Strella biotech is a revenue-generating food supply chain company that provides data to optimize the produce supply chain via patented proprietary sensing technology. It specializes in the fields of supply chain management and big data. Strella was founded in 2018 by Jacob Jordan and Katherine Sizov and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Syntiant is moving artificial intelligence and machine learning from the cloud to edge devices. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors for always-on applications in battery-powered devices, such as smartphones, smart speakers, earbuds, hearing aids, and laptops.
May Mobility specializes in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. The company's technology studies the city's traffic and commuter flow, identifying bottlenecks and gaps in the current public transit schema to design the optimal routes for communities. The company also offers a fleet operation service and provides daily transit by deploying autonomous shuttles to reduce human error in driving, reduce pollution, and create greater economic benefit for communities and riders, enabling public transportation systems to create a safer, greener, more efficient environment.
Mendel is a clinical AI platform for life sciences and healthcare organizations that deciphers health data with clinician-like logic. It indexes structured and unstructured data and replaces the complexity of querying with the simplicity of chatting.
Plus is a global provider of highly automated driving and fully autonomous driving solutions with headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, and operations in the U.S. and Germany. Named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers and by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, Plus’s open autonomy technology platform is already powering vehicles in commercial use today. Working with leading vehicle manufacturers, fleets, and other technology companies globally, Plus is helping to make driving safer, more comfortable, and more sustainable. Plus has received a number of industry awards and distinctions for its transformative technology and business momentum from Fast Company, Forbes, Insider, Consumer Electronics Show, AUVSI, and others.
Ziva Dynamics is a software company that specializes in character creation and human simulation. It provides a technology platform that empowers virtual humans and characters for all digital media. Ziva’s proprietary technology simulates the laws of real-world physics and anatomy, enabling virtual characters to move, jiggle, and flex the way audiences expect. Paired with Ziva’s robust machine learning processes, the Ziva Character Platform automates character creation and enables high-fidelity characters to transfer from film and TV into interactive, real-time games, VR, AR, and MR experiences. Ziva Dynamics building the next wave of character simulation and animation tools for film, game, and retail. The company fundamentally changes the character creation process, while providing greater control, speed, and capabilities. It was founded in 2015 by Academy Award-winner James Jacobs, Dr. Jernej Barbic, and Chris Godsall.
Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion, and control capabilities. Phantom AI has created the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
Deep Instinct applies artificial intelligence’s deep learning to cybersecurity. Leveraging deep learning’s predictive capabilities, Deep Instinct’s on-device solution protects against zero-day threats and APT attacks with unmatched accuracy. Deep Instinct safeguards the enterprise’s endpoints and/or any mobile devices against any threat, on any infrastructure, whether or not connected to the network or to the Internet. By applying deep learning technology to cybersecurity, enterprises can now gain unmatched protection against unknown and evasive cyber-attacks from any source. Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity enabling cyber-attacks to be identified and blocked in real-time before any harm can occur. Deep Instinct USA is headquartered in San Francisco, California and Deep Instinct Israel is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
PrecisionHawk is an information delivery company that combines unmanned aerial systems, remote sensing technologies, and advanced data analytics to improve business operations and day-to-day decision making. PrecisionHawk brings value to an emerging market by offering an end-to-end solution for aerial data gathering, processing, and analysis to provide actionable information across a wide range of data-intensive civilian industries. Founded in 2010, the company provides a holistic platform using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for data collection and analysis software tools to deliver better business intelligence to clients across a wide range of civilian industries. PrecisionHawk also owns aerial data software, DataMapper, satellite imagery provider, Terraserver, and the Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform for drones, LATAS. PrecisionHawk is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
INDUS.AI is the world’s most advanced construction intelligence solution that enables real estate investors, owners, developers, and general contractors to have real-time visibility and actionable insights into all activities, productivity, and risks at their construction sites. INDUS.AI seeks to make construction sites and projects safer, more efficient, and completely transparent. Founded in 2017, Indus.ai Inc has offices in San Francisco and Toronto, servicing customers in US, Canada, Hong Kong and Brazil.
Aurora is a self-driving vehicle company providing a platform that brings software and data services to operate passenger vehicles. To move both people and goods, the company develops Aurora Driver, a platform that brings together software, hardware, and data services to operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora is backed by Amazon and Sequoia, among others, and partners with industry leaders including Toyota, Uber, Volvo, and Paccar. Aurora tests its vehicles in the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Dallas. The company has offices in those areas as well as in Bozeman, MT; Seattle, WA; Louisville, CO; and Wixom, MI.
May Mobility specializes in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. The company's technology studies the city's traffic and commuter flow, identifying bottlenecks and gaps in the current public transit schema to design the optimal routes for communities. The company also offers a fleet operation service and provides daily transit by deploying autonomous shuttles to reduce human error in driving, reduce pollution, and create greater economic benefit for communities and riders, enabling public transportation systems to create a safer, greener, more efficient environment.
Acceptto is a transformative cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity access protection and real-time threat analytics with Biobehavioral™ AI/ML-powered authentication technology in an age where your identity is persistently attacked. We monitor user behavior, transactions, and application activity to create an enriched user profile within each application landscape and subsequently verify if access attempts are legitimate or a threat. Acceptto’s intelligent Passwordless Continuous Authentication™ technology analyzes user identity and uses behavioral modeling to infer whether an access attempt is a threat before authentication, during authentication, and post-authorization. No passwords or tokens are required. By monitoring user behavior and application activity, we create an enriched user profile within each application landscape and negate the need for costly, vulnerable passwords. Whether through web, mobile, workstation or IoT, we deliver the most intelligent continuous authentication system available. We let a user in, because we know the user is legitimate. Acceptto is the winner of the prestigious SINET 16 Innovator Award and a winner of 4 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Our expertise and trailblazing perspectives on cybersecurity have been featured in articles on TechRadar, Security Magazine, and digimonica. Acceptto is headquartered in Portland, USA with offices in Lisbon, Portugal, and Vancouver, Canada, serving global active customers in healthcare, education, and financial services. For more information, visit https://www.acceptto.com/.
GrubMarket is the AI-powered major B2B eCommerce company operating in the American food supply chain industry. Besides being the first mover of building B2B eCommerce, GrubMarket is also the first mover of providing Enterprise AI Solutions to the American food supply chain industry. It is one of the largest private food tech companies in the U.S. and the world.
Aaptiv Inc. is a digital health company that has transformed the way people work out. Aaptiv has over 230,000 paying members who have taken more than 20 million classes since the company started three years ago. Each one of Aaptiv's thousands of workouts, which span every type of exercise and a wide variety of activities, combine the guiding voice of an expert Aaptiv trainer with motivating music. This audio-based format eliminates distractions and provides the flexibility many people require - allowing them to focus on their fitness goals, when and where it suits them.
Blackmore Sensors and Analytics develops frequency-modulated continuous wave lidar imaging and its supporting analytic tools software.
Fair is a car leasing company that aims to grant access to mobility to everyone by pioneering the car-as-a-service (CaaS) concept. It gives customers the freedom to drive the car they want for as long as they want, and the flexibility to walk away at any time.
onXmaps is a Montana-based mobile apps company which provide maps for hunters and other outdoor recreation. The company aggregates nationwide data on property ownership, trails, permitted land use, and many other parameters. World-class GPS and mapping technologies present customized information to users, tailored to their off-pavement activities and locations. Since the Company’s 2009 founding, onX has used hunters’ back-country experience and feedback to deliver products with ever wider appeal.
PrecisionHawk is an information delivery company that combines unmanned aerial systems, remote sensing technologies, and advanced data analytics to improve business operations and day-to-day decision making. PrecisionHawk brings value to an emerging market by offering an end-to-end solution for aerial data gathering, processing, and analysis to provide actionable information across a wide range of data-intensive civilian industries. Founded in 2010, the company provides a holistic platform using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for data collection and analysis software tools to deliver better business intelligence to clients across a wide range of civilian industries. PrecisionHawk also owns aerial data software, DataMapper, satellite imagery provider, Terraserver, and the Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform for drones, LATAS. PrecisionHawk is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion, and control capabilities. Phantom AI has created the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.
Blackmore Sensors and Analytics develops frequency-modulated continuous wave lidar imaging and its supporting analytic tools software.
JJumio is an AI platform that enables users to establish their identity remotely to protect against fraud and other financial crime. The Jumio KYX Platform offers a range of identity proofing services to accurately establish, maintain and reassert trust from account opening to ongoing transaction monitoring. It leverages advanced technology including AI, biometrics, machine learning, liveness detection, and automation, Jumio helps organizations fight fraud, onboard good customers faster, and meet regulatory compliance including KYC, AML, and GDPR. Jumio has verified more than 300 million identities issued by over 200 countries and territories from real-time web and mobile transactions. The identity verification company's solutions are used by leading companies in the financial services, sharing economy, digital currency, retail, travel, and online gaming sectors. In 2016, Daniel Mattes and Robert Prigge headquartered Jumio in Palo Alto, California.
Deep Instinct applies artificial intelligence’s deep learning to cybersecurity. Leveraging deep learning’s predictive capabilities, Deep Instinct’s on-device solution protects against zero-day threats and APT attacks with unmatched accuracy. Deep Instinct safeguards the enterprise’s endpoints and/or any mobile devices against any threat, on any infrastructure, whether or not connected to the network or to the Internet. By applying deep learning technology to cybersecurity, enterprises can now gain unmatched protection against unknown and evasive cyber-attacks from any source. Deep Instinct brings a completely new approach to cybersecurity enabling cyber-attacks to be identified and blocked in real-time before any harm can occur. Deep Instinct USA is headquartered in San Francisco, California and Deep Instinct Israel is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
PrecisionHawk is an information delivery company that combines unmanned aerial systems, remote sensing technologies, and advanced data analytics to improve business operations and day-to-day decision making. PrecisionHawk brings value to an emerging market by offering an end-to-end solution for aerial data gathering, processing, and analysis to provide actionable information across a wide range of data-intensive civilian industries. Founded in 2010, the company provides a holistic platform using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for data collection and analysis software tools to deliver better business intelligence to clients across a wide range of civilian industries. PrecisionHawk also owns aerial data software, DataMapper, satellite imagery provider, Terraserver, and the Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform for drones, LATAS. PrecisionHawk is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Founded in 2002 in Portland, Oregon, Janrain is the creator of the first customer identity and access management (CIAM) cloud. Janrain is also the inventor of social login and a founding member of the OpenID Foundation—establishing many of the digital authentication protocols used globally today. Janrain continues to lead the CIAM market today, with over half of the world’s connected users within its Identity Cloud network. We believe that each customer’s unique digital identity is their key to their personally connected world, which makes their identity the most valuable thing they own. Janrain is based in Portland, Oregon, with offices in London, Paris, and Redwood City, CA. For more information, please visit www.janrain.com and follow @janrain.
Chef Software, based in Seattle, Washington, specializes in cloud-based infrastructure automation solutions that support digital transformation for organizations. The company offers a range of products, including Chef Automate, which integrates infrastructure and application management, allowing enterprises to build, deploy, and manage applications in various environments seamlessly. Chef's Habitat product facilitates application automation, catering to diverse release scenarios while enabling modernization initiatives. Additionally, Chef provides InSpec, a tool that enhances compliance and security throughout the development and operational processes, aligning with DevSecOps practices. Chef's open-source offerings allow users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring that configurations are flexible, version-controlled, and easily maintained. The company has established itself as a key player in the Continuous Automation software market and is recognized as one of the pioneers of the DevOps movement, collaborating with numerous innovative companies globally. Chef Software operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.
BetterCloud is the market leader for SaaS Operations. With SaaS adoption growing 38% YoY, an average IT team is now responsible for managing and securing 110+ SaaS applications. Existing solutions are not designed to handle aggressive SaaS sprawl. By automating critical work like user lifecycle management and data protection, BetterCloud's 1000's of customers enjoy greater employee productivity and more secure IT environments. With unrivaled SaaS expertise and a powerful integration library, BetterCloud’s SaaS Management Platform typically enables true "Zero Touch" SaaS operations in less than 2 months.
Kik was founded in 2009, when a small group of University of Waterloo students decided to build a company that would shift the center of computing from the PC to the phone. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company now has more than 100 employees working on Kik, a chat app that lets users connect with people, services, and businesses. Kik is backed by major venture capitalists and has raised $120.5M to date. Its VCs are the same firms that first helped Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and others become household names. China's Tencent, maker of WeChat, is a strategic investor. Kik has more than 300 million registered users. According to a study by Frank N. Magid Associates, Kik users spend 35 minutes per session in the app. More than 40% of young Americans are actively using Kik as their primary messenger app.
Inspirato is an innovative luxury travel subscription company that provides affluent travellers access to a managed and controlled portfolio of hand-selected vacation options, delivered through a subscription model to ensure the service and certainty that affluent customers demand. The Inspirato Collection includes branded luxury vacation homes available exclusively to subscribers and guests, accommodations at five-star hotel and resort partners, and custom travel experiences. In 2019, Inspirato improved travel by introducing the Inspirato Pass, a luxury travel subscription inclusive of nightly rates, taxes, and fees.
PrecisionHawk is an information delivery company that combines unmanned aerial systems, remote sensing technologies, and advanced data analytics to improve business operations and day-to-day decision making. PrecisionHawk brings value to an emerging market by offering an end-to-end solution for aerial data gathering, processing, and analysis to provide actionable information across a wide range of data-intensive civilian industries. Founded in 2010, the company provides a holistic platform using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for data collection and analysis software tools to deliver better business intelligence to clients across a wide range of civilian industries. PrecisionHawk also owns aerial data software, DataMapper, satellite imagery provider, Terraserver, and the Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform for drones, LATAS. PrecisionHawk is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
WatchDox enables organizations to access, share and control their critical documents wherever they go: on any tablet, smartphone, or PC, even those beyond the IT department’s control. Available as SaaS or on premise, the WatchDox document-centric security platform allows organizations to collaborate with partners, adopt bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives, and control or wipe their documents remotely, all while providing their users a superior experience across every device.
Founded in 2002 in Portland, Oregon, Janrain is the creator of the first customer identity and access management (CIAM) cloud. Janrain is also the inventor of social login and a founding member of the OpenID Foundation—establishing many of the digital authentication protocols used globally today. Janrain continues to lead the CIAM market today, with over half of the world’s connected users within its Identity Cloud network. We believe that each customer’s unique digital identity is their key to their personally connected world, which makes their identity the most valuable thing they own. Janrain is based in Portland, Oregon, with offices in London, Paris, and Redwood City, CA. For more information, please visit www.janrain.com and follow @janrain.
Inspirato is an innovative luxury travel subscription company that provides affluent travellers access to a managed and controlled portfolio of hand-selected vacation options, delivered through a subscription model to ensure the service and certainty that affluent customers demand. The Inspirato Collection includes branded luxury vacation homes available exclusively to subscribers and guests, accommodations at five-star hotel and resort partners, and custom travel experiences. In 2019, Inspirato improved travel by introducing the Inspirato Pass, a luxury travel subscription inclusive of nightly rates, taxes, and fees.
BeachMint is a venture backed social commerce company for designer-curated direct to consumer sites, founded by serial tech entrepreneurs, Josh Berman (Co-Founder MySpace) and Diego Berdakin. BeachMint launched their first brand, JewelMint, with Kate Bosworth and celebrity stylist, Cher Coulter, in October 2010, StyleMint with Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen in July 2011, BeautyMint with Jessica Simpson and celebrity skincare expert, Nerida Joy, in October 2011, ShoeMint with Rachel Bilson and celebrity stylist, Nicole Chavez, in collaboration with Steve Madden, HomeMint with Justin Timberlake and interior designer Estee Stanley in May 2012, and intiMINT with Brooke Burke-Charvet in June of 2012. Each site offers a subscription shopping model with personalized product recommendations for its members from their respective celebrity and expert. BeachMint recently announced a $35 million funding round led by Accel Partners, with participation from Goldman Sachs, New World Ventures and Millennium Technology Value Partners, with existing investors NEA, Trinity, Scale, Anthem, Lightbank (the founders of Groupon) and NALA Investments participating as well. This brings BeachMint’s total funding to over $80 million. Each of BeachMints online brands offer its members exclusive products that have been conceived through an authentic relationship with its celebrity designer and expert. Members have access to creative original content, personalized style advice and a curated assortment which changes on a monthly basis while consistently presenting a significant value over comparable items available elsewhere..
Hootsuite is a social media management platform helping businesses reach their customers across multiple platforms. Its suite of social media tools is built to simplify marketing, accelerate sales, and streamline customer service. The platform enables users to create, schedule, publish, and manage their content and ad campaigns across social networks from a single dashboard.
ETF Securities is the world’s largest independent provider of commodity exchange traded productsand also provides a wide range of equity, alternative and currency ETPs. The company listed the world's first physically-backed gold ETP in 2003 and now offers over 300 different ETPs covering a wide range of commodity, currency and equity exposures listed on major exchanges around the world. For over a decade, investors looking for alternative investment opportunities have relied on ETF Securities’ expertise. At the end of 2012, worldwide assets invested in ETF Securities ETPs stood close to US$30 billion.
X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages.
Chegg is a student media learning platform offering services to universities and community colleges. The company also helps students become smarter, saves time & money. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA.
OpenPeak is a mobility technology provider that designs end-to-end managed systems and solutions that enable enterprises, SMBs, and education, healthcare, and service providers to provision and manage their customer’s mobile devices and applications remotely. Its Advanced Device and Application Management (ADAM™) mobility management suite is comprised of three core components: SANCTION™, SECTOR™, and OPENSHOP™. Each component can be deployed individually to complement pre-existing device and network management configurations, or together as a complete end-to-end Device, Application, and Profile Management solution.
NetSpend is a processor and marketer of prepaid Visa and MasterCard debit cards. Reloadable Prepaid Debit cards are a financial solution for the un and under-banked consumer segment, estimated at 70 million individuals in the United States. NetSpend markets its products as an alternative to cash, credit, and traditional banking relationships. NetSpend also offers a line of Visa and MasterCard branded Gift cards and a Visa Travel Money card product.
Private Equity Round in 2009
Datapipe offers a single provider solution for managing and securing mission-critical IT services, including cloud computing, infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, colocation and data centers. Datapipe delivers those services from the world's most influential technical and financial markets including New York metro, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Datapipe provides services to a range of vertical industries, including financial services, healthcare and pharmaceutical, manufacturing and distribution, state and federal governments, publishing, media and communications, business services, public sector, technology and software. Datapipe was named to Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting.
Private Equity Round in 2009
Arguably one of the first Web 2.0 sites because of its focus on connecting its users, eHarmony, an online relationship website, matches users together using a rigorous 250+ item questionnaire. It is popular and successful with well over 20 million registered users. On average, 542 people marry every day in the U.S. as a result of being matched on eHarmony, or 4.8% of new marriages (Harris, 2010). eHarmony's matching system determines members' compatibility with others based on their values, character, intellect, humor, religious/spiritual beliefs and many other dimensions. In all, it analyzes 29 dimensions of compatibility and synthesizes matches using an algorithm built on 35 years of clinical research. Currently, eHarmony operates online matchmaking services in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Brazil.
Zappos is an online retailer specializing in shoes. In addition to shoes they sell handbags, clothing, eyewear, watches and accessories. The company is currently based in Henderson, NV, with a warehouse in Shepherdsville, KY. In addition, Zappos has a small number of brick-and-mortar outlet stores. The name Zappos is derived from the Spanish word zapatos, meaning shoes.
Metaweb Technologies develops a community-curated database and semantic data storage infrastructure for the web. The company was founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook, and John Giannandrea
Metaweb Technologies develops a community-curated database and semantic data storage infrastructure for the web. The company was founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook, and John Giannandrea
ArcSight is a leading provider of security and compliance management solutions that intelligently identify and mitigate business risk for enterprises, MSSPs and government agencies. Designed with the needs of highly complex, geographically dispersed and heterogeneous business and technology infrastructures in mind, ArcSight provides the industry's only vendor-neutral solution for intelligent identification, prioritization and network response to external security attacks, insider threats and compliance breaches. Much like a "mission control center," ArcSight's award-winning ESM solution intelligently collects and distills millions of enterprise-wide events down to the most critical information necessary for organizations to make informed decisions to protect their businesses. It does this through an open platform which integrates hundreds of point/individual security and networking products to find risks that would otherwise go undetected, and inherently enhances the business value of point technology investments. The resulting real time and historic view across heterogeneous infrastructures, augmented by ArcSight's complementary solutions for high performance log management - ArcSight Logger, network configuration management - ArcSight NCM and threat response management - ArcSight TRM, offers the industry's only complete solution suite with a closed-loop process for addressing both security and compliance requirements.
NxtWave Communications Inc. designs and markets broadband, error-free video and data communications integrated circuits.
OniX Microsystems designs, develops, and supplies micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based all-optical switching engines for telecommunications equipment suppliers. Its products cover optical switching needs, including network protection and provisioning, optical add and drop multiplexing, and optical cross connects. It also offers MEMS design and photonic packaging services. OniX Microsystems was founded in 1998 and was headquartered in Richmond, California.
RuleSpace, Inc. is a privately held corporation located in Portland, Oregon. RuleSpace is an Internet infrastructure vendor that provides instant web content recognition enabling Internet applications and network appliances to answer on the fly what the page is about. RuleSpace provides automated web content recognition technology and services that instantly recognize web content and facilitate the delivery of relevant web information. Solutions powered by RuleSpace technology enable Network Access Vendors, Portals and Online Marketers to deliver more meaningful and appropriate information to users as they surf the Web. Unlike human review using keyword technologies, RuleSpace technology keeps pace with the explosion of web content.
Annotate.net is an information navigation company that develops technologies to bring relevance and efficiency to the web experience. The Annotate Detector, Version 1.0 released in December of 1999, is a downloadable browser companion, which dynamically enhances and simplifies web navigation by delivering at the moment, contextual content to the end user. From the best names on the web, including Time Inc., Rolling Stone, CNET, Excite, USAToday, Merrill Lynch, and many others. Annotate.net is launching Version 2.0 in December of 2000, offering contextual content and commerce with a new merchant channel, additional distibution deals, a new user interface, and a new auto-classification technology that will allow for broader coverage throughout the web. Additionally, Annotate.net will use this technology to assist digital marketers, advertising networks, web publishers, ISPs, etc; with precision targeting. With Annotate technology, digital marketers will now be able to do behavior-based targeting in real-time. Incubated within Edwin Schlossberg, Inc. (ESI), a multi-disciplinary design firm that specializes in interactive media and entertainment, Annotate.net receives funding from Millennium Technology Ventures, Merrill Lynch, and prominent Silicon Alley investors, including Kevin O'Connor, Chairman of DoubleClick and Eric Gleacher, CEO of Gleacher & Co.
MightyWords is the new secure digital marketplace for unique written content.