Ray Browser
Seed Round in 2024
Ray is a specialized web browser designed for gamers, offering cutting-edge features like optimized speed and reliability. It enhances gameplay experiences and empowers developers to innovate within the gaming industry.
Mawari
Venture Round in 2024
Mawari develops cloud rendering and streaming technology for interactive augmented reality experiences. Its platform enables real-time rendering and distribution of 3D content in the cloud for XR devices and platforms, while an AR streaming SDK enables developers to render in the cloud and deliver results to smartphones and AR glasses. A core capability is compression technology that reduces 3D asset size without compromising visual fidelity, enabling scalable, low-latency streaming to consumer devices.
Activeloop
Series A in 2024
Activeloop is a technology company that specializes in providing a distributed cloud computing platform designed for building and scaling data pipelines for machine learning applications. Its flagship product, Deep Lake, is a database optimized for artificial intelligence, particularly for deep learning and large language model (LLM) applications. Deep Lake offers a unique storage format that accommodates various data types, including embeddings, audio, text, videos, images, and annotations. The platform features capabilities for querying, vector search, data streaming during model training, and comprehensive data versioning and lineage management. Deep Lake is designed to handle data of any size in a serverless environment, facilitating seamless integration with popular tools such as LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is utilized by notable organizations, including Bayer Radiology and Matterport. Founded by a team with backgrounds from prestigious institutions such as Princeton and Stanford, Activeloop has garnered support from Y Combinator, positioning itself as a key player in the machine learning and AI data management landscape.
LIV is a Prague-based company that develops virtual reality software and extended reality capture technology for creating, publishing, and sharing immersive VR experiences. Its platform provides a full-stack content creation toolset that enables developers and creators to build immersive VR games and entertainment content and to share these experiences with audiences. The company focuses on empowering VR creators to live stream experiences in real time, turning passive viewers into active participants. Since launching in 2018, LIV has driven over 1.5 billion views, reflecting strong engagement with its audience-centric approach to VR storytelling and gameplay.
Moviebot
Seed Round in 2021
MovieBot is an innovative platform that empowers Gen-Z video creators to produce interactive 3D movies effortlessly. By transforming text prompts into animated videos, MovieBot enables users to create fully customizable 3D worlds, complete with interactive characters and environments. The platform utilizes advanced virtual and mixed-reality technologies to synchronize user experiences, allowing creators to modify stories, characters, and settings in real time. MovieBot envisions a future where teenagers can harness their creativity to develop high-quality animated content from the comfort of their own homes, making advanced filmmaking accessible to a new generation of storytellers.
StreamElements
Series A in 2019
StreamElements is a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing a web-based platform tailored for live content creators, offering tools for monetization, audience management, and community growth. The platform allows creators to display unblockable ads, collect donations, and reward viewers with loyalty points. Key features include a stream dashboard, overlay manager, chat statistics, leaderboard, spam filters, and custom stream pages. StreamElements also facilitates revenue generation through viewer purchases using currency earned by watching streams. Additionally, the company provides cloud-based overlays, alerts, chatbots, loyalty programs, sponsorships, and brand-safe moderation services. It supports creators across various platforms like Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok, connecting them with brands for performance marketing campaigns.
LiquidSky
Convertible Note in 2017
LiquidSky Software is an online platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States, that focuses on streaming interactive applications and experiences. The company specializes in cloud gaming and thin-client computing, offering a gaming and content delivery network that allows users to access high-performance applications on low-end devices. By enhancing load balancing, storage, networking, scheduling, and streaming capabilities, LiquidSky aims to provide reduced latency and an improved interactive experience for its users.
StreamElements
Seed Round in 2017
StreamElements is a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing a web-based platform tailored for live content creators, offering tools for monetization, audience management, and community growth. The platform allows creators to display unblockable ads, collect donations, and reward viewers with loyalty points. Key features include a stream dashboard, overlay manager, chat statistics, leaderboard, spam filters, and custom stream pages. StreamElements also facilitates revenue generation through viewer purchases using currency earned by watching streams. Additionally, the company provides cloud-based overlays, alerts, chatbots, loyalty programs, sponsorships, and brand-safe moderation services. It supports creators across various platforms like Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok, connecting them with brands for performance marketing campaigns.
Sorenson Media
Convertible Note in 2017
Sorenson Media is a company specializing in TV and video solutions, established in 1995. It has been a leader in digital video innovation, offering a range of products that enhance the broadcasting experience. The company’s award-winning Squeeze suite provides encoding and streaming services widely used by video professionals to deliver high-quality content to connected devices. Additionally, Sorenson's Spark products leverage its extensive expertise to help broadcasters, advertisers, and content owners integrate digital media capabilities, such as addressability and real-time measurement, into traditional television. By enabling smart televisions to participate in the networked digital ecosystem, Sorenson Media enhances viewer analytics and facilitates personalized advertising, thus improving the overall TV viewing experience. Based in the greater Salt Lake City area, Sorenson Media plays a significant role in the region's burgeoning tech industry.
LiquidSky
Convertible Note in 2016
LiquidSky Software is an online platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States, that focuses on streaming interactive applications and experiences. The company specializes in cloud gaming and thin-client computing, offering a gaming and content delivery network that allows users to access high-performance applications on low-end devices. By enhancing load balancing, storage, networking, scheduling, and streaming capabilities, LiquidSky aims to provide reduced latency and an improved interactive experience for its users.
Otto Radio
Seed Round in 2016
Otto Radio, Inc. is a mobile application developer specializing in a radio app that curates podcasts and personalized audio news for users on Android and iOS platforms. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the company aims to enhance users' daily routines by providing access to a wide range of audio content, including news, podcasts, talk shows, and stories across various topics such as arts, business, entertainment, health, politics, and technology. Otto Radio's platform is designed to transform mundane activities like driving or exercising into opportunities for learning and entertainment, catering to the interests and preferences of its listeners.
LiquidSky
Seed Round in 2016
LiquidSky Software is an online platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States, that focuses on streaming interactive applications and experiences. The company specializes in cloud gaming and thin-client computing, offering a gaming and content delivery network that allows users to access high-performance applications on low-end devices. By enhancing load balancing, storage, networking, scheduling, and streaming capabilities, LiquidSky aims to provide reduced latency and an improved interactive experience for its users.
Otto Radio
Seed Round in 2016
Otto Radio, Inc. is a mobile application developer specializing in a radio app that curates podcasts and personalized audio news for users on Android and iOS platforms. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, the company aims to enhance users' daily routines by providing access to a wide range of audio content, including news, podcasts, talk shows, and stories across various topics such as arts, business, entertainment, health, politics, and technology. Otto Radio's platform is designed to transform mundane activities like driving or exercising into opportunities for learning and entertainment, catering to the interests and preferences of its listeners.
VRB
Convertible Note in 2015
VRB is a New York City-based company specializing in virtual reality software applications that enable users to create, preview, and engage in personalized virtual experiences. As a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., VRB focuses on social virtual reality, offering user-facing applications such as VRB Home, a shared personal space, and VRBFoto, a spherical photo-sharing app. The company also provides a versatile toolkit for VR content creators, which includes an extensible avatar creator, a headset-to-mobile broadcasting tool, and a persistent backend system. This suite of services empowers users to design and manipulate virtual worlds that are shareable and enhance communication and self-expression in a virtual environment.
Cognitive Networks
Series B in 2014
Cognitive Networks, founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, collaborates with television set manufacturers to enhance viewer engagement and interactivity in TV programming. The company's Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) platform allows Smart TVs to recognize the content being displayed, facilitating transactions, information requests, and personalized viewing experiences. By connecting content providers and advertisers with audiences in a more meaningful way, Cognitive Networks aims to transform traditional television into a more interactive medium.