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Take App

Pre Seed Round in 2022
TakeApp is an e-commerce company that offers a platform for easy ordering over social media.

Playco

Corporate Round in 2022
Playco is an instant-play gaming company that develops games that billions of people can play together. The company works closely with a vast network of partners from global tech and social media giants to new startups developing innovative technologies.

Inworld AI

Seed Round in 2021
Inworld AI is an AI framework powering massive consumer applications. Inworld is funded by VCs including Lightspeed, Stanford University, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Section 32, M12, Intel Capital, CRV, Bitkraft, and Meta, as well as a team of all-star angels including corporate executives, top VC funds' partners, scouts, and industry veterans.

Meesho

Series E in 2021
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with resellers who use social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to sell products to their network of friends and family. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

ArtyOwl.com

Grant in 2020
ArtyOwl.com is an online marketplace exclusively for artisans who create, innovate and ideate unique, out of the box products. It’s a platform for the budding as well as established artists to sell their products and create their own identity.

Com Olho

Grant in 2020
At Com Olho, we are at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, bringing together ethical hackers, security researchers, and organisations to strengthen digital defenses. Our platform provides a dynamic space where security experts can identify, report, and remediate vulnerabilities across a diverse range of systems.
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business builds bridges between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples, businesses, and communities through diverse programming, providing tools, training, network building, major business awards, and national events.

Lemnis Technologies

Acquisition in 2020
We are a team of passionate scientists and engineers on a mission to make Mixed Reality viable as the next computing platform. With technology proven by science, backed by research publications and pending patents, we aim to set a new standard for visual fidelity in head-mounted displays. We introduced the pioneering Verifocal™ platform at SIGGRAPH 2018, received a CES 2019 Innovation Award for our Verifocal™ VR Kit, and will be showcasing Verifocal™ Mixed Reality headsets with a new generation eye tracker at SIGGRAPH 2019. Lemnis is a technology company incorporated in Singapore since 2017, and backed by global investors. Our team counts 9 full-time employees, including 4 PhDs from the top global institutions (MIT, Brown, ETH Zurich, Inria, NUS, NTU, KAIST) who have written close to 40 international publications.

Gojek

Series F in 2020
Gojek is an app that providing a variety of services from payments, food delivery, transportation, and logistics. The app is used for food ordering, commuting, digital payments, shopping, hyper-local delivery, getting a massage, and other services. It aims to create a positive socio-economic impact on customers, driver-partners, business, and MSMEs. Gojek is backed by investors including Google, Facebook, PayPal, Sequoia Capital, and Tencent Holdings. The company was founded in 2009 in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia by Kevin Aluwi, Nadiem Makarim, and Michaelangelo Moran.

Giphy

Acquisition in 2020
Giphy is an American online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover the best GIFs. It operates a search engine that enables users to search, share, and discover animated graphics interchange formats (GIFs) on the Internet. Animated GIFs have existed for decades, but there was still no good way to browse and discover the best the web had to offer. And the vision for GIPHY isn’t really just about finding GIFs. It’s a search engine today but soon you’ll see it grow into a community, a platform with a host of features targeted at gif artists, enthusiasts, bloggers, and anyone generally looking to discover or create that next big meme.

Tech Matters

Seed Round in 2020
Tech Matters they connect donors, policymakers, and company leaders to apply technology for social impact. They help power systems change by bringing great technology capabilities to organizations moving the needle on a major social problem.

Packagd

Acquisition in 2019
Packagd is a series of app that offers new mobile shopping experience. The app curates a wide array of unboxing and product review videos that creators have uploaded to YouTube and puts them together in a way that simulates the same type of live video programming pioneered by the likes of QVC in the ’80s. Packagd was founded by KPCB general partner Eric Feng, a serial entrepreneur who has also served as CTO of companies like Hulu and Flipboard.

PlayGiga

Acquisition in 2019
PlayGiga (“PG”) enables users to play premium videogames on PC / Mac or TV through an affordable monthly subscription. PG makes premium videogames accessible to everyone. Premium videogaming usually requires a PC with expensive superior graphics capabilities or a costly gaming console. Moreover, current pricing of videogames (€20-60 per game) limits the number of new titles gamers can afford each year, thus making videogaming a pretty expensive hobby. PG allows gamers play a wide selection of premium games from anywhere on their PC/MAC or TV for a low monthly fee. We believe that similarly to what happened with Netflix for TV or Spotify for music, the videogames industry will evolve towards a streaming model where users will not need to buy a specific hardware and will enjoy a curated catalogue of games under a subscription model. B2B Clients: TIM: TIM games (cloud gaming solution developed by PlayGiga) was released in September 2017. Telecom Italia is the main ICT group and the technology partner of Italy to embrace digital. Abroad its strength is Brazil, where TIM Brasil, is a major player on the market. Turner: GLOUD games (cloud gaming solution developed by PlayGiga) was released in December 2017. Turner International is a Time Warner company that operates more than 180 channels (CNN, TNT, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and TCM Turner Classic Movies). Turner showcases 43 brands in 34 languages in over 200 countries. Founded in 2013, PG has developed superior technology based on cloud virtualisation that optimizes latency while reducing the OPEX & CAPEX required to serve customers a premium experience in real time. PG has advantageous licensing deals with top games publishers, resulting in a high-quality catalogue of available games and has live deployments in Spain, Italy, Argentina, and Chile.

Nilus

Seed Round in 2019
Nilus is an impact-driven company that aims to eradicate malnutrition by applying technology to deliver affordable and healthy food to low income people. Nilus is creating a new value chain for the base of the pyramid, based on food rescue, disintermediation and inclusive design. Our vision is to become the largest and most impactful food company in the Americas, by servicing the more than 360 million people living in poverty.

MYEO EdTech

Grant in 2019
MYEO, Myanmar Youth Empowerment Opportunities, is a tech-enabled education social enterprise. Our mission is to equip all of Myanmar’s new graduates with the skills to be valuable members of the workforce and community. A large youth population is one of Myanmar’s major strengths, according to the Asian Development Bank. The country may benefit from a “demographic dividend” with a large share of the population engaged in productive work and supporting a smaller share of older and non-working people. In fact, 33% of Myanmar's population is aged 15 to 35 years old, +18 million people. However, youths in Myanmar are in a vulnerable employment situation, either unemployed or underemployed. At the same time, organizations in Myanmar urge more qualified employees. Despite the challenges in work conditions for youth and low skilled workforce, Myanmar presents an encouraging opportunity on the adoption of mobile technology: +27 million people in the country use Facebook or Messenger. To seize that opportunity, MYEO has created a mobile-based online solution that nurtures youth employability and paves the way to build a high-skilled workforce for organizations in Myanmar. MYEO has a team of +30 people, with experience in technology, education, marketing and data analysis. Since 2014, the startup has been impacting the lives of thousands of youths in Myanmar, including +12,000 youths trained exclusively online, +50,000 youths using MYEO's learning chatbots and +150,000 youths engaging with MYEO's Facebook community.

Meesho

Corporate Round in 2019
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. The business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across the country. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

The Trust Project

Grant in 2019
The Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies led by award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman, is developing transparency standards that help you easily assess the quality and credibility of journalism.

Grokstyle

Acquisition in 2019
Grokstyle develops an app that automatically identifies furniture and home decor from just about any picture or angle. Partner with us to reimagine the consumer experience — visual search, inspiration, and on-point recommendations.

Dreambit

Acquisition in 2018
Dreambit is a personalized image search engine. Given one or more photos and a text query, it outputs versions of the input person in the query appearance. We let people explore a large variety of looks. The examples above were produced with queries such as: dreadlocks, victorian-women, and teal-hair.

RedKix

Acquisition in 2018
RedKix creates channels to collaborate with your team, customers, and partners.

Bloomsbury AI

Acquisition in 2018
Bloomsbury AI offers web services that enables individuals to create, use, and share text-understanding computer applications. The company aims to help their customers to automate their expertise by a written dialog with computers. Bloomsbury AI was launched by Guillaume Bouchard, Tim Rocktäschel, Matko Bosnjak, Sameer Singh, Luis Ulloa, and Sebastian Riedel in April 2015 and is based in London, England.

Trebble

Seed Round in 2018
Trebble’s online audio editor makes it possible for the average person to create spoken-word audio that sounds professionally produced.

Readefined

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Readefined is an innovative content analytics platform that tracks reader engagement.

The Sprawl

Seed Round in 2018
The Sprawl is a journal that concentrate on digital publication and provides local news that covers city residences and municipals. They provide services through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism.

Confirm

Acquisition in 2018
Instant ID verification that is simple, safe & secure. Run ID authentication checks on any government issued ID using our RESTful API. Confirm authenticates with advanced forensics, extracts ID information for easy use, and retains zero personal information. Confirm.io makes authenticating a government issued ID easy, fast & secure. Our simple API lets you integrate in minutes, and confirm a person’s identity for any transaction that requires or benefits from proof of identity. https://confirm.wistia.com/medias/kxyi9dlhiq

tbh

Acquisition in 2017
tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedback on social networks.

Fayteq AG

Acquisition in 2017
Fayteq is a German company that builds software add-ons for video editing that can remove and add whole objects from captured video using computer vision. Fayteq had been selling plugins for video editors like Adobe After Effects that allowed video editors to track objects in videos, and then add or remove assets with the help of the tracking data. Fayteq is acquired by Facebook on August 11, 2017.

Ozlo

Acquisition in 2017
Ozlo is an integrated knowledge platform powering the intelligent future. Ozlo helps assistants and other intelligent systems understand and represent the contours of the real world. Intelligent systems powered by Ozlo are able to have more meaningful interactions with users. The foundation of our platform is a knowledge index that is the first to offer probabilistic assertions alongside accepted fact - a fundamentally better model of the world. We are a team of 30 creative technologists with world-class expertise in computational linguistics, machine learning, data science, search and relevance, and infrastructure.

Healofy

Grant in 2016
Healofy is an Indian parenting social network that provides pregnancy and childcare products. The company was founded in 2016 by Gaurav Aggarwal and Shubham Maheshwari and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Nascent Objects Inc

Acquisition in 2016
Nascent Objects Inc. is a software development company focused on creating a modular electronics system for consumers to build their gadgets using reconfigurable components, including batteries, camera, sensors, and more. The company’s modular consumer electronics platform enables end-users with no electronics manufacturing expertise to design and prototype new products. Its system allows its users to concentrate on building their products instead of dealing with electrical design, mechanical engineering, and integration complexity. Nascent Objects was founded in 2014 and is based in San Carlos, California. It was acquired by Facebook in 2016.

Tuteria

Grant in 2016
Tuteria is an e-learning startup that helps users find quality private teachers and instructors near them for whatever you wish to learn from academic subjects, to various local, professional and international exams and even skills like Music, Swimming, Photography etc. Tuteria also provides quality home tutors in Lagos, home tutors in Port Harcourt, Home tutors in Abuja and home tutors in other states nationwide.

FoodCloud

Grant in 2016
foodcloud.in is an online marketplace connecting consumers with pre-selected, home chefs, bakers and caterers. The web and mobile app enabled efficient discovery of chefs, the order placement and delivery of food is all done by FoodCloud. It is an end-to end solution for consumers looking for wholesome, homemade delicious food. The platform today is operating in the Delhi NCR region (India) and is delivering across 30 cuisines & 5000 menu items with rapid adoption from consumers.

Masquerade

Acquisition in 2016
Masquerade allows users to record video selfie animations, change the way you look and send it to friends via your favorite messengers and social networks.

Hello Heart

Venture Round in 2015
Hello Heart is a best in class solution that empowers people to understand and improve their heart health - the #1 cost factor for employers. The program is clinically based and targets people with high blood pressure. Each of our users receives a wireless blood pressure monitor and real-time personalized tips on their smartphone. It is easy to use and helps participants improve their heart health in a fun and engaging way.

QuickFire Networks

Acquisition in 2015
QuickFire™ addresses one of the most vexing problems facing the Cloud today, namely its inability to keep pace with the explosion of consumer demand for compute-intensive services. Traditional data center appliances relying on Moore’s Law for incremental 2x improvements cannot meet today’s 10-100x growth requirements.

LiveRail

Acquisition in 2014
LiveRail is a monetization platform for video publishers. Setting the standard for video advertising technology solutions, the platform provides premium publishers with the products to sell their video inventory across all devices. With over 7 billion monthly impressions, LiveRail is used by major publishers who benefit from sophisticated analytics, advanced controls and transparency ultimately generating maximum yield for every ad impression. Founded in 2007, LiveRail’s senior team is led by its founders Mark Trefgarne and Andrei Dunca. LiveRail Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, New York, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Facebook acquired Liverail in July 2014 in a transaction valued at 400-500 million dollars.

PrivateCore

Acquisition in 2014
PrivateCore enables private computing in the cloud by validating and securing OpenStack servers, enabling enterprises and service providers to create trusted computing pools. PrivateCore vCage Manager software attests OpenStack servers to ensure their trustworthiness, and optional vCage Host software provides a hardened hypervisor, and optional memory encryption. By encrypting memory, PrivateCore vCage software protects data from unauthorized physical access and malicious hardware devices, making it safe to run any application in outsourced, hosted, or cloud environments.

ProtoGeo

Acquisition in 2014
ProtoGeo is a startup focused on the development of mobile applications.

Ascenta (UK)

Acquisition in 2014
Ascenta (UK) is a Somerset-based designer of solar-powered drones.

Oculus

Acquisition in 2014
Oculus is enabling the world to experience anything, anywhere, with anyone through the power of virtual reality. The Oculus platform powers Rift and Samsung's Gear VR.

Branch

Acquisition in 2014
Branch is a financial technology company that partners with employers to provide hourly workers with accessible banking services. It aims to help employees manage their finances by offering a zero-fee bank account, free instant access to earned wages, and auto-budgeting tools. This service not only assists employers in attracting and retaining talent but also reduces costs associated with traditional payment methods like paper checks and paycards. By positioning itself as a financial wellness benefit, Branch addresses the needs of working Americans, promoting financial growth and stability.

SportStream

Acquisition in 2013
SportStream provides a second screen experience for sports that delivers the best tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram photos, stats, news and more for every game and team across sports. The experience is powered by the company's proprietary platform, SportsBase, and is delivered to fans through apps on iPhone, iPad and the Web. SportStream also makes the SportsBase platform available to select partners to power new fan experiences. These partners include the Seattle Seahawks, Ask.com, DIRECTV, Phoenix Coyotes, Portland Trail Blazers, Liverpool FC, Michigan, Florida, Nebraska, Auburn and Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors.

Jibbigo

Acquisition in 2013
Jibbigo is the world’s first speech-to-speech translator on a phone that runs online and even off-line, independent from the Internet. Travelers around the world use Jibbigo to communicate in foreign countries and health-care workers overcome the language challenge in humanitarian missions. Jibbigo is developed by Mobile Technologies, who have also developed a number of other cross-lingual communication tools, such as the first automatic, simultaneous interpretation service for lectures in educational settings, so that ideas can transcend nations and cultures. Mobile Technologies was founded in 2001 with the goal of breaking through language barriers to open up communication between the people of the world. With 6,000 languages in the world, the language divide presents the greatest human communication challenge.

Parse

Acquisition in 2013
Parse offers cloud-based software developer kits that enable users to create apps for desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. Its product portfolio is comprised of Parse Core to save data in the cloud; make the app social; run custom app code in the Parse Cloud; schedule recurring tasks such as sending engagement emails, updating data, and long running computation; share data between platforms; and get a local datastore and Parse dashboard. The company also provides Parse Push for creating, scheduling, and segmenting push notifications; and Parse Analytics to find and fix crashes, measure app usage, optimize push campaigns, track custom analytics, and measure growth analytics. Parse is based in San Francisco, California. Currently, it operates as a subsidiary of Facebook.

threadsy

Acquisition in 2012
threadsy is the world's first integrated communication client. It combines email, Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging, and the broader social web into a brand new experience. threadsy groups all of your email and social network messages into a single inbox and all of your Facebook news feed and tweets into a single stream. More than simply aggregating information, threadsy integrates the services to provide deep context on the people you communicate with. threadsy is free to use and works with your existing accounts right in your web browser. Pull yourself together with threadsy!

Acrylic Software

Acquisition in 2012
Acrylic Software is a software design studio that develops apps for Mac and iOS devices. The company’s products portfolio includes Pulp for Mac and iPad: a personalized newspaper app; and Wallet for Mac and iOS: an app that enables users to sync, store, and secure digital files. Acrylic Software was founded by Dustin MacDonald and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Spool

Acquisition in 2012
Spool saves your favorite articles and videos to your computer, tablet, and phone. Read and watch your content when you have time, even offline.

Face.com

Acquisition in 2012
Face.com is helping people find photos, using their home grown best-in-breed facial recognition technologies. The first deployment of their tech is their Photo Finder application for Facebook, today's largest photo sharing site, which scans public photos in your social network and suggests tags for untagged faces. face.com has offices in Tel Aviv and New York.

Karma

Acquisition in 2012
Karma, a new social, mobile gifting service from the founder of TapJoy, Founded by Lee Linden, and Ben Lewis; Karma aims to give users the option to give friends gifts on the go via iOS and Android apps. While there are a number of mobile, social gifting apps on the market, Karma’s service combines intelligence, social discovery, and the easy of gift giving in a sleek app that’s definitely worth a look.

Glancee

Acquisition in 2012
Glancee is an app for iPhone, Android, and Facebook that makes it fun and safe to discover people nearby who share friends and interests with you. Behind the scenes, Glancee uses Facebook to find common friends and Wikipedia to match users based on interests relevant to one another. Say you like Apple: Glancee will match you with people interested in Steve Jobs, Twitter, Slashdot, Silicon Valley, and more. Glancee is not a social network nor a dating service. It is a social discovery tool that reveals the hidden connections we share with the people we stumble upon everyday in bars, campuses, even grocery stores. You don't even have to check-in: just open the app and start browsing who's nearby. And if someone is a really great match, you get a push notification even if your phone is in your pocket.

Tagtile

Acquisition in 2012
Tagtile helps local businesses identify, engage and increase repeat purchases from customers through a frictionless loyalty and direct marketing solution. The Tagtile product consists of a custom hardware device, the Tagtile Cube, that merchants place at their cash counter. Users record their transactions at these businesses by tapping their smartphone against the Tagtile Cube, and get rewarded for being a loyal customer. Merchants can access user information and purchase history through an online dashboard, and use this information to send highly targeted marketing messages directly to their customers. Founded by alumni from Google and Stanford, Tagtile is based in San Francisco.

GazeHawk

Acquisition in 2012
GazeHawk is a [Y Combinator](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/y-combinator)-funded company that provides eye tracking services using ordinary webcams. Their community of testers engage in eye-tracking studies from the comfort of home, allowing GazeHawk to offer professional eye tracking studies at a much lower price. GazeHawk pays a number of participants to view a customer's page, and tracks those participants' gazes via webcam. Customers then get heatmaps which show how the users interacted with the site. GazeHawk is the first company to offer eye tracking studies without specialized hardware.

Gowalla

Acquisition in 2011
Gowalla is an augmented reality social game and a social guide that enables users to share and discover photos, experiences, and recommendations related to various locations and cities. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Gowalla features an award-winning mobile app and website that offer a growing collection of guides curated by both the community and renowned experts from organizations like Disney and National Geographic. The platform facilitates the exploration of beloved places and parks worldwide, making it easy for friends and families to connect and share their travel experiences. Backed by notable investors, Gowalla aims to enhance how users interact with their surroundings through social engagement.

WhoGlue

Acquisition in 2011
WhoGlue builds social networking software for membership organizations (like college alumni networks, for example) and apparently had the fortuity to file a patent on something called “Distributed personal relationship information management system and methods” in 2001. The WhoGlue technology allows a group to privately network within a larger network, and can be applied to subnetwork functions like integrating Facebook Groups content more widely throughout Facebook without violating user privacy.

MailRank

Acquisition in 2011
MailRank is a technology company solving the problem of email overload. We kicked off in December and have been building a product to take the stress out of email.

Strobe

Acquisition in 2011
Strobe Inc. provides software and cloud services for touch-centric applications on the web. Based on a blend of technologies, like native, HTML5 and SproutCore, Strobe apps offer a high-quality native-style user experience across devices.

Digital Staircase

Acquisition in 2011
Digital Staircase a mobile video and image app developer. Digital Staircase has developed a number of apps for video recording, image editing and more. MovieCam, which is available as an iPad and iOS app, is a camcorder app that provides recording features like 8x digital zoom, pause-and-resume recording functionality, and contrast enhancement. The app also allows you to add 18 movie effects and filters while shooting video.

Push Pop Press

Acquisition in 2011
Push Pop Press is a digital publishing platform that helps authors and publishers convert physical books into iPad and iPhone formats.

The Sofa Makers

Acquisition in 2011
Are you in Bangalore and looking to give your furniture a new lease on life? Consider the transformative options available, such as recliner upholstery change, sofa fabric change, recliner fabric change, and even recliner leather change. These changes can breathe fresh air into your furniture pieces, whether it's your beloved recliner or sofa. If you're unsure where to start, you can search for "sofa upholstery near me" or "sofa renovation near me" to discover local services that specialise in bringing your furniture back to its former glory. Upgrading to leather upholstery can add a touch of elegance and sophistication to your space, giving your recliner a luxurious new look. Whether you're opting for fabric or leather changes, nearby professionals can assist you throughout the process, ensuring your furniture makeover aligns with your vision. Don't miss the chance to transform your living space with these exciting possibilities. Are you ready to make a change? If you're considering revamping your furniture, there's a world of possibilities at your fingertips. Whether it's a recliner upholstery change, a sofa fabric change, or even transforming your recliner with new fabric or leather, these options can breathe new life into your cherished pieces. To kickstart your journey, search for "sofa upholstery near me" or "sofa renovation near me" to find local experts who specialise in turning your furniture dreams into reality. The elegance and luxury of leather upholstery change can bring a whole new level of sophistication to your recliner. Whatever your choice, nearby professionals are ready to guide you through the process, ensuring that your furniture overhaul captures exactly what you envision. Embrace this opportunity to refresh your living space and indulge in the art of furniture transformation. For More Visit : https://thesofamakers.com/

Snaptu

Acquisition in 2011
Snaptu formerly Moblica is both a product and a company . Goal of both is to significantly improve the way the world uses the mobile web. Specifically, their goal is to help millions of mobile users access the web easily and quickly regardless of the mobile phone they're using.

Rel8tion

Acquisition in 2011
Rel8tion is a mobile advertising platform that delivers relevant brand ads to mobile applications and sites.

Zenbe

Acquisition in 2010
Zenbe builds mobile and web apps around the common theme of allowing users to share contextually-specific information with a select group of people. The company's current apps include: Blacktop: an iPhone app that lets users organize your Facebook and Foursquare check-ins into "trips"—with maps, photos, and comments—that can be shared with friends in real-time. (DISCONTINUED) Phizviz: creates a visualization of your Facebook check-ins, week-by-week. You can page through weeks and compare them. Zenbe Lists: lets users share task lists from their iPhone, iPad, or the web. It was one of the first 300 iPhone apps and was called "our favorite task list" by Gizmodo. Shareflow is a simple, real-time group collaboration tool that enables groups to share ideas, files, and more, without the hassles of long email threads. Zenbe was founded in 2007 and produced a next-generation webmail suite, Zenbe Mail, which was discontinued in 2010 following a partial talent acquisition by Facebook.

Chai Labs

Acquisition in 2010
ChaiLabs is an early stage company comprised of folks from MIT, Stanford, Google, Yahoo, and Cisco, and backed by successful internet investors. Their mission is to build Internet services that are as ubiquitous. They are located in downtown Mountain View, in the heart of Silicon Valley. [Richard Chen](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/richard-chen-3) has invested in ChaiLabs

Hot Potato

Acquisition in 2010
Hot Potato connects friends and fans around live events. We're building tools for real-time social collaboration amongst groups who share an interest in any event or experience as it's happening. Whether checking in, recording your perspective, or just enjoying others contributions, it's more fun to participate in events with Hot Potato.

ShareGrove

Acquisition in 2010
ShareGrove hosts private online conversations that are media-rich, fluid and dynamic. ShareGrove makes it easy to select friends from Facebook (and other networks), and to engage them in real time, or over time, through a single Web interface. Integrated Web search (from Google, Amazon and Yelp), along with inline presentation of media, add richness and expression to ShareGrove conversations, while also generating revenues through affiliate programs.

Divvyshot

Acquisition in 2010
Divvyshot allows groups of friends to share their photos easily, at their full resolutions. It was a [Y Combinator](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/y-combinator) participant during the Winter 2009 session.

Octazen Solutions

Acquisition in 2010
Octazen Solutions offers contact importing and viral invite scripts that enable website users to invite their contacts on other services.

FriendFeed

Acquisition in 2009
FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates updates from social media such as <a href="http://mcafee.com-activate.support">mcafee.com/activate</a>, social bookmarking websites, blogs, and microblogging sites. It is a one stop shop for social networking updates and news items. FriendFeed is a service which, instead of layering a meta-network on top of its users’ other social networks, creates news feed incorporating all of them. FriendFeed was launched in October 2007 and is based in Mountain View, California. It was acquired by [Facebook](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook) in August 2009.
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