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DFJ began in 1985 with a focus on early-stage companies. Tim Draper, a third-generation VC with a passion for technology and unconventional thinking, teamed with John Fisher, a former colleague of Draper's, known for his deep enterprise and tech finance experience. Together they shaped the firm's foundational philosophy of investing in people first. One of their first recruits was co-founder Steve Jurvetson. Together they went on to invest in break out companies like Baidu, Hotmail, and Skype. A decade ago, they added their Growth team dedicated to late-stage investing. Today, they have two teams investing two funds. Their Venture team works with founders in the early phases of company building. Their Growth team partners with companies entering hyper-growth mode. DFJ has backed 27 companies that have each achieved more than $1 billion in realized value through an initial public offering or acquisition.

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Mythic

Series B in 2018
Mythic Inc. designs and develops silicon chips and intelligence processing unit (IPU) based on artificial intelligence (AI). Its AI platform puts desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks onto a button-sized chip. The company was formerly known as Isocline Engineering Corporation. Mythic Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Austin, Texas.

Yodle

Series A in 2006
Yodle, Inc. provides online marketing services to local business owners. Its services include Web presence, local search placement, social media, customer reviews, Email marketing, and special offers distribution. The company also works with franchises and multi-location businesses. Yodle, Inc. was formerly known as Natpal, Inc. and changed its name to Yodle, Inc. in July 2007. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York. As of March 9, 2016, Yodle, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Web.com Group, Inc.

Wigix

Series A in 2008
Online marketplaces should be smart, safe, easy to use, fun, and friendly. Wigix.com is the only online marketplace with a "one-product, one page" model for regular people like you. An organized catalog leads to easy ways to find your item. Buying online with Wigix is not only quick, but it's fun too!

Tioga Energy

Series A in 2007
Tioga Energy accelerates access to clean energy by owning and operating renewable energy facilities for commercial, government and non-profit organizations. With a Tioga Energy solar PPA (power purchase agreement) customers eliminate up-front capital investments and ongoing operational concerns. The company partners with trusted industry experts to install and operate efficient and reliable systems. Through deep, trusted relationships with solar industry partners, Tioga Energy provides simple, reliable, low-cost and long-term access to clean energy options without the risk of up-front capital investments or the ongoing commitments of owning and operating an independent solar facility.

FluidAI Medical

Seed Round in 2021
NERv Technology Inc. develops an implantable biochip with biosensors to detect post-operative complications, such as internal bleeding, leakage of bodily fluids, and infection within the abdominal cavity. The biosensor collects data and identifies the complications as it develops and informs both patient and physician in real-time. It also detects changes in the levels of biomarker. The company serves physicians, surgeons, hospitals, and patients. NERv Technology Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Kitchener, Canada.

Miartech

Series C in 2012
Miartech(Shanghai),Inc. develops, manufactures, and distributes Interne of Things technology products for use in smart grids, smart cities, building energy efficiency, smart homes, clean energy access, street light management, photovoltaic, and ecological agricultural applications. Its products and services include intelligent building and energy saving systems, power line carrier communication (PLC) chips and modules, chip module customization, and software development services. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Yellowbrick Learning

Series C in 2019
Yellowbrick's mission is to empower the next generation of talent to achieve their calling by tapping into passion points that spark success, fuel personal advancement, and unlock doors to fulfilling careers. With integrated partnerships across top-tier educational institutions and brands, our courses and experiences put learners on a path toward doing what they love. Find out more at www.yellowbrick.co.

Mobile 365

Series D in 2004
Mobile 365 is the new company formed from the merger of the two leaders in the mobile messaging world: InphoMatch, the leader in interoperable data and messaging services for mobile operators, and Mobileway, the leader in messaging solutions for brands and content providers. It is the global leader in the delivery, billing, and settlement of mobile messaging services. Their extensive footprint enables us to reach more mobile users—with more types of mobile data—than anyone else on the globe. They reliably deliver messages, premium content, and value-added services for the leading mobile operators, content providers, brands, and media companies worldwide.

SpaceX

Secondary Market in 2012
Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusable launch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9. Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

NearbyNow

Venture Round in 2009
[NearbyNow](http://www.nearbynow.com) creates mobile shopping applications that help consumers find products in their size near them at any time. Clients include magazines Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, GQ, and Brides, as well as brands and retailers such as Nike, Levi's, Estee Lauder, and Bon-Ton Stores. NearbyNow claims the highest click-through (28%) and conversion-to-purchase (5.8%) rates in the mobile shopping space. Brands and retailers can purchase multi-media ads directly from their ad network, reaching 2+ million mobile shoppers.

ICIX

Venture Round in 2012
Active Transparency. Brand Protection. Customer Trust. ICIX helps the retail industry’s leading companies collaborate across trading partner networks to achieve Active Transparency. Our solutions enable companies to safeguard consumers, protect their brand, and build trust - all while improving margins. More than 20,000 businesses actively connect on the ICIX network, including 3 of the top 10 U.S. retailers and the top 100 food suppliers. ICIX customers include Walmart, Nike, Target, Hanesbrands, US Foods, Diageo, Wakefern and Restoration Hardware.

Box

Series B in 2009
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices, and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Nervana

Series A in 2015
Nervana focuses on building technology to power the next generation of intelligent applications. Founded by experts in machine learning, neuroscience, processor architecture, and chip design, Nervana Systems is bringing unprecedented scale and simplicity to the application of brain-inspired algorithms. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

Imagen Technologies

Series B in 2018
Imagen is a healthcare company whose mission is to save patient lives by making accurate medical image interpretation universally available and affordable. Currently, over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to basic radiology services. Through our technology and close collaboration with world-leading clinicians, we believe that we can do something about it. We take an interdisciplinary approach: we are a team of experts in machine learning, healthcare, software engineering, and regulatory affairs who research and develop assistive software for clinicians. Our FDA-cleared software analyzes the content of medical images and produces diagnoses, improving the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians by highlighting detected pathology. We are advised by some of the world’s leading scientists and medical researchers, including Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We have raised over $60M from leading investors including GV, DFJ, and Zach Weinberg. Imagen is based in New York and actively hiring. Are you excited about joining our mission? Reach out directly to us at recruitingteam@imagen.ai

Imago Scientific Instruments

Venture Round in 2006
Imago is a world class provider of metrology and analysis equipment serving the microelectronic and general research markets. We are committed to the development of the nanotechnology solutions required as the semiconductor, data storage and advanced materials industries increasingly enter the realm of nanotechnology.Imago provides time-to-market advantages to our customers through leading edge technology in the field of three-dimensional, nanoscale, metrology and analysis equipment. Our focus on and funding of advanced technology, together with our network of industrial collaborations, ensures that we continue to accelerate the development of these empowering metrology techniques. Imago's headquarters moved to a new, larger office and manufacturing facility in July 2006. The world-class applications lab includes two dual beam focused ion beams, two scanning electron microscopes, electro polishing equipment, a clean room area for specimen preparation, and a suite of Imago LEAP microscopes.

Viewhigh Technology

Series A in 2007
Beijing Viewhigh Technology Co., Ltd. (望海康信) is a company focused on R&D, and services of application software in Chinese medical health industry. As a professional industrial application software company, Viewhigh Technology Co., Ltd. Accumulates the theoretical and practical experience of senior industry management, especially in fields such as public health, disease monitoring and control, health supervision, medical assistance. It is also applied in the operation and management of medical institutions and the combination of the commercial insurance, medical treatment and health system, and the performance of governmental functions. Viewhigh Technology Co., Ltd. has conducted deep research and gained understanding and proposed advanced solution proposals for emerging industry needs such as public sanitation system construction, digital regional health resources management, coping mechanism for emergent events, basic medical security system management, and more.

Reflect

Seed Round in 2016
Reflect Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Puppet, Inc. Reflect Technologies, Inc. develops and provides a data-visualization-as-a-service platform for software developers to add analytics capabilities to their own software. Its platform offers a studio and an API to developers for creating visualizations and embedded analytics for their customers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

4INFO

Venture Round in 2009
4INFO, Inc. operates as an identity and activation solutions company. The company offers Bullseye ID, which creates a match key that maps all the connected devices in a household to consumer data, including the marketer’s own CRM data and a treasure trove of second and third-party data for insights, targeting, and attribution. Its platform delivers measured mobile campaigns to CPG companies, retailers, and auto manufacturers. The company serves brands, agencies, media, and data companies; and advanced TV, CPG, automotive, retail, QSR, pharma, and financial industries. 4INFO, Inc. was formerly known as UDoIt. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Jose, California. It has a location in New York, New York. As of January 2, 2020, 4INFO, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cadent, LLC.

NeoPhotonics

Series C in 2006
NeoPhotonics offers a complete line of both active and passive optical components for every network market segment: FTTH/Access, Datacom, Storage Area Networks, Metro and Long Haul networks. NeoPhotonics' transceivers are compliant with industry standard MSAs, are available in GBIC, SFF, SFP, XFP and other configurations, and serve a variety of reaches, applications and data-rates from 155MBps to 10GBps. NeoPhotonics' advanced silica Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) integrated optical modules and subsystems are critical parts in access FTTH networks and in metro and long-haul DWDM networks. For FTTH, NeoPhotonics manufactures integrated splitters in high volume and FTTH BiDi and TriPlexer transceivers, Other products include AWGs, Athermal AWGs, VOA Multiplexers, EDFAs and ROADM Modules. NeoPhotonics' manufactures MEMS-based Variable Optical Attenuators and Dynamic Channel Equalizers

Vizu Corporation

Series A in 2005
Enterprise technology platform allowing advertisers to target audiences through the purchase funnel

Posit Science

Venture Round in 2009
Posit Science Corporation provides brain training software. It offers exercises through its Website to improve brain speed, attention, and memory. The company was formerly known as Neuroscience Solutions Corporation and changed its name to Posit Science Corporation in January 2005. Posit Science Corporation was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tacit Software

Venture Round in 2000
Tacit Software is a provider of collaboration and knowledge management software and the company behind illumio (www.illumio.com), a productivity tool for monitoring news, blogs, and wikis and connecting with others to share knowledge and expertise. illumio is used by individuals and organizations to more effectively discover and share information by delivering to users only what's important to them. Tacit's enterprise customers include some of the world's leading Fortune 500 companies including Lockheed Martin, Morgan Stanley, and Northrop Grumman.

Social Project

Series A in 2006
Social Project LLC develops Flux, a social platform with fans participating across various Websites. It also offers third-party publisher network transition services. Social Project LLC was formerly known as Tagworld, Inc. and changed its name to Social Project LLC in September, 2007. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Santa Monica, California. Social Project LLC operated as former subsidiary of Viacom Media Networks. As of February 22, 2017, Social Project LLC operates as a subsidiary of Vivendi SA.

InsightSquared

Series C in 2014
InsightSquared offers the industry's most complete and flexible Revenue Intelligence Platform, featuring six integrated solutions in one. We empower revenue professionals to make better decisions by equipping them with actionable, real-time intelligence that drives predictable growth. B2B organizations worldwide rely on InsightSquared to build stronger, healthier pipelines, improve conversion rates, target rep coaching, boost forecast accuracy and significantly increase competitive win rates. For more information, visit www.insightsquared.com.

Eventful

Series A in 2005
Eventful, the leading digital media company, powers the online ecosystem of local events and entertainment. Over 20 million people rely on Eventful to find out what's happening and decide what to do. Eventful's unique, social media platform, "Demand it!" empowers fans to influence content and location of entertainment and live events. Music promoters, film studios, ticketing companies and other industry providers use Demand it! to engage with fans and determine their routing schedules or theatrical distribution. National marketers rely on Eventful to drive local awareness, commerce, attendance and tune-in. Thousands of digital publishers also rely on Eventful to power their local events and entertainment content. Eventful's proprietary technologies provide a global platform for local event discovery: the world's largest selection of local event content, content management system, state-of-the-art recommendation engine, email platform delivering personalized, localized content and commercial offers, robust API platform, localization system, Demand it! and a self-service premium listing platform. Eventful competitors include [Upcoming.org](http://www.Upcoming.org) and [Zvents](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zvents/).

Intrusic

Series A in 2004
As of January 15, 2007, Intrusic, Inc. went out of business. Intrusic, Inc. provides internal threat intelligence solutions. Its solutions protect information assets from the malicious or careless activities of trusted insiders. The company's Intrusic 4.0 solution helps organizations identify malicious, unauthorized, and inadvertent activities that breach business or security policies, and threaten compliance. Intrusic's solutions include supply chain extranets, data leakage, compromise detection, and policy compliance. Its services include internal security snapshot, internal security risk assessment, and internal threat awareness courses. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Pro.com

Venture Round in 2017
Pro.com is a full-service remodeling general contractor in Seattle, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Denver, and Phoenix. Pro.com is streamlining the residential construction experience with a team of construction experts and its own technology — such as a pricing engine that makes sure bids are accurate, detailed and mobile-friendly estimates, and project management tools that give both Pro.com staff homeowners a window into their projects.

Z2

Series B in 2011
Z2 is a mobile-first free-to-play game developer and publisher that allows players to compete and collaborate in real time through their iPhones or iPads. It creates highly social games that promote free-to-play model. Z2 currently maintains studios and technology resources in Seattle, W.A. for building both mass-market social games along with more traditional 3D multiplayer games. The company's first product called Trade Nations, a city builder game, has created one of the largest game communities on mobile having logged over 500 million game sessions since its launch. Trade Nations has been recognized as one of the top grossing games on [Apple](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apple)'s AppStore since launch. The company's second game, MetalStorm became one of the top ranked and top grossing games on iTunes within 3 days of launch. Z2 has a community layer that supports the most advanced set of community features including in-game email, text chat, voice chat, real-time multiplayer, player icons, achievements, badges, and a full social graph that is integrated with [Facebook](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook) and [twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter). Z2 was launched in 2009 by [Damon Danieli](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/damon-danieli), and [David Bluhm](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/david-bluhm) and [Lou Fasulo] (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/lou-fasulo). Madrona Venture Group backed the company. Z2 developed four Top Grossing titles for mobile and was sold to King in 2015, which later became part of Activision Blizzard. It is headquartered in Seattle, W.A.

Box

Series D in 2011
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices, and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Widetronix

Venture Round in 2008
Widetronix Inc. designs and manufactures ultra-low power sensor with lifetimes designed to exceed 25 years. It offers the technology, called a betavoltaic, which powers the autonomous sensor platform. It offers Betavoltaic Power Sources, Firefli which continuously produce energy, which can be provided directly to a device or stored by a battery or capacitor. It provides applications in defense, industrial infrastructure and monitoring, and medical implant sectors. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Ithaca, New York.

Xfire

Series A in 2003
Provides social gaming and networking services, shares in-game screen shots and videos, and live-streams gameplay

Ping Identity

Series B in 2005
Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access to the cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

iList

Series A in 2008
iList was a social classifieds service trying to take on Craigslist. It let you cross-post your listings on Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and Pownce. It also tried to tap into your friends and contacts to get them to promote your listings to their friends. The site is no longer in service.

Magnolia Broadband

Series B in 2002
Magnolia Broadband, Inc. provides RF services to the wireless market. It offers value proposition and broadband technology products to the multimedia services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Englewood, New Jersey.

Twin Prime

Series A in 2015
Twin Prime makes mobile apps fast. Performance in mobile depends on a variety of factors such as the wireless network technology, device models, operating system software and even the nature of the app itself. This makes the problem incredibly hard and complex. Twin Prime uses machine learning to make sense of these factors and delivers content to apps in the most optimal and quickest way.

Mythic

Series A in 2017
Mythic Inc. designs and develops silicon chips and intelligence processing unit (IPU) based on artificial intelligence (AI). Its AI platform puts desktop GPU compute capabilities and neural networks onto a button-sized chip. The company was formerly known as Isocline Engineering Corporation. Mythic Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Redwood City, California with an additional office in Austin, Texas.

Tango

Series D in 2014
TangoMe, Inc., doing business as Tango, provides free mobile messaging service application that connects with friends and family. Its application is available for various platforms, such as iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Blackberry, Kindle Fire, and PC. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California.

NinthDecimal

Series A in 2006
NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data. It harnesses this data to build a precise understanding of consumers’ physical world behavior. Fortune 500 companies and marquee brands activate this customer intelligence through audience targeting, measurement, insights, and data licensing solutions. By filling the gap in understanding how consumers spend the majority of their time, NinthDecimal provides marketers a new model of the customer journey for impactful engagement.   It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Edeniq

Series B in 2010
Edeniq, Inc. is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber through its Intellulose technology. Edeniq’s Intellulose requires zero capital investment and is easily integrated into existing ethanol production facilities. Edeniq was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Visalia, Calif. with a field office in Omaha, Neb. More information can be found at www.edeniq.com.

Calibrate

Series B in 2021
Calibrate is a new telemedicine metabolic health care startup that gives people everywhere control of their health. Their one-year metabolic reset is built on the latest weight health science and is vetted and approved by a world-class clinical advisory board. They are a modern, medical approach that combines medication with one-on-one coaching—all personalized to the individual's biology, their goals, and their life for a 10% weight loss that lasts. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York.

EverSpin Technologies

Series B in 2013
Everspin Technologies, Inc. manufactures and sells magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) products in the United States, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Germany, and internationally. It offers Toggle MRAM, spin-transfer torque MRAM, and tunnel magneto resistance sensor products, as well as foundry services for embedded MRAM. The company provides its products for applications, including data center, industrial, automotive, transportation, and enterprise storage markets. It serves original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers through a direct sales channel and a network of representatives and distributors. Everspin Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

Banyan Branch

Series A in 2011
Banyan Branch is a pure social media agency that is pioneering the way brands, companies, and movements can harness the power of social media for their benefit. In our approach, we seek to understand your business objectives, and define the social media strategy that delivers on those objectives.

Vizu Corporation

Series A in 2007
Enterprise technology platform allowing advertisers to target audiences through the purchase funnel

Raydiance

Series D in 2012
Raydiance is the world’s leading developer of ultrafast laser technology. Raydiance has built a deeply experienced team that draws expertise from the software, microelectronics, telecommunications and photonics industries. Creator of the first compact, reliable, “industrial grade” femtosecond laser platform, Raydiance is powering an explosion of innovation in manufacturing, healthcare, defense and more. Raydiance began when senior Defense Department officials introduced technology pioneer Barry Schuler to a DARPA project designed to miniaturize ultrafast lasers for military applications. Schuler immediately grasped the compelling capabilities of ultrafast lasers – if they could be liberated from highly controlled lab environments and transformed into small, inexpensive photonic engines that could power many applications. Schuler brought together a world-class team to build the world’s first miniaturized, computer controlled, software driven “plug and play” ultrafast laser platform. Raydiance’s Smart LightTM technology is transforming a wide array of sectors, including medical micro-devices, clean tech energy, consumer electronics and defense applications. The company has built the world’s first high-volume manufacturing facility capable of scaling production to thousands of units per year. Further, it has invented key technologies—such as its proprietary fiber delivery system—that support volume commercialization. By aggregating many markets onto its platform, Raydiance is using volume-manufacturing techniques to drive costs down and open market opportunities. The company is rapidly transforming ultrafast technology from a unique research tool into a practical and broadly accessible platform technology.

Box

Series E in 2013
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls. After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices, and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform "allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere." It also helps businesses of all sizes in every industry securely access and manages their critical information in the cloud. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Siimpel Corporation

Series C in 2005
Applies high precision MEMS platform technology to enable the reduction in size of high-performance digital cameras

LaunchDarkly

Series C in 2019
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 100 billion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software. Feature flagging is an industry best practice of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka ”dark launching”). Their vision is to eliminate the risk for developers and operations teams from the software development cycle. LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. They are building a diverse team so that they can offer robust products and services. Their team culture is fast-paced, friendly, and supportive. LaunchDarkly was founded on July 14, 2014, and is headquartered in California, USA.

Socialtext

Series B in 2005
Company that produces enterprise social software via its integrated suite of web-based social apps

Qingdao Crystech Coating

Series A in 2009
Crystechcoating, Inc was founded in Qingdao, a beautiful eastern coast city in China, in May, 2003. Crystechcoating is dedicated to developing both advanced optical components and high power LED source with fully marketing and technical supports from our key investor, Foreal Spectrum, Inc in San Jose. With seven years team work, and continual innovation, we have built strong R/D, and operation team so that we are fully recognized as one of the global leaders in the design, manufacture, and marketing of LED modules, LED lighting solutions, and advanced optical components. Since 2009, our management began to promote two BRANDs of Crystechcoating and G-lighting independently in order to better serve our components and LED modules customers in diversified market segments such as

Yardbarker Network

Venture Round in 2009
Yardbarker aggregates news articles about sports from around the web. These articles are submitted by users and voted up in a Digg-like fashion. Amateur writers can also contribute to the site with blog posts about their favorite sports topics. Sports videos and photos are also aggregated alongside articles. Professional Athletes like Baron Davis, Greg Oden, Champ Bailey, and Donovan McNabb, and Rajon Rondo contribute weekly blog entries. While Yardbarker.com is the company's content hub page, the company also runs a network of 600+ sports blogs, fan sites, and male content focused websites. In October 2008, the company announced FARK.com as their latest network addition as well as reaching 10 million unique people.

Edeniq

Venture Round in 2015
Edeniq, Inc. is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber through its Intellulose technology. Edeniq’s Intellulose requires zero capital investment and is easily integrated into existing ethanol production facilities. Edeniq was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Visalia, Calif. with a field office in Omaha, Neb. More information can be found at www.edeniq.com.

Good Technology

Series H in 2005
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Chef, Inc.

Series B in 2010
Chef, Inc. provides cloud-based infrastructure automation solutions. It offers configuration management, a solution to manage complex infrastructure; cloud management that enables users to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions, as well as build, destroy, and rebuild servers on public or private cloud; and DevOps, a solution for collaboration between development and operations. The company also provides Enterprise Chef that automates user infrastructure that accelerates time to market, helps users to manage scale and complexity, and safeguards their systems; and professional services that include planning, training and skill development, and project-based services. Chef, Inc. was formerly known as Chef, Inc. and changed its name to Opscode, Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of October 5, 2020, Chef, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.

Set Labs

Series A in 2021
Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.

Mimeo

Series C in 2002
Mimeo is an on-demand printing service that allows customers to submit their digital documents, proof and print them. They can do all sorts of documents including complex bound documents, all within 24 hours. According to Mimeo, they have achieved more than 50% revenue growth with expanding margins in each of the last four years including 2006 and produce over 2 million pages a night (Sept. 2007). For your documents you can choose color or black & white printing, different bindings, covers, paper stocks and finishing options, including customized tabs, dividers and slip sheets.

Elementary Robotics

Series A in 2020
Elementary Robotics, Inc. manufactures robots for human assistance. It offers robots to automate QA and traceability for AI-assisted manufacturing. The company’s robots are also used to track the stages of assembly across production lines. It serves electronics, automotive, medical, and consumer packaged goods and logistics industries. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Pasadena, California with additional offices in Mexico and Chicago.

Solar Junction

Series D in 2012
Solar Junction is a manufacturer of high efficiency III-V multi-junction solar cells based on ASLAM ™ materials. The company is dedicated to providing the industry’s highest efficiency solar cells to enable CPV as a cost effective energy solution. Founded in 2007, Solar Junction is headquartered in San Jose, California. Investors include New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Advanced Technology Ventures.

Imagen Technologies

Series A in 2017
Imagen is a healthcare company whose mission is to save patient lives by making accurate medical image interpretation universally available and affordable. Currently, over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to basic radiology services. Through our technology and close collaboration with world-leading clinicians, we believe that we can do something about it. We take an interdisciplinary approach: we are a team of experts in machine learning, healthcare, software engineering, and regulatory affairs who research and develop assistive software for clinicians. Our FDA-cleared software analyzes the content of medical images and produces diagnoses, improving the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians by highlighting detected pathology. We are advised by some of the world’s leading scientists and medical researchers, including Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We have raised over $60M from leading investors including GV, DFJ, and Zach Weinberg. Imagen is based in New York and actively hiring. Are you excited about joining our mission? Reach out directly to us at recruitingteam@imagen.ai

AdXpose

Series B in 2008
AdXpose is the leader in digital advertising analytics solutions. The company's SaaS technology provides advertisers and publishers with greater transparency and confidence in the quality, safety, and performance of their digital advertising campaigns. The actionable optimization metrics captured by AdXpose solutions help its customers realize increased ROI, more profitable margins, and measurable ad effectiveness. AdXpose is headquartered in Seattle, WA, with offices in New York City, and is backed by Draper Fischer Jurvetson and Ignition Partners

WaterSmart Software

Seed Round in 2011
WaterSmart Software provides intelligence beyond the meter to make the lives of water utility managers easier. Water providers using WaterSmart’s cloud-based, customer engagement, and analytics platform have been proven to reduce costs, protect revenue, and increase customer satisfaction by more than 25%. The company has won the globally coveted World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Award for their potential to impact business and society through the design, development, and implementation of new technologies and innovation.

SolarCity

Series C in 2007
SolarCity is the nation's 1 leading provider of solar energy systems that deliver reliable clean energy to homes and businesses. SolarCity went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 2012 with a market cap of around $600 million.

Brilliant Telecommunications

Venture Round in 2009
Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc. designs, develops, and distributes network timing, management, and synchronization solutions. Its products include Zurich Z-1000, a zero footprint, outdoor, and pole-mounted Network Time Protocol server that embodies its own timing management interface to provide tools for diagnosis, monitoring, and alarms; Cern C-2000, which is a Primary Reference Source and Clock that provides time stamping accuracy and configurability; and BT-750, a network timing client that delivers multiple synchronous outputs in a flexible platform. The company serves financial markets, legal institutions, telecommunication companies, and manufacturing organizations. Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Campbell, California.

NinthDecimal

Debt Financing in 2010
NinthDecimal is the marketing platform powered by location data. It harnesses this data to build a precise understanding of consumers’ physical world behavior. Fortune 500 companies and marquee brands activate this customer intelligence through audience targeting, measurement, insights, and data licensing solutions. By filling the gap in understanding how consumers spend the majority of their time, NinthDecimal provides marketers a new model of the customer journey for impactful engagement.   It was founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Good Technology

Series C in 2014
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Digital Path

Series B in 2003
Digital Path provides high-speed wireless broadband Internet and phone services to residential and business sectors in Northern California. It offers business-grade phone systems that include local and long-distance, hosted voicemail, multiple line configurations, and call forwarding services. The company also provides higher data speeds, dedicated business data circuits, multiple business telephone bundle options, competitive pricing, service quality guarantees, extensive rural and metro coverage, enhanced back-office configuration, and provisioning and installation services. In addition, it offers satellite, DSL, or cable services for the residential sector.

Polarr

Series A in 2019
Polarr, Inc. develops and operates online and offline photo-editing software. It develops ready-to-deploy AI technology for photography, video, and other creative use cases to provide developers tools and resources to create applications that enable and inspire everyone to make creations. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Viz

Series C in 2021
Viz helps physicians to identify anomalies in brain scans through machine learning. The company leverages advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information about stroke patients straight to a specialist who can intervene and treat. It uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularly disabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist within minutes. Viz has developed deep learning algorithms to analyze brain scans for large vessel occlusions (LVOs), a disabling type of stroke. The company also allows the stroke center’s clinicians to rapidly share images back and forth. Viz's mission is to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered in the world, through intelligent software that promises to reduce time to treatment and improve access to care. Viz was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California, USA.

PubMatic

Series B in 2009
PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry. Featuring the leading omni-channel revenue automation platform for publishers and enterprise-grade programmatic tools for media buyers, PubMatic’s publisher-first approach enables advertisers to access premium inventory at scale. Processing nearly one trillion ad impressions per month, PubMatic has created a global infrastructure to activate meaningful connections between consumers, content and brands. Since 2006, PubMatic’s focus on data and technology innovation has fueled the growth of the programmatic industry as a whole. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, PubMatic operates 12 offices and six data centers worldwide. PubMatic is a registered trademark of PubMatic, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

GlobalSight

Series B in 1999
GlobalSight is an open-source Translation Management System (TMS) that automates, streamlines, and manages the localization process. Upon upload, files for translation are routed along a customized workflow that can include both machine and human steps. Translations, reviews and edits are done online using the GlobalSight editors or offline by downloading translation kits for each of the main industry-standard tools. The completed files are then finalized and made available for download. Typical GlobalSight users include localization project managers, translators, reviewers, DTP engineers, as well as administrators and developers.

Shift

Series C in 2017
Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Shift is an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and purchase or sell cars. Acting as a personal concierge service, the company details cars, lists them on multiple lists, handles test drives, and finds intent buyers. Charging a Shift Service Fee for registration, car prep services, and sales tax, Shift provides customers with a 150-point concierge report that includes specs, high-resolution photos, vehicle history, and results on their cars before purchase.

Polaris Wireless

Series B in 2004
Polaris Wireless, Inc. develops and offers software-based 3D location solutions to wireless operators, law enforcement and government agencies, and location-based application companies. The company provides 3D Location Platform, a cloud-based platform enabling applications that locate any mobile device on any network, indoors, and in real-time; and OmniLocate, integration and quicker time-to-market solution. It caters to public safety, hospitality, and healthcare industries. Polaris Wireless, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in Zug, Switzerland and Singapore.

Zoox

Seed Round in 2015
Zoox is a California based robotics company founded by Tim Kentley-Klay and Dr. Jesse Levinson to create autonomous mobility. Operating at the intersection of design, computer science, and electro-mechanical engineering, Zoox is a multidisciplinary team working to imagine and build an advanced mobility experience that will support the future needs of urban mobility for both people and the environment.

MyShape

Series C in 2010
MyShape.com is an online retail store created for you. Personalized stores (called myShop) search for and display clothing matched to a shopper's specific measurements, body shape and preferences.

BinOptics

Series B in 2005
BinOptics Corporation manufactures monolithically integrated optoelectronic components. It offers directly modulated fabry-perot, directly modulated distributed feedback, and ring lasers; and custom integrated chips, such as edge- and surface-emitting lasers, monitoring and high-speed photodetectors, electroabsorption modulators, semiconductor optical amplifiers, beam couplers/splitters, waveguides, and on-chip lenses. The company offers its products for use in datacom and telecommunication applications, such as gigabit ethernet and PON applications, as well as advanced non-telecomunication applications. BinOptics Corporation was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ithaca, New York.

4INFO

Venture Round in 2013
4INFO, Inc. operates as an identity and activation solutions company. The company offers Bullseye ID, which creates a match key that maps all the connected devices in a household to consumer data, including the marketer’s own CRM data and a treasure trove of second and third-party data for insights, targeting, and attribution. Its platform delivers measured mobile campaigns to CPG companies, retailers, and auto manufacturers. The company serves brands, agencies, media, and data companies; and advanced TV, CPG, automotive, retail, QSR, pharma, and financial industries. 4INFO, Inc. was formerly known as UDoIt. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Jose, California. It has a location in New York, New York. As of January 2, 2020, 4INFO, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cadent, LLC.

Ivus

Venture Round in 1999
Ivus provides real-time e-commerce solutions. It was founded by Suvi Sharma.

Trustpilot

Series D in 2015
Trustpilot is the world’s most powerful review platform - free and open to all. With more than 58 million reviews of over 270,000 domains, Trustpilot gives people a place to share and discover reviews of businesses, and we give every company the tools to turn consumer feedback into business results. Our mission is to bring people and businesses closer together to create ever-improving experiences for everyone. Trustpilot reviews are seen more than 3 billion times each month by consumers worldwide. With offices in Copenhagen, London, New York, Denver, Berlin, Melbourne and Vilnius, Trustpilot's 700 employees represent more than 40 different nationalities. For more information, visit https://www.trustpilot.com/

Jing-Jin Electric Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
Jing-Jin Electric (JJE) develops and manufactures high-performance electric motor's system and electric drive components for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), battery electric vehicles (EV) and other electrically driven automobiles and control. Headquartered in Beijing, China's technology capital, JJE combines China's technology talent, manufacturing advantage with global best practices to provide "World's Best Electric Motors" for the "Electrification of Automobiles", the critical path for the sustainable future of the global automotive industry.

Redux

Series B in 2010
Redux makes discovering exceptional online video as enjoyable and effortless as watching cable television - Redux delivers a lean-back TV experience programmed by curators and friends that share your taste.

HDmessaging

Series A in 2005
We are the backbone for text 2.0. Our free, fully featured API and open source clients provide everything developers need to build killer group messaging apps. We're powering a revolution in text messaging - Group conversations - Photo + media sharing - Location sharing - Facebook, Twitter integration - SMS integration & connectivity We provide a free API to anyone who wants to add group messaging to their service or application. Mobile device OEMs, network operators and app developers are all using the API today to build white label messaging services.

ClubMom

Series B in 2000
ClubMom is a free national membership organization for mothers. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York.

Good Technology

Venture Round in 2006
Good Technology Corporation provides secure mobility solutions for enterprises and governments worldwide. It offers a suite of collaboration applications, such as Good Launcher, a mobile desktop solution for business, Good Work, a mobile workforce for business-class e-mail and collaboration, Good Access, a browser that allows users to access the corporate Intranets and Web applications, and Good Share, a solution that enables mobile business users to access, download, and share documents. It was founded in 1996 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Horizon Discovery

Venture Round in 2010
Horizon Discovery Group PLC is a UK life science company that uses gene editing and gene modulation platforms to produce cells, applying them in research and clinical applications that advance human health. The Company’s gene editing and gene modulation platform, are able to alter almost any DNA sequence or RNA transcription, has generated a catalogue of over 1,000,000 cell and reagent products that help researchers recapitulate the genetic and protein anomalies found in diseases like cancer. These models have been adopted by c12, 000 organizations to better understand of the predictors and drivers of disease and drug response, and by Horizon in a range of services offered to customers, as well as in the Company’s own research R&D pipeline.

Digital Path

Series C in 2004
Digital Path provides high-speed wireless broadband Internet and phone services to residential and business sectors in Northern California. It offers business-grade phone systems that include local and long-distance, hosted voicemail, multiple line configurations, and call forwarding services. The company also provides higher data speeds, dedicated business data circuits, multiple business telephone bundle options, competitive pricing, service quality guarantees, extensive rural and metro coverage, enhanced back-office configuration, and provisioning and installation services. In addition, it offers satellite, DSL, or cable services for the residential sector.

Altobeam

Venture Round in 2009
AltoBeam (China) Inc., a fabless IC design company, develops and produces receiver and demodulator IC products for the global digital television (DTV) industry. The company offers demodulators, silicon tuners, and controllers. It sells its products through offices in China and Korea, as well as agents in Japan and Taiwan. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Beijing, China with additional offices, and R&D and customer support facilities in Beijing and Shenzhen, China; San Jose, California; and Seoul, Korea.

SolarCity

Series E in 2010
SolarCity is the nation's 1 leading provider of solar energy systems that deliver reliable clean energy to homes and businesses. SolarCity went public on the NASDAQ exchange in 2012 with a market cap of around $600 million.

Elation Health

Series C in 2020
Elation Health, Inc. develops a provider-centric clinical electronic health records platform to support the physician-patient relationship. Its platform enables providers to manage their practice operations and reduce the burden of day-to-day administrative tasks. The company also provides patients with a secure website to manage their health and communicate with their doctor. Elation Health, Inc. was formerly known as ElationEMR Inc. and changed its name to Elation Health, Inc. in August 2016. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

ViaFone

Series A in 2000
ViaFone is a world-class enterprise software company whose product, the OneBridge(TM) Mobility Platform, enables enterprises to easily build, deploy, and flexibly manage the long-term lifecycle of business applications across all wireless data and voice interfaces. ViaFone's mission is to help businesses conquer the complexity of the mobile environment, now and into the future, while improving their bottom line. With its unique combination of data and voice technologies, ViaFone's OneBridge enables the most complete mobile solutions for the vast array of WAP phones, PDAs, pagers, and standard voice telephones. Leveraging a strong partnership network and open-platform approach, OneBridge integrates seamlessly with backend infrastructures and links to the most popular business software from companies like Oracle, SAP and Siebel. ViaFone provides everything enterprises need to optimize IT investments as they maintain security and control of multiple mobile solutions for employees, partners, and customers on the go. Founded in September 1999, ViaFone is based in Redwood Shores, Calif.

Periscope Data

Series B in 2016
Periscope Data Inc. develops data caching technology. Its Periscope technology plugs directly into databases and enables users to run, save, and share analyses over various data rows. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of May 14, 2019, Periscope Data Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sisense Inc.

Reenergy Electric

Venture Round in 2009
Re-Energy.ca is a renewable energy project kit that can be downloaded and printed from the world wide web - for free! Re-Energy.ca explores wind energy, water energy, solar energy, biomass energy and more. Build your own working models from one of five easy-to-follow construction plans, including a wind turbine, biogas generator, solar car and more. Re-Energy.ca provides educators with background information, exciting hands-on learning activities, resources and links on renewable energy and sustainable energy technologies. Re-Energy.ca is a hands-on renewable energy learning experience. Building working models of renewable energy technologies allows students in grades 7 through 12 to discover the fundamental principles of biology, chemistry and physics, and to explore the application of science and technology to social and environmental issues.

Akimbo

Series D in 2008
Akimbo is a white label video solution. It includes an advertising system and "supports multiple business models including ad-supported, transactional, subscription, download-to-own, download-to-burn, pay-per-minute, gift cards and account credits."

Nantero

Series C in 2005
Nantero, Inc. is a nanotechnology company which develops semiconductor products using carbon nanotubes in the United States and internationally. It offers density nonvolatile random access memory chips, nanoelectromechanical switches, memory semiconductor products, logic semiconductor products, other semiconductor products, and microelectronic-grade carbon nanotubes. The company serves various applications, including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, networking and enterprise systems, and more. Nantero, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Tacit Software

Venture Round in 2004
Tacit Software is a provider of collaboration and knowledge management software and the company behind illumio (www.illumio.com), a productivity tool for monitoring news, blogs, and wikis and connecting with others to share knowledge and expertise. illumio is used by individuals and organizations to more effectively discover and share information by delivering to users only what's important to them. Tacit's enterprise customers include some of the world's leading Fortune 500 companies including Lockheed Martin, Morgan Stanley, and Northrop Grumman.

Siano Mobile Silicon

Series C in 2008
Siano Mobile Silicon develops silicon receivers for the Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) market. Highly integrated, and tailored specifically for mobile communications and consumer electronic devices, the company's multi-band, multi-standard solutions support CMMB, DVB-T, DVB-H, ISDB-T, T-DMB, DAB and DAB+.

Eventful

Series B in 2006
Eventful, the leading digital media company, powers the online ecosystem of local events and entertainment. Over 20 million people rely on Eventful to find out what's happening and decide what to do. Eventful's unique, social media platform, "Demand it!" empowers fans to influence content and location of entertainment and live events. Music promoters, film studios, ticketing companies and other industry providers use Demand it! to engage with fans and determine their routing schedules or theatrical distribution. National marketers rely on Eventful to drive local awareness, commerce, attendance and tune-in. Thousands of digital publishers also rely on Eventful to power their local events and entertainment content. Eventful's proprietary technologies provide a global platform for local event discovery: the world's largest selection of local event content, content management system, state-of-the-art recommendation engine, email platform delivering personalized, localized content and commercial offers, robust API platform, localization system, Demand it! and a self-service premium listing platform. Eventful competitors include [Upcoming.org](http://www.Upcoming.org) and [Zvents](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zvents/).

Splashtop

Series A in 2007
Splashtop, Inc. provides remote desktop solutions that enable people to access and control their favorite applications, files, and data via their mobile devices. Its products include Splashtop On-Demand Support, a solution that connects users’ computers with a session code; Splashtop Personal, a solution to access home computers; Splashtop Enterprise, a multiple remote-access for educational institutions; and Splashtop Business, a remote access solution for business users or teams. The company also provides Mirroring360 that lets users to wirelessly share and record their Chromebook, iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, and Mac screens, as well as music, movies, TV shows, photos, games, and applications; and Splashtop Classroom, which allows teachers to share their desktops and applications. In addition, it offers Splashtop Whiteboard, a solution that lets educators, sales professionals, trainers, etc. to turn tablets into interactive whiteboards; and Splashtop Wired XDisplay, a solution to turn iPads or iPhones into high performance monitors for users’ computers. Splashtop, Inc. was formerly known as DeviceVM, Inc. and changed its name in October 2010. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Jose, California with additional offices in China, Japan, and Taiwan. It also has operations in the Netherlands.

BrightSource Energy

Series F in 2012
BrightSource Energy designs and builds large scale solar plants that deliver low-cost solar energy in the form of steam and/or electricity, at prices competitive with fossil fuels, to industrial and utility customers worldwide. BrightSource Energy enables industrial and utility companies to lessen their dependency on fossil fuels by providing a low cost, reliable source of clean energy during periods of peak usage. BrightSource Energy's corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, California.

Yellowbrick Data

Series A in 2018
Yellowbrick Data was founded in 2014 by experts in database and flash memory technologies to simplify data warehousing. They wanted to solve the challenges of high availability, running complex mixed workloads, support for ad-hoc SQL, computing correct answers on any schema, massive scalability and supporting large numbers of concurrent users. Yellowbrick Data empowers companies to make faster decisions with all of their data. Built for enterprises and the hybrid cloud, the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse deploys powerful analytics anywhere, with best-in-class economics.

Radar Networks

Series B in 2008
Radar Networks makes Twine. Think of Twine as your own artificially intelligent personal web assistant. That's the message we get from Radar Networks CEO, Nova Spivack, about his new project from Radar Networks. Twine is a semantic web application that auto-organizes all your information and media based on an auto-tagging engine. It's been in the works for some time, but will make its public debut soon. The company is funded by Leapfrog Ventures and Vulcan Capital, Paul Allen's venture firm.

BestOffer

Series B in 2000
BestOffer is engaged in the online buying and selling of used cars. It also provides information, online person-to-person auctions, pricing, inspections, test drives, financing, insurance, warranty, and escrow services. BestOffer was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.