Kepha Partners

"Kepha" is Aramaic for "rock." They have a back-to-basics approach focused on pre-seed, seed and Series A companies. They call this "venture building," and it is what created the venture industry in the first place. It is the foundation, or rock, of venture capital. Their mission: 1. Be the true entrepreneur's first choice 2. Aggressively build shareholder value that will last for many generations 3. Establish a new standard for value-add and become the McKinsey & Co. for entrepreneurs They seek entrepreneurs who have disruptive ideas and know that they can do it better. They recruit executives who are energized by making a difference in how they lead teams and out-execute incumbents. They want to work with people who would rather try and fail vs. not try at all.

Eric Hjerpe

Partner

55 past transactions

Later

Series B in 2018
Later is a social and influencer marketing service, as well as a link-in-bio tool. It develops high-performing social content and works with creators to reach new audiences, increase engagement, and achieve predictable ROI.

ClearGov

Venture Round in 2018
ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough for even the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today. ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Kemvi

Seed Round in 2017
Founded by a team from Columbia and MIT, Kemvi brings together years of expertise in solving difficult real-world data problems. They’ve advised the CIA on economic stability, published papers on black hole physics, worked with the SEC and the Federal Reserve on market regulations, and they’ve had their work covered by the New York Times, Wired, and Forbes.

ClearGov

Seed Round in 2017
ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough for even the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today. ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Apliant

Seed Round in 2016
Apliant was founded by insurance, technology, and marketing professionals to improve local insurance agency distribution. We work to build smarter technology that empowers the traditional insurance agent, helping them find and retain more clients through a simplified workflow. Designed for the sales-driven insurance agent, Apliant is a user-friendly, on-demand platform that serves as every insurance agent's dream toolkit including everything they need to easily and quickly connect with insurance-shopping customers in their existing market and beyond.

Paradigm4, inc.

Series A in 2015
Paradigm4’s SciDB – the latest innovation from renowned database researcher, Turing Award winner, and entrepreneur, MIT Professor Michael Stonebraker – is a radically new computational database for mining insights from genomic, clinical, image, financial markets, instrument, and sensor data. Paradigm4 is changing what’s possible with Big Data by answering bigger, harder questions. Industry leaders like Foundation Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, PEAK6, Novartis, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and others use SciDB for collaborative, reproducible research.

Later

Series A in 2015
Later is a social and influencer marketing service, as well as a link-in-bio tool. It develops high-performing social content and works with creators to reach new audiences, increase engagement, and achieve predictable ROI.

Volt Active Data

Venture Round in 2015
Volt Active Data is a data platform built to make the entire tech stack leaner so that applications can scale seamlessly to meet the ultra-low latency SLAs of 5G, IoT, and edge computing. On Feb 21, 2022, VoltDB rebranded as Volt Active Data.

Adored

Seed Round in 2015
Adored is a loyalty experience platform that is strengthening the relationships users have with the businesses they visit and the brands they love. The Adored app uses iBeacon indoor location technology to automatically reward customers and immerse them in experiences that enhance each visit. These remarkable experiences are what build brand loyalty and advocacy, and ultimately increase the lifetime value of each customer. Adored has been downloaded over 10,000 times and is active at dozens of locations ranging from ski resorts and arenas to cafes and bars. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Linkable Networks

Venture Round in 2015
Linkable Networks provides a digital shopper attribution platform intended to reward, engage, activate, and retain consumers in the store. The platform uses SaaS that turns online, mobile, email, print, and radio advertisements into linkable savings offers tied to the consumer's credit or debit card, allowing retailers and brands to automatically measures and aggregates purchases across any national retailer for use by loyalty companies to reward and track consumer spending.

NorthPage

Venture Round in 2015
NorthPage provides a cloud-based digital marketing optimization platform that enables frictionless performance benchmarking, competitive analysis, and best-practice guidance for enterprise marketing organizations. Its solutions enable optimization of Websites, e-commerce sites, mobile marketing, social media, search engine marketing, content marketing, and e-retail programs. The company serves retail, financial services, consumer product, pharmaceutical, and technology companies. NorthPage Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Southbury, Connecticut.

Shareaholic

Series A in 2014
Developer of an audience engagement platform intended to accelerate audience engagement, loyalty and your online success. The company's software does this by enabling businesses to harness the power of big data to engage their prospects and customers with perfectly crafted and relevant experiences and calls to action. The platform is used by over 300,000 websites.

Triblio

Seed Round in 2014
Triblio account based marketing software enables marketers to create ABM campaigns to: Customize messaging, content, and CTAs by account segments: prospect vs. customer, product interest, content topic interest, firmagraphics, or funnel stage Unify marketing and sales messaging across corporate channels for specific account targets Connect sales and email cross-sell/upsell campaigns across multiple channels Increase engagement of unknown contacts and visitors within target accounts Determine purchase intent and content interest unknown and unknown visitor behavior by account Request a demo at http://www.triblio.com

Volt Active Data

Series B in 2014
Volt Active Data is a data platform built to make the entire tech stack leaner so that applications can scale seamlessly to meet the ultra-low latency SLAs of 5G, IoT, and edge computing. On Feb 21, 2022, VoltDB rebranded as Volt Active Data.

NorthPage

Venture Round in 2013
NorthPage provides a cloud-based digital marketing optimization platform that enables frictionless performance benchmarking, competitive analysis, and best-practice guidance for enterprise marketing organizations. Its solutions enable optimization of Websites, e-commerce sites, mobile marketing, social media, search engine marketing, content marketing, and e-retail programs. The company serves retail, financial services, consumer product, pharmaceutical, and technology companies. NorthPage Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Southbury, Connecticut.

HapYak Interactive Video

Seed Round in 2012
HapYak’s mission is to set the standard for social video sharing by empowering people to experience videos on the web more like they do together in person: with remarks, insights, opinions and personality.

Linkable Networks

Series A in 2012
Linkable Networks provides a digital shopper attribution platform intended to reward, engage, activate, and retain consumers in the store. The platform uses SaaS that turns online, mobile, email, print, and radio advertisements into linkable savings offers tied to the consumer's credit or debit card, allowing retailers and brands to automatically measures and aggregates purchases across any national retailer for use by loyalty companies to reward and track consumer spending.

OwnerIQ

Venture Round in 2012
OwnerIQ provides online advertising solutions and marketing channels for brands, retailers, and manufacturers. They offer a path-to-purchase targeting solution that enables users to reach potential customers online by targeting them in various phases of the purchase, such as in-market shopping, intent, ownership, and duress, as well as driving new customers online.

Shareaholic

Series A in 2012
Developer of an audience engagement platform intended to accelerate audience engagement, loyalty and your online success. The company's software does this by enabling businesses to harness the power of big data to engage their prospects and customers with perfectly crafted and relevant experiences and calls to action. The platform is used by over 300,000 websites.

Volt Active Data

Series A in 2012
Volt Active Data is a data platform built to make the entire tech stack leaner so that applications can scale seamlessly to meet the ultra-low latency SLAs of 5G, IoT, and edge computing. On Feb 21, 2022, VoltDB rebranded as Volt Active Data.

Boundless

Series A in 2012
Boundless operates in two distinct sectors: education and immigration services. In the education sector, Boundless Learning, Inc. offers an online platform that provides a wide range of study materials, including content in subjects such as accounting, biology, history, and computer science, along with quizzes and PowerPoint templates. The platform aims to enhance the accessibility and utility of open educational resources for students. In the immigration sector, Boundless empowers families by offering tools, information, and personalized support to help them navigate the immigration system efficiently and affordably. The company's platform connects immigrants with resources, including access to immigration lawyers and online filing options. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Boundless has expanded its focus to include immigration services since its inception in 2017, with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

Cloze

Seed Round in 2012
Cloze is like a personal assistant for your professional relationships that is always prompting you at the right moment and remembering what you don’t. It pulls from your apps to automatically create one view of every person and company - all their contact details, and your complete history - every email back and forth, your phone calls together, your meetings, your notes on Evernote, documents you exchanged and your interactions on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. We’ll even grab email signatures so your contacts are always up-to-date. It's all organized for you - by contact, company and meeting - without any busy work. With everything in one place, Cloze can put advanced data science to work for you. Cloze figures out who is important and keeps them top of mind, and will even remind you to reach out to a contact and refresh a fading relationship. Cloze organizes by companies too - without any setup. See your complete interaction history with any company, automatically in one place: contacts, email, meetings, phone calls, notes, documents and social media too. There’s no data entry - Cloze is the automatic way to remember everyone.

Azuki Systems

Venture Round in 2012
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video delivery platform. To reach this goal they focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for multi-screen video delivery and monetization, and striving to always be building what’s next. Their culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by their customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven managed OTT optimized multi-screen video delivery solution available. Their team is composed of the best leaders, engineers, designers, and technologists in the TV Everywhere, OTT multi-screen video business. Azuki is the only multi-screen video delivery technology built from the ground-up for the unique challenges of mobile and OTT multi-screen. They focus on the challenges of their customers: cable operators, IPTV providers, mobile network operators, content owners and enterprises. Your multi-screen problems are their focus. You can trust that their team, hand-picked, vetted, and proven, is building and supporting the best multi-screen video delivery platform in the world to move your business forward.

On The Spot Systems

Seed Round in 2012
On The Spot Systems develops mobile systems to enable businesses to gather customer insights, service feedback, and achieve field data collection needs wherever and whenever it is required. Its primary offering, Survey On The Spot™, enables service focused organizations to capture in-the-moment customer and employee feedback cost effectively. Utilizing iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and smartphone technology, our surveys provide on-site insights including photos and text commentary. The system also features service alerts, digital coupons and rewards, and automated data reporting via the web.

Paradigm4, inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Paradigm4’s SciDB – the latest innovation from renowned database researcher, Turing Award winner, and entrepreneur, MIT Professor Michael Stonebraker – is a radically new computational database for mining insights from genomic, clinical, image, financial markets, instrument, and sensor data. Paradigm4 is changing what’s possible with Big Data by answering bigger, harder questions. Industry leaders like Foundation Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, PEAK6, Novartis, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and others use SciDB for collaborative, reproducible research.

OwnerIQ

Venture Round in 2011
OwnerIQ provides online advertising solutions and marketing channels for brands, retailers, and manufacturers. They offer a path-to-purchase targeting solution that enables users to reach potential customers online by targeting them in various phases of the purchase, such as in-market shopping, intent, ownership, and duress, as well as driving new customers online.

Boundless

Seed Round in 2011
Boundless operates in two distinct sectors: education and immigration services. In the education sector, Boundless Learning, Inc. offers an online platform that provides a wide range of study materials, including content in subjects such as accounting, biology, history, and computer science, along with quizzes and PowerPoint templates. The platform aims to enhance the accessibility and utility of open educational resources for students. In the immigration sector, Boundless empowers families by offering tools, information, and personalized support to help them navigate the immigration system efficiently and affordably. The company's platform connects immigrants with resources, including access to immigration lawyers and online filing options. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Boundless has expanded its focus to include immigration services since its inception in 2017, with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

Linkable Networks

Series A in 2011
Linkable Networks provides a digital shopper attribution platform intended to reward, engage, activate, and retain consumers in the store. The platform uses SaaS that turns online, mobile, email, print, and radio advertisements into linkable savings offers tied to the consumer's credit or debit card, allowing retailers and brands to automatically measures and aggregates purchases across any national retailer for use by loyalty companies to reward and track consumer spending.

Azuki Systems

Venture Round in 2010
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video delivery platform. To reach this goal they focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for multi-screen video delivery and monetization, and striving to always be building what’s next. Their culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by their customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven managed OTT optimized multi-screen video delivery solution available. Their team is composed of the best leaders, engineers, designers, and technologists in the TV Everywhere, OTT multi-screen video business. Azuki is the only multi-screen video delivery technology built from the ground-up for the unique challenges of mobile and OTT multi-screen. They focus on the challenges of their customers: cable operators, IPTV providers, mobile network operators, content owners and enterprises. Your multi-screen problems are their focus. You can trust that their team, hand-picked, vetted, and proven, is building and supporting the best multi-screen video delivery platform in the world to move your business forward.

AutoVirt

Venture Round in 2010
AutoVirt, Inc. develops and sells a software solution for assessing, migrating, and managing unstructured data stored on NAS devices and Windows file servers. AutoVirt is sold in three product editions: AutoAssess performs a thorough assessment of the file system; AutoMigrate combines assessment with fast, transparent data migration; and AutoManage enables ongoing storage optimization by combing a Global Namespace with a platform for assessing and moving data. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Goby

Series A in 2010
Goby (GO-be) is a new search engine that's all about finding fun ways to spend your free time, from a weekend to a week off. Whether you're looking for the perfect bed & breakfast for a romantic getaway, a fresh hiking trail to tackle, a cool new museum to visit with the kids or a live show to check out this weekend, create your next adventure with Goby!

Linkable Networks

Seed Round in 2010
Linkable Networks provides a digital shopper attribution platform intended to reward, engage, activate, and retain consumers in the store. The platform uses SaaS that turns online, mobile, email, print, and radio advertisements into linkable savings offers tied to the consumer's credit or debit card, allowing retailers and brands to automatically measures and aggregates purchases across any national retailer for use by loyalty companies to reward and track consumer spending.

Volt Active Data

Series A in 2010
Volt Active Data is a data platform built to make the entire tech stack leaner so that applications can scale seamlessly to meet the ultra-low latency SLAs of 5G, IoT, and edge computing. On Feb 21, 2022, VoltDB rebranded as Volt Active Data.

Carbon Black

Venture Round in 2010
Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK) is a leading provider of next-generation endpoint security. Carbon Black serves more than 4,300 customers globally, including 35 of the Fortune 100. As a cybersecurity innovator, Carbon Black has pioneered multiple endpoint security categories, including application control, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and next-generation antivirus (NGAV). Leveraging its big data and analytics cloud platform – the Cb Predictive Security Cloud – Carbon Black solutions enable customers to defend against the most advanced cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, and non-malware attacks. Deployed via the cloud, on premise or as a managed service, customers use Carbon Black solutions to lock down critical systems, hunt threats, and replace legacy antivirus.

Azuki Systems

Series B in 2010
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video delivery platform. To reach this goal they focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for multi-screen video delivery and monetization, and striving to always be building what’s next. Their culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by their customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven managed OTT optimized multi-screen video delivery solution available. Their team is composed of the best leaders, engineers, designers, and technologists in the TV Everywhere, OTT multi-screen video business. Azuki is the only multi-screen video delivery technology built from the ground-up for the unique challenges of mobile and OTT multi-screen. They focus on the challenges of their customers: cable operators, IPTV providers, mobile network operators, content owners and enterprises. Your multi-screen problems are their focus. You can trust that their team, hand-picked, vetted, and proven, is building and supporting the best multi-screen video delivery platform in the world to move your business forward.

OwnerIQ

Series C in 2009
OwnerIQ provides online advertising solutions and marketing channels for brands, retailers, and manufacturers. They offer a path-to-purchase targeting solution that enables users to reach potential customers online by targeting them in various phases of the purchase, such as in-market shopping, intent, ownership, and duress, as well as driving new customers online.

Azuki Systems

Venture Round in 2009
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video delivery platform. To reach this goal they focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for multi-screen video delivery and monetization, and striving to always be building what’s next. Their culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by their customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven managed OTT optimized multi-screen video delivery solution available. Their team is composed of the best leaders, engineers, designers, and technologists in the TV Everywhere, OTT multi-screen video business. Azuki is the only multi-screen video delivery technology built from the ground-up for the unique challenges of mobile and OTT multi-screen. They focus on the challenges of their customers: cable operators, IPTV providers, mobile network operators, content owners and enterprises. Your multi-screen problems are their focus. You can trust that their team, hand-picked, vetted, and proven, is building and supporting the best multi-screen video delivery platform in the world to move your business forward.

Bluefin Labs

Seed Round in 2009
Bluefin Labs is a social TV analytics company providing solutions to brand advertisers, advertising agencies and TV networks. Bluefin Labs’ technology, data and professional services enable clients to tap into data at scale that links people’s social media commentary to the shows and commercials they watch on TV. Grounded in 15 years of cognitive science and machine learning research at the MIT Media Lab, Bluefin Labs was founded in 2008 and has offices in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. Bluefin Labs was acquired by Twitter on February 5, 2013. For more about Bluefin Labs, visit www.bluefinlabs.com.

AutoVirt

Series B in 2008
AutoVirt, Inc. develops and sells a software solution for assessing, migrating, and managing unstructured data stored on NAS devices and Windows file servers. AutoVirt is sold in three product editions: AutoAssess performs a thorough assessment of the file system; AutoMigrate combines assessment with fast, transparent data migration; and AutoManage enables ongoing storage optimization by combing a Global Namespace with a platform for assessing and moving data. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Nashua, New Hampshire.

AutoVirt

Series A in 2008
AutoVirt, Inc. develops and sells a software solution for assessing, migrating, and managing unstructured data stored on NAS devices and Windows file servers. AutoVirt is sold in three product editions: AutoAssess performs a thorough assessment of the file system; AutoMigrate combines assessment with fast, transparent data migration; and AutoManage enables ongoing storage optimization by combing a Global Namespace with a platform for assessing and moving data. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Nashua, New Hampshire.

SimpleTuition

Seed Round in 2008
SimpleTuition deals with financial aid, private student loans, scholarships, textbooks and federal student loans for education.

Azuki Systems

Series A in 2007
Azuki Systems began with a single premise: to be the best multi-screen video delivery platform. To reach this goal they focused on hiring the best people, building the best technologies for multi-screen video delivery and monetization, and striving to always be building what’s next. Their culture of innovation fosters creative solutions to the most pressing problems faced by their customers, and the result is nothing less than amazing. Azuki developed the highest quality, most flexible, best-protected and most proven managed OTT optimized multi-screen video delivery solution available. Their team is composed of the best leaders, engineers, designers, and technologists in the TV Everywhere, OTT multi-screen video business. Azuki is the only multi-screen video delivery technology built from the ground-up for the unique challenges of mobile and OTT multi-screen. They focus on the challenges of their customers: cable operators, IPTV providers, mobile network operators, content owners and enterprises. Your multi-screen problems are their focus. You can trust that their team, hand-picked, vetted, and proven, is building and supporting the best multi-screen video delivery platform in the world to move your business forward.

Vertica Systems

Venture Round in 2007
The core analytical platform within the Micro Focus software portfolio, Vertica is the Unified Analytics Platform, based on a massively scalable architecture with the broadest set of analytical capabilities and end-to-end in-database machine learning. Vertica enables many customers – from Philips to The Trade Desk to MassMutual to many others – to easily apply these powerful functions to the largest and most demanding analytical workloads, arming businesses and its customers with predictive business insights faster than any data analytical platform in the market. Vertica provides its Unified Analytics Platform across all major public clouds and on-premises data centers and integrates data in cloud object storage. The company was founded as Stonebraker Systems, Inc. in 2005 and changed its name to Vertica Systems, Inc. in May 2005. The company is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts. Vertica's user community has created a Google group. Email Address: vertica_users@googlegroups.com Home Page: http://groups.google.com/group/vertica_users?hl=en

AutoVirt

Seed Round in 2007
AutoVirt, Inc. develops and sells a software solution for assessing, migrating, and managing unstructured data stored on NAS devices and Windows file servers. AutoVirt is sold in three product editions: AutoAssess performs a thorough assessment of the file system; AutoMigrate combines assessment with fast, transparent data migration; and AutoManage enables ongoing storage optimization by combing a Global Namespace with a platform for assessing and moving data. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Nashua, New Hampshire.

VirtualLogix

Venture Round in 2006
VirtualLogix, Inc. develops and markets virtualization software solutions for connected devices and networks. It offers VirtualLogix VLX, a partitioning and virtualization software platform that allows embedded systems to run heterogeneous operating systems and applications, as well as enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware. The company's products include VirtualLogix VLX for Network Infrastructure, which allows commercial or real-time operating systems, and Linux operating systems to run on the general purpose processors or digital signal processors; VirtualLogix VLX for Mobile Handsets, a virtualization solution for wireless devices; VirtualLogix VLX for Embedded Systems, a customizable solution for embedded products; and VLX Developer, an eclipse-based graphical environment that helps users to configure, build, and optimize their virtualized platforms. It also offers consulting and training services; and support programs. The company's solutions are used in 3G wireless handsets, multimedia IP devices, switching equipment, and embedded systems and applications. It serves semiconductor companies, manufacturers, OEMs, and carriers in Europe, the United States, Japan, Korea, and China. VirtualLogix, Inc. was formerly known as Jaluna SA. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Japan, Korea, and China.

Open Ratings

Seed Round in 2006
Open Ratings, provides supply risk management services to companies. Its solutions include supply management solutions, predictive alerts, collaborative research workspace, supplier assessments, and supply base score carding.

Supplyworks

Venture Round in 2006
SupplyWorks is the leading national provider of integrated facility maintenance solutions. Their smart solutions and unparalleled expertise advance the performance, image, safety, health, and sustainability of facilities throughout the United States. They serve a wide array of customers, including offices, schools and universities, healthcare institutions, building service contractors, lodging, and many others. In addition to a full spectrum of facility maintenance products, ranging from janitorial and cleaning supplies to plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and more, their facility maintenance experts leverage proprietary programs to provide tailored solutions that address the unique and changing needs of their customers.

StreamBase Systems

Venture Round in 2006
StreamBase Systems provides software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data for instantaneous decision-making. StreamBase's Event Processing Platform combines a rapid application development environment, a low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data. Investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies use StreamBase to power applications that increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risk. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts

Ask.com

Venture Round in 2006
Ask.com is a top 10 US website and digital brand (as ranked by Nielsen) with more than 100 million monthly users globally. Founded in 1996, Ask.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves and specialized in natural language search. In Sept 2001, the company acquired Teoma Technologies, and began shifting Ask's algorithms away from natural language search. AskJeeves was acquired by [IAC](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/IAC) in March 2005 for $1.85 Billion and renamed Ask.com in 2006. In July 2010, Ask.com returned to its Q&A roots with the beta launch of its question and answer (Q&A) offering that uses a hybrid of search technology and human response to address complex or opinion-based questions. The company also launched it flagship mobile application (since downloaded more than 3 million times) in the fall of 2010. In 2012, Ask.com made two acquisitions as part of a larger strategy to offer more content on the Ask.com website. On July 2, 2012 Ask.com purchased content discovery start-up, nRelate, for an undisclosed amount. That was followed by the company's acquisition of expert advice and information site About.com, which closed in September 2012 Ask.com's ads are served by Google.

Virtual Iron Software

Venture Round in 2006
Virtual Iron Software, Inc. provides enterprise-class software solutions for server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management. The company’s platform is used for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, workload management, and policy-based automations. Its virtual iron platform consists of virtualization manager that provides a central place to control and automate virtual resources; and virtualization services, which are deployed automatically on bare-metal and industry-standard servers without requiring software installation or management. The virtual iron platform also includes open source virtualization, which is based on an open source hypervisor derived from the open source community project. Its solutions are used for capacity management, virtual infrastructure management, and development and testing. Virtual Iron Software, Inc. was formerly known as Katana Technology, Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Workhuman

Venture Round in 2006
Globoforce is the leader in social recognition. Their innovative software-as-a-service offering powers recognition and rewards programs for the most admired companies, globally. Globoforce clients get results - dramatic improvements in employee engagement, retention and measurable adoption of corporate culture.

ExaGrid

Venture Round in 2006
ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The Repository Tier offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and planned product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers comprehensive security and is the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier (tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks. The ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage product line consists of seven appliance models that can be mixed and matched with up to 32 appliances in a single scale-out system. Each appliance is sized for a full backup and for long-term retention. The largest scale-out system can take in up to a 6PB full backup, offering the largest single scale-out system storage capacity for any backup storage on the market.

Performix Technologies

Venture Round in 2006
Performix Technologies is a provider of employee performance management software solutions. The company’ products include Performance Manager, which enables managers and supervisors to break free from spending hours on consolidating spreadsheets and reports from various systems by supplying a single and integrated performance scorecard; Evaluation Manager, which provides online evaluation forms, automated form routing with timers and reminders, questions, routings, and processes; and Development Manager, which automates the management of various assets in a single application. Performix Technologies serves telecommunications, finance, utilities, and retail and entertainment industries. It has strategic partnerships with IBM, BusinessObjects, and Active Endpoints. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Fireclick

Venture Round in 2006
Fireclick, a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital River, Inc., provides a comprehensive Web analytics solution that offers online businesses real-time, actionable information about their customers. The sophisticated data delivered by the application service can be used to improve operating results, run more effective marketing campaigns, create a better user experience, and increase overall site traffic, revenues and profits.

First Equity Limited

Seed Round in 1988
London-based stockbroking firm est. 1986, providing institutional and private clients access to public and private company funding rounds.
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