Sunman Energy is a technology company founded by a group of industry veterans delivering the future of Solar. Through the research and development of composite materials, Sunman has successfully commercialized the world’s first glass-free, lightweight and flexible Panel – eArc. Replacing glass completely, eArc brings solar power to markets and application scenarios that were previously impossible.
Sunman Energy is a technology company founded by a group of industry veterans delivering the future of Solar. Through the research and development of composite materials, Sunman has successfully commercialized the world’s first glass-free, lightweight and flexible Panel – eArc. Replacing glass completely, eArc brings solar power to markets and application scenarios that were previously impossible.
Wave Computing is revolutionizing AI with its data flow-based systems and solutions that deliver orders of magnitude performance improvements over legacy architectures. The company’s vision is to bring deep learning to customers’ data wherever it may be—from the edge to the datacenter—helping accelerate time-to-insight. Wave is powering the next generation of AI by combining its dataflow architecture with its MIPS embedded RISC multi-threaded CPU cores and IP. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Campbell, California.
Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications. Born out of the University of Queensland in 2005, Brisbane Materials builds on six years and significant investment in technology and application experience. Longer term, Brisbane Materials will extend its unique room temperature and atmospheric pressure synthesis of glass and ceramic coatings to a wide variety of materials systems and applications.
Switch ON better marketing for your business with Autopilot. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce and SaaS. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 10,000 customers globally spanning Ecommerce, SaaS and B2B. Autopilot has raised $32M in funding to date, backed by Salesforce Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and Blackbird Ventures.
Wattwatchers is a new open platform, low cost energy-saving network for homes and businesses. It combines a suite of Class 1, all-IP, metering, monitoring and control devices with co-developed software interfaces, cloud -service management tools and Energy Service offerings. Systems can be installed in a variety of configurations and operate in real-time with or without Utility infrastructures. The Wattwatchers AUDITOR series of internet metering devices come in 3G and WiFi versions and can bridge easily to alternative IoT communications platforms e.g. LoRaWAN.
GreenSync is a global energy-tech company that connects energy resources to create dynamic grids. GreenSync platform has knowledge of major grid congestion points and can pay rebates to customers to help improve the reliability of the grid. The company helps transform businesses and markets globally. It enables new markets by facilitating peer-to-peer and micro markets as well as large scale trading through our platform. GreenSync helps you buy, sell and store energy in the most efficient way possible.
More people convert with Fillr. Fillr has developed 'Autofill as a Service' an autofill platform that seamlessly integrates into your app, enabling your customers to transact faster, boosting your conversions and revenue. We've spent over four years (and lots of hard-earned $) building the world's best autofill... So you don't have to. Our powerful mapping engine, algorithms and machine learning technology utilise advanced proprietary textual heuristics to read forms as close to human representation as possible. Fillr’s Autofill API’s are powering transactions on the world's top fintech, ecommerce, metasearch, cashback and coupon apps. Fillr's next generation autofill technology delivers unprecedented accuracy and speed, and unlike other ‘payment' platforms, Fillr can be used anywhere regardless of a merchant being integrated with us and can be used for any transaction, even those that don’t require payment. "When a user engages our autofill tech on a checkout form, they are 2.2x more likely to convert using Fillr than those who choose to type and they spend 19.66% more p/m" Fillr is led by second time entrepreneurs Chris Koch and Chad Stephens. With their first tech venture 1Form, they transformed the Australian housing market gaining 90% market share before it was acquired by publicly listed REA/Newscorp (Realestate.com.au, $6b market cap). Fillr has offices in Melbourne and San Francisco and is backed by SoftBank China Capital, Southern Cross Venture Partners, Reinventure (Westpac Bank) and Constant Innovation. Fillr’s investors have collective experience in creating, growing and managing hyper-growth companies and are some of world’s most successful tech entrepreneurs. Recent investment by SoftBank China Capital, Alibaba’s single largest investor, provides further endorsement of Fillr’s advanced tech and mission to make transacting on mobile easier.
BioGill is a biotechnology company that manufactures unique above ground, attached growth bioreactors and biofilters used worldwide in water treatment systems. Their step change technology is now operating in more than eighteen countries, effectively treating a variety of wastewaters from food & beverage processing, sewage, commercial kitchens, grease traps and grey water. At the heart of every BioGill unit are specially manufactured, patented nano ceramic media known as “gills”. These gills provide the ideal, oxygen rich environment for biomass to grow and consume nutrients from the wastewater stream. Microorganisms colonise the gills and grow into a dense, active biomass that consumes nutrients. The BioGill solution delivers superior biological water treatment, at lower energy and lower cost. With membrane manufacturing based at their head office in Sydney, Australia, BioGill has a sales and operations office in Singapore and a product assembly hub in Shenzhen, China. The technology is available through selected specialist water treatment system designers and installers. The BioGill water treatment technology is patent protected worldwide.
Geli, which stands for Growing Energy Labs, Inc., provides software and business solutions to design, automate, and manage energy storage systems. Geli’s suite of products creates an ecosystem where project developers, OEMs, financiers, and project operators can deploy advanced energy projects using a seamless hardware-agnostic software platform.
Founded in 2015, Mojo Power is a solar-focused electricity company operating in Australia.
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Octillion Power Systems is a provider of advanced lithium-ion batteries for industrial and vehicle applications.
Sunverge Energy provides integrated solar solutions for distributed generation and storage. It offers Sunverge Solar Integration System (SIS) Release 1.2 that distributes the generation and storage of renewable energy; and Sunverge SISport load management software that supports strategies for shaping and shifting peak residential load. Sunverge Energy serves homeowners, small– to medium–sized businesses, utilities, and electricity regulators. Dean Sanders and Kenneth Munson founded it in 2010, with its headquarters in Stockton in California and an additional office in Fortitude Valley in Australia.
Switch ON better marketing for your business with Autopilot. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce and SaaS. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 10,000 customers globally spanning Ecommerce, SaaS and B2B. Autopilot has raised $32M in funding to date, backed by Salesforce Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and Blackbird Ventures.
Bigtincan is a sales enablement automation company that helps brands facilitate the future buying experience. It helps sales and service teams increase win rates and customer satisfaction. The company’s mobile, AI-powered sales enablement automation platform features the industry’s premier user experience that empowers reps to more effectively engage with customers and prospects and encourages team-wide adoption. Leading brands including AT&T, ThermoFisher, Merck, ANZ Bank, and others rely on Bigtincan to enhance sales productivity at every customer interaction. With global sales and marketing headquartered in Boston, Bigtincan also has offices across EMEA, Australia, and Asia.
Mocana is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions that protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology, mission-critical systems, and industrial infrastructure. The company's on-device cybersecurity software and lifecycle management platform enable manufacturers and industrial companies to build self-defending systems that are tamper-resistant. Its tightly integrated solutions help companies to minimize the risk of a cyber breach, comply with industry standards, and protect intellectual property by ensuring that devices and processes are trusted end-to-end, from device manufacturing to deployment. Unlike IT network security approaches, Mocana enables devices to protect themselves and prevent malware from being installed. It was established in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Boulder Ionics is a rapidly growing start-up that produces ionic liquids and ionic liquid based electrolytes for demanding electrochemical applications. Using a proprietary high-throughput synthesis platform, Boulder Ionics is able to manufacture ultra-high-purity ionic liquids at a superior price/performance ratio. Boulder Ionics’ advanced Iolyte™ electrolytes and pure ionic liquids have applications in a wide range of products ranging from ultracapacitors to lithium-ion batteries and next generation metal-air batteries. The company is currently working with several strategic partners and industry leaders and expects full integration of Iolyte™ electrolytes into a growing number of commercial products by mid-2012.
Precise Light Surgical, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.
Hydrexia is an Australian company that has successfully designed, built, and tested systems that stores hydrogen in solid form, based on a proprietary magnesium alloy.
Switch ON better marketing for your business with Autopilot. The Best Marketing and Customer Data Platform for Ecommerce and SaaS. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 10,000 customers globally spanning Ecommerce, SaaS and B2B. Autopilot has raised $32M in funding to date, backed by Salesforce Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and Blackbird Ventures.
We're a real-time media trading tech startup with offices in Sydney (where all our R&D magic happens), Singapore (our head office) and have a partner office in Shanghai, China. Founded in 2006, we've already established ourselves as a global leader in the real-time media trading industry and are passionate about changing the way online ad space is bought and sold. We're equally as passionate about finding great people to work with.
Brisbane Materials aims to be the leading supplier of anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for solar and other applications. Born out of the University of Queensland in 2005, Brisbane Materials builds on six years and significant investment in technology and application experience. Longer term, Brisbane Materials will extend its unique room temperature and atmospheric pressure synthesis of glass and ceramic coatings to a wide variety of materials systems and applications.
CrossFiber develop and manufacture LiteSwitch Modules: flexible all-optical switching modules for a range of applications from ROADMs to automated fiber cross-connects.
Mocana is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions that protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology, mission-critical systems, and industrial infrastructure. The company's on-device cybersecurity software and lifecycle management platform enable manufacturers and industrial companies to build self-defending systems that are tamper-resistant. Its tightly integrated solutions help companies to minimize the risk of a cyber breach, comply with industry standards, and protect intellectual property by ensuring that devices and processes are trusted end-to-end, from device manufacturing to deployment. Unlike IT network security approaches, Mocana enables devices to protect themselves and prevent malware from being installed. It was established in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Nitero is a fabless semiconductor company with offices in Austin, Texas and Melbourne Australia. They are designing an ultra-low power 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi solution that performs at speeds up to 10X faster than even the very latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions – all that with close to zero latency. They spun out in 2011 from National ICT Australia (NICTA) and have benefited from years of their 60GHz commercial-focused research. In the past two years they put together a world class team and are aggressively developing a unique mobile-60GHz product. They are growing rapidly and seeking more world changers to join the effort. If you are looking for a challenging opportunity, check out their careers page and drop us a line.
Shoes of Prey creates bespoke, hand-made women's shoes designed by the customer, and delivers them to anywhere in the world. Shoes of Prey has grown rapidly over 5 years and has won a number of awards including Online Retailer of the Year and Store Design of the Year at the World Retail Awards in Paris 2013. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States.
Private Equity Round in 2012
Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.
Woodward aims to build morale in employees by increasing peer-to-peer recognition. Each company has its own Wooboard. Staff members give a 'Woo' when someone does something work being recognised for and the giver and receiver get a point. When you get enough points, you go up levels.
Virsto was founded in late 2007 by a team of storage and virtualization experts who saw that the old ways of doing storage were not working in the virtual server era. We believe we are building a visionary storage software platform that will fundamentally transform the data center – decoupling storage from the physical world once and for all to save organizations time and money. Virsto's solutions address the growing need for cost-effective and efficient storage for virtual servers and desktops. Companies around the world use Virsto to achieve increases in performance, reduce storage capital and operating costs, and streamline provisioning and data management for virtual computing.
SBA Materials is dedicated to the development of functional porous inorganic and inorganic/organic hybrid materials for a wide range of technologies. Different synthesis and processing conditions allow for a variety of material compositions, structures, and applications. They can be fabricated as thin and thick films, powders, fibers, and even optically clear solid monoliths all consisting of highly ordered mesoporous networks. The resulting surface area is extraordinarily high and can be chemically functionalized, e.g. with organic dyes, quantum dots, magnetic materials, or biomaterials enabling applications ranging from electronics and optics to sensors, catalysts. SBA Materials is located in Albuquerque, NM, at the Science and Technology Park, adjacent to the University of New Mexico and the Sandia National Laboratories Materials Research Center. The facility includes R&D laboratories, offices, and meeting space.
Nitero is a fabless semiconductor company with offices in Austin, Texas and Melbourne Australia. They are designing an ultra-low power 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi solution that performs at speeds up to 10X faster than even the very latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions – all that with close to zero latency. They spun out in 2011 from National ICT Australia (NICTA) and have benefited from years of their 60GHz commercial-focused research. In the past two years they put together a world class team and are aggressively developing a unique mobile-60GHz product. They are growing rapidly and seeking more world changers to join the effort. If you are looking for a challenging opportunity, check out their careers page and drop us a line.
Inporia's current product is Kaleidoscope - a inspiration ecommerce app and widget. Kaleidoscope launched on Android in Feburary 2011 and was made available for the iPhone in April 2011. It’s the first in what promises to be a series of ecommerce-driven apps from parent company Inporia. The four-person company was started by Ryan Junee, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Omnisio (acquired by Google in 2008) and serves as a mentor to 500 Startups and StartMate, and Max Skibinsky. Sarah Kunst and Simon Ratner complete the 4 person team. It raised $1.25 million in seed funding from Ron Conway’s SV Angel and 500 Startups, NEA, Start Fund and Y-Combinator among others.
Mantara is transforming the world of securities trading by delivering advanced technology solutions that fulfill the market demand for integrated multi-asset, high-speed trading and analytics. Mantara is committed to transforming the way that equities, options and futures are traded worldwide. Fueled by demand for trading efficiency, transparency and functionality, Mantara is driving the development and delivery of an entirely new class of solutions that raise the bar and exceed market expectations for this space.
Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.
Mocana is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions that protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology, mission-critical systems, and industrial infrastructure. The company's on-device cybersecurity software and lifecycle management platform enable manufacturers and industrial companies to build self-defending systems that are tamper-resistant. Its tightly integrated solutions help companies to minimize the risk of a cyber breach, comply with industry standards, and protect intellectual property by ensuring that devices and processes are trusted end-to-end, from device manufacturing to deployment. Unlike IT network security approaches, Mocana enables devices to protect themselves and prevent malware from being installed. It was established in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
EvoStor is pioneering development of a new generation of storage systems purpose-built for the challenging requirements of virtual infrastructure. Storage vendors have tried to add capabilities to legacy products to address the challenges introduced by virtualization. Just adding features is not enough. EvoStor delivers innovative new technology to fully integrate with virtualization systems and management tools so they are simple to deploy and manage while providing enterprise class functionality.
Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.
Mantara is transforming the world of securities trading by delivering advanced technology solutions that fulfill the market demand for integrated multi-asset, high-speed trading and analytics. Mantara is committed to transforming the way that equities, options and futures are traded worldwide. Fueled by demand for trading efficiency, transparency and functionality, Mantara is driving the development and delivery of an entirely new class of solutions that raise the bar and exceed market expectations for this space.
Quantenna specializes in providing Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts in the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency, and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, a system to software for Wi-Fi networks, and provides solutions for OEMs and service providers worldwide.
EvoStor is pioneering development of a new generation of storage systems purpose-built for the challenging requirements of virtual infrastructure. Storage vendors have tried to add capabilities to legacy products to address the challenges introduced by virtualization. Just adding features is not enough. EvoStor delivers innovative new technology to fully integrate with virtualization systems and management tools so they are simple to deploy and manage while providing enterprise class functionality.
Xumii is 'mobile social addressbook ' and social network for mobile phones. Xumii lets users keep in touch with friends on other social networks, including Facebook, MySpace and imeem, and includes instant messaging services like AIM, Yahoo!, MSN Live or GoogleTalk. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of September 15, 2009, Xumii, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Myriad Group AG.
Mantara is transforming the world of securities trading by delivering advanced technology solutions that fulfill the market demand for integrated multi-asset, high-speed trading and analytics. Mantara is committed to transforming the way that equities, options and futures are traded worldwide. Fueled by demand for trading efficiency, transparency and functionality, Mantara is driving the development and delivery of an entirely new class of solutions that raise the bar and exceed market expectations for this space.
Mocana is a developer of cybersecurity software solutions that protect Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology, mission-critical systems, and industrial infrastructure. The company's on-device cybersecurity software and lifecycle management platform enable manufacturers and industrial companies to build self-defending systems that are tamper-resistant. Its tightly integrated solutions help companies to minimize the risk of a cyber breach, comply with industry standards, and protect intellectual property by ensuring that devices and processes are trusted end-to-end, from device manufacturing to deployment. Unlike IT network security approaches, Mocana enables devices to protect themselves and prevent malware from being installed. It was established in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Redfern Integrated Optics develops and manufactures optical transmitters based on proprietary PLANEX (Planar External Cavity Laser) technology, which enables high performance at low cost for various applications. RIO planar ECL consists of a gain chip and a planar waveguide circuit (PLC) with Bragg grating which forms a laser cavity. This has significant advantages such as; very narrow spectral linewidth, low phase noise and RIN, optimized chirp, low wavelength sensitivity to temperature and bias current, and low power consumption.
UiActive is a mobile phone solution that can be updated dynamically from the network
Xumii is 'mobile social addressbook ' and social network for mobile phones. Xumii lets users keep in touch with friends on other social networks, including Facebook, MySpace and imeem, and includes instant messaging services like AIM, Yahoo!, MSN Live or GoogleTalk. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in San Mateo, California. As of September 15, 2009, Xumii, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Myriad Group AG.
Mantara is transforming the world of securities trading by delivering advanced technology solutions that fulfill the market demand for integrated multi-asset, high-speed trading and analytics. Mantara is committed to transforming the way that equities, options and futures are traded worldwide. Fueled by demand for trading efficiency, transparency and functionality, Mantara is driving the development and delivery of an entirely new class of solutions that raise the bar and exceed market expectations for this space.
Omeros is a Seattle-based commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing, and commercializing small-molecule and protein therapeutics for large-market as well as orphan indications targeting inflammation, complement-mediated diseases and disorders of the central nervous system.
Arsenal Digital Solutions provides on-demand data protection services for server and personal computer data protection, backup and recovery, business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance. Its services include ViaRemote, an on-demand data protection service for servers and personal computers; ViaBack, a tape and/or disk based data protection service form hosted applications and servers; and ViaManage, a services for monitoring and managing storage and backup environments.