Sector LBS/Mobile
Description Service for meeting new people based on location and interests Location-based mobile app with gaming elements
City LA
Other Investors Initial Capital, Baroda Ventures, WGI, Jarl Mohn, Angels Andreessen Horowitz,Union Square Ventures, OATV Accel Partners, Morgenthaler, Gideon Yu, Alex Zubillaga Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital Founder Collective, Keith Rabois, Ben Ling, Alex Zubillaga CRV, True Ventures, General Catalyst, Keith Rabois Angels Deep Nishar, Paul Buchheit, XG Ventures First Round Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Dave Morin, Shawn Fanning, Joshua Schachter, Lowercase Capital, Kevin Rose DraperRichards, BetaWorks, SK Ventures, Georges Harik, Paul Bucheit Softtech, Founders Collective, Keith Rabois
LBS/Mobile
NY
Sep 29 2009
LBS/Mobile
App.net
SF
Feb 03 2010
LBS/Mobile
SF
LBS/Mobile
SF
Apr 29 2010
LBS/Mobile
One
Mobile LBS app to connect with people around you based Cory Levy, Michael on common interests Callahan Intuitive word search dialing, engaging mobile users in dynamic phone call interactions Short form party planning allowing users to share plans with friends Geo and alternate reality platform for apps
SF
Mar 17 2011
Wendell Brown, SF Steve Larson Chuck Lam, Ibrahim SF Okuyucu Joe Stump, Matt SF Galligan
LBS/Mobile
Skynet
SF
May 08 2008
LBS/Mobile
Topguest
Service that allows travel brands to reward customers for Geoff Lewis checking in at their favorite spots
SF
Jun 24 2010
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Sector LBS/Mobile
Company Twilio
City SF
Other Investors Union Square, Founders Fund, Bessemer Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Mitch Kapor, Dave McClure, Jeff Fluhr, Angels Intel Capital Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures, Angels Battery Ventures, Accel Partners, First Round Capital, Founder Collective Greylock, Guarav Garg, Jim Greer, Angels
LBS/Mobile LBS/Mobile
Steven Collins, Hugh SF, EU Feb 02 2011 Reynolds David Lieb, Andy SV Sep 11 2009 Huibers, Jake Mintz
LBS/Mobile
Hotel Tonight
Sam Shenk
SV
Instart Noteleaf
CDN-like technology for mobile devices Time management tool for meetings and business graph
SV SV SV
Placeholderna Location based marketing and advertising allowing SMB's Michael La Guardia me to establish connections with valued customers Pulse Reader (Alphonso Labs) Content platform for mobile devices. Akshay Kothari, Ankit Gupta
Webb Investment Network, Jerry Yang NEA, Redpoint Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Mayfield Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, BV Capital Kleiner Perkins, Greylock Benchmark Capital Greylock, Shasta, Founders Fund, Lowercase Capital, Maples Investments, Kevin Rose, Jason Calcanis, Shervin Pishevar
LBS/Mobile
SV
Feb 14 2011
Web service that connects online and offline shopping Media service that allows audio content to be easily aggregated, organized and shared on mobile devices Location based service/game to track your activities and experiences
SV SV TX
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Description Deal-of-the-day website that features discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies. A website that offers daily design inspirations and sales of up to 70% off retail. Recruiting platform for engineers that helps them find jobs at startups.
Founder(s) Andrew Mason Jason Goldberg David Albert, Nicholas BergsonShilcock Howard Lerman Ricky Yean
City CHI NY NY
Other Investors Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Accel, NEA First Round Capital, Ashton Kutcher Founder Collective
Yext
Online directory for local businesses utilizing pay per action technology. Crowdbooster Social media dashboard designed to help businesses effectively grow and manage their presence online Milk Inc. a mobile development lab
NY SF
Sutter Hill, IVP Nils Johnson, Y Combinator Ashton Kutcher, First Round Capital, True Ventures, Greylock, Floodgate, Tony Hsieh, Chamath Palihapitiya, Angels Lerer Ventures Sequoia Sierra Ventures, Johan van Marle, Andy Klein, Angels Baroda Ventures Founder Collective, IA Ventures, Jerry Neumann, Josh Stylman Betaworks, First Round Capital, Index Ventures First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, Venrock Softbank, Peter Thiel, IVP, Greycroft Founder Collective, Hearst, Lerer Ventures, RRE, Softbank
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A series of apps that tracks people in the news Soup and grilled cheese stores Global low-cost multi-media video ad technology
SF SV EU
Ad Technologies Ad Technologies
Ad re-targeting platform Media buying platform for buyers to purchase and measure advertising across different networks Social media ad platform Next generation ad exchange and platform
LA LA
Ad Technologies Ad Technologies
LA NY
Ad Technologies Ad Technologies
Ad system that helps brands and agencies manage, control Michael Lazerow and measure social media campaigns Web service that identifies and measures viral content Jonah Peretti allowing creators to serve highly targeted advertising
NY NY
Sector Ad Technologies
Company Collective Media Datalot Magnetic (Domdex) AdReady Sharethrough TapSense TellApart Vizu 140 proof Adara Media (formerly Opinmind) Aggregate Knowledge AppRedeem Attributor Inadco
Ad Technologies Ad Technologies
Description Media and technology solutions provider for display advertising *via acquisition of Personifi Online marketing technology research and solutions Ad re-targeting platform
City NY
Other Investors Greycroft, iNovia Partners, Accel Partners Founder Collective, Baseline Ventures CRV, Founder Collective, IA Ventures Bain Capital, Madrona, Khosla Ventures Floodgate Fund, Ariel Poler WIN, Deep Nishar Greylock, Baseline Ventures WRHambrecht, DFJ, Greycroft, iNovia Blue Run Ventures, Founders Fund Jim Pitkow, Aydin Senkut, Morganthaler, Onset Kleiner Perkins, First Round Capital, Floodgate Fund, OVP, DAG Blue Run Ventures Selby Ventures, Sigma Partners, Jafco Redpoint Ventures, WGI Group, Matt Coffin, Twin Capital LLC, GC&H Investments August Capital, First Round Capital, Focus Ventures, Maveron, WPP
Josh Reznick Josh ShatkinMargolis, Mike Peralta Aaron Finn Brett Keintz, Dan Greenberg Ash Kumar, Amit Manjhi Josh McFarland Dan Beltramo Jon Elvekrog James Kim
NY NY Feb 01 2010
Ad technology focused on improving display advertising Social video marketing platform Helps mobile app developers acquire users at costeffective and profitable rates. Platform for valuing lead quality for publishers and etailers Online brand advertising metrics platform Social media ad technology via adviser Online advertising ecosystem; brings together loyalty program audience partners with brand advertisers Behavioral targeting / recommendation engine
SEA SF SF SF SF SV SV
Nov 15 2007 Apr 01 2007 Sep 28 2011 Jul 17 2009 Mar 01 2006 Feb 09 2010 Feb 20 2006
Ad Technologies
Paul Martino
SV
Jun 05 2006
Platform for advertising mobile apps with pay-per-install Sheffield Nolan service Content tracking for online publishers Jim Brock, Jim Pitkow Technology for optimizing and measuring lead gen James Walker advertising
SV SV SV
Ad Technologies
Performance-based ad offering designed specifically for brand advertisers - via acquisition of Rojo/SixApart
Matt Sanchez
SV
Nov 15 2010
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Sector Company Social Media & Airbnb Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Beautylish
Description Online marketplace enabling private residents or commercial property owners to rent their extra space
Founder(s) Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nate Blecharczyk Nils Johnson, Vu Nguyen Adam Levin
City SF
Other Investors Andreessen Horowitz, DST, Greylock, Sequoia Capital, Ashton Kutcher, Jeff Bezos Angels
SF
Jul 28 2010
Bebo
SF
Dec 03 2010
Betaworks
NY
Bloom Studio
Service for connecting systems modular data visualization Ben Cerveny views SMS community for framing and sharing conversations Lauren Leto
SF
Mar 28 2011
Betaworks
Bnter
NY
Aug 23 2010
Highline Ventures, Founder Collective Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective, Lerer Ventures, Joshua Schacter
Canv.as
Topic-based social forums allowing users to asynchronously contribute their ideas via photos
Chris Poole
NY
May 04 2010
Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s
ClassDojo
Clearspring
A real-time behavior management tool being used by teachers to improve bad behavior, using real-time feedback loops and some game dynamics. Social distribution network
Sam Chaudhary, Liam Don Hooman Radfar, Austin Fath Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson Jordy MontReynaud
UK
Oct 06 2011
NY
Jun 01 2007
Novak Biddle, Steve Case, Miles Gilbourn, Mark Jung Greylock, Omidyar Network, Spark Capital, Highland Capital Michael Birch, Ignition Partners, Keith Rabois, Joe Lonsdale, Jed Stremel, Barney Pell, Angels
Digg.com
SF
Mar 01 2006
Dojo
SF
Feb 01 2011
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Sector Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s
City SF
Mark Zuckerberg
SV
Mar 01 2006
Fashism
Brooke Mooreland
NY
Nov 16 2010
Other Investors Floodgate Fund, Steve Blank, Katherine Gould, DE Shaw DST, Accel Partners, Greylock, Meritech, Founders Fund, MSFT Highline Ventures, Ashton Kutcher Baseline, Maples Investments, Freestyle, TerraFlex, Esplanade Founder Collective, Greylock, Felicis Ventures, Keith Rabois, Ben Ling, Vast Ventures Y Combinator, Webb Investment Network First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix, CRV, Ashton Kutcher, Keith Rabois, Angels Angels, Tugboat, Shasta Ventures Marc Andreessen, Lightspeed, Angels Highline, FirstMark, Angels
Formspring.m Social Q&A site e Gobble Marketplace for individual cooks to connect with consumers
Ade Olonoh
SF
Feb 16 2010
Ooshma Garg
SV
Nov 23 2010
Grubwithus
CHI
Mar 22 2011
Honestly.com
Semi-anonymous review and reputation service for individuals. Anonymous flirting for college students
SF
May 21 2010
Jan 09 2011
Artie Wu
SF
Jun 01 2007
Ning
User generated apps for social networking/tagging for groups Virtual pinboard to create collections of things you love and "follow" user-generated collections Simple web publishing
SV
Mar 01 2006
SV
Apr 12 2011
Posterous
SF
Jan 29 2010
Description Service around generating and collecting relevant conversations Online rental marketplace
City SF
Other Investors Harrison Metal, Gideon Yu, Angels Andreesen Horowitz, Founder Collective, Collaborative Fund, Amicus Capital, Max Levchin, Farhat Mohit Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, First Round Capital, Angels Atomico, SoftTech, Ariel Poler Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Founder Collective Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures Jarr Capital, Don McLagan, Andrew Blachman, Ben Littauer Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, WIN True Ventures, Founder Collective, Bullpen Capital, Lowercase Capital, Felicis Ventures, Angels Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Tomorrow Ventures
Tim Hyer
SF
Jul 25 2011
Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s Social Media & Networking/Platform s
RockMelt
Social browser
Eric Vishria
SV
Oct 02 2009
Seesmic
Service to manage your lifestream from Facebook & multiple Twitter accounts Crowdsourced learning platform
Loic Le Meur
SF
Jan 01 2007
Skillshare
Soda Head
Collective intelligence via wisdom of crowds / social network Stock exchange for athletes
NY
Jan 20 2011
LA
Oct 15 2006
Starstreet
Jeremy Levine
BOS
Jan 31 2011
Tasty Labs
Joshua Schachter
SV
Nov 23 2010
Tello
Web service enabling customers to leave reviews for any customer service agent at any company allowing companies to better understand their quality of service
Joe Beninato
SV
Jun 03 2010
Social Media & The Backplane Building a network of highly engaging communities on a Networking/Platform powerful platform. s
Jun 27 2011
Rotem Perelmuter
SF
Mar 12 2010
City SF
Other Investors Sequoia, True Ventures, Gil Elbaz, Rob Solomon, Brian Lee, Brandee Barker, Randi Zuckerberg Sequoia, Paul Bucheit, Adam D'Angelo, Geoff Ralston CRV, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, Benchmark Capital, IVP Betaworks, Founders Collective, Thrive Capital, Lerer Ventures, Joel Spolsky, Vivi Nevo, Freestyle Capital, Angels Founders Fund, Founder Collective, Keith Rabois
Social Media & Tutorspree Networking/Platform s Social Media & Twitter Networking/Platform s Social Media & Veri Networking/Platform s
Aaron Harris, Ryan Bednar, Josh Abrams Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone
NY
Apr 14 2011
SF
Jul 25 2007
Social learning platform focused on user-generated games Lee Hoffman, Brian NY and quizes Tobal
May 17 2011
Network for registered voters that makes civic participation simple and meaningful
Jul 27 2010
1000Memories Site that allows users to create memorials online 20x200 Online art market
SF NY
Embedded social streams curated around a brand or topic Mike McGinley, Dan LA Benyamin Allows users to save clips from around the web Gary Flake SEA Online homework help site that provides a platform for tutors Media curation and aggregation platform Andrew Grauer Upendra Shardanand Reeve Thompson, Jeremy Gordon Josh James SV NY
Dec 14 2009
DoBL
SF SV, UT
Domo (Corda Interactive data visualization software and solutions for Technologies) businesses
Greylock, Paul Bucheit, Keith Rabois True Ventures, Founder Collective, Zach Klein, Angels Jim Ramo, Alison Lam, Angels Andreessen Horowitz, Fritz Lanman Maveron, Nils Johnson, Tuna Investments Getty Images, NY Times, Balderton Capital, Arts Alliance, Angels First Round Capital, Lerer Ventures, Angels Benchmark, WPP
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Description A service that transforms every link into embeddable rich media Technology that creates and updates structured data
City BOS LA
Other Investors Betaworks, Lowercase Capital Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective, Index Ventures, Broadbeach Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Richard Rosenblatt, Esther Dyson, Scott Kurnit Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Jack Dorsey, Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Currie, The Chernin Group, Ashton Kutcher, Quincy Smith Ignition Partners, Banexi (France), Digital Garage (Japan), Angels AOL Ventures, Betaworks, Lerer Ventures, Spark, True Ventures Lerer Ventures Khosla Ventures, Jawed Karim Accel, First Round Capital, Reid Hoffman, Shana Fisher, Jonathan Glick, Peter Stern, Chris Dixon, Tom Pinkney Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate Fund, Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, TriplePoint Capital Y Combinator, Baroda Ventures
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Content Platforms
iPad app that creates a personalized magazine based off your social graph
SV
Apr 14 2010
Content Platforms
Fotopedia
Jean-Marie Hullot
EU
Apr 01 2008
Content Platforms
Gdgt
Website where users can follow their friends and share tips on their favorite gadgets
SF
Mar 10 2010
Service connecting people, places & things by location Coding tests that help companies hire the best programmers Adaptive learning engine that customizes educational content to meet the individual needs of each student
Content Platforms
Jordan Cooper, Doug NY Petkanics Vivek Ravisankar, SV Harishankaran Karunanidhi Jose Ferreira NY
Aug 01 2008
Content Platforms
Kno
SV
Dec 11 2009
Content Platforms
Leftronic
Nov 17 2010
Company Luminate
Description Revenue tool for monetizing images through crowdsourcing Service that automatically generates full length articles based on statistical information Publishing platform for mobile devices Q&A tool for education Photo sharing service *via advisor A content platform disrupting educational publishing market
Founder(s) James Everingham, Bob Lisbonne Stuart Frankel Andres Barreto, Jason Baptiste Pooja Nath Mike Herman Ariel Diaz
City SV
Other Investors CMEA, August, Google Ventures, Shasta Ventures David Rosenblatt Spark Capital, Betaworks, Waikit Lau, Canaan Partners, Anthem Venture Partners Founder Collective, Next View Ventures
Content Platforms Content Platforms Content Platforms Content Platforms Content Platforms
Narrative Science OnSwipe Piazza Plixi Savvy Textbooks (Boundless Learning) SB Nation
NY NY SV SD NY
May 04 2011
Content Platforms
Jim Bankoff
SF
Dec 13 2010
Content Platforms
ShowMe
NY
Jul 28 2011
Content Platforms
Simperium
SF
Aug 30 2010
Accel Partners, Allen & Co, Ted Leonsis, Comcast Interactive Capital, Khosla Ventures Lerer Ventures, Betaworks, DreamIt Ventures, Naval Ravikant YCombinator, Geoff Ralston, Kal Vepuri (Trisiras Group), David Tisch, Alex Payne, David Sloo First Round Capital, Spark Capital, CRV, Chamath Palihapitiya, Adam Smith, Paul Bucheit, Ariel Poler, Angels Union Square Ventures, Founder Collective, Spark, Index, Naval Ravikant, Joshua Schacter, Angels
Content Platforms
Sincerely
Matt Brezina
SF
Mar 04 2011
Content Platforms
Stack Exchange
NY
May 05 2010
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Content Platforms
Sulia
Description Lifestyle, entertainment, fashion and shopping network for trendsetting women *via acquisition of BookFresh Platform to organize and monetize bundles of streams
City SF
Other Investors Sequoia Capital, NBC Universal IA Capital Partners, Founder Collective, Village Ventures, Mark Gerson, Angels True Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Lowercase Capital, Founder Collective, Ev Williams, Matt Mullenweg Lerer Ventures, Kima Ventures Brad Inman, Floodgate Fund, Baseline Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Greenhill, Vantage Point Mitch Kapor, Max Levchin, Keith Rabois Baseline, Floodgate Fund, Felicis Ventures, Paul Bucheit CAA, MLB, FirstMark Capital Bessemer Ventures, Angels, Amazon Mohr Davidow Ventures, Floodgate Fund, Baseline Ventures, Angels Phil Schlein, Adams Street Partners Madrona Ventures, Adam Dell
NY
Sep 22 2009
Content Platforms
Typekit
SF
Jun 24 2009
Content Platforms
Content Platforms
Visual Revenue Provides a predictive analytics solution that helps online Dennis R. Inc. media organizations automatically position their content. Mortensen, Charlie Holbech Vook Online publishing platform for e-books Brad Inman, Jack Saley
NY
Jul 06 2011
SF
Jan 22 2010
Wavii Weebly
Content aggregator based on advanced NLP Technologies Adrian Aoun Simple, drag and drop website creation
SEA
Glam for sports fans Wikipedia like app. for vertical markets Next generation online dictionary
Doron Friedman
CHI
Jun 18 2006
Mike Smith
SEA
May 01 2006
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City CHI
Other Investors Lightbank, Excelerate, Gary Vaynerchuk, Angels Monashees Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, Felicis Ventures, Intel Capital, Thrive Capital, David Gilboa First Round Capital, IA Ventures, Village Ventures, Shasta Ventures Felicis Ventures, The Washington Post Company, Aditya Agarwal, Naval Ravikant, Rick Dalzell, Josh McFarland, Transcosmos, TPG
Apr 26 2011
E-Commerce/Finance BankSimple
Simplified online banking solution targeted to retail bank Alex Payne, Joshua customers Reich, Shamir Karkal Mobile app where users can scan product barcodes on their phone and see related products harnessed by community Blake Scholl, Jason Crawford
NY
Sep 30 2010
SF
Apr 20 2010
Michael Yang
SV
Mar 01 2006
Social recommendations for faster, smarter business purchasing Short term micro loans for recurring bills
NY
Jun 13 2011
Softbank, Lerer Ventures, Peter Thiel Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, Paypal, Venrock Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Bessemer Ventures, Founder Collective, IA Ventures CRV, Sequoia Capital, Philip Kaplan, Jason Calcanis, Ev Williams, James Hong Kevin Hartz, Keith Rabois, Jawed Karim, Joe Greenstein
SF
Jun 25 2010
E-Commerce/Finance BillGuard
Crowdsourced "collective vigilance" to help users easily spot, understand and take action against unwanted charges on their bills
Yaron Samid
NY
May 28 2010
EBlippy Commerce/Payments
Dec 08 2009
EBluBet Commerce/Shopping
Group buying
Dec 07 2008
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Sector Company EBoku (Mobill Commerce/Payments Cash) E-Commerce/Finance Credit Karma ECruiseWise Commerce/Shopping EDealbase Commerce/Shopping EE la Carte Commerce/Payments EEdition01 Commerce/Shopping EEggCartel Commerce/Shopping EEventbrite Commerce/Payments
City SV
Other Investors Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures QED Fund, FF Angel, Felicis Ventures NEA, Index Ventures
Kenneth Lin Amit Aharoni, Nicolas Meunier, Steve Davis Sam Shenk
SF SV
SV
Dec 24 2009
Bob Zipp, Russ Siegelman, Buddy Arnheim Paul Buchheit, Tomorrow Ventures Highline Captial, Lerer Ventures, Kal Valpuri, IA Ventures, Angels Blue Run Ventures, CRV, Trinity Ventures, Angels Sequoia Capital, Michael Birch, Softtech, Jawed Karim, Keith Rabois, David Sacks, Tenaya Capital, Peter Jackson, DAG Ventures Kleiner Perkins, Keith Rabois, Brian Sugar, Dave Morin, Karl Jacob Montagu Newhall Associates, Battery Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, TCV Redpoint, Baseline Ventures, Travis Kalanick
Touchscreen mobile devices on restaurant tables and sports bars for guests to order, pay and play games from their seats new concept brand that sells curated, exclusive capsule collections of luxury fashion and lifestyle products from top designers Mobile app for easily selling anything
Rajat Suri
SV, BOS NY
Jul 02 2010
Jessica Kamel, Estafania Lacayo Dan Zheng, Brian Lynch Kevin Hartz
Jun 23 2011
SF
Dec 07 2010
SF
Nov 18 2009
SF
Mar 29 2011
Provider of on-demand email marketing software solutions *via acquisition of CoTweet Automated expense report service
CHI
Mar 10 2010
E-Commerce/Finance Expensify
David Barrett
SF
Apr 01 2009
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Description Founder(s) Allows anyone with digital content to sell directly to their Sahil Lavingia fanbase
City SV
Other Investors Collaborative Fund, First Round Capital, Lowercase, David Tisch, Seth Goldstein, Naval Ravikant Sequoia, Paul Buchheit, Angels Andreessen Horowitz, Alex Zubillaga, Max Levchin, The Hit Forge, Founder Collective, Highline Ventures, Vivi Nevo Naval Ravikant, Angels
Pay-what-you-want plus charity paradigm for online distribution Marketplace for goods using virtual points
John Graham
SF
Apr 01 2011
Gee Chuang
SV
Jan 25 2011
ELux Delux Commerce/Shopping EOffermatic Commerce/Shopping E-Commerce/Finance On Deck EOpenBucks Commerce/Payments EOpenSky Commerce/Shopping EPoshmark Commerce/Shopping (GoshPosh)
Andy Hsieh
SF
Sep 15 2010
Faisal Qureshi
SV
Feb 25 2011
Small biz micro-loans with credit card receipts as collateral Payment system using gift cards
Mitch Jacobs
NY
Kleiner Perkins, Russ Siegelman, Omar Hamoui, Angels First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, RRE Greycroft
May 15 2009
Feb 10 2011
Platform that connects online grocery coupons to offline grocery loyalty cards Mobile app/credit card terminal/POS
Sep 08 2010
SF
Jan 14 2010
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Sector Company EStripe Commerce/Payments EStyle for Hire Commerce/Shopping ESvpply Commerce/Shopping
City SV
Online style / shopping show *via adviser Retail bookmarking and recommendation service
NY
Jan 21 2011
Ben Pieratt
NY
Oct 22 2010
Spark Capital, Founder Collective, Dennis Crowley, Jason Hirschhorn Michael Birch, Ron Bouganim, Frederik Fleck First Round Capital, Greylock, Index Ventures, Alfred Lina, Keith Rabois, Chris Sacca Battery Ventures, Index, Bob Pittman Index Ventures, Bernard Arnault, Herbert Kloiber, Jacob Rothschild, Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf Lerer Ventures, First Round Capital
Online service that lets users donate to charities easily using credit card transactions A secure platform for consumers to save money, earn rewards and have more fun shopping
SF
Mar 23 2011
MA
Apr 29 2010
Alex Rampell
SV
Sep 15 2006
Erik Baker
EU
Mar 01 2006
E-Commerce/Finance Weatherbill
Neil Blumenthal, NY Andrew Hunt, Jeffrey Raider, David Gilboa David Friedberg SF
May 18 2011
Dec 09 2010
Easy solution for groups to collect and manage money online Personalized digest of discount offers based on personal preferences and location.
SV
Dec 08 2009
NY
Jun 24 2010
Atomico Ventures, Index Ventures, Allen & Co., NEA, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, Google Ventures, CODE Advisors August Capital, YCombinator, Angels, Highland Capital Partners Highland, DFJ Gotham, IA Ventures, RRE
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Founder(s) Bo Fishback
City LA
Enterprise/SaaS
Betterworks
Paige Craig, George LA Ishii, Zao Yang Jon Vein Mark Gerson LA NY
Nov 23 2010
Redpoint, Keith Rabois, Jim Pallotta, Angels Elevation Partners Bessemer, Silverlake
Enterprise/SaaS Enterprise/SaaS
Enterprise/SaaS Enterprise/SaaS
Market Share Took to improve marketing programs Partners Gerson High-end market research Lehrman Group SocialFlow Inc. SaaS bridge between social media and direct marketing ThinkFuse Smart tools provider for team collaboration
Software to speed up communication, collaboration and knowledge Online discussion service and PR targeting Posterous-like collaboration for the enterprise
Frank Speiser, Mike NY Perrone Steve Krenzel, SEA Brandon Bloom, Aydin Ghajar Dustin Moskovitz SF Rob Crumpler Michael Wolfe SF SF
Softbank, Betaworks Ali & Hadi Partovi, Scott Banister, Founders Co-op Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz Adam Street Benchmark, Floodgate, Felicis, Ariel Poler Sequoia, NEA, Felicis Ventures, Nils Johnson, Michael Abbott, Dave Morin, Aaron Sittig, David Lawee First Round, Dave McClure, .406 Ventures, Cisco, Formative Ventures Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Khosla Ventures YCombinator, Baseline, Harrison Metal Capital Founders Fund, Atomico
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Hearsay Social Social Media Marketing automation and fan management tools
Enterprise/SaaS
Mashery
Oren Michaels
SF
Oct 15 2006
Enterprise/SaaS
Okta
SF
Feb 12 2010
Enterprise/SaaS Enterprise/SaaS
PagerDuty Quid
Phone & SMS alerting and on-call scheduling for IT monitoring tools Business intelligence analytics service
SF SF
Sector Enterprise/SaaS
Company Rally.org
Founder(s) City Tom Serres, Jonas SF Lamis, Naveed Lalani, Brian Upton Richard White Tim Weingarten SF SF
UserVoice
Visage Mobile Enterprise mobility management *via acquisition of Agistics WebMynd Framework for HTML5 mobile apps w/native Corp functionality
Enterprise/SaaS
Xobni
Sahil Jain, Patrick SF Buckley, Amir Nathoo, James Brady Matt Brezina, Adam SF Smith, Jeff Bonforte
Feb 15 2007
RRE, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Cisco, Blackberry Partners Fund Emergence Capital, Founders Fund, CRV (George Zachary), Goldcrest Investments, Angels Angels WIN Andreessen Horowitz Andreesen Horowitz, Ignition Capital, Salesforce, Karl Jacob, Paul Buchheit Sigma Ventures, Benchmark, Globespan Capital Partners, DAG
Enterprise/SaaS
Yammer
David Sacks
SF
Jan 22 2010
Kingfish Group Private experts network Mailgun Nicira NowJS (Flotype) Email Interface for your App. Send, receive, store and forward emails using Mailgun APIs Router software based on OpenFlow standard Real time communications architecture.
Christian Dubiel
SV
Ev Kontsevoy, SV Taylor Wakefield Martin Casado, Scott SV Shenker Darshan Shankar, SV Eric Zhang, Sridatta
Enterprise/SaaS
oDesk
Gary Swart
SV
Mar 01 2006
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Sector Enterprise/SaaS
Company Opzi
City SV
Other Investors Softtech, First Round Capital, Naval Ravikant, Hadi Partovi, Ali Partovi, Paul Buchheit, Fritz Lanman, Raymond Tonsing Mohr Davidow Ventures, Chris Yeh Sigma Partners, Bud Cooligan, DFJ, Selby Angels, Portage (DFJ) Peggy Taylor, Angels Andreessen Horowitz, Betaworks, Founder Collective, Lerer Ventures, Joshua Schachter Betaworks, Spark Capital, Bessemer Connector Ventures, Shawn Fanning, Richard Kain Polaris, Ariel Poler Andreesen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Yuri Milner Angels, Bay Partners Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bradley Horowitz, Jeff Weiner Andreesen Horowitz, Keith Rabois, Anthony Castellana, Ari Emmanuel
Group collaboration and publication CRM with relationship intelligence File back-up software
SV SV SV
Gaming collectables virtual economies for MMOG SW only 3D Human Machine Interface for gaming and Virtual Remote using single standard webcam Social game where players give each other virtual "gold stars" based on social capital
CHI ISR LA
Gaming Gaming
OMGPop Beatlab
Social casual real time gaming site Social platform for music creation and competition
NY SF
Gaming Gaming
Kavin Stewart
SF SF
MinoMonsters Social game where players collect and battle pet monsters Josh Buckley, TJ Inc. Murphy, Tyler Diaz PurePlay Tiny Speck Online poker destination using virtual goods model MMO flash games
Gaming Gaming
Gaming
TinyCo
SF
Feb 18 2011
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Sector Gaming
Company Zynga
City SF
Other Investors Reid Hoffman, Union Square Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Foundry Group, Avalon, Andreessen Horowitz Founder Collective, Lerer Ventures, Angels YCombinator Angels Floodgate Fund, Softbank Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed, Partech, Doll Capital
Online social games Gaming platform for iPhone MMPG Game authoring Platform 3D realistic virtual pets Facebook ad platform via social applications
Frederic Descamps Gabe Leydon Bill Turpin Ron Hornbaker Jia Shen, Lance Tokuda
SV SV SV SV SV
Jan 18 2010 Apr 01 2009 Mar 01 2006 Nov 15 2007 May 01 2006
Search/Discovery
Hunch
Task and decision engine that gives recommendations on Chris Dixon any topic
NY
Mar 12 2010
Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst Vulcan Capital Angels Blue Run Ventures, Felicis Ventures Keith Rabois, Joe Lonsdale, Steve Chen, Hank Vigil, Fritz Lanman, Nils Johnson Sequoia, Founder Collective, Lerer, SK Telecom, Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit Accel Partners, August, Sherpalo Ventures Scott Banister, BlueRun, Founders Fund Founder Collective, Betaworks, Baseline Ventures, Floodgate Fund, Angels
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Stream-based system for content discovery - via acquisition of Radar Networks Medical search company focused on doctors Mobile application for discovery and purchase of apps Content discovery & distribution platform based on state of the art machine learning and natural language processing technology Search across personalized cloud services
SEA SF SF SF
Search/Discovery
Greplin
Aug 11 2010
Discover interesting web pages, photos and videos recommended by friends and like-minded people Search engine via influencer links Crowdsourced travel info and discovery
SF SF SF
Description Real Estate search and marketing site Next-generation search engine Real-time search engine
Founder(s) Pete Flint, Sami Inkinen Rich Skrenta, Mike Markson Paul Pederson, Sean Gaddis
City SF SV SV
Other Investors Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Deep Fork Capital CMEA, USVP, Marc Andreessen USVP, Paul Pederson, Frank Caufield Jr., Felicis Ventures, Maurice Werdegar Maynard Webb, Paul Buchheit, Tuna Investments (Steve Chen), Ashton Kutcher, Ignition Partners, Michael Mullenweg, Raymond Tonsing, General Catalyst Partners, AOL, Accel, Sequoia Capital, GoldHill, Oak, Trident Foundation Capital, Fox Interactive Angels General Catalyst Index Ventures, Accel Marissa Mayer, Marc Andreessen Sequoia Capital, Mark Kvamme, Reid Hoffman, CAA Betaworks, OATV, Mitch Kapor
Search/Discovery
Hipmunk
SV
Aug 09 2010
Search/Discovery
Kayak
Steve Hafner
SV
Dec 01 2007
Website for job seekers Personal search/ *via adviser Social media management platform for brands Mobile application for viewing and sharing photos. Platform for content producers for distribution and monetization Comedic ugc or exclusive original video content
Anil Godhwani Brandon Cotter Reggie Bradford Thai Tran Greg Goodfried, Miles Beckett Dick Glover
SV TX ATL EU LA LA
Mar 01 2006 Dec 01 2006 Oct 28 2006 Feb 16 2011 Nov 15 2007 Aug 01 2007
Media/Video
bit.ly
Media/Video
Blip.tv
Todd Levy, Nate Folkman, Jay Ridgeway, John Borthwick Dina Kaplan, Mike Hudack, Justin Day
NY
May 01 2009
NY
Mar 01 2006
Ambient Sound Investments, Bain Capital, Canaan Partners, Mark Gerson, Atomico
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Sector Media/Video
City NY
Other Investors First Round Capital, General Catalyst, Time Warner Greycroft Paul Buchheit, Aydin Senkut, Mike Maples, Georges Harik Greycroft Paul Buchheit, Charles River Partners, Jeff Clavier, Ashton Kutcher, XG Ventures Angels, Greylock Steve Chen, David King, Nils Johnson, Saar Gur Hearst, Khosla Ventures, NY Times, Mayfield, Greycroft Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Founder Collective, Ignition Ventures, Lowercase, Y Combinator, James Lindenbaum
Media/Video Media/Video
Programmed video content for the web Live video broadcast platform / *via adviser
NY SF
Media/Video Media/Video
LicenseStream Licensing automation platform for media / video Nowbox Personalized video channel for tablet devices
Iain Scholnick
SF
Internet video/podcast production and distribution Instapaper for video Ad infrastructure and technology for video
Media/Video
Zencoder
SF
Apr 27 2011
Super simple online video chats Comprehensive online video platform Browser-based multi-party video conferencing
David King Bismarck Lepe, Jay Fulcher Nick Triantos, Ian Small Brad Inman, Bud Rosenthal Jayant Kadambi Michael Mathieu
SV SV SV
Sierra Ventures, RVP Sequoia Capital, Youniversity Ventures, Bain Capital Angels, Will Hearst, Venrock Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, BV Capital
Media/Video Media/Video
TurnHere YuMe
SV SV Aug 01 2006
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Company ChartBeat
City NY
Other Investors Betaworks, Lowercase Capital, Founder Collective, Lerer Ventures, OATV, Freestyle Capital, Softtech, Index Ventures First Round Capital, General Catalyst Highline Ventures, Techstars Founders Fund, Fritz Lanman Benchmark, Ignition Capital, Trinity Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Jerry Yang, Raymond Tonsing, Ash Patel, Kenny Van Zant, Angels Y Combinator, Paul Buchheit, Steve Chen, Founder Collective, Felicis Ventures, Sherpalo Ventures, Nils Johnson Peggy Taylor, Angels WIN Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Diane Greene, Angels NEA, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Paul Bucheit DFJ, Founders Fund First Round Capital, Menlo Ventures, USVP
Platform-as-a-Service and marketplace for Node.js applications. Simple tool to migrate data to the cloud and sync across cloud services More intuitive Windows interface
Platform-as-a-Service to build and deploy any application Solomon Hykes, to the cloud and manage it all in one place Sebastien Pahl
Cloud Computing
Optimizely
SF
Mar 17 2010
Consumer hardware device that allows remote access to external hard drives Software to connect the computing power and memory of multiple devices Enterprise-level support to users of Apache Hadoop/* via adviser Database accelerator
Jed Putterman
SF
Cloud Computing
MemSQL
Feb 16 2011
Ooma ReadyForce
Free VOIP calling via telephone hardware Andrew Frame Web service creating a virtual marketplace for on-demand Bill Trenchard labor
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Company ReThinkDB
City SV
Other Investors Highland Capital Partners, Avalon Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Russ Siegelman, CRV, Amicus Capital, Angels Highland Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, WIN, Avalon Ventures, Russ Siegelman, CRV, Amicus Capital, Angels Rajeev Motwani, Sand Hill Group Sigma, Foundation, Angels
Cloud Computing
ReThinkDB*
Slava Akhmechet
SV
Sep 08 2011
VYSR Zetta
SV SV
Life FitOrbit Sciences/Healthcare Life ZocDoc Sciences/Healthcare Life Comprehend Sciences/Healthcare Clinical
Online personal training and weight loss solutions delivered through interactive content and one-to-one interactions OpenTable and Salesforce.com-like service for doctor appointments
LA
Apr 01 2008
Angels, Polar Ventures, Jake Steinfeld, Tim Armstrong DST Global, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff Y Combinator, Paul Buchheit, Yuri Milner Morgenthaler, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures First Round Capital, Mark Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, Mark Goines, SoftTech Early Facebook employees
NY
Mar 01 2010
A next-generation review tool to review, report, visualize, Rick Morrison, Jud and analyze clinical data Gardner Ryan Howard
SF
Mar 22 2011
Life Practice Fusion Electronic health records; provides a free, web-based Sciences/Healthcare Electronic Medical Record / EMR system to physicians Life DNAnexus Sciences/Healthcare
SF
Aug 11 2011
Platform for analyzing and managing DNA sequences on a Andreas Sundquist scalable cloud-computing infrastructure
SV
Jun 19 2009
SV
Jun 25 2010
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Sector Security
City AZ
Security
Security for nternet-scale applications and services for connected devices Website certification for having good privacy practices Consumer authentication Enterprise security for confidential docs
Adrian Turner
SF
Apr 01 2006
Other Investors Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners, Peggy Taylor Shasta Ventures, Southern Cross Venture Partners Accel Partners Peggy Taylor, First Round Capital Bay Partners, Sierra Ventures WIN Rustic Canyon, CMEA Capital
SF SV SV
Security Security
Sreekanth Ravi, Daniel Udoutch (current CEO) GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) applications Chris Goodwin, Chris Caldwell Network security/web content filtering software into SMB Dirk Morris, Bob and educational institutions Walters
SV SV
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