. Our clients include Entercom Communications, Entravision Communications Corporation, Gray Television, Inc., Meredith Corporation, NBCUniversal, The E.W. Scripps Co. and Tribune Media.

iFlix Sdn Bhd

Corporate Round in 2019
iflix is the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, offering users unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more. With a vast selection everyone’s favourite comedies, drama, K-drama, Turkish drama, Bollywood, Nollywood, cartoons, movies and more from Hollywood, The UK, Asia, The Middle East and Africa, iflix places the entertainment people want at their fingertips to either stream or download. For one low monthly fee, iflix subscribers can watch on their mobile phone, laptop, tablet, TV… wherever, whenever.

IGG

Series B in 2008
IGG is an MMORPG developer and operator. They are working hard to build and develop a platform for the next generation in online entertainment for a global audience.

DroneBase, Inc.

Series B in 2018
DroneBase is a aerial data analytics company, which provides businesses with a platform to leverage the world’s largest Pilot Network to make better decisions about their most critical assets. Based in Los Angeles, the company is the trusted, go-to software platform for worldwide enterprise clients spanning industries such as renewable energy, insurance, telecommunications, construction, real estate, and media. DroneBase has completed over 100,000 commercial missions flown in over 70 countries and in all 50 states.

WideOrbit

Series B in 2002
WideOrbit is the leading provider of advertising management technology for cable networks, local television stations and radio stations. More than 3,000 broadcasters and networks leverage WideOrbit solutions to streamline operations, maximize revenue from traditional, digital and programmatic channels, and extend their business across distribution platforms. Our clients include Entercom Communications, Entravision Communications Corporation, Gray Television, Inc., Meredith Corporation, NBCUniversal, The E.W. Scripps Co. and Tribune Media.

Priori Legal

Series A in 2020
Priori Legal, Inc. develops a legal platform to find, hire, and manage lawyers. The company's platform offers to hire lawyers by submitting a request, receiving matches, hiring the lawyer, and scaling the team. The company's platform also offers document sharing tools, billing and payments, and actionable data insights. Priori Legal, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New York, New York.

Wanderful Media, LLC

Venture Round in 2014
Wanderful Media is a retail-focused mobile media company – engaging 160MM US consumers via their shopping apps, mobile and regional networks. Wanderful Media owns and operates Find&Save, CoffeeTable, the Wanderful Mobile Network and the Wanderful Regional Network. Wanderful Media is an independent company financed by a powerful group of media companies, including Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Community Newspaper Holdings, Cox Media Group, The E. W. Scripps Company, Gannett Co., GateHouse Media, Graham Holdings Company, Hearst Corporation, Lee Enterprises, MediaNews Group, and The McClatchy Company.

Maven Machines

Series A in 2020
Maven Machines is a mobile cloud solution for trucking, transportation, and logistics industries. The company offers a modern fleet management solution that streamlines driver safety, real-time telematics, and alerting and automated compliance. It blends IoT sensors, artificial intelligence, software, and wireless communications to provide a real-time platform for both drivers and managers. Maven Machines was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Netscape

Series B in 1995
Netscape Communications Corporation offers development, marketing, sale, and support of enterprise software solutions. Its products include e-commerce infrastructure and e-commerce applications targeted primarily at corporate intranets and extranets, and the internet. Netscape was formerly known as Mosaic Communications Corporation. It was founded in 1994 and is based in Mountain View, California. Netscape Communications Corporation operates as a subsidiary of [AOL Inc](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/aol).

WorldWide Biggies

Series A in 2007
Worldwide Biggies, Inc. operates as a digital entertainment studio. It provides films and T.V, gametoons, games, and Webisodes for kids, families, and young adults through online. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in New York, New York.

M2Gen, Corp.

Venture Round in 2017
M2Gen® is a health informatics solutions company focused on accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of personalized medicine. Our Company was founded in 2006 at the Moffitt Cancer Center to operationalize the Total Cancer Care® Protocol, a unique approach to studying patients throughout their lifetime. In this effort, we partner with the nation’s leading cancer centers via the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN).

Caavo

Series A in 2017
Caavo is an entertainment obsessed hardware and software company. Our mission is to bring the art of TV viewing up to the level of today’s sophisticated audiences by uniting all of their entertainment into a single, elegant, voice controlled experience. Our products allow audiences to seamlessly move between linear TV, streaming services and web content, using voice or a single remote – to control it all.

UGO Entertainment

Acquisition in 2007
UGO Entertainment creates quality lifestyle content for the coveted 18-34 male audience. The company’s flagship brands, UGO.com and 1UP.com, deliver in-depth daily coverage of the latest developments in games and entertainment. A network of owned and affiliated properties supports the flagships with databases of game cheats, interactive games, celebrity pictures, news and more. UGO Entertainment offers advertisers an opportunity to reach 42 million visitors worldwide who are highly influential trendsetters and lifestyle mavens with a passionate curiosity for "what's next." UGO has earned a strong reputation as a trusted publisher and as a proven innovator that delivers customized, high-impact online advertising programs for its world-class client base. UGO Entertainment, a unit of Hearst Corporation, is headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Santa Monica.

Roku

Series H in 2015
Roku pioneered streaming for the TV, and we aspire to power every TV in the world. We developed a streaming platform that delivers a best-in-class user experience. At the heart of the Roku platform is our proprietary operating system, the Roku OS, which we built from the ground up. Roku is recognized for streaming innovation. This is demonstrated by our growing, passionate and highly engaged customer base who love Roku streaming devices because of our coveted content selection, ease of use, and value.

Scene7

Series A in 2001
Adobe [acquired](http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/8df47bafeccc8db6c9830dc69df1e5a3) Scene7 in May 2007 and now offers Scene7 as one of its products. Scene7 – provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform – enables companies to grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs. With Scene7, businesses can improve the entire selling and marketing cycle – from attracting customers, to guiding them to the right products and services, to successfully converting them into loyal buyers. The company offers rich media solutions built on a robust, integrated technology platform – for unrivaled breadth, depth, scalability and ease of ongoing rich media use. Adobe acquired Scene7 in May 2007.

Broadcast.com

Venture Round in 1998
Broadcast.com was an Internet radio company founded in 1995 and sold to [Yahoo!](/organization/yahoo) at the height of the Dot-com Bubble in 1999 for more than $5 billion.

E Ink Corporation

Venture Round in 2004
E Ink Corp. is a supplier of electronic paper display (EPD) technologies. Products made with E Ink's electronic ink are designed to possess a paper-like high contrast appearance, ultra-low power consumption and a thin, light form. E Ink's technology is tailored for many consumer and industrial applications including handheld devices, watches, clocks and public information and promotional signs.

Drone Racing League, Inc.

Series B in 2017
Drone Racing League is a drone racing circuit for professional pilots. The company designs and builds a custom in-house racing drone, the Racer3, which speeds more than 85 MPH around the most complex 3D race courses ever imagined outside a video game. It combines media and technology to create thrilling 3D drone racing content with mass appeal. Drone Racing League was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

RealAge

Acquisition in 2007
RealAge, Inc. is a consumer-health media company and provider of personalized health information and management tools. These tools motivate health-conscious people like you to look, feel, and actually be many years younger—to Live Life to the Youngest®. RealAge has been featured on national radio and television programs including 20/20, Good Morning America, the Today show, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. RealAge is a subsidiary of Sharecare, Inc.

Complex Media, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
Complex Media, Inc. owns, operates, and provides a network of interactive services and applications. Its network includes Websites that cover music, style, pop culture, sports and entertainment, sneakers, and life. The company offers news, galleries, videos, lists, interviews, reviews, essays, and features. It also sells tees, pillows, hats, fleeces, T-shirts, magazines, crewneck sweatshirts, posters, shower curtains, tote bags, and others online. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in New York, New York. Complex Media, Inc. is a former subsidiary of IP Holdings Unltd LLC.

Sling Media

Series B in 2006
Sling Media is a technology company that provides multi-screen smart TV solutions for consumers and television operators. It is committed to developing products and solutions that allow people to watch their home TV, including the content they already pay for, anywhere in the world, on any connected device. Sling Media has the ability to turn any Internet connected PC, Mac, phone, or tablet into a home television. The first [Slingbox](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slingpage) was released in 2005, and in 2007, Sling Media won a Technical Emmy Award for the [Slingbox](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slingpage). SlingPlayer, another product of Sling Media, was introduced for Android, iPad, and Windows smartphones in 2010. Sling Media was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Foster City, C.A.

Miso

Series A in 2010
Miso is a 2nd screen experience that makes watching TV more fun and social. It's available on the iPhone, iPad, Android, and Web. Miso lets you check-in to your favorite shows and episodes to unlock fun, virtual badges, earn points, and compare with your friends to see who is the biggest fan! Connect Miso with Facebook and Twitter to automatically and instantly share what you’re watching with your friends. See what other Miso users are watching and check-out the hottest trending shows. You can even edit episodes, media titles and posters, personalize your profile, and more to make your TV watching experience more you! Learn more at GoMiso.com

Kujiale

Series C in 2016
Kujiale is an online information and design platform that offers information and reviews on businesses related to home decoration and furnishing. It was launched by Hang Chen and is operated from Hangzhou, China. Create 3D models, swap textures, and apply them in cutting-edge floor planning software. Visualize in 360-degree views, augmented reality, photo-realistic rendering, or virtual reality.

Cogito Corporation

Series C in 2019
Cogito is a computer service company that enhances the emotional intelligence of phone professionals by applying behavioral science through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its software evaluates hundreds of behavioral signals through voice to provide live conversation coaching for agents and a real-time measure of customer experience for every call. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

NEXAGE

Series B in 2012
Digital advertising is driven by two overwhelming trends: the strategic role of mobile and the critical role of programmatic technologies to drive efficiency and liquidity. Nexage is at the forefront of both of these macro trends, leading and shaping the premium mobile advertising market through a set of firsts. Nexage was the first-to-market with mobile RTB; mobile private exchange; an exchange-based data solution, Nexage Connect; and the most robust brand safety solution in the market, Nexage Protect. Nexage has translated first-to-market advantage, creating a range of programmatic markets that allow premium publishers and buyers to design and operate markets that best enable them to accelerate their business, whether that is through an open exchange, private exchanges, or programmatic guaranteed markets. Nexage’s data solution, Nexage Connect, creates a powerful and efficient data model to deliver behavioral, contextual, location, identifier, and privacy data to buyers and their agency clients to improve targeting and retargeting, while enhancing the value of publishers’ audience. Nexage serves customers on a worldwide basis with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco and London. Come visit us at www.nexage.com or follow us on Twitter @Nexage.
VoxPop's pop culture gaming network is used by top online publishers to make and distribute games based on current events and topics

Yoka

Series B in 2009
YOKA.com is a Chinese fashion website that offers services for high income earners who prefer premium brands and a higher quality of life. YOKA.com has become a comprehensive sub-brand of Trends Media Group with 17 magazines published including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Bazaar Men's Style, and other custom-made titles such as Audi and Toyota. Following the principle of ""Think Global, Act Local"", Trends has partnered with world famous media groups through copyright cooperation and joint ventures. In 2013, Trends received $15 million in their Series A round of funding led by Baidu, followed by Fidelity Growth Partners, Hearst Corporation, Matrix Partners, and IDG.

FlashEX

Series C in 2017
FlashEx has over 100 million users and 1 million couriers. It focuses on short-distance, intracity deliveries and guarantees a one-hour or less delivery time. It currently operates in 225 cities in Asia with an average of around 800,000 deliveries daily.

Surphace

Series B in 2006
Surphace (formerly Sphere) provides contextual content tools that make connections between text, video, photos and ads. Surphace helps online publishers create a more engaging reader experience leading to longer time spent on site and increased PVs per visit along with a new incremental revenue stream. Surphace is currently integrated into over 150,000 leading sites and is live on over 1.2 Billion monthly article pages across the web. Surphace's core technology is a patent-pending process utilizing Sphere’s proprietary Content Genome.™ The Content Genome™ was developed specifically to deliver high-precision, low-cost (automated) related content delivery in dynamic online publishing and news environments. Unlike many other solutions, the Content Genome™ does not require a taxonomy or training — Surphace can index any text artifacts, or media with associated text, and generate related content out of the box. Integration time on the publishers’ side is minimal, and no additional meta-data is required. Surphace has a broad range of partners including leading A-list publishers, micro-publishers and independent blogs.
Liulishuo is a leading artificial intelligence-driven educational technology company founded in September 2012 by Dr. Wang Wei and Dr. Hu Zhe and Dr. Lin Hui. Liulishuo offers a personalized and adaptive language learning experience to 50 million learners in 379 cities in China and over 175 countries around the world. Its self-developed artificial intelligence English teacher, based on deep learning technology, can provide personalized and adaptive learning courses for each user.

Kujiale

Series B in 2014
Kujiale is an online information and design platform that offers information and reviews on businesses related to home decoration and furnishing. It was launched by Hang Chen and is operated from Hangzhou, China. Create 3D models, swap textures, and apply them in cutting-edge floor planning software. Visualize in 360-degree views, augmented reality, photo-realistic rendering, or virtual reality.

Hootsuite

Debt Financing in 2011
Hootsuite is the world's most widely used platform for managing social media. More than 15 million users, including 800+ of the Fortune 1000 companies, trust Hootsuite to manage their social media programs across multiple social networks from one integrated dashboard.

eCRUSH.com

Acquisition in 2007
eCRUSH.com is a fun, risk-free way for users to find out if their romantic interests are returned. Users log on to the site and list their crushes, with the option of sending an anonymous email to the crushee encouraging them to register on the site, too.

MobiTV

Series C in 2006
MobiTV delivers live and on-demand video to any screen, connecting media reliably and securely anytime, anywhere, on any device. The company’s end-to-end platform delivers a true TV everywhere experience that helps service providers reduce time to market and control costs associated with the deployment and operation of high concurrency, multiple platform services. MobiTV’s connected media solutions solve the complexity of delivering video across networks, operating systems, and devices while managing associated rights. The company efficiently optimizes for network conditions to deliver multiscreen media services that center on empowering the viewer. MobiTV’s connected media solutions are tailored for IPTV operators, as well as mobile TV and over-the-top customers including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, T-Mobile, TELUS, US Cellular, and Verizon among others.

iCrossing

Acquisition in 2010
iCrossing, a digital marketing company, holds its own marketing platform, which can be tailored for clients. The company also offers planning services and development services. Its planning services include primary customer research, competitive and market research, persona development, digital marketing strategy, integrated search marketing strategy, social media/word-of-mouth strategy, mobile marketing strategy, analytics and performance planning, and marketing intelligence dashboarding. Its development services include search engine marketing (SEO/SEM), display and rich media advertising, email marketing, mobile marketing and site development, website development, social media campaign development, and emerging media development. iCrossing, formerly known as International Crossing, is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and has offices worldwide.

strongDM

Seed Round in 2016
strongDM manages and audits access to servers and databases. It provides a single platform to control access to any database for employees, vendors, and cloud-based tools. The company was awarded in the Strata+Hadoop World Audience Favorite in 2016. It was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

The Register Citizen

Acquisition in 2017
The Register Citizen is a multimedia news and daily newspaper service.

The Middletown Press

Acquisition in 2017
The Middletown is a multimedia news and daily newspaper service.

Buzzfeed, Inc.

Series G in 2016
BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M. It covers breaking news, produces original video, and creates content that people want to share on the web. BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John Johnson. It is headquartered in New York, N.Y.

Auctionata

Series C in 2015
Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvency proceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.

Sirius XM Radio Inc.

Debt Financing in 2002
Sirius XM Radio Inc. provides radio broadcasting services in the United States and Canada. It offers commercial-free music, live play-by-play sports, news and talk, traffic and weather, entertainment, and other programming on computers, smartphones, and tablets. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is based in New York, New York. Sirius XM Radio Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.

Cognitive Networks

Series B in 2014
Cognitive Networks partners with TV set manufacturers to enable content providers, advertisers, and others to provide greater engagement and interactivity to TV programming. Cognitive Networks’ ACR platform makes Smart TVs aware of the programming that they are displaying, enabling transactions, informational requests, or personalization of the viewing experience. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Lightbeam Health Solutions, LLC

Venture Round in 2016
Lightbeam provides a single vendor platform that facilitates end-to-end population management. Our comprehensive tool set supports ACOs, payers, large provider groups, health systems and other healthcare organizations who aspire to provide superior care to their patients at a lower cost.

Swirl Networks, Inc.

Series C in 2015
Swirl is an in-store mobile marketing platform provider that is helping retailers leverage the power of mobile to attract and influence consumers while they shop in retail stores. The company's indoor location-based marketing platform allows retailers to deliver highly targeted messages, content and offers to consumer smartphones while they shop in specific areas of the store. The platform combines patent-pending indoor location beacons with cloud-based marketing campaign management services and a software development kit that allows retailers to add an in-store mobile experience to any existing mobile app.

Brightcove

Series D in 2010
Powerful cloud solutions for delivering and monetizing video across every connected device

Cogito Corporation

Series C in 2018
Cogito is a computer service company that enhances the emotional intelligence of phone professionals by applying behavioral science through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Its software evaluates hundreds of behavioral signals through voice to provide live conversation coaching for agents and a real-time measure of customer experience for every call. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sling Media

Series A in 2005
Sling Media is a technology company that provides multi-screen smart TV solutions for consumers and television operators. It is committed to developing products and solutions that allow people to watch their home TV, including the content they already pay for, anywhere in the world, on any connected device. Sling Media has the ability to turn any Internet connected PC, Mac, phone, or tablet into a home television. The first [Slingbox](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slingpage) was released in 2005, and in 2007, Sling Media won a Technical Emmy Award for the [Slingbox](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slingpage). SlingPlayer, another product of Sling Media, was introduced for Android, iPad, and Windows smartphones in 2010. Sling Media was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Foster City, C.A.

BeautyCon

Series A in 2017
BeautyCon, LLC operates as a beauty and fashion conference and content portal for the Internet's beauty and fashion icons. Its portal acts as a place where fans get to meet their online influencers at marquis events, as well as learn the latest trends, advice, and more through content. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

iFlix Sdn Bhd

Series C in 2017
iflix is the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets, offering users unlimited access to thousands of TV shows, movies and more. With a vast selection everyone’s favourite comedies, drama, K-drama, Turkish drama, Bollywood, Nollywood, cartoons, movies and more from Hollywood, The UK, Asia, The Middle East and Africa, iflix places the entertainment people want at their fingertips to either stream or download. For one low monthly fee, iflix subscribers can watch on their mobile phone, laptop, tablet, TV… wherever, whenever.

Litton Entertainment

Acquisition in 2017
Litton Entertainment engages in television programs production, distribution, and marketing. The company's clients include McGraw-Hill’s BusinessWeek, Consumer Reports, NASCAR, Standard & Poor’s, and Hearst’s Good Housekeeping. Litton Entertainment was founded in 1987 and is based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

The NewsMarket

Series C in 2005
The NewsMarket, Inc. operates a Web-based video marketing and distribution platform. The company's platform enables corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations to market and share their video content with media, blogs, consumers, and online communities. It offers stories, videos, audios, and stills in the categories of aerospace and defense, agriculture, automotive and transportation, business and industry, charities and non-profits, countries-cities, education, energy, entertainment, environment, climate change, fashion, government and international affairs, green, health care, human interests, public service announcements, science, sports, technology, Internet, telecommunications, trade shows, and travel and leisure. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Beijing, Delhi, Dubai, London, San Francisco, Munich, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. After acquiring MediaLink in 2009, The NewsMarket rebranded as [Synaptic Digital](/organization/synaptic-digital).

The NewsMarket

Venture Round in 2009
The NewsMarket, Inc. operates a Web-based video marketing and distribution platform. The company's platform enables corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations to market and share their video content with media, blogs, consumers, and online communities. It offers stories, videos, audios, and stills in the categories of aerospace and defense, agriculture, automotive and transportation, business and industry, charities and non-profits, countries-cities, education, energy, entertainment, environment, climate change, fashion, government and international affairs, green, health care, human interests, public service announcements, science, sports, technology, Internet, telecommunications, trade shows, and travel and leisure. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Beijing, Delhi, Dubai, London, San Francisco, Munich, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. After acquiring MediaLink in 2009, The NewsMarket rebranded as [Synaptic Digital](/organization/synaptic-digital).

WideOrbit

Series C in 2008
WideOrbit is the leading provider of advertising management technology for cable networks, local television stations and radio stations. More than 3,000 broadcasters and networks leverage WideOrbit solutions to streamline operations, maximize revenue from traditional, digital and programmatic channels, and extend their business across distribution platforms. Our clients include Entercom Communications, Entravision Communications Corporation, Gray Television, Inc., Meredith Corporation, NBCUniversal, The E.W. Scripps Co. and Tribune Media.

FlashEX

Series D in 2018
FlashEx has over 100 million users and 1 million couriers. It focuses on short-distance, intracity deliveries and guarantees a one-hour or less delivery time. It currently operates in 225 cities in Asia with an average of around 800,000 deliveries daily.

E Ink Corporation

Series B in 2000
E Ink Corp. is a supplier of electronic paper display (EPD) technologies. Products made with E Ink's electronic ink are designed to possess a paper-like high contrast appearance, ultra-low power consumption and a thin, light form. E Ink's technology is tailored for many consumer and industrial applications including handheld devices, watches, clocks and public information and promotional signs.

MedHOK

Acquisition in 2016
MedHOK was created to bring a new approach to Integrated Actionable Healthcare by utilizing a single platform for Care, Quality and Compliance. It improves clinical outcomes, quality measures and links reimbursement to improved quality outcomes for health plans, accountable care organizations, patient centered medical homes, PBMs and Rx Specialty organizations.

Wyng Inc.

Series C in 2014
Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers.

Hachette Filipacchi Media US

Acquisition in 2011
HFM U.S. is part of Lagardère’s media division Lagardère Active, a producer of media in over 40 countries around the world. Lagardère’s global assets include magazines, web sites, mobile content, television and radio broadcasting and cable television channels, books, distribution services and broadcasting and marketing rights for world class sporting events. Our sister companies in the United States are Hachette Books, Curtis Circulation Company and Cellfish Media. At HFM U.S., our editors are committed to producing the highest quality targeted media products in five sectors: automotive, fashion, luxury design group, women and health and enthusiasts. Proven expertise, intelligent writing, extraordinary photography, video and design, along with independent testing and reviews, are the hallmarks of our editorial content which inspire enthusiasts’ passions and help buyers make smart purchasing decisions. Each month nearly 60 million people come to our print and digital brands, including Car and Driver, Road & Track, ELLE, ELLE Decor, ELLEgirl, Metropolitan Home, PointClickHome, Woman’s Day, Popular Photography and others, because they trust, as well as enjoy, our specialized content.

Signal Media

Series B in 2018
Signal AI is an AI-powered business intelligence and media monitoring company that aggregates, analyses, and provides business leaders with insights into digital, print and broadcast media, news, and regulatory data. Signal AI’s machine learning enables businesses to track their competitive landscape, changes to regulation, and monitor their reputation—empowering them to make smarter, faster business decisions. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Robin Games

Seed Round in 2020
Robin Games, Inc., a lifestyle gaming company, develops mobile games. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Venice, California.

Jingle Networks

Series C in 2008
Jingle Networks is the leading provider of advertising and technology solutions for voice and mobile business search. By tapping into the thriving business search market, Jingle Networks provides a powerful new media channel to connect businesses with consumers ready to transact. Jingle Networks offers solutions that cater to carriers, network operators, adverting agencies, brand marketers and small businesses. Thousands of national brand marketers and local businesses use Jingle Network solutions to leverage brief in-call audio or text advertisements to acquire new customers via phone or during mobile app or online searches. Network operators and telecom carriers have also discovered the power of Jingle Networks technology and advertising solutions. Many select Jingle Networks as their search provider of choice. Whether you want to build a brand, create awareness or maximize business search, Jingle Networks has a solution that will guarantee success. Jingle Networks invented the free directory assistance service called 1-800-FREE411. Consumers dial 1-800-FREE411 (1-800-373-3411) from any phone in the United States to use the toll-free service, which allows callers to obtain any residential, business, or government phone number for no charge. Sponsors cover the service cost by playing short advertising messages, about 12 seconds long, customized based on the number the customer is looking up. The company was founded by veteran advertising and technology executives.

Ramp Holdings, Inc.

Series C in 2012
Ramp Business Corporation offers a corporate credit card for businesses and startups. Its card enables to provide tracking and insight tools for founders and finance teams; and offers cash back on by using the card at various retailers that accept Visa and online. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

GoodHome.com

Venture Round in 2000
GoodHome.com is the revolutionary home decorating Web site that offers consumers an entirely new way of decorating their homes --online.

Via

Series B in 2015
Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters. The company transforms public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via's mobile app connects passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders to seamlessly share a premium vehicle. The platform operates in the United States and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via's technology is deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, integrating with public transit infrastructure to power cutting-edge on-demand mobility. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Dering Hall, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Dering Hall is an online marketplace for the finest interior designers, architects, artisans, and design galleries to showcase their work and sell new, high-end home furnishings and accessories. At Dering Hall we are passionate about design and broadening the audience for the best the industry has to offer. Our ongoing mission is to assemble a community of the world’s leading creators in one place and to connect them with other designers and savvy, sophisticated consumers. We provide our roster of top talent with permanent storefronts, where they present a curated assortment of products to highly engaged shoppers. These customers, in turn, gain access to unique pieces previously available only to select designer clients. It’s an entirely new approach to furnishing a home—and one that makes hunting for that perfect bespoke sideboard a dynamic and enjoyable experience. Buyers can effortlessly browse Dering Hall’s storefronts, search product listings, or keep up to date on favorite designers with our innovative "Follow" function. We also offer special Featured Sales as well as a range of compelling and inspiring design content. Welcome to Dering Hall, from the best designers in the world!