Zelkova Ventures

Zelkova Ventures is a venture capital firm committed to helping entrepreneurs build companies. The firm primarily looks to invest in early stage companies, many times pre-revenue. In many instances they provide a company's first outside/institutional capital. They look to take an active role and partner with the companies they invest in. Along with their capital, Zelkova brings expertise, insight and execution to all of their portfolio companies. Zelkova, although not exclusively, focuses on several key sectors - Software Services, Internet Technologies, Environmental Technologies and Consumer Products.

Larry Scheinfeld

Co-Founder and Partner

95 past transactions

Respondology

Series A in 2023
Respondology develops a customizable comment moderation tool for businesses or anyone with a large online audience. It enables brands of all types to regain control of their presence in social media by immediately and discreetly removing damaging social comments and bots across paid, organic, and influencer social marketing.

Teal

Seed Round in 2022
Teal helps individuals advocate for themselves and build meaningful careers. The company provides content, tools, and support to help people navigate change and drive their careers. Users can create, manage, and track multiple versions of their resumes, making it easier to tailor applications for different job opportunities. Teal simplifies the job search process by allowing users to track their job applications and manage contacts efficiently.

Vitally

Series A in 2021
Vitally is a customer engagement platform for B2B SaaS companies to drive a world-class customer experience and eliminate churn. Vitally's easy-to-use platform integrates all customer data and provides a 360-degree view into the metrics that matter most to you, allowing clients to set up health scores and notifications, and create automation playbooks. Vitally.io is a modern customer success platform that teams actually use.

2Morrow

Venture Round in 2021
2Morrow develops, licenses, and distributes behavioral digital health and DTx products. With over a dozen published studies and one of the few Phase III RCT in digital health, 2Morrow takes an evidence-based approach to staying healthy. 2Morrow has employee wellness programs in a market that support population wellness and well-being initiatives. 2Morrow has multiple products in the pipeline that expand on their work in substance use and for people living with chronic conditions.

Onboard (Onboard.io)

Seed Round in 2021
SaaS, B2B SaaS, Customer Onboarding, Customer Implementation, Automated Project Management, Customer Success Management, Project Management

The Financial Gym

Venture Round in 2021
The Financial Gym is a personal financial services company that takes a fitness-inspired approach to clients'​ finance. The company helps people with an affordable and trustworthy option to reaching financial freedom. They help people with their full financial picture: outline their goals, budget, savings, investments, and continually optimize to help them accomplish their life goals.

Everyday Life

Venture Round in 2020
Everyday Life Insurance uses technology to make life insurance accessible to all who need it. We launched in 2020 and are headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Yaguara

Seed Round in 2020
Yagaura is a computer software company that specializes in e-commerce, business operations, and performance management. It features a software application platform designed to aggregate and present data for all levels across an organization.

MarketMuse

Series A in 2020
MarketMuse is a market-leading demand generation platform focused on AI-driven content. It's SaaS platform analyzes massive amounts of Web data to build articles that drive search traffic and engagement.

Vitally

Seed Round in 2019
Vitally is a customer engagement platform for B2B SaaS companies to drive a world-class customer experience and eliminate churn. Vitally's easy-to-use platform integrates all customer data and provides a 360-degree view into the metrics that matter most to you, allowing clients to set up health scores and notifications, and create automation playbooks. Vitally.io is a modern customer success platform that teams actually use.

DigiSure

Venture Round in 2019
DigiSure is aiming to be the global leader in trust, safety and insurance for digital businesses, beginning with mobility marketplaces, so they can deliver seamless insurance experiences, lower their costs and keep their customers safe. We exist to put more power and control over a portion of the $1.6 trillion in property & casualty (P&C) insurance premiums spent annually directly into the hands of the people who know their businesses and customers best. Our vision is to use connected data and automation to transform risk management to make it more transparent and responsive, similar to how the internet and mobile changed commerce and advertising. We do this by infusing data-enabled intelligence and automation technology into everything we build, all the while delivering a customer experience that is second to none. Founded in 2018 by veterans of leading insurance, mobility and sharing economy companies, DigiSure is working to reimagine insurance for future mobility to create a safer, more secure and climate friendly world. The Company is based in San Francisco and maintains a global footprint. For more information visit, www.digisure.ai.

Simplecast

Series A in 2019
Simplecast is an podcast platform that powers shows from many of the most well-known creators and brands, from Netflix, Twitter, Facebook, TechCrunch and Politico to Dax Shepard and Alyssa Milano. Our hosting, management, distribution and analytics intelligence suite enables creators of all sizes to grow, understand, and better connect with their audiences.

Ampjar

Seed Round in 2019
Ampjar is a world where every time we spend money it brings us joy and fulfilment. The act of supporting communities around us brings more purpose and meaning to our lives. Supporting what brings us joy and fulfilment will have a revolutionary effect on our lives individually and society as a whole. We're achieving our mission by build a community where people and brands thrive together through meaningful, joyful and rewarding relationships. The community engages through a closed-loop, peer-to-peer platform where brands discover each other. and then shout each other out, driving connections with new customers. We're platform agnostic and so sharing happens wherever it best works for the brands such as in emails, in social stories, on post-checkout pages and in blog posts.

RealBlocks

Seed Round in 2019
RealBlocks is a technology platform that allows investment managers to distribute alternative investment funds online through financial advisors and institutions. Its platform offers all the building blocks needed to globally deliver custom alternative funds, including built-in secondary trading, a modular white-label onboarding experience, and an API dashboard to manage it all.

Hem

Venture Round in 2018
Imaginative designs of obsessive quality - At Hem, we believe great design can enrich lives. We’re an independent design brand and platform for progressive thinking, inspiring the creative community through collaboration, innovation and experimentation.

Spiro.AI

Seed Round in 2018
Spiro is a proactive relationship management platform that creates contacts, organizes, and prioritizes opportunities. It provides managers with intelligent sales reports that help turn their sales team into a sales machine. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

4Degrees

Seed Round in 2018
4Degrees is a software company. They specialize in providing AI-enabled relationship management and intelligence software. They are a relationship intelligence CRM platform built for relationship-centric industries, including banking and commercial real estate.

Maxwell Financial Labs

Seed Round in 2017
We built Maxwell to give local lending teams a permanent, disruptive financial advantage. Today, our suite of technology-powered solutions addresses the entire mortgage loan process, from intake of application to the secondary market. Through our Mortgage Optimization Platform, we help hundreds of non-depository mortgage banks, credit unions, brokers, and local banks connect their communities with the life-changing benefits of homeownership.

Podia

Venture Round in 2017
Podia is an operator of an online storefront for online courses and digital products. It provides customized and easy-to-use content for free providing tutors with a website, course builder, and online tools to help them grow their businesses and reach more students. Podia was established in 2014 and is headquartered in New York.
Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay is an automated AR platform that streamlines the entire credit-to-cash process for B2B companies. Save time prepping/chasing invoices & get paid faster! Our AI capabilities help you predict payor behavior, intelligently automate invoicing & collection communications, & determine customer credit. Our secure statement portal gives your customers more visibility/flexibility for faster payments, & we seamlessly integrate with your ERP, CRM & accounting systems.

Liveoak Technologies

Seed Round in 2017
Liveoak is a computer software company that specializes in cloud-based platform. It features a cloud-based software application platform that utilizes video conferencing, screen-sharing and data/ID capture with forms collaboration and e-signature capabilities that let your teams deliver white-glove service to your customers. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Automox

Seed Round in 2017
Automox is the AI-powered IT automation platform for modern organizations. It makes it easy to keep Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints patched, configured, controlled, and secured – without servers or VPNs. Using AI-powered automation, IT professionals can fix critical vulnerabilities faster, slash cost and complexity, and win back hours in their days. Join thousands of companies transforming IT operations into a strategic business driver with Automox.

Maxwell Financial Labs

Seed Round in 2016
We built Maxwell to give local lending teams a permanent, disruptive financial advantage. Today, our suite of technology-powered solutions addresses the entire mortgage loan process, from intake of application to the secondary market. Through our Mortgage Optimization Platform, we help hundreds of non-depository mortgage banks, credit unions, brokers, and local banks connect their communities with the life-changing benefits of homeownership.

Opstarts

Series A in 2016
Opstarts was founded to help businesses forecast more accurately and make smarter decisions by replacing cumbersome spreadsheets with a nimble and powerful web-based planning application. Thier founders and advisors have deep financial and operational modeling experience, and the company is backed by a set of great venture capital and angel investors.

Kepler

Seed Round in 2016
Kepler Communications is a satellite communications company that is working towards establishing an in-space telecommunications network for space-borne assets. Put simply, we are building cell phone towers in space. This infrastructure will resolve the problem of intermittent connectivity for non-geostationary satellites, will open new business opportunities that necessitate real-time connectivity to satellites, and will reduce reliance on costly and difficult to deploy ground infrastructure. The company is currently developing technologies and delivering services that solved terrestrial connectivity needs, offering terrestrial wideband and soon-to-be narrowband connectivity services for IoT applications. With Kepler's first service, named Global Data ServiceTM, they have been able to pack more Mbps into a nanosatellite than anybody else ever before. This wideband service delivers a store-and-forward type of solution for companies needing to move large quantities of delay-tolerant data from regions where connectivity is limited or non-existent. It is designed to transfer 100s of GBs of data monthly between remote locations and company headquarters or the internet. This service is available today for trials. Kepler is also developing a satellite service for Internet of Things devices – called everywhereIoTTM. A low-power, low-cost, bi-directional narrowband satellite service that will allow to connect assets all around the globe (at sea, land and even in the poles). With two satellites already in orbit, and a third scheduled for launch later in 2019, the company is currently preparing the deployment of its first LEO constellation for 2020.

Netra

Seed Round in 2016
Netra is an image-recognition startup that offers visual intelligence and searches technology platforms using AI and Machine Learning. Netra's video summary platform analyzes videos detect context and analyzes for safety in real-time and is used across multiple verticals.

Teckst

Seed Round in 2016
Teckst is a platform that enables real time, human-to-human text and mobile messaging between brands and their customers. The application integrates seamlessly with your CRM, allowing support agents and sales reps to respond directly to SMS and chat messages within their current workflow. The Teckst platform integrates seamlessly with Zendesk, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, FreshDesk, and more, with a dashboard that puts analytics and controls at the fingertips of management. Our mobile app ensures that texts sent on the go are imported into the CRM for full visibility and tracking. Started in 2014, today Teckst powers messaging for leading brands across a variety of industries, including ESPN, The New York Mets, Lyft, T-Mobile, and Chanel.

GreatHorn

Seed Round in 2016
GreatHorn is a computer software company that provides protection for cloud email systems, via advanced threat detection, automated defense, and integrated incident response. The company specializes in the fields of machine learning, information security, predictive security, and cybersecurity. GreatHorn was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Confirm

Seed Round in 2016
Instant ID verification that is simple, safe & secure. Run ID authentication checks on any government issued ID using our RESTful API. Confirm authenticates with advanced forensics, extracts ID information for easy use, and retains zero personal information. Confirm.io makes authenticating a government issued ID easy, fast & secure. Our simple API lets you integrate in minutes, and confirm a person’s identity for any transaction that requires or benefits from proof of identity. https://confirm.wistia.com/medias/kxyi9dlhiq

Fama

Seed Round in 2015
Fama is an AI-based solution that identifies and offers an opportunity to address problematic behavior among potential hires and current employees by analyzing publicly available online information. This type of content can ultimately lead to brand risk and toxic culture, and is often missed in the hiring and management process.

SocialSignin

Seed Round in 2015
SocialSign.in helps venues connect with their guests by leveraging free WiFi. Their software service provides a platform for establishing relationships with customers through free connectivity. The company's network allows end-users (your customers) to access your guest WiFi, easily identify themselves, and interact with the business or sponsor. They help businesses efficiently grow customer mailing lists, message guests, improve their social media engagement, and drive app downloads. SocialSign.in produces metrics such as visitation frequency from data that has to date been difficult and expensive to collect for physical venues. It also provides network authentication services to partners, organizations, and enterprises using patented proprietary software specifically tailored for scaled guest Wi-Fi networks.

adHawk

Seed Round in 2015
AdHawk, now operating as Broadlume, is a leading provider of digital technology tailored specifically for the flooring industry. Founded in 2015 and based in Boulder, Colorado, the company aggregates advertising data and integrates it with revenue metrics, offering organizations valuable insights into their sales performance. Broadlume encompasses several companies, including FloorForce, Creating Your Space, Bridgeway Interactive, and FlooringStores, collectively working to transform the purchasing and selling processes within the flooring market.

adHawk

Seed Round in 2015
AdHawk, now operating as Broadlume, is a leading provider of digital technology tailored specifically for the flooring industry. Founded in 2015 and based in Boulder, Colorado, the company aggregates advertising data and integrates it with revenue metrics, offering organizations valuable insights into their sales performance. Broadlume encompasses several companies, including FloorForce, Creating Your Space, Bridgeway Interactive, and FlooringStores, collectively working to transform the purchasing and selling processes within the flooring market.

GreatHorn

Convertible Note in 2015
GreatHorn is a computer software company that provides protection for cloud email systems, via advanced threat detection, automated defense, and integrated incident response. The company specializes in the fields of machine learning, information security, predictive security, and cybersecurity. GreatHorn was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Teckst

Angel Round in 2015
Teckst is a platform that enables real time, human-to-human text and mobile messaging between brands and their customers. The application integrates seamlessly with your CRM, allowing support agents and sales reps to respond directly to SMS and chat messages within their current workflow. The Teckst platform integrates seamlessly with Zendesk, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, FreshDesk, and more, with a dashboard that puts analytics and controls at the fingertips of management. Our mobile app ensures that texts sent on the go are imported into the CRM for full visibility and tracking. Started in 2014, today Teckst powers messaging for leading brands across a variety of industries, including ESPN, The New York Mets, Lyft, T-Mobile, and Chanel.

Astro

Seed Round in 2015
Astro specializes in developing an automated home system of devices. It requires no installation, no new infrastructure, and no new wireless networks making it the simplest platform on the market.

Ambassador

Series A in 2015
Ambassador provides customer acquisition tools like referral, partner, and affiliate tracking and management as well as customer retention and loyalty programs. Ambassador is the best way to reward customers for promoting products online. Ambassador provides an end-to-end solution: you can create, track, and manage all your custom referral programs from a single dashboard. Ambassador Build on the Ambassador API to seamlessly integrate into your own application, you can also integrate Ambassador into many popular 3rd party CRM, Email and Billing applications.

Superhuman

Venture Round in 2015
Superhuman is a software platform that weaves social insights into a workflow. The platform supports Gmail shortcuts and more allowing its users to snooze a conversation at any time so they focus on what matters, and enjoy a more productive inbox.

Hungryroot

Seed Round in 2015
Hungryroot is your personal grocer, powered by AI and the belief that food deeply impacts your daily life. You tell us a little about yourself, and we use proprietary predictive technology to deliver groceries and recipes that best suit your individual needs and goals. We also assist with meal planning and nutritional support, helping you save time, save money, shop sustainably, and eat what makes you feel your best. Hungryroot is a provider of an artificial intelligence-powered personalized grocery service. Hungryroot first launched in 2015 as a better-for-you foods brand. Now six years later, Hungryroot is pioneering an entirely new way to grocery shop through predictive, personalized grocery delivery. Along with offering the best modern brands, Hungryroot continues to develop its own line of innovative healthy products, including the brand's award-winning Black Bean Brownie Batter. Check us out at: www.hungryroot.com

Encoding.com

Series B in 2014
Encoding.com, the world's largest video encoding service, powers video transcoding for 3,000+ companies, including leading brands across media and entertainment, eLearning, retail, telecommunications, lifestyle, and advertising. Blending an affordable SaaS model with sophisticated integrations on the AWS and Rackspace cloud computing platforms, Encoding.com enables publishers and developers to instantly scale without expensive video infrastructure investments. Encoding.com supports ALL popular web and mobile formats, utilizing Encoding IntelligenceTM to accelerate processing and optimize display on any device. With millions of encodes under its belt, Encoding.com is the only encoding service to offer service-level guarantees for performance, so its customers can focus on content creation. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in Denver, CO; New York, NY; and St. Petersburg, Russia. For more information about Encoding.com, visit http://www.Encoding.com.

Bezar

Seed Round in 2014
Bezar is a New York City based e-commerce startup offering carefully curated, modern design. Bezar is where people who design special things connect with people who desire special things. Bezar will enable emerging designers to reach design lovers, iconic brands to engage with new audiences in meaningful ways, and shoppers to access authentic pieces from new talent.

Peaberry Software

Venture Round in 2014
Peaberry Software makes Customer.io, a product that helps apps activate and retain their users.

Pogoseat

Seed Round in 2014
Pogoseat is an enterprise solution that develops cutting-edge technology company intended to enhance fan engagement with AI-driven personalization and a frictionless buying process. It creates new revenue streams and data for our partners by providing a white-labeled system and mobile ticketing tools such as seat upgrade technology, text-to-buy, and subscription pass, enabling sports teams, concert venues, ticket brokers, and promoters to increase engagement, monetize unused inventory, and gather data to improve the fan experience.

BrandYourself

Series A in 2014
BrandYourself provides tools and services that help people look better online. This includes dealing with unwanted items – like an old divorce record or ill-advise tweet – as well as helping promote positive items that benefit someones career. In 2012, BrandYourself launched the first DIY online reputation management tool that walks users through the process of monitoring and improving their online presence. BrandYourself also offers reputation management services for individuals and businesses with a team of in-house content creators, web developers, social media managers, brand strategists and placement specialists. BrandYourself has secured over $6 million in venture capital, including investments from prominent angel investor Barney Pell (former Head Search Strategist at Microsoft & Architect at Bing), John Galanti (former President at Hudson Valley Datanet), Ryan Holmes (CEO & Co-founder at Hootsuite) as well as firms FF Angels, New Atlantic Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, and LeFrak Investments. BrandYourself has been recognized by the White House, named a "Best Entrepreneurial Company in America" by Entrepreneur Magazine, declared "Best Online Reputation Services for Individuals" by Business News Daily and appeared on ABC's Shark Tank, where they walked away from a $2 million offer - one of the highest offers in the show's history.

FlyCleaners

Seed Round in 2013
FlyCleaners is a New York-based company that provides local premium on-demand pickup and delivery services for dry-cleaning and laundry through a mobile app Offering customized convenience at your doorstep, users simply open the app, make a request for pickup, have their clothes cleaned according to their specific preferences, and delivered, all from their mobile device.

Postmaster

Seed Round in 2013
Postmaster is a simple API for integrating shipping into your software stack. Postmaster saves businesses money on shipping by simplifying carrier integration, optimizing shipments in real time, and providing historical analytics to improve the logistics pipeline.

Cliptone

Seed Round in 2013
Cliptone is a messaging application that enables its users to send creative voice messages to their friends. It allows its users to record a clip up to 10 seconds; apply voice filters and background music; and more. Cliptone was launched on March 3, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario.

Locus Energy

Series A in 2012
Locus Energy offers a technology platform providing automated monitoring support and data analytics for distributed generation systems (residential, commercial, & industrial), focusing in solar PV. The company was founded in 2007, and its web-based platform enables project stakeholders to maximize the efficiency and transparency of installed systems. Locus Energys software aggregates performance data from a network of distributed renewable systems and provides customized interfaces and analytics to owners, operators, OEMs and regulators.

Food52

Series A in 2012
Food52 is an online portal that provides a curated shop, content and community for kitchen and home enthusiasts. It is a growing community of 13M cooks and home enthusiasts and a one-stop-shop where individuals can be inspired by great ideas and find the tools and tips to bring them to life. The company is driven by a mission to reimagine every room in the house and remake everything in it. It was founded in 2009 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs.

BlackJet

Venture Round in 2012
At BlackJet, we redefine the way you experience air travel by offering an elite selection of private aviation services tailored to meet the needs of discerning travelers. Our portfolio includes fractional jet ownership, private jet card programs, and private jet leases, providing unparalleled flexibility and convenience. For those who prefer the unique vantage point of a helicopter, our access programs ensure you can take to the skies with ease. Beyond luxury travel, we're committed to your safety and well-being with emergency medical transportation services. Across all aircraft access programs, BlackJet promises efficiency, privacy, and a commitment to the highest standards of service. Experience the epitome of air travel with us.

Lettuce

Seed Round in 2012
Lettuce is a simple order management system with a mobile sales app enabling your business to capture, track, and process orders anywhere in real time. We primarily focus on small and medium sized businesses.

Space Monkey

Seed Round in 2012
Space Monkey is an affordable subscription-based data storage solution that is taking the cloud out of the datacenter, creating a faster and more durable way to store data from any device. Space Monkey combines the benefits of local hardware storage and cloud storage by providing a device that stores one terabyte of online storage. Space Monkey provides central access and sharing from anywhere in the world, and from any device including iOS and Android mobile devices, Windows, Mac and Linux clients, as well as any other web browser enabled technology. Founded by entrepreneurs, Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in July 2011, Space Monkey is headquartered in Midvale, UT, a suburb of Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit: www.spacemonkey.com

Fideo Intelligence

Series A in 2012
Fideo’s powerful intelligence identifies more accurate digital personas by fusing digital, transactional, behavioral, device-related, geospatial, and historical fraud data together to give platforms the ammunition needed to keep pace with potential fraudsters. The company’s proven, patented continuous learning engine offers a sophisticated approach to analyzing interconnected data, in which businesses can uncover anomalies and patterns, enhancing the ability to identify and prevent fraud.

BrandYourself

Series A in 2012
BrandYourself provides tools and services that help people look better online. This includes dealing with unwanted items – like an old divorce record or ill-advise tweet – as well as helping promote positive items that benefit someones career. In 2012, BrandYourself launched the first DIY online reputation management tool that walks users through the process of monitoring and improving their online presence. BrandYourself also offers reputation management services for individuals and businesses with a team of in-house content creators, web developers, social media managers, brand strategists and placement specialists. BrandYourself has secured over $6 million in venture capital, including investments from prominent angel investor Barney Pell (former Head Search Strategist at Microsoft & Architect at Bing), John Galanti (former President at Hudson Valley Datanet), Ryan Holmes (CEO & Co-founder at Hootsuite) as well as firms FF Angels, New Atlantic Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, and LeFrak Investments. BrandYourself has been recognized by the White House, named a "Best Entrepreneurial Company in America" by Entrepreneur Magazine, declared "Best Online Reputation Services for Individuals" by Business News Daily and appeared on ABC's Shark Tank, where they walked away from a $2 million offer - one of the highest offers in the show's history.

Crowdly

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Crowdly is an advocate marketing platform empowering large consumer brands to build a base of authentic advocates, activate them, and learn from their behavior to increase word-of-mouth promotion and brand advocacy. It specializes in the fields of finance, social media, advertising, and social media marketing. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2012
Stitch is a simple, powerful ETL service built for developers. Stitch connects to all your data sources – from databases like MongoDB and MySQL, to SaaS tools like Salesforce and Zendesk – and replicates that data to your warehouse. With Stitch, developers can provision data to analysts and other team members in minutes, not weeks.

RJMetrics

Debt Financing in 2012
RJMetrics solves the core analytical challenge of today’s high-growth online business: data is scattered across dozens of platforms, making it difficult to manage and analyze effectively. This data typically lives in silos like backend databases, marketing platforms, CRM systems, and shopping carts. RJMetrics consolidates and distills this data into a cloud-based data warehouse and provides an intuitive user interface for exploring and acting on the results.

klout

Series C in 2012
Klout measures influence based on the ability to drive action across the social web. Any person can connect their social network accounts and Klout will generate a score on a scale of 1-100 that represents their ability to engage other people and inspire social actions. Klout enables everyone to gain insights that help them better understand how they influence others. Klout also provides people with opportunities to shape and be recognized for their influence.

Dispatch

Seed Round in 2011
Dispatches are intelligent group email addresses for your projects. No more noise. No more hassle. The Simplicity of Email + The Power of a Project Management System. Dispatch began at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon 2011. It was created by a team of three, including 17 year old [Alex Godin](http://twitter.com/#!/alex_godin), to solve organization problems with file sharing by consolidating files from different web pages.

Livefyre

Series B in 2011
Livefyre is a social depth platform according to top industry analysts, gives marketers the tools they need to easily weave on-brand user-generated content into their own websites and other marketing experiences. Livefyre’s intuitive technology gives brands and publishers the ability to add social content to their branded websites, driving audience exploration of products and services that drive traffic, conversions, and revenue. Livefyre is powering real-time content marketing experiences for over 1,500 leading brands including CBS, Cisco Systems, Conde Nast, Cox Media Group, CNN, Dow Jones/WSJ, FedEx, Hallmark, Intel, Mashable, Motorola, NASCAR, the PGA Tour, and Universal Music Group. In 2015, Livefyre announced game-changing partnerships and integrations with Adobe, Salesforce, and Twitter. Livefyre was founded in 2009 and is backed by Adobe Systems, Salesforce Ventures, Greycroft, and U.S. Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.livefyre.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @livefyre.

Help Scout

Seed Round in 2011
Help Scout offers a helpdesk and customer interaction solution using email and live chat solutions. They enable users to manage E-Mail customer support services through a ticketing system for small and medium businesses. It also provides analytics solutions to improve business decisions and can be integrated with various applications using APIs.

Red Rover

Seed Round in 2011
Red Rover is a platform designed to help businesses discover and implement effective processes tailored to their specific needs. The service allows companies to enhance their operations by offering a variety of proven processes, including goal tracking, employee onboarding, client onboarding, and peer-to-peer learning. Red Rover aims to streamline business functions and improve efficiency by providing a user-friendly interface that enables quick setup and experimentation with different methods. By leveraging the experiences of similar organizations, Red Rover supports businesses in adopting strategies that work effectively within their unique environments.

Fideo Intelligence

Seed Round in 2011
Fideo’s powerful intelligence identifies more accurate digital personas by fusing digital, transactional, behavioral, device-related, geospatial, and historical fraud data together to give platforms the ammunition needed to keep pace with potential fraudsters. The company’s proven, patented continuous learning engine offers a sophisticated approach to analyzing interconnected data, in which businesses can uncover anomalies and patterns, enhancing the ability to identify and prevent fraud.

Thinknear

Series A in 2011
Thinknear is a location technology company and full-service mobile advertising platform focused on delivering amazing advertising campaigns for agencies, brands, and consumers. Thinknear’s platform delivers the accuracy, scale and technology required to effectively leverage mobile location data to power better consumer experiences. In mobile, accuracy matters, and as a division of Telenav, Thinknear leverages exclusive access to over 15 years of proprietary location data. To learn more, please visit www.thinknear.com and follow @thinknear on Twitter and Instagram.

Fab

Series A in 2011
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Appstores.com

Angel Round in 2011
Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.

Ambassador

Seed Round in 2011
Ambassador provides customer acquisition tools like referral, partner, and affiliate tracking and management as well as customer retention and loyalty programs. Ambassador is the best way to reward customers for promoting products online. Ambassador provides an end-to-end solution: you can create, track, and manage all your custom referral programs from a single dashboard. Ambassador Build on the Ambassador API to seamlessly integrate into your own application, you can also integrate Ambassador into many popular 3rd party CRM, Email and Billing applications.

Altruik

Series B in 2011
Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.com Altruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: 1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers 2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines 3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data

Jibe

Series A in 2011
At Jibe, we create global recruiting software solutions to help the world’s leading companies identify, engage, and hire the best talent. Jibe's core technology is the Jibe Recruiting Cloud, a SaaS-based platform that enables leading companies to hire the best talent, regardless of their existing systems. Through this platform, Jibe provides a suite of products including personalized career sites and recruiting tools for sourcing, nurturing and marketing to candidates. Jibe currently serves the world's leading Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Marriott, and American Express. Elevated by strategic partnerships with Google and LinkedIn and backed by their expertise in recruiting technology, Jibe continues to be an innovative leader in the changing world of talent acquisition.

COLOURlovers

Venture Round in 2011
COLOURlovers is an international creative community that helps people discover their inner designer. We provide people with a wealth of user created & shared color inspiration as well as tools that make the creative process as simple as possible. Whether you’re simply looking for a color palette to kickstart your next project or want to produce a piece of vector art, we have the tools and services to help anybody from go from design inspiration to execution. As of 5/1/2011 there are 563,438 COLOURlovers around the world who have created 3,766,464 Colors, 1,562,273 Palettes and 1,461,132 Patterns.

GroupSpot

Seed Round in 2011
Kohort helps you connect your community with best in class management tools for membership directories, communications, events, ticketing, dues, and the ability to manage any organizational structure through subgroups all with robust privacy settings.
Spring Engage delivers a solution to hotel marketing professionals, allowing them to build and grow relationships with travelers online.

GameChanger Media

Series A in 2011
GameChanger is a mobile app and website providing scorekeeping, stats, live gamestream plays, and recap stories for amateur sports teams. GameChanger software is changing the way amateur sports teams collect, manage and share real-time information. Their mobile app and website provide scorekeeping, stats, live GameStream plays and recap stories for thousands of youth, high school and college teams. The GameChanger is free for coaches and scorekeepers. Their business is supported by parents and fans that purchase premium team content.

The Shared Web

Convertible Note in 2011
The Shared Web is an online content discovery platform that enables users to get and share personalized news feeds from the internet. It was launched by Nicolae Rusan, Nav Patel, and Kareem Amin, and is operated from New York, USA.

Fab

Seed Round in 2010
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.

Kapost

Seed Round in 2010
Kapost is the leading provider of Content Marketing software that enables companies to manage their content marketing as a structured business process. Through its platform that manages the ideation, production, distribution, audience development and analytics of content marketing, Kapost empowers marketers to generate more content, more traffic and more leads. Kapost customers include brands like Eloqua, Marketo, AT&T, Intel and more. Kapost also produces The Content Marketeer, a blog providing content and education for marketers.

Foodspotting

Seed Round in 2010
Foodspotting is visual guide to good food and where to find it: Instead of reading and writing restaurant reviews, you can find and share great dishes.

Appbistro

Angel Round in 2010
Appbistro is an application marketplace for Facebook pages. At Appbistro, page administrators can quickly find applications that they can easily plug into their pages and quickly increase the engagement and reach of their pages. The applications within the marketplace are built by known and vetted Facebook developers, and feature applications for Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, and more. Appbistro's parent company, MMTG Labs, Inc., was acquired by InMobi in July 2012.

Rapportive

Seed Round in 2010
Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. You can immediately see what people look like, where they're based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by leaving notes.

Appstores.com

Angel Round in 2010
Appstores is making it easier for consumers to find apps by giving small and large niche publishers and API/platform companies the tools to showcase apps most relevant to their users.

Livefyre

Series A in 2010
Livefyre is a social depth platform according to top industry analysts, gives marketers the tools they need to easily weave on-brand user-generated content into their own websites and other marketing experiences. Livefyre’s intuitive technology gives brands and publishers the ability to add social content to their branded websites, driving audience exploration of products and services that drive traffic, conversions, and revenue. Livefyre is powering real-time content marketing experiences for over 1,500 leading brands including CBS, Cisco Systems, Conde Nast, Cox Media Group, CNN, Dow Jones/WSJ, FedEx, Hallmark, Intel, Mashable, Motorola, NASCAR, the PGA Tour, and Universal Music Group. In 2015, Livefyre announced game-changing partnerships and integrations with Adobe, Salesforce, and Twitter. Livefyre was founded in 2009 and is backed by Adobe Systems, Salesforce Ventures, Greycroft, and U.S. Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.livefyre.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @livefyre.

klout

Series A in 2010
Klout measures influence based on the ability to drive action across the social web. Any person can connect their social network accounts and Klout will generate a score on a scale of 1-100 that represents their ability to engage other people and inspire social actions. Klout enables everyone to gain insights that help them better understand how they influence others. Klout also provides people with opportunities to shape and be recognized for their influence.

Crimson Hexagon

Series A in 2010
Crimson Hexagon helps global brands better understand their consumers. With instant access to the world’s largest volume of unstructured text and images across social, online public, and enterprise-held data sources, Crimson Hexagon’s AI-powered consumer insights platform allows clients to analyze audiences, track brand perception and campaign performance, and even detect competitive and market trends. Their clients include Anheuser-Busch InBev, Adidas, General Mills, Paramount Pictures, Starbucks, and Twitter.

Jibe

Seed Round in 2010
At Jibe, we create global recruiting software solutions to help the world’s leading companies identify, engage, and hire the best talent. Jibe's core technology is the Jibe Recruiting Cloud, a SaaS-based platform that enables leading companies to hire the best talent, regardless of their existing systems. Through this platform, Jibe provides a suite of products including personalized career sites and recruiting tools for sourcing, nurturing and marketing to candidates. Jibe currently serves the world's leading Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Marriott, and American Express. Elevated by strategic partnerships with Google and LinkedIn and backed by their expertise in recruiting technology, Jibe continues to be an innovative leader in the changing world of talent acquisition.

Plancast

Seed Round in 2010
The best way to discover events and activities with friends.

Worldly Developments

Seed Round in 2010
Worldly Developments is a software development team in San Francisco with a focus on designing social web applications. They are best known for creating the social event discovery service Plancast.

Encoding.com

Series A in 2010
Encoding.com Inc. specializes in video encoding services, offering studio-class media transcoding and cloud computing solutions through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. The company integrates seamlessly with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, allowing publishers and developers to scale efficiently without significant infrastructure costs. Encoding.com supports a wide array of web and mobile formats, utilizing Encoding Intelligence™ to enhance processing speed and optimize video display across devices. Serving over 3,000 clients, including notable brands in media and entertainment, eLearning, retail, telecommunications, and advertising, Encoding.com provides a universal video platform known as Vid.ly. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company has established itself as a leader in the video transcoding industry, offering service-level guarantees that enable customers to focus on content creation rather than technical challenges.

LendKey Technologies

Series A in 2010
LendKey is a financial technology company that creates white-labeled lending solutions that transform financial institutions into profitable digital lending businesses. The company manages the entire lending process, which includes: demand generation, online decisioning, loan origination, customer service and balance sheet management. Based in New York and Cincinnati, the company was founded in 2009.

RelTel

Seed Round in 2009
RelTel develops software to break down and analyze footage caught by surveillance cameras. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

ReTel Technologies

Seed Round in 2009
Based in San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL, ReTel Technologies develops advanced analytics that help businesses optimize their security, operations and consumer experience through ongoing analysis of surveillance video. ReTel's unique system seamlessly augments computer vision with human auditing to uncover actionable insights previously unavailable at scale or low cost. ReTel was founded in 2007, and is also a 2009 TechStars company.

Altruik

Series A in 2009
Altruik was acquired and merged with SearchDex. www.searchdex.com Altruik is focused on making search engine optimization easy and scalable for eCommerce companies and online businesses. By using their technology to increase visibility in the search engines, companies can generate more site traffic, more visits to their content and product inventory pages, and higher click-through rates. Their automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) solution easily integrates with all Content Management Systems (CMS) and legacy systems and efficiently manages the search engine optimization process. Plus, it offers several advantages over other options by: 1. Handling many of the labor-intensive and tedious tasks associated with implementing site-wide SEO changes. As a result, eCommerce companies and site owners save the time and ongoing cost of ensuring that their site content is visible to prospective customers 2. Ensuring that SEO best practices are implemented in a way that is fully compliant with the search engines 3. Seamlessly overcoming SEO barriers created by a company’s infrastructure, including inflexible legacy or Content Management Systems, limited technology resources, and lack of access to relevant performance and search data

NewsBasis

Angel Round in 2009
Newsbasis (formerly Plato's Forms), set to launch in Spring 2010, is a platform that wants to ease communication between journalists and the companies they write about. The service would charge a subscription fee to the companies, but would be free for journalists.

LendKey Technologies

Debt Financing in 2009
LendKey is a financial technology company that creates white-labeled lending solutions that transform financial institutions into profitable digital lending businesses. The company manages the entire lending process, which includes: demand generation, online decisioning, loan origination, customer service and balance sheet management. Based in New York and Cincinnati, the company was founded in 2009.

NutshellMail

Seed Round in 2009
[NutshellMail](http://nutshellmail.com/) makes it easy for any small business to manage and monitor their social media presence and online brand reputation in just 5 to 10 minutes a day. NutshellMail works like your own personal assistant by monitoring your social media accounts, filtering out the noise and delivering the most important and actionable activity in an easy-to-read email digest sent on your schedule. NutshellMail was part of the 2009 fbFund Rev incubator program and was acquired by Constant Contact, Inc (NASDAQ: CTCT) in May 2010.

Pollsb

Series A in 2009
Pollsb.com is a social identity facilitator and a polling platform that helps users and companies learn new things about themselves, get quick self-feedback, and brainstorm with others.
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