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33Across
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33Across is the leading social sharing and content discovery platform. Powered by its groundbreaking SocialDNA targeting technology, 33Across creates innovative opportunities for marketers and publishers to react to what is read, shared and purchased in real-time. It has helped over 400 Fortune 1000 clients and 625K publishers discover and reach the social networks that surround their brand and content. Co-investors include: Rose Tech Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners and QED Investors.
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Ad Tech
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9GAG
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9GAG aims to spread happiness in an elegant way, through a social content sharing platform. 9GAG is the world's largest and fastest growing online community for sharing fun, entertaining and humorous content. With millions of new posts every week and over a billion monthly page views, 9GAG helps users connect seamlessly through shared tastes and interests. Co-investors include: Freestyle Capital and Y Combinator.
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Consumer
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Adaptly
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Adaptly is the easiest way to advertise across the social web and is changing the way brands increase engagement on social networks by helping them harness the unique value of each social network. It offers one consolidated platform to complete a social media ad buy across multiple social networks including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, StumbleUpon and more. Adaptly is already working with industry leaders like Pepsi, Razorfish, News Corp among others. Co-investors include: Charles River Ventures, Lerer Ventures and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Aereo
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Aereo is the simplest way to watch free, over-the-air television. Using advanced antenna technology, sophisticated bandwidth management and an intuitive interface, Aereo allows consumers to watch broadcast television online through any device. Users can watch live programs, record their favorite shows and enjoy an HD experience, all without installing hardware or downloading an app. Co-investors include: IAC, FirstMark Capital, High Line Venture Partners and Highland Capital Partners.
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eCommerce
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Agari
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Agari is at the forefront of a new email security framework designed to protect brand reputation, eliminate email threats and prevent loss of sensitive data. Agari has partnered with some of the largest global brands like Google and Facebook to help keep consumers' personal and professional information safe. To date, Agari has analyzed over 1 trillion emails, blocked 1 billion malicious messages and secures more than 80% of US consumer inboxes. Co-investors include: Alloy Ventures, Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners.
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Enterprise
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Aggregate Knowledge
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Aggregate Knowledge (AK) brings an exact science to the art of media buying by enabling marketers with real-time media and audience data they can act on. AK's patented media intelligence platform is the only data management solution that combines both media and audience data, enabling marketers to increase reach, grow sales and improve media spend efficiency. Co-investors include: Net Service Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Foundation Capital.
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Ad Tech
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Airware
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Airware creates a universal development platform for commercial drones. The company’s platform comprises on-board hardware, software, and a flexible API. Airware democratizes the use of drones without compromising safety for companies of all sizes, from small start-ups to big corporations and non-profit organizations. Co-investors include: Andreessen Horowitz, Shasta Ventures and Google Ventures.
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Hardware
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Aloha
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ALOHA combines traditional wisdom from diverse cultures across the globe with the latest scientific research and collaborates with the world’s most esteemed experts and health gurus to develop innovative products and inspiring content. ALOHA has initially launched with daily vitamin supplements and inspirational editorial content. Co-investors include: Highland Capital Partners, Khosla Ventures, Forerunner Ventures and angels.
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Health & Wellness
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AltSchool
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AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists, and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for a modern, changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact to improve education - underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child. Co-investors include: Harrison Metal Capital, Matrix Partners, Baseline Ventures, and angels.
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Consumer
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Ambient Devices
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Ambient Devices provides products that create tangible interfaces between consumers and their digital information through wireless, self-contained products. A pioneer in this field, Ambient's technologies deliver dynamic data (such as weather forecasts, stock market activity and sports scores) to everyday products, all without a PC or internet connection. Ambient has won accolades from WIRED and the New York Times and has distributed more than one million units at retail locations, including Best Buy, Walmart and Brookstone. Co-investors include: Rose Tech Ventures, .406 Ventures, New York Angels and angels.
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Hardware
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AppFirst
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AppFirst delivers powerful, yet simple application monitoring to give their customers full-stack visibility into systems, applications and business metrics. AppFirst's SaaS dashboard is powered by a flexible big data platform that collects, analyzes and correlates numerous sources of data, enabling DevOps professionals and Tech Execs to easily monitor what's important to them. Unlike other solutions that can take weeks to implement, AppFirst starts monitoring your data and keeping your site running in minutes. Co-investors include: FirstMark Capital, Javelin Ventures and Safeguard Scientifics.
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Enterprise
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AppNexus
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AppNexus is a world leader in real-time advertising, powering the most innovative trading solutions and marketplaces for Internet advertising. The AppNexus platform is built on a cloud infrastructure designed for real-time decisions, providing in-depth data management and reporting that drives more responsive campaign management and ultimately, greater ROI. AppNexus is already working with brands such as eBay, Microsoft Advertising Exchange and BannerConnect. Co-investors include: Khosla Ventures, Venrock, Microsoft, Coriolis Ventures and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Artillery
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Artillery is turning the modern web browser into a high-quality gaming console. Using HTML5 technology, Artillery is creating beautiful, real-time multiplayer gaming directly in a consumer's browser, without the need for downloads or plug-ins. Co-investors include: CrunchFund, Signia Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and angels.
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eCommerce
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Authernative
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Authernative provides enterprise and consumer level security solutions based on proprietary algorithms, protocols and encryption schemes. Authernative's product offerings include integrated security solutions for identity management, strong authentication to access network resources, and efficient authorization, administration and auditing control. Co-investors include: WS Investments and angels.
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Enterprise
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Axial
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Axial is transforming the private capital markets by providing an intelligent and technology-driven marketplace. Using modern software and internet-based networks, Axial connects qualified buyers, sellers and advisors to reduce transaction costs, improve efficiency, and support entrepreneurial efforts. So far, thousands of members have made millions of connections on Axial. Co-investors include: Lerer Ventures, Windcrest Partners and Redpoint Ventures.
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Fin Tech
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Backupify
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Backupify is pioneering the protections and processes that will keep customers' irreplaceable online information safe, useful and under control. Backupify offers an all-in-one archiving, search and restore solution for companies and consumers, using the most popular services including Gmail, Facebook and Twitter. Backupify is trusted by more than thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of users to backup their data. Co-investors include: General Catalyst Partners, Lowercase Capital and angels.
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Enterprise
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Beyond Games
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Beyond Games is focused on F2P mobile for core gamers. We are developing extremely high fidelity, AAA games catered to the core market on smartphone & tablet devices. The team consists of veterans across console and mobile gaming including NaturalMotion & Lucas Arts.
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BillFloat
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BillFloat was started to help people stay within their budgets, access money when they need it, and pay their bills on time. BillFloat is an industry leading financial services technology company, providing innovative solutions that give consumers and small businesses broader, on-demand access to credit. BillFloat's platform connects lenders with retailers and service providers to provide instant financing solutions online, in-store and via mobile. Co-investors include: Venrock Associates, SofTech VC, Baseline Ventures, Cash America and PayPal.
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Fin Tech
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Birchbox
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Birchbox helps consumers find products they will love. Birchbox is redefining the retail process by offering consumers a unique and personalized way to discover, learn about and shop the best beauty, grooming and lifestyle products on the market. Birchbox delivers curated boxes of product samples on a subscription basis, enabling consumers to get first-touch experiences with products along with educational content about the best brands. Co-investors include: Accel Partners, Harrison Metal Capital and Lerer Ventures.
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eCommerce
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Bitcasa
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Bitcasa allows consumers to securely store, access, and share all of their digital possessions – every picture, every movie, every document, every song – without limits. Bitcasa is revolutionizing how people use the cloud by providing them with infinite storage, best-in-class security via client-side encryption and simple sync and share across multiple platforms. Bitcasa now stores more than 30 petabytes of secure, easily streamed data. Co-investors include: Andreessen Horowitz, CrunchFund and Pelion Venture Partners.
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Consumer
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BlackJet
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BlackJet is reimagining private air transportation, allowing consumers to book seats on private jets in 10 seconds and guaranteeing seat availability at affordable prices. Co-investors include: SV Angel and angels.
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eCommerce
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Bloc
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Bloc helps students learn web development under the mentorship of developers, hackers, founders and teachers from across the entire world. Bloc is a 12-week online apprenticeship designed to teach students the fundamentals of web development, allowing its users to learn at anytime and anywhere, all with the help and personal attention of an experienced mentor. Once the course is over, former students are connected to the Bloc alumni network, opening doors to new projects, partners and friends. Co-investors include: Learn Capital.
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eCommerce
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Blue Apron
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Blue Apron is changing the way people cook at home with a weekly subscription service that delivers everything a consumer needs to make fresh meals. For customers, Blue Apron is like having a private chef and is helping people discover new recipes, eat fresher food and save both time and money. Co-investors include: Bessemer Venture Partners, Graph Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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Breakthrough
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Breakthrough uses innovative technology to connect people with mental health providers anywhere, anytime for high-quality online counseling and psychiatric care. Clients can easily search for providers, schedule appointments and get private, online care while providers get access to a free practice management suite to help deliver compliant online care. Co-investors include: The Social+Capital Partnership, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Charles River Ventures and angels.
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Health & Wellness
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CareDox
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Caredox is making health information easily accessible and securely portable. Using a cloud-based storage system, Caredox has created an easy and secure ecosystem for aggregating, digitizing, storing, maintaining and sharing medical records. Over 250K organizations are using Caredox for 200M health forms for 70M children. Funding not yet announced.
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Health & Wellness
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Chloe + Isabel
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Chloe + Isabel is an innovative social commerce jewelry company that empowers and connects women through their own social selling experience. Chloe + Isabel is disrupting the traditional direct sales model by providing merchandisers a digital office to connect, communicate and create a curated social-shopping experience using comprehensive social selling and marketplace tools. Co-investors include: FLOODGATE, General Catalyst Partners and angels.
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eCommerce
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Civitas Learning
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Civitas Learning is transforming higher education using a cloud-based analytics platform and engaging applications. Civitas Learning delivers personalized, real-time recommendations to students, faculty, advisors and administrators to help college students learn more effectively and graduate on time. Co-investors include: FLOODGATE and Austin Ventures.
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Enterprise
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Cluster
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Cluster is the easiest way for friends and family to instantly create beautiful albums with everyone's photos. Cluster is an app that makes sharing both easier and more personal, allowing users to quickly create albums, tag others in them, and find photos from the albums of others. Co-investors include: Freestyle Capital, Google Ventures, Sherpa Ventures and Baseline Ventures.
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eCommerce
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Confide
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Confide lets you say what you want, honest and unfiltered. Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all communication remains private, confidential and always off the record. With end-to-end encryption and disappearing messages, Confide is bringing off-the-record conversations online.
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Enterprise
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Continuity Control
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Continuity Control is a financial technology company that provides community financial institution executives with a smarter approach to managing compliance. Continuity Control's platform has functionality across the entire compliance process, from regulatory updates to daily work and all the way through audits, so its customers can confidently know the compliance process is taken care of. Co-investors include: LaunchCapital and angels.
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Fin Tech
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Cover
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Cover is a context driven lockscreen replacement that shows you the right apps at the right time - initially Android only. Cover automatically recognizes when you're at home, work, or in the car and learns which apps you use most in each context, making sure the app you want is always at your fingertips. Co-investors include: Harrison Metal Capital and angels.
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Consumer
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Creative Vascular
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Creative Vascular is a medical device company focused on transforming the process for the administration of blood and fluid needs in the healthcare and medical industries. Funding not yet announced.
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Health & Wellness
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Curalate
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Curalate is the world's leading marketing and analytics suite for the visual web, starting with Pinterest and Instagram. Curalate helps brands tell their story through imagery in order to drive consumer engagement, build brand awareness and form more meaningful relationships with consumers. Co-investors include: NEA and MentorTech Ventures.
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Ad Tech
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CustomMade
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CustomMade is an online marketplace aimed at helping people find the unique gifts, objects and goods they cannot find through traditional retail channels. CustomMade connects buyers who want one-of-a-kind creations with the professional and passionate makers of those goods through an engaging end-to-end marketplace solution. Co-investors include: Google Ventures, NextView Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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Discourse
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Discourse is rebooting forum software for the next decade. Using a modern open source technology stack, Discourse is building a whole ecosystem with the intent of raising the standard of discussion on the web through better forum software. Co-investors include: SV Angel and angels.
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Enterprise
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DNAnexus
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DNAnexus is reimagining genomics through scalable, cost-effective, secure and compliant analysis in the cloud. DNAnexus' platform manages DNA sequencing data, analysis and visualizations by combining advanced cloud-computing infrastructure with scalable systems and advanced bioinformatics. Co-investors include: SoftTech VC, K9 Ventures, Felicis Ventures and angels.
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Health & wellness
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Docracy
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Docracy is the web's only open collection of legal contracts and is the best way to negotiate and sign documents online. Docracy's free and social repository of document templates makes it easy to find, customize, store and sign legal documents. Co-investors include: Vaizra Investments, Quotidian Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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DogVacay
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DogVacay is a community where dog lovers can connect with one another to find and provide safe, convenient and affordable ways to care for their best friend. DogVacay has a community of vetted and insured dog sitters across the country ready to provide high quality pet care. Co-investors include: Quest Venture Partners, Baroda Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and angels.
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eCommerce
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Doorbot
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DoorBot is what the modern doorbell should be, allowing users to answer their door with their smartphone or tablet. DoorBot is a sleek, simple and powerful wireless doorbell that streams live video of a home's front doorstep directly to a mobile device. Installed in a matter of minutes, the DoorBot can be accessed through the free DoorBot app, whether at home or away. Funding not yet announced.
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Hardware
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DoubleVerify
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DoubleVerify is the leader in digital performance solutions, providing online media verification and decisioning to marketers, agencies, ad networks, exchanges and publishers. Verifying over 60 billion advertising impressions per month, DoubleVerify has helped hundreds of the Fortune 500 gain the most value out of their media spend by ensuring quality advertising environments, campaign transparency and performance. Co-investors include: Blumberg Capital, Genacast Ventures and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Earnest
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Earnest is building a modern bank for the next generation. Earnest is a finance startup that combines rich data analytics and elegant software technology to bring people a fast, low cost and hyper personalized experience. Earnest believes that banking should be a personalized experience and are setting out to build a bank that helps people start their lives, realize their aspirations and create relationships. Funding not yet announced
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Fin Tech
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EAT Club
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EAT Club is revolutionizing how America eats by offering an innovative online food delivery system with high quality, affordable meals. EAT Club collaborates with the best local restaurants to provide meals that are prepared and delivered fresh daily. EAT Club currently serves lunch at leading companies like Electronic Arts, Genentech and Shutterfly. Co-investors include: Lightspeed Venture Partners, LaunchCapital, Tekton Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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Elicit
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Elicit believes every keystroke is an opportunity to turn a website visit into a paying customer. Elicit helps marketers increase conversion by giving them control over the single most-used feature on a website – the search box. Elicit's easy-to-use interface lets marketers prioritize and target results using a variety of criteria, making it easier to plan, promote and market their business. Co-investors include: ff Venture Capital and Greycroft Partners.
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Ad Tech
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Fab
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Fab.com is the fastest growing e-commerce company on the planet. Each day, Fab.com presents its members with an exclusive collection of design sales across dozens of categories including home products, jewelry, artwork, apparel, workplace products, toys and outdoors products, all at up to 70% off of retail prices. Co-investors include: Andreessen Horowitz, Pinnacle Ventures, Mayfield fund, SV Angel, Menlo Ventures, The Washington Post Company and angels.
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eCommerce
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FanBridge
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FanBridge is a leading fan audience CRM platform, helping customers effectively manage fan acquisition, retention and engagement across email, mobile and social media. FanBridge has managed over 600M fan relationships for some of the world's largest brands, premium content producers and influencers from music, sports and film. Customers include Coca Cola, Samsung, LiveNation, John Mayer and Common. Co-investors include: 500 Startups, Lowercase Capital and Founder Collective.
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Ad Tech
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Flatiron Health
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Flatiron Health is a health care technology company that provides the industry's only true big data platform dedicated to oncology. Oncology Cloud is a web-based platform that seamlessly integrates and structures disparate information systems, delivering unprecedented insights and intelligence and helping providers improve care and lower cost. Co-investors include: The Social+Capital Partnership, Google Ventures, IA Ventures and angels.
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Health & Wellness
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FlightCar
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FlightCar is the first company to establish a marketplace that allows vehicle owners parking at an airport to rent their cars to other travelers. Owners get free parking while renters choose from a wider selection of vehicles at lower prices than major car rental chains. Co-investors include: Vine St. Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, SoftBank Capital and angels.
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eCommerce
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Flurry
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Flurry is optimizing mobile experiences for people everywhere. Using cutting-edge analytics, deployment and monetization tools, Flurry is turning insight into revenue growth for app developers while helping brand marketers more effectively engage their audiences through mobile. Flurry's market-leading software is in hundreds of thousands of apps on billions of devices worldwide. Co-investors include: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Union Square Ventures, InterWest Partners and Menlo Ventures.
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Ad Tech
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FundersClub
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FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital firm, allowing accredited investors to become equity holders in FundersClub-managed venture funds, which in turn fund pre-screened private companies. FundersClub's online marketplace uses an easy-to-use web platform that allows their members to browse and screen investment opportunities, view investment profiles and sign legal documents. Co-investors include: Spark Capital, Felicis Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and angels.
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Fin Tech
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Get Satisfaction
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Get Satisfaction is a community platform that helps companies create engaging customer experiences online. Their platform transforms user conversation into marketing content and insights, helping businesses create differentiated customer experiences, acquire new customers and bring new innovations to market. Companies like Hootsuite and Intuit rely on Get Satisfaction and over 35 million consumers each month engage in active customer communities on their platform. Co-investors include: SoftTech VC, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, InterWest Partners, Azure Capital Partners and Freestyle Capital.
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Ad Tech
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Gigya
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Gigya enables the world's largest brands to understand and connect more closely with today's mobile and socially connected consumers. Gigya's technology helps businesses access, consolidate and manage permission-based identity and behavior data, while providing deep customer insights that turn data into action. Gigya works with brands like Pepsi, Verizon and ABC, reaching billions of users every month. Co-investors include: Benchmark, Mayfield Fund and angels.
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Ad Tech
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GiveForward
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GiveForward is the premier online platform for medical fundraising, empowering friends and family to send love and financial support to patients as they navigate a medical crisis. GiveFoward has helped thousands of people raise millions of dollars online for things like general medical expenses, cancer treatment, transplants, funeral costs and disaster-relief. Co-investors include: Founder Collective, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Social Leverage and angels.
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eCommerce
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Gnana
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Gnana is a well-funded startup at the intersection of intelligent relationship management, machine learning and capital optimization. Gnana is building a product that gives organizations better insight into their forecasting capabilities across the finance, sales and operational functions. Imagine a platform that helps a CFO never miss a quarterly number again, that's what Gnana is building. Funding not yet announced.
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Enterprise
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Gnip
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Gnip is the world's largest and most trusted provider of social media data, serving customers in a range of industries. Gnip delivers more than 120 billion real-time social data activities each month, from dozens of sources including Twitter, Tumblr, Wordpress and more. Gnip's customers, in turn, deliver social media analytics to more than 95% of the Fortune 500. Co-investors include: Foundry Group and SoftTech VC.
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Ad Tech
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Grand St.
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Grand St. is a new market and community for creative electronics. Grand St. hand picks, tests and highlights well-designed, delightful hardware from independent producers. With stunning pictures and product stories, Grand St. helps consumers experience new technology that improves their life and can be shipped in just a few days - building a new platform for the maker community. Co-investors include: Collaborative Fund, MESA+, Quotidian Ventures, among others.
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eCommerce
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Grokker
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Grokker is building a social video discovery platform to allow users to easily find the best content related to their interests and needs. The company plans to build communities through the social web around the best content and become the point of truth for inspiring and educational content around interests like yoga, cooking and much more. Funding not yet announced.
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eCommerce
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Superb
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Superb is a location-based app that enables you to collect and share unique places with your friends, so you can actually go out and experience them together.
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Consumer
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GumGum
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GumGum is the premium in-image advertising platform for publishers and brands. Overlaying engaging, contextually relevant ad units across billions of images, GumGum reaches 60 million unique visitors each month in the US, making it the world's largest in-image display advertising provider. Hundreds of the internet's premier publishers, including Alloy Digital and US News, rely on GumGum to turn their photographs into interactive experiences. Co-investors include: GRP Partners and New Enterprise Associates.
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Ad Tech
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Gumroad
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Gumroad helps millions of creators earn their living in an authentic way by providing a marketplace and payment system for digital and virtual goods. Gumroad empowers writers, designers, game developers, musicians, artists and filmmakers, attracting people ranging from indie creators to the likes of Eminem and Girl Talk. Co-investors include: Accel Partners, SV Angel, Kleiner Perkins and CrunchFund.
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eCommerce
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Handshakez
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Handshakez is a collaboration and analytics platform built to engage prospects, delight customers, improve relationships and drive results. Handshakez brings business relationships out of email and documents and into private collaborative spaces – fostering higher engagement and allowing for analytics to improve process and success. Handshakez is already integrated with leading enterprise applications to enable seamless deployment to any sales organization. Co-investors include: Austin Ventures, CrunchFund, FLOODGATE and Valhalla Partners.
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Enterprise
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Healthy Wealthy
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Healthy Wealthy's mission is to celebrate the Healthy. Healthy Wealthy is developing a platform to ‘score' health and plan to use it to find and support people who have positive 'health equity'. The longer term vision is to turn the idea of health into a platform for success for individuals and celebrate health achievements - transforming our current culture’s approach to insuring against and reacting to poor health. If you can imagine a future where a new ‘health’ or ‘metabolic currency’ exists whereby good health becomes a liquid, fungible asset (borrow, lend, etc) - that is Healthy Wealthy. Funding not yet announced.
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Health & Wellness
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Homejoy
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Homejoy is a San Francisco based startup that's building the 'Get Help' button for your home – solving a huge problem many home owners face: finding reliable home service providers. At the core, Homejoy is a technology-enabled platform taking a vertical approach to shared economies and collaborative resources – initially launching with home cleaning services. Co-investors include: Andreessen Horowitz, Resolute.vc and angels.
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eCommerce
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HotelTonight
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HotelTonight provides consumers easy same-day mobile hotel booking - you can book a hotel at discounted rates in 3 taps on your smartphone through an engaging and sleek app. For consumers, HotelTonight offers incredible convenience and value at quality hotels. For hotels, HotelTonight is a marketplace to fill last-minute rooms that would otherwise remain empty. Co-investors include: Accel Partners, Battery Ventures and US Venture Partners.
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eCommerce
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Human Dx
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Health & Wellness
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Influitive
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Influitive helps companies mobilize their customer advocates to provide more referral leads, reference calls and social media advocacy. Using a unique matching engine, Influitive provides virtual VIP customer advocate communities to give advocates recognition, access to other people they're interested in meeting and special privileges. Co-investors include: Illuminate Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Relay Ventures and angels.
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Enterprise
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Inspirato
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Inspirato revolutionizes the way luxury travelers spend quality vacation time with their family and friends. Designed specifically for a new generation of luxury consumers, Inspirato offers the best of destination club consistency and service, together with extraordinary value, flexibility and low-cost membership with access to an expansive portfolio of luxury homes in the world's most sought-after vacation destinations. Co-investors include: Institutional Venture Partners, CrunchFund, Kleiner Perkins, Access Venture Partners and angels.
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eCommerce
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Intelligize
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Intelligize designs products that fundamentally streamline the SEC compliance and review process. The result is a platform with powerful search capabilities to find documents that are traditionally difficult to retrieve or review, powerful analytics and an intuitive user experience. Co-investors: angels.
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Enterprise
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iovation
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Iovation protects online businesses and their end users against fraud and abuse through an industry-leading combination of shared device reputation and real-time risk evaluation. As the only company that provides real-time, actionable reputation intelligence, Iovation predicts trustworthiness from a consumer's interactions across the broad online landscape, including retail, financial services, social networking, dating and gaming. Co-investors include: Intel Capital and SAP Ventures.
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Enterprise
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Jelli
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Jelli uses the power of the web to reinvent traditional broadcasting by empowering the community to interact with the broadcast in real-time on desktop or mobile. Jelli is a 100% user-controlled radio that uses internet crowdsourcing and group empowerment, enabling users to take over a radio station and take control over what songs play on the radio. Co-investors include: Intel Capital, Battery Ventures and TriplePoint Capital.
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Consumer
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Jirafe
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Jirafe is passionate about keeping retailers informed and successful by automating mission critical tasks that every ecommerce store faces. Jirafe provides analytics and customer intelligence, helping tens of thousands of merchants know who buys, what sells and how to grow their businesses. Jirafe is integrated into a number of ecommerce platforms including Magento, Hybris and Prestashop. Co-investors include: FirstMark Capital, Foundry Group and OATV.
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eCommerce
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Koru
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Kairos is building a finishing school for new college grads to prepare them with the skill sets employers need in their entry-level employees. Kairos teaches everything from administration to giving and receiving feedback to business writing to developing a personal brand and everything in between. In a modern world, college doesn't neccessarily prepare you for an office job - Kairos will help prepare you to get hired.
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Consumer
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Keep Holdings
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Keep Holdings’ products empower consumers and brands to better connect and engage. Keep Holdings’ suite of services focus on advertising, commercial email and e-commerce with an emphasis on how the social web can bring brands and consumers together in newly productive ways. Co-investors include: Spark Capital, Lerer Ventures, True Ventures and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Kinetic Trading
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Kinetic Trading delivers trading signals and analytics based on alpha-generating models that analyze and derive intelligence from alternative data sources. Kinetic Trading applies computational finance techniques to massive amounts of textual data in order to extract valuable semantic information that fuel proprietary trading algorithms. Funding information not available.
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Fin Tech
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Kiwi Crate
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Kiwi Crate sparks creativity in kids and saves time for busy parents by providing all the inspiration and materials necessary for hours of imaginative play and learning. Kiwi Crate is a monthly subscription service delivering activities designed to help kids aged 3-7 discover, explore and create things in the world around them. Co-investors include: Mayfield, Comcast, 500 Startups and Forerunner Ventures.
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eCommerce
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Knewton
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Knewton is the world's leading adaptive learning technology provider with the mission of bringing personalized education to the world. The Knewton platform makes it possible for anyone to build applications that provide real-time proficiency estimation, activity recommendations, analytics and more. The world's largest and most innovative learning companies use Knewton technology to improve learning outcomes in K-12, higher education, corporate training and other markets. Co-investors include: Accel Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund and angels.
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Enterprise
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Kno
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Kno is an education software company on a mission to change the way students learn. Kno is partnering with 80 leading publishers to offer more than 200K interactive titles that make learning more engaging, efficient, and social for students. The Kno platform provides administrators and teachers with the tools they need to easily assign, manage, and monitor their digital learning content and assessments at an enterprise level. Co-investors include: FLOODGATE, Andreessen Horowitz and SV Angel.
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eCommerce
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LaunchHub
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A technology startup in stealth mode focused on creating data science tools that enable predictive forecasting and growth in mobile. Funding not yet announced.
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Big Data
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LendingHome
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Fin Tech
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Liftopia
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Liftopia offers the largest online marketplace and technology platform serving the ski and mountain activity industry. Liftopia allows skiers and boarders at hundreds of alpine resources in North America to buy date-specific lift tickets and on-mountain activities in advance. Liftopia also provides resorts with software and data analytics to manage inventory, pricing and online distribution through their own branded websites and mobile channels. Co-investors include: Sand Hill Angels, Amicus Capital and angels.
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eCommerce
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LiveIntent
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LiveIntent makes the lives of marketers and publishers easier with turnkey premium email advertising solutions. LiveIntent for publishers combines a powerful prediction engine with an ad management and targeting facility that works in the inbox making real-time ad serving a possibility for the first time. The LiveIntent Trading Desk for buying real-time ads in email allows marketers to leverage rich media takeovers, demand geo-targeting and other capabilities at scale. Co-investors include: Battery Ventures, Lerer Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
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Ad Tech
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Lookcraft
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Lookcraft is a male ecommerce site targeted at the social and fashion conscious market. Combining recommendation tools, social curation and a seamlessly intuitive user interface, Lookcraft provides users with specific fashion purchase recommendations. Funding not yet announced.
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eCommerce
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Looker
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Looker is an inventive software company that focuses on the intersection of economics and engineering. Looker aims to help businesses thrive by making information easily accessible and consistently defined across the entire organization. Looker's web-based platform powers the work of data analysts while fueling and fulfilling the business user's curiosity. Co-investors include: PivotNorth, Redpoint and angels.
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Enterprise
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Mango Health
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Mango Health makes fun and elegant mobile applications that inspire consumers to better manage and improve their health. Mango Health aims to create an engaging and effective tool by adding game layers to the process of taking nutritional supplements, over the counter medication and prescription medication. Co-investors include: FLOODGATE, Baseline Ventures and angels.
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Health & Wellness
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Massdrop
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Massdrop takes a group of people that each want to buy the same thing, combines their order and places the order directly with the manufacturer. As a result, everybody in the group gets the large quantity price. All of the products on Massdrop have been voted, debated and selected by the community as the best so consumers can buy with confidence. Funding not yet announced.
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eCommerce
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MemSQL
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MemSQL empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions, better engage customers and discover competitive advantages. MemSQL is the highest performing in-memory database that accelerates applications, provides real-time analytics and combines structured and semi-structured data into a consolidated Big Data solution. MemSQL delivers data storage and management solutions with the speed, dependability and accuracy today's modern world requires. Co-investors include: New Enterprise Associates, Start Fund, SV Angel and Y Combinator.
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Enterprise
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MessageMe
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MessageMe is rethinking messaging by providing an emotionally engaging communication experience that's fun, lightweight and ubiquitous. MessageMe applies the techniques and philosophies of social gaming to influence the emotions and experience of reciprocal interactions. Co-investors include: True Ventures, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and angels.
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Consumer
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MetroMile
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MetroMile is setting out to change the auto insurance industry by offering the only variably priced, pay-per-mile car insurance in the United States. Using the Metronome device installed in your car, MetroMile creates a rich experience around driving with an interactive dashboard. MetroMile is also developing a new breed of products that save time and money for people who drive less using the latest mobile, cloud and data science technologies. Co-investors include: Index Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and SV Angel.
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Consumer
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MightyBell
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Mightybell is where communities learn and share together in groups. Mightybell communities are designed to grow an organization of local chapters, or a network of learning or discussion groups around particular projects or interests. Mightybell is unique in giving organizers the ability to create and publish collections of content that appear in every group. Funding not yet announced.
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eCommerce
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MightyText
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MightyText wants to build the most useful app that you use in your daily life. Using Android's powerful, open platform, MightyText's app makes life easier for people who send and receive SMS text messages and get phone calls all day with the ability to seamlessly move from your phone to your desktop through one app - never missing a notification again. Co-investors include: Charles River Ventures, 500 Startups and angels.
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Consumer
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Moat
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Moat is changing the way we find and understand display advertising. Moat's proprietary ad search engine makes it easy to find what and where ads are running for the top brands and sites. Moat Analytics is creating a new standard for how brand marketers measure consumer attention. Co-investors include: SV Angel, Founders Fund, Lerer Ventures and Mayfield Fund.
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Ad Tech
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ModCloth
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ModCloth is an innovative and rapidly growing ecommerce company of vintage-inspired fashion and decor that’s out to shake up the way fashion is discovered, developed and delivered. Through groundbreaking technology and press-recognized social media, they’re creating a user-empowering platform that’s redefining the face of social commerce. Co-investors include: Accel Partners, FLOODGATE and Harrison Metal Capital.
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eCommerce
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Monetate
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Monetate empowers marketers to leverage big data to create more personalized and engaging online customer experiences. Monetate helps leading brands generate stronger, more profitable customer relationships by providing a more relevant web experience, and anticipating and reacting to consumer behavior. Leading brands, like Best Buy and OfficeMax, rely on Monetate’s cloud-based browser technology to achieve a new level of speed and control. Co-investors include: FLOODGATE and OpenView Venture Partners.
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Enterprise
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Nodejitsu
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Nodejitsu is a provider of cloud computing, offering a node.js platform as a service focused on ease of use, automation and reliability. Nodejitsu also provides an application marketplace built on top of this platform which enables the easy deployment and monetization of open-source node.js projects. Co-investors include: GC Innovation and RRE Ventures.
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Enterprise
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Nomi
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Nomi offers a single platform to maximize the potential of your most important asset: your store. Measure how each investment in marketing, operations and service impacts every segment of your customer base from first time visitors to loyal fans. Launch proximity marketing campaigns that enhance the in-store experience for each of these customer segments. Nomi is the only micro-location platform to offer every tool you need to measure, analyze and optimize every aspect of your store including marketing, loyalty, labor and operations. Co-investors include: Greycroft Partners, SV Angel and angels.
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SMBs
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Notion
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On Deck Capital
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OnDeck is the technology powered Main Street lender that has fundamentally changed how small businesses access capital. OnDeck’s innovative technology platform leverages electronic information including online banking and merchant processing data to identify the creditworthiness of small businesses in minutes, while traditional lenders typically take days or even weeks. To date, OnDeck has deployed hundreds of millions of dollars to thousands of businesses nationwide. Co-investors include: Village Ventures, Contour Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures.
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Fin Tech
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One Kings Lane
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One Kings Lane is the leading flash sales site for the home market, offering members access to spectacular designer home decor, furnishings, accessories and gifts – at prices up to 70% off retail. One Kings Lane works directly with leading home brands to bring the very best products at exceptional prices to its members. One Kings Lane also partners with top designers, decorators and industry insiders to deliver content that inspires, enlightens and informs. Co-investors include: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, TriplePoint Capital and angels.
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eCommerce
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Onyx
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Health & Wellness
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OpenX
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OpenX is a global leader in digital and mobile advertising technology. OpenX’s vision is to unleash the full economic potential of digital media companies. OpenX solutions provide a unique platform by combining ad serving, an ad exchange and content valuation. Co-investors include: Index Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Opzi
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Opzi is a developer of social games for iOS and Android. Opzi is made up of brilliant software engineers and creative artists who love building and shipping products and delighting users. Co-investors include: SoftTech VC, SV Angel and angels.
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eCommerce
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Pantheon
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Pantheon is the all-in-one Drupal platform that gives websites smooth scaling from day one. Businesses trust Pantheon to take their mission-critical websites from dev sandboxes to live sites with millions of page views, all without ever changing infrastructures. Developers look to Pantheon for everything they need to build and run solid Drupal websites at the speed of light. Co-investors include: FLOODGATE, Baseline Ventures and Founder Collective.
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SMBs
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Path
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Path focuses on simplicity, quality and privacy to provide the best mobile personal networking service in the world. Path is a trusted, intimate social environment and is currently used by tens of millions of people around the world. Co-investors include: Index Ventures, SV Angel, Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures, CrunchFund and angels.
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Consumer
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Perceptual Networks
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Perceptual Networks was formed to make it easy for everyone to find the best people for them to meet next in their lives. Whether someone is looking for an employee, a golf buddy, a spouse or a roommate, Perceptual Networks is making apps for that. Co-investors include: Bullpen Capital and angels.
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Consumer
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Percolate
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Percolate helps brands create social content at scale. Percolate offers the first fully comprehensive content marketing platform to identify the most relevant content for a brand to curate and edit and seamlessly publish across a brand’s social platforms and websites. Percolate is already working with name brands such as American Express, GE, and Federated Media. Co-investors include: Lerer Ventures, SV Angel and Transmedia Capital.
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Ad Tech
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PerformLine
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PerformLine develops and delivers the most advanced SaaS compliance monitoring services for marketers. Leading companies looking to optimize their businesses choose PerformMatch to discover, monitor and enforce both regulatory and brand compliance. The PerformMatch platform is designed to directly benefit marketers and their partners in their quest to monitor all lead sources for full regulatory and brand compliance as well as alleviate tension in the advertiser-affiliate relationship. Co-investors include: Rose Tech Ventures, Dublin Capital Partners and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Planet Labs
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Planet Labs provides universal access to information about the changing planet. Planet Labs is planning to launch the world’s largest fleet of imaging satellites that will map the entire Earth to better understand the changing planet and ecosystems (launched two tests satellite in early 2013). Co-investors include: Innovation Endeavors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, FF Angel, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and angels.
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Hardware
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Pocket Change
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eCommerce
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Poppin
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Poppin is an innovative online retailer offering a distinctive collection of chic yet affordable workstyle products and an engaging shopping experience. Established with the unique mission to provide people with everything they need to work happy, Poppin intends to become the first company that makes buying, using, looking at and thinking about office products an extraordinary experience. In addition to its website, Poppin's work-lifestyle collection is now available on Staples.com and in select Staples nationwide. Co-investors include: Shasta Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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PublicStuff
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PublicStuff helps cities transform their relationship with residents through technology. PublicStuff is a service that allows citizens to capture and notify the correct department in a city to get things fixed - truly democratizing the process for citizens to report to their governments. Co-investors include: FirstMark Capital and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator.
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eCommerce
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Qualaroo
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Qualaroo creates solutions to help companies identify and capitalize on more web visitor revenue opportunities. Qualaroo is a hosted DIY toolset that enables marketers to target in-flow customer engagements such as conversion feedback questions, lead generation forms, surveys and promotions. Qualaroo's solutions are customizable and adaptive to offer visitors to your website the best possible engagement experience whether they access through a desktop, tablet or mobile device. Co-investors include: Index Ventures, True Ventures, Polaris Ventures and 500Startups.
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Ad Tech
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Readyforce
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Readyforce’s vision is to build an online environment focused on helping college students launch their careers. Readyforce will provide access to companies that are not participating in traditional campus recruiting and job boards, innovative ways to leverage their existing social and professional networks, and resources to educate and explore career options. Co-investors include: US Venture Partners, PivotNorth Capital, Menlo Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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Real Food Works
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Real Food Works is dedicated to helping people live healthier by eating more plant-based whole foods. Real Food Works offers a new kind of subscription program, featuring wholesome, delicious, nutritionally optimized meals prepared by local independent restaurants and delivered fresh to our customers each week. Co-investors include: StartUp PHL, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and angels.
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eComemrce
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RebelMouse
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RebelMouse organizes a business' online presence into a beautiful, dynamic and social site, all in a matter of minutes. RebelMouse is a content management system built from the ground up around the social, real-time web to bring together disparate social efforts across platforms like Facebook, Twitter, RSS and more. RebelMouse is already being used by Time.com, WSJ, GE, ESPN and more to power their websites and online presence. Co-investors include: Oak Investment Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Lerer Ventures and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Refinery29
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Refinery29 is the largest independent fashion and style website in the United States and delivers nonstop inspiration to live a more stylish and creative life. Combining daily local newsletter editions and a website that serves as a global style hub, Refinery29 offers the only 360-degree source for shopping, exclusive deals, trends, beauty news, local hot-spots and at-home sneak-peeks of fashion's finest. Co-investors include: FLOODGATE, Lerer Ventures, Stripes Group and angels.
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eCommerce
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Relay Network
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Relay mobilizes business to consumer communications, changing the way customers interact with their service providers. Using patent-pending technology, Relay accelerates corporate mobile strategies, allowing businesses to reach the greatest percentage of their customers through their mobile phones, while at the same time allowing the customer to opt in to ensure that the service messages they receive are both important to them and from a source they can trust. Co-investors include: NewSpring Capital and ICG.
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Consumer
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Remind101
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Remind101 helps innovative teachers take advantage of technology in a way that frees up their time to focus on teaching. Remind101 is a communication platform for education that gives teachers a free and safe way to communicate with students and stay in touch with parents. Initially a text-based platform, Remind101’s robust messaging platform has already been adopted by hundreds of thousands of users. Co-investors include: 500 Startups and angels.
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Consumer
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RewindMe
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Rewind.Me is working to change the way consumers and marketers benefit from personal data. People today generate and control a great deal of personal data, from the apps on our smartphones to the services we use online, the personal or sports tracking devices we use, as well as our credit card, electronic transactions and more. Rewind.Me is building apps and services to help people gain control and unlock the value of their own data. Co-investors include: Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Silicon Alley Venture Partners and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Ringly
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Ringly creates and powers wireless accessory communications devices for the fashion and accessory conscious crowd. Funding not yet announced.
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Hardware
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Roblox
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ROBLOX is one of the top-ranking kids gaming sites on the internet. ROBLOX is a virtual world that combines elements of building, inventing and socializing into an exciting online community for kids. ROBLOX has over 5 million unique visitors every month join its multiplayer game environment, where users are able to build their own games, hangouts and customized virtual items. Co-investors include: Altos Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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RockYou
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RockYou is helping to define the future of social gaming, creating products intended to serve players, advertisers and developers alike. With advertising products that offer brands more meaningful interactions with players, RockYou creates an unmatched value-per-engagement for both brands and users. RockYou's games include Galactic Allies and the celebrated Zoo World franchise. Co-investors include: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and SoftBank Capital.
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eCommerce
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Sano Intelligence
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Sano Intelligence is building a small, wearable sensor that can capture and transmit blood chemistry data continuously to virtually any device. The company will use this data to create a third-party development and analytical platform called the “API for the bloodstream”. Funding not yet announced.
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Health & Wellness
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SavingStar
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SavingStar is the first national, fully digital grocery eCoupon Service, available on the web, iPhone and Android. SavingStar’s eCoupons are linked to customers’ loyalty cards and offer a more convenient and eco-friendly way to save on groceries than paper grocery coupons. SavingStar is redeemable at tens of thousands of retail locations and already works with major national chains including Albertsons, CVS and Rite Aid. Co-investors include: Flybridge, Founder Collective and IA Ventures.
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eCommerce
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Say Media
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Say Media is a digital publishing company that creates amazing media brands. Through its technology platform and media services, Say enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech. Say helps brands engage with their audiences, at scale, with a combined reach of over 500 million people globally. Co-investors include: Rose Tech Ventures, August Capital, WPP and New Enterprise Associates.
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Ad Tech
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Seesaw
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Seesaw helps users make better decisions by tapping the friends that matter most for feedback in the moment of choice. With Seesaw, users can share decisions using photos, ask friends for opinions using text or social media, see feedback real-time, and help others making decisions by offering their input. Co-investors include: Freestyle Capital, Baseline Ventures and angels.
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Consumer
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Sherpaa
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Sherpaa is health for the 21st century, making healthcare tech-savvy, transparent and simple. Sherpaa provides companies with accessible and affordable healthcare through a centralized and real-time command center for all health needs, simplifying the healthcare process for both companies and individuals. Co-investors include: O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Collaborative Fund and angels.
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Health & Wellness
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Sift Science
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Sift Science fights fraud with machine learning. With simple APIs that take minutes to integrate, an online business can leverage the latest in large-scale machine learning to protect themselves from fraud. Online businesses send Sift Science user events, which are mined for identity, behavioral and network patterns that correspond to past fraud. Sift Science also pools fraud patterns across its network of customers, which strengthens as more data streams in. Co-investors include: SV Angel, Union Square Ventures and angels.
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Enterprise
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Simple
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Simple is creating a better interface for banking through the web and mobile apps. In partnership with financial institutions which will hold the actual deposits, Simple is focusing on creating a better customer experience and simplifying the banking process by unifying all accounts into one, accessible through a bank card. Co-investors include: Neu Venture Capital, IA Ventures, Village Ventures and angels.
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Fin Tech
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Smartling
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Smartling simplifies and accelerates translation and localization for companies reaching a global market. Using an innovative, cloud-based translation management platform, Smartling helps companies quickly translate their dynamic websites and web and mobile applications, keeping every language and location consistent and up-to-date. The Smartling platform currently serves more than one billion page views per month in 100 languages across the globe. Co-investors include: Venrock, US Venture Partners, Accelerator Ventures and angels.
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Enterprise
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SmartThings
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SmartThings is unlocking a new world of possibilities by allowing consumers to use their smartphone to communicate with all the connected devices around them. SmartThings has created a variety of easy-to-use sensors that you can place in your home, office and car, resulting in the world’s most accessible and advanced open platform for the Internet of Things. SmartThings is also embracing developers by enabling them to create their own applications of the product and creating the leading Internet of Things developer community. Co-investors include: SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, CrunchFund and angels.
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Hardware
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SocialWire
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SocialWire is a recommendation engine for product ads, helping leading online retailers generate targeted ads across their entire catalog. Marketers use SocialWire to help automate and scale their acquisition and re-marketing campaigns. SocialWire helps premium online retailers optimize their sites for the social graph and takes the guesswork and labor out of marketing on social media. Co-investors include: 500 Startups, Accelerator Venture Capital and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Solve Media
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Solve Media’s performance-based online advertising platform is the gold standard for online branding, at scale. Solve Media's proprietary online advertising system, the TYPE-IN, was designed to create new and highly effective opportunities for brands to advertise online. For publishers, the TYPE-IN represents new and unique ad inventory that improves user experience while adding a security measure to block unwanted bot traffic. Co-investors include: AOL Ventures, New Atlantic Ventures and IA Ventures.
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Ad Tech
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Sookasa
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Sookasa is a next generation security company, providing a simple, self-service, cloud-based security solution for SaaS applications. Sookasa aims to allow professionals to enjoy their favorite cloud services at work, while making sure the data is secure and compliant as required by enterprise IT. Co-investors include: Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures and SV Angel.
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Enterprise
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Splice
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Splice enhances the creative process for musicians and producers, so they can focus on what matters: making music. Splice is building a platform and community to transform the way music is produced and shared: collaboratively and socially. Co-investors include: True Ventures, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, Code Advisors and angels.
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Consumer
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Sproutling
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Sproutling aims to make parenting a little less scary and a lot more fun. Sproutling grows a parent's IQ through tools that seamlessly fit their life, and provide real time, trustworthy insights about their child. By taking the worry out of parenting, Sproutling helps parents focus on building happy families and does it in style through wearable devices that provide real time monitoring of the information that's critical to a child's safety, health and well being. Co-investors include: Forerunner Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Accelerator Ventures and angels.
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Hardware
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Square
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Square is making commerce easy for everyone by rethinking how people exchange value, from hardware to pricing structure to payments. Square's revolutionary product offerings include Square Reader, which enables anyone to accept credit cards anywhere and Square Register, a full point-of-sales system for business. Square Wallet, available in the US, is the most seamless way to pay, enabling individuals to pay at their favorite local businesses, discover new ones nearby, explore menu listings and store receipts. Co-investors include: Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Visa, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global and angels.
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Fin Tech
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Storenvy
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Storenvy is evolving e-commerce by making it super simple, free and social. Storenvy is the only store builder and marketplace in one, helping merchants create branded online storefronts in minutes, for free. The social marketplace allows merchants to connect with customers they wouldn’t have otherwise while shoppers discover long-tail products in interesting ways. Co-investors include: Charles River Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Spark Capital.
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eCommerce
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StumbleUpon
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StumbleUpon is the easiest way to discover new and interesting things from across the Web. More than 25 million people turn to StumbleUpon to be informed, entertained and surprised by content and information recommended just for them. In addition, more than 80,000 brands, publishers and other marketers have used StumbleUpon’s Paid Discovery platform to tell their stories and promote their products and services. Co-investors include: SV Angel, Accel Partners, August Capital and angels.
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Consumer
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Swipely
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Swipely is a simple way to accept payments and understand customers, helping local merchants succeed by democratizing tools and powerful data that were once reserved only for big businesses. It works with every credit and debit card customers already have, and there are no new costs and no new equipment for merchants. Forbes recently named Swipely "One of America's Most Promising Companies". Co-investors include: Index Ventures, Greylock Ventures, and SV Angel.
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Fin Tech
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Tag
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Tag is building a social sharing network based on the idea that every moment and every picture can be a unique experience and network.
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Consumer
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TalentBin
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TalentBin is focused on turbo-charging talent acquisition for recruiters and hiring managers with its talent search engine, turning the web into a virtually endless talent sourcing database. By crawling targeted professional networking sites to pull together composite web resumes, TalentBin helps make fast and definitive job matches. TalentBin has aggregated hundreds of millions of professional profiles to date and provides user access from anywhere. Co-investors include: Charles River Ventures, Foundation Capital and angels.
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Enterprise
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TaskRabbit
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TaskRabbit lets consumers rejoice by helping them outsource their to-do list while getting to know new neighbors at the same time. TaskRabbit is a pioneer in service networking, offering an online and mobile marketplace that helps people live smarter by connecting people who have errands with people who want to help. A flexible, on-demand delivery network, TaskRabbit also partners with local businesses looking to expand their reach and revenue at no cost. Co-investors include: Baseline Ventures, FLOODGATE, Shasta Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures and 500 Startups.
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eCommerce
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Thalmic
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Thalmic Labs is dedicated to the development of gesture control, wearable technology and human-computer interaction. Thalmic Labs' MYO armband lets people use the electrical activity in their muscles to wirelessly control their computer, phone, and other favorite digital technologies. Using groundbreaking technology, MYO is able to measure electrical activity in muscles instantly, creating a seamless way to interact with computers, and a truly magical sense of control. Co-investors include: Spark Capital, FundersClub, Intel Capital and angels.
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Hardware
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Threadflip
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Threadflip is pioneering a new social shopping experience by offering women a simple way to convert their closets into a dynamic boutique-like experience, connecting buyers with sellers, and capturing the collaborative energy of shopping with friends. Threadflip is a community-curated, social marketplace where women can renew their wardrobes by “flipping” items they no longer want for items they do. Co-investors include: Baseline Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Shasta Ventures, Slow Ventures, Greylock Partners and Forerunner Ventures.
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eCommerce
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ToyTalk
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ToyTalk is redefining what a toy means by creating new interactive experiences for children and conversation-driven entertainment for families. ToyTalks's first project, The Winston Show, is a talk show available for the iPad starring cartoon characters that listen and talk back - bringing modern family entertainment to the home. Co-investors include: Charles River Ventures, Greylock Partners and angels.
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Consumer
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True&Co
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True&Co is changing the way women shop online by redesigning the art of bra shopping. True&Co created a proprietary way to fit women online in 2 minutes with no measuring tape. Every woman then experiences an entirely different and personalized lingerie shop that’s fun, fashionable and yes, truly intimate. Co-investors include: SoftBank Capital, SoftTech VC, Crosslink Capital and angels.
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eCommerce
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Truveris
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Truveris is a health information technology company that provides management tools to sponsors of prescription benefit plans and payers of claims under these plans. Truveris allows governments, health insurance companies, self-insured corporations, and unions to take control of pharmaceutical benefits costs, monitor and enforce contracts, and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Co-investors include: New Atlantic Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners and New Leaf Venture Partners.
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Health & Wellness
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Turntable
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Consumer
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Twenty20
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Twenty20 is a marketplace that allows users to buy and sell mobile photos as beautiful physical art pieces, and is one of the fastest growing startups in Southern California. Twenty20 empowers photographers and artists across the world and is changing the way people everywhere discover and purchase beautiful design objects. Twenty20 currently power tens of thousands of galleries in over 30 countries. Co-investors include: Bullpen Capital, Version One Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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Uber
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Uber is evolving the way the world moves by innovating at the intersection of mobile technology, car transportation and logistics. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through their apps, Uber makes cities more accessible, opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers. Uber captures the elite limo experience and transforms it into an on demand service that fits an efficient and modern lifestyle. Co-investors include: Lowercase Capital, Founder Collective, Benchmark Capital, Menlo Ventures, Crunchfund and angels.
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eCommerce
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UberMedia
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UberMedia is reinventing mobile advertising for brands and digital agencies that desire superior performance from their mobile campaigns. UberMedia delivers compelling and engaging ads that audiences want to engage with by leveraging their wealth of data and targeting intent via social signals. Co-investors include: Index Ventures, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Upstart
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Upstart is a new approach to funding and mentorship. Upstart is a funding platform and mentoring network that matches students with backers who believe in their potential. With funding from Upstart, students can retire student loans, pay for living expenses, take an internship, or start a business. In return, the students share a small percentage of their income with their backers over a specified period of time. Co-investors include: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures and angels.
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Fin Tech
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UrbanSitter
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UrbanSitter allows parents to find and book a trusted sitter in minutes online. UrbanSitter has built a platform that uses members' existing networks to match families with babysitters. Their platform enables both sitters and parents alike to build a profile in a trusted and secure environment that helps match the two parties in an easy to use and streamlined process. Co-investors include: Menlo Ventures and Rustic Canyon.
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eCommerce
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URX
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URX creates product ads for mobile apps. URX is a mobile app retargeting platform that uses deeplinks to link users into the middle of mobile apps that they already have installed. URX aims to weave together the web of mobile apps and help grow the mobile ecosystem. Co-investors include: Maverick Capital, Google Ventures, Greylock Partners and angels.
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Ad Tech
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VigLink
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VigLink makes it easier for publishers to be compensated for the content they create and the commerce they drive. The company monetizes ordinary links to over 30K retailers with technology that works across sites, apps and social networks - allowing content publishers to focus on what's important, creating great content (which drives great traffic for retailers). Co-investors include: Google Ventures and SoftTech VC.
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Ad Tech
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Voxel
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Voxel makes mobile ads exciting and engaging. By bringing the experience to the beginning of the app discovery process, users get to “try before they buy”. This means that every visit to the app store through a Voxel experience is purposeful and creates a higher lifetime value user. Co-investors include: Pinnacle Ventures and Sherpalo Ventures.
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Ad Tech
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Wanelo
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Wanelo (from Want, Need, Love) is reorganizing shopping around people. Wanelo is a place to find the most unique products and stores online, curated by the community. Users post, collect and organize products and follow people and stores they like. Co-investors include: FLOODGATE, Forerunner Ventures and angels.
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eCommerce
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Warby Parker
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Warby Parker was founded with a rebellious spirit and a lofty objective: to create boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at a revolutionary price point. By circumventing traditional channels and engaging with customers directly through their website, Warby Parker is able to provide higher-quality, better-looking prescription eyewear for under $100. Co-investors include: SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Thrive Capital and Tiger Global.
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eCommerce
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Wayfinder
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Wayfinder is building an intelligent web browser to navigate the web in an entirely new way. Wayfinder is a stealth mode company, so not a lot to disclose but the team is applying concepts from real world navigation (like in-route guidance) to navigating the web and potentially transforming how we think about the paths and ways we move around the web. Funding not yet announced.
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Consumer
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Wearable Intelligence
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Wearable Intelligence is a technology company building enterprise solutions on top of wearable computing hardware such as Google Glass. Wearable Intelligence believes that wearable computing is the next step in the evolution of computing (from desktop to mobile to wearable), and is one of the first movers on this new platform. Wearable Intelligence is solving very real problems for customers – with a mission to make every worker more intelligent through a symbiosis with technology that delivers the right information, communication and collaboration, at the right time. Funding not yet announced.
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Hardware
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WiFast
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eCommerce
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Wikia
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Wikia is the definitive place for people to collaboratively pursue their interests and share their knowledge on the web. Using Wikia, anyone can form new communities around any subject they love or participate in over 250K existing communities by reading or contributing new content. With more than five million pages of rich content, Wikia’s communities represent some of the richest sources of information about any topic on the Internet. Co-investors include: Endeavor Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and angels.
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Consumer
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Yapta
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Yapta is a travel website and browser add-on that lets consumers track flight prices as they change and alerts them when the price for a particular flight drops. It also helps consumers get a refund or credit from airlines with guaranteed low-price policies. Yapta has tracked pricing on millions of flights, executed over one billion price checks and identified over a half billion in savings for travelers. Co-investors include: Voyager Capital, Bay Partners, Swiftsure Capital and angels.
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eCommerce
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Yieldex
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Yieldex created the first comprehensive, cross-channel revenue and inventory management platform for digital publishers. As a big data pioneer, Yieldex developed a business intelligence platform that integrates across all major technologies (display, video, mobile), providing a single, unified view of all of a publisher’s inventory. Yieldex’s platform accurately forecasts, plans, manages and prices inventory across all revenue channels. Co-investors include: Amazon, Madrona Venture Group, Sequel Venture Partners, Hearst Ventures and Triangle Peak Partners.
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Ad Tech
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Yummly
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Yummly was launched in 2010 by foodies on a mission to invent the ultimate kitchen tool. Yummly is the world's first semantic recipe search and recommendation platform. Yummly enables the user to find and customize recipes based on personal taste as well as nutritional and dietary preferences. Co-investors include: Harrison Metal, Intel Capital, Unilever and Physic Ventures.
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eCommerce
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ZEFR
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ZEFR connects brands to their most passionate fans and to the best content in the world. ZEFR is the dominant platform for the Enterprise on YouTube, using a unique technology that identifies and claims licensed content on behalf of the owner so that it can be monetized, allowing advertisers to buy against the most premium content online. ZEFR's clients include Warner Bros., SNL, Sony Music, Nascar, Universal Pictures and more. Co-investors include: Shasta Ventures, SoftTech VC, Shasta Ventures, MK Capital and angels.
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Ad Tech
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Zendrive
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Zendrive’s mission is to create a world where driving isn’t so painful and every trip is a positive, rewarding experience. Zendrive is bringing real data and insights to the world of driving, making every trip a rewarding experience. Using mobile sensor and location data, Zendrive crunches huge amounts of data using the latest machine learning techniques, and distills it into engaging insights and actionable advice. Co-investors include: angels.
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Consumer
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ZoomIn
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ZoomIn is a leading online service that enables customers to store, share and print their digital photos easily and affordably. ZoomIn allows customers around the world to upload unlimited photos, securely share them for free, with friends and family and even have photo prints delivered to their doorstep. ZoomIn’s photo prints and gifts are of the highest professional quality, using world-class technology and infrastructure. Funding information not yet available.
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eCommerce
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