Sherpalo Ventures
Sherpalo is a mentor capital firm that supports the development and commercialization of early-stage disruptive new technologies.
To guide and mentor exceptional entrepreneurs in taking their disruptive ideas and technology and turning them into successful businesses.
They're looking for innovative entrepreneurs with an idea - a great idea - who have started to gather a team, develop a plan, and design the defensible technology to bring the idea to fruition.
Building a business can be a rugged experience. Young companies face numerous challenges as they seek to grow and gain traction. For Founder leaders it is invaluable to have an experienced sherpa guide to share the load and make success come a little easier, perhaps a little faster and with fewer mistakes.
They've done this before at Netscape, Amazon, and Google - some of the foremost online companies of the decade. Ram Shriram and Sherpalo can help guide your enterprise to the summit by providing assistance in; a) Identifying and hiring key management personnel; b) Making the right product choices; c) Defining and adapting your business model to changing market conditions; d) Identifying appropriate market entry points; e) Helping you to secure early customer wins; f) Building momentum from a standing start; g) Generating international growth; h) Providing an independent and pragmatic voice of reason and making necessary judgment calls when you don't have all the facts.
Sherpalo works with only a few outstanding teams each year, in order to devote the time, energy and resources required to guide a fledgling company to the summit of business success.
70 past transactions
PayMate India
Series B in 2008
PayMate is a leader in B2B payments for Enterprise and SME across supply chains. The PayMate platform provides a comprehensive digital workflow tied to payments which enable greater control and transparency along with better cash flows and an end to end reconciliation for a superior experience for Enterprise and SME in closed-loop supply chains.
PayMate works with leading Visa commercial card-issuing banks to facilitate credit for both payables and receivables across supply chains moving traditional cash, cheque and EFT to card streams with several built-in risk-mitigating benefits for banks and extended days payables for buyers.
Platform features include Procure to Pay automation, credit evaluation, discount marketplace along with APIs for integration into existing accounts/ERP for minimal friction-based deployment. It is cloud-based and accessible across all form factors.
PayMate has a presence in South Asia (India) and UAE and is actively expanding across CEMEA.
Zoomin Online (India) Pvt. Ltd
Venture Round in 2008
Zoomin Online (India) Pvt. Ltd. provides online photo and photo printing services. The company also enables customers to upload, store, and print their digital photos, as well as share them with friends and family around the world. In addition, it operates an online store for digital cameras and camera accessories, photobooks, canvases, photo prints, posters, mugs, magnets, frames, note cards, framed prints, books, and collage posters. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Mumbai, India. Zoomin Online (India) Pvt. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Zoomin Pte Limited.
Studyplaces
Series A in 2008
StudyPlaces.com is a global education portal in India that serves as a comprehensive one-stop-shop for education search. Born out of a need to bridge the gap between education sources and the student seeking information, StudyPlaces.com follows a vision of being the complete solution for all education search related queries for studies in India and abroad.
DataFox Intelligence, Inc.
Seed Round in 2013
DataFox is a company intelligence platform that helps sales, marketing, and investing teams find and prioritize target companies to source more opportunities. DataFox's team of 100+ human analysts verify AI-sourced insights on millions of businesses to provide robust Company Data, Growth Signals, and Account Scoring.
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, DataFox is backed by Goldman Sachs, Green Visor, Google Ventures, and Slack, and used by high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies alike; examples include UPS, Accel Partners, Bain & Company, Twilio, Zendesk, and Outreach.
Kit Tech, Inc.
Seed Round in 2021
Kit offers comprehensive at-home health & lab testing solutions, allowing businesses and organizations to deliver a safe, convenient, and reliable alternative to doctor & laboratory visits to their customers.
FlightCaster
Series A in 2009
FlightCaster predicts flight delays.
FlightCaster can predict your probability of delay hours before the airline or any other app notifies you. FlightCaster uses a patent-pending algorithm that scours data on every domestic flight for the past 10-years and matches it to real-time conditions.
Callaway Digital Arts
Series A in 2010
"Callaway Digital Arts (CDA) publishes premium lifestyle and children's applications for Apple's iPad, iPhone, and iPod family of products. CDA's in-house studio brings talented storytellers and digital artists together to create high-quality applications that leave a lasting impression on people of all ages. Funded by the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund, CDA's apps include Martha Stewart Makes Cookies, Miss Spider's Tea Party, Miss Spider's Bedtime Story, and (RED): The Lazarus Effect." Source: 11/1/10 press release on Callaway's KPCB funding
Anchor Intelligence
Series A in 2007
Anchor Intelligence is the traffic quality solutions provider of choice among ad networks and search engines. Anchor's ClearMark, the industry's first and only real-time traffic scoring system, enables customers to increase conversions, improve traffic sources, eliminate click and impression fraud, and capitalize on high quality traffic to maximize advertiser ROI. By providing a quality score for each ad event (similar to a FICO score for credit), ClearMark provides customers with actionable intelligence to make smarter decisions about their inventory. While industry-wide CPCs have declined by approximately 13% in the past few months, Anchor's customers' average CPCs have increased by 11%. Anchor Intelligence was acquired by Comscore in March 2011.
Values of n
Series A in 2006
Values of n brings an iconoclastic approach to social software design. They're throwing out the well-worn assumptions about how applications are supposed to work, and are instead paying attention to the clever ways in which people have adapted software to fit their needs. These workarounds usually contain the seeds of a better solution.
They always strive to move beyond software that's "cool" or feature-full to software that's transparent and feature-useful: software so elegantly implemented it becomes an extension of the person using it.
Their two main products are "I want Sandy" and "Stikkit".
Notion Labs, Inc.
Angel Round in 2017
Notion Labs, Inc. develops unified workspace mobile and web-based tools and solutions. It offers a document editor for notes, wikis, and tasks that nests pages inside each other, drags and drops content, builds task board, and keeps the team in sync with slack notifications. The company also provides slack integration, converts markdown shortcuts into content, exports to PDF, and publishes as websites. Notion Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Canopy Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Notion Labs, Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Cleartrip
Venture Round in 2006
[Cleartrip.com](http://www.cleartrip.com/) is the travel site that gives you what you need without any annoying fluff. They are focused on simplicity, comprehensibility, reliability, and responsibility to give you the best travel service.
Skycatch, Inc.
Venture Round in 2014
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use.
It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
HopeLink
Series A in 2000
Since 1971, Hopelink has served homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in King and Snohomish counties; providing stability and helping people gain the skills and knowledge they need to exit poverty for good.
Hopelink provides a network of critical social services through a number of different programs – including housing, transportation, family development, financial assistance, employment programs, adult education, financial literacy training and five food banks. The agency’s service centers, housing and transportation programs help more than 60,000 people every year.
Hypersonix Inc.
Seed Round in 2018
Hypersonix Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based autonomous data analytics software for the consumer commerce industry. It offers Hypersonix, a predictive and prescriptive analytics platform to measure and monitor business results and offer a decision making in real-time to analyze disparate data sources and derive actionable insights. The company’s Hypersonix empowers all levels of decision makers from across the business, including sales, marketing, finance, operations, and supply chain with data-driven decisioning. Hypersonix Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California.
Haute Secure
Series A in 2009
Haute Secure is a security company that, in addition to an algorithm, relies on a community of users to prevent malware from being uploaded to your computer without your knowledge. The program comes in the form of a browser plugin and can label individual web pages as "infected" as opposed to the full website. It is particularly effective at blocking specific content on websites which may only be minutely affected. For example, a site like Facebook or Myspace would not be banned due to malware on one profile. Only said profile would be banned.
Paymate
Series A in 2006
Paymate provides secure, Internet-based payment services to buyers in 57 countries around the world and sellers in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
You can use Paymate to receive online payments via credit card. You do NOT need to have a merchant facility with a bank nor a secure website nor gateway processor service.
You can also use Paymate to make secure payments to any registered Paymate client, without divulging your personal or financial details to them. You can use a credit card to make a payment from any of 57 countries, in Australian Dollars, New Zealand Dollars, US Dollars or other currencies. Registration with Paymate to make an Express Payment via credit card is not necessary.
Paymate Pty Ltd is a privately-held company incorporated in New South Wales, Australia and headquartered in Sydney. We were established in July 2000 and provide information, risk and financial management services tailored for global e-commerce.
Paymate Global Inc. is a US company registered in the State of Delaware.
Zecter
Venture Round in 2009
Zecter is creating technology that aims to make it easy to share files with others over the internet.
Paperless Post
Series C in 2014
Paperless Post exists to help people gather more easily and meaningfully in real life, because they believe that’s how relationships thrive. Since 2009, their online platform has helped millions of people spend time with the people they care about at life's most important moments. Last year alone, Paperless Post brought over 70 million people together. They are incredibly excited about the launch of their new product, Flyer, which will leverage their event management tools, alongside new and more versatile design choices and functionality, to allow an even wider range of people gather every day.
Open Garden
Series A in 2014
Open Garden is changing the way people connect to the Internet. By enabling anyone to securely share their own Internet connection and earn money, the Open Garden protocol empowers millions of people to create their own networks in their own communities, while making Internet access more affordable, faster and private.
Mint
Series C in 2009
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.
Lionside
Series A in 2010
Lionside is redefining the intersection between sports and games by combining powerful social gaming mechanics with the proven affinity between fans and the teams and sports that they love. We are headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London and Surabaya, Indonesia.
InMobi
Series A in 2008
InMobi provides mobile advertising services in Asia and Africa. It develops an advertisement serving algorithm that helps in optimizing the ranking of the advertisements served on mobile phones.
InMobi also provides campaign management services, such as strategy, designing, executing, managing, and optimizing campaigns, and advertisement creation, format, and targeting services for advertisers. Moreover, it offers monetization strategies to monetize site traffic by using a combination of performance and branding advertisements, and an advertisement serving algorithm to rank the advertisements available based on user targeting and past performance for publishers.
Further, InMobi provides advertisers and publishers with access to near real-time reports to monitor the performance of advertisement campaigns and the status of site monetization. Furthermore, it offers InMobi Ad Tracker, a mobile campaign conversion tracking solution; and Lifetime Value Platform, a platform that identifies in-application user groups and provides behavior insight to publishers or application developers.
InMobi has a strategic partnership with TalkingData. Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta, and Abhay Singhal founded mKhoj Solutions Private Limited in 2006 that became InMobi Technologies in August 2009, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India and additional offices in New Delhi and Mumbai in India.
InMobi
Series C in 2011
InMobi provides mobile advertising services in Asia and Africa. It develops an advertisement serving algorithm that helps in optimizing the ranking of the advertisements served on mobile phones.
InMobi also provides campaign management services, such as strategy, designing, executing, managing, and optimizing campaigns, and advertisement creation, format, and targeting services for advertisers. Moreover, it offers monetization strategies to monetize site traffic by using a combination of performance and branding advertisements, and an advertisement serving algorithm to rank the advertisements available based on user targeting and past performance for publishers.
Further, InMobi provides advertisers and publishers with access to near real-time reports to monitor the performance of advertisement campaigns and the status of site monetization. Furthermore, it offers InMobi Ad Tracker, a mobile campaign conversion tracking solution; and Lifetime Value Platform, a platform that identifies in-application user groups and provides behavior insight to publishers or application developers.
InMobi has a strategic partnership with TalkingData. Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta, and Abhay Singhal founded mKhoj Solutions Private Limited in 2006 that became InMobi Technologies in August 2009, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India and additional offices in New Delhi and Mumbai in India.
Planetary Resources, Inc.
Series A in 2012
Planetary Resources is bringing the natural resources of space within humanity’s economic sphere of influence, propelling us into the 21st century and beyond…today.
Asteroids will play a key role in the development of a space economy and be the main driver in allowing humanity to become a flourishing multi-planetary species. Water from asteroids will fuel the in-space economy and habitation, by creating rocket fuel and consumable water from space, for space.
Kotak Urja
Venture Round in 2008
KOTAK URJAâ„¢ Private Limited, Bangalore is a concern dedicated to the promotion of Eco-friendly and Environmentally Safe Renewable Energy propagation and implementation globally. It is a KOTAK family enterprise and group concern which are engaged in diverse commercial activities in India and globally in areas of Exports-Imports of Textile Raw materials & Finished Products, Energy Solutions, Engineering Goods, Agricultural Products & Minerals and Financial and Insurance solutions through various group concerns.
Predictify
Series A in 2008
Predictify was a prediction platform where users could predict the future and build a reputation based on their accuracy. Additionally, marketers could post questions to collect actionable, forward-looking data "from the crowd." They announced in July 2009, that they would be shutting their doors.
Skyroot Aerospace
Convertible Note in 2022
A new space age is emerging and the extraordinary opportunities in space depend on the transportation systems from Earth to Space. At Skyroot, they are building technologies for responsive, reliable and economic access to space. They envision a future where spaceflight is as regular, reliable and affordable as airflight.
Voxel
Seed Round in 2013
Voxel makes mobile ads exciting and engaging. By bringing the experience to the beginning of the app discovery process, users get to "try before they buy". This means that every visit to the app store through a Voxel epxerience is purposeful and creates a higher lifetime value user.
Scalyr, Inc.
Seed Round in 2016
Scalyr brings a new level of speed and productivity to operations teams, replacing traditionally separate tools such as server monitoring, application metrics, log analysis and error tracking with a single, integrated service. Scalyr's massively parallel backend analyzes terabytes of data in seconds, transforming the user experience. Operations teams can interactively explore their system data, spot patterns across thousands of servers, and be alerted of incipient problems before they trigger a crisis.
Zimmber
Venture Round in 2015
Zimmber is a platform for those who are in need of home services like fixing or a dripping flush tank or electrical glitch, or installation of air conditioner. People who are in need of these services can contact this online firm and get the tasks done within few clicks. Since this started its first service in Indian trade capital, Mumbai, it has been successful so far and will be available in all the metropolitan cities soon. As per Zimmber, every home is spending around Rs. 23,000 per year, this is exactly where the firm is focusing now.
The user has to select the service available in their website or mobile application. If the user finds any issue in applying for services, the platform will help the user to find it. After the user chooses the service needed, he/she will be contacted to confirm the availability, before Zimmber sends a service provider to his/her home/office. The firm says it has partnered with 100 service providers so far to work for them.
Paymate
Series B in 2008
Paymate provides secure, Internet-based payment services to buyers in 57 countries around the world and sellers in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
You can use Paymate to receive online payments via credit card. You do NOT need to have a merchant facility with a bank nor a secure website nor gateway processor service.
You can also use Paymate to make secure payments to any registered Paymate client, without divulging your personal or financial details to them. You can use a credit card to make a payment from any of 57 countries, in Australian Dollars, New Zealand Dollars, US Dollars or other currencies. Registration with Paymate to make an Express Payment via credit card is not necessary.
Paymate Pty Ltd is a privately-held company incorporated in New South Wales, Australia and headquartered in Sydney. We were established in July 2000 and provide information, risk and financial management services tailored for global e-commerce.
Paymate Global Inc. is a US company registered in the State of Delaware.
Skycatch, Inc.
Series B in 2015
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use.
It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
MapMyIndia
Series C in 2009
MapMyIndia is one of India's leading mapping data companies and also runs a consumer portal as an outlet for this.
CE Info Systems (P) Ltd., a New Delhi-based ISO 9001-2000 Company founded in 1992, is India's leader in premium quality digital map data and consumer navigation services. Since 1994, through continuous field surveys and state-of-the-art mapping technology, the company has built its proprietary MapmyIndia Maps, the most comprehensive, accurate, robust and reliable navigable map dataset for all India. MapmyIndia is driving the Indian navigation industry by providing internet, mobile and in-car navigation products to end consumers directly as well as in partnership with leading international and national players.
The company has been providing GIS based enterprise solutions to over 500 leading corporate and government organizations in every vertical. In 2004, MapmyIndia was short listed by NASSCOM as a showcase company for IT innovation in India. Most recently, MapmyIndia's Managing Director was elected by GPS Business News as the "World's GPS Businessman for the year 2007" for driving the navigation industry in India.
Next Jump
Venture Round in 2006
Headquartered in New York City, Next Jump is building the next generation of e-commerce and advertising technology, and revolutionizing the way consumers and marketers interact online. The company has created the most powerful technology engine for sales achieving the highest conversion rates of browsers to buyers. Over 28,000 merchant partners, both retailers and manufacturers, leverage Next Jump's technology, to create the most targeted, cost-effective and measurable campaigns to reach more than 100 million users. Next Jump acquires its users through a B2B model, with over 90,000 corporations, affinity groups, and institutions including more than 84% of the FORTUNE 100 and nearly 60% of FORTUNE 500 companies. Next Jump has offices in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, U.K. For more information on Next Jump visit www.nextjump.com.
StumbleUpon
Series B in 2011
StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from across the Web. More than 25 million people turn to StumbleUpon to be informed, entertained and surprised by content and information recommended just for them. In addition, more than 80,000 brands, publishers and other marketers have used StumbleUpon’s Paid Discovery platform to tell their stories and promote their products and services. Explore more at www.stumbleupon.com.
GreenDust
Series B in 2012
GreenDust is India’s premier online shopping site that offers customers and bulk buyers the option to purchase unused, branded factory seconds, surplus, overstock, and refurbished products at the lowest prices – guaranteed. Our products are even cheaper than CSD canteen! We support the online shopping experience with physical retail stores. We have over 100 stores and plan to make it over 500 within 6 months. Look out for a GreenDust store coming in your neighborhood. Our product categories keep on changing but we carry electronic gadgets, laptops, mobiles, mobile accessories, Bluetooth headsets, computers, accessories, batteries, laptops, refrigerators, ACs, washing machines, digital cameras, audio, video, LCDs, LEDs, games, mixers, JMG, irons, cook tops, blenders, heaters, personal care products, health care, and many more product categories across well known brands like Sony, Samsung, LG, Videocon, Onida, Panasonic, Phillips, HTC, Palm, Toshiba, Blackberry, Apple, Nokia, Kodak, Sony Ericsson, BenQ, Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Karbonn, Micromax, Whirlpool, Glen, INALSA, and many more.
Mevio
Series C in 2008
MEVIO is the largest independent online video entertainment network delivering short form video to millions.
MEVIO has hundreds of constantly rotating hosted shows delivering thousands of fresh episodes a month and currently has a library of over 250,000 episodes.
Supporting their home page is MEVIO's four networks channeled to specific audiences; Men (meviomen.mevio.com), Women (meviowomen.mevio.com), Tech (meviotech.mevio.com), Music (meviomusic.mevio.com).
Zazzle
Series A in 2005
Robert Beaver and his two sons founded Zazzle.com, a service which enables users to create their own products. Zazzle.com users can create virtually anything, from customized t-shirts to postage stamps. Users can also recieve a commission on products that they sell and design themselves. Zazzle is funded primarily by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures, who in 2005 provided [$16 million](http://www.zazzle.com/mk/welcome/pressreleases/pr071805_1) in seres A funding.
Major competitors include [Cafepress](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cafepress), [Spreadshirt](http://www.spreadshirt.com/). However, Zazzle's patented color print technology allows them to manufacture multicolored items, especially t-shirts and other clothing items, for pennies at a time.
Validity Sensors
Series A in 2006
Founded in 2000, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Validity is the world leader in Natural ID™ authentication, providing fingerprint sensor solutions with the highest levels of performance, security, cost-effectiveness, and design flexibility.
Validity’s Natural ID solutions provide an ideal platform for addressing the explosive growth in mobile payment transactions and cloud-based services. Passwords and PINs are ineffective at meeting the needs of end users and service providers as they're either too easy to hack or too hard to remember. Natural ID provides a simple and effective way to optimize usability while providing strong security.
Natural ID authenticates a user by their unique human characteristics such as fingerprint, voice, and face. Of these, fingerprints have been proven to provide the best combination of effectiveness, cost, and usability.
Aisera, Inc.
Series C in 2020
AISERA is an information technology company that offers solutions for IT, HR, customer service, facilities, and cloud operations of companies, businesses, and organizations. It specializes in artificial intelligence, NLP, and NLU.
The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Antheia
Series B in 2021
Antheia is unlocking the medicinal power of nature. Its synthetic biology platform surpasses the limits of conventional drug discovery and manufacturing through a novel approach to whole-cell engineering —reconstructing complex molecules in yeast to bring to market next-generation plant-inspired medicines.
Mint
Series B in 2008
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.
Inkling Systems, Inc.
Series A in 2010
Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world. Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights.
Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space.
Decide
Series B in 2011
Backed by early investors in Amazon, Google and eBay, Decide is a team of Seattle data scientists committed to helping consumers easily find the highest rated products and the best times to buy based on billions of data points from across the Web. Decide's price predictions have been 80 percent accurate and have helped uncover $200 million in savings.
The company was co-founded by Internet search pioneer Prof. Oren Etzioni, founder of Farecast, the travel price predictor, and Netbot, the web's first comparison-shopping engine. The Seattle-based company has raised $17M in venture capital from Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital, Maveron and Madrona Venture Group as well as a handful of angel investors.
Bluebox
Series A in 2012
Bluebox Security, Inc. operates as a stealth startup tackling enterprise mobile security company. It offers Dexter, a Web-based user interface to help researchers and enterprise security teams to analyze applications for malware and vulnerabilities. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As per the transaction announced on April 8, 2016, Bluebox Security, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Lookout, Inc.
Gusto
Seed Round in 2012
Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resource, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.
Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuter benefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.
Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado.
Bump Technologies
Series A in 2009
Bump Technologies builds mobile applications and APIs that allow two smartphones to identify one another and connect by simply being bumped together.
The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Mountain View, California. Bump Technologies is funded by [Y Combinator](/organization/y-combinator), [Sequoia Capital](/financial-organization/sequoia-capital), [Andreessen Horowitz](/financial-organization/andreessen-horowitz) and other angel investors.
StumbleUpon
Series A in 2009
StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from across the Web. More than 25 million people turn to StumbleUpon to be informed, entertained and surprised by content and information recommended just for them. In addition, more than 80,000 brands, publishers and other marketers have used StumbleUpon’s Paid Discovery platform to tell their stories and promote their products and services. Explore more at www.stumbleupon.com.
Mevio
Series A in 2005
MEVIO is the largest independent online video entertainment network delivering short form video to millions.
MEVIO has hundreds of constantly rotating hosted shows delivering thousands of fresh episodes a month and currently has a library of over 250,000 episodes.
Supporting their home page is MEVIO's four networks channeled to specific audiences; Men (meviomen.mevio.com), Women (meviowomen.mevio.com), Tech (meviotech.mevio.com), Music (meviomusic.mevio.com).
Wishfin.com
Angel Round in 2016
Wishfin enables wishes through investment, credit, and smart financial management.
The company uses cutting edge technology and financial expertise to empower customers make responsible financial decisions, helping them fulfill their cherished wishes and aspirations.
Sunglass
Seed Round in 2012
Sunglass.io uses the web to enable designers to collaboratively build tomorrow's products, buildings and cities.
Zoomin Online (India) Pvt. Ltd
Seed Round in 2007
Zoomin Online (India) Pvt. Ltd. provides online photo and photo printing services. The company also enables customers to upload, store, and print their digital photos, as well as share them with friends and family around the world. In addition, it operates an online store for digital cameras and camera accessories, photobooks, canvases, photo prints, posters, mugs, magnets, frames, note cards, framed prints, books, and collage posters. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Mumbai, India. Zoomin Online (India) Pvt. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Zoomin Pte Limited.
WordWalla
Venture Round in 2000
WordWalla is the leader in providing solutions to empower enterprises and end-users to communicate, conduct business and create content in any language. Their services will enable seamless global communication across any platform. They currently serve over 30,000 individual subscribers and Their roster of enterprise customers is growing everyday. WordWalla multilingual services are currently available in over 50 languages.
WordWalla makes all online communication, commerce and content creation available in multiple languages, revolutionizing every form of web interaction from e-mail to web-based publishing to e-commerce. WordWalla’s multilingual online text processor (patent filed July 1999) allows users to create and view content online in all major languages (including Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, Thai, Vietnamese, Russian, Greek, and the major European languages). In order to facilitate communications in unfamiliar languages, WordWalla also offers translation services.
PayMate India
Series A in 2006
PayMate is a leader in B2B payments for Enterprise and SME across supply chains. The PayMate platform provides a comprehensive digital workflow tied to payments which enable greater control and transparency along with better cash flows and an end to end reconciliation for a superior experience for Enterprise and SME in closed-loop supply chains.
PayMate works with leading Visa commercial card-issuing banks to facilitate credit for both payables and receivables across supply chains moving traditional cash, cheque and EFT to card streams with several built-in risk-mitigating benefits for banks and extended days payables for buyers.
Platform features include Procure to Pay automation, credit evaluation, discount marketplace along with APIs for integration into existing accounts/ERP for minimal friction-based deployment. It is cloud-based and accessible across all form factors.
PayMate has a presence in South Asia (India) and UAE and is actively expanding across CEMEA.
Abacus Financial Services Group, Asset Management Arm
Seed Round in 2014
As of July 17, 2018, Abacus operates as a subsidiary of Certify Inc.Abacus Labs, Inc. develops a cloud-based expense reporting solution for businesses. It offers Abacus, a real-time expense management and reporting software that features deposit reimbursements, creation of expenses from receipt images, expense policy automation, direct integrations, connecting with card programs, real-time insights, multi-level approval hierarchy, customization of expense fields, data storage, corporate card management and reconciliation, and online and live chat support. The company's solution is available across the iOS and ndroid formats. Abacus Labs, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
MapMyIndia
Series B in 2007
MapMyIndia is one of India's leading mapping data companies and also runs a consumer portal as an outlet for this.
CE Info Systems (P) Ltd., a New Delhi-based ISO 9001-2000 Company founded in 1992, is India's leader in premium quality digital map data and consumer navigation services. Since 1994, through continuous field surveys and state-of-the-art mapping technology, the company has built its proprietary MapmyIndia Maps, the most comprehensive, accurate, robust and reliable navigable map dataset for all India. MapmyIndia is driving the Indian navigation industry by providing internet, mobile and in-car navigation products to end consumers directly as well as in partnership with leading international and national players.
The company has been providing GIS based enterprise solutions to over 500 leading corporate and government organizations in every vertical. In 2004, MapmyIndia was short listed by NASSCOM as a showcase company for IT innovation in India. Most recently, MapmyIndia's Managing Director was elected by GPS Business News as the "World's GPS Businessman for the year 2007" for driving the navigation industry in India.
Flexport
Series A in 2014
Flexport is a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application. Its freight service includes an online dashboard for businesses to easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade. Its team of logistics experts lets focus on core business by ensuring goods arrive at fulfillment/distribution centers on time and at the lowest cost.
Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Scalyr, Inc.
Seed Round in 2015
Scalyr brings a new level of speed and productivity to operations teams, replacing traditionally separate tools such as server monitoring, application metrics, log analysis and error tracking with a single, integrated service. Scalyr's massively parallel backend analyzes terabytes of data in seconds, transforming the user experience. Operations teams can interactively explore their system data, spot patterns across thousands of servers, and be alerted of incipient problems before they trigger a crisis.
Urban Engines
Seed Round in 2014
Urban Engines, Inc. reduces congestion by combining insights and incentives to ease the time and stress of daily commutes. Its software and mobile solutions facilitate better use of already-existing infrastructure, improve city planning and operations, and spur healthier city growth. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Los Altos, California. As of September 12, 2016, Urban Engines, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.
Campanja AB
Series A in 2014
Campanja AB provides search engine marketing solutions to online advertisers. It offers Campanja, a software solution that combines real-time decision making and business dynamics to optimize search engine marketing effectiveness. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. As of August 24, 2015, Campanja AB operates as a subsidiary of 24/7 Customer (Financial Services) Limited.
InMobi
Series B in 2010
InMobi provides mobile advertising services in Asia and Africa. It develops an advertisement serving algorithm that helps in optimizing the ranking of the advertisements served on mobile phones.
InMobi also provides campaign management services, such as strategy, designing, executing, managing, and optimizing campaigns, and advertisement creation, format, and targeting services for advertisers. Moreover, it offers monetization strategies to monetize site traffic by using a combination of performance and branding advertisements, and an advertisement serving algorithm to rank the advertisements available based on user targeting and past performance for publishers.
Further, InMobi provides advertisers and publishers with access to near real-time reports to monitor the performance of advertisement campaigns and the status of site monetization. Furthermore, it offers InMobi Ad Tracker, a mobile campaign conversion tracking solution; and Lifetime Value Platform, a platform that identifies in-application user groups and provides behavior insight to publishers or application developers.
InMobi has a strategic partnership with TalkingData. Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta, and Abhay Singhal founded mKhoj Solutions Private Limited in 2006 that became InMobi Technologies in August 2009, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India and additional offices in New Delhi and Mumbai in India.
Inkling Systems, Inc.
Series B in 2011
Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world. Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights.
Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space.
Skycatch, Inc.
Series A in 2013
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use.
It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Inkling Systems, Inc.
Series A in 2011
Inkling is a single system that lets teams create great content, share it on any digital device, and measure how it's being used. It helps businesses succeed in today’s mobile world with data-driven content that can be accessed by any user, on any device, anywhere in the world. Inkling’s first-of-its-kind software prioritizes content intelligence—enabling businesses to maximize their content’s value with real-time data insights.
Based in San Francisco, Inkling is backed by Sequoia Capital, and partners with the world’s leading brands to enable their content for the digital space.
Platial
Series A in 2007
Platial, "the people's atlas", is a map making, map searching and map exploration site all in one. Like most map sites these days, Platial takes advantage of the Google Maps API to extend its capabilities. The site is a simple mashup with a social layer and UGC twist. Platial users are interested in documenting their own travels as well as seeing those of other users.
Platial's key feature is a map creation tool that lets anyone put locations markers over any point on the map they've visited and then annotate it with pictures and comments. A Google Adsense text advertisement appears on each annotation to match the context in each place. Users can tag each stop on their map as well as see other users that have been there. Clicking on a Tag will take you to a menu of other destinations with similar features. Clicking on another user who has been to any given location will take you to his/her map that shares that location. By networking this way, users can uncover the best places to go in any region quickly and easily.
Google maps has less functionality than Platial, yet now allows users to create custom/sharable maps. The "Where I've Been" Facebook application [Acquired by TripAdvisor](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/tripadvisor-acquires-facebook-app-where-i%E2%80%99ve-been-for-3-million/) provides a service with a similar goal.
Platial has widgets for [Facebook](http://crunchbase.com/organization/facebook), [MySpace](http://crunchbase.com/organization/myspace), [Friendster](http://crunchbase.com/organization/friendster) and Wordpress.
MapMyIndia
Series A in 2007
MapMyIndia is one of India's leading mapping data companies and also runs a consumer portal as an outlet for this.
CE Info Systems (P) Ltd., a New Delhi-based ISO 9001-2000 Company founded in 1992, is India's leader in premium quality digital map data and consumer navigation services. Since 1994, through continuous field surveys and state-of-the-art mapping technology, the company has built its proprietary MapmyIndia Maps, the most comprehensive, accurate, robust and reliable navigable map dataset for all India. MapmyIndia is driving the Indian navigation industry by providing internet, mobile and in-car navigation products to end consumers directly as well as in partnership with leading international and national players.
The company has been providing GIS based enterprise solutions to over 500 leading corporate and government organizations in every vertical. In 2004, MapmyIndia was short listed by NASSCOM as a showcase company for IT innovation in India. Most recently, MapmyIndia's Managing Director was elected by GPS Business News as the "World's GPS Businessman for the year 2007" for driving the navigation industry in India.
Mint
Series A in 2007
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.
Bump Technologies
Series B in 2011
Bump Technologies builds mobile applications and APIs that allow two smartphones to identify one another and connect by simply being bumped together.
The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Mountain View, California. Bump Technologies is funded by [Y Combinator](/organization/y-combinator), [Sequoia Capital](/financial-organization/sequoia-capital), [Andreessen Horowitz](/financial-organization/andreessen-horowitz) and other angel investors.
Hypersonix Inc.
Series A in 2020
Hypersonix Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI) based autonomous data analytics software for the consumer commerce industry. It offers Hypersonix, a predictive and prescriptive analytics platform to measure and monitor business results and offer a decision making in real-time to analyze disparate data sources and derive actionable insights. The company’s Hypersonix empowers all levels of decision makers from across the business, including sales, marketing, finance, operations, and supply chain with data-driven decisioning. Hypersonix Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Jose, California.