Jeff provides entrepreneurs with a tech platform for running their businesses with a mobile application to connect with customers. The company's mission is to remove financial and knowledge barriers for entrepreneurs. Jeff has more than 2000 entrepreneurs in 40 markets using their solution.
Lozi Joint Stock Company, founded in 2014 and based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, operates an extensive e-commerce platform that addresses various consumer needs through its one-hour delivery service, Loship. The platform caters to a wide range of services including food, grocery, laundry, medicine, and flower delivery, as well as ride-hailing and B2B supply delivery. With a robust network of over 70,000 drivers and 200,000 merchants, Lozi serves nearly 2 million customers across major cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, and Can Tho. The company's innovative mobile application also assists users in discovering food, drink, and café options, enhancing the convenience of urban living in Vietnam.
Babson Diagnostics is an operator of a healthcare technology company dedicated to bringing diagnostic blood testing to the retail pharmacy counter. The company develops a model for the blood test that requires only one-tenth of the sample size of traditional venipuncture methods, that enable consumers to get laboratory-grade bloodwork done within a short wait time.
Babson Diagnostics is an operator of a healthcare technology company dedicated to bringing diagnostic blood testing to the retail pharmacy counter. The company develops a model for the blood test that requires only one-tenth of the sample size of traditional venipuncture methods, that enable consumers to get laboratory-grade bloodwork done within a short wait time.
Covera Health is a clinical analytics company, is pioneering quality-based solutions for payers and providers that enable the measurement and delivery of high-quality care. The company's services include analyzing clinical datasets in unique ways to drive the emerging science of quality and partner with doctors to help them deliver, enabling employers and payers to improve patient outcomes and reduce inappropriate healthcare spend.
Connotate Technologies, Inc. specializes in web data extraction and monitoring, providing a platform that enables information product and service companies to transform web content into structured data. Founded in 2000 and based in Los Gatos, California, with an additional office in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Connotate serves a diverse clientele, including financial information providers, B2B data publishers, market research firms, and government agencies. The company's innovative technology facilitates competitive and pricing intelligence, content aggregation, compliance and risk management, and sales intelligence, among other applications. By automating data collection and extraction processes, Connotate enhances productivity, reduces operational costs, and supports informed decision-making for clients. As of February 2019, Connotate operates as a subsidiary of Import.io Ltd.
Proteon Therapeutics, Inc is a biopharmaceutical company developing pharmaceuticals to address the medical needs of patients with renal and vascular diseases. The company leverages a unique understanding of tissue remodeling to develop a pipeline of proprietary therapeutics. Proteon Therapeutics’ first drug candidate (PRT-201) is in development for the improvement of blood flow following vascular surgery procedures. The company’s initial clinical focus is vascular access for hemodialysis and peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
Xlumena develops image-guided therapeutic endoscopy products. It develops Bile Duct Stenting, a self-expanding anchor stent and precision XL delivery system. The company also develops Pseudocyst Drainage, an integrated XF system designed to enable reliable pseudocyst drainage; and Hiatal Hernia Repair that enables the repair of a hiatal hernia from inside the GI lumen. Xlumena was founded in 2007 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Sonian is a pure public cloud information archiving company, providing a service that is easy, flexible, actionable, and reliable for OEM partners and their end customers. Sonian allows companies to preserve, analyze, and access their electronic communications for legal, regulatory, and continuity purposes while gaining organizational insights. More than 25,000 customers in 43 countries trust Sonian’s secure proprietary platform to retain, retrieve, and surface critical data and protect intellectual property. Founded in 2007, Sonian realized that companies were struggling to manage Big Data. As a result, CTO and Founder Greg Arnette recognized earlier than most that there was an enormous opportunity to use the emerging public cloud to solve these problems. Since that time, Sonian has pioneered cutting-edge cloud technologies to protect and provide value for its partners and customers. This has led to many innovations in everything from managing cloud systems and aggregating data to extracting value from and accessing information.
Private Equity Round in 2013
The Receivables Exchange is an auction-based marketplace that connects large sellers of trade receivables to a broad network of institutional buyers. Transactions over the exchange are standardized and structured to result in a "true sale" of the receivables, thus offering balance sheet benefits to sellers and attractive risk-adjusted returns to buyers. The auction model provides corporations with a transparent channel to monetize receivables while providing investors access to the accounts receivable market as well as liquidity, balance sheet, and risk management services. Launched in 2007, the marketplace is operated from New York, United States.
Avedro is a privately held medical device and pharmaceutical company advancing the science and technology of corneal cross-linking. Avedro recently completed its US‐based, multi-centered, Phase III studies of corneal cross-linking for the treatment of progressive keratoconus and corneal ectasia following refractive surgery. Outside the United States, Avedro has commercialized both VibeX and its KXL System for performing Lasik Xtra and accelerated cross-linking. Additionally, Avedro is developing the science of Thermo‐biomechanics for therapeutic medical applications. The Keraflex® refractive correction procedure is the first technology developed from the Thermo‐biomechanics platform and is a non‐invasive, incision‐less ophthalmic procedure for flattening the cornea without the removal of tissue. Keraflex offers the unique ability to induce refractive change without weakening the cornea’s biomechanical integrity, as happens with Lasik and other refractive correction procedures. Keraflex is commercially available outside of the United States.
White Sky provides the world’s most secure mobile password manager and one-tap ecommerce checkout solution for consumers - FastConnect. The FastConnect app for iOS, Android or PC, lets consumers login to their bank, financial, shopping or social accounts with just one tap. With the FastPay™ feature, consumers can autofill any shopping cart with just a single tap from any mobile device or PC. No remembering passwords or typing required. With over 10 million downloads and over 300 million login sessions, we’ve never been breached and our customers have never lost a single password! White Sky delivers innovative security while giving consumers the most convenient mobile experience.
Sonian is a pure public cloud information archiving company, providing a service that is easy, flexible, actionable, and reliable for OEM partners and their end customers. Sonian allows companies to preserve, analyze, and access their electronic communications for legal, regulatory, and continuity purposes while gaining organizational insights. More than 25,000 customers in 43 countries trust Sonian’s secure proprietary platform to retain, retrieve, and surface critical data and protect intellectual property. Founded in 2007, Sonian realized that companies were struggling to manage Big Data. As a result, CTO and Founder Greg Arnette recognized earlier than most that there was an enormous opportunity to use the emerging public cloud to solve these problems. Since that time, Sonian has pioneered cutting-edge cloud technologies to protect and provide value for its partners and customers. This has led to many innovations in everything from managing cloud systems and aggregating data to extracting value from and accessing information.
Lifecrowd, a Santa Monica-based social activities discovery site. Life Crowd is a marketplace for social activities connecting people, interests and culture. Lifecrowd inspires its online community to experience life offline by providing a platform for both discovering and hosting local activities. By integrating individual social graphs, user reviews, and personalized recommendations, Lifecrowd super-charges your social calendar.
Connotate transforms web data and content into high-value information assets -- to feed content products, grow market and business intelligence, enable mass data aggregation, migration and integration. Connotate's patented intelligent Agent technology empowers both business users and programmers to quickly create data sets, new applications and content products. With Connotate, customers experience productivity gains, reduced costs, mitigated risks, more informed decision-making and strategic & competitive advantages.
Polatis is a provider of optical switching technology. Founded in 2005 as the merger of leading optical technology companies from Cambridge Massachusetts and Cambridge UK, Polatis combined products, technologies and resources to create new solutions for modern fiber-based networks.
Proteon Therapeutics, Inc is a biopharmaceutical company developing pharmaceuticals to address the medical needs of patients with renal and vascular diseases. The company leverages a unique understanding of tissue remodeling to develop a pipeline of proprietary therapeutics. Proteon Therapeutics’ first drug candidate (PRT-201) is in development for the improvement of blood flow following vascular surgery procedures. The company’s initial clinical focus is vascular access for hemodialysis and peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
Xlumena develops image-guided therapeutic endoscopy products. It develops Bile Duct Stenting, a self-expanding anchor stent and precision XL delivery system. The company also develops Pseudocyst Drainage, an integrated XF system designed to enable reliable pseudocyst drainage; and Hiatal Hernia Repair that enables the repair of a hiatal hernia from inside the GI lumen. Xlumena was founded in 2007 and is based in Mountain View, California.
Sonian is a pure public cloud information archiving company, providing a service that is easy, flexible, actionable, and reliable for OEM partners and their end customers. Sonian allows companies to preserve, analyze, and access their electronic communications for legal, regulatory, and continuity purposes while gaining organizational insights. More than 25,000 customers in 43 countries trust Sonian’s secure proprietary platform to retain, retrieve, and surface critical data and protect intellectual property. Founded in 2007, Sonian realized that companies were struggling to manage Big Data. As a result, CTO and Founder Greg Arnette recognized earlier than most that there was an enormous opportunity to use the emerging public cloud to solve these problems. Since that time, Sonian has pioneered cutting-edge cloud technologies to protect and provide value for its partners and customers. This has led to many innovations in everything from managing cloud systems and aggregating data to extracting value from and accessing information.
RatePoint, Inc., the leading provider of customer feedback services, helps businesses protect and build their online reputation allowing businesses to harness the power of credible customer feedback and leverage it into a sales, marketing and customer service asset. RatePoint's easy-to-use, web-based communication services include feedback tools, survey and dispute resolution capabilities to provide small- and medium-sized businesses with the ability to collect, manage and promote customer feedback directly on their website and across the web.
At ENTrigue Surgical, we're rethinking established Otolaryngology techniques to develop innovative instruments, materials, and medical devices that make sinus surgery more efficient, effective, and comfortable for patients.
The Receivables Exchange is an auction-based marketplace that connects large sellers of trade receivables to a broad network of institutional buyers. Transactions over the exchange are standardized and structured to result in a "true sale" of the receivables, thus offering balance sheet benefits to sellers and attractive risk-adjusted returns to buyers. The auction model provides corporations with a transparent channel to monetize receivables while providing investors access to the accounts receivable market as well as liquidity, balance sheet, and risk management services. Launched in 2007, the marketplace is operated from New York, United States.
SparkPlay Media is a developer of browser-based MMO games, the first of which will be released in 2008 and titled Earth Eternal. SparkPlay is also developing a platform for developers to work with to lower the barriers to entry for MMOG creators.
5to1 is the only self-serve ad publishing platform that empowers advertisers and content owners to work as partners toward the common goal of ensuring relevant ad placement in the appropriate context, at the appropriate time, to the appropriate audience. By tapping the intelligence of publishers, 5to1 converts unsold inventory into programmable, sponsor-able, premium inventory. The 5to1 platform restores balance to the marketplace by returning placement and price decision-making to their rightful owners without increasing operating expenses. 5to1 is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Seattle.
Six Degrees Games, Inc. operates as a videogame and virtual world publisher for videogame systems and personal computers. It offers Action AllStars, a sports-themed virtual world designed for ages six to fourteen-years-old. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Marina del Rey, California.
Sonian is a pure public cloud information archiving company, providing a service that is easy, flexible, actionable, and reliable for OEM partners and their end customers. Sonian allows companies to preserve, analyze, and access their electronic communications for legal, regulatory, and continuity purposes while gaining organizational insights. More than 25,000 customers in 43 countries trust Sonian’s secure proprietary platform to retain, retrieve, and surface critical data and protect intellectual property. Founded in 2007, Sonian realized that companies were struggling to manage Big Data. As a result, CTO and Founder Greg Arnette recognized earlier than most that there was an enormous opportunity to use the emerging public cloud to solve these problems. Since that time, Sonian has pioneered cutting-edge cloud technologies to protect and provide value for its partners and customers. This has led to many innovations in everything from managing cloud systems and aggregating data to extracting value from and accessing information.
Astoria is a developer of content management systems for dynamic product documentation. The company's mission is to simplify the effort and reduce the costs of creating, managing, and publishing the world's most complex, business-critical content and documents by providing a complete end-to-end solution that includes authoring, content management, and rendering systems, provided as an integrated solution and hosted on-demand.
CoAxia is a medical device company that researches therapy and treatment solutions for cerebral ischemia. They are based in Minneapolis, MN.
5to1 is the only self-serve ad publishing platform that empowers advertisers and content owners to work as partners toward the common goal of ensuring relevant ad placement in the appropriate context, at the appropriate time, to the appropriate audience. By tapping the intelligence of publishers, 5to1 converts unsold inventory into programmable, sponsor-able, premium inventory. The 5to1 platform restores balance to the marketplace by returning placement and price decision-making to their rightful owners without increasing operating expenses. 5to1 is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Seattle.
Proteon Therapeutics, Inc is a biopharmaceutical company developing pharmaceuticals to address the medical needs of patients with renal and vascular diseases. The company leverages a unique understanding of tissue remodeling to develop a pipeline of proprietary therapeutics. Proteon Therapeutics’ first drug candidate (PRT-201) is in development for the improvement of blood flow following vascular surgery procedures. The company’s initial clinical focus is vascular access for hemodialysis and peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
iScience Interventionalâ„¢ discovers and develops microcatheter and imaging technologies that enable ophthalmologists to deliver site-specific ocular therapies. This new category of therapy is called Interventional Ophthalmology. It encompasses microcatheter-based therapies designed to access a wide range of anatomical structures within the eye to aspirate ocular fluids or deliver sterile ophthalmic solutions to the eye.
Atritech is a private company located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company was founded in 2000 and has developed proprietary technology focused on replacing long term anticoagulation therapy for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke. The first implants of the WATCHMAN® Left Atrial Appendage Closure Technology were performed in Germany in August of 2002 and in the United States in October of 2003. Since then the company has conducted a large randomized clinical trial comparing the WATCHMAN® Left Atrial Appendage Closure Technology to long term Warfarin therapy in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke. The WATCHMAN® Device is CE Marked and available in many markets outside the United States. The WATCHMAN® Device is currently available For Investigational Use Only in the United States.
The Receivables Exchange is an auction-based marketplace that connects large sellers of trade receivables to a broad network of institutional buyers. Transactions over the exchange are standardized and structured to result in a "true sale" of the receivables, thus offering balance sheet benefits to sellers and attractive risk-adjusted returns to buyers. The auction model provides corporations with a transparent channel to monetize receivables while providing investors access to the accounts receivable market as well as liquidity, balance sheet, and risk management services. Launched in 2007, the marketplace is operated from New York, United States.
RatePoint, Inc., the leading provider of customer feedback services, helps businesses protect and build their online reputation allowing businesses to harness the power of credible customer feedback and leverage it into a sales, marketing and customer service asset. RatePoint's easy-to-use, web-based communication services include feedback tools, survey and dispute resolution capabilities to provide small- and medium-sized businesses with the ability to collect, manage and promote customer feedback directly on their website and across the web.
White Sky provides the world’s most secure mobile password manager and one-tap ecommerce checkout solution for consumers - FastConnect. The FastConnect app for iOS, Android or PC, lets consumers login to their bank, financial, shopping or social accounts with just one tap. With the FastPay™ feature, consumers can autofill any shopping cart with just a single tap from any mobile device or PC. No remembering passwords or typing required. With over 10 million downloads and over 300 million login sessions, we’ve never been breached and our customers have never lost a single password! White Sky delivers innovative security while giving consumers the most convenient mobile experience.
PGP TrustCenter is the provider of on-demand PKI (public key infrastructure) security services, enabling a wide range of PKI-enabled security services for enterprise authentication, secure e-mail, and digital signatures. They deliver breakthrough economics and implementation speed to the enterprise's traditional managed services.
Six Degrees Games, Inc. operates as a videogame and virtual world publisher for videogame systems and personal computers. It offers Action AllStars, a sports-themed virtual world designed for ages six to fourteen-years-old. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Marina del Rey, California.
ROX Medical is an early phase medical device company that is pioneering an innovative treatment for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Their therapy is intended to improve the delivery of oxygen to tissue to treat hypoxemia in COPD patients via the creation of a therapeutic fistula.
MOTA has four product lines: Wearable and Creative Technology, Mobile Accessories, Household Items, and Toys. Some are first on the market, others are first of a kind, and one launched a new wearable category.
CoAxia is a medical device company that researches therapy and treatment solutions for cerebral ischemia. They are based in Minneapolis, MN.
ibeatyou is a video portal that allows its users to create competitions. Participants upload or import videos from YouTube, or capture video from webcam as competition entries. The community then votes on entries using a 5 point rating scale.
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SparkPlay Media is a developer of browser-based MMO games, the first of which will be released in 2008 and titled Earth Eternal. SparkPlay is also developing a platform for developers to work with to lower the barriers to entry for MMOG creators.
Avedro is a privately held medical device and pharmaceutical company advancing the science and technology of corneal cross-linking. Avedro recently completed its US‐based, multi-centered, Phase III studies of corneal cross-linking for the treatment of progressive keratoconus and corneal ectasia following refractive surgery. Outside the United States, Avedro has commercialized both VibeX and its KXL System for performing Lasik Xtra and accelerated cross-linking. Additionally, Avedro is developing the science of Thermo‐biomechanics for therapeutic medical applications. The Keraflex® refractive correction procedure is the first technology developed from the Thermo‐biomechanics platform and is a non‐invasive, incision‐less ophthalmic procedure for flattening the cornea without the removal of tissue. Keraflex offers the unique ability to induce refractive change without weakening the cornea’s biomechanical integrity, as happens with Lasik and other refractive correction procedures. Keraflex is commercially available outside of the United States.
The Receivables Exchange is an auction-based marketplace that connects large sellers of trade receivables to a broad network of institutional buyers. Transactions over the exchange are standardized and structured to result in a "true sale" of the receivables, thus offering balance sheet benefits to sellers and attractive risk-adjusted returns to buyers. The auction model provides corporations with a transparent channel to monetize receivables while providing investors access to the accounts receivable market as well as liquidity, balance sheet, and risk management services. Launched in 2007, the marketplace is operated from New York, United States.
Proteon Therapeutics, Inc is a biopharmaceutical company developing pharmaceuticals to address the medical needs of patients with renal and vascular diseases. The company leverages a unique understanding of tissue remodeling to develop a pipeline of proprietary therapeutics. Proteon Therapeutics’ first drug candidate (PRT-201) is in development for the improvement of blood flow following vascular surgery procedures. The company’s initial clinical focus is vascular access for hemodialysis and peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
KickApps provides on-demand social media applications that enable web publishers and marketers to grow, engage, and monetize online audiences. Its SaaS platform is powered by the first Social Graph Engine for web publishers. The platform includes social networking, user-generated content, programmable video players, drag-and-drop widget building, WidgeAds and other applications that are tightly integrated with Robust Media Moderation, member management and reporting. In March 2007 KickApps partnered with YouTube by providing KickApps's affiliates with the ability to easily pull relevant and compelling video from the YouTube library into their own KickApps-powered networks through the YouTube API. KickApps also added features that allow its affiliates to easily publish video from their networks directly to their YouTube accounts.
ExpoTV is a video-based social network for e-commerce, specifically tailored to put the consumer in control. ExpoTV.com offers their community a way to connect, share and demonstrate products they are passionate about with other consumers. ExpoTV is YouTube meets the Consumer Grapevine. Covering a broad range of categories from consumer electronics and entertainment products like digital cameras, computers, video games and movies to consumer packaged goods, baby toys, gear and other staff.
At ENTrigue Surgical, we're rethinking established Otolaryngology techniques to develop innovative instruments, materials, and medical devices that make sinus surgery more efficient, effective, and comfortable for patients.
RatePoint, Inc., the leading provider of customer feedback services, helps businesses protect and build their online reputation allowing businesses to harness the power of credible customer feedback and leverage it into a sales, marketing and customer service asset. RatePoint's easy-to-use, web-based communication services include feedback tools, survey and dispute resolution capabilities to provide small- and medium-sized businesses with the ability to collect, manage and promote customer feedback directly on their website and across the web.
SiGe Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs and offers radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits and multi-chip modules for wireless consumer electronics market. It offers wireless LAN front end modules, dual band front end modules, and discrete power amplifiers; WiMAX power amplifiers/front end modules and transceivers; GPS radio ICs and GPS receivers; and Bluetooth power amplifiers. The company, through a network of distributors, offers its RF solutions to computing, home entertainment, and mobile device applications in the consumer electronics markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle-East, and North America.
PGP TrustCenter is the provider of on-demand PKI (public key infrastructure) security services, enabling a wide range of PKI-enabled security services for enterprise authentication, secure e-mail, and digital signatures. They deliver breakthrough economics and implementation speed to the enterprise's traditional managed services.
iScience Interventionalâ„¢ discovers and develops microcatheter and imaging technologies that enable ophthalmologists to deliver site-specific ocular therapies. This new category of therapy is called Interventional Ophthalmology. It encompasses microcatheter-based therapies designed to access a wide range of anatomical structures within the eye to aspirate ocular fluids or deliver sterile ophthalmic solutions to the eye.
Worldwide Biggies, Inc. operates as a digital entertainment studio. It provides films and T.V, gametoons, games, and Webisodes for kids, families, and young adults through online. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in New York, New York.
Serica Technologies, Inc., a medical device company, develops silk-based biomaterial platforms that are used in tissue repair caused by disease, trauma, or aging. The company offers SeriGel, a long-term bioresorbable silk hydrogel that is used in plastic and reconstructive surgery, and drug delivery; and SeriFascia surgical scaffold implant, which enables the reestablishment of functional collagen sheet-like tissue that has diminished as a result of either surgery or aging. It also provides SeriACL graft, a biocompatible and biodegradable ligament graft that is used for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair; SeriCuff scaffold, which is used in rotator cuff tendon repair; and SeriScaffold surgical mesh that is used to repair and remodel damaged connective tissues. The company's products are used in orthopedics and sports medicine, aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, and multiple additional structural tissue repair applications. Serica Technologies was formerly known as Tissue Regeneration, Inc. and changed its name to Serica Technologies, Inc. in 2006. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Medford, Massachusetts. As of February 4, 2010, Serica Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Allergan Inc.
RatePoint, Inc., the leading provider of customer feedback services, helps businesses protect and build their online reputation allowing businesses to harness the power of credible customer feedback and leverage it into a sales, marketing and customer service asset. RatePoint's easy-to-use, web-based communication services include feedback tools, survey and dispute resolution capabilities to provide small- and medium-sized businesses with the ability to collect, manage and promote customer feedback directly on their website and across the web.
ExpoTV is a video-based social network for e-commerce, specifically tailored to put the consumer in control. ExpoTV.com offers their community a way to connect, share and demonstrate products they are passionate about with other consumers. ExpoTV is YouTube meets the Consumer Grapevine. Covering a broad range of categories from consumer electronics and entertainment products like digital cameras, computers, video games and movies to consumer packaged goods, baby toys, gear and other staff.
Kiptronic offers a platform for dynamically inserting video and audio ads into digital media for consumption on any device (web pages, iPods, smartphones and laptops) online or offline. The company works with rich media content publishers to help them manage, measure and monetize their content. Major media companies and independent publishers no longer have to manually insert ads into their content – With Kiptronic, it happens on-the-fly, without altering existing publishing processes. Key partnerships with rich media content delivery networks enable content publishers to turn on Kiptronic ad insertion as a simple add-on service to manage large ad campaigns through a robust ad operations tool. Kiptronic was recently named to the AlwaysOn Media 100 list of top media and advertising-related start-up companies for 2008. The company is backed by leading venture capital investors Blueprint Ventures (www.blueprintventures.com) and Prism VentureWorks (www.prismventure.com).
Axsun Technologies develops and manufactures MEMS-based micro-optical spectrometers and optical channel monitors for pharmaceutical, chemical and petrochemical, homeland security and telecom network applications. Through its expertise in micro-optics, packaging and precision engineering, Axsun has pioneered an entirely new class of high-performance, miniaturized spectroscopic instruments and devices enabling a dramatic shift from lab based measurements to on-line and at-line measurements, without compromising performance.
Colubris Networks provides wireless local area network solutions for enterprises and service providers. Its products include Colubris Wireless MultiService Access Points, which enable organizations to create wireless networking with direct source-to-destination traffic forwarding; Wireless Client Bridge that transforms non-wireless infrastructure devices into wireless-ready mobile equipment; and MultiService Controllers, which manage wireless network configuration and operation.
SiCortex is the first company to engineer high-productivity computers from the silicon up. Instead of stacking large quantities of general computing chips together, they have carefully thought through the impact of every design element on the system, focusing attention on what truly drives performance.
CoAxia is a medical device company that researches therapy and treatment solutions for cerebral ischemia. They are based in Minneapolis, MN.
SiGe Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs and offers radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits and multi-chip modules for wireless consumer electronics market. It offers wireless LAN front end modules, dual band front end modules, and discrete power amplifiers; WiMAX power amplifiers/front end modules and transceivers; GPS radio ICs and GPS receivers; and Bluetooth power amplifiers. The company, through a network of distributors, offers its RF solutions to computing, home entertainment, and mobile device applications in the consumer electronics markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle-East, and North America.
Maven Networks is an online video platform provider with end-to-end video syndication, content management and advertising solution. Maven helps media companies create, distribute and profit from direct-to-consumer Internet TV channels and networks. The Maven Internet TV Platform(TM) is used by organizations such as CanWest, CBS Sports, CBC, CNET, Gannett, The Financial Times, Fox Business Network, Fox News, Hearst, MediaNews Group, Ogilvy, Scripps Networks, Sony BMG, Sony Pictures Television, and TV Guide.
ROX Medical is an early phase medical device company that is pioneering an innovative treatment for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Their therapy is intended to improve the delivery of oxygen to tissue to treat hypoxemia in COPD patients via the creation of a therapeutic fistula.
Peptimmune is a privately held clinical stage biotechnology company focused on utilizing both novel and proven technologies to improve the therapeutic management of chronic autoimmune and metabolic disorders. The company is developing second generation therapeutics that are expected to result in safer and more effective products for obesity, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and pemphigus vulgaris.
KickApps provides on-demand social media applications that enable web publishers and marketers to grow, engage, and monetize online audiences. Its SaaS platform is powered by the first Social Graph Engine for web publishers. The platform includes social networking, user-generated content, programmable video players, drag-and-drop widget building, WidgeAds and other applications that are tightly integrated with Robust Media Moderation, member management and reporting. In March 2007 KickApps partnered with YouTube by providing KickApps's affiliates with the ability to easily pull relevant and compelling video from the YouTube library into their own KickApps-powered networks through the YouTube API. KickApps also added features that allow its affiliates to easily publish video from their networks directly to their YouTube accounts.
Uptake Medical develops innovative medical technologies for the treatment of lung diseases. Its first product, InterVapor™, is the first and only approach to endoscopic lung volume reduction for people with severe emphysema that uses the body’s natural healing process without leaving any foreign materials in the lung. In clinical studies, InterVapor has demonstrated clinically meaningful improvements in breathing function, exercise capacity and quality of life.
MedManage is an online drug sampling provider. The company's Samples On Demand(TM) service connects pharmaceutical manufacturers' brands with their customers through a network of physician portals which provides users near ubiquitous access to medication samples.
Proteon Therapeutics, Inc is a biopharmaceutical company developing pharmaceuticals to address the medical needs of patients with renal and vascular diseases. The company leverages a unique understanding of tissue remodeling to develop a pipeline of proprietary therapeutics. Proteon Therapeutics’ first drug candidate (PRT-201) is in development for the improvement of blood flow following vascular surgery procedures. The company’s initial clinical focus is vascular access for hemodialysis and peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
Everypoint Inc. provides solutions for developing and delivering mobile applications. It offers Nemo, a mobile application ecosystem that enables vector graphics, push notification, synchronization, and content delivery services on mass-market mobile applications and devices. The company offers its products to application developers. Everypoint Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Atritech is a private company located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company was founded in 2000 and has developed proprietary technology focused on replacing long term anticoagulation therapy for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke. The first implants of the WATCHMAN® Left Atrial Appendage Closure Technology were performed in Germany in August of 2002 and in the United States in October of 2003. Since then the company has conducted a large randomized clinical trial comparing the WATCHMAN® Left Atrial Appendage Closure Technology to long term Warfarin therapy in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke. The WATCHMAN® Device is CE Marked and available in many markets outside the United States. The WATCHMAN® Device is currently available For Investigational Use Only in the United States.
Insulet Corporation is a medical device company that develops, manufactures, and sells insulin delivery systems for individuals with insulin-dependent diabetes. The company's primary product, the Omnipod System, consists of a disposable, tubeless insulin infusion device that adheres to the body for up to three days, along with a wireless personal diabetes manager for monitoring and control. Insulet markets its products through independent distributors and pharmacy channels, as well as directly to patients in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Founded in 2000, Insulet is headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, and aims to enhance the quality of life for people managing diabetes through innovative technology.
As of November 29, 2007, SilverBack Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Dell Inc. SilverBack Technologies, Inc. provides products and services to manage applications, systems, and networks. The company's DataCenter enterprise product is a distributed and multi-tenant platform for providing remote management across the networks. It is a service delivery platform provider for remote monitoring and management of information technology infrastructure, such as servers, storage, networks, desktops, and notebooks. The company offers patch management and deployment, remote access, remote scripting, software distribution, file transfer, and desktop management solutions; and monitoring solutions, such as proactive monitoring, event management, security monitoring, knowledge base, dashboard, and alert management solutions. It also offers reporting solutions that include executive reports, performance scorecards, security scorecards, monthly service reports, technical reports, and long-term trending reports; and hosted packages, including monitoring licenses, patch scanning and deployment, vulnerability scanning, reporting, remediation, product training, sales and marketing assistance, and maintenance and support. It serves banking, education, legal, and medical sectors, as well as managed service providers, application developers, independent software vendors, hardware vendors, value-added resellers, system integrators, and end customers. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Billerica, Massachusetts.
GoTo, formerly known as LogMeIn, offers flexible-work software solutions such as GoTo Connect, GoTo Resolve, Rescue, and Central. Designed primarily for small and midsize business IT departments yet robust enough for enterprise use, GoTo's platform supports unified communications and collaboration (UCC) as well as IT management and support. With nearly 800,000 customers, GoTo facilitates over 1 billion participants in meetings, classes, and webinars through its UCC products and enables half a billion connections via its remote access and support tools.
M:Metrics develops and provides marketing and media intelligence software solutions for the mobile medium. Its products suite connects mobile consumer behavior, content merchandising, and device capabilities to provide mobile market intelligence.
OptiScan Biomedical Corporation develops glucose monitoring systems for the intensive care unit (ICU)/CCU. It offers OptiScanner, an automated, bedside glucose monitoring system to assist healthcare providers manage the glucose level of critically ill patients. The company’s OptiScanner provides serial blood glucose measurements for a range of glucose concentrations. OptiScan Biomedical Corporation was founded in 1994 and is based in Hayward, California.
Peptimmune is a privately held clinical stage biotechnology company focused on utilizing both novel and proven technologies to improve the therapeutic management of chronic autoimmune and metabolic disorders. The company is developing second generation therapeutics that are expected to result in safer and more effective products for obesity, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and pemphigus vulgaris.
Everypoint Inc. provides solutions for developing and delivering mobile applications. It offers Nemo, a mobile application ecosystem that enables vector graphics, push notification, synchronization, and content delivery services on mass-market mobile applications and devices. The company offers its products to application developers. Everypoint Inc. was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Softricity was a virtualization company that delivered software installed remotely, following users on-demand, enabling high productivity and reducing IT costs. The Softricity Desktop(TM), powered by the SoftGrid(R) Platform & Softricity ZeroTouch(TM), employed the company's patented application virtualization, intelligent on-demand streaming and policy-based management technologies. Softricity was acquired in July 2006.
Ingrian Networks provides enterprise data protection and other privacy solutions to companies such as Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, BEA, and VeriSign.
iScience Surgical
Series C in 2005
iScience Surgical, Inc. is a privately-held company founded in 1999. It is developing high resolution imaging systems and microsurgical instruments for the treatment of glaucoma. The Company's products are designed to complement existing glaucoma surgical techniques and serve as a platform for a new generation of minimally invasive procedures. Glaucoma is a sight threatening circulatory disorder of the eye that affects approximately 4.2 million Americans and 69 million people worldwide. More than $2 billion is spent annually on glaucoma medications and treatments worldwide, the majority of which are unable to restore the eye's natural drainage process.
Colubris Networks provides wireless local area network solutions for enterprises and service providers. Its products include Colubris Wireless MultiService Access Points, which enable organizations to create wireless networking with direct source-to-destination traffic forwarding; Wireless Client Bridge that transforms non-wireless infrastructure devices into wireless-ready mobile equipment; and MultiService Controllers, which manage wireless network configuration and operation.
SiGe Semiconductor, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs and offers radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits and multi-chip modules for wireless consumer electronics market. It offers wireless LAN front end modules, dual band front end modules, and discrete power amplifiers; WiMAX power amplifiers/front end modules and transceivers; GPS radio ICs and GPS receivers; and Bluetooth power amplifiers. The company, through a network of distributors, offers its RF solutions to computing, home entertainment, and mobile device applications in the consumer electronics markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle-East, and North America.
myocor is a medical company that develops and distributes a range of therapeutic products to its clients. The company develops and provides evaluations on technologies to treat mitral regurgitation and heart failure. Furthermore, the technologies assist in the improvement of cardiac function. myocor was founded in 1996 and is based in Minnesota.
GoTo, formerly known as LogMeIn, offers flexible-work software solutions such as GoTo Connect, GoTo Resolve, Rescue, and Central. Designed primarily for small and midsize business IT departments yet robust enough for enterprise use, GoTo's platform supports unified communications and collaboration (UCC) as well as IT management and support. With nearly 800,000 customers, GoTo facilitates over 1 billion participants in meetings, classes, and webinars through its UCC products and enables half a billion connections via its remote access and support tools.
Astoria is a developer of content management systems for dynamic product documentation. The company's mission is to simplify the effort and reduce the costs of creating, managing, and publishing the world's most complex, business-critical content and documents by providing a complete end-to-end solution that includes authoring, content management, and rendering systems, provided as an integrated solution and hosted on-demand.
CoAxia is a medical device company that researches therapy and treatment solutions for cerebral ischemia. They are based in Minneapolis, MN.
SiCortex is the first company to engineer high-productivity computers from the silicon up. Instead of stacking large quantities of general computing chips together, they have carefully thought through the impact of every design element on the system, focusing attention on what truly drives performance.
IceFyre Semiconductor
Series D in 2004
IceFyre Semiconductor designs and develops a range of Wi-Fi chips. Its products include SureFyre 802.11a and TwinFyre 802.11a/b/g system solutions. The company offers orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) product that reduces power requirements with the use of the digital computational engines in the data transmission chain. IceFyre was founded by Cedric Paillard and is based in Kanata, Ontario.
Motia is a fabless semiconductor company focused on enabling smart antennas with RFICs. The Company's standards-compliant adaptive beamforming technologies easily integrate into wireless systems providers' products to enhance overall functionality and performance.
Softricity was a virtualization company that delivered software installed remotely, following users on-demand, enabling high productivity and reducing IT costs. The Softricity Desktop(TM), powered by the SoftGrid(R) Platform & Softricity ZeroTouch(TM), employed the company's patented application virtualization, intelligent on-demand streaming and policy-based management technologies. Softricity was acquired in July 2006.
MedManage is an online drug sampling provider. The company's Samples On Demand(TM) service connects pharmaceutical manufacturers' brands with their customers through a network of physician portals which provides users near ubiquitous access to medication samples.
ROX Medical is an early phase medical device company that is pioneering an innovative treatment for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Their therapy is intended to improve the delivery of oxygen to tissue to treat hypoxemia in COPD patients via the creation of a therapeutic fistula.
Axya Medical is a U.S.-based company that offers knotless fixation systems for shoulder repair. The company provides knotless fixation systems, including control unit, handpiece, wielding sleeve, and sutures; and implants, including titanium implants, bioabsorbable implants, and super implants. Axya Medical also provides shoulder accessories such as removal tool, bone punch, bioabsorbable anchor tap, and drill guide with obturator; and general accessories, such as electrical cord, handpiece sterilization tray, protective horn sheath, suture separator, suture grasper, and arthroscopic suture cutter. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Continuum's mission is to provide optical networking equipment manufacturers with strategic subsystems that enable higher bandwidth products and associated revenue-generating services at a substantially lower cost. As a first step, Continuum Photonics is developing a radically different, operationally and economically beneficial photonic switch that will solve many of the problems associated with delivering and managing optically-transported bandwidth.
Bitfone Corporation
Series C in 2004
Bitfone offers mProve software, a software solution that helps wireless service providers do over-the-air mobile repairs and upgrades.
BioRexis has developed proprietary protein engineering technologies based upon human transferrin that provide novel therapeutic agents with longer duration of action than synthetic peptides. In addition to reducing dosing frequency, these technologies have the potential to substantially improve patient tolerability. This new platform supports Pfizer’s commitment to develop novel protein therapeutic agents.
Private Equity Round in 2004
Salesnet is a SRM software developer that helps drive marketing and sales efforts while insuring support and CRM security. It features sales, marketing, configuration and customization, training and support, and data security services. They offer its users with tools such as leads, opportunities, contacts, accounts, dashboards, and reports to empower sales teams to be more efficient and productive. Managed campaigns with processes for leads and utilize email marketing, mobile CRM, document library, Microsoft office and social media integration, and campaign management services supports the sales plan. Configuration and customization offers process builder with smart forms, configurable nomenclature, data import, XML web services API, and integration link services. Support services that includes help center, tutorial videos, documentation and guides, and searchable FAQs helps individuals and businesses to achieve their targets and also offers onsite training, online webinar trainings, and pre-recorded training sessions. Salesnet partner programs are classified into referral partners and reseller partners which includes partner sales and marketing resources, partner pricing model, and partner training and support services. Salesnet is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1997 by Jonathan Tang and Richard Perkett.
Colubris Networks provides wireless local area network solutions for enterprises and service providers. Its products include Colubris Wireless MultiService Access Points, which enable organizations to create wireless networking with direct source-to-destination traffic forwarding; Wireless Client Bridge that transforms non-wireless infrastructure devices into wireless-ready mobile equipment; and MultiService Controllers, which manage wireless network configuration and operation.