Oura develops a smart ring that collects data on various biometrics to support health and wellness. The device tracks sleep, readiness, and activity levels, which users can monitor through the Oura app. It employs sensors to measure heart rate, sleep cycles, and overall activity. The company operates in the health and wellness industry.
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases. Airtable helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.
Forter is a company that delivers real-time, completely automated, fraud prevention solutions for online merchants. It creates a completely fraud-free environment for the retailers through which they have the ability to make decisions that are solely based on what is good for their business. The company’s system is designed to be consumer-centric, blocking fraud with accuracy, and at the same time enabling growth by increasing approvals and ensuring a better customer experience.
Private Equity Round in 2021
Cue helps users track their health at the molecular level, revealing the interplay of activity, food, and sleep. Consumers can track five key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. The Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cue app reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level.
Oura develops a smart ring that collects data on various biometrics to support health and wellness. The device tracks sleep, readiness, and activity levels, which users can monitor through the Oura app. It employs sensors to measure heart rate, sleep cycles, and overall activity. The company operates in the health and wellness industry.
Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring that businesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence.
Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams, connecting companies to institutional investors to trade in real time. It makes recurring revenue streams tradable for their annual value offering more cash flow for scaling companies
Guru is a knowledge management platform that enables teams and companies to effectively capture, distribute, and organize knowledge. The platform is designed to act as a single source of truth for information within an organization, allowing employees to easily access the information they require when they need it. Guru enables users to collect knowledge in real-time, whether through manual entry, browser extensions, or connection with other applications. This ensures that critical information is kept and available right away.
SparkCognition, Inc. is a technology company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for industrial applications. Established in 2013, the company develops a range of AI-powered products, including SparkPredict, which analyzes sensor data to provide actionable insights and predict equipment failures; DeepArmor, a cybersecurity solution that employs machine learning to detect and prevent malware; and Darwin, which automates the data science process to enhance operational efficiency. Additionally, SparkCognition Government Systems focuses on creating AI systems tailored for government organizations, addressing national security challenges. The company's technologies serve various industries, including oil and gas, aviation, defense, financial services, manufacturing, and utilities, facilitating improved decision-making and enhanced productivity through advanced machine learning capabilities.
Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change. It allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some asset managers including Vanguard and BlackRock. Acorns was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
Guru is a knowledge management platform that enables teams and companies to effectively capture, distribute, and organize knowledge. The platform is designed to act as a single source of truth for information within an organization, allowing employees to easily access the information they require when they need it. Guru enables users to collect knowledge in real-time, whether through manual entry, browser extensions, or connection with other applications. This ensures that critical information is kept and available right away.
Oura develops a smart ring that collects data on various biometrics to support health and wellness. The device tracks sleep, readiness, and activity levels, which users can monitor through the Oura app. It employs sensors to measure heart rate, sleep cycles, and overall activity. The company operates in the health and wellness industry.
Gusto is a company that provides a cloud-based platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses to manage payroll, benefits, and human resources. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Denver, Gusto offers an array of services including payroll processing, health benefits, workers' compensation, and time tracking. The platform allows employers and employees to access payroll information from various devices, enabling features such as browsing pay stubs, reviewing tax forms, and verifying personal details. Gusto caters to a diverse clientele, including startups, coffee shops, medical practices, creative agencies, and law firms, aiming to simplify the administrative tasks associated with employee management.
Guru is a knowledge management platform that enables teams and companies to effectively capture, distribute, and organize knowledge. The platform is designed to act as a single source of truth for information within an organization, allowing employees to easily access the information they require when they need it. Guru enables users to collect knowledge in real-time, whether through manual entry, browser extensions, or connection with other applications. This ensures that critical information is kept and available right away.
Big Switch Networks is the Cloud-First Networking company, bringing public cloud-style networking and hybrid cloud consistency to organizations around the world. The company provides data center switching, monitoring, visibility and security solutions for on-premises enterprise cloud, public cloud and multi-cloud environments that enable companies of all sizes to dramatically increase operational efficiency, increase business agility, and reduce networking costs. Big Switch was founded in 2010, with roots in the original Stanford research team that invented software-defined networking. Big Switch has strategic partnerships with Dell EMC, HPE and Edgecore, delivering innovative software on industry-standard open networking hardware. Since its founding the company has been an active member and contributor to multiple open source communities. Big Switch Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with a dedicated presence across more than 25 countries. To learn more: www.bigswitch.com
Kobalt is a music artist management company that offers alternatives to traditional music business models. It provides technology solutions for a more transparent, efficient and empowering future for rights owners. Regardless of how complex the music industry becomes, Kobalt is determined to create a future where every artist, songwriter and publisher is paid fairly and accurately. Kobalt's Music Publishing, Label Services and Neighbouring Rights divisions each offer a modern alternative to the traditional music business model, empowering creators with transparency, flexibility, ownership and control. With over 275 employees in offices around the world, Kobalt represents over 8,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 450 publishing companies, providing them with real-time, powerful, transparent reporting through the award-winning Kobalt Portal. Kobalt also services its clients with global licensing management, works and rights distribution, royalty collection and processing, online data and royalty statements, creative services, synch & brand partnerships, record release management and digital marketing. Kobalt works with some of the world's greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 40% of the top 100 songs and albums in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Maroon 5, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Grohl, Max Martin, Bob Dylan, Pitbull, Ellie Goulding, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, One Republic, Simon & Garfunkel, Passenger, Akon, Ryan Tedder, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, Dr Luke, David Gray, Big & Rich, Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Noah Shebib, Thom Yorke, The Hives, The Lumineers, Richard Ashcroft, Björk, Kelly Clarkson, Gotye, Skrillex, Herbie Hancock, Moby, Kid Cudi, Joss Stone and the Miles Davis catalog among many others.
Guru is a knowledge management platform that enables teams and companies to effectively capture, distribute, and organize knowledge. The platform is designed to act as a single source of truth for information within an organization, allowing employees to easily access the information they require when they need it. Guru enables users to collect knowledge in real-time, whether through manual entry, browser extensions, or connection with other applications. This ensures that critical information is kept and available right away.
Eagle Eye Networks is the worldwide #1 provider of cloud video surveillance, incorporating both cloud and on-premise recording. The company provides AI, Analytics, big data analytics, business operations optimization, and standard analytics in its platform for video surveillance. Eagle Eye provides a fully open, robust, and restful API for access to video and the integration of analytics and other business processes with video cameras. Its video surveillance products offer secure recording, transmission storage, camera management, mobile viewing, and alerts from a cloud-managed platform that provides organizations with time-based data structures used for indexing, searching, retrieval, and analysis of live and archived video.
Cloudera develops a data management and analytics platform. They specialize in delivering a hybrid data platform with secure data management and cloud-native data analytics. They provide software subscriptions and public cloud services. They also provide clients with professional services for the implementation and use of software subscriptions, machine learning expertise, consultation, training, and education services.
NGINX now part of F5 is the company behind the popular open-source project. It offers a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer. NGINX was incorporated in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Kobalt is a music artist management company that offers alternatives to traditional music business models. It provides technology solutions for a more transparent, efficient and empowering future for rights owners. Regardless of how complex the music industry becomes, Kobalt is determined to create a future where every artist, songwriter and publisher is paid fairly and accurately. Kobalt's Music Publishing, Label Services and Neighbouring Rights divisions each offer a modern alternative to the traditional music business model, empowering creators with transparency, flexibility, ownership and control. With over 275 employees in offices around the world, Kobalt represents over 8,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 450 publishing companies, providing them with real-time, powerful, transparent reporting through the award-winning Kobalt Portal. Kobalt also services its clients with global licensing management, works and rights distribution, royalty collection and processing, online data and royalty statements, creative services, synch & brand partnerships, record release management and digital marketing. Kobalt works with some of the world's greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 40% of the top 100 songs and albums in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Maroon 5, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Grohl, Max Martin, Bob Dylan, Pitbull, Ellie Goulding, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, One Republic, Simon & Garfunkel, Passenger, Akon, Ryan Tedder, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, Dr Luke, David Gray, Big & Rich, Stevie Nicks, Gwen Stefani, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Noah Shebib, Thom Yorke, The Hives, The Lumineers, Richard Ashcroft, Björk, Kelly Clarkson, Gotye, Skrillex, Herbie Hancock, Moby, Kid Cudi, Joss Stone and the Miles Davis catalog among many others.
Private Equity Round in 2013
Waypoint Leasing is a global helicopter leasing company founded in 2013 to provide financing solutions to helicopter operators worldwide. Headquartered in Limerick, Ireland, Waypoint differentiates itself with a senior management team possessing direct helicopter operating and helicopter leasing experience. Their deep operational background translates directly to a passion for rotary-wing aviation and a commitment to building long-lasting partnerships.
NGINX now part of F5 is the company behind the popular open-source project. It offers a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. Together with F5, our combined solution bridges the gap between NetOps and DevOps, with multi-cloud application services that span from code to customer. NGINX was incorporated in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
RxCentric is an e-health business-to-business company linking physicians' drug information and education needs with a targeted, online.
Bandspeed provides combined silicon-software solutions that dramatically simplify the deployment and ongoing management of enterprise wireless LANs, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership. Bandspeed's RF management solution offers the superior physical layer performance that enterprises require, plus the flexibility of a software implementation that enables OEMs and ODMs to rapidly create new services. Utilizing omni-directional or spatial division multiple access (SDMA) platforms, the Bandspeed solution enables cost-effective indoor, campus and outdoor wireless LANs with continuous automated management features that ensure unsurpassed network efficiency and user satisfaction.
Novalux develops, manufactures, and distributes laser systems. The company offers Novalux Extended Cavity Surface Emitting Laser, a surface-emitting semiconductor laser. Its products are used in various applications, such as projection display, specialty lighting, neon sign alternative lighting, and automotive lighting. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. As of January 8, 2008, Novalux, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Arasor International Limited.
Corero Network Security specializes in providing network security solutions with a focus on protecting against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The company offers its SmartWall Threat Defense System, which includes a suite of products designed to defend against various cyber threats, including network and application layer DDoS attacks, volumetric assaults, and multi-vector attacks. Key offerings include SmartWall network threat defense appliances for DDoS mitigation, SmartWall network bypass appliances for maintaining connectivity, and the SmartWall Service Portal for real-time DDoS protection delivered as a service. Additionally, Corero provides SecureWatch Analytics, which offers web-based security analytics and dashboards, along with various monitoring and maintenance services. Targeting service providers, hosting providers, data centers, and digital enterprises, Corero aims to enhance security architectures by delivering comprehensive, real-time protection that ensures continuous threat visibility and automatic attack mitigation. The company is based in Uxbridge, United Kingdom, and has been operating since its incorporation in 1991.
Outercurve Technologies is a provider of wireless data services.
Propel Software is an Internet company. It develops internet acceleration and network optimization solutions for wireless carriers and internet service providers globally. The company offers Propel Accelerator, a client-server software that speeds up Web browsing, email, and file downloads by using compression, caching, and connection optimization for wireless, low-speed broadband, and dial-up Internet access. It is a hosted solution that also blocks unwanted in-page advertising. Propel Software was founded in 1999 in San Jose, California.
Founded in 1996, CiDRA is the first company to combine industrial and optical skills to deliver real time process monitoring to multiple industries. CiDRA is headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut with an increasing number of international offices. CiDRA’s patented SONARtrac® flow technology has established itself as a new class of industrial flowmeter, utilizing measurement principles that are distinct from all other flowmeter technologies operating today and is ideally suited for measuring flow in difficult slurry applications within the energy and natural resource industries. CiDRA has been aggressively developing various solutions offerings related to flow management and assurance, slurry rheology characterization, and overall plant monitoring and process optimization in minerals processing, oilsands, and pulp and paper applications. CiDRA products and services are being used by over 250 customers in 21 countries.
Ubicom develops communications and media processor (CMP) and software platforms that address the unique demands of real-time interactive applications and multimedia content delivery in the digital home. The company provides optimized system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media devices, print servers and other network devices. Ubicom's unique multithreaded processor design, real-time operating system, and application-level solutions combine to ensure a high-quality user experience with unprecedented ease of use. Ubicom is a venture-backed, privately held company with corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
RxCentric is an e-health business-to-business company linking physicians' drug information and education needs with a targeted, online.
Bulldog provided enterprise media management and digital asset management solutions to the broadcast, film and animation industries.
CCC Network Systems is the leading supplier of state-of-the-art Network Operation Centers and Internet/Corporate Data Centers. They provide a complete end-to-end solution - from design consultancy, through to installation and implementation, together with full project management services - from design conception to completion. CCC has the technology, services and experience to meet all your Network Operation and Data Center needs. That's why so many of the world's premier companies rely on us to meet their light-up and uptime targets, and lower their cost of ownership.
Cadence Network, Inc. specializes in helping companies manage energy costs and their carbon footprints. Cadence delivers comprehensive utility, telecommunications and lease facility expense management to more than 150 multiple-site businesses nationwide. At work in more than 350,000 locations, Cadence Network is a founding member of the Carbon Management Council, an ENERGY STARÂ:registered: Partner of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and a proud supporter of The Arbor Day Foundation.
DoubleTwist
Series D in 2000
In December 1999, Pangea Systems became DoubleTwist, Inc. - a new application service provider (ASP)/ Internet company devoted to empowering life scientists. The change reflects a new focus on this Internet portal. DoubleTwist.com integrates powerful tools and data behind automated research agents that retrieve and interpret data based on the user's scientific questions. The company's traditional data warehousing and mining software power the site, enabling life science research through an easy-to-use interface on the Web. DoubleTwist has established a talented and experienced development team of scientific and technical personnel dedicated to building software solutions that address the biological data management needs of life scientists. DoubleTwist's scientific team is comprised of leading experts in their respective fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, protein chemistry, bioinformatics, computer science and computational biology. They come to DoubleTwist from world-renowned institutions, including Stanford University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSF, University of Pennsylvania, Sandoz Pharmaceutical, Onyx Pharmaceutical, Incyte, Molecular Simulations, Molecular Dynamics, Roche and Glaxo Wellcome. The company's software engineers have extensive experience in commercial-grade software systems, with particular expertise in relational database and object-oriented development. They come to DoubleTwist from some of the industry's most successful companies, including Apple, Oracle and IBM.
I-many provides software and Internet-based solutions and related professional services that allow our clients to negotiate and manage complex contract purchasing arrangements which facilitate business-to-business e-commerce.
GARAGE TECHNOLOGY VENTURES is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. They invest in entrepreneurial teams seeking to transform big ideas into game-changing companies. They invest in unproven teams attacking unproven markets with unproven solutions. They not interested in teams creating the nth solution to the same old problem nor companies trying to improve things by only 10 or 20 percent.
Allegis Corporation is a leading Partner Relationship Management firm that develops e-business solutions.
PaperExchange.comSM is a leading global e-commerce marketplace for the pulp and paper industry with more than 4,500 corporate members and over 6,500 individual members, spread out over more than 80 countries. PaperExchange.com's members have completed transactions in all major grades of paper, and have made PaperExchange.com one of the world's most frequented sites in the pulp and paper industry. Not only has the Company shown consistent and rapid growth in terms of bidding activity, completed transactions, tons of product posted, and number of registered members, but the Company's site activity, as measured by user sessions, reached dramatically higher new all-time records in each consecutive quarter of 1999. PaperExchange.com is open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Company is located in the central Back Bay area of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
CarsDirect.com, Inc. provides online car buying services in the United States. It provides new and used automobiles, and related products and services. The company offers passenger cars, luxury cars, sports utility vehicles, trucks, and vans. It also offers auto loans, vehicle service contracts, anti-theft products, credit reports, VIN check, auto repair directory, and audio guide services. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in El Segundo, California. CarsDirect.com, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Internet Brands, Inc.
Internet Brands has grown to become a fully integrated online media and client services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: Automotive, Health, Legal and Home / Travel. The company’s award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 100 million monthly visitors, while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep, long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. Internet Brands’ powerful, propriety operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company’s continued growth.
Agillion enables companies to provide customers with a level of service they've never encountered online—or anywhere else. By creating Agillion CustomerPagesSM—custom, password-protected Web sites that are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week—you can: Let your customers place and check on the status of orders, alert you to problems, retrieve documents you're collaborating on together, write you a note, download a product catalog, etc. Capture customer information in real-time and securely store it in a central database that your Team can access from any web browser. Focus on your top customers by receiving reminders and important alerts about their activity.